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PARK AND CEMETERY 
ENTRANCE TO ROGER WILLIAMS PARK, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
gate at the left will appear the state seal. In that on 
the right will be placed the city seal. 
On the face of each of the two main gate posts will 
appear a bronze tablet with appropriate inscription. 
Over each of the small gates the words, “Roger Wil- 
liams Park” will be shown in large letters. Arrange- 
ments have been made for electric lights over the main 
gate posts. 
A Boulevard Through Philadelphia. 
Logan Square. At the latter point the new Parkway 
A remodeled ordinance for the building of a mag- 
nificent boulevard through the heart of Philadelphia is 
now before tbe City Council of that city, with every 
prospect of its soon being placed on the city’s plan, 
and the work of construction begun as soon as the 
necessary funds can be provided. 
Tbe boulevard is to connect the City Hall and Fair- 
mount Park, and will run diagonally across many of 
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plan swerves the roadway slightly westward, just es- 
caping the edifice of the Catholic Cathedral of St. Peter 
and St. Paul, but taking in tbe site of the parochial 
school connected therewith. 
On the western side of Logan Square the west line 
of the Parkway starts about midway between Race and 
Vine streets, and the north line about at the intersec- 
tion of Vine and West Logan Square. 
West of Logan Square the Boulevard course is 
slightly out of line with the eastern end, but it broad- 
ens out at Pennsylvania avenue, until when Twenty- 
fourth street is reached it will be nearly 600 feet wide, 
instead of 300 feet, as in the former plan. At the 
widest part it runs clear to Fairmount avenue on the 
north and to Callowhill street on the south. 
In its course it will practically wipe out the Medico- 
Chirurgical Hospital, and will take a part of the 
Friends’ Burial Ground and School at Sixteenth 
and Cherry streets. 
PLAN SHOWING ROUTE OF THE NEW 
PHILADELPHIA BOULEVARD. 
the principal streets of the city, involving the expendi- 
ture of several million dollars in its construction. The 
new route follows a somewhat different course from 
the one first proposed. The dotted lines in the accom- 
panying diagram, which is from the Philadelphia In- 
quirer, show the new route, and the shaded portion, 
the course first proposed. The principal changes are 
at the two ends, which are much wider than provided 
for in any previous plan, and also in the vicinity of 
