NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
THE INGENUOUS BRICKLAYER.
Some Builder’s Laborers once waxed hot About the Hardships of their Lot,
And with Abuse did thickly plaster Their grinding and despotic Master.
’Twas Jones, a Layer he of Bricks,
Most fierce denounced that Tyrant’s Tricks, And cursed the Wretch who’d have them
lay Eight hundred Bricks (Oh! Shame!) per
Day.
“Say, let’s agree to lay no more
Henceforth, my Mates, than Hundreds
four.”
Now Jones, who this Suggestion made, Was still a Novice at the Trade,
And then four hundred Bricks a Day Was just as much as he could lay.
But as the Months progressing ran, Jones, who’s a quick and handy Man,
Outstripped his Mates and soon could lay Four hundred Bricks in half a day.
’Tis now the Wish our Friend did take Double his present Wage to make; So he the Limit would rescind
Which stringent thus his Efforts pinned.
But lo ! His Mates, who—sad, but true !— Were still a lazy, unskilled Crew, With Insolence and loud Derision
Declined to hear of such Rescision:
“What next? The Compact—Truth to
tell—
Us Duffers suits amazing well,
Nor do we mean such Fools to be As now to cancel it for thee,
Just ’cos thee’s gotten extra Skill
And wants thy private Purse to fill. Naw ! Thee shan’t rise above our Level, And if thee tries, we’ll raise the Devil!” Then Jones, with rueful Face, did see The Vice of forced Equality :
“I know—alas! too late—such Rules Protect but Lazybones and Fools.
And, leveling up the unskilled Clown, His Mate more skilful level down!
moral :
’Twixt Right and Wrong, ’twixt False and
True,
How much depends on Point of View! —Truth.
The Crescent.—The crescent was originally the special mark of Constantinople, where for centuries it was used as a Christian symbol. There it was that the Turks first found it when they captured the city in 1453. Even to-day it may be found side by side with the cross on the churches in Moscow and other Russian cities, where it was used to indicate the Byzantine origin of the Russian faith.—Exchange.
The German Working-day.—Whereas in the seventies of last century the twelve-hour day was the rule in the building trade in Germany, there were in 1895 already 436 towns with a ten-hour day, 103 with ten and one-half hours, 818 with eleven hours, and 83 with more than eleven hours. In 1905 there were 247 towns with a nine-hour day, 293 with nine and onehalf hours, 7,643 with ten hours, 1,453 with ten and one-half hours, 3,524 with eleven hours, and only 147 with over eleven hours. —New York Evening Post.
Women Win Royal Academy Prizes.— The Royal Academy meeting December 10 to greet the winners of the prizes in the schools was a notable triumph for the women students, who this year much more than hold their own against the men. The Creswick landscape prize, the prizes for figure composition, cartoon of the draped figure, the first and second medals for painting from the nude and the first medal tor modeling a bust from life all fell to women. In the friendly criticism of the prize works by academicians, which followed the announcement of the awards, John S. Sargent, who rarely misses a prize-giving, was in great demand. The famous American lin
gered long in the gallerise, talking with the students, with whom he is an immense favorite.—Exchange.
Cement vs. Steel.—The finished products of the iron and steel industry in the current year can be closely estimated. The production of pig iron will probably be slightly over 25,000,000 tons, and an output of 23,000,000 tons of finished products would be distributed about as follows, the rolled forms including both iron and steel :
Gross Tons. Rails .............................................. 3,700,000 Plates and sheets ........................ 4,000,000 Wire rods .................................... 1,900,000 Structural shapes ........................ 1,900,000 Bars, hoops, etc...............................7,000,000 Iron castings ............................... 3,750,000 Steel castings ............................... 730,009
Total .........................................25,000,000 Obviously, concrete will not replace rails, wire products or steel castings, which cuts 6.330.000 tons out of the reckoning. Of the 1.900.000 tons of structural shapes a considerable proportion goes into steel cars. The balance, with a portion of the plate tonnage, goes into immovable fabricated structures. More than one-fourth, or more than 1,000,000 tons of the 4,000,000 tons of plate and sheet tonnage goes into tin plates, galvanized sheets and black sheets of light gauge. A large proportion of plate tonnage goes into steel cars, and a considerable proportion of the-remainder into ship building. Obviously we shall never have concrete ships or concrete cars. Of the total shape and plate tonnage probably less than 2,000,000 tons is vulnerable, and some fraction, possibly not a large, one, concrete might be made to replace. Having already thrown out 6,350,000 tons, let concrete be given the whole 2,000,000 tons of plate and shape tonnage, leaving 3,900,000 tons in these branches to be thrown out. Coming next to 7,000,000 tons of merchant millproducts, including bars, bands, hoops, etc.,
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. S. in Arch.) (Architectural engineering may be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc.)
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch.) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc.)
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. (Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general sub jects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address: DR. J. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Archi* tecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urbana, III.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
offers four-year courses of study leading to the degree of S. B. in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Anatomy and Hygiene (preparation for medical schools), Science for Teachers, and a course in General Science. For the catalogue and information, address J. L. Love, 16 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass. N. S. SHALER, Dean.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS
ARCHITECTS
has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee on Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60.00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America.”—Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
12 West Fortieth St., New York
THE INGENUOUS BRICKLAYER.
Some Builder’s Laborers once waxed hot About the Hardships of their Lot,
And with Abuse did thickly plaster Their grinding and despotic Master.
’Twas Jones, a Layer he of Bricks,
Most fierce denounced that Tyrant’s Tricks, And cursed the Wretch who’d have them
lay Eight hundred Bricks (Oh! Shame!) per
Day.
“Say, let’s agree to lay no more
Henceforth, my Mates, than Hundreds
four.”
Now Jones, who this Suggestion made, Was still a Novice at the Trade,
And then four hundred Bricks a Day Was just as much as he could lay.
But as the Months progressing ran, Jones, who’s a quick and handy Man,
Outstripped his Mates and soon could lay Four hundred Bricks in half a day.
’Tis now the Wish our Friend did take Double his present Wage to make; So he the Limit would rescind
Which stringent thus his Efforts pinned.
But lo ! His Mates, who—sad, but true !— Were still a lazy, unskilled Crew, With Insolence and loud Derision
Declined to hear of such Rescision:
“What next? The Compact—Truth to
tell—
Us Duffers suits amazing well,
Nor do we mean such Fools to be As now to cancel it for thee,
Just ’cos thee’s gotten extra Skill
And wants thy private Purse to fill. Naw ! Thee shan’t rise above our Level, And if thee tries, we’ll raise the Devil!” Then Jones, with rueful Face, did see The Vice of forced Equality :
“I know—alas! too late—such Rules Protect but Lazybones and Fools.
And, leveling up the unskilled Clown, His Mate more skilful level down!
moral :
’Twixt Right and Wrong, ’twixt False and
True,
How much depends on Point of View! —Truth.
The Crescent.—The crescent was originally the special mark of Constantinople, where for centuries it was used as a Christian symbol. There it was that the Turks first found it when they captured the city in 1453. Even to-day it may be found side by side with the cross on the churches in Moscow and other Russian cities, where it was used to indicate the Byzantine origin of the Russian faith.—Exchange.
The German Working-day.—Whereas in the seventies of last century the twelve-hour day was the rule in the building trade in Germany, there were in 1895 already 436 towns with a ten-hour day, 103 with ten and one-half hours, 818 with eleven hours, and 83 with more than eleven hours. In 1905 there were 247 towns with a nine-hour day, 293 with nine and onehalf hours, 7,643 with ten hours, 1,453 with ten and one-half hours, 3,524 with eleven hours, and only 147 with over eleven hours. —New York Evening Post.
Women Win Royal Academy Prizes.— The Royal Academy meeting December 10 to greet the winners of the prizes in the schools was a notable triumph for the women students, who this year much more than hold their own against the men. The Creswick landscape prize, the prizes for figure composition, cartoon of the draped figure, the first and second medals for painting from the nude and the first medal tor modeling a bust from life all fell to women. In the friendly criticism of the prize works by academicians, which followed the announcement of the awards, John S. Sargent, who rarely misses a prize-giving, was in great demand. The famous American lin
gered long in the gallerise, talking with the students, with whom he is an immense favorite.—Exchange.
Cement vs. Steel.—The finished products of the iron and steel industry in the current year can be closely estimated. The production of pig iron will probably be slightly over 25,000,000 tons, and an output of 23,000,000 tons of finished products would be distributed about as follows, the rolled forms including both iron and steel :
Gross Tons. Rails .............................................. 3,700,000 Plates and sheets ........................ 4,000,000 Wire rods .................................... 1,900,000 Structural shapes ........................ 1,900,000 Bars, hoops, etc...............................7,000,000 Iron castings ............................... 3,750,000 Steel castings ............................... 730,009
Total .........................................25,000,000 Obviously, concrete will not replace rails, wire products or steel castings, which cuts 6.330.000 tons out of the reckoning. Of the 1.900.000 tons of structural shapes a considerable proportion goes into steel cars. The balance, with a portion of the plate tonnage, goes into immovable fabricated structures. More than one-fourth, or more than 1,000,000 tons of the 4,000,000 tons of plate and sheet tonnage goes into tin plates, galvanized sheets and black sheets of light gauge. A large proportion of plate tonnage goes into steel cars, and a considerable proportion of the-remainder into ship building. Obviously we shall never have concrete ships or concrete cars. Of the total shape and plate tonnage probably less than 2,000,000 tons is vulnerable, and some fraction, possibly not a large, one, concrete might be made to replace. Having already thrown out 6,350,000 tons, let concrete be given the whole 2,000,000 tons of plate and shape tonnage, leaving 3,900,000 tons in these branches to be thrown out. Coming next to 7,000,000 tons of merchant millproducts, including bars, bands, hoops, etc.,
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. S. in Arch.) (Architectural engineering may be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc.)
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch.) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc.)
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. (Certificate.) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering.)
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general sub jects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address: DR. J. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Archi* tecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urbana, III.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
offers four-year courses of study leading to the degree of S. B. in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Anatomy and Hygiene (preparation for medical schools), Science for Teachers, and a course in General Science. For the catalogue and information, address J. L. Love, 16 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass. N. S. SHALER, Dean.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS
ARCHITECTS
has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee on Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
PRICE, $60.00.
“The most important work on architecture yet produced in America.”—Nation.
THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
12 West Fortieth St., New York