New-York tribune., 1902-04-28
THE PASSING THRONG.

The question of whether New-York is archi-
tecturally lovely or quite the will probably
never be settled. the face of the
THE ARCHI- city is so constantly changing. But
lecture OF the mere fact that the question is
NETWORK so much discussed shows New
York be at least architecturally
interesting S 5. Ross, an architect VINO has
been recently engaged in Philadelphia. bad a
word to add the discussion yesterday at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel President Eliot. VINO
comes, by the way. from place that has been
declared the one spot in the United States rgiier
than w-York-Harvard Squars-recently crlti-
cised the looks Of your city pretty severely
believe. referring especially to the side streets.
remarked Mr.. Ross He found the dead uni
forrnity of these streets depressing nave
been taking a walk this afternoon through some
of these streets, for the first time in several
years and I have been happily surprised by the
changes that have appeared. and by the hints OF a
future charm feel these streets will possess
If the present good work goes OF course. am
speaking now of the residential streets. that so
often present a dismal wall of brownstone- 1 al
ways felt that brownstone, though not cheerful
wholly to blame for the effect Even
brownstone houses be varied in design, and
not built shrinking back from long flight of
beneath which servants peep and ash barrels
being remodelled entirely-broEght out flush with
the street, the steps eliminated. the fronts of
entire height sometimes for two stories by a low
curve aud boxes of flowers happily setting off the
whole. Some of these houses, to be sure, err
the other way and are overloaded with ornament
effect is incongruous in the extreme. But they are
move in the right direction Bits of streets they
and architecturafly attractive could ask.
beauty
There are bores and bores II any should
try to enumerate them all he would beco1-.e one
himself. One may try a few at
THE BORE a time. however. John r Bertholf'
WITH THE of Nyack said yesterday the
KEY RING Waldorf that ne had been discov-
cred by kind; it may be
to him, but the variety is widely dispersed. DE
liver me-" said he. from the with key ring
and no brains I got anchored next to the
train. We talked for a time about this that;
then ali topics seemed be exhausted. He tingled
some coins about in his pocket and suddenly
fshed out bunch of keys. Holding the bunch in
one hand, he sorted the keys out. by one. with
the thumb and forefnger of the other Now. this
E9toP dsb desks fb that is swa & gps bon sfqsk 70 Ins
dress suit case; no. it doesn't either; I guess it's
the key to the bureau; it's the dress suit case.
iatchkey TO my house. and this one opens the
stable door You can get into the stable from the
door key. too. And this key-here he looked at
shall T' no tell G5 You eS Where re this key T
is your watch key?' asked oh. wouldn't have
The provincial governments of Canada still
Jealous Of their individual rights. according to DR.
S. A Lacombe. of Montreal
HOME member of the local Parliament
RULE IN for the Province of Quebec The
CANADA. principle that was adhered to some
years in the case of the trou
bles in Manitoba Is still followed he said. at the
Imperial Hotel. However much the Dominion
Government desired to interfere at that time it
was restrained from doing because it would
have set a bad precedent; and however much other
provincial governments might have desired to
things different IN Manitoba they would not have
tolerated interference by the head government for
the same reason; such interference would have
been entering wedge. So we have been going
on this winter before. running the affairs Of
our province for ourselves. much as the New-York
State Legislature does here. The winter has been
quiet. and the legislation mostly of routine sort
There have been occasions anywhere for a sug-
gestion of abandoning the principle of local self
government. and probably never will be again.