House and Garden 
The struggle of living 
has been so intense with 
us that we have devoted 
too much time to it and 
not enough to recreation, 
and we are only now re¬ 
covering from this state of 
mind and are learning that 
it is not necessary to wait 
until the labors are done 
to find enjoyment in liv¬ 
ing, but this enjoyment 
can and really should be 
found around us while we 
are toiling. It is becom¬ 
ing clear, also, that the 
workingman and his work 
are both made better to 
the extent that his sur¬ 
roundings are made better. 
When his imagination 
reaches beyond the point 
THE AQUEDUCT OF ST. CLEMENT AT MONTPELLIER 
A utilitarian object made the chief ornament of a city by combining architectural -with engineering skill. 
Water is conveyed overland a distance of eight miles and then across a valley through the aqueduct , 
one-half mile long and formed of two tiers of arches, each seventy feet high. The water finally 
reaches a chateau d'eau on the city side of the pavilion and terminates a vista along Le Peyrou, a beau¬ 
tiful recreative plaza bearing an important relation to the city plan. The aqueduct was built between 
the years I’jyy and iybb. 
THE LINKING OF THE AQUEDUCT OF ST. CLEMENT WITH THE CITY 
BY MEANS OF A PARK 
of mere cleanliness and bodily comfort and 
begins to hunger for the beautiful, as well as 
the useful, you have done much to put real 
happiness within his grasp. 
If it were possible to definitely control the 
destiny of New York City, surrounded as it 
is by beautiful scenery and wonderful natu¬ 
ral advantages, we shoidd begin by establish¬ 
ing a complete circle of parks, each beautiful 
according to the development or even the 
preservation of its charac¬ 
teristic scenery, and we 
could then start from the 
heart of the city and estab- 
lish beautiful avenues, 
leading in every direction 
towards these parks, which 
with frequent inter-con¬ 
necting avenues would be 
the means of controlling 
the development of the 
city toward the park and 
would gradually bring a 
great deal of the park into 
the city. 
If our avenues were 
built in advance of the de¬ 
velopment of the city, we 
would to a great extent 
control the character of this 
development. The entire landscape work 
would grow, so that when the buildings were 
erected we would have a foreground, and as 
in the case of the beautiful cities of Europe, 
or of Washington in this country, it would 
not matter so much whether the buildings 
were all beautiful or not, because the general 
result would be harmonious. If the build¬ 
ings were beautiful also then the ultimate aim 
of a city beautiful would have been obtained. 
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