The Architectural League Exhibition 
economy and order that would come from 
gathering the city offices together out ot the 
many private buildings in which they are 
now scattered about the ridiculously inade¬ 
quate City Hall, should move the public 
mind. Brooklyn has seen the advantages 
that spring from having a suitable building 
for its offices, and has selected a design for 
a Borough Hall exhibited by W. 1 ). Hull. 
The largest ex¬ 
hibits are the de¬ 
signs for the re¬ 
construction of 
West Point, al¬ 
ready noticed in 
this magazine. The 
Gothic treatment 
ol the successful 
design is more in 
keeping with the 
aspect ot the pres¬ 
ent buildings, yet 
when one turns to 
the model ot the re¬ 
constructed Naval 
Academy at An¬ 
napolis, symmetri¬ 
cal and classic, by 
Ernest Elagg, he 
is apt to speculate 
on the difference in 
tastes in the Navy 
and the Army, and 
wonder if this is 
not because it is 
the custom of the 
one to see many 
cities and lands, 
while the other was 
used, until recent¬ 
ly, to stay much at 
home. But how¬ 
ever partisan the 
visitor may be, he 
may console him¬ 
self that here are 
at least evidences of 
the endeavor by the 
National Govern¬ 
ment to get the 
best that can be 
had, and to obtain 
complete and indi¬ 
vidually harmonious institutions, instead of 
building, as one might say, from hand to 
mouth. 
There is the War College by McKim, 
Mead & White, the Municipal Building for 
the District ot Columbia by Cope & Stew- 
ardson, the Connecticut Avenue Viaduct in 
Washington by E. P. Casey, the San Fran¬ 
cisco Custom House by Willard, and the 
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