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Show the Waldorf are pleasantly curtained rise froiq by the large plant3 which tho Fifth on border sunken pebbled the BEAUTIFYING A CITY ART OF OTHER DAYS PORCHES AND WINDOWS avenue side. But love of flowers is not confined ARE BRIGHTENED. to Murray Hill and to the district ad SOME Jacent to Fifth avenue The extra Flowers In Pott and Boxes In Evidence wearied eye finds relief more than to ever this Everywhere In New York-- Due year in the number of plant the Efforts of the Municipal Art which face the elevated trestles. ' The display on Cherry Hill ha waxed In Its turn. One of Its most The adornment of church doors is completion. This door, divided in the oi The second floor balcony of a West Interesting features Is the quantitydonkeyan art of ancient date that still flour center, consists of twenty-eigh- t and rubber tropical plants, d last Forty-thirtiny street club presented Ishes in Italy. The Church of Santa for which, it is said, an asarranged In chronological veek an emerald phalanx, says the -eared, on Aventine at the has a each Rome, Sabina, order, possessing special frame, New York Sun. Palm sears pointed sistant priest of St. James Is to bo a door of cedar wood carved with adorned with a band of Ivy leaves, and ferns extended thanked; first for having two years skyward; scriptural scenes, and the work dates having at each angle the bead of a diagonally Two streets ago given a sirgle shoot to a sick boy creeses. from the fifth century. A few days prophet or a sybil. Twenty of the sub green-biadebrownstone fronts were and then for having introduced the ago, at an interval of fifteen centuries, Jects are taken from the New Testa south, again, with the pink and red of science of growing plants from slips the central door of the Florentine ment; the others represent the evan splashed to the minds of Cherry Hill youth. East Thirty-nintcathedral was unvcl'ed In the presence geiists and the doctors of the church geraniums, while In the same way nearly every tene- of line a showed pink street stoops of King Victor Emmanuel III., and Its The "Baptism of Christ" begins to hydrangea heads. In the poorer districts sills and lire escapes had each their show of flowers In pots and boxes. Elevated railroad passengers, glancing up from their extras, caught sight of an occasional vine spray doing a gentle giant swing from over a tenement house parapet. New York, in fact, was going In as never before for what Londoners call the spring business,' 'and Fifth avenue florists more pompously term "exterior floral decoration." The fad for which Londoner and i b use such different phrases Is florist J ? i t v K . 1 1 f , new to New York. It would probably , V-1Iw" f. A ' J. never have existed at all had not tbe ' ; I ffj , t il V ! I! Municipal Art Society, last spring, ren fj Street minded many citizens that what la Tho Holland House, Thirtieth Side. world old In the prettiest fire escape garcities is the dainty flowers which grow ment house bas its n even a vine strugden. Occasionally outside almost every window. Last .li t i, slJSIJ a box of thin earth tryfrom up gles was chief attention year the societys to soften the fan of pickets that 1 A given to Brooklyn, where a block ing i! another. 23KsrvafK ' ' ; k . 'f beautiful was made in Henry street, separates one roof from zz&uzsxieti&S" flower whole the a Throughout city between State and Joralcmon streets. cult seems to be spreading, fostered ' I W"X' "i broadened. has work the This spring - YSti tuns Wt ifra w tf More trees are being planted In both either by the conscious effort of those who know or the unconscious longings boroughs. Back yards are being tidied of the simple. Is Interest the up. How widespread when be can movement In the Judged Door of Florentine Cathedral. AN UNMAILED LOVE LETTER. a recent article In Harper's Bazar Inin glided bronze show that show the tendency of Ghiberti to the spired no less than thirty-siclubs the art of adorning doors has not yet pictorial rather than the sculptural throughout the country to write letters Trivial Oversight That Wrecked a Promiaing Life. died out of Italian art style of expression. The perspective to Miss Mllhau, secretary of the MuHalf a century ago a young EnglishAs an engraved frontispiece to a of the scene is felt, and the movement nicipal Art society, asking for suggestook giving hints of the beauty that of the arm of the Baptist la quite in tions for the brightening of their win- man, while traveling, met a beautiful pas within, the door or door frame ol the favorite manner of the muster. dows and porches. Neighborhood girl and promptly fell In love with an ancient church was made a work The movement of the angels on tbe clubs, too, are being organized, the her. A few days later he returned left present these combinations of object of which Is to throw meager home, and bis first act was to write tf art her a love letter. In It he told her It was in 1180 that Bonnano of Pisa rounded lines which Ghiberti favored. that he could not be happy without Then come tbe second or eastern made the gates of the duomo in his her and that If she regarded his pro-- , native city; 200 years later, save two doors of the same baptistry, executed posal favorably he would expect a re-- that is, in 1378, the greatest maker by tbe same artlRt, and on which he ply by the next mall. Of bronze doors that the world has yet speLt close on twenty years. While To this letter he received no answer beheld was born at Florence, Lorenzo Gnlberti was at work on the first so disappointed was he that from and had been Brunelleschi gate Ghiberti. rendering that time until his death, which ocit th6 to of rules perpossible apply Ghia born before Brunelleschi, year curred recently, he shut himself up berti, who will come Into competition spective to the arts of design, and! in his home and lived like a hermit. with him later, is distinguished In the thus the great master of bronze work! Most of bis time was spent in reading, sunewer became in his effort the b'.story of art for the construction of and the day after his funeral the heirs r "painter-sculptoof the the grandiose cupaio on he Cathedral preme type to search the books in his libegan Tbe tucond contains tea of gate Michael only gf Florence, the prototype for they thought it quite posbrary, Angelo's cupola of St. Peter's In panels, but any one who studies them sible that the eccentric old man might Ponatello. the marvelous will see that they contain Certain Rome. have hidden some Bank notes in them. Aculptor, whose Influence has been as scenes, and that they resemble picThey found none, but in a tattered Sea the new wine arnorg the artists of bis tures as well as old pamphlet they found another kind A Madison Avenue Balcony, use marvelous made of was la time, perspective eight years younger than tue History of Joseph, where the great back yards into a single central court, of note, the love letter which was Ghiberti. The contest of competing artists for building In the background seems to with broad flagstones and well kept written fifty years ago, and which the writer had forgotten to mail. the commission offered by the slgnoria stand out full and rounded. Or note flower beds. From the society Information is coa tor the two bronze doors of the bap- again the deep distance Into which THE LATEST IN MIRRORS. out. A leaflet tell tistry of San Giovanni Is well known. tbe eye seems to penetrate within the stantly being given to how and be ran trees where got Every visitor to the National Museum porticos In the barkgreund of the his- ing of the Bargello In Florence may com- tory of Jacob and Eau. Volumes plant them is now ready for distribu- Transparent Glass Which May Be Used In Two Wayg. most highly recom pare the specimens of workmanship might be written upon the subjects tion. The plant Here Is a glass which apparently ent In by the two prominent rivals. treated and mode of their treatment mended by the society Is tne rose pink can be used either as a mirror or winBrunelleschi and Ghiberti. Tho briefest and the truest pane ivy geranium, which grows llae a weed Tbe subject chosen was the Sacri- gyrlc on them is that whlrh Vasari and has an almost vlnellke suppleness dow. It resembles a mirror because It fice of Isaac. "This story," as Vasari tells Michael Angelo, on being asked and grace. The nasturtium is another has the ordinary silvered surface, yet bas it, "comprising landscape with what he thought of them, and whether favorite. As to the boxes themselves, human figures, nude and clothed, aa they were beautiful, replied: "They they should have an outer cover of well as those of arlmals; the foremost are so beautiful that they might fit cork bark, should rest upon a layer of pebbles, whlrh In turn should be set of these figures was to be in full relief, Jrgly stand at tbe gates of Paradise! zinc basin. . The the second in half relief, rnd tbe tjlrd In the presence of such a work as In a wooden bottom of the box should be perforated, and the plants, If exposed to a parching sun, should have their roots but not their leaves well watered dally at 1 oclock. The balcony of the Century Assocla-ttloIs a mass of green. East Forty-firs- t street has several handsome displays, while those In East Thirty' fourth street are still more numerous. Examples of boxes filled with pansies are to be seen In the windows ot Fifth avenue and West Thirty-fiftstreet, while the same thing in nasturtiums la found along the dlulng room windows of the Holland House on the Thirtieth street aide. A display of pink geraniums and one with which the Municii ; pal Art society la particularly pleased I f la that at 3 West Thirty-nint( street All alx windows of the Drat two floors f V of that house have luxuriant boxes. The society does not atop short at f, x. flowers. It la also studying methoda It Is unlike a mirror because y it Is for getting them out moat artistically, transparent On the back of the and giving attention to the balconies transparent or translucent Is s and ledges on which they are placed. coating, which consists of aplate silvering According to Miss K. C. Budd, the material, amyl acetate, gun cotton and most attractive and effective decora- fusel oil. This coaling Is also transtions along this line are to be seen In parent or translucent, and by means of It tho plate Is made reflective. Thus the glass, while retaining Its transparency, possesses all the reflective properties ot a mirror. No notable Improvement has been In mirrors for a long time, and made ' 5 I , 'L , for this reason the news that a new r- method of coating them has been dis1 covered Is of more than .v-- : passing inter-esNew York Herald. GREAT MASTERPIECES a HOW bas-relief- d h and WILD I (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) p v I El milk-whit- coal-blac- ,, , 1! I ers, and retire to their homes, the Susi water-selle- r allows his b ' tin cups to make music tn 0, disturbing the eloquence of the i Is lem, who assuring me of the n fine quality of the mules that n H take us to the capital. The Maalem is a very little nu--J more than five feet high, with brown complexion, h beard. MoBt mesh' and h ' 'i ll s(V'VV e k - - k f tc'lr 4J': - -j f j- mfl ate I picturesque where the In a City like Tangier to the relation same the have umors bread to the had .ruth that the sack it is bill, tavern famous Falbtaff's n accur-it- e an form to impossible estimate of the native attitude Tanaward the Moorish Pretender. and disposed nervous Is excited, gier can maintain to credit every man who the city Moreover, fiction stoutly. i hill certain of reach lies wlthm easy well-nig- b MOROCCO (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENC r 'r; IN TRAVEL d L, It bas-relief- s x bas-relief- nssr well-draine- Kabyle Woman. Is the Mu tribesman, men of Anjera and the Riff, their who have never been subdued by the falling, and It has lighted inks Lark! sultans of Morocco within the memory the fires that never go out ft can his with of swear he times in and of living Moor, gifts; when, it salofd trouble, armed bands of these unbrok- sity of expression that I never t old en mountaineers come into the outer equaled In the sultans klngdoa :als. Soko as though they had conquered it, poor water-carrier- s grandtone or march down the main street to In- parents, brothers, sisters, wivet tier ect are dren and grandchildren terview Sidl Mohammed Torres, the aged deputy minister for foreign af- bended In fluent anathema u i0 th fairs, the local sense of security is not slinks off discomfited and the M. ither fla tered. Two or three weeks In returns to the story of his sr cole Moroccos diplomatic capital and Its ments. His own mule, resent environs left me more than ever con- my special use, has the swifti S vinced that few people knew the truth, the camel of the Sahara, andui: Evenl or, knowing, cared to impart it. So I that would delight the sultan It ;tnd! resolved to go down to Marrakesh by Saddle and bridle are fit for i i? not way of Mazagan, and return to the the Basha himself would coast by way of Mogador, to see and them. Tbe other animals he lu hear for myself In five of the most for the journey are no whit It important provinces of the sultans In quality or accouterments, c will be ready at daybreak, fork kingdom. I chose Djedida (Mazagan) as start- rise when the mueddir has a the prayer that preced' ing place, for the landing Is easier than at Saffl, and the road Inland Is dawn. Will I not Chen give I!: almost level, though, past Oukala, thirds of tbe money down luidi Where it passes through the desolate tbe half arranged by the to 4 Rahamna country, dry, stony and the Nazarenes? My good mas& without shade. Dejdlda Itself is a Shawni, the Rlffian, at once In' very Moorish seaport About once a ter, servant, cook and friend, week boats land a party of tourists, between me and the picturesque who devote their few hours on shore lem, whose tongue has honey to riding camels and wondering why side and vltrol on the other. V the ungainly ships of the believe In the quality of tb desert make them feel so seasick. when we have tested IL Hi' Grave Moors who know better than to money will be paid at daybreu ride camels, leaving such mad feats to half when the mules return to the Susi and Saharowl, who have no gan, and with this final deck! other way of earning a living, look on Maalem must content hlmwl' lu amazement, and curse the Nazar make his best way home. enes, their ancestors and descendants, For us there Is a prolonged with fervor, eloquence and conviction. through unpaved streets, hen: Ben Hamara, what have we to do by high uhite walls. In foedst with him?" says one Intelligent Moor market place tired animals n whom I question. Yes, we have ing; there Is no light save heard of him. Our master, the sul- and stars. A few lads linger f tan, has sent down to Dukala and their play and flit like ghosiJ Oulad bou Sba for soldiers, and the the corners of street and squirt harvest will suffer If the men are the prison tower the warder taken from the fields. Allah send our the watch below: Be Iffitr master the victory speedily. The rkass shun the dangers of sleep," I"1 (courier) who came yesterday from aa I can see the slumbers ot tM vices-hashees- h :,7irvr. h j, ,1 Life :H Vi - ' I , , L . , - - f - ' Sl--n 1 - 'irk. v J- A Cherry Hill Roof, certain hotis-- s In West Thirty-seventand Fifty seventh street a, where - rn Tomb of Michati Angelo. In low tellef." The award was given to Gt.lVr'l The intinmie of lb amrei gained which Is to be ecfn In firt Gill'rtl wrcuilit. receiving (he com 1' 3 and mNs'ii'i fur ll en NVv, the metro obllftng him to biJn jhe of petvrtbor foli work oo th anil mi't'nue ll without Intermix-tlon-foe'-- t u ep.( -- until Its tlnvs te rte 1 li thlv one hnn hut little praise to Sparrow's Nest Causes Fire. bridge across the Tennessee river was partly destroyed by Are early in the month. An engine was crossing the bridge, having a nice time blowing out sparks, end one of them fell into a sparrow's nest on one of the spans "f rllrw. This quickly began to li'ii-and for some time passengers v.re taken the river In boats. A be- stow upon the bronze door of Rt. refer a at Rime, (be work of Antonio rTarete It la. however, a specimen of lh workmanship of Its time, and la U',a!le go (OMtllnit'rg to a knowl Ue of the rt f that period, and as showing cenrtnie'.lot a In old Romo w h I ave all c born swept out of e lidenre. elabo-Mt- e wrrmthf work hsmwl Uh vims and riled whli entwined evergreens aid where wit dew hoves faslrted to the top of the guard rails of windows let down lvv in such profusion aa to make curtains uacWg. nther attempts at hca'ititjln a rcUMxirhood by meauj ef rowers and shrubs ate to he senn about tho clubs and hotels. The little pi it of the New York and fahuuet cluhs are laid vut with pansy beds white diners at e -- s Might Hava to Co Far Down. va.nnt lot of land tbe.,. by the eWtric road, In Medford, a big beard reads: "This land for sale,sgn Pn quire within." Ax there isn't a hmise In right tberenhoiits. It may puzzle the would be pu:rb-t(to ascertain Just w here be Is st. On a r ; - rf1 Wf f I A Ot v;r. fl ';il - Old WN In Tangitre. Marrakesh says there were forty new heads upon the wall. Haste It you would see them; they are taken down after the third day. Such is tha order of the governor." In the market place, where camels, mu e, sheep and goats, with drivers, muleteers, shepherds and goatherds have been er.vt.ro,l It-rtrtMrcxne on fusion since dabrak. business Is ,,ay "m l now T.r,fVr,'h" ' ll"tw',,,n snnhe Charmer, who has a tuhra as ell as the usual makes Of the country, and a story. teller. i10 ,P(,ma (o ,(0 aetnr of pai(a as well as a maaier of tr"l,,i,U Nl,iliU entertainment, o- -t d s come from the vlt-..of wattled mud huts great adjoining th. town, hark furiously at th strang coal-tdac- i ',!1 ' t1 . T do not auffer by tho waroM It Is repeated at short ln,ff Now and again one heat human being or animal I J sudden atartllng plea of unsee , ting sleepless and ' fhadow of the tapla wall; a lamp reveals some who ts hrlPR lighted l'1" Haven from a Blends sounds and eights are al 1 he . toghfi tranquil!'' . , guards sleep peacefully hi ah walls built by the Iv the nrs when they bd P1 land There Is no augR,n,tl disturbed country. Iho flereest of all aal 1 . |