The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-06-29
EXTENSION OF TIE CAPITOL.
America Will Have Most Perfect Public
BUILDING in the Werla,

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Baltimore American: Every patriotic
American citizen will hope that no Oh
stacle VIII intrude in the path Of an tx
tension of the east front OF the capitol
at Washington in accord With the plans
which have been reported farorably by
q Joint commission of the senate n
house. For several generations this has
been a project dear to the heart OF al
most every congress, and always dear
to the heart of every lover OF art in
architecture, and who could not look at
the grand building on 1.-The hill' With
out a feeling of profound regret that
so imposing a pile should be conspicu-
GUS in one great defect, that the mag
niflcent dome should seem from the
eastern point of view to be topping
over for lack of a proper n
GUS pedestal.
Regardless of its defects the capitol
Is a splendor of piecemeal construction.
Nc other architectural pile III the whole
world, erected in such Vicissitudes, has
been permitted to retain such thorough
integrity. 1t stands singular in archi-
tectural form and situation, the most
imposing of all houses Of parliament.
Not one In any foreign land approaches
1t in tremendous dignity. Only in the
ruins of structures of ancient days can
be found q semblance Of the chaste de-
sign of his meeting place of the law
makers for more than 80, 000, 900 Of pop
ulation-those ruins from which were
drawn to a large extent the noble fea-
lures Of the capitol, the treasury and
the building of the department of the
interior.
1t is not complimentary to the con-
gress nor to the people that the defects
of the capitol ave gone SO long unrem-
edied. When the terrace" was added
to the western front to give mass to
the apparent foundation, an absurd
mistake was made in placing stairways
of black slate amid the white marble
which everywhere else prevailed. To
the most uneducated taste this was Of
fensive, and architectural artists Of
every land stood astonished that such
Il crime could be committed in the name
of architecture. In connection with the
remedial movement at the east facade
this mistake upon the west is to be cor
rected, and when hat is accomplished
and the central section of the east front
Is extended this so-called crude coun-
try of America will have the most per-
feet building of public use in all the
world.
The British house of parliament is
not only extensively ornate, but it is
placed upon the banks of the Thames,
anu can be properly seen only from the
Surrey side. The chamber of deputies
in Paris, although of classic design and
having a curious sentimental outlook
in facing the great church OF the Mad
eleine, precisely similar In architecture,
but far across the Seine, and the bee
hive of the Place de Ia Concorde, is
dwarfed and obscured upon the bank OF
the river.
So the changes might be rung upon
houses of parliament of all the great
states OF the world. No other stands
forth with such prodigious weight and
dignity of proportion n such com
n ma ndjnr situation as this whifa Mia "a
Washington, n again let the hope be
expressed that congress will leave moth
ing undone to finally correct the mis-
takes in art which have been always
recognized n which are solely due tt
the patchwork manner in which thu
Wonderful structure has been produced
Belt Of Calm at Pacific End of Cana
National Geographic Magazine: *
the eastern extremity of the canal tn,
| difficulties which a sailing vessel, ma,
expect to will arise from
superanbundance of wind rather than
lack OF it. At the western extremity
on the other hand, these conditions vii
be completely reversed.
Upon emerging from the canal int,
the Pacific ocean a4vesselwill enter al
extensive belt of calms Inc light airs
which render navigation byEsail mo-
tedious than In n other frequeltei
4, portion of the sea. The width of thi
region Varies-at some points wide, a
others narrow. In thai portion of tn
north Pacific included between tn
American coast n the meridian of II
, degrees westFit reaches a maxium,SeS
, tending IN latitude from a point one q
two degrees north of the equator t
Cape san Lucas, the southern extram
ity Of lower California. In both az
! preaching and leaving Panama, IRE
spective OF the port from which or tc
!. ward which bound, q sailing vesse
must OF necessity navigate q greater
! less width of the belt of Gains, an
I In estimating for a given voyage TIL
i saving Of time effected by. h US
8 OF the canal the delay arising from til
4 cause must not be neglected.
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