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embellishment?, unmeaningly strutting upon the top and 
inverted cresting hanging from below. Why could not 
a simple but telling colonnade, or something even of 
an arcade form have been constructed here, quite as 
useful and much more beautiful or at any rate, more 
worthy of a public building, of such local and colonial 
importance as a General Post Office ? Again, possess- 
ing a high built, and most useful tower, campanile 
form, why could not this towering structure have been 
made much more architectural, and especially just of 
late, when much money was spent in making exten- 
sive alteration or necessary repairs. A little more 
Art-thought spent upon it, or some architectural design 
thrown into it would have made this tower a far more 
telling feature of our town, seen as it is from so many 
points ; for after the Catholic Cathedral spire and the 
Light house, it is about the most prominent or leading 
land mark from the sea. 
The windows of the tower are strange to say one and 
all without exception square-headed ; why was not an arch 
thrown in or introduced here and there, to correct the 
angularity or give more grace and art life to this long 
length of upright structure ? 
Unlike to all other buildings in the town save one, the 
Post-office — or its reading room accompaniment above 
— rejoices in bay windows at each end, relieving in 
truth the bareness of the gabled walls, but without hav- 
ing any art feature to relieve themselves for shorn of 
all cornice and almost destitute of every curved mould- 
ing they cry out to those who care to gaze upon them 
" pity my art poverty, but respect my shape-singularity 
and usefulness.'' One external redeeming point in the 
