CHAPTER XIV. 

 ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENTATION. 



A STUDY of the record of stand-pipe accidents and failures 

 shows conclusively the necessity for protecting such structures, 

 especially in icy latitudes. 



Were it not for such object-lessons directly appealing to the 

 utilitarian sense, in view of the little that has been accomplished 

 in the past, it would seem hopeless to direct the attention of 

 corporations or even municipalities to the splendid opportunity 

 for ornamentation and adornment offered by these necessarily 

 conspicuous structures and sites. 



If the need for surrounding steel stand-pipes with a masonry 

 edifice can be demonstrated as a material element of their safety, 

 there is a possibility that some ornamentation will suggest itself 

 in the design of the masonry tower. 



Whatever may be said of the past, there is to-day a distinct 

 and growing tendency toward civic adornment, and an increasing 

 willingness to make provision for the artistic along with the useful. 



Dictated largely by a desire to advertise local importance 

 and industry the great world's fairs have been far-reaching in 

 imparting their lessons of the true and beautiful, embodied 

 though they were in ephemeral creations. 



Their aesthetic treatment of architecture, enhanced and em- 

 bellished by sculpture and kindred arts, effective landscape 

 design, with detail of floriculture, horticulture, and forestry, the 

 effect of light, color, and the ornamentation possible through 

 crystal jets, flowing cascades, and pulsating fountains, pnxiuu-d 



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