Permanent as the Pyramids
In the Raymond system of concrete piling a shell or form is driven to a firm bearing, remains in the ground and is filled with carefully mixed Portland cement concrete, assuring a perfect pile in every instance.
Raymond concrete piles are tapering and have a supporting value their entire length.
No driving on the concrete.
Every pile a perfect monolith. A carefully prepared book of facts on concrete piling free on application.
Raymond Concrete Pile Co.
Gen’l Offices 135 Adams St.
CHICAGO
father and has gone to Pittsburgh, where he will locate. There he will engage in the same business he had here. Mr. Thompson for years was president of the Board of Education. Mr. Thompson has gained a reputation for his building of school buildings.
Easton, Pa.—Mr. Charles S. Boutcher died Jan. 9, in the 69th year of his age. He was born in Newportville, Bucks county, March 24, 1837.
Reading, Pa.—Mr. Faber J. Kuhns, one of the city’s youngest architects and engineers, won in the competition for the position of consulting architect for the Pennsylvania Railroad along the Schuylkill division.
Washington, D. C.—The Messrs. Sunderland Bros, are suing the Washington Baseball Club of the American League in Circuit Court No. 2 before Chief Justice Clabaugh and a jury. The plaintiffs seek to recover $270.71, alleged to be due them for services as architects in connection with the erection of the; grand stand and other work performed at the grounds at Fourteenth St. and Florida Ave. northeast, used several years ago as a baseball park.
Baltimore, Md.—Mr. Jacob F. Gerwig, architect, has secured a large suite of offices on the fourth floor of the Hoffman building, 11 Fast Lexington St.
New York, N. Y.—Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who before her marriage was Gertrude Vanderbilt, and who has for several years been a very industrious sculptor, has accepted from the firm of Warren &
Wetmore, who have built the new Hotel Belmont, New York, the commission to do much of the designing for the interior decorations of the hotel. Mrs. Whitney took up sculpture as a diversion and has devoted much time to it.
Edward S. Murphy, who has just been appointed the new Superintendent of Buildings for this borough, by President Ahearn, was born in this city in 1866 and is in the building business of Murphy Bros. Among the buildings constructed by the firm are the. Majestic Theatre, the Pabst Hotel, the Harlem Club house, the Erysipelas Hospital, the Isolated Hospital, and the insane pavilion and boiler-house of Bellevue Hospital. Mr. Murphy belongs to the Twentyninth District, of which Thomas E. Rush is leader, and is treasurer of the Osceola Club of that district.
Kansas City, Ka.ns.—Mayor Neff has sent a communication to the council pointing out the need of a city architect. Within the past two years, Kansas City has allowed for about $16,000 in architect’s fees. Not all of the money has been paid out, but it will be before the two years end. Architects’ fees in the water department have amounted to $2,523; hospital, $10,500, and fire and police departments, $3,500. It is estimated that a city architect at a salary of $3,500 a year would not have been crowded in doing all the work that has been done in the two years,
Flushing, N. Y.—School Commissioner John J. Kouhn, of Franklin Place, who is an architect, is suing Mrs. Mollie Schiffren, of State St., for $150 which Kouhn alleges
is due him for work he performed for Mrs. Schiffren. The plaintiff alleges that he was engaged by Mrs. Schiffren to draw plans and prepare specifications for a house to be erected on Farrington St., Flushing, and in addition that he was to negotiate a loan with which to build the house. The plaintiff claims that the defendant refused to accept the plans or to pay him for his services.
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.
TRADE publications.
It is really a pity that those who produce trade catalogues cannot agree to adopt a certain standard dimension for such publications. With few exceptions all that come to this office could be made, for example, either four by six or six by nine or nine by twelve inches. But a glance at our files shows as many variations of dimensions as one would see amongst the pupils of a oneroom country-school. The value of a catalogue to its producer depends on its value to the reader and user; and this latter factor is affected enormously by the way the catalogue adapts itself to common systems of filing. Whether filed on shelves or in boxes or cabinets, standard sizes are evidently greatly to be desired.
This criticism was prompted by the receipt of six booklets from the U. S. Gypsum Co., Chicago, only two of which have the same dimensions. In all other respects, however, they a:re well worthy of attention. One treats of the fireproof qualities of “Ivory Fiber” plaster; another, entitled
The Man wifh the Hoe,” deals with pre
In the Raymond system of concrete piling a shell or form is driven to a firm bearing, remains in the ground and is filled with carefully mixed Portland cement concrete, assuring a perfect pile in every instance.
Raymond concrete piles are tapering and have a supporting value their entire length.
No driving on the concrete.
Every pile a perfect monolith. A carefully prepared book of facts on concrete piling free on application.
Raymond Concrete Pile Co.
Gen’l Offices 135 Adams St.
CHICAGO
father and has gone to Pittsburgh, where he will locate. There he will engage in the same business he had here. Mr. Thompson for years was president of the Board of Education. Mr. Thompson has gained a reputation for his building of school buildings.
Easton, Pa.—Mr. Charles S. Boutcher died Jan. 9, in the 69th year of his age. He was born in Newportville, Bucks county, March 24, 1837.
Reading, Pa.—Mr. Faber J. Kuhns, one of the city’s youngest architects and engineers, won in the competition for the position of consulting architect for the Pennsylvania Railroad along the Schuylkill division.
Washington, D. C.—The Messrs. Sunderland Bros, are suing the Washington Baseball Club of the American League in Circuit Court No. 2 before Chief Justice Clabaugh and a jury. The plaintiffs seek to recover $270.71, alleged to be due them for services as architects in connection with the erection of the; grand stand and other work performed at the grounds at Fourteenth St. and Florida Ave. northeast, used several years ago as a baseball park.
Baltimore, Md.—Mr. Jacob F. Gerwig, architect, has secured a large suite of offices on the fourth floor of the Hoffman building, 11 Fast Lexington St.
New York, N. Y.—Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who before her marriage was Gertrude Vanderbilt, and who has for several years been a very industrious sculptor, has accepted from the firm of Warren &
Wetmore, who have built the new Hotel Belmont, New York, the commission to do much of the designing for the interior decorations of the hotel. Mrs. Whitney took up sculpture as a diversion and has devoted much time to it.
Edward S. Murphy, who has just been appointed the new Superintendent of Buildings for this borough, by President Ahearn, was born in this city in 1866 and is in the building business of Murphy Bros. Among the buildings constructed by the firm are the. Majestic Theatre, the Pabst Hotel, the Harlem Club house, the Erysipelas Hospital, the Isolated Hospital, and the insane pavilion and boiler-house of Bellevue Hospital. Mr. Murphy belongs to the Twentyninth District, of which Thomas E. Rush is leader, and is treasurer of the Osceola Club of that district.
Kansas City, Ka.ns.—Mayor Neff has sent a communication to the council pointing out the need of a city architect. Within the past two years, Kansas City has allowed for about $16,000 in architect’s fees. Not all of the money has been paid out, but it will be before the two years end. Architects’ fees in the water department have amounted to $2,523; hospital, $10,500, and fire and police departments, $3,500. It is estimated that a city architect at a salary of $3,500 a year would not have been crowded in doing all the work that has been done in the two years,
Flushing, N. Y.—School Commissioner John J. Kouhn, of Franklin Place, who is an architect, is suing Mrs. Mollie Schiffren, of State St., for $150 which Kouhn alleges
is due him for work he performed for Mrs. Schiffren. The plaintiff alleges that he was engaged by Mrs. Schiffren to draw plans and prepare specifications for a house to be erected on Farrington St., Flushing, and in addition that he was to negotiate a loan with which to build the house. The plaintiff claims that the defendant refused to accept the plans or to pay him for his services.
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.
TRADE publications.
It is really a pity that those who produce trade catalogues cannot agree to adopt a certain standard dimension for such publications. With few exceptions all that come to this office could be made, for example, either four by six or six by nine or nine by twelve inches. But a glance at our files shows as many variations of dimensions as one would see amongst the pupils of a oneroom country-school. The value of a catalogue to its producer depends on its value to the reader and user; and this latter factor is affected enormously by the way the catalogue adapts itself to common systems of filing. Whether filed on shelves or in boxes or cabinets, standard sizes are evidently greatly to be desired.
This criticism was prompted by the receipt of six booklets from the U. S. Gypsum Co., Chicago, only two of which have the same dimensions. In all other respects, however, they a:re well worthy of attention. One treats of the fireproof qualities of “Ivory Fiber” plaster; another, entitled
The Man wifh the Hoe,” deals with pre