MILLIONAIRE MURDER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 5

MILLIONAIRE MURDER.

'Y: ; ' : aliitY Complete, ; . ■By AsadflUfldN—tbPYßlGitt/, Netfli Vork,january 12. Tho bdiectioii : of' tho jury. to. re-try Harry Thaw for the mUrder.of Stanford White at Madison .Square Gardens has been completed.

The reflected light of the Madison Square Gardens tragedy has i Served'" tß' show Up 6onfething of tho : merits arid demerits of tho victim .in .»..sphere in which tho; dasual 'reader has rather. ceased to regard lnm~that is, ~a6 hn.hrolliteijk. ) ■■ ; ;. Stjnfohl \TVhItSj ndSbrding to oho writer "wnS 1 ■ admittedly a genius.. ■ And he left ail improiis upoii the architecture of the United States ivhiqh tfilj remain,. lie transformed the bid, 'übaightl)i Harlb.tll Railroad 'freight .Btatibh i'ntb MAdiSbfl, pquare df the hie&t beautiful cdiiitds ill New York, He hided ill • tho of Trinity Church ill Boston. ,• "Aiftong. his famous works iii New . York wbre the Hiill 6f Pamd at New York University, the Washington arch, the GeutUfy, University and Metropolitan Clubs, tho William C. Whitney residence and the pedestal of the tarragtlt ' illonUfileilt in Madison,_ £S.qUni s 6>' "Ift the field or detoration, White had established a place' for himself unlike that of any arijhiteot. He was accustomed to make trips' to Europe to fceciite collections of various kinds, lie would get materials ; for ft Franbis I . room or a Louis XVI robin, bri.ilg tholii hobid, . and stfife thei'ii to be sold later to some Heii irta'n \Vlib was lobkihg for fads in household ddbflrlitionsi Sohibtiffies lib Would .Collect window!) and door#. At other tifiiei ho. would scour Franco and Italy for hangings , and dfftperks. '."After tho'.tragedv there, was great diVtiN S'ity.of dpmidn iii tile' architectural Wbrld as to White's Standing as ah archi,tedt..• -■ So'liib Of tile brbhitectS diu Hot hesitato to say.thftt he was tho greatest in the profession in his country since IL 1L , Richardson. Others asserted that ho Slibiio largely by tliii reflected light of his partners, M'JCim and Mead. ■ It is certain that no architect. was upon, bftener to 'sbrve on juries to pflss, upon the niti'its of designs for tlitr grellt' buildings 'of the country tllliii White.. "Those who deary his abilities said that thUoli of tho work ascribed to White wiis really the w'ork of C. i. 11' Kiln or Wm. 11. Ml-ay. Their tasteS rail to the severely citifislo desighs and to What is ktipwri as the field of pure architecture. It was declared .that White, a diSCiple of the French- and Italian schools, Could ilbt hllvb designed 'many of the buildingß fdr whidh he j>ot (Ji'cdll nfi ft liiohlber of the firm df M'him, Mead and White. One architect said i '"The 13bstoii Public Library, the Columbia University Buildings, tho Villard liouse,. the ngrieultutal building at the Chicago World's Pair, and other creations of the M'Kim firm were not and eoilld not have been designed bv White. All through thorn runs the gonius of Mr. M'Kiffl. White rjll to tllb lighter etyld flf architecture, the florid, the modern, and not to the Groclan er tho severe and monumental style of purely clhssie architecture. " 'flis mood, was that of gaiety, ,and it expressed itself in his doslgns. The bases Of St. Gaudonfi 6totiies lent- themselves to his mood, and sonie of Ills best work was done, in connection with them. He was osserttially an artist rather thah an architect, and his influence in hie firm was along the lines of tho artistic rather .than along tho strict standards of architectural expression.'"