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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
from either direction, and allowing 
several impressive views of the me- 
morial through the trees. There is a 
fine growth of trees in back of the 
monument, and further planting will 
be added according to the plan of 
Mr. Simonds to properly screen both 
the memorial and the outlook. 
The outlook is nine feet wide, and 
extends forty feet along the bank. 
The road is twenty feet wide and the 
platform on which the pedestal proper 
stands is twenty feet square. The ped- 
estal is eight feet high and the figure 
nine feet. A tablet on the rear of 
the die will bear merely the name 
“Mark Twain,” and one on the front 
will be inscribed “Author — Philosoph- 
er — Moralist,” followed by a short 
quotation from the humorist’s works 
which is yet to be selected. The ped- 
estal, the outlook and all of the archi- 
tectural portions of the memorial will 
be of Red Missouri granite to be cut 
COMBINED 
Among a number of city plans being 
developed by the American Park Build- 
ers, of Chicago, is a combination plan 
for La Salle, Peru, Portland and 
Oglesby, 111. The plan is provid- 
ing for a comprehensive system of 
parks and playgrounds, utilizing in this 
connection, two large ravines which are 
at present virtually waste spaces, but 
which possess great natural beauty. 
These ravines are situated within the 
cities and are hampering the growth 
and decreasing the valuation of resi- 
dential property. Plans of the proposed 
park system will include the beautiful 
bluffs on the south side of the Illinois 
River, which are a continuation of the 
formation of the famous Starved Rock. 
A Union Parked Cemetery is pro- 
by the Missouri Red Granite Monu- 
ment Company, of St. Louis, and the 
statue will be of bronze. 
The plan of the site illustrated here 
shows in detail the arrangement of 
the roads that encircle the memorial 
and indicates the wealth of trees and 
shrubs that are either on the site or 
will be planted to set it off to the best 
advantage. The panoramic photo- 
graph is a splendid view of the river 
as seen from the site of the monu- 
ment. Mark Twain said this was the 
greatest view to be found on the Mis- 
sissippi River. The receding bluffs 
are known as the “Saverton Hills.” In 
one of the valleys just south of Han- 
nibal, indicated on the picture, is 
Mark Twain’s Cave. It was in this 
cave that Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) 
was supposed to have gotten lost. 
Glascox Island, sometimes called Tom 
Sawyer’s Island, is just opposite the 
City of Hannibal. It was on this 
vided for, occupying a strategic and 
sightly position where provision for fu- 
ture enlargement is taken care of. A 
proposed layout for the Lincoln High- 
way leading from Starved Rock to and 
through the cities of LaSalle and Peru, 
together with detailed plans for three 
new approaches to the city by road, 
form an important part of the scheme. 
A revised street, plan bringing into use 
the superimposed diagonal system to- 
gether with an improved city block 
forms a portion of the plan while a 
somewhat original scheme, that of lay- 
ing out a segregated factory district 
with a corresponding residential dis- 
trict for working men, laid out along 
lines of an English garden city, has al- 
ready been started on the road to con- 
island that Tom Sawyer (Mark 
Twain), Huckelberry Finn, Indian Joe 
and others went pirating. 
Mr. Hibbard is now working dili- 
gently on his final model and expects 
to have the memorial erected next 
summer. Since receiving the commis- 
sion, he has made a trip to the East to 
the country home of Mark Twain at 
Redden, Conn., where the last days of 
the great humorist were spent, and has 
collected much additional data, and 
many interesting photographs to aid 
him in his final study. He visited 
Albert Bigelow Paine, an intimate 
friend of Mark Twain, who is now 
preparing a biography of the great 
American humorist, and got much in- 
teresting personal material from Mr. 
Paine and from Harper & Brothers, 
publishers of Mark Twain’s works. 
He has about forty photographs from 
which to make studies for the final 
model. 
summation by the recent taking of an 
option of a factory site by the LaSalle 
Commercial Club. 
A civic center scheme provides a well 
balanced group of municipal buildings 
to serve the two cities of LaSalle and 
Peru, while the main plaza leading from 
the aforesaid group and located on the 
lines between the two cities, will pass 
between the two monumental towers of 
a proposed Union Station. 
A system of public wharves, together 
with separate dockage for pleasure 
boats, is also provided for in the plan. 
This is the first instance on record 
where four distinct municipalities have 
co-operated in a comprehensive city plan 
laid out on an utilitarian as well as 
aesthetic basis. 
PLAN FOR FOUR CITIES 
AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION CONVENTION 
The eighth annual convention of the 
American Civic Association was held 
at the Hotel Belvidere, Baltimore, 
Nov. 19, 20 and 21. 
The convention was opened by an 
invocation by Cardinal Gibbons. The 
mayor was unable to give the address 
of welcome, so the visitors were 
greeted by Mrs. Benjamin W. Cock- 
ran, Jr., president of the Woman’s 
Civic League. 
The topic of the morning session 
was “Related Civic Advance,” by Mr. 
J. Lockie Wilson of Toronto, Canada. 
“It is strange, but it is nevertheless true," 
he said, “that the newer cities in the coun- 
try to the north of us are far and away our 
superiors in the lines for which we are 
working." 
“To every dollar we spend,” he declared, 
“the Government adds another. Our chil- 
dren are interested in the work. We fur* 
nish plants for them in the spring, and offer 
prizes at an exhibit held in the fall. Every 
available vacant lot, the little squares at 
the intersections of the streets are planted 
with trees, shrubbery and flowers. Clean- 
up day is not only an annual institution; it 
is a civic holiday, and the whole town, men 
and women join hands to make it a suc- 
cess." 
Andrew Wright Crawford, a mem- 
ber of the executive committee of the 
National Conference on City Plan- 
ning, delivered the report of the work 
of that organization in place of Fred- 
erick Law Olmsted, who was unable 
to be present this day. Mr. Crawford 
told how the economic advantages of 
the city plan were beginning to be 
recognized so that city after city was 
including a commission on city plan 
in its municipal government. 
Secretary Richard B. Watrous read 
a report of the year’s work, entitling 
his paper “Saving Niagara on the In- 
stallment Plan.” 
He gave a chronological review of the 
trials and tribulations which have been met 
by the friends of Niagara Falls in their at- 
tempts to secure permanent remedial legis- 
lation. He said that, the first bill, known 
as the Burton bill, was introduced in 1905. 
Extended hearings were held under direc- 
tion of the Secretary of War and the Bur- 
ton bill, which embodied the conclusions of 
those hearings, limited the diversions on the 
American side to 15,600 cubic feet per sec- 
ond, and a total of 160,000 horsepower to be 
imported from Canada. The Burton bill 
prevailed. In May, 1910, the treaty was 
enacted, but it did not safeguard Niagara. 
