History of Milwaukee, city and county . the country. You are on the threshold of an improvement which will be as importantto you as new streets or rapid transit railroads. When you think that in mycity the zoning plan cost $67,000 and the subway plan cost $400,000,000,and the zoning plan is doing as much for my city as the rapid transit plan isdoing, then it brings to you some appreciation of the helpfulness of discrim-inating and far seeing zoning work as applied to a city like Milwaukee. Ifyou are going to grow to be a city of two, three, four and five million peo-ple—and you are—now is the
History of Milwaukee, city and county . the country. You are on the threshold of an improvement which will be as importantto you as new streets or rapid transit railroads. When you think that in mycity the zoning plan cost $67,000 and the subway plan cost $400,000,000,and the zoning plan is doing as much for my city as the rapid transit plan isdoing, then it brings to you some appreciation of the helpfulness of discrim-inating and far seeing zoning work as applied to a city like Milwaukee. Ifyou are going to grow to be a city of two, three, four and five million peo-ple—and you are—now is the time to put some of these sensible, sound regu-latory ordinances into effect because in New York City today the only faultthat is found with the zoning plan is that the city did not adopt it fortyyears ago. Heights of Buildings Considered.—History is written not only to recordthe past with its mistakes and failures for the instruction of posterity, andto point the way so far as it is within the ability of the historian to do so,. THE VON STEUBEN MONUMENTLocated near the entrance to Washington 1 *;irk PROSPECTIVE MILWAUKEE—CITY PLANNING AND ZONING 519 towards a better and safer course in the future; but also to place a propervaluation upon the grand achievements of the self-sacrificing men engagedin their promotion. The most efficient means of realizing the aims and pur-poses of those who labor for the improvement of our laws and customs, forthe welfare of our community and the betterment of methods, is the duty andwithin the scope of the historian for the guidance of those who may here-after be clothed with authority. We therefore willingly dwell upon the accounts of the various movementsand far-seeing proposals of our boards and commissions which have strivenfor the ends held in view. Some repetition is inevitable in the historical dis-cussion of the great movements which in recent years have arisen and whichare practically new in this generation. Thus, for example, we
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