John LaFarge 



use of glass combined with the struc- 

 ture. This imaginary tower would 

 then have been like the glory of the 

 interior of a great jewel in the day, 

 but at night would have sent out a 

 far radiance over the entire city, mak- 

 ing as it were a pharos, a light-house, 

 to be seen from afar by night, as well 

 as by day, and dominating the river 

 as well as the land. Of course this 

 was too poetic and ideal a structure 

 to be accepted at the date we pro- 

 posed it, but I cite it as one of the 

 manners through which King's many- 

 sided nature found employment. 



I keep, naturally, to these relations 

 with Clarence King on the side of 

 art. Others beside myself have en- 

 joyed the wonderful way through 

 which he would expound scientific 

 theories, and give to them all the 

 charm of a story, and leave his hearer 

 believing that he, too, understood 

 quite well the scientific basis of the 

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