Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-01
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In the last number of the Literary
Digest is an interesting illustrated ar
ticle on sofe fine work of Arnold w.
Drummer the distinguished architect
and planner who will likely be COM
missioned by the State to work out in
collaboration with Warren H. Man
ming, representing the city, the treat
ment of the Capitol Park zone-the
old and new sections and the Vtaduct
or subway at State street.
Governor Brumbaugh, Auditor Gen.
eral Powell and State Treasurer Young
are in sympathy with the proposed
landscape treatment and it is expected
Mr.. Drummer will be able to submit his
recommendations and sketches so
tht the matter can be properly sub
mitted to the Legislature when 1t con-
venes in January.
Herewith are a number of etchings
showing Mr.. Brunner's work. In the
designing of Denver's civic center he
collaborated with Frederick Law Ohm
sted in expressing "Denver's Ideals
and individuality.
In designing the artistic bridge
across the Maumee river at Toledo 1t
was a case of rmonious coliabor-
alton by Mr. Arnold, the architect, and
Ralph Modjeska. an engineer well
known in Harrisburg and Steelton.
Charles D. Lay, in the International
Studio, for October, says of this
bridge:
"It was not enough to have the
bridge carry the traffic; it must carry
it cheaply and well, and at the same
time express the importance of that
artery of the city and of the shipping
that goes through 1t. Such happy
result has, l believe, crowned the eff
forts of these two eminent men. for
mechanically the bridge is unusual and
.~l1 al OF, Z ion
shows how well it fulflls the other re-
quirements.
Another bridge, where the condi-
ttons were somewhat different, is that
of the Long Island Railroad over
Queens County Boulevard.
"Brunner was asked to collaborate
with the railroad company's engineers
in the design of this bridge, in which
the desire was less to make an imopr-
tant bridge show its importance than
to make a necessary structure digni-
| fed; to give a feeling of substantially
to the f1imsy looking traceries of
steel commonly used in railroad
! bridges"
Mr.. Lay seems to have sensed the
| problem here when he declares, re-
garding the planning of cities, that
usually a landscape architect is
chosen for his knowledge of laying out
the land in streets, building lots parks,
and boulevards and for his feeling
for the surface of the ground An
architect, too, is chosen for his knowl-
edge of building, monuments, and
public squares and together they do
the work. Either one called
first would. of course. request
the joint employment of the other, for
| each knows what stimulation to Gre
ative thought comes from two minds
of slightly different points of view
working on the same problem. Each
knows too. how great the technical diff
f1culties are and has no desire to un-
dertake more than his own share OF
| the work, for there is no glory In sue
cess won outside of ones own field
Nor does either wish to have his good
work carried to disaster because o;
somewhat gratuitous attempts to dc
| another's work.
illustrating the wisdom of the Com
monwealth and the city cooperating
in making out the problem associated
in the extension of the Capitol Park
and the widening of the abutting
streets, Mr. Lay says:
IAN example of such joint RESPONSE
bility in city planning is the work OF
/ F. L. Olmsted and A. w. Brunner, In
4 Denver, on the civic center now vel
under way. This, it may be unneces-
sary to state. is not simply civic GEN.
ter to be compared and judged with
other civic cents, but 1t is Denver's
civic center designed to fit the loca
conditions of topography and climate
! and to give room for the future ex-
preston of Denver's ideals and indi.
Wduality. 1t is the beating heart ot
the city and will some day be the frs
spot recalled by the affections wher
Denver is mentioned or thought of.
1t is also the dream of Harrisburg tha