The Arvada enterprise., 1915-09-23

Httie individuality to start with, the adventures
ana patchnss of time have endued it with a
picturesqueness of its own. The builders gave
II practically no decoration. but such solid works
receive all they need from the hand of time.
which adds detail with unerrng taste The
palmer an edihce may have been to start with.
the better time adorns it, provided it has been
puiit with sound materials, good workmanship
and In good proportions. Most OF England noblest
castles must have looked gaunt and even Ito
contemporary eyes, ugly. To the Saxon citizens
OF London the White doubtless whitewashed)
tower can hardly have conveyed esthetic pleas.
ure. But time has even decorated Norman cas-.
ties so that not the baldest modern sky-scraper
need despair of future admiration II II can hold
itself end up long enough
Amersfoort tower is anything rath her than Main
On the contrary. II is in the Gothic style tending
towards hamboyant. while its general design is
OF tn" type of the tower at Utrecht. which indeed
neihS only fourteen miles away. doubtless sug.
Sested 1t That built during the middle half
OF tn" fourteenth century: Amersfoort AT the
very end of the fifteenth Both have the omen
octagonal top story already described. Utrecht is
""S l"et hiHh, Amerstoort 3l2 feet The latter is
considered to be the finest Gothic tower in Hol.
Iahd suppose 1t to have been surmounted or
intended to he surmounted by a plain spire but
me present dubious top and open.work crown
were put on in 1866 Where did Holland get its
taste FOR these bulbs? She did not have mo.
hopolN OF them FOR they are numerous enough In
Germany and even in Switzerland An oriental
original probably suggested them The Amers.
'oort church was built in the fourteenth century
and the tower may well have been projected from
the first An explosion damaged the building but
me damage was made good and the tower for.
tunately escaped
Few tourists stop at Amersfoort but plenty OF
them can see the tower from the train on their
way eastward from Amsterdam The summit OF
I looks northward far away over the Zuvder zoe
and In every other direction over a country as
nat AS water There some fun in building
hish towers In Holland they could be seen from
so lar away Amcrsfoort can hail Utrecht on any
clear day, and both Of them Rhonen II imavineD
which Rembrandt skctched
Anyone who has landed at Flushing and pro
ce"ded thence auywhither by train has been
carried for the first few miles over the am.
phihious region OF the island OF Walchercn He
mas passed Middolburg and presently II he looked
away on to the left he will have seen, Mt a dis
lance OF two or three miles. the little town OF
N'ere. Both are old towns and highly pictur.
"squ" SO indeed Durer recorded them to be
Whch II" visited them in the cold December OF
l520 'Mddolburg" he said is n good town n
mo plac" for skotchng. It has a beautiful town
hall with fine tower. There is much art shown
~ all things here All he has to say about We're
II that IT Is fine little town where lie ships
from all lands The object OF Durers unfor.
iuhhte winter Journey to the islands OF iceland
was not however, to see towers and town halls
but TO satisfy his Unsuitable curiosity about
natural history. Hc wanted to make drawing
OF a whale that had been stranded In those
parts, such curiosity in tho case OF men Ike
Dufer and Leonardo II the FIRST indication W.
possess OF the approach, OF the age Of science
The whale had been washed away before Durer's