Mexico, Mex. — Mr. George E. King, Jr., died, June 11, at the American Hospital, from spotted typhus fever. The deceased was an architect and purchasing agent in the employ of the firm of Braschi & Nunez. His father is a prominent architect in Guadalajara.
Toronto, Ont. — Messrs. Carrére & Hastings, New York architects, have engaged offices in the Lawlor Building, Toronto, Canada, and most of their Canadian work will be in charge of Mr. Eustace G. Bird, graduate of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who has been associated with them for many years in New York, and who will represent them in Canada.
New York, N. Y. — Mr. Eli Benedict, architect, is conducting an office class in architectural drawing during the summer in his drafting-room at No. 1947 Broadway, New York. The work is intended to help young draftsmen and beginners in the study of architecture, and continues the plan followed during the winter in the course in architectural drawing at the Twenty-third Street Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Ernest Sibley, of Des Moines, Ia., who is studying architecture in Columbia University, New York City, is said to have won a competition for a new $100, 000 school building in New York City. The commission which the young man will receive from his work will go a long ways toward completing his course in architecture.
Des Moines, Ia: — Mr. Norman Vorse, who has been employed as a draftsman in
the office of Proudfoot & Bird, has set out for Paris, where he will devote some time to study.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
The Palazzo Massimo, Rome. — The Massimo palace is one of the grandest and oddest in Rome, being circular in form, while all the windows are glazed with diamond-shaped panes, the only ones of the kind in Rome. Once a year the palace is opened to the public and any one who chooses is allowed to enter. It is on the anniversary of a miracle which St. Philip Neri is declared to have accomplished in the palace by restoring to life a member of the house of Massimo, who had been pronounced dead by the physicians. The room wherein this miracle was performed is now a marvellously beautiful chapel, the gem indeed of the superb palace. Prince Massimo, the chief of the house, is a son of a princess of the reigning house of Italy and his wife is a half-sister of the late Count de Chambord, who reigned as a child over France for twenty-four hours in 1830 as Henry V. on the abdication in his favor of his grandfather, Charles X. The Massimos claim descent from Quintus Fabius Maximus, who was dictator and Consul of Rome three centuries before the Christian era. It is said that the first Napoleon, when in Rome, remarked with a sneer to the then chief of the house of Massimo: “So I hear you claim descent from Quintus Fabius Maximus? ’’
“Ah, your Majesty, ” came the reply, “I
know nothing about it. But that’s what people here in Rome have been saying about us for over twenty centuries. ” — Marquise de Fontenoy, in New York Tribune.
The Villa Achilleion. — The magnificent Villa of Achilleion and the estate on the Island of Corfu belonging to the illfated Empress Elizabeth of Austria has been bought by a German company. The deposit on the purchase price has already been paid and it is purposed to convert the place into a sanatorium.
The Story of one Coal-tar Deposit. — Although an Englishman [W. H. Perkins] discovered the value of coal-tar and English manufacturers were the first to put the country’s large deposits of the raw material to practical use, Germany has succeeded in taking the industry away from the Britons, and is now importing the raw material to keep her factories supplied and running. Germany has taken the lead, because the Government has done everything possible to encourage the profession as well as the industry, and her chemists are masters who lead the world. America produces immense quantities of coal-tar. It is formed during the old-fashioned process of making coal-gas, and although this system is now out of date, it is still used to make the coaltar now instead of the gas. A story is told and vouched for by an eminent authority that illustrates how highly this by-product is valued. It seems that not many years ago, on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia was a gas-works. That was in the days prior to Perkins’s discovery.
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Toronto, Ont. — Messrs. Carrére & Hastings, New York architects, have engaged offices in the Lawlor Building, Toronto, Canada, and most of their Canadian work will be in charge of Mr. Eustace G. Bird, graduate of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who has been associated with them for many years in New York, and who will represent them in Canada.
New York, N. Y. — Mr. Eli Benedict, architect, is conducting an office class in architectural drawing during the summer in his drafting-room at No. 1947 Broadway, New York. The work is intended to help young draftsmen and beginners in the study of architecture, and continues the plan followed during the winter in the course in architectural drawing at the Twenty-third Street Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Ernest Sibley, of Des Moines, Ia., who is studying architecture in Columbia University, New York City, is said to have won a competition for a new $100, 000 school building in New York City. The commission which the young man will receive from his work will go a long ways toward completing his course in architecture.
Des Moines, Ia: — Mr. Norman Vorse, who has been employed as a draftsman in
the office of Proudfoot & Bird, has set out for Paris, where he will devote some time to study.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
The Palazzo Massimo, Rome. — The Massimo palace is one of the grandest and oddest in Rome, being circular in form, while all the windows are glazed with diamond-shaped panes, the only ones of the kind in Rome. Once a year the palace is opened to the public and any one who chooses is allowed to enter. It is on the anniversary of a miracle which St. Philip Neri is declared to have accomplished in the palace by restoring to life a member of the house of Massimo, who had been pronounced dead by the physicians. The room wherein this miracle was performed is now a marvellously beautiful chapel, the gem indeed of the superb palace. Prince Massimo, the chief of the house, is a son of a princess of the reigning house of Italy and his wife is a half-sister of the late Count de Chambord, who reigned as a child over France for twenty-four hours in 1830 as Henry V. on the abdication in his favor of his grandfather, Charles X. The Massimos claim descent from Quintus Fabius Maximus, who was dictator and Consul of Rome three centuries before the Christian era. It is said that the first Napoleon, when in Rome, remarked with a sneer to the then chief of the house of Massimo: “So I hear you claim descent from Quintus Fabius Maximus? ’’
“Ah, your Majesty, ” came the reply, “I
know nothing about it. But that’s what people here in Rome have been saying about us for over twenty centuries. ” — Marquise de Fontenoy, in New York Tribune.
The Villa Achilleion. — The magnificent Villa of Achilleion and the estate on the Island of Corfu belonging to the illfated Empress Elizabeth of Austria has been bought by a German company. The deposit on the purchase price has already been paid and it is purposed to convert the place into a sanatorium.
The Story of one Coal-tar Deposit. — Although an Englishman [W. H. Perkins] discovered the value of coal-tar and English manufacturers were the first to put the country’s large deposits of the raw material to practical use, Germany has succeeded in taking the industry away from the Britons, and is now importing the raw material to keep her factories supplied and running. Germany has taken the lead, because the Government has done everything possible to encourage the profession as well as the industry, and her chemists are masters who lead the world. America produces immense quantities of coal-tar. It is formed during the old-fashioned process of making coal-gas, and although this system is now out of date, it is still used to make the coaltar now instead of the gas. A story is told and vouched for by an eminent authority that illustrates how highly this by-product is valued. It seems that not many years ago, on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia was a gas-works. That was in the days prior to Perkins’s discovery.
PHOTOGRAPHY
We are now prepared to execute high class photographic work at a moderate price:
Outdoor and Indoor Views
Copies of Drawings in line, Monochrome or Color
Negatives up to 11 × 14 inches Prints of any kind
FOR PARTICULARS ADDRESS
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT
No. 12 West 40th Street, New York
A “Monocaste” Cottage
Artistic and Rustic Finishes W
E will co-operate with architects who wish
to use reinforced concrete for constructing COTTAGES, VILLAS, LIBRARIES, ETC., furnishing them with details for moulds and reinforce, and complete instructions to guide them in executing their own plans. This construction is attracting the widest attention.
W. N. WIGHT & CO.
Designing and Contracting Engineers
160 Fifth Avenue, New York
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF
NO WOOD EXCEPT THE TRIM