The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XC.
DECEMBER 22, 1906.No. 1617.
Editorial Summary:
Pages 193-194
Loss of the Drawings of St. Alban s Cathedral, Toronto, Ont.— The Proper Custodian of Architectural Drawings—The Law of Deodand as a Check on Slaughter by Automobile and Highbuildings: Casualties Amongst the Chicago Housesmiths—Sink of à New York Street OArer the Pennsylvania R. R. Tunnel—A National Commission to Simplify Our Systems of Weights and Measures Suggested—Insurance Companies Enabled to Recover from Electric Power Companies—Death of Willis W. Polk, Architect—Portraiture in the Decorations of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Public Buildings.
The T-Square Cr.uids Exhibition.................................................................... 195 Probing the Pennsylvania Capitol Scandal.—II................................. 195 The English Class-room ..... .......................................................................... 198
Communication- ................ 199
Twentv-five-foot Tenement Houses.
Notes and Clippings............\.......................................................................... 200 Bun ding News, etc. Plates :
Prize Designs in the Carden City Competition for Cheap Houses, Long Island, N. Y. : Eight Plates.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Royal Palace, Amsterdam. Holland—Town-hall, The H; jue, Holland—Town-hall, Alkmaar, Holland—Town-hall, Haai gm, Holland.
12 West- 40TH Street
NE V YORK
Entered as second class matter November IS, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XC.
DECEMBER 22, 1906.No. 1617.
Editorial Summary:
Pages 193-194
Loss of the Drawings of St. Alban s Cathedral, Toronto, Ont.— The Proper Custodian of Architectural Drawings—The Law of Deodand as a Check on Slaughter by Automobile and Highbuildings: Casualties Amongst the Chicago Housesmiths—Sink of à New York Street OArer the Pennsylvania R. R. Tunnel—A National Commission to Simplify Our Systems of Weights and Measures Suggested—Insurance Companies Enabled to Recover from Electric Power Companies—Death of Willis W. Polk, Architect—Portraiture in the Decorations of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Public Buildings.
The T-Square Cr.uids Exhibition.................................................................... 195 Probing the Pennsylvania Capitol Scandal.—II................................. 195 The English Class-room ..... .......................................................................... 198
Communication- ................ 199
Twentv-five-foot Tenement Houses.
Notes and Clippings............\.......................................................................... 200 Bun ding News, etc. Plates :
Prize Designs in the Carden City Competition for Cheap Houses, Long Island, N. Y. : Eight Plates.
Additional Plates (International Edition) :
Royal Palace, Amsterdam. Holland—Town-hall, The H; jue, Holland—Town-hall, Alkmaar, Holland—Town-hall, Haai gm, Holland.
12 West- 40TH Street
NE V YORK
Entered as second class matter November IS, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.