They are surrounded with garden space, and add not
only to the beauty but to the healthiness of the city. The large
houses of the wealthy are situated in a similar manner.

The streets of the city are paved throughout with the same material.
As yet wood pavement set in asphalte has been found the best. It is
noiseless, cleanly, and durable. Tramways are nowhere permitted, the
system of underground railways being found amply sufficient for all
purposes. The side pavements, which are everywhere ten feet wide, are
of white or light grey stone. They have a slight incline towards the
streets, and the streets have an incline from their centres towards
the margins of the pavements.

From the circumstance that the houses of our model city are based on
subways, there is no difficulty whatever in cleansing the streets,
no more difficulty than is experienced in Paris. That disgrace to
our modern civilisation, the mud cart, is not known, and even the
necessity for Mr. E.H. Bayley's roadway moveable tanks for mud
sweepings,--so much wanted in London and other towns similarly
built,--does not exist. The accumulation of mud and dirt in the
streets is washed away every day through side openings into the
subways, and is conveyed, with the sewage, to a destination apart from
the city. Thus the streets everywhere are dry and clean, free alike of
holes and open drains. Gutter children are an impossibility in a place
where there are no gutters for their innocent delectation. Instead of
the gutter, the poorest child has the garden; for the foul sight and
smell of unwholesome garbage, he has flowers and green sward.

It will be seen, from what has been already told, that in this our
model city there are no underground cellars, kitchens, or other caves,
which, worse than those ancient British caves that Nottingham
still can show the antiquarian as the once fastnesses of her savage
children, are even now the loathsome residences of many millions of
our domestic and industrial classes. There is not permitted to be one
room underground. The living part of every house begins on the level
of the street. The houses are built of a brick which has the following
sanitary advantages:--It is glazed, and quite impermeable to water, so
that during wet seasons the walls of the houses are not saturated with
tons of water, as is the case with so many of our present residences.
The bricks are perforated transversely, and at the end of each there
is a wedge