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LONDON.—The gorilla warfare
A distinguished but irritable Eng- buildings, notably the Shelton Hotel, between the Druzes and the French
lish author who went out for his first and the gay, delicate handsomeness along the Palestine frontier may at
walk in New York was accosted by a of Park avenes and Lexington ave- any moment involve Palestine, ac-
nue, with their charming brickwork.
native who identified him as a Brit-
The newer the buildim• the better in cording to the Jerusalem correspon-
isher and asked him what he thought this happy city. Their brown stone dent of the Manchester Guardian.
of New York. The author replied in
mansions of last century are uglier The British authorities in Palestine
his depressed way: "Oh, it's not the
than Belgravia, and their replica have serious misgivings because the
place—it's the people." Ile was, of
French have abandoned to the Druzes
course, wrong. It is distinctlly the period, of which the Vanderbilt man- the whole area along the Palestine
sion is a straggler, is very dull. But
place in New York; you are hardly
to frontier, the correspondent states.
conscious of people among your first the hotels and apartment houses
New Yorkers use The Druzes control the entire area
impressions, no shattering, new and which prosperous
which is dangerously close to Pales-
brilliant are the sights your eyes be- are pleasant edifices that create a real tine. "The Palestine authorities are
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hold. It is only afterwards that you architectural effect. The combine- not very happy about the situation.
are aware of the New Yorkers. No tions of marble or Indiana stone and
The Palestine gendarmerie is await-
one can be "life-size" against the sky- brick are usually simple and effective.
ing an order to advance," the corre-
scrapers. At the base of these giants The American architects seem to
spondent states.
you see an undergrowth of buildings have given themselves to the study
On an urgent order of Lord Plum-
six or seven stories high which look of brick with characteristic closeness
er, feverish preparations began for
like bracken round a tree. The ac- and intelligence, and everywhere one
repairing the 111etullah.Rosh Pinah
tual trees themselves look like pars- came on new signs of their mastery road. The Iligh Commissioner has
ley; in Battery Point, besides the new of the subject. Owing to the millions
clearly indicated that the British
skyscrapers, like parsley trimmings of bricks required for these vast
forces will not withdraw one foot
to gelatines on end. It takes time be- buildings the architects and brick.
15941 WOODWARD AN ENUE
makers find it economicaly possible from Metullah. the Jewish colony in
fore your mind recovers from the tar-
upper Galillee, the northernmost
moil of sight and sound that assails to co-operate to produce particular
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point of Palestine. Orders were
it The scale is terrific. Some of kinds of bricks, and as the bricks
given to fire on all persons crossing
the foundations of new monsters go have no structural office in these
into Palestine who refuse to lay down
down a hundred feet, yet the builds steel-framed cages all sorts of devices
era have their own way of blasting' can be used to give variety and qual- their arms when erdered.
the rock insections, with an exacti- ' ity to the surface: passages of slight-
tude of charge and heavy muffling by !ly projecting bricks, bricks with the
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without
wrecking
the
neighbor-
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the
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open,
and
other
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I hood. Such buildings as the Pennsyl- , devices for enrichment by shadow of
vania Hotel have a population of 10,- the huge brick surface. In many of
000 persons. The fast lift in the the new buildings the influence seems
to be Bologna, particularly in the in-
Woolworth Building takes a who l e
minute to reach the top of its 60 tersecting arches forming a cornice
and the use of projecting bricks. The
at
the
are
odd stories. When you
top and look down on the little addition of gargoyles, cartouches and
wharves with the little Mauretania other separate enrichments high up
and Majestic neatly tucked in their on the face of the building are usual-
little slit of water you feel like Gul- ly in perfect scale, suggesting careful
Building
liver stooping down to take the Lil- experiment with models.
The brick varies in color from an
liputian fleet in tow. There ought to
Detroit, Michig•n
unsuccessful lemon white to deep red,
be a course of training for European
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tourists visiting New York best es with some particularly fine oatmeal
the ordinary course of neck drill for I tints in the later buildings that take
seeing skyscrapers
h wich the captain sunlight with a radiant meet-
p
nstituted. The ness. One had the ridiculous fancy
of the Tuscani a has i
fact is that for the first day or two about the Americans that after a
your eyes and your mind are at war, generation of breakfast-food eaters
and you are constantly feeling that the oats were now coming out in their
I it is all a hallucination. You are the architecture. In the clear, gay at-
I man seeing the giraffe for the first ' mosphere of Manhattan these oat-
now and then that meal palaces are delightful, even
time,
lovely at times, as they take the
, you simply don't believe it.
glow. (Why should our own Regent
If incredible by day, It seems pre- street not have been of brick?) They
posterous at night. The electric lift add quietly to one's growing concep-
made the skyscraper a fact, and else- lion of New York as feminine—femi-
Organized 1922.
tric light made it a fairy. Silver and nine as Venice, with which city one
golden temples, shrines and statues observed unexpected links. One was
appear high up in the heavens,with
of it sitting in
coofnsa Broadway
lar yli conscious
aertli oc ou ghla
only a glimmer on a pilaster edge to Pth
luncheon
tether them to the earth. One strut- Iclub where the chief bankers of Down
tore has a strange texture like a gild- Town smoke for a little as they gaze
ed iceberg that has floated out of a down from the windows on either side
(May 31, 1925.)
cloud. Then there are dazzling, soar- , of the room on their lagoons thronged
ing shafts and spires of light, and with hurrying ships. The Venetian
giant steps of light that scale the 1 I note sings out in their hotel salons
skies. Staring at these aerial won- ■ and the vast gilded entrance-halls to
stars you bump into citizens, who re- office buildings and even in their gild-
buke you in accents that indicate the ! ed elevators. Often the furniture is
world basis of race from which these I elaborate
of the
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HARVEY D. HAHI
If New York by the chances of the
B. F. STEPHENSON
a cigaret, and farther away four giant Great Vi, ar now holds its East in fee
Vice-President
and Sect etary
gnomes in a reindeer carriage, all 1 as Venice once held the other East,
President
drawn in moving light against der her signori in Wall street have their
buildings and lights jiggling back and counting-houses on a scale for the
J. F. McDONALD
THOMAS P. HUBBARD
forward and up and down in lines and work. Their banks, especialy York
blots and masses. "The Great White and Sawyer's, get grander and grand-
Treasurer
Vice-President
Way" makes Piccadilly Circus a er, and one looks up at the million
cough to a thunderstorm.
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-- The time is coming when they will be What a sight that business confetti
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O ing, and the beautiful Shelton Hotel, d Saud, sultan of Nejd and leader of
with its Bologna brickwork an
Wahabis, and Great Britain has
squared stakes of the zoned era. the
From any skyscraper you can behold been concluded, according to Sir Gil-
others rising majestically out of the bert Clayton fgormer civil secretary
ruck of 15-story buildings and many of the Palestine government who ne-
gotiated with Ibn Saud on behalf of
O tall, dim phantoms in the distance.
Great Britain.
n Even the average now is above the
Sir Gilbert, in an interview grant-
01=01=i0=0==101=101==10=101==10=103 spires of the churches. From the
Shelton Hotel you look down on the ed to press representative here, stated
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that
the frontiers between Nejd„
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spires of the Roman Catholic Cathe-
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dral emerging in a heap of elderly Tarnsjordania and Iraq were definite-I
ly
settled.
On
the
basis
of
the
agrees
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buildings like office flies on which die-
Transjordania is to include the I
carded skyscrapers had been spiked.
l oo k down on roofs with little Red , Sea port, Akaba. Sir Gilbert
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in stated that he will proceed within the
with
creepers
and
shrubs
pergol as
smartly painted tubs, and film stars next few days to Amman, the capital
entertaining their friends to ices on of Transjordania, MA Bagdad, the
the top of apartment buildings. Yon capital of Mesopotamia, to persuade
look out and down on a queer high- Emir Abdullah, the ruler of Trans-
act metal bridge like a Meccano toy jordania and Emir Feisul, the ruler
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going over the East river, and you of Mesopotamia, to accept this agree-
look down into an unbuilt space with mo m.
Sir Gilbert also declared that Ilin
only a network of railway lines and
a tiny, cranky cabin, with beside it a Saud plans to convoke an All Moslem
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chair on which a quiet Irishman sits congress for the purpose of estab-
and smokes his pipe, ruminating, it lishing All Moslem mandate over Mee-
the
people
in
the
forty-
ca
and
Medina,
the
Moslem
Holy
Cit-
may be on
atory skyscraper that will soon be ris- lies, instead of the Hediaz state created
ing over the spot. He seemed a sort by the Hashimite family.
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of watchman. I liked to look down I
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from my twenty - second story bed 1
room at hie restful figure and, when
I went out, to study him through a 1
knot in the palings.
The contrast of his plank cabin
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among the tall buildings is still char-
I acteristic of New York. The high
buildings seem the higher from the
, huddle of small dingy houses (like
Soho housed) at their feet. In a cor-
ner of a street a few yards from
Fifth avenue there is a house with a
little aide garden. It belongs to two
rich old ladies who cheerfully pay the
enormous land tax because their dog
must have somewhere for an airing.,
They have been offered vast sums for
the garden to round off a skyscraper
site, but they won't sell, for what
would their dog do? A friend in •
• fiat in the very expensive region near
Central Park is wakened in the morn-
ing by the blacksmith shoeing horses
in a little smithy below, possibly the
last in Upper New York. He shoes
horses for the riders in Central Park.
It is only in New York that you can
We
see a rank of hansom cabs and vie-
torias, or an ancient covered one
horse cart 'with U. S." on its sides
carrying city mails. It is only in New
Bank Bldg.
York you can see anything so arid
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tique as its elevated railway. In an-
other 10 years New York will prob-
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trasts and phantasy will have van-1
Clifford and Bosley
ished like its lost saloons.
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told me that New York had so mach ,
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Homlevard
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New York did not impress me (pos. ,
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sibly because I saw it first in a Scotch
mist) so mud* as some Individual

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