Barn doors and byways . v ^^^mm^^^-^. II ROADS NE of the pathetic features of a large cityis the fact that so many of the streets arenumbered. A numbered street loses caste anddignity as a numbered person would. Considerthe relative effect on the imagination of WestForty-ninth and Great Jones Street! FifthAvenue has achieved an international fame, andrises above its number. But compare the imagina-tive quality of Fourth Avenue and KingsHighway — most mouth-filling and splendid ofappellations! I dare say you would be disap-pointed if you should see Kings Highway, as youmay do on the trip to Con
Barn doors and byways . v ^^^mm^^^-^. II ROADS NE of the pathetic features of a large cityis the fact that so many of the streets arenumbered. A numbered street loses caste anddignity as a numbered person would. Considerthe relative effect on the imagination of WestForty-ninth and Great Jones Street! FifthAvenue has achieved an international fame, andrises above its number. But compare the imagina-tive quality of Fourth Avenue and KingsHighway — most mouth-filling and splendid ofappellations! I dare say you would be disap-pointed if you should see Kings Highway, as youmay do on the trip to Coney Island. But its name ROADS 21 gives it a dignity and a suggestion of an historicpast which no Long Island realty company canquite take away from it, build they never so manyrows of uniform frame homes. No street, however, comes truly into its ownuntil it shakes off the dust of town and lapses intoa state of nature, becoming a road. Once a road,a name does nt so much matter. Becoming onewith the large, simple things of the countr
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