. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . i;nim, i-kom The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal, Can. THE RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL at Mont-real is one more link in the marvelous growthof a creation started through the ingenuityof a Swiss farmer. M. Caesar Ritz has demon-strated the advisability of a unity of purpose devel-oped in a practical and artistic manner. From thecommon life of a peasant he has risen to the summitof success and will live as an example most worthyof emulation. It might be well to consider for a moment thetraits which for
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . i;nim, i-kom The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal, Can. THE RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL at Mont-real is one more link in the marvelous growthof a creation started through the ingenuityof a Swiss farmer. M. Caesar Ritz has demon-strated the advisability of a unity of purpose devel-oped in a practical and artistic manner. From thecommon life of a peasant he has risen to the summitof success and will live as an example most worthyof emulation. It might be well to consider for a moment thetraits which forced such recognition from the wholecivilized world. He had a clear insight into thecentralizing of interests; he was imbued with a desireto make his finished product one harmonious whole;he grasped the advisability of eliminating the mer-cenary impressions; he sensed in a remarkable degreethe purity of color, form and taste. In fact eachsucceeding hotel is only a broader development ofthe ideas he incorporated in his first large enterprise—the Ritz Hotel at Paris, 1897. From that timeon the
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