House and Garden 
THE RUE DU HAVRE-PARIS 
Leading to the Gare St. Lazare 
THE COURS ST. LOUIS-MARSEILLES 
Trees used to continue the street line 
tant consideration, because space is here so 
valuable that there is a desire to occupy as 
much of it as the law allows, and the most 
valuable part of the space is the street front¬ 
age. Thus at that stage of development at 
which the street, considered in the abstract, 
widens for the sake of adornment, the busi¬ 
ness thoroughfare begins to be differentiated. 
For its special functions special needs arise 
and these are met by particular provisions. 
In observing the natural course of street 
evolution, we have said that a widening of 
the thoroughfare for ornamental purposes 
was an early step. Clearly, in the street 
given over to business this will not be taken. 
If there be any widening here, it will be for 
the sake of the travel. Having cited the 
space before the Porta Felice in Palermo as 
an illustration of how the broadening of a 
way may begin, we may take a street from 
the same city to illustrate the unwidened 
business thor¬ 
oughfare — 
long, straight, 
orderly, every 
inch of its 
space utilized; 
but that space 
narrow. If the 
street lighting 
be from house 
fronts here, in 
reminder of 
ancient times, 
it is arranged 
with consider¬ 
able effectiveness and with much economy of 
precious room ; and the smooth, clean pave¬ 
ment, the exceptional dignity and order of 
the street, prove it a late product in urban 
evolution. 
But Palermo is a little, languid place, and 
as cities grow and traffic crowds upon the 
streets, these have to widen even in the 
costly business portions of the town for the 
sake of the travel, broadening yet more when 
there is a convergence of highways. The 
Rue du Havre, terminating in the Gare St. 
Lazare, in Paris, is a good example. And the 
picture is the more interesting because it shows 
a new development on the street that we have 
not seen before. Where the way broadens, 
through the confluence of streets, there is cen- 
trally placed a cluster of lights, and the value 
and appropriateness of their location is further 
emphasized by placing them upon a slightly 
raised stone platform, which serves the double 
purpose of di- 
v i din g the 
streams of 
travel and of 
f o r m i n g a n 
isle of refuge 
to the pedes¬ 
trian, midway 
across the 
crowded thor- 
oughfare. 
Here has ap¬ 
peared a new 
and important 
street utility. 
A CITY PARK IN NAPLES 
Showing the effective use of statuary in public places 
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