For the purpose of making Tokio a "City Beautiful," the Municipality has engaged the services of Dr. Charles Beard, a well-known American authority on civic matters. Dr. Beard, accompanied by his wife! and daughter, arrived last and will be in the service of the Tokio Municipality for six months, helping in the town _plannin; schemes of the capital. Dr. Beard is not enamoured of standardized office buildings of the American sky-seraper type that are springing up fast in Tokio's business district and said so clearly at an official reception given to him. He prefers Tokio to take the best, points in Western architecture, but merely to graft these on to Japanese ideas and keep Tokio a Japanese city instead of a cheap imitation of an Occidental town.
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