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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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erable canals,some stately and straight, others narrow andwinding, between which are gardens inten-sively developed to the degree of compel-ling charm. Some of the plots are entirelydevoted to vegetables, with order immacu-late while others breathe the spirit andfragrance of colorful flowers. Guardingthese are the straight, slender Sauz machotrees which line the canals, stretching theirarms like haunting fairies to the ever chang-in2 skies and clouds. One can float in utter quiet here by means of row boats or gainswifter impressions from launches. EntireIndian families may be seen, eating anddrinking, lounging or making music in theirbarges, their lives complete on the water.While realizing joy through relaxationhere, one senses fleeting beauty, illusivecharm. Mystery and a certain feeling ofwistfulness is imparted by the eerie trees,the lapping waters and even the laughingor brooding skies. To know Xochimilco isto comprehend something of the spirit, themagic of Mexico and her people.
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A VILLAGE STREETPhoto by Alex Keighley IN THEBY J. B. JAMISON M. .GENERAL impression concerningresidence organs is that they cost so muchthat comparatively few people can afifordthem. When it is considered that everyorgan owner would part with almost any-thing he had before he would give up theinstrument that has yielded him such mea-sure of entertainment, education, pride andbeauty, it may be interesting to know thatthe legend of prohibitive price is largely amyth, and that delightful organs are nowbeing built that will reproduce exactly theinterpretations of the best organists, as re-corded in libraries of well over a thousandrolls, for from $5000 up. There is no good reason why the architectshould not consider such an organ as a verypossible part of the modern residence ofaverage cost, or deny himself the affordedopportunity for beautifying his work, or hisclient the chance for such enjoyment. Thereis no substitute for the genuine, as one hear-ing will prove, and no longer any excu

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