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conception. The illustration shows how 
markedly this is emphasized, not only by 
bending the station walls so that they do 
apparently enfold the town, but even by the 
erection over the converging streets of gate¬ 
like arches connected with the station as it a 
part of it. The open space before the # struc- 
ture is larger than needed tor business, and 
the municipality has gone very thoroughly 
and consistently to work to give to the 
incoming traveler a pleasant first impression. 
At once the community is individualized and 
set in its proper niche of history by the 
memorial to Columbus, placed here that it 
may appropriately be the first sight to greet 
the traveler’s eye. The value of this location 
for a distinctly civic statue in every town is 
thus suggested. This, indeed, is the public 
spirited development of one of the thoughts 
which lead the merchant or manufacturer in 
our country to line the railroad tracks, where 
they approach the town, with screaming 
announcements to the effect that here is “the 
home of the kodak,” as near Rochester, or 
of the beer that has made a town “ famous,” 
as Milwaukee. Having room to spare, after 
setting up the statue, the Genovese munici¬ 
pality gave to it a park setting. The area 
nearest the station was not planted, that it 
might be free whenever needed. The statue, 
by this device also, was set far enough back 
for good perspective. Turf and shrubs and 
trees were planted, that it might have verdure 
for background; and yet there was retained 
a thoroughly formal treatment, consistently 
urban in suggestion. The result is that the 
arriving traveler’s first impression is of a city 
rich and handsome, while not too large for 
the softer graces of vegetation ; and of a town 
of the historical interest of which he has full 
assurance. The departing traveler, on the 
other hand, has reminder that he is deliber¬ 
ately leaving the delightful citv when he 
enters the portals of its station. It is no 
urban jaunt he is to take, for apparently he 
is passing through the city wall. 
The new station at Cologne is interesting 
as an example on large scale of the suburban, 
or way-station, conception. Architecturally, 
it is the amplified ornamental shelter of a 
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