Proposed Improvements for the City of New York 
public buildings, and this point should be 
borne in mind when planning new munici¬ 
pal work. Every school, fire-house, court, 
library and all other public buildings should 
be placed where they will help to beautify 
the city according to a well-defined plan, 
and not scattered anywhere without rhyme 
or reason, as they usually are now. 
Long avenues, like Eighth Avenue,—that 
monument of monotony,—should be mixed 
up a little. In fact, New York can lend itself 
to Theophile Gautier’s description of Geneva, 
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