The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-11
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


There are sundry amusing things in
this world
Styles in women's clothes for one
thing. And then there are the arches
at the Glen.
Now the arch at the east entrance
Of the Glen is not SO bad. In fact it
does very well.
For a beer garden, say.
Or to some of those aggregations OF
suburban villas promoted by real es-
tate agents on the fringes of mush-
room metropolises.
You can see these weird entrances,
draw-bridges, meats and private fOrtifi-
Cations were in character, looming up
at various intervals when you're riding
in by the interurban.
This is not saying, however, that
that arch was not put up with proper
spirit and intent.
But by all the laws of aesthetics it
does not belong where it is.
1t does not fit into it's setting.
If we are going to have public mon
uments and what the writer has many
la time and oft described in the society
column as decorative accessories" let
them be constructed on something be-
sides those famous plans and specifi-
cations"
Why not make up civic art com
mission and submit such intended con-
structions to them for approval or lack
OF it.
Such art commissions are current
nowadays everywhere.
New York has one, and other places
Why not Richmond, Indiana.
This column hereby dominates Will
liam Dudley Foulke as chairman OF
such a momentous body-although a
body to have a chair may be some
thing of a bull-to confer with Mr.. B
A. Kennepohl of the Board of Public
Works.
These two gentlemen, without rival
in their respective fields of erudition
could get together, nominate a third
person to act as referee and call a
mass meeting of interested citizens to
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plans and specifications which the city
engineer will draw up for the orna-
ment, alleged, of the west entrance to
the Glen.
Now is the time to insure" so to
speak
If all the people who say they don't
want that arch at the east entrance
in, ort oil thncQ
who violently rant against it at all,
will get together before ground is bro
ken and the plans and specifications
begin to body forth under the physical
vision, they'd better get together now
Because the chautauqua shekels
have been garnered into the city treas
ury and ere long these mighty civic
However long it may take council
to get that sanitary fountain the
Daughters of the American Revolution
presented to the city out of the cellar
where it has long languished in dur
ance vile, officialdom will lose no time
in formulating the monument to the
old soldiers at the west entrance tC
our beautiful municipal breathing
place.
Haste then, civic beautifiers.
The truth is that these arch things
at the Glen's mouth are more or less
absurd.
And this with all due respect to Mr.
Ed. Hollarn, custodian of the park.
Mr. Hollarn has been one of the
best custodians the Glen has ever had
He has the interests of the park a
heart and his desire to protect tht
trees should commend him to ever,
citizen of this town. 1t is also his de
sire to grade the hill west of the LAKE
and grow it with vines or grass o.
shrubbery and thus remove one of thu
worst and most ineXcusable eye-sorei
in the park.
Hollarn, in fact has suggested tina
some of the chautauqua money b.
used to this end.
1t will, he states, take about six hun
bred dollars.
And certainly this should be don,
before monuments of an alarming ant
anomalous character are erected il
the foreground.
The truth is these arches for thu
Glen ought to be referred to a civil
primary.