Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1915 — LOOKING TO CIVIC BEAUTY [ARTICLE]

LOOKING TO CIVIC BEAUTY

Builders Have Come to Recognize Value of Good Appearance of Buildings and Streets.

Gradually all phases of commercial .industry are coming under the influence of the city-beautiful movement, comments the San Francisco Call. Factories erected today secure sufficient ground area to have some landscape gardening round-about the building or buildings. Even railroads, those supposed “soulless corporations,” are now quite generally embellishing station grounds and rights of way. The schoolhouses, both rural and city, are being much Improved in surrounds, being much helped by the school gardens, and the whole land is becoming, each year, more deeply engrossed in making a more beautiful America, and California is well up in the list. Let us not grow faint-hearted in the work.