Arizona republican. [volume], May 23, 1915, SALT RIVER VALLEY, Image 11

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ONA REPUBLICAN
SALT RIVER VALLEY EDITION
T W 1 : X TV-F I FTI T Y HA R
V2 PAOES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SUNDAY MORNTNO, MAY 2:1, 1915
12 PAGES
.VOL. XXV. N0.3G2
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Handsome Public Buildings
First To Greet Visitor's Eye
SOME INTERESTING PHOENIX STATISTICS
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lVihaps no city of the same o
pulation. has an many haoo-
s..me public buildings as the city oi
i 'h-'cliix.
(-k at the list Capit.l building.
. Imi.iMiii; federal building. iir.n.iiuO;
V. -'. ". A. building. $1im..m mi: V::'"1
I s. rs building. JI'VO": farm-:;:. I.i-l'i-'vy.
J.-."..'""': High School kmuji.
:"".""': .Monroe School building.
. 7h.ii.m; Adams S hool building. a.-,
i; and oiler school building.: cost
ing from $ii.0m. m $"i.(m: and the
Court Mouse ami "iry Hall, each
Kriii'Viiii; a square. Th-so l ist two
buildings are hardly up-to-date, hut
t'.e beautiful grounds surrounding
tht-iu make two beauty spots in the
hisy "down-town"" district of this
lov.ly city of outs.
Speaking of grounds. where did
on , , r see more btautiful grounds
Tii:n thos-1 surrounding our hand
some Capitol building'.' The park
surrounding The Carnegie Library is
:t not her. In fact the ample and well
kept grounds that surround all of
our public buildings is the ,,ne thine
t e;
l ifi er,t Monioe School building.
the iiio.-t up-to-date and coniplete I
"clioo! 'enlding in the I'nited States,
.imaiod mi' -n adjacent square. '
It w nilil seem that the simple en- I
umeraiioii of the above buildings
would be fiiough for one city, but
ve are not done yet. A couple miles
to 'the east, v.'e find the State Hos
pital ouildings and farm. erected
and improved at a cost of half a
million. Two miles to the north of
he city limits, we find the Indian
School buildings and farms, one of
t'iff most complete and best equipped
plants maintained by the Kederal
(Jovernnieent for the education of the
Indians to be found in the I'nited
States. There are only two others
in the I'nited States that compare
with it. This plant and the farms
adjacent, represent an outlay of over
a million dollars. It is the Indian
college of the Southwest where on
average of mio pupils ran be found
busily enframed in an effort to be
come real citizens of the United
States.
Then there is another distinctive
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Paved Streets
Not Lacking In
The Queen City
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Fitzhi'sh and Fitzluif-'h,
THE NOEL PEIEI)INi
One of the many modern office!
buildings erected in Phoenix since j
the "the Dam" was finished.
WHERE LAWS ARK MADE
Arizona's Capitol building stands in a beautiful " park whose magnificent
palms and oleanders, rare shrubs and lovely roses have won for it the
name of one of the world's most charming botanical gardens.
that distinguishes Phoenix and places
her ahead of even those cities that
lave more costly buildings than we.
Th n the grouping; of the buildings
ot only adds to their beauty, hut
to the convenience of the public as
well. The down-town group the
t-Vdcrnl buil. line, the Y. M. (' A.
and the Water I'sers' buildings, all
on one square with lawns and tiny
p.irks around and Iwtween, make as
lovely a group of buildings as can be
found anywhere except in I'hoenix.
I'hoenix has a still more beautiful
group than these, even the Hig'.".
s-vhool group, situated on three
rouares. iientitifuPy parked, with the
fact which might be mentioned in
connection with the erection anil
equipment of these many buildings,
and that is, there h.y never been a
touch or taint of scandal or graft
connected with a single one of them.
They are not only substantial struc
tures but they have been honestly
built, and the people have gotten a
dollar's worth for every dollar spent.
"Kighteoutmess" saith Solomon "ex
alteth a nation." It also exalteth a
city, and it is certainly a plea-sant
fact that the citizens of I'hoenix can
enter any of their public buildings
Mid stand erect, unabashed and un
ashamed, taking just pride in the
Beautiful Homos
. Pride Of Capital
" City Of Arizona
The title of the one city that is
different than any other in thf
Southwest may be justly given to
the Capital City of Arizona. The
barren conditions of the surround
ing country prior to irrigation is
partly responsible for the lack of
lumber for building purposes, and
this together with the climatic con
ditions is chiefly resposinble for the
present type of construction, namely,
brick, stono and concrete. A stranger
within the city gate, marvels at the
solidity in construction of the busi
ness and residence section. The
Spanish or mission type largely pre-
ails, and the big cool inviting
porches shaded with palms, ferns
and the climbing rose for which the
country is famous, presents a pic
ture of semi-trophical comfort and
contentment that must be seen to I
be appreciated. Arizona is the land
of out doors, and I'hoenix is its best
known center. This accounts for one
building feature that is unknown in
the north and east, namely, the
screen sleeping porch room that all
louses are equipped with. Archi
tectural skill of high order is shown
in the planning of I'hoenix homes,
and the blending of the Spanish,
Mission, Colonial and here and there
a touch of the Japanese and Kgyptian
type gives this youngest metropolis
an appearance that is pleasing and
lasting. Bungalows are most favored
in building, but many two story
I'hoenix dining the past few years
has been adding to its beauty in the
way of paved streets, avenues and
boulevards. During the past ton''
ears there have been laid out with
in the city limits of rhoenix .T1 miles
of high class pavement. Tile down
town or business streets are paved
with five-inch hydraulic cement con
crete base with a two-inch l.itulithie
wearing surface laid at prices varying
from OH to $l'.K per square yard.
Ther- is also a. half block of pave
ment in the business section of con
crete pav "incut which consists of 7 in.
hydraulic cement concrete laid with
steel expansion 'joints. The pave
ment of the resident sections are Z
inch asphalt concrete base and li
inch standard bitulithic surface, land
at a. price of Sl.r.H per squorc yard.
Xir.e blocks of pavement on the
.Mcliowi 11 Ito;!d bordering on the city
is a four-inch iiitulithie. using gravel
as the mim-raj aggregate, laid at a
cost of $2.iu per square, yard. In
addition to these pavements there is
approximately miles of bitulithic
and three miles of oil macadam on
north Central avenue, extending to
the Country Club. There is a half
mile of cement concrete pavement
extending from the city limits fol
lowed by three miles of macadam on
McDowell road.
tin S-Jiith Seventh avenue from
the city limits to the Salt River
there is nearly one mile of cement
concrete pavement sixtet n feet wide.
Considerable pavement is now being
constructed for. and doubtless the
paved area of the city will continue
to be extended.
While many of thecountry roads
adjacent !o i'hoenix are well graded
and considered good dirt roads, there
i.re several main roads that are being
macadamizi 1 ami made into good
permanent highways. On Grand ave
nue, adjacent to the city, running
northwest from I'hoenix. are six and
one-half miles of the State Highway,
of which four miles is of new macad
am of gravel and sand, with a sand
and oil wearing surface, anil two and
a half miles of reconstructed Caliche
roadway. All recently completed at
a cost of $J;,00U.OU. Kast from Phoe
nix .to the- State Highway work is
now being done on several miles of
roadway with a Caliche base and
sand surface, connecting with the
Phoenix - Tempc State highway, to
the beautiful state concrete bridge
over, the Salt Kiver at Tempc.
There are Hl.-S miles of streets
in the city. There are miles of
alleys.
The area of public parks inside the
city limits. including the Capitol
grounds, is 3l'.!IS acres. The area
of parks outside the limits, is 'IS.'ll
acres, a. total of 61.20 acres of parks
for Phoenix.
I'hoenix has a fine up-to-date sani
tary sewer, a total in length of 7".0
miles, built at a cost of 414.tit;i.S2.
The city recently purchased 3ti acres
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On North First Avenue, wr-ere
street with cement curbing
Photo by McCullooh.
STREET IN PIIOENTX
rojs of trees on either side lend shade and beauty. This bitulithic paved
is typical of many miles of similar work done the past three years.
liESI DENC
four
Riches Of Earth
Symbolized In
The Valley Roses ,,
"I sometimes think that never blows
so red
The Rose as where some buried
Caeser bled;"
and b thit same token I am re
minded of an oil Knglisii supersti
tion that 'he .'.nemuiie pulsatillrt,
or purple '"Pasque flower," which
grows plentifully near Cambridge,
glows only here Danish blood has
been srilt
We have a purple Pasque flower
here, "and no one in the Salt River
I ' alley needs to be reminded of the
beauty. tragranO and plentiiulness
of roses growing here. Can it lie
that tile vanished race, whose re
mains are found everywhere, has
.prepared the ground and lent an ad
!i!?d It;ster to the flower that grows
.more luxuriantly here than else-
here ?
This recalls a Roumanian legend
f the rosebush: Having achieved I
1 1 ie utmost of beauty whereof aj
! plant is capable, it surpassed itself j
j in one nuge ouu, wnicn, opening,
, Kve birth to a handsome Prince.
Tne young man took his place in
'the affairs of men, but the juices
I of the rose still mingled in his blood,
land he yearned for tranquility. The
j knowledge that he might serve the
'world through Imauty, better than by
lainglivig in wars and strifes, led him
i !-ack to the scene of his birth. His
parent rosebush had disappeared.
.The trees and all the birdg, except
, the nigntingale, declared it dead. The
nightingale sang the Prince's - soul
'lack into a rose, and you will re-
memb) in the Orient the nightin
gale sings enly v.hen the rose blos
soms. The rose is brother, sister, cousin
to a score of valued herbs and trees,
the apple, pear, raspberry, straw
berry, blackberry to mention a few,
all of these growing here. Doth it not
follow- "as the night the clay" that
we have, the makings? Quoting
Omar again:
"Look to the blowing rose about us
-"Lo,
Laughing, she says, into the world
I blow.
At once the silken tassel of my purse.
Tear, and its treasure on the garden
throw.' "
In everyday language, this qua
train indicates, the riches of tho
earth symbolized by the rose are here
in the Salt River Valley and only
a little energy and wisdom is needed
to turn- it intcr.the harden of the
Rose of the World.
DOROTHY a. McCIJXTOCK.
(Continued on Page Ten)
civic progresslveness and civic
righteousness of their beautiful little
city.
1 am not mentioning the churches.
the School of Music-, the Woman's,
club, and other buildings that might!
be classc-d in the way as public buil- !
dings, for I have already exceeded'
the space allotted me, and these alone'
deserve a column. I
houses containing from nine to four
teen rooms are iuiilt. "Those homes
ere as modern in every detail as
money can build.
Special attention is given to the
exterior, every house has its owa
liece of ground, the evergreen lawns
and parking are one of the winter
sights to northern 'eyes, and as all
homes are separate from each other,
every room is sure of an abundance
of sunshine. The winter tourist Is
aire to ta!:e many pictures of the
quaint patios, balconies and pergolap
that pre to be seen in
n round the city.
The rapid growth of
the demand for homes
in much outside capital being in
vested. Homes may be purchased on
easy terms end this accounts for a
larger percentage of property own-
rs than . is usual in the new "West.
This condition is made possible to
a large extent by the Home Builders
company who r.iay also be given
credit for many of the beautiful
designed homes that Phoenix is justly
proud of.
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Phoenix and
has resulted
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TTIE JEFF Eli SON HOTEL
The newest thing in town. It will open soon, a- beautiful roof garden is one of its many features.
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PANORAIIC OF NORTH HALF OF BUSINESS DISTRICT OF PHOENIX.
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