Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1914 — Peerless Geneva. [ARTICLE]

Peerless Geneva.

The most glowing tribute to Geneva is Mr. Frederic Harrison’s. “I hold Zurich, Basle and Geneva to be the model cities of our age—the fine type of what cities will one day be in a regenerated age—the true type of civic organization, having sites of rare beauty and convenience, spacious streets and avenues, noble public walks and gardens, perhaps everything short of grand antique buildings/* Geneva in particular is finest type of a. rational city that Europe possesses ... a true city where, as in Athens, Florence, Venice, Antwerp or Ghent, or old, men can live some civic life, not in huge, amorphous caravanseries such as London, Paris or Berlin—not in suffumigated barracks such as Manchester, or Lyons, or Glasgow—but in a beautiful, well-ordered, free, organic city.”