This shelter is very much thinner now; still, there is a sufficiency of smoke there, I think.

I heard no complaint.
However, on the outskirts changes were apparent enough; notably in dwelling-house architecture.

The fine new homes are noble and beautiful and modern.

They stand by themselves, too, with green lawns around them; whereas the dwellings of a former day are packed together in blocks, and are all of one pattern, with windows all alike, set in an arched frame-work of twisted stone; a sort of house which was handsome enough when it was rarer.
There was another change--the Forest Park.

This was new to me.