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relation with Juniata Park, the most beauti¬ 
fully wooded park of Philadelphia, with the 
exception of Fairmount Park and the Wissa- 
hickon Drive. The course of the proposed 
avenue then brings it to a focal point near one 
of the large manufacturing districts of Phila¬ 
delphia, called Frankford. From this point 
several roads already diverge in different direc¬ 
tions, and the new parkway will thus make 
the point a greater focus than ever. Close by 
is Northwood Park, which may be extended 
to and along the parkway as far as the above 
focus, thus providing a playground for the 
thousands of workmen employed in Frank¬ 
ford. The parkway will continue in the same 
general direction until it reaches the limits 
of the city marked by Torresdale. 
Two of the very few diagonal streets that 
have, in one way or another, appeared upon 
the city plan, end at or near Broad Street 
within a few blocks of Hunting Park. (See 
diagram.) Both are now to be extended. 
One runs southwesterly, so that it is practi¬ 
cally a continuation of the new parkway, 
and the two together form a great diagonal 
stretching from the Schuylkill River Drive 
of Fairmount Park across the whole northern 
portion of the city to the northeastern limits. 
The other diagonal runs northwesterly to 
Germantown, the largest of Philadelphia’s 
suburbs, and passes on its way within a block 
of one of the largest city squares. A move¬ 
ment is on foot to secure the widening of 
this diagonal to two or three hundred feet, so 
that it may be worthy the name of a parkway 
also. Hunting Park itself,—now the most 
crowded one in the city,—will probably be 
extended northward of the new parkway, and 
perhaps westerly to Broad Street. It would 
thus constitute a large pleasure-ground at 
the intersection of important boulevards. 
It will be readily seen that the intersection 
of these diagonals is exceptionally well suited 
for monumental decoration. It is somewhat 
more than a block east of the point where the 
new parkway begins at Broad Street. On the 
west side of that street a semicircular space is 
to be laid out in the manner of the circular 
parks of Washington, making the center of 
the street another ideal location for a monu¬ 
ment. With these two fine sites so close to 
each other, the space between them seems to 
invite elaborate architectural treatment. 
With a width of three hundred feet it is 
evident that a genuine park road can be made. 
A carriage drive, fifty feet wide, on one side, 
and an automobile road of the same width on 
the other, would undoubtedly provide more 
than enough for the demands of travel. The 
Wissahickon Drive, which is the most beauti¬ 
ful drive near any great city in the world, is 
but thirty feet wide. Thirty feet in the center 
of the new boulevard will probably be needed 
for a proposed electric road, and fifteen feet 
on each side will be required for the footways. 
There will thus be left one hundred and forty 
feet for dividing these sections by plots of 
trees and grass. Ten feet on each side of 
the footways would afford beautiful side¬ 
walks, leaving fifty feet to separate each of the 
roadways from the electric line. 
It has been suggested that the street rail¬ 
way on the boulevard be placed in an open 
cut below the street level, and that along the 
sides of the car tracks sunken gardens be 
constructed. But the cost of such gardens 
and of the retaining walls must be very 
great, so great indeed that serious consider¬ 
ation of the plan seems to be prohibited. It 
is true that the depression of the tracks 
would secure quicker transit and remove 
the risk of accidents at street crossings; but 
while these reasons would be compelling for 
ordinary thoroughfares, in the case of such a 
parkway as this, an entirely different con¬ 
sideration must control. As passengers go 
to such a thoroughfare to see and enjoy the 
beauty of it, it follows that a depressed road 
is out of the question. An elevated track, no 
matter how much were done to hide it, would 
necessarily mar the beauty of the parkway so 
seriously as to make the construction of the 
thoroughfare seem useless. But, in my 
opinion, it is of the greatest importance that 
an electric road of some kind be built, because 
it is the only means by which poor people 
can see and enjoy the whole length of the 
improvement. Trolley wires and poles are 
undesirable and unnecessary. The current 
can be carried underground by two or three 
devices, and one of them should be used. 
In addition, the ground between the tracks 
should be planted with grass, as has been 
done so successfully on boulevards in other 
cities, for instance between Boston and 
Brookline. 
