PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER TILING
IN USE ON STATEN ISLAND FERRY BOATS, NEW YORK CITY.
The Thickest Rubber Tiling on the Market, being full threeeighths of an inch in thickness—much to the advantage of its wearing qualities.
SEND FOR SAMPLE TILES.
Suitable wherever a Noiseless, Attractive, Durable and Sanitary Floor is required.
The proposition we can make will shoiv that the price of Interlocking Rubber Tiling is no longer prohibitive.
Manufactured under Letters Patent No. 708.472 and sold exclusively by us and our representatives.
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER. COMPANY
NEW YORK : 1665 Broadway
ST. LOUIS : 826 S. 18th Street
JEANNETTE, PA. CHICAGO : 166 Lake Street
PHILADELPHIA : 616 N. Broad Street
LONDON : 4 Snow Hill
OKONITE
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring of PUBLIC and PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
Willard L. Candee, H. Durant Cheever,
Managers.
Geo. T. Manson. Gen’l Supt.W. H. Hodgins, Sec y.
TRADE MARK
REG. U. S. PATENT OFFICE.
Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape Manson Protecting Tape
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York
SOCIETIES
ROCHESTER ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH CLUB.
The Rochester Architectural Sketch Club held its monthly meeting February 17 in the office of Claude Fayette Bragdon. Designs for the eighteenth competition, “A Bowling- Hall in a Large City,” were submitted. The awards for the last competition, “An Entrance to Maplewood Park,” were as follows : First mention, Will Kaelber ; second mention, J. B. Arnold.
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.
The University regents having voted to establish a Chair of Architecture as a branch of the Engineering Department, Emil Lorch, of Harvard, has been appointed to the position at a salary of $2,500 a year.
TWIN CITY ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
The Twin City Architectural Club held its monthly meeting in the St. Paul builders’ exchange February 20. The principal business of the evening was the report of
Hugo Arnold, the club delegate to the Architectural League of American convention, held at New York. It was decided by the Club that here in the Twin Cities there was an exceptional opportunity for artistic design, because of the picturesque surroundings and the wealth, coupled with the highest order of art culture, among the people.
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
The officials for the following year have been appointed by the President, Mr. E. J. Russell ; the Executive Committee - being drawn from the membership of the Architectural Club of St. Louis, as follows :
Executive Board—President, Ernest J. Russell; Vice-president, Frederick M. Mann; Corresponding Secretary, William B. Ittner; Recording Secretary, Ernest Helfensteller, Jr.; Treasurer, John C. Stephens; Samuel L. Sherer, Jesse N. Watson.
Chairmen of Committees—Publicity and Promotion, John Molitor, Philadelphia; Current Club-Work, J. P. Hynes, Toronto; Education, Newton A. Wells, Urbana, 111.; Co-operation with the Institute, William B.
Ittner, St. Louis; Civic Improvement, Frederick S. Lamb, New York; Foreign Scholarship, N. Max Dunning, Chicago.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Cambridgeport, Mass.—Mr. Arthur Blevins, of the firm of Newhall & Blevins, architects, Boston, has received notification of his election as a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Birmingham, Ala.—The La Belle-Kribs Co., architects, have located in Birmingham and have taken office rooms 401 and 402 in the Title Guarantee building. Mr. La Belle, the senior member of the company, has designed many public buildings and churches. His home has been in New York. Mr. Kribs comes to Birmingham from St. Paul.
Des Moines, Ia.—Proudfoot & Bird, as architects for the Iowa Building at the St. Louis Exposition, have been awarded a commemorative diploma and bronze medal for the superiority of the architecture and design of the building.
IN USE ON STATEN ISLAND FERRY BOATS, NEW YORK CITY.
The Thickest Rubber Tiling on the Market, being full threeeighths of an inch in thickness—much to the advantage of its wearing qualities.
SEND FOR SAMPLE TILES.
Suitable wherever a Noiseless, Attractive, Durable and Sanitary Floor is required.
The proposition we can make will shoiv that the price of Interlocking Rubber Tiling is no longer prohibitive.
Manufactured under Letters Patent No. 708.472 and sold exclusively by us and our representatives.
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER. COMPANY
NEW YORK : 1665 Broadway
ST. LOUIS : 826 S. 18th Street
JEANNETTE, PA. CHICAGO : 166 Lake Street
PHILADELPHIA : 616 N. Broad Street
LONDON : 4 Snow Hill
OKONITE
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring of PUBLIC and PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
Willard L. Candee, H. Durant Cheever,
Managers.
Geo. T. Manson. Gen’l Supt.W. H. Hodgins, Sec y.
TRADE MARK
REG. U. S. PATENT OFFICE.
Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape Manson Protecting Tape
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York
SOCIETIES
ROCHESTER ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH CLUB.
The Rochester Architectural Sketch Club held its monthly meeting February 17 in the office of Claude Fayette Bragdon. Designs for the eighteenth competition, “A Bowling- Hall in a Large City,” were submitted. The awards for the last competition, “An Entrance to Maplewood Park,” were as follows : First mention, Will Kaelber ; second mention, J. B. Arnold.
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.
The University regents having voted to establish a Chair of Architecture as a branch of the Engineering Department, Emil Lorch, of Harvard, has been appointed to the position at a salary of $2,500 a year.
TWIN CITY ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
The Twin City Architectural Club held its monthly meeting in the St. Paul builders’ exchange February 20. The principal business of the evening was the report of
Hugo Arnold, the club delegate to the Architectural League of American convention, held at New York. It was decided by the Club that here in the Twin Cities there was an exceptional opportunity for artistic design, because of the picturesque surroundings and the wealth, coupled with the highest order of art culture, among the people.
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
The officials for the following year have been appointed by the President, Mr. E. J. Russell ; the Executive Committee - being drawn from the membership of the Architectural Club of St. Louis, as follows :
Executive Board—President, Ernest J. Russell; Vice-president, Frederick M. Mann; Corresponding Secretary, William B. Ittner; Recording Secretary, Ernest Helfensteller, Jr.; Treasurer, John C. Stephens; Samuel L. Sherer, Jesse N. Watson.
Chairmen of Committees—Publicity and Promotion, John Molitor, Philadelphia; Current Club-Work, J. P. Hynes, Toronto; Education, Newton A. Wells, Urbana, 111.; Co-operation with the Institute, William B.
Ittner, St. Louis; Civic Improvement, Frederick S. Lamb, New York; Foreign Scholarship, N. Max Dunning, Chicago.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Cambridgeport, Mass.—Mr. Arthur Blevins, of the firm of Newhall & Blevins, architects, Boston, has received notification of his election as a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Birmingham, Ala.—The La Belle-Kribs Co., architects, have located in Birmingham and have taken office rooms 401 and 402 in the Title Guarantee building. Mr. La Belle, the senior member of the company, has designed many public buildings and churches. His home has been in New York. Mr. Kribs comes to Birmingham from St. Paul.
Des Moines, Ia.—Proudfoot & Bird, as architects for the Iowa Building at the St. Louis Exposition, have been awarded a commemorative diploma and bronze medal for the superiority of the architecture and design of the building.