Town hall on the model street

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In the Municipal Street are displayed an array of public utilities og the most approved type. The street is four city blocks long.

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THE MODEL TOWN HALL.

The Municipal Street was intended originally to be made up of accepted models in the important features of town building. While much of the original plan remains, the project evolved itself into an exhibit of municipal utilities of many hinds, which perhaps are models, nevertheless. The Model Town Hall is one of the most interesting of the features on this interesting thoroughfare. Entrance to this structure is gained by a fine curving staircase and by a carriage ramp. These approaches partially enclose a small court containing a statue representing civic virtue and progress and a fountain. Very interesting is the exhibit made by the City of Boston. The City of Buffalo shows the greatest engineering work now under construction on the face of tire globe, namely, the rebuilding of the Erie Canal, to cost $101,000,000. Of this amount $10,000,000 is expended this year and $15,000,000 a year thereafter. Tire amount of canal to be built is 445 miles, of which 290 miles are new construction. The minimum bottom width is 200 feet, depth 12 feet, for barges of 1,000 tons capacity. The locks are 328 feet long by 28 feet wide.