The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-01-05

the work which he does as could be
gained in any otker way u given. n
D. hia custom 90 study a city. ts indi-
vidunlity he calls II. ana consider what
viii best give expression 20 that in
dNiduaiity IN his report to Colorado
Springs he says;
Colorado Springs u not and does
not aspire to be, "A manufacturing city;
II ls not a great trading center. and 1t
is not a capital city. Its two great
assets are It's air and its scenery; the
one notable for It's life giving quail
ties. the other for the inexhaustible-
ness OF its beauty and grandeur. To
be a pleasure and a health resort is
therefore, its destiny; and to be the
Mecca OF the beauty lovers, the travel
ers: the Switzerland that beckons the
multitudes of the East across the roll
Ing prairies of their own great coun-
try. to drink their fill of it's marvellous
scenery. instead of crossing tempest
uous seas to mountains that are no
grander than the Rockies
So, because Colorado Springs was an
out-of-door city. attention was CEN
are 14O feet wide, and upon the parks.
whose beauty is expected to increase
as the transplanted trees and shrubs
develop.
SOME SIMPLE AIDS TO BEAUTY.
The city of Detroit is another which
Mr.. Robinson has advised as to the
better methods of cultivating it's nat
ural beauty, and the Society for the
Beautifying of Buffalo, an organiza-
ton that is endeavoring to influence
outdoor art, has had Mr.. Robinson in
that city for consultation. He suggest
ed, just as a beginning, that the ad-
vertisements, pictorial and scare let
ters, be removed from the bicycle racks
that are the most conspicuous articles
in Main street; that the crude, bare
electric light signs that flash out at in
tervals and then become black be pro-
hibited, and that the billboards, prom
inent on all streets. be suppressed. Mr..
Robinson has advised with art COM
missoners in Boston as to public i'm
provements.
As result of his work in Syracuse,
that city seems to have taken on new
zeal for public improvements and for
permanent Identification of parks and
streets and the natural beauty places
surrounding 1t.
Mr. Robinson has written much, in
cluding the two books mentioned, I'm
provements of Town and Cities" and
Modern Civic Art" and numerous
magazine articles, including series on
outdoor art abroad, to obtain material
for which he was sent to France, Bel
GUM and England by Harper Broth
ers, the series afterward appearing in
trated.
Mr.. Robinson's activity for civic i'm.
provement has been such that he has
attracted to himself the attention Of
societies for civic improvement every
where, and he himself does not know
of how many such organizations he Is
an honorary member. He was secre-
tary for two years Of the American
Park and Outdoor Association, record
ing secretary of the American League
| for Civic improvements, organizer and
| first secretary of the National Alliance
of Civic Organizations, a member Of
the National Committee of Nine Of the
Architectural League of America on
\ Civic Improvement, a life member Of
| the American Civic Association, a cor
responding member Of the Twentieth
Century Club Of Boston, an honorary
member of the Public Parks Associa-
ton of Providence, and an honorary
member of Scapa, an English society.