1931-07-17 — Page 7

FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931.

NEW DELHI

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE

VICEROY'S HOUSE.

1

[By Robert Byron in Country Life].

THE CHINA MAIL.

MISSIONS IN INDIA. MAN-MADE ISLANDS

INDIAN STATES.

Mr. Sastri on Freedom of Worship.

ACROSS ATLANTIC.

Verne-Like Scheme Has Strong Braking.

Majority of Princes Said-

to Favour Federation.

PIANO TUNING, REGULATING AND

REPAIRING.

The Rome of Hindostan lies on octagonal turrets, which, culmin-

a. scorched and windswept plain, ate, with their drum, in an en-

historied with tumbledown mem-circling gallery of black shade.

NO INTERFERENCE.

The future of Christian missions.

orials of the Mohammedan con- Beneath this lower drum, a white in India was discussed, in a paper Across this pinin glit base with sliced corners descends before the East India Association

querors,

SEADROMES,

A TEMPERATE BLESSING,

Simla, June 11. 1 understand, writes the of the answers hitherto received Statesman's correspondent, that

First news of the scheme to ters now an eighth, an English, to the roof. Not a window, nor in London by the Rev. W. Paton, establish synthetic islands across to the questionnaire sent out to Delhi, a vision of domes and a door, nor a hint of utilitarian-gecretary of the International Mis- the Atlantic, was greeted by the the Indian States, the great ma-'

xm, interpolates upon the monu-sionary Council. mental affirmation of temporal

towers, pink and cream aguinat the morning blue and the new green trees below. The vision is For never before has unique.

used colour on this landscape the waterways converges on domes and towers, whose nether parts, the home of Government, In the rest on a low eminence. ,centre of this group, astride the far end of the pattern's axis, stands the Viceroy's House.

ture co bines

great palaces of the world, and freonly the erected within the inst hundred years. Its architer- the grandeur of Beni muif the subtlety of Palla- dio with the colour, shade, and water of Mohammedan Asia. Its maker is Sir Edwin Lutyens, Whost of the humanista, and as whom posterity will celebrate as an artist who expressed, in his medium, the splendour of a poli- tical idea.

Fusion of Motifs,

Four and a Half Acres.

ed.

either end.

all that.

an-

publie with scepticism. In the course of the debate, Mr., power. This dome is an offence Srinivasa Sastri declared that the ant than the Man in the Street,

But other people, more import. jority gives support to the feder

al idea. against democracy, at siap in the last thing that a selfgoverning are impressed with the idea. So

The questionnaire, which was face of the modern average-minn, India would do would be to pre- much so that, according to the a comprehensive document ab scale. A pattern of avenues and with his second hand ideals, and vent freedom of worship and re- New York Evening Post, conmemorandum for the benefit of an artistic achievement whose ligion. He said that the benefit tracts for the construction of a Princes not thoroughly versed in companied by a fully explanatory precedent must be sought among of missions to India was recognls- seadrome have been let. the. empires of Antiquity.

Financial backing is forth-behalf of the Indian States dele- constitutional law, was issued on Mr. Sastri deprecated the dis coming from the Du Ponts and gation at the Round-Table Con- The House, covers a total area torted picture of India, sometimes the heads of General Motors, and ference and signed by the Nawab of four and a half acres.

Its given in Britain by missionaries, among, those interested in the deof Bhopal as leader of the tele ground plan takes the form of a but said that there need be no fear velopment programmes are the The beauty of this building central rectangle, pointing north of interference with the activities United States Bureau of Stan

gation. transcends the merely panoramic, and south the main axis of the of missions.

It was intended that the Prin dards, the Sperry Gyroscope. ces should have plenty of time to The coloured and theatrical city, to whose outer corners are: The Rev. W. Faton, in his ad- Co, the USA. Navy, General weigh the questions and consider faende of Iskum has been annex-attached four rectangular wings dress, said that there would

be Electric, and some headline in their replies, and it is therefore ed to a more intellectual, three-pointing east and west.

The room in a new India for the ex-dustrial concerns. dimensional tradition of solid east main front and the west pression of the evangelising spirit The inventor of the seadrome awers have yet to be received.

natural that a great many form and exact proportion-the garden front thus present gigan- of Christianity, tradition of Europe. The result tie bays. Their total length, in-i

is Edward R. Armstrong, a He painted out that the Delhi Canadian aviation pioneer, who fifty replies have been sent al of the cluding the width of the wings, Unity Conference of 1924, which is a Du Pont engineer. He de-ready and that. several Princes, I gather, however, that about has been to create one

measures almost 200 yards; while had never been repudiated, agreed signed a floating landing deck, who might have been expected to that of the north and south fronts unequivocally to the freedom of which will be 130 feet above the shy at federation, have now is about 160 yards. The garden the individual to practiae and normal surface of the ocean, given it their blessingsome bay, is shallower than that of the preach his own religion, while a 1,100 feet long, 310 feet wide in of them cast front, since the central re similar declaration was passed by the middle, 180 feet wide at perhaps, but general approval for a temperate blessing, tangle has been extended on the the recent Karachi Congress. west to include the state and Mr. Paton considered that the semi-state apartments. The crucial point fór future policy lay the complete rectangle formed with Indian Christianity so that dome, situated in the centre of in binding up the task of missions by the guter angles of the four the freedom of the one was the wings, is thus nearer the east freedom of the other. main front than the west garden He concluded with the statement froat, and dominates the new that Christianity ought not to be In the eighteenth century the arrival, as it should. The south regarded as something foreign, but English had imported into India Tront discloses the total lengths, something international or super- vere and rather uncouth 57 yards each. of the two south national and able to become truly classical style which they adapt-wings, 57 yards each, of the two nationalised in every land. ed to the needs of the climate. south wings, and is recessed be- Subsequently, with the sub-tween them to display, after a ordination of aesthetics to senti- short interval, a

THE DEAF JURYMAN. ment and reminiscence, a hideous court. This is raised on a plat- chaos developed, in which Hindu form supported by subterranean their verdict at the London Sea- When a jury were considering domes arches and adorned with two fought for the possession of bronze cobras on slender pillars, sions it was intimated that one In 1911 which spurt thin streams of of them was deaf and had not Gothic substructures. English and Indian opinion still water into the rounded ends of a heard the evidence, so the case demanded a fusion of national long basin. The north front is had to be retried. motifs. 'Sir Edwin Lutyens similarly composed of the two. It was a pity that juryman had sought solution of the problem on north wings.

But the cor- not asked to be excused at the less superficial basis. While responding space between them outset, as did one who told Lord holding fast to the first principles is occupied by a massive window-Darling that he was deaf in one of humanist architecture, line, less projection approached by a ear. You may certainly be ex-watery legs was a demonstration proportion and mass, he dis-long flight of steps and flanked cused," said the Judge. "We In the midst of can't have a juryinan who can covered, from the Mogul build. by gazebos. ers, how those principles might this enormous pylon a tall arched not hear both sides."

ornament and Mosiem

three-sided

Viceroy's House.

lies

meets

Almost certainly the vast ma.

sooner or later; they are divided that federation is bound to come jority of the Princes recognise

soon" or "how late." mainly on the question of "how

Accommodation for 350,

if necessary, it can be lengte

It will be so constructed that, ed to 1,500 feet. In middle and on either side are gasoline and oil tanks, repair stations, storage rooms for their supplies, about their safeguards and would Some of them, too, are anxious personnel quarters, and an hotel. like assurances on that point be The latter will be able to accom-fore they will answer either the modate 350 people in the day- primary or the secondary ques

time and 100 for the night.

tion, but matters such as thèse, after all, are among the raisons of the future Round-Table Con d'etre and items on the agenda

ference.

The long, open deck rests on thirty-two streamlined columns, which are supported by iron

the surface of the ocean, wher buoyancy tanks fifty feet below

What matters now is that there then water is still, a depth at should be some general informa which there is little or no wave tion to indicate whether, and to action. These buoyancy tanks what extent, it is still worth are connected by other iron while to pursue an early 'fededal columas to ballast tanks."

The goal.' deep sen draft of the drome on station duty is 177 feet.

What set, the scheme on its

The article continues:-- drome and of the

They built a model of the sea- 960-foot

Majestic on a scale of one-six-

to

I

The seadrome

the

the influence of what cor-

.

The Patiala group will. thus if it has encouraged others of have done a service to its order the Princes to make their views known clearly and early,

Maharaja of Indore's View,

I am desired to make it clear

tiala.

4

festo issued by the Maharaja of

The text is available of a mani-i

He strictly adheres to the

he adapted to a land whose natur- recess gives access to an inner al conditions necessitate their court, invisible from without, Above this the parapet, & feet put them in a tank, turned the one of the Princes who, though teenth of an inch to the foot, that the Maharaja of Indore, is modification. Colour and form, whose western end describes a high and interrupted at rare in-wind-machine loose on them, and disliking the Round-Table Con- in the Indian landscape, are de- shallow curve. This court, which tervals with Chattris of the then took moving pictures. ference's federal proposals, is not stroyed by the sunlight. To is also above the level of the most reticent character, provide colour, the Moguls em basement, contains two fountain the sky with an imperceptibly ing, and rolling in the (relative suggested by the Ruler of Pa- saw the Majestic, pitching, toss-enamoured of the alternative ployed the rosy, blood-red sand. conches which pour into a basin decisive red inlay. The totally) huge waves. stone of Dholpur." Sir Edwin similarly shaped to that on the height of the white stone is thus

Like others of the Princes, he followed their example, combin-south.

42% feet as compared with 29

was immovable. They made * feels that the States allowed ing it with cream stone from the

feet of red on the lower levels large model and gave it same quarries and thus of the The Raisina Hill, which uplifts and 13 feet on the upper. These severest of tests, submitting it themselves to be stampeded into same texture. To counteract the the Government buildings above ratios determine, with the ut

•federalist thought a little too loss of solid form was a greater the plain, narrows towards its most success, the optical balance responded to a gale of 100 miles easily in the first flush of the London Conference, but he also. difficulty. This difficulty Hindu western end to receive

-an-hour-The-maximum tilt-of the and proportions of the house. architects originally solved by Viceroy's House, which

At the outer end of the four the drome was at an angle or to come at some time in an inde

agrees that federation is hound means of intensive ornamenta-athwart it.

Consequently the wings. at the inner ends of the two and a half degrees.

finite future.. tion, so arranged as to form pat-house has two ground levels, south wings, and on either side terns of structural illusion. The those on the north and south be of the east portico the parapet

Bigger and Better.

Maharaja of Kashmir's Views. Mogul builders, on the othering lower than those on the east upholds

Mr. Armstrong also showed massive hand, chose a more impression-and west. From the lower level plinths, each of which carries weighing two tona, and thirty-six in-stepped me movies of a larger model,

Simla, June 21. ist method, evolving the sweep to the eye of the dome the height two circular basins, and reaches feet long-one thirty-second of Kashmir, denouncing the Patiala ing blade-like cornice known as is 180 feet; from the upper, 170 a total height of 20 feet. These actual size. This they tested in scheme. the "chujja, the

miniature feet. The house consists of four are fountains: a circular sheet the waters of Chesapeake Bay, roof. pavilion known as storeys: a basement equal with of water descends from one basin exposing it to conditions three views which he expressed in Lon- the chattri," whose state the upper, that is to say with into the other. The total height and four times more severe than don and gives emphatic support ments of shadow, respec- the garden on the west and the from the top of the fountains to the real thing will ever have to to tively mobile and static, were Viceroy's Court on the east; a the lower ground levels is 91% encounter.

an All-India federation, sufficiently pronounced to resist main floor containing the Dur-feet.

"which ensures the stability and the refraction of light from the bar Hall and state apartments; On the east and west, where was fust the same,

The effect, to the naked eye, integrity of British India, also ground. Sir Edwin chose the and an upper floor immediately the ground is higher, the founda-

unity of Governments, and Mogul method as the more con- beneath the cornice.

No water touched or even States," tion line of red stone continues came within a few feet of the sonant with the broad lines of

Viewed from the lower level of at the same level, but here only deck.

The Maharaja of Kashmid's humanist architecture, and, with the north and south, these floors 18 feet above the ground. This

firm view is that the federation the genius for balance and pro- are resolved-architecturally as red base is broken by a series "being an open structure resting problem, including, British India "You see," anid Mr. Armstrong, is the only remedy for the Indian portion that was peculiarly his follows: A red podium with a of magnificently proportioned on legs, the wave motion goes and the States. own. To have chosen the Hindu heavy batter contains the first arches, whose heavy keystones, through it so that it does not solution would have been to have two: In this, massive bracketed destined to be carved and spoiled, break up the waves or offer any portant details have not yet HH concedes that certain im- inosed a host of mediaeval filigree arches of Hindu shape give ac- bind their ares to the white aur-resistance to their force. workers on the walls of a Blen céss to the basement; above base of the order. From Inside

been considered, and certain fea- heim.

these runs a gallery 10 feet high those on the west garden front, will so huge a mass be moored inquire adjustment, but he is con- Very good, you say. But how tures of special Indian States re- The Result.

shaded by a cornice-"chujja," which are somewhat smaller Thus was the fusion, so earn after which the red stone stops, than those on the east, depend midocean?dent that, with honest good-will Like this:The drome will be and all-round statesmanship, a estly desired by political sentiat a, height of 29 feet from the lace pelmets of red stone, frivol moored to a huge buoy, which remedy could be found for all mentalists, accomplished. It was round. Thence forward the ous and charming. On the east will be attached to a 1,500-ton doubts and difficulties. fusion, not of historical reminis- white stone, which includes the the arches are farther apart and concrete boat, sunk in the bed of The Maraja expresses, full con- cences, but of two schools of parapet, cornice, order of pillars, their continuity is interrupted the ocean, by cables of 17,000 idence in the ability of the architectural thought. The out and surbase to the order, and by the main portico which con- feet long come of it is monumental. Never contains the main and upper siste of twelve pillars 80 feet

Nawab of Bhopal, Chancellor ef Was so large, so well planned, so floors, achieves the effect of bat-high and placed at intervals ing the seadrome will be that it the scheme toward to a definite The advantage of thus moor- the Chamber of Princes, to carry arrogant, yet so lovely a palace ter by means of delicate in-step- slightly irregular. The capitals can trall into the wind. The result,"

soft a setting for the man ping-imperceptible from a die- of these pillars, which resent- who, if power be measured by tatice, but at close quartere pre-ble, as do those of the whole anchor will be self-righting" and the number of those subject to venting too great a concatenation order, the headpieces of a carys into position it will be flooded so non-fouling. After it is towed It, is the most powerful man that with...the vertical pillars of the tid, are adorned with four pend that it cannot either be turned breathes. Beside these intrinsic loggiae and portico. The angles ent stone bell; for a legend says, qualities, the house exhales an of the wings and of the eastern that so long as the bells are silent, over or pulled, eldeways. external, conscious monumenta bay are formed of coupled pavi so long will the dynasty reign. lity.⠀⠀⠀ This takes the form, in Hons, pylon shaped and separat- The portico is approached by a Armstrong, who is operating Ita walls, of convergent perpen-ed by pillared recesses. Between light of steps that reach to the in conjunction with the Sikorsky diculars, a form specially ap the couples run loggias upheld height of the red foundation and Aviation Corporation, intends to proved by modern taste, which by row of pillars: 28 feet high, grow each longer and broader as lay a string of eight sendromes ham Street, Welling, Kent, who contrasts atrangely but harmoni Above the loggias projects the they descend to meet the across the Atlantic First of wandered on to the Southern Rail- ously with the sober ardor of second cornice, chujja, 8 feet ground. On either side of the them will be altuated midway way between Bexleyheath and pillars along the loggias and pro- in depth, a thin blade of white steps le round pools flanked by between U.S.R., and the Bermu- Welling in search of flowers, was duces an effect of Indissoluble stone patterned underneath in empty marble pedestals intended das. It will be union with the ground. But the red, whose heavy climax, the shout of the Imperial ning the suggestion is the dome, reared house with blind and sudden from the mid-mari]

a white fication of so

ments:

the tion

Tun for the reception.

the horses Into these apqute water.

teeth of a mechanical

ele Between the coup!

cont

The First.JENS

Bo enthusiastic 2 "the article as to ties of the někdrome

RUBBER BOOTS.

Save Child from Live

Rail

Harold Lockyer, aged 4, of Wick-

entel only electrocuted by a live rail rancing to the extent of training and de-Hie companion, Alice Hill, aged thin 'veloping personne ZAM 34 also of Wickham Street, at-i

writer tempted to drag Lockyer off the line ossibilly after he had been killed. She was he the not hurt. It is thought that the ne Ber-rubber boots she was wearing saved.

pay her life. vasari night, R&To get on to the permanent way earn of the children, had to mount a fence And climb an embankment,

Europe on isus hot

actual acc

WE WILL BE PLEASED TO UNDERTAKE THE TUNING AND GENERAL

UPKEEP OF YOUR PIANO.

PIANOS

FOR SALE

OR

HIRE!

ONLY EXPERT EUROPEAN

TUNERS EMPLOYED."

The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.

St. George's Bullding, Ice House St. Tel. 21322,

FOR

HEALTH AND INVIGORATION

DRINK ONLY

(GERMAN)

ELBSCHLOSS BEER

Sole Agents:-

THE WING ON CO., LTD, Telephone: 25994.

.PRODUCT OF THE

BRITISH WEST INDIES

Rose's

Lime

Juice

Made from fresh Limes and Cane Sugar

FROM ONE OF

OUR OLDEST

>

COLONIES

Made

in the

West

Indies.

Found

all over

the World.

King George IV

OLD SCOTCH

WHISKY

OPENING AND CLOSING FACILITATED BY

NEW SCREW CAP

Simple

Safe & Secure

No corkscrew neces sary

Possibility of leakage

or contamination through faulty corks

"THE DISTILLERS AGENCY, LTD,

GANDE

SOLE AGE

ADINBURGH

"PRICE" & CO. LTD-

DIA

ing, Ice House Street"