New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-18
THE "UGLIFICATION" OF LONDON.
RESULT OF THE MOST RECENT PUBLIC
WORKS IN THE ENGLISH METROPOLIS.
From The Builder.

WORKS IN THE ENGLISH METROPOLIS.
From The Builder.
The author of Alice in Wonderland" makes one
thing more beautiful is 'beaufy 1t why SHOULD
not mak:g it more ugly be SAD TO HS ;s d III
which have been carried out in London anc rs
suburbs of late years so appropriately as the wGfd
Qualification gliiication BY the ADDITION OK mo-
Ss here d i Wh ihe wee Wa from
10 month and from year to year in vain eXpectatl9n
OF beholding the Identification Of London brought
promissd "improyements,' it is sad to contemplate
the painful fact that the qualification" OF our cap-
We DO not deny tina; improvements have been
carried out and when me DndnE ,Sa nave we
been 10 draw attention to the fact. Blu. what we
wish 70 point out is the , % ,Sb GaGd We
The ugiificaton of London is patent fact that
let such one go and stand upon h2hqon bridss'
most interesting aId striking view dlshsured ana
hair Obliterated by hdeous railway ter W
loo Bridge, where another ugy station blocks out
the view and where vast hotels rise up 10 pre-
posterous height which imparts no dignity 10 tler
design AMI does not even impress one, except as q
dimension and Simply serves TO qWar ana Gi,irs
tator Their looa at the bridges which the past quar-
Toadon Bridgs or Waieri6o bridge and he viii
see how in our grandfathers days they possessed
almost to have lost it. What a noble feature such
a bridge as Waterloo or London is when built
across a mighty river, but how contemplate, from
an art point 9; view, such a structure may be
when ridded anout WITH Brummaeem-Gothic irac-
cry executed a. cas-, iron, or adorned WIN huge
granite columns s1pporiing nothing or propped up
EGn vast TS onT T SegGn and On spoil h eei Of
ulul bridges EFT 10 us b; previous generations.
Alas! you will find them sadly dminished-twelty
five have disappeared most OF them fine works by
Wren. Has not this been master stroke of
Another matter which is very dsfsuring must
colors 1t is uncommon to find two houses
which haye pediment in common me one painted
white and the other damson Jam color; and as the
junction takes place IN the middle OF the pedimen
the effect Is remarkah!e Tor us lndependehce OIL
Treatment hut Is certainly far from pleasing
End this is as nothing TO its gambols in the sub.
urbs In these unfortunate regions the zeal bullde:
Vey!' Down 90 beautiful groups OF trees we'll
built, old fashioned houses ana pleasant groves 10
adjustments" gin palaces etc. The jerry builder
has absolutely invented now language to describe
tonaries will have to be corrected for his con
venionca. because directly these places are built
places occupied by paycments and planted with
lamp posts. thsV are nominated parks" groves"
we must refoIa language. ard suggest the fol-
lowing corrections u our future dictionary COM
''Pa a district covered closely with houses
but without either grass trees.
"Grove'A street OF shops VITA plenty Of naring
"Garden"-A collection of houses without a scrap
OF ground at,schod 70 them:
"AVenue'-~'WO rows o. houses opposite each
other wie1 lamp posts planted at intervals.
We NAV be told. III you wart really 70 the
beautidcatioEs Of Londca Wait until you the
Whitehall, the ugly block removed between King
- and Whitehall: the grand new street IIolborn:
the new bridge over the TIL mes: the approa ches
made 70 the Tower Bridge; the front 10 South
Keusiugton Museum erected. etc" Alas.
reply we are no: immortal Rome. know, was
not built in o day and prooahly II The Romans had
spent all their zine in quarrcllng abou. "bett -
ment" Rome might net or have been begun. II is
really q very huuNatILg fact that the last quar-
ter u a c"ntury has Erected less IN metropolitan
improvements than any Of the three previous
quarters and there seems little reason to hope
that tho next twenty-five years will effect more
than Inc lart has done. The sam" evils are still
combination into questions o. art ana COnstruc-
ton; the same local jealousles and corporation
sIuabbles the same system Of delaying all action
by unreasonable opposition continue and are likely
u be fruitful Of mucn harm in the future as
they have been IN the past. II something Is not
done. and that quickly, Ia the way of. at least,
commencing the numerous promised improve inenls
o. London. the present time may leave behind II
) d record and memorial tina: II was:
a PERIOD
WHICH
DIsFIGURED THE FINEST THoRoUGHFARE IN
LONDON
RUINED ITS SUBURBS.
CREATED CGNFT-sIoN AT one END OF PICCADu.I.Y
- AND \ DISLRT AT TIE OTHER:
ERECTED 4 HUGE BRIDGE WITHOUT APPROACHES
AND
PRESERVED HOIYWEIL~ST:
THE ADMIRATION
or
SUCCEEDING AGES.
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