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but, like its brother Chicago, it owes much of its stateliness and 

 beauty to conditions that, so far, have not arisen in Australia. 



If the Americans are the sharpest business people in the world, 

 they have also developed patriotic instincts to an extent and in a 

 way totally unknown in this southern land. There speculators and 

 capitalists have purchased and subdivided immense areas around 

 their cities. They have laid out broad avenues, with promenades 

 and intervening parks; the latter containing winter gardens 

 when necessary, to preserve their flowers and delicate plants 

 through an inclement season. This has been done by means of 

 Trusts, whose object was not mere vulgar money making, but the 

 more noble one of securing for all time to its members, faultless 

 residential districts, in combination with the most beautiful and 

 healthful surroundings. Few if any such works have yet been 

 undertaken here, even if such a spirit is animating the wealthy 

 public men of the Australian States. If there is such a desire 

 abroad among us there is some doubt as to the scope for its oper- 

 ations in connection with the Federal City. 



Before we can deal very much with the site of the Federal City 

 we require to know : — First as to Official Buildings — 



(a) Legislative Buildings and Vice-Regal Residence. 



(b) Public Offices of State : as Mint, Treasury, Customs and 



Internal Revenue, Patents, Military and Naval Depart- 

 ments, etc. 



■(c) Supreme Court and Law Departments. 



(d) The residences of the principal Officers of the Common- 

 wealth, whether such are to be simply private homes or 

 State mansions to serve as foci for ceremonial functions. 



■(e) The shops and magazines of trade required to supply the 

 wants of the official staff and its servants. 



(f) The homes of the various grades and classes of servants 

 other than those housed in the public buildings; and 

 every accommodation that appertains to the machinery 

 of government. 



