The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11

tional theater. As one end of the great
ST Paul s vista. in the very heart OF
the section where the Bard of Avor
lved and worked, a more appropriate
site for this long apitated enterprise
could not well be suggested.
Among the earnest supporters of this
scheme are such well known names as
Sir John Benn, leader of the Progress.
s1yes IN tthe London county council
Leonard Stokes, president of the ROYAL
Institute of Architects; Alfred Cross
the vice president; John Burns and
many other leading men Of the day 1t
seems inevitable that the scheme
should 90 through, for otherwise an op.
portuDlty will be missed which will be
beyond recall And the extra FIVE mil
lions, they urge, is not being spent
on purely utopian enterprise. The
| architectural value OF the scheme will
yield some actual cash value as well,
in the vastly improved frontage created
| for doing business.
Hardly less impressive than this great
st. Paul S scheme is the plan which has
been drawn up by f. w. Speaight for
the remodeling of the Horse Guards
parade, Mr.. Speaight is a famous court
photographer, but has also done dis
tingulshed work as n landscape archi.
tect. He is the man who rescued the
noble marble arch from It's ugly
cramped position and set il out as a
single gateway TO Hyde park where it
now stands alone and beautiful dis
playing classic grace of line and pro-
portion none suspected when it was
one of London s ''lost opportunities -
AT present the Horse Guards parade
is perpetual disgrace. Coming
through the impressive archway from
Whitehall. watched over by the stately
and familiar guardsmen, the only con.
spicuous object in the scene is an old
woman's sweet stall in the middle dis
tance. From the Duke of York 8 steps
at the foot of Waterloo place the view
is quite as iumbled and disjointed The
parade ground itself, whore the brave
ceremony of trooping the color takes
place on the king birthday. is the
worst Of all. Jt is nothing more than
a patch of gravel at the back Of row
of official buildings
VIII Be Completed
Considering the possibilities of the
situation. this is FlOst opportunity
indeed. on to the left is st. James s
park while straight ahead though now
obscured by trees, is Buckingham pal.
ace. One road, the Mall. does lead up
TO the palace in n splendid approach
lined with trees. but this is out of
view from many of the main entrances to
the parade, The Mall leads directly
INTO Trafalgar square, but there is a
hitch even about this vista. 1t was
proposed TO open up the prospect to the
palace under a magnificent archway
which forms part Of the Queen Vic.
toria memorial. This archway was long
ago completed. but II deadlock has aris-
on between the government office of
Works and the county councils of Lon.
don and Westminster The deplorable
result is that instead Of an approach
Of $50 feet being cleared away to bring
out tho very noble lines Of the new
arch and TO present fine view along
tho Mall with the palace in the distance.
enough buildings have only been cleared
away to give an approach of eighty
feet. So the memorial arch, as it stands
is sad spectacle indeed But it rep.
resents good start nevertheless, and
its final completion is only matter of
time.
Mr. Speaight has included this Queen
Victoria memorial scheme in his own
sweeping reform Of the Horse Guards
area, the most ambitious part of his
striking idoa of a British Valhalla of |
military heroes extending in line with
the Horse Guards arch out coward |