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It is easy to see what the effect will be. As one proceeds down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol, on the south side will be a succession of beautiful and harmonious buildings, all of a design in keeping with the semi-classical tradition so well established in Washington. On the north side vistas will be opened up, so that groups of buildings, such as the beautiful District of Columbia Court House on John Marshall Place, shall be brought into the general plan of Pennsylvania Avenue. At the same time the Mall will present the spectacle of a great park bordered on one side by the new boulevard lined with beautiful buildings, and on the other side by a wide park-way of greensward with its four rows of trees, its drives and walks, statues and reflecting pools, all arranged in such a way that long vistas will be opened up for views of the Capitol in one direction and of the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial in the other. 

All of this will take time, of course. But Rome was not built in a day, nor for that matter was Paris. Paris has passed through many stages, each distinct from the other. The Gothic Paris is as different from the Paris of the Renaissance as the Paris of Louis XIV differs from that of Napoleon III. Go about in modern Paris and it is with difficulty that one can trace the landmarks of the past. Yet somehow, in spite of her vicissitudes and of having no fundamental plan from the beginning as Washington had, Paris possesses that sense of unity and completeness so rare in any great and growing city. All its pricipal buildings seem to fit into the landscape and to be part of a general plan so magnificent in conception and execution that it makes one wonder whether an effect equally satisfactory and on a scale and design suited to our needs, can ever be produced in Washington.