H ouse and Garden 
gwynn’s falls meadows 
illustrated by a plan that is herewith repro¬ 
duced, which shows the suggested relocation 
of the proposed connection 
between the old and new 
lines of the Western Mary¬ 
land Railroad. By the pro¬ 
posed relocation the valley 
of Gwynn’s Falls Creek 
would not be greatly inter¬ 
fered with, whereas the 
first location suggested for 
the railroad would destroy its 
beauty. 
The sum total of the sug¬ 
gestions of the report as 
approved by The Municipal 
Art Society would give 
Baltimore twenty-four new 
small parks and squares, 
covering altogether two 
hundred and four acres ; ad¬ 
ditions to existing parks of 
about three hundred and 
twenty acres; and valley 
parks and radial parkways 
with cross connections vary¬ 
ing in width from two hundred feet to a 
quarter of a mile, the total length being 
about fifty-six miles. In addition there 
would be five large outlying reservations, 
one of which would cover about twenty-five 
hundred and sixty acres of water area and 
twenty-four hundred acres of land area; 
another about eight hundred acres of each 
kind of area ; a third, eleven hundred 
acres of land area and one hundred and 
eighty acres of water area. The other two 
reservations are even larger, but are scarce¬ 
ly more than suggested in the report be¬ 
cause of the pressing importance of other 
recommendations therein made. While the 
recent fire will cause the postponement ot 
the carrying out of the plan, it is only 
postponed, not abandoned. This is 
fortunate, because the opportunity presented 
for the replanning of the central portion 
of the city was not taken advantage of in 
anything like the degree it should have 
been. History repeats itself; and London’s 
costly failure to replan its 
burnt district in the seven¬ 
teenth century has been 
duplicated by Baltimore’s 
refusal in the twentieth. But 
the outer park movement is 
more likely to succeed. 
While the acquisition 
of these park systems is 
only at the first stage, the 
fact remains that Harrisburg 
and Baltimore, being im¬ 
portant cities in their 
respective States, are there¬ 
fore the Meccas to which 
the local politicians of the 
cities and towns of each 
State will go; — which 
means that the example of 
each will spread throughout 
each State, as the greater 
examples of Boston and 
Kansas City are spreading 
throughout the nation. 
SUGGESTED RELOCATION OF A 
PROPOSED RAILROAD LINE 
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