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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE CIVIC AWAKENING 
New Street Plan for Montreal 
The improved street plan for Mon- 
treal, Can., shown in the accompanying 
illustration, gives two diagonal streets 
from the busiest center in the city, Vic- 
toria Square, to accommodate most of 
the business community of the down- 
town section, and also (by way of Mc- 
Gill street) the traffic from the River 
Front, all of which should radiate east 
and west through diagonals. 
From this central spot the plan would 
therefore give two additional through 
streets for this traffic, which is already 
too congested and which offers a prob- 
lem which in a few years will of ne- 
St. Antoine street and taking a line up 
to St. James Cathedral, keeping the 
cross on the Dome as axis, and thus 
connect with Osborne street past the 
C. P. R. station thus making connec- 
between the Railway and the center of 
the business district, and by continuing 
Osborne street through at Mountain to 
Guy street one obtains another through 
street to Guy and thus up to the Moun- 
tain. This Western Diagonal is intend- 
ed to continue after having crossed 
Dominion Square by cutting a street 
through from the corner of Mountain 
and St. Catharine diagonally to the cor- 
ner of Sherbrooke and Guy streets, both 
a general plan for the improvements 
of Philadelphia. In this communica- 
tion stress is laid upon the fact that 
among the numerous propositions al- 
ready made for the beautifying of the 
city there is at present no large com- 
prehensive agreement as to how the 
various projects will affect the city 
as a whole. Each of the projects more 
or less stands by itself, and while un- 
doubtedly each will be an improvement, 
the general effect will not be so great 
as it would if they were all embraced in 
a general plan with relation to their 
artistic connection. Briefly, the plan of 
the American Civic Association is to 
MAP OF MONTREAL, SHOWING PROPOSED STREET IMPROVEMENTS, 
cessity have to be solved in some man- 
ner. The Eastern Diagonal is pro- 
posed to run from about the corner of 
Alexander and Craig, just East of Vic- 
toria Square diagonally through past 
Dufferin Square into the corner of St. 
Catherine and St. Lawrence streets (one 
of the busiest corners in the city), and 
then on to the corner of Ontario and 
Sanguinet streets. From this corner 
connection can be easily obtained with 
Sherbrooke and St. Denis streets and 
other streets in that locality. 
The Western Diagonal starts from 
St. James street by widening the pres- 
ent Little St. Antoine street, crossing 
corners being at the present time va- 
cant land. This diagonal also is on the 
same axis as the other running up to 
Osborne and will make direct connec- 
tion with Cote des Neiges Road and 
thus around the Mountain. 
General Plan Proposed in Philadelphia 
Encouraged by the enthusiasm with 
which Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia 
has entered into the Parkway project 
and the apparently awakening of pub- 
lic spirit to the necessity of making 
Philadelphia a more beautiful city, the 
American Civic Association has ad- 
dressed a letter to the mayor outlining 
secure a report from a committee of 
experts containing a connected plan for 
the general civic improvement of Phil- 
ahelphia. This report would take into 
consideration existing conditions and 
lay out a general scheme for the future 
along advanced lines.' 
Beautifying of Watertown, N. Y. 
On encouraging evidence of the in- 
terest the smaller cities are taking in 
advanced and intelligent methods of 
civic growth, is to be found in the 
number of these cities that are plan- 
ning for a broad and comprehensive 
improvement. The Municipal Improve- 
