The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
COLOR SCHEME FOR WHOLE
 TOWN


 There comes from Niagara Falls the tidings of an undertaking that must be well nigh unique, and which is of ex- oeeding great interest and suggestion in this Pan-American year to those who are concerned in improving the aspect of towns and cities. And to whom among us is not that an effort of interest? Up the river, contiguous to the multiplying and mammoth factories that are now making Niagara a great industrial center, there is a settlement called Echota. Here 127 houses, with the necessary stores and other buildings, make quite village in themselves. They all stand on land belonging to the big Niagara develop ment company, and are mainly, if not wholly. occupied by employees of the mills, but, perhaps because controlled hy single wealthy corporation, the streets of the tract are attractively laid out and paved; the houses, which are all frame, are neat in appearance and tasteful in design, and the whole place has an interestingly prosperous appear ance. Upon it's artistic effect, however, there has long been a blot. The houses of Echota were uniformly painted in yellow and white, and so the stamp Of single ownership was on the place. Some weeks ago, it was resolved to change this; and the owners took very unusual course. Influenced, per haps by the striking artistic success of the Pan American, they went to Regin- aid Coxe Ca son of the late Bishop CoXe and the president of the Buffalo society of artists) and asked him to devise new color scheme--a color scheme for whole town. MT CoXe went carefully to work handed in a report which was accepted, and the work of repainting began in October This has been now practically finished, and the local papers account of the result is of quite enough interest, as the record Of what is probably an entirely novel eXperi- ment. to justify a quotation in full
 Says the Niagara Falls Gazette: MT Coxe employed a combination of grays and greens, with here and there war mer color, bordering on the reds, to tighten the whole effect; and in q few cases. notably in MT Lincoln's house on Sugar street, the only example of colonial architecture, he retained the original yellow and white. The dis posal house, the largest building in the town had a background of trees, and has been painted a gray green,by which it will be lost in the foliage behind it. The engine house, too, has been painted in n liehter tone of the same color. It stands at point connecting E and streets and was so painted to combine inc color scheme of these two streets. To make it less prominent also several houses near by have been treated with a deep. almost salmon color, The lat tice work along the railways is now moss green. making a good background for the evergreen trees in front Of it, and forms less of contrast than It did before Click Bros store is little eon1her in it's grey and dark green pillars and porch, but it will show less of the pencil marks and inevitable match strokes that defaced it formerly. The International traction company's building and the railway across and along the railway tracks have also been repainted so as to agree with the gen eral color scheme. The Bell telephone company the Home telephone company and the power company have painted the telephone poles, under MT. CoXe's so that they will be hidden as much as possible. MT. CoXe chose a scheme of color that would tell for the whole village at the time when it is most in evidence-the spring, summer, and autumn when the trees are in leaf. From the Rochester Post Express.