Show i I T D J l fl 1 Ii II Two iwo Buildings and Their Moral Mora at i I It became my duty a short while ago to address addres one of ot the legislative i and while I I committees at Albany Alban awaiting my turn to speak I strolled about the great capitol building to see sec with In my own c eyes es the structure of which I had heard so much I took look it all In as well as IS I could an and while gazing gazin at wall ceiling ceiling- and columns I could not help thinking of oC another building away over the At Atlantic Atlantic At At- I Ian lantic tic and far up the tho Mediterranean in the tho City of the Violet Crown The Tho Parthenon was erected about B. B C C. and was In a i perfect state stale of oC preservation so o late as the thc y year ar 1687 1681 When hen it was partially destroyed by the explosion of oC a bomb from Crom a Venetian Venetian Venetian Ve Ve- Ve- Ve mortar Built in tho the a a ago of oC Pericles Pericle four centuries before the birth of oC Christ the Parthenon mi might ht have bc been n seen in all its surpassing beauty by Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakes Shakes- peare and Bacon and anel but for the exI explosion ex ex- ex of or that bomb it would In tin all I probability have stood for Cor thousands of years to come come the the worlds world's finest building on the worlds world's finest site The other structure the structure the famous capitol at Alban Albany was Albany was was built but yesterday yesterday yes yes- as it were being finished about the year 1879 ISi and already those who would enter certain parts of the edifice edifice edifice edi edi- fice must face the ominous sign Danger Dang No admittance Within little JUle more than a quarter of ot ofa ota a century after its erection the Al Albany Albany Albany Al- Al bany building was practically in a a. tate of collapse not from the explosion explosion explosion sion of a bomb but on account of Its own Inherent weakness and worth- worth On the other hand the Parthenon faced raced the wear weal and tear of oC the elements elements elements ele ele- ele- ele ments for Cor more than 2000 years and i iwas I was as solid as 35 a rock when sixty sixty- I seven years after the Pilgrims landed I at Plymouth it was scattered by tha that 1 accursed Venetian shell The charming Doric temple on th the Acropolis at Athens was built true I It It 1 represented presented the absolute sincerity o ot of those who erected it It was a thoroughly thor honest piece of oC work worl I I It was far tar more than that that it it was was was- the work worle of oC Love Lovo It was designed t represent the JO Joy the Hope tho the Baut Beauty Beau Bau Beauty t ty that lint revelled in the Builders' Builders Soul and tb 16 stand for all time as a manor manor- Jal lal to the Glory that was Greece n Z Not so was it with the tho stupendous pile of stone brick and mortar that crowns ns the hill hilt at Albany Into the rearing of ot the tho structure it itis itis ItIs I is safe safe- safe to to say there went no sincerity no honesty no love i Unlike the th Parthenon It Is a a. she fall building rather than a true truc one Th ThIl t is to say the builders wrought ht not l is III the spirit of oC truth and love lo but III t tho the spirit of graft STan and greed were thinking not of that which should be bo permanently beautiful but only of oC that which should be speedilY remunerative It was wa a political Job rather than J love lo task As the builders thou thought ht I j it it it was to represent no immortal in inspiration to embody and reflect n glorious Ideal but was Just simply t tr put money In their purses Now we wo may understand why t tit Parthenon stood so long hout the tho centuries Its smile t tt tf I perfect loveliness while the Albs Albany building began bes-an nodding to Its fall almost al alp most before it was fairly finished i J All AH lies arc aro unstable Only Tru Iru Tr and nd Lovo Love shall endure Whether It Is a private house or oj public edifice or n l German that Is being erected there must b tw jt J built Into It this same Truth ac 31 w Love or It ft will soon co col cog 1 la lapse |