The Raymer enterprise., 1915-09-23

little individuality to start with, the adventures
ana patchngs of time have endued IL with
pieturesqueness Of its own. The builders rave
II practically no decoration, but such solid works
receive all they need from the hand Of time.
"hIch ADDS detail with unerrng taste. The
palmer an edtttee may have been to start with
the better time adorns IL. provided II has been
bult with sound materials. good workmanship
ana In good proportions, Most of Englands noblcst
castles must have looked gaunt and even ito
contemporary eyes, ugly To the Saxon citizens
Of London the White doubtless whtewashedl
tower can hardly have conveyed esthetic pleas
ure But time has even decorated Norman cas-
Ties, so that not the badest modern sky.seraper
need despair of future admiration II il can hold
itself end up long enough
Amerstoort tower is anything rather than plain
On the contrary ii is in the Gothic style tending
towards hamboyant while It's general design Is
OF the type OF the tower at Utrecht which indeed
being only fourteen miles away, doubtless sug.
gesled 1t, That was built during the middle half
OF the fourteenth century; Amersfoort at the
very end of the fifteenth. Both have the open
oetagonal top story already described Utrecht is
Sds teet high, Amersfoort 3l2 feet The latter is
considered to be the finest Gothic tower in Hol.
hnn' suppose 1t to have been surmounted or
intended to be surmounted by plain spre but
inc present bulbous top and open.work crown
were put on In 1855. Where did Holland get i,s
taste tor these bulbs' She did not have a mo.
hopoy OF them, for they are numerous enough in
Germany and even In Switzerland An oriental
original probably suggested them The Amers
toort church was built in the fourteenth century
and the tower may well have been proiected from,
the first An explosion damaged the building hpt
the damage was made good and the tower for.
tnnaely escaped
rev tourists step at Amersfoort but plentv NJ
them can see the tower from the train on their
way eastward from Amsterdam The summit of
IL looks northward far away over the Zuyder Zee
ana IN every other direction over a country AZ
nat as water There was some fun in building
high towers In Holland, they could be seen from
so TAR away. Amersfoort can hail Utrecht on any
eiear day' and both OF them Rhenen Il imagined,
which Rembrandt sketched
Anyone who has landed at Finishing ord mr..
ceeded thence anywhither by train has been
carried for the first few miles over the am.
phbious region of the island of Walcberen ue
mas passed Middelburg and presently. II he looked
away of to the left he will have seep NJ Al,
lance OF two or three miles. the little town of
Feere, Both are old towns and highly pietur.
esaue, So indeed Durer recorded them IN ho
when he visited them In the cold December NJ
la2o. "Middelburg," he said is good .own n
hne place for sketching. II has beautiful town
hail with fine tower. There is much art shown
III all Things here. All he has to say about vaere
IS that II Is fine little town where lie sbins
from all lands The object OF Durer's unfor
1nhate winter journey to the islands of Zealand
was not, however. to see towers and town halls
but to satisfy his Unsuitable curiosity about
natural history. He wanted to make drawing
OF whale that had been stranded in those
parts Such curiosity In the case OF men nka
Durer and Leonardo Is the first indication We
possess OF the approach OF the age of science
The whale had been washed away before purer's