Arcades 
THE GOSTINYI DVOR IN ST. PETERSBURG 
direct thoroughfares. These streets, thronged 
with pedestrians, could often be arcaded with 
beneficial results. 
The financial advantages of the suggestion 
have been appreciated by private individuals. 
Arcades through privately owned buildings 
are becoming more and more common. 
Well lighted, with attractive displays by the 
shop-keepers and sheltered from the weather, 
they allure not only those who are shopping 
but also those who are passing from office to 
office and who select this route through a 
building in preference to the street. 
Numberless instances could be cited from 
our metropolitan centers. In many cases 
they are incidental to the other purposes of 
the building (e. g., corridors in office build¬ 
ings lined with news, flower, and fruit stands, 
men’s furnishing stores, ticket agencies, etc.); 
but in others the building has been con¬ 
structed principally as an arcade and some¬ 
times so closely resembles a department store 
that it is difficult to distinguish it by the plan 
of construction. 
EUROPEAN INSTANCES. 
In European cities arcades are much more 
common, and elaborately treated. The two 
most important in Berlin connect Unter den 
Linden with Behren-Strasse —that animated 
shopping street,—and are so popular that 
they are crowded at almost any hour of the 
day. In Brussels, the extensive Galerie St. 
Hubert date from 1847, anc ^ form a most 
popular thoroughfare. Others, somewhat 
smaller, are the Passage du Nord and Gale¬ 
rie du Commerce. The Gostinyi Dvor in St. 
Petersburg and the Riady in Moscow, oppo¬ 
site the Kremlin, resemble somewhat our 
THE MODERN ARCADES OF VIENNA 
department stores, being composed of hun¬ 
dreds of shops, tier upon tier and course 
after course, all surmounted by a roof, par¬ 
tially or wholly of glass. The Riady, occu¬ 
pying three blocks, cost, exclusive of the 
ground, nearly $2,500,000. The Galleria 
Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, connecting the 
Piazza del Duomo with the Piazza della 
Sc ala, probably has the finest exterior of any 
arcade in Europe. It was built over a gen¬ 
eration ago and cost at least $1,600,000 for 
the building alone. Its form is that of the 
Latin cross, the main structure being nearly 
INTERIOR OF THE GALLERIA UMBERTO I. 
IN NAPLES Ernesto de Mauro , Architect 
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