House & Garden 
portant commercial development of the City. 
It was, therefore, the unanimous feeling of 
the conferring societies that any scheme for 
embellishment or beautification would not be 
successful unless it took into consideration 
first, the great activities of the City. For 
this reason their definite recommendation 
was for a commission “ to consider this sub¬ 
ject in all its phases, broad enough in scope 
A PIER OF THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE 
As designed by Commissioner Lindenthal 
to include representatives of: Commerce, 
Finance, Transportation, Engineering, Land¬ 
scape Architecture, Architecture, the Fine 
Arts,Municipal Statistics and MunicipalLaw.” 
This recommendation, when presented to 
the city officials, met with such unqualified 
approval that the Mayor, in his annual mes¬ 
sage, not only thanked the Municipal Art 
Society for its effort, but included an earnest 
recommendation to the Board 
of Aldermen to pass the neces¬ 
sary legislation to give him 
power to create such a com¬ 
mission. 
While it is not possible in a 
short space to cover the many 
points suggested in the recom¬ 
mendations for such an impor¬ 
tant plan, the main features are, 
however, interesting. 
It was shown that no city can 
be really successful unless it is 
so planned as to give its com¬ 
mercial interests every advan¬ 
tage, both from the point of 
view of speed as well as that of 
economy of delivery. Every 
natural advantage in the city’s 
location should be utilized in 
order to secure this result and 
these natural advantages should 
be supplemented, where pos¬ 
sible, to further perfect the 
efficiency of the City. 
Great freight terminals 
should be contemplated, even 
if it were found necessary to 
transcend the ordinary city 
limits to accomplish this result. 
In the City of New York there 
must eventually be established 
at or near Communipaw a 
terminal to which all the con¬ 
verging railroads may bring 
their freight in bulk and deliver 
it, with as little handling as pos¬ 
sible, to the ocean bound 
steamers. Minor freight term¬ 
inals must be considered within 
the limits of the citv, even if 
these are forced to be under¬ 
ground. This problem has 
already been taken into con- 
