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partures from it, Messrs. Day G.
klauber have. Of course, adhered to
the old English style in their hand
some buildings for Princeton Univer-
sity. The brick architecture Of the
Colonial period is emulated by Messrs.
Murphy e. Dana in their delightful
scheme for the Loomis Institute. The
Italian Renaissance is represented in
another building to be cited at this
point Messrs York e. Sawyer's
structure for the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany, and that, by the way, registers
high light in the show. Again we
must remark that it is not a great
building. Momentarily, even, we are a
little dubious about the balance struck
between the rusticated stages of the
FACADE and the simpler surfaces above
them. It is not the most convincing
balance in the world. Yet the build
ing, in the main, stays graciously in
the mind. 1t is not dull. That is. we
are afraid, the epithet extorted by such
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A foreword to the catalogue leads off
with an unimpeachable sentiment, as
follows: "The Architectural League
Exhibition is held annually for the
dual purpose of offering to the archi-
tects and those in the allied arts the
opportunity of presenting their recent
work to the public and Of giving the
public the opportunity of keeping in
touch with the progress Of those arts"
So much for art. Then comes practi
cality: "The entire cost of presenting
the exhibition is betrayed from the
income derived from the advertise
ments in the catalogue, space taken in
the supper room and galleries by the
exhibition of materials and craftsman
ship, the fee for admission and the sale
of the catalogues, and any deficiency is
made up from the funds Of the league.
This exhibition is in no way source
of income to the league" That, too,
as a business proposition" is equally
uninfpeachable. And yet we say, "The
pity of it," Why should the league
have to concern itself with ADVERTISE
ments or space taken in the supper
room" or any other such matters? Why
not revert to architecture in the old
fashioned sense, the art of building
pure and simple, the art of the artist,
passionately expressing himself in the
most personal terms of his craft
Would the public then refuse to come
to his exhibition? Perhaps. Then in
that case, if the architect has so COM
pletely lost his hold as an artist upon
the public, he would have a very simple
remcdy--he could put up the shutters.
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exhibition which incline us to question
the permanent validity of the exotic
motive. When Mr.. Morris Italianizes
this feature or that Of his elaborate
design for Mr.. j. C.. Baldwin at Mount
hlsco, or makes the great music room
on the same estate look like page out
of Nash's "Mansions," we cannot but
recognize the broad effectiveness of mis-
gesture. At the same time this and
other episodes in the exhibition wake
the suspicion that the line between an
architectural and a scenic ideal is verv
easily crossed-so easily that the de-
signer may be himself unconscious of
the transition. Perhaps the most vivid
instance is supplied by Mr. Paul Chal-
lin. He shows photographs of his work
at Hero Land and for the fiesta in Mac
dougal Alley and with them some
illustrations of the Florida estate he
has devised for Mr. James Deeriny. All
three contributions are significant of
the same taste. 1t is decorative. plas
tic, operate, what you will, but archi
| tecturally speaking it leaves US cold.
There arc unusually generous examples
of landscape architecture in the exhibi-
ton, schemes by James L. Grccnlcaf,
Eyre, Wilson and McIlvainc, Ferruccio
Vitalc, Mary Rutherford Jay, Charles
Wexford Leavitt and others. They
show the increasing attention that is
being given to this art, and the increas-
ing proficiency in it of a surprisingly
large body of practitioners. But not all
Of the members of the new school arc
keeping to the safe ground of, say, Mr..
Leavitts beautiful wid-howor garden
at Red Bank. There are signs that the
theatre, as it were, is creeping in, that
the scenic idea to which we have re
ferred is coming more and more into
vogue. 1t has its merits, in the right
hands. There are masterpieces in Italy
tho Villa Lante, at Bagnaia, for OK
ample which might have been laid out
for drop scenes in a theatre. But in
our American environment the motive
Is dangerous, TO say the least.
If architecture has outstripped al
the other arts in the United States
1T is for reasons very easily stated
1t has enlisted the energies of some
men of genius and more men of great
talent 1t has been peculiarly sup
ported by a vast national prosperity
No modern European school of archi
lecture has had the demand for nov
buildings that we have enjoyed But il
Is even more important to reckon viii
certain less ponderablc influences
Architecture has been subjected witt
us to Steiner discipline than has beer
enforced upon either painting or sculpt
ure. Its leaders have made more o.
training, of exact knowledge, and, abov,
all, they have given closer attention e
the transcendent matter of taste. VIII,
did McKlm move heaven and earth tc
get the American Academy at Rom,
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bury, marks n stride ahead of the cot
tage work by which his name has chief
ly been made familiar. This brick
structure of his is charmingly de-
signed. The house has physognomy
a friendly. welcoming air. It's Geor-
gian Colonial style is handled as
though the architect had made it his
own.
The great problem, of course, for the
user of the historic styles is the prob
lem of conquering them or leaving
them to proclaim only their origin.
There are times when the strict Italian
ism of an American dwelling involves
no reproach. There is, for example,
Mr.. Eugene Lang's italian Villa of
Paolini Gerli," as the catalogue APPLY
has it, Erected at Bronxvillc, a loca-
tion which somehow seems to spell in
congruity, we are nevertheless taken
captive by the intensely Southern
charm of the thing. Yet there are
other, more important, schemes in the
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specimens of ecclesiastical architecture
as stray into the exhibition. There is
one attractive piece in the imposing
reredos designed by Mr. Goodhue for
St. Thomas's Church, and sculptured bv
Mr.. Lee Lawrie, but the church work
as a whole is in no wise beguiling.
The most interesting exterior, Mcssrs
Cram & Ferguson's Wheaton College
Chapel, is an Individually accurate YER
sion of an old New England type, but
it is terribly cold, muscle bound af
fair.
Urban architecture in it's domestic
aspect receives one triumphant illus
tration at the hands Of Mr. John Rus
sell Pope in his drawings for "a City
Residence" as yet unbuilt The draw
ings themselves, appearing in the usual
weller of photographs, make by their
singularity winning appeal; and as
the design is studied it discloses a
very fine quality. The style is drawn
from eighteenth century France, but
this mansion, lifted on terrace
stretching the length of city block,
justifies its isolation through its fine
proportions, its severe elegance, its
fusion Of grace with dignity-al en-
pressed with an indefinably personal
touch. Here is true architecture, a
house with character, and, in spite of
its great scale, with charm. This lat
ter trail is to be signalized in certain
contributions of Messrs Cross &
Cross, designers of the Links Club
upon which the SAVIOR Of things Geor-
gian has been set as in a patina-and
of the beautiful wrought iron grilles
transforming a couple of small houses
in East Sixty second Street. McKim
Mead & Whites house for Mr.. New
bold must also be mentioned here for
its pure Renaissance quality. But the
city dwellings as rule arc not in the
least thrilling. We turn for refresh
ment, as we seem to have turned in
many another year, to the country
houses. These, as usual, too, are the
morN successful as they are Che less
ambitious. At their head we woult
place the house for Mr.. Morawctz al
Syosset, by Deiano & Aldrich, {
study in simplicity in which reliance
is especially placed upon linear fac
tors and questions of spacing. This
again, like Mr.. Popc's big city house
/ has character, it is 81 work OF ponderee
/ design, and yet in its simple style it is
almost casual. The casual motive, b,
which we mean the natural, spontane
GUS effect, is we'll exploited by Mr.
/ Lewis Colt Albro in two or three CAPT
tai farm buildings, and it is used te
good purpose by Messrs Davis. McGrat(
Il klessing in their alterations al
/ Glen Cove, by Messrs. Walker e. Gil
lctte in Il house at the same place ant
by Mr. #. II. Lyon in several English
cottages, though these last contribu
tions are trifle heavy-handed. Mr.
Aymar Embury, in his house ut Water
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The Misadventure of
Lieutenant Ward
By Pierre Mile

Translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright. 1918 by The Tribune Association)
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American Architecture

In spite of their tendency to discour-
are him. the exhibitions of the Archi-
,.ctural League will always set the COLI
posscur of the art of building upon
new explorations of that art as it is
rrsctised in America. The subject may
he kept we'll in the background of the
current show at the Fine Arts Build
iug. but it is not, after all; entirely I'M
represented. One may see, il he is
wiling to take the trouble, something
i 81 what our architects have been doing.
/ In mere volume, of course, their work
has Of late been seriously reduced. 1t
is common gossip in the profession that
many of its members have had to dis
miss numbers of their craftsmen since
the war with Germany was declared.
Most commissions undertaken prior to
that event have been carried to compile
ton, but new work is rare. Clients
have other things to think about. Steel
las gone up in price and is difficult to
obtain in any case. All the materials
If building are higher in cost. 1t seems
probable, too. that the situation will
grow worse before it grows better.
Hard circumstance is giving the archi-
ects breathing space, which is per-
haps not bad stage of affairs at which
70 inquire into the present condition of
4 their art. We have an ineradicable
wcdlcction for considering them as
irtists. The league may fill it's gall
/ cries with the atmosphere of a manu-
facturers' bazaar, doubled with that of
! Greenwich Village ball, but lovers of
architecture are bound to go on looking
,for evidences of the only thing that
counts in any of the arts-creative per-
sonality.
At the same time it is important for
criticism to take account of certain ele-
ments which affect the development Of
architecture as they affect neither
painting nor sculpture. We must re-
member that originality in building is
dsNndent far more than in either of
tie sister arts upon predetermined
factors of style. The architect may
saoose from among several idioms, but
having made his choice he is compelled,
By the very nature of things, to play
The game. Where the painter, for ex-
ample, may range far and wide, the test
Of the architects inventive powers is
infinitely narrower and more severe.
Utility and the aesthetic decencies con-
spire together to keep him fairly close
7 TO tradition. Personality, in his case,
.>pust be very strong, very interesting,
II IL Is to come to the surface We are
unjust If VIC ask too much of it.
Take, for example, the matter of the
public building. He would be an alto
sether too exacting person who looked
LOT notable originality in this field of
endeavor. The indispensable qualities
aefe are simplicity, dignity, good taste.
ana these, as it happens, arc precisely
what one finds in the typical public
'allding at the league exhibition.
mere are several instances to be cited.
'sorge B. Post G. Sons send illustra-
'0ns OF their great Capitol for Wiscon-
'"' oegun some years ago, but only
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recently completed. Tracy e. Swart-
won't are represented by their Missouri
State Capitol. Mckim, Mead e. White
have more than one monumental ex-
hibit-thc Mckinley Memorial at Niles,
the Art Gallery at Youngstown, the
Hall of Classical Sculpture at the
Metropolitan Museum. Mr.. B. W. Mor-
ris includes among his numerous con-
tributions the new Courthouse at
White Plains. There is a souvenir of
Mr.. Bosworth's huge building for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in the shape Of view of its portico.
The impulse to group all these designs
rather than to consider them separately
springs from no desire for mere con-
venence. 1t is due, rather, to the alb
sence of clearly marked traits from the
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The Art of Building
In Some Recent Aspects
Monumental and Other Designs the Leagues Exhibition
The Exotic Motive il, Contemporary
Taste-Scenic Ideals
By Royal Cortissoz

The principal the mpends
A. Hearn, which will
American Galleries February 49, 1t will
pictures and sell the miscellaneous
number OF antique worries forming
selves rich poeans we'll things
notable gifts
institutions made familiar his Ordinarily
would have suggested that such
gallery i'll supplied AS matter of fact he buyer
extraordinarily large body of paintings old modern
the American school, Metropolitan
including the Hearn Fund conpcuouy show he unremitgy
the forthcoming sale will dperse really remarkable
of native art There will be edition de luxe of the illustrated
which has been compiled by we'll WRITER'S
W. Roberts, W. A. Coffin, NJ W. Brockwel and H.
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At the Anderson galleries there will
be placed on view next Wednesday d
collection of duplicate cngravings, etch-
ings, woodcuts and Autographs from the
Boston Museum, to be sold on the even
lngs of February 10 and 20. The cata-
logue runs to more than four hundred
numbers.
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something the 1t British
story, By Femchnamand Urin weI for the author
Mle the French tct'on
British characters
psychology puzzle them
to story Mile British color and nos
added striking touch of Kipingesque humor
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iHt FINE OLD MASTERS FOR san
Il Rembrandt. signed and dated; a We
lasque1 Of great beauty. leonardo da
tmri. ana a ai".Dv-h, -sow IN i,ic ,.t> a..
London. Address
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Arizona republican., 1918-03-11
BRITISH WIN NEW
 VICTORY IN EAST
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

LONDON, March 10.-British of ficial communications issued today say the British have occupied Hit, 80 miles west of Bagdad, on the Euphra- tes river in Mesopotamia, and in Pal estine have made a general advance on both sides of the Jerusalem -Nablus road on front of 13 miles to an aver age depth of from two to three miles, The communication with regard to Mesopotamia says:
 Saturday morning we occupied Hit without opposition. The Turks retired several miles up stream from Hit to- ward Sahiliyah."
 With regard to Palestine the com munication says:
 Early Saturday morning our troops on the west of the Jordan valley con- tinued the general advance northward and crossed the Wady el Aujeh with slight opposition and attacked the Turkish position at Khe1 Beiyudat Abu Tellul, on the high ground five miles west of the Jordan. The position was strongly held, but was captured by three o'clock in the afternoon.
 "On either side of the Jerusalem Nablus road an advance was made on a front of thirteen miles to an average depth of two or three miles. In the east we captured Kefr Makel- -Telahur and Selwad. The enemy made several attempts to retake Telahur. Our troops on the west of the Nablus road reached the line of Burj- -Bardawil. Alta Raajul and Deirez Sudan with lit- tie opposition.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-11
CASUALTY LIST
 INCLUDES NAME
 OF |. ]. JORDAN
Man Killed in Battle May Be Son of Old Resident
 of Phoenix; No Address
 Given In Press Reports

The casualty list of Saturday con- tained the name of First Lieutenant Louis J. Jordan. Whether he was the Louie Jordan who was raised in Phoenix, son of Major T. C. Jordan, formerly probate judge of this county could not be learned. No home ad- dress of Lieutenant Jordan was given in the dispatches. It is known how ever that Louie Jordan entered the military service early after the en- trance of the United States into the war.
 Twenty-Five years ago he was given an appointment to the United States Military academy but was prevented from going to West Point. He is a brother of Mrs. A. J. Peters of Tempe and of Eldredge Jordan, banker of Washington, D. C., whose early life was also spent in Phoenix.
 The latter was a member of the Rough Riders. He did not return to Arizona after the war. He was prom inently mentioned for the chairman ship of the committee on inaugural arrangements when President Will son was inducted into office March 4. 1913.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-11
AMERICANS RETIRE
 SAFELY FROM GUNS

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, March 10.-CBy the Assaci- ated Press)-An American combat patrol early this morning was dis covered by the enemy in front of his wire and subjected to machine gun fire, but all the patrol returned safely. An unusual number of enemy machine guns have been in action all along the line, but they did not dam age anything. The German artillery bombardment at several points also was without result.
 Sniping continues to be most active. One enemy post was found in a tree and was driven out by American sharpshooters.
 There has been increased aerial &C., tivity and there is hardly a moment in the day time when a hostile plane is not in sight. Two enemy aero planes flew over the American front lines this morning and spattered the ground and trenches with machine gun bullets, but without doing any serious damage.
 One German airplane was brought down out of control within the Amer ican lines by a French anti-aircraft gun, a shell from which burst neaI the plane while it was high in the air. The enemy aviator's machine gun was put out of commission and he was forced to land.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-11
BAKER AND STAFF
 ARRIVE IN FRANCE
TRepublican A. P. Leased Wirel

A FRENCH SEAPORT, March 10.- Newton D. Baker the American sec- retary of war, with a staff of seven persons, arrived here today in an American armored cruiser. The party was met at the pier by French gen. eral, representing the French army.
 Major General Squier, representing the American army; Admiral Moreau, representing the French navy; Rear Admiral Wilson, representing the American navy. and the mayor and councillors of the municipality.
 Although the arrival had not been announced previously, the news spread rapidly and a great crowd soon gath cred at the pier and packed the streets through which the party rode to the railway station, preceded by French and American military escorts.
 Secretary Bakers party remained here only a few hours and left for Paris, where they will arrive early to- morrow in a special car at attached to the regular night train.
 General Pershing, Ambassador Sharp and representatives of the French gov ernment will meet the secretary on his arrival in Paris. Secretary Baker plans to spend but a few days in Paris where he will meet President Poin- care and Premier Clemenceau after which he will visit the American troops in the field
Arizona republican., 1918-03-11
AMERICANS WIN IN SKIRMISH ON
 NO MANS LAND

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have been distributed among the American troops along the Chemin des Danes for the part the men played in eleven engagements. most of which were raids against positions they were holding.
 A large number of the recipients of the war cross, some of whom are natives of Maine, have been holding . certain place where the enemy's at- tacks were especially strong. These troops helped the French to break up the attacks and drive off the Germans.
 Some of the men decorated distin- guished themselves in patrol en- counters in No Mans land. The names of only eight of the recipients of the medals, all of whom are members of the same company, have become avail able. They are:
 Lieutenant Harold Hay Davison, Chaplain Osiis Boucher, Sergeant George F. Dever, Corporal Frank F. Hurley and Privates Edward Larson, Harold Eldridge, Stuart W. Miller and Charles M. Sykes, all of whom are New Englanders.
 Germans Retreat Some of the Americans in a listen- | ing post in front of their line north- west of Toul early this morning dis covered an enemy patrol fixing their own wire, and promptly opened fire. | The Germans retreated leaving two of their number hanging on .ne barbs.
 Some hours after daylight a party of five Germans, two infantrymen and three Red Cross workers, start ed for their comrades entangled in the wires. The Americans saw the Red Cross brassards and did not fire on the party, which removed the bodies.
 There has been increased sniping activity along the whole of the Amer ican front during the last "A hours One enemy post gave the Americans special trouble during the night, plac- ing we'll aimed bullets on certain points of the line. After daylight the post still continued working iron II shell holes with periscopes. American snipers tried to silence the enem, from their line, but were unsuc. cessful.
 A sniping patrol was then, orga nized by the Americans and wen out in broad daylight. The resul of this expedition has not been re ported.
 Today was the warmest in man! weeks. During last night and toda, the Germans dropped phosgene she'll on several of the American batter, positions and mustard shells in tn rear of the line. Three gas alarm were given on the front within a fev hours.
 Bombard Towns
 The American artillery in the, las
 "A hours has bombarded vigorousl
 certain towns in the rear areas, road and communicating trenches of tn Germans opposite the Tuol secto
 with excellent results. They shelle a number of buildings in one tow i, in which enemy troops were billetet
Arizona republican., 1918-03-11
R. R. BILL ABOUT
 READY FUR WILSON

WASHINGTON, March 10.-Con- gress begins this week with the long debated railroad control bill about ready to go to President Wilson and three majors tasks at the head of its legislative program-disposition of the S2,0O0, 100000 urgent deficiency bill with amendments authorizing sale of enemy property in the United States, the war finance corporation measure and charges in the selective draft law.
 The conference report on the rail- road bill comes before the senate to- morrow and then goes to the house. Adoption in both sides not later than Tuesday is anticipated.
 The administrations amendments to the deficiency bill. to empower the president to sell enemy property and to acquire title to the piers of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg lines at Hoboken, N. J.. came up in the senate tomorrow, with approval of both forecast.
 In the house the war finance cor poration, much amended and modi- fled since it's passage by the senate is to follow the legislative appropri- ation bill, probably Wednesday, or Thursday.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-11
SOCIALISTS COMING
 FROM ALLIED STATES
Republican A. p. ceased WlreJ

PARIS, March 10-A delegation of workmen and socialists of France, England and Belgium, is about to start for the United States and 1t is going with the intention of clearing up the misunderstanding which the members hold was responsible for the absten- tion of American workmen from the inter-allied labor conference in Eng land last month. The Associated Press was so informed by Marcel Cachin, K deputy of Paris and representing the socialist party.
 "The regrettable misunderstanding regarding the attitude of the American labor leaders resulted from press pole mics and from comment published along with Samuel Gompers' dispatch (to the London conference which in the absence of quotation marks was taken as an integral part of his dec laration," M. Cachin said. He added:
 Tt was materially impossible to clear up that misunderstanding in time to permit the American delegates tc reach England.