The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-30
CI7Y'S BEAUTIPIERS DINE.
SOME DAY WE MAY HAVE EVEN
BEAUTIFIED BRI DGES.
Municipal Art society Hears About Street
Signs and window Boxes-John La
Fargo Says II should Have 100000
Members -tantor's Two-Near limit.

Members -tsntor's Two-Near Limit.
At the National Arts Club In West Thirty
fourth street the Municipal Art Society
gave it's annual dinner last evening with
City Establishment From a Practical
Standpoint az the general subject for
post-prandial discussion. The dinner also
marked the opening Of an exhibition OF
Municipal Fixtures
Mr.. Warner In an Introductory speech
told some Of the things which the society
is doing. He said.
Our committee on reforming street signs
expects almost any day now to report results
in the shape OF acceptable street signs actually
adopted by the city.
Our committee on what may be called
balcony and area gardening, including
window boxes, climbing vines. dc. made up
OF ladies'. has given It's subject thorough
study, collected most valuable data and
already stirred interest In many n direction
For years, though expressly permitted
by our Legislature to eSpend $4,000 annually
In acquiring works Of art for public purposes
our city has taken no action. We have ap
pointed a live committee. and II is not too
much to expect that this opportunity will
not longer be neglected and that within the
next year there will be action to the full limit
OF the law.
For the coming year We have selected an
artistic electrolier on an "isle OF safety TO
be erected at one OF our more crowded street
crossings as our special work, and we believe
the result will show how. at once. beauty
can be added TO a street. trafic divided so as
to permit more to be done. and at the same
time the safety of foot passengers be sub
served.
Mrs. Robert Able. speaking for the City
History Club, said in part:
The club has for Its object the education
OF the men Of tomorrow. We concluded
that the interest shown by the children in
our classes In city history was such as to
indicate that what we had to give them was
worth paying something for. and we de-
cided to tax them one cent each for lessons.
This fund amounts now TO 5000. When IL
shall be $4,000 we expect TO give something
to the city which shall be really beautiful.
John La Fargo, referring to a statement
Mr.. Warner had made that the Municipal
Art Society wanted 5000 members, ex-
claimed:
Five thousand members We should have
500. 900 members In this city, There is no
one In the city who is not Interested in the
Rlories of the city. There Is not one OF us
pTCSSs a Ty0N TsH i S not s Ss sS9'S Slth @ mf fno%r
ing IL. Probably the. carpenter, who as;
sists us wishes that things were better and
more DeAutlIul ONtT lht WY Wv ~ az
one great bunch. II. Is not we artists alone
we are the hand. and we work for the things
that all want done for art and for the beauti-
Tying OF the city.
Theodore Marburg, President OF the
Municipal Art Society Of Baltimore, said:
We are decorating our public schools
We feel that the future Of our city lies in
the education Of the children. and that TO
educate them In the appreciation OF art II
not less important than TO educate them
in literature. therefore our ,endeavor TO deco
rate properly the public schools, % rr.vou
the aim must be not an art appealing only
10 the senses, producing. a nlonstro-ity lik"
Oscar Wilde. but art tending 70 the upbuld-
ing OF healthful ambitions. art that Is educa-
tional and uplifting,
John @. Agar, chairman Of the Com
mittee on City Affairs OF the Reform Club,
said that be must be true to his role, strike
a note of discord. criticise. and say that in
his conception public art in this country
was non-existent. The difficulty with the
people Of this country was thai they had
been fighting the material from the be,
ginning Of their existence. they had had
no opportunity to realize that there j. a
spiritual side 10 existence and the Affairs
OF life. When, through the cultivation
OF a high patriotism. this fact had been
instilied in them, then such societies as
those represented at the dinner would have
A hopeful future and then the art Of this
country would outshine that of all others.
Borough President Jacob A. Cantor
said.
1 was glad 10 hear from Baltimore tonight
the city Distinguished b. the BONE OF ciNll
-ervioe reform and Of the man who m-ilgut"d
that perniCiOus evil upon a glorious republic
discovered the Municipal Art so,irly d.
The Charter, and when the question OF
street .igns zane ~ ] thought that society
great enough 90 get the lrsl-latut" 10 put
In the statutes Was good enough for m"
The only peace aud happiur-- shall know
In thl- world will b. when t-rhold a street
ign which shall b. Deautil I a. ~ru a. u-'fIl.
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