The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-23
ON OUR MUNICIPAL ART.
ARCHITECTS AND ARTISTS LEND
THE CITY SOME SUGGESTIOES.


THE CITY SOME sUGGESTIOBS.
Sn,s viii Q y City or BriaEes-Let Thon ne
RIne Ones = Crossroads Decoration - meof
marks on the Fair Raoo OF Faanhattaa-
BEAT Buiid Libraries on the Farhs.
There was a symposium at the Reform Club
last night on Municipal Art: Its Scope. Aims.
and Uses" The occasion was the regular
monthly dinner OF the club. About one hundred
persons were present.
Frederick s. Lamb, who IL the Chairman OF
the Committee on Current Work OF the Archi-
tectural League. was the first speaker.
"Howeyer fastidious and critical some OF our
artistic societies may be-" ho said. toward
politics and municipal affairs, your Individual
artist Is likely to bo a good, active. patriotic
citizen. Tho spirit of good citizenship among
artists manifested itself twelve years ago In the
Architectural League. The example OF that
body has brought about tho organization OF all
the ano arts societies into tho Fine Arts
Federation"
Mr.. Lamb told how many ideas were dovei-
oped and discussed by the Architectural League.
.wo have determined" he said. that q teno-
ment district park ought NOT to b the aristo-
cratic. luxurious park Of 10 European monarch.
or on any such model. It ought 10 be q park
that 10 fitted TO mako tenement-houso
jewellers happier and healthier anu
visor. We hope to sec the day when
there will DO q building of public resort In every
Assembly district, where every resident can
ind In high. elevatinR surroundings o good
cafe. good music, q gymnasium and club rooms.
We want our bridges mado artistic. New York
will one day be q city OF bridges, spanning
both rivers from Yonkers and the Sound
70 the Battery. II we allow the average
engineer to put UP such bridges as the average
engineer designs-such. for instance. as that
which it is planned TO throw across tho East
River at Blackwclls Island, wo are neither
good artists nor good citizens
ave want street intersections decorated. AZ
at stands now there are about three places
where monuments, In the average city oficials
S Sil,st; % Ths c C RHs Park Pis.s and : place
p %S Ta to take 20 co snS% l6pt s0pS,S S co ond
$ssts shsf T 1ha ~ sis Ssl z s sssS ~ n n s s,ty X; M
educate the ideals Of the people. put. raise the
'e ;. g. o. a. sn' Ward was introduced as the nes.or
and Achilles of municipal art: He reviewed his
experience as a member ,Sa S 81 Go% mn Ha .s "a
that the present charter had set back the cause
Of municipal art fifteen years; There would not
Eve are not sufficiently protected" he said,
sfrom the stupendous ignoramus. who rushes
i huns aS shiisoee Sae'tW1Se We must have a better and
stronger commission, one OF which the majority
s AZ sT' thstl a Il @ e"psb ass q SPssIssio e sr1 sssa,sss a. a.
Mr.. Lamb has suggested, from q MISPLACED coal
t isstS So TO a a %St Via @i See eloop p r. With ai pisn S:
drawings. models. and lantern slides, and make
the city decent, II not beautiful. Heaven proteet
his own, but means weiil' You remember the
donkey, in the fable, who tried to embrace his
f Gfsssf his t%Sa aca1 The fair lace sf Manhattan
bears hoof marks II many q, h pl1 Msn,o,n,, A., On
oiety told what that society was doing in the
TALKED Of tho horrISlss iampDosts with which
o'"Wha could be more awful" he said, than
that spindling line of eleotrto-light poles stretch
each one holding out q lamp like q hard.boiled
'e@Fii believe that we should impress our ,leFis.
for q public building they should not stop, APP
R %Sleh i Is to Sn So b snHy pTfR Rsre a aS' ton ono few es@o op on
spaces in this city; We cannot afford to Put
buildings on them. II we are to erect na q fSsr.tstgd
s eaa5shisFs a % park IaF WITH : f. R.. sSe .Sf York vi Vim IL ns ass
one. New YORK Is . great. growing. iiSsty boy.
sS}s " ciO.Si GSE''i he sG Z not S' 70 become a queen. but
crown niad III .n s, hSsws sRePe we're s" ! 1000 ssse Werss
Of floral decorations set up in the City Hall
Council am5 on the occasion OF me gSing
a.sss Il Sss form .; sSo.$ss; !, TS ssi Ssss 4
ses ssseco ~ or e. q. o Ssy Il e i s' thu esi9ioi sssS Of e9s,
+ you Do not make her beautiful. you cannot
hs %i S,GSS ss. Rnsf: ssa p :sis s s6St Y Ys% T ESR
far richer than Paris, has but 80. 1t was 9
saos9 P0 q g. h S. sSial that II shf BUDAPEST Slt = %s' not e n Sl9
street more beautiful than any street in Paris,
end " has been built within TWENTY-FIVE years.
Paris has advanced moro in beauty during tho
last twenty-five years than 1t had since tho day
What Is the Reform Club hero for ~ he
asked. He looked surprised when the members
lauRhed. why don't you form q standing
observation-disclosures fS%sihiiS emit ' let that hat ? eommittee Co COMMIT Gass
nicste, with every other club in the city, urR-
Ing them to form similar committees.
mittee. Let that COMMITTEES get to work
on public sentiment and convince the voting
terest., You have read the interviews In which
lie improvements, has voiced HIS ideas on small
parks. Why. gentlemen. when they, have those
' We arc be es%%A lfiha aS,i heard g dt ae aoS y s snS to tSh 81:
pnRils that within twenty.dve years Frenchpen
s %ali f SS%' u e sh 1 sprsdIs,i to ii 4 nSs S assi t. wiz DO
Kenyon Cox said that he was an Evening Post
.aft's all, right for Mr.. Ward" he said.
Of arsiss.sa e4s' co ON Ea' that IL "? viii 'R both lag
very MIC nice I for tho sna artists Ras i0 We wo onaI G TSd,d Ss
s SsSS%S r Eamm But MI, Till he asoh undertake to
trsesurYi He cant convince me. Grown.
1 Msfis Rome f Ssa e,o SS .ts a1spsrssg s% FORK that hat
but thirty. lam just mlsanthropist enough to
wish that we hadn't quite all q those thirty.
put notwithstanding all the good advice OF the
brethren tonight. l don't yet see the way"