The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Voi. xc. NOVEMBER 24, 1906. no. 1613.
Editorial Summary : Pages 161-162
Jerry-building in Brooklyn Stopped—Public Responsibility for the Building-laws—The Italian Government to Excavate Herculaneum —A General Height-limit Law for Massachusetts — Insurance Against Explosion Not Legally Procurable in Massachusetts—The . Disintegrating Effect of Oil on Concrete—Peace Palace Award
Enjoined.
Building in Earthquake Countries.—III............................................ 163 The Development of Iron and Steel Roofs in England.—1............ 165 Probing the Pennsylvania Capitol Scandal.............................................. 167
Communication ............................................................................................................... 168
Suing for Breach of Implied Contract.
Notes and Clippings...................................................................................... 168 Societies, Personal Mention, Building News, etc. Plates :
High-school Building, Fairhaven, Mass. : Four Plates—Post-office and General-office Building for the New York Central R. R., New York, N. Y. : Four Plates.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Entrance Front of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Holland—American Hotel, Amsterdam, Holland—The University, Utrecht, Holland—The Crystal Palace and the Amstel Bridge, Amsterdam, Holland.
12 West 40TH Street
NEW YORK
Entered u second class matter November IS, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y„ under the Act of Congress, March X, 1879.