Valentine's manual of old New York . F OLD NEW YORK The plan, however, is very expensive. It requireslarge blocks of stone about ten inches in depth, laid diago-nally with the wheel track, and resting on a substratumof concrete, which again rests upon a foundation ofgranite chips; the whole forming a consolidated masseighteen inches thick, so arranged as to afford access tothe gas and water pipes. It has been fairly tested onBroadway. Another pavement is called, also from thename of its inventor, the Perrine. The popularity ofthis consists in combining a smooth wheel-track with arough way for
Valentine's manual of old New York . F OLD NEW YORK The plan, however, is very expensive. It requireslarge blocks of stone about ten inches in depth, laid diago-nally with the wheel track, and resting on a substratumof concrete, which again rests upon a foundation ofgranite chips; the whole forming a consolidated masseighteen inches thick, so arranged as to afford access tothe gas and water pipes. It has been fairly tested onBroadway. Another pavement is called, also from thename of its inventor, the Perrine. The popularity ofthis consists in combining a smooth wheel-track with arough way for the horses, as may be seen, should therebe any yet remaining, in Broadway, between Franklin aridCanal Streets. The cobble-stone portion of the Perrine is to be re-placed with granite block, laid by Deghue; an experiment,the success of which is yet to be achieved. The cost of the Deghue is $ a yard; that of thePerrine, about $; while the Russ, costing nearly asmuch as both together, is probably the cheapest of thethree. [249]. NEW YORK OF TODAY American Artists and the War A. E. Gallatin XN the olden days, the sphere of action in which theartist, in times of war, could make use of his tal-ents was extremely limited; to-day the situation isvastly different. As one writer on art matters has said:4Art never has had a more inspiring opportunity, andartists are gaining constantly in appreciation of the ser-vice possible for them to render. Another has written: Never since the Middle Ages, when the church taughtits lessons by means of pictures to people who could notread the written word, has art been called upon to servein so many ways. Leonardo da Vinci is probably the most conspicuousexample of the artist of the Middle Ages who, while hiscountry was at war, was able to be of service. Leonardoalways considered that he attained a greater excellenceas an engineer than as a painter or a sculptor. His de-signs for fortifications may be found by searchingthrough a set of Ravaisso
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