. The street railway review . oll design, ornamenting it in various ways, andvarious influences wen- brought to beat upon railway companies inthis country follow in the old worlds footsteps. Certain citydevelopments coincident with the electrification of streel railwaysfavored tliis and so on boulevards and street reservations today poles with arms of an artistic pattern, and frequentlylight fixtures attached. This difference in the treatment of such things is with us. I take-it, nol due to lack of -kill or talent, but to lack of apprecialthe finer influences of such designs, and
. The street railway review . oll design, ornamenting it in various ways, andvarious influences wen- brought to beat upon railway companies inthis country follow in the old worlds footsteps. Certain citydevelopments coincident with the electrification of streel railwaysfavored tliis and so on boulevards and street reservations today poles with arms of an artistic pattern, and frequentlylight fixtures attached. This difference in the treatment of such things is with us. I take-it, nol due to lack of -kill or talent, but to lack of apprecialthe finer influences of such designs, and to greater haste in con-struction for a short lived usefulness, rather than everlastingendurance In the older countries centuries of existence seem tohave brought the matter of the architectural adornment of the point where nothing has been to interfere with set generations ago, for the beautifying of all the princi-pal show place- of the various cities, and this inherited artistic sense. ■ ■ itfUnA tbMiJ • i#H.~»,« »«u. ^ ... may he -ten many attempt- at improvement in the character of poledesign. Some of these are to suffer from wior lack of paint and repair, and are burdened with various imcrossarms, braces, guard wires ■<^-\ poor looking wire connectionsuntil their faults have bi us that a return i pole -pan wire- i- considered more desirable in 111 This i- not -o e\ must he confessed that the efforts to do this sort of work well i- evei observable in the finest work- of the past and present gener-ations, not only iii buildings, wall-, bridges, and architectural adorn-ments, hut in various other features of .1 city- outdoor embellish-ment. To tin- of course there are exceptions, hut on the whole thestatement i- true, and we are constantly being reminded by people.•f the older countries of our defects in these hue-. Nevertheless,with US the artistic sense 1- being developed and al
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