The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-08
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suit.
 It is rare. indeed. I take 1t, that such propositions as are advanced next above can be proved. They usually rest upon speculation and opinion Fortunately, in this instance they can be established beyond doubt by the best evidence of thousands of eye wit has looked the national capitol or up- on pictures of it.
 Washington capitol.
 The original capitol at Washington, though much larger, was strikingly like the capitol of Alabama, architectural ly speaking. The government needed more room. It was concluded to add wings to the edifice. I am not ad- vised that there was any desire to maintain the individuality and archi- tectural identity of the old building. Its history was in some respects ig- nominious rather than glorious. There was no just sentiment which demanded that its architectural entity should be maintained and perpetuated, as there Is just and universal sentiment which demands that the architectural entity of our capitol should be maintained and perpetuated So the wings were added of tho same height of the origi- nal building and they were Joined on by colonnades or corridors precisely as it is proposed to join on the wings here.
 The wings were added to the cap itol at Washington, in other words. in precisely the same way and they were precisely the same sort of wings in re- spect of elevation that are proposed by the three-etory plans submitted to us. The results there will inevitably be the results here, if 6 three-story plan should be adopted. And what were they7 The old capitol as an architec- tural entity was destroyed. it's identity and individuality were completely merged into the new mass and its fn- dividuality was totally lost. Not only SO, but 1t was found after the wings had been added that the length of the whole was entirely too great for its height, and to remedy this 1t became necessary to build marble terrace on the avenue front at a cost of at least one million, and I believe three mill lions of dollars; and it ts said by com petent architects that even this great outlay of money did not overcome the | serious defect which the addition of wings of the same height made in the mass. There Is no room to doubt that those results will follow the erection of three-story wings to the capitol of Alabama. In respect of the destruc- tion of the architectural Individuality the result is precisely that which everybody wishes most devoutly to avoid; and Alabama has no million of l dollars or other sum to eXpend on a marble, or even a brick and stucco terrace, in an abortive attempt to elimi- nate from the perspective of her en- larged capitol the unsightly squatti. ness of appearance which the carrying out of any three-story plan would in- evitably produce.
 On the other hand, we are likewise exceptionally fortunate in conspicuous examples to prove that the addition of wings of two-story elevation to the present capitol of three stories will neither destroy nor seriously impair the identity or individuality of the old capitol as an architectural entity. noI give the whole a length out of propor' tion to its height, resulting in an eye sore or requiring to the alleviatior of the defect the expenditure of large sums of money. There are many such examples. I am told. in the an nals of architecture; but I will content myself with reference to two only, each of which Is remarkably and curiously opposite here
 One is supplied by independence hall and the story of its enlargements A more striking analogy in point oi history and consequent reverential sen. timent cannot be imagined than exist: between that edifice and the capitol oi Alabama Each covered the travail oi a people which gave birth to a ma tion The nation born at Philadelphia lived and has prospered and growr to the highest stature among nations That which was storm -cradled" 1T this old edfice did not live. though it! cause was as just as the cause of thu other, but the heroism of its struggle! for freedom and independence is un exampled in the tombs of history. | the nation that lived to build innum erable monuments to It's greatness hal a just reverence for It's natal spot, th' people of the nation that fell whos' poverty admits of a few memorials tt its brief. bloody and brilliant career should the more reverence and seel to preserve this monument to a caus' they loved and lost.
 Independence Hall.
 Independence hall became too small for the practical uses to which 1t wa
 devoted. Philadelphia in respect of 1
 had the same problem we have in re spect of the capitol. It was desired t. add to the building in such way a
 to preserve its Individuality and archi tectural identity. Wings were addet
 of the same height of the origina
 building. It was found that such ad Il ditions merged and destroyed the sep arate architectural entity of the ol
 building; and after a dozen years 0
 SO, for the purpose of rehabilitating tn
 original building as an architecture
 unit, the wings that had been erecte
 at the same height of the old buildin
 were torn down, and other structure were added at a lower elevation, a stor
 less in height and thereby the senti mental purpose there entertained an conserved and carried out. as tn judges propose here to conserve tn just sentiment of the people. by addin two-story wings to the capitol an
 leaving it still to stand in it's ow lines and proportions individually dom
 inant. and perpetuating 1t as mont ment to the past.
 The other example to which I wi refer Is that of the white house. In general way. to the eye of a layma
 at least. the style of that edifice much the same as our capitol. excluc
 ing the dome of the latter. It becan
 necessary to make additions to 1t. an 1t was desired that such addition should not impair the original buildin