New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-01
Esthetics-No. I.

In my walks through one of our principal
cities was alarmed by the apr ANTON "i COLOSSAL
,eue, p. standing vertically uPoa the rooEuee oil
tall brick building, in a cfowded street. Inc East
ern King vas not more scared by the myshc "ofus
that burned upon the wall than was by this threat
en,nr initial At distance It seemed 10 siand alone
TO be abou. to Jump into the poPuiouS "ayia'e
recovered nv self possession as l approached and
found it to be prepped and held by oars' guys
- s,,rchions without number which laid hold oil
49, firm, object in the neghboYhood, IN order to
teen il In its place II occurred TO me az the same
instant that this huge was intended to inform me
that Pottery Pepper, Paint, Pastry or poety was 70
be had in the building below. has'ened away III
rure dudeeon, determined not TO look al the Shop'
for fear that might be tempted by the reppe' vi
the Poetry into encouraging what seemeu :" ho al
outrageous evasion OF advertising expense. lloimeu
the design of expostuating win the pa'iy 'oOA'
.uch he were and my words were these
Sir, vour pepper, or paint, or wha' ho' Is uouv"''
enual to any in this market-nay, superior Deio
il. Why. Sir, will you take such means VI 0"Ao
attention to it, One man who buys, hnuins you'
uepper ETC., good, will say so, ana iheh o'n0' mn
will come and buy likewise. But perhaps you "'
not vet known-recently MISUNDERSTANDING We"
until the quality of your pottery is oisco'eie0' ~
wish 10 sell your paint now-immeu'"'e"
x,ait. Then why not have recourse TO newspapers
where people look expressly to see WHO ''y' ni'
pasuy is the best 1t is not idly that urge THIS
matter. Reflect! II you succeed in thus attracting
the discerning public-R. s. T., nay, even other Ps,
,arper than your own, will rise all around to look
Won down your will be lost In a maze oil colossal
initials strlding over the shops, making this City
look like huge horn-book, seen in the nightmare OF
afrghted school-boy. Besides, Sir, your letter
seems fixed securely enough but who can answer
for the consequences when each shop shall be sur
mounted by some letter OF the alphabet and OF dlmen
sions to which statute limit has been set. The
fixture of these advertisements Will soon be done by
contract and then some equnoctial gale will prove
too much for them, and we shall have the gigantic
A B about our ears.
believe there is no law against what you have
done / think law is called for In all civilized
congresses, parliaments. &c, person is chosen
with the title of Moderator, Speaker or Chairman,
whose duty it is to prevent AN from talking together
and some individuals from getting more than their
share of the speaking. For even among we'll
bred people, where the re is point to be carried,
A, or will sometimes try to drown his neigh
boris voice, laugh down his arguments, and
browbeat him into silence. There is always some
unruly fellow In every assembly who thinks that his
is worthy especial notice, and is determined to
bawi and roar and have it all his own way. Mod
orator sets ak this rghttakes the timid and modest
f. G. ii. under his protection and forces the bus
tering p. to sit down and keep quiet.
Now / should like to have a moderator of signs,
person with authority to reduce this sort of puff
ing to its simpes! expression In the end the result
would be the same for although the largest signs
were made as small as the smallest now are each
one would stand an equal chance in that respect,
while many other modes of putting and advertising
would still be open for those who have capital to In
vest in that manner.
To supply people with what they want is the
noble end of commerce. Let us by no means inter
fere with this pIerogative, but "est modus in re-
bus" In Omutz, Bohemia there is a great Hard
ware establishment at the sign of Gods eye Gum
Auge Gottes) and that organ is painted thereon of
huge SIZE 1t is of bright blue, as the Tsutonic
eyes are apt to be, so true is it that incnes to
make his Maker In his own image No one can
say where the determination to outsign and output
ones neighbor will stop In one Of the great
squares OF great city in Italy saw cofee.house
of the Holy Ghost and dove was painted, Sir, as
descending upon 1t "Sunt certB denique fines !"
| mention these facts to show how hardened men
can become in their eagerness to get off their old
STOCK OF pottery pepper anu tuo hhe'
The commercial spirit, like any other element Of
civilization, may grow morbidly active, break the
balance of functions and usurp the whole Of which
it is but part |, is not long since England, the
free, the JUST the phanthropic the friend of the
black man. forced China to take her opium nolens 90
lens The trade, it was argued, was important that
China had no night to check it! 1t was unlike the
inhuman traffic in negroes, for the Chinese were
b,,,y tbn ant
prohibition grounded on fanatcal assertion, that
opium is not good to eat.
In the Fortunes of Nigel we learn that English
commerce began with the courteous question, What
do 20 lack, Sirs This has grown and blossomet
and now the fruit is what Stand and deliver omn
Gus phrase No longer ago than October last,
saw on the pavement of the London sidewalk cof
fms painted at every 5O.h step Even in the most
decent aud quiet streets at the West End collins .
collins! cofhns On each coffin inscribed the
name and address of the mechanic who took this
delicate means of getting what he was fain to con-
slider has share of coffin making This infany lasted
until sufficient number Of accidents to ladies in
delicate situaton'and consump.ive or hypochondriac
people took place. to rouse the public Indignation
Sir, your huge p seems to me milder form OF the
same vruleR, disorder. 1t is breach of good man.
ners 1t is too large, too prominent an expression OF
greedmess. 1t occupies on my retina a space which
neither pepper nor paint, nor even poetry has any
right to usurp against my Will. You have no more
right thus to assa my eyes than you would have to
let of pistol at my ear every time pass, accom-
panyng the explosion with the questionable you
want any pepper, etc. SCULPTOR
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