House & Garden 
land damages required for 
this scheme have been 
obtained from official 
valuations, and they reach 
the sum of $4,176,500, a 
figure which provides for 
the taking of entire lots 
whose fronts may merely 
be changed by the estab¬ 
lishment of the new lines 
and the value of the prop¬ 
erties thereby increased 
instead of diminished. 
One of our illustrations 
consists of a scheme for 
a proposed Soldiers’ and 
Sailors’ Monument pre¬ 
pared by Mr. Albert Kel¬ 
sey, of the Art f edera¬ 
tion of Philadelphia, long 
before the public compe¬ 
tition for the design of that 
monument was officially 
thought of. It pleads for 
a dual rather than a single 
feature upon the vista of 
the Boulevard. The suc¬ 
cessful design of the re¬ 
cent competition, would 
suffer, it would seem, if 
carried out anywhere up¬ 
on Logan Square; and in 
turn, its lofty single shaft 
would make a confusion 
of objects, rivalling each 
other, in the view either 
from the city or toward 
it. Far more appropriate 
sites for the monument 
are not hard to find. One 
is already offered by a 
capital scheme suggested 
a month or two ago for 
the improvement of the 
southern part of Phila¬ 
delphia, in which the 
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ 
Monument as designed 
by Messrs. Lord & 
Hewlitt (See House and 
Garden for May, 1902,) 
should be the principal 
feature. 
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