The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-27

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years Of delightful "reminiscences Of Ilaw.
thorfie. and OF those who came In touch
With him during thnt time. beginning
with is40, when Hawthorne was forty
( five years old and the son only three.
rho year 1S4D found Hawthorne do
}prived. BY political lchicancry. Of his GUS
tom house survcyorship. which position
had for years been his means Of sup.
port A dark outlook, no doubt thought
Hawthorne. but II this had not como to
pass would we ever have had The Scarlet
Letter? We arc taken into the study,
"a heavenly place, tenant,d by being
POSSESSED Of every attribute that our
Imagination could ascribe to m angel"
The homely paper on the wall, the brown
ish old carpet on tho floor. and the old
black painted and defaccd rocking chair.
with the wonderful desk on the table.are
luminous In the sons memory with the
sunshine Of over fifty years. The dress
Ing gown. with the butterfly pen-wipcr,
sewed by his wife under the left hand
skirt OF the gown to keep the writer from
defacing It's faded beauty, and the slip
pcrs, worn down ut the heels. are folded
away In our memory as sacred to one we
love. It IS Impossible In limited space
to do Justice to the charms Of the book.
We are told at the beginning that It is
not intended to include. except Incident
ally, anything In the way OF literary
criticism. The various works are non,
toned as they are given out from the
creators brain. but the charm Of the
book IS in the Incidents Of daily life.
the sympathy between father and son,
and the meeting Of the host Of friends,
whose lives touch Hawtflorne's during
the twelve years Of our Journeylng with
him.
Ri In 1853 Hawthorne received the Liver.
pool consulate from President Pierce and
4 for seven years he and his family lived
abroad, always drawing around them an
equally delightful circle, whether In
America England or Rome. s
s Nathaniel Hawthorne was we'll named
a man without guile-and was. In his life,
as his son describes him. THE most beau
{ tiful Of human beings by which I do not
near beautiful IN feature. for of that ]
was not competent to hold an opinion.
but beautiful In the feelings which he
aroused in one beholding him. He was
4heautiful to be with, to hear to touch
and experience. Such Is the effect Of the B
spiritual sphere Of good men !, in whom
nature and characterGara harmonio,s -
3PRINCTPLES,&O r. CITY LAND L.
d# ES BY Richard NJ Hurd president
OF the Lawyers Mortgage Insurance
Company. Published by the Record
and Guide. New York.
Mr.. Hurd treats the modern city as a
living organism. It's business center Is
the heart; Its streets the arteries; Its
parks the lungs: its telephone and tele-
graph wires the nervous system. He
holds that cities do not grow at random
but that their structural movements.
complex and apparently irregular as
they are, respond to definite principles.
the basis of this similarity being that the
same factors create all modern cities
cal and social forces being severy-
where operatve-the chief difference
In influence coming from variations in
their rela tive power. III #3t4
Gs He distinguishes three general functions
performed by urban land. It Is used for
business. for residence and H for public
and semi-public, services. Given a cer
tain area Of land. Mr.. Hurd finds that
these several utilities will distribute them
selves In accorda nee with certain fixed
rules. Business seeks the level ground,
better-class residences the moderately
elevated. while factories, warehouses and
cheap dwellings are left to the water
front and .'filled-n'.' land.
AS to the loca ton Of cities. he points
out that the principles governing that
change with the centuries. Thus Rome
was founded on seven hills, Athens on a
rock Paris on an island, etc. La ter. the
considerations have been rather indus
trial commercial, political or social. That.
Society OF itself creates important CEN
tiers Of population, witness such places
as Atlantic City and Pasadena. In these
cases, Of course, climate and natural at
fractions determine. Political reasons less
a. <1,ot hi tor 10
a conspicuous instance. Pullman, In lli-
no!s and Essen. In Germany owe their ex &
istence purely TO manufacturing interests.
2 New York. starting as a trading post. has
become several kinds Of city In one, and
has developed into the commercial. fnan-s
cial and social capital Of the new world,
III With river cities he says that the re-
squirement of deep water and high bank,
and the avoidance of swift currents, was
frequently best met where creek ran
into the river, the first docks Of New
York being on the creek where Broad
street now Is: OF Memphis where
Wolf Creek Joined the Mississippi River,
and Of Richmond where Shockoe Greek
Joined the James. Where steep hills de-,
scend close to the waters edge there are
In some Instances two starting points
for the to,vn-one for business buildings
at the waenr's edge, and the other for
residences an the hill, as at Richmond,
Knoxy!l,e and Kansas City. In this con-
neoton he presents picture OF Rich
mond as 1t appeared In lS40
Under separate chapters he treats Of
the general principles upon Which cities
grow, the forces creating ci5ies loca tons,
directions Of growth, distribution Of util-
tiles, currents OF travel, types OF build
ings, rentals and Capitalization rates and
scale OF average wages. OF especial In
terest ID a table Showing the population
Of the principal cities OF the United
states, and comparative values OF best
sites for retail stores, for wholesale stores
and for residences, He puts Rlchmonds
best retail property at $3.50 front
foot, and best residence property at $500
front foot, whereas in Louisville, q
city Of 10000, best retail property Is
valued at 81. 700 a front foot and best res
ldenoe property at sl50 In Atlanta best
retail property Is valued at $4,000 front
foot, and best residence property at S2Oo
But after sdeallng at length and In a
most Interesting and instructive manner
with the problems of municipal develop,
ment, MI. Hurd says that the underlying
factors which start all tho processes Of
creating and distributing wealth are the
energy and enterprise Of the people. Quite