H ouse and Garden 
These two materials are repeated below, 
immediately above a wainscot of Pompeian 
brick. For Canal and Spring Streets the 
designs included other motifs applying par¬ 
ticularly to each ot these sections ; but for 
reasons of a short-sighted economy, variation 
of the minor forms was set aside, and thus 
we find at the Spring Street Station the pro¬ 
duct of the Atlantic Terra Cotta Co. forming 
a cream-colored frieze in which are shields 
having a ground of dark blue. The walls 
below are covered with white “ glass tile,” 
and the sign panel is of “ art ceramic ” mo¬ 
saic, displaying white letters upon a blue 
ground. Into the border ot the panel, bluish 
gray and buff have been introduced in the 
service of the ornament. All of this work 
can well be seen through great areas of pave¬ 
ment lights which are immediately overhead. 
The express stations are of the “ island 
platform ” type, enabling passengers from 
way trains to cross over the two outer tracks 
and to take express trains within. Work 
on these stations has been in most cases 
delayed ; but as representative examples of 
the treatment of up-town stations we give a 
view of the wall at 28th and also at 86th 
Streets. The former is of dull blue faience 
with letters in a corresponding artistic dull 
white, harmonious with the indestructibility 
and permanence of this material highly suited 
to such a use as this, for it can be built several 
inches into the wall and becomes a part of it. 
Eighty-sixth Street Station has been effec¬ 
tively treated by means of Rookwood pottery 
in the designs shown here by reproductions 
from the artists’ models. The prevailing 
color is a modification of cerulean blue and 
the cornice is a beautiful combination of dark 
green and buff. A system of pilasters in the 
fiat, dividing the walls into panels, is carried 
out by meams of ornaments in relief, sur¬ 
mounting a scheme of mosaic in buff and 
green, between which the white wall pene¬ 
trates. The sign panels are equally attract¬ 
ive; and are also in the Rookwood ware, 
the excellent modeling of which can be seen 
in the accompanying detailed views. Other 
stations on the line of the Subway will be 
illustrated upon their completion. 
T HE proposal to arcade Nassau Street, 
New York, has appropriately been termed 
“ fanciful.” That is a possible treatment for 
a street (preferably a short one) which collects 
travel in being situated at a focus of it. No 
one questions the qualifications of Nassau 
Street in respect of the travel it attracts. 
But it is one of New York’s few and precious 
north and south thoroughfares in the congested 
district; and the City will do well to hesitate 
before tampering with it. The pedestrians, 
who take full possession of the street, would 
doubtless welcome a roof, sheltering them 
as they hurry from one office building to 
another; but the office buildings themselves 
would suffer if the little light and fresh air 
offered their lower stories be lessened, how¬ 
ever slightly. The conditions which have 
led to the arcading of certain parts of Naples 
and Milan are not found applying to this 
street. In New York the depth and den¬ 
sity of the adjoining buildings is so great that 
light and ventilation below can with dif¬ 
ficulty be obtained. Nor is this dimming 
fact to the glory of the skyscraper to be 
mitigated by electric fan or incandescent light. 
The breath of life to the lower floors of the 
New York buildings comes from the street; 
and if it be shut off' from the sky or from 
more than two of the four winds, discomfort 
will follow. If the north wind to which Nas¬ 
sau Street is exposed be too strong for its den- 
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