BUSH TERMINAL COMPANY’S MODEL FACTORY
An Illustration of Our Work. All Structural Parts of Reinforced Concrete. Walls Veneered With Brick. TURNER CONSTRUCTION CO., NEW YORK
Worcester, Mass.—Mr. L. W. Briggs, of the firm of Frost, Briggs & Chamberlain, has been appointed a member of the committee which has charge of the American competition for the Paris Prize” of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, the gift of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Janesville, Wis..—Mr. and Mrs. Archie Reid, of this city, are parties to a suit brought by Henry Lord Gay, architect, of Chicago, to recover $600, alleged balance due for services in supervising the building of their $40,000 residence, one of the costliest in the city. The case is being tried before M. P. Richardson, as referee, by United States District Attorney W. G. Wheeler and W. A. Jackson, of Milwaukee, for the plaintiff, and M. G. Jeffris and George G. Sutherland for the defendants.
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.
Catalogues.
The preface of “Concrete Construction About the Home and on the Farm” indicates that the Atlas Portland Cement Company produced the work with a view to interesting the farmer and country residence owner. It is, however, so^ full of real information relating particularly to the minor forms of concrete constructions as to be well worth a place amongst an architect’s reference-books.
Full specifications are given for mixing and handling cement, mortar and con
crete ; for making forms and moulds and placing concrete there; for sidewalks, gutters, cellars, barn and stable floors, steps and stairs, walls and foundations, chimney caps, cisterns and tanks, ice-houses, rootcellars, silos and green-houses, etc. ; also for stucco-work with smooth, sputter-dash or pebble-dash finish.
Useful tables for designing beams and slabs, for determining amount of materials in concrete of various degrees of richness and for coloring concrete are included.
More ambitious structures, such as the farm buildings on Gedney Farms, White Plains, and the Brookside Farms, Newburg, N. Y., .and a house and barn at Westwood, N. J., are also described. The book contains a hundred and twenty-seven pages and is fully illustrated, both by general views and detail drawings.
A sixty-four page pamphlet has been issued by the Unit Concrete Steel Frame Co., of Philadelphia, containing the report of official load, fire and water tests on the “Unit” system of reinforced concrete made under the supervision of the Engineering Staffs of the New York and Philadelphia Building Bureaus. Another interesting test, which is illustrated and described, was made on four concrete beams reinforced with “Unit” girder frames. These were loaded to destruction and failed under loads five times as great as the designed working load.
The account of these tests is prefaced
by some interesting matter on reinforced concrete in general, and the “Unit” system in particular. This system was devised by its inventor as a means of avoiding the difficulty of properly placing the reinforcing metal in the field. By the system: the reinforcement is delivered ready assembled in a single rigid frame, about which the concrete may be placed by ordinary labor without fear of disturbing the reinforcing members.
The A. H. Andrews Co.’s “Church Furniture” is,,-shown in three catalogues. One relates to pews ; another to pulpits, reading desks, communion tables and platform chairs. The illustrations in both are colored and are chosen from designs especially adapted for use in Protestant churches.
The third catalogue shows designs intended for Catholic churches. The illustrations include altars, confessionals, pulpits, pews, stalls, pedestals, prie-dieus, fonts, etc., are are quite skilfully rendered in penand-ink.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.______
Huge Wireless Station at Norddeich.— The German Imperial Government is constructing a gigantic wireless telegraph station at Norddeich, whose ether waves will embrace a territory 1,000 miles in radius. It is really under the supervision of the General Post-office Department of the German Government, whose noteworthy enter
An Illustration of Our Work. All Structural Parts of Reinforced Concrete. Walls Veneered With Brick. TURNER CONSTRUCTION CO., NEW YORK
Worcester, Mass.—Mr. L. W. Briggs, of the firm of Frost, Briggs & Chamberlain, has been appointed a member of the committee which has charge of the American competition for the Paris Prize” of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, the gift of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Janesville, Wis..—Mr. and Mrs. Archie Reid, of this city, are parties to a suit brought by Henry Lord Gay, architect, of Chicago, to recover $600, alleged balance due for services in supervising the building of their $40,000 residence, one of the costliest in the city. The case is being tried before M. P. Richardson, as referee, by United States District Attorney W. G. Wheeler and W. A. Jackson, of Milwaukee, for the plaintiff, and M. G. Jeffris and George G. Sutherland for the defendants.
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.
Catalogues.
The preface of “Concrete Construction About the Home and on the Farm” indicates that the Atlas Portland Cement Company produced the work with a view to interesting the farmer and country residence owner. It is, however, so^ full of real information relating particularly to the minor forms of concrete constructions as to be well worth a place amongst an architect’s reference-books.
Full specifications are given for mixing and handling cement, mortar and con
crete ; for making forms and moulds and placing concrete there; for sidewalks, gutters, cellars, barn and stable floors, steps and stairs, walls and foundations, chimney caps, cisterns and tanks, ice-houses, rootcellars, silos and green-houses, etc. ; also for stucco-work with smooth, sputter-dash or pebble-dash finish.
Useful tables for designing beams and slabs, for determining amount of materials in concrete of various degrees of richness and for coloring concrete are included.
More ambitious structures, such as the farm buildings on Gedney Farms, White Plains, and the Brookside Farms, Newburg, N. Y., .and a house and barn at Westwood, N. J., are also described. The book contains a hundred and twenty-seven pages and is fully illustrated, both by general views and detail drawings.
A sixty-four page pamphlet has been issued by the Unit Concrete Steel Frame Co., of Philadelphia, containing the report of official load, fire and water tests on the “Unit” system of reinforced concrete made under the supervision of the Engineering Staffs of the New York and Philadelphia Building Bureaus. Another interesting test, which is illustrated and described, was made on four concrete beams reinforced with “Unit” girder frames. These were loaded to destruction and failed under loads five times as great as the designed working load.
The account of these tests is prefaced
by some interesting matter on reinforced concrete in general, and the “Unit” system in particular. This system was devised by its inventor as a means of avoiding the difficulty of properly placing the reinforcing metal in the field. By the system: the reinforcement is delivered ready assembled in a single rigid frame, about which the concrete may be placed by ordinary labor without fear of disturbing the reinforcing members.
The A. H. Andrews Co.’s “Church Furniture” is,,-shown in three catalogues. One relates to pews ; another to pulpits, reading desks, communion tables and platform chairs. The illustrations in both are colored and are chosen from designs especially adapted for use in Protestant churches.
The third catalogue shows designs intended for Catholic churches. The illustrations include altars, confessionals, pulpits, pews, stalls, pedestals, prie-dieus, fonts, etc., are are quite skilfully rendered in penand-ink.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.______
Huge Wireless Station at Norddeich.— The German Imperial Government is constructing a gigantic wireless telegraph station at Norddeich, whose ether waves will embrace a territory 1,000 miles in radius. It is really under the supervision of the General Post-office Department of the German Government, whose noteworthy enter