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Identifier: americanmunicipa00zueb (find matches)
Title: American municipal progress
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Zueblin, Charles, 1866-1924 Sweeny, Helen Bernice
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States Municipal government -- United States
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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issippi to the Gulf of Mexico.The most notable is the Galveston Causeway. When Gal-veston began its redemption from the tidal wave it had to havethe assistance of the Federal Government in building a sea wall.It, however, cemented its relation to state and nation by build-ing a concrete causeway four miles long, at a cost to GalvestonCounty of over two million dollars. Over thirty-five hundredfeet of protected roadway projects out from the mainland andover fifty-five hundred feet from the island, connected by ahundred-foot span arch bridge, twenty-five hundred feet long,with a drawbridge. The causeway provides for two steamrailway tracks, one trolley track, a driveway and a walk forpedestrians. America has now a Giant Causeway to rival Irelands. Texas also claims the next great viaduct of the country, thatat Dallas being over a mile in length. It connects Dallas witha recently incorporated suburb, Oak Cliff. It passes over theTrinity River and serves as part of the boulevard system of
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THE CITY PORTAL 29 the metropolis of northern Texas. Six thousand five hundredfeet long, with ornamental balustrade, brilliantly lighted atnight, this utilitarian viaduct is more conspicuously decorativethan any public building in the city. Kansas follows Texas in pointing the way to the East.Wichita has built a new viaduct more than a third of a milelong to carry a street over the approaches to its new railwaystation. Greater Kansas City has connected its Missouri andKansas communities by a beautiful viaduct over the KawRiver valley. It leads to the new Union Station park, makingone of the most ambitious city entrances in America. These cities have burned their old bridges, but they neednot, and cannot, burn their new ones. Milwaukee and St. Louis have built rival viaducts. TheGrand Avenue viaduct is a part of the comprehensive boulevardsystem of Milwaukee, — a two thousand foot link in a hundredmile system. The Kingshighway in St. Louis is carried overa series of railway tracks by

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