The Republican journal., 1885-05-14
Modern Architecture.
BILL NYE TELLS WHAT CALLED OUT HIS FIRST
an

BILL NYE TELLS WHAT CALLED OUT HIS FIRST
FALSEHOUD.
1t may be premature, perhaps, but desire to
suggest to any one who may be contemplating
the erection of summer residence for me, as
IA slight testimonial of his high regard for my
sterling worth and symmetrical escutcheon-
a testimonial more suggestive of earnest admir-
alton and warm personal friendship than of
great intrinsic value, etc, ETC., ETC., that hope
he will not construct it on the modern plan of
mental hallucinalon and morbid delirium tre-
mems peculiar to recent architecture.
OF course, Il man ought not TO look a gift
house in the gable end, but if my friends don't
know me any better than to build me summer
cottage and throw in odd windows that nobody
else wanted, and then daub it all up with colors
that they have bought at auction and applied to
the house after dark with shotgun, | think it
Is time we had better understanding.
Such structure does not come within either
of the three classes of renaiss 1t is neither
tIOrtntine, Roman or Venetian. Any man can
originate such Il style of architecture if he will
drink the right kind of whiskey long enough
and then describe his feelings to an amenuensis.
Imagine the sensation that one of these modern,
sawed-otl cottages would create hundred
years from noW. il it should survive! But that
Is impossible, The only cheering feature of
the Whole matter is that these creatures of
dsordered Imagination must soon pass away
and the br ght sunlight of hard horse sense
SHINE III through the shattered dOrmers and
gables and gnaWed-of architecture of the aver
,i,,,s aao uha,,ad M, ~ 1a,, hosa Win ,,,,,'h
MA I'i ',io NV III lt .ilt " " ~ iit"N'i ~
told him that liked il first rate Then [ went
home and welt all night. 1t was my first false
hood.
The house taken as a whole, looked to me
like A skating rink that had started out to make
, t. IN i,'u 9.i - V'v ~ i'ia'h1
rasnI,:eI tn haao,',. =, tanni,, fiho, ta '''t tnt
hi0har if had lost ali f.ras,tact .nj hlo..nmad
infn a fuli.Ilnvn ,ir5nl Xxi d;unrdnrI,. .,,r.
ronulad hv tho .,nnlnlt.nI- nf :, t,,,.,11., 'd
win The Erirbt tf,Ire If % h.,rs .,ha With ah
tbn rh.,in o.,6,. Tt,,. me y.,if InnlcI to ,,,a
TN rn,tf Trora 49,, Of ,ittl, jJs a,,l o,,,J
nf 1,i a, ..ft,,.s md ii1,',n1 ,;,,l ,t,' ,ht
snn.hnd,. III, ,,urcb..Dd at shariti"v ,ale .id
/ he roorns .rd .t.irs ,yare oid,I,, in Tho M
IRENE went in and r.mbled .round rn,nn,,
the rross-pyri stairra.t. and nth4r nirLt-,na,.!7
tiII r4,snn tottareJ IN brr ,Lrnnn ,rhan
came ONT and Stood on the .,rchitprtnr1i ,y.rt
called The .itle norrh Ia oet fresh Iir wi.
nor.h ,y.S ,4inthI :, IuIl rod ana II I'll ,,nd
an rosattes -, tha ,.nrn.rs ,bnt lnnlin,t Iil,e a
bran now rarh,ncle ~, tha nose rf q u,,,.i,I
wreck. Farther mn ON th1 demnrnIizrd Inr,
Der nile saw now .uI th,.n ,Ln.os. .,yhnr. iha
workman. mind had yanli-rr|I ,,nI he h,d
lied on Nj. rIn,,ho.r,I. wrnnn si.Je I'm NH
;n,.n r.,int.t thsni u,ii, tho ,a,is ,,r, tb.t 10
had intended 10 ns. ON somethinu else 1t vas
an odd lnu<jn,- strurtrre inaand If my tri.,l
ont all thn material snr nntIin., frnr, ,,an,,ta
Nho had frac,ueuts Of ,,.jui md Iun,hpr in
over ,tt,r I64y lad t.,Ird an6 tlnn If he
workmrn constructed il nignts far nrnIal
rslayafIon and inteIlertuaI rn,,osa u.i,hn,1i
charge. Of rnnrse The scheme was = financial
.u4te.> h,t a,,.hile,nr,Ily t;,n hnnse i = ,sro..
yiul;tinn of the .tatI,tc. il, sn.h ..,... made and
provided and AGAINST thn ,a,,.a ana iigni,, Of
thn stntn
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