Show AMT the san francisco chronicle makes the assertion that even the booms which western towns of america have been engaging in are not of modern origin it concludes that ancient greeks erected many of the magnificent buildings the ruins of which excite our deep admiration to play upon the esthetic side of the grecian nature it is true however that an intense rivalry existed between the greek citie sas to municipal adornment and it is believed by haimm who has made greek history a deep study that the chief object of these adornments was to promote trade DIONS experience in his native city of illustrates this after a visit to kome ho was seized with a desire to build his native citha beau ticul colonnade under which the cili zend might congregate during inclement weather though PION gevea the reason that wo in were behind neighboring cities in this respect his follow citizens received the offer with enthusiasm but when work was commenced many obstacles were thrown in Hs way he says then there came a constant talk though not among many yet most disi gusting that I 1 was demolishing the I 1 whole town and was turning all of alie citizens out of their houses that the whole place was tumbled upside docu and destroyed eo that nothing remained and there were some lament ins over smithy and gaev ing that cheso memories of ancient splendors should not be preserved talking as if the aca or parthenon at athens or the at samoa were being disturbed and not shabby and contemptible ruina worse than the hovels in which they keep sheep which not even a shepherd or even a better class dog will enter buildings at you blush and look the other way when proconsul comes to eee us while houi adversaries laugh at them in which even the mechanics could not stand up which and shook at every stroke of the hammer and yet anere were people grieved at the disappearance of this our former poverty and obscurity who would not look at the pillars and sediments pediments ments rising around them or at the workshops built elsewhere for the dispossessed as if they cared for nothing but to keep you down toward old level the same spirit prevails in treso times there aro prowlers who aro never so worried as when they see their city take u step forward in the line oe progress this class are ever predicting some terrible business disasters through an important movement instead of helping the same out they seem more contented with their old surroundings roun dings than with the new and the more a city has of that kind of men the worse of it is we want men who will favor the new colonnade every time |