PLASTERING
Plain and Decorative
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART AND CRAFT OF PLASTERING AND MODELLING
Including full descriptions of the various tools, materials, processes and appliances employed; also of moulded or “fine” concrete as used for paving, fire-proof stairs and floors and architectural dressings, etc., and of reinforced concrete, together with an account of
Historical Plastering in England
Scotland and Ireland
ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS EXAMPLES By WILLIAM MILLAR
PLASTERER AND MODELLER
With an Introductory Chapter, entitled
A GLIMPSE OF ITS HISTORY”
By G. T. Robinson, Esq., F.S.A.
The whole fully illustrated with Fifty-five Full Page Plates and about Five Hundred Smaller Illustrations in the text.
NEW EDITION, ENLARGED AND REVISED
Large 4to (n x8%) containing 630 pages of text, strongly bound in cloth. Price, $7.50 net. Express extra.
John Lane Company, New York THE BODLEY HEAD 67 FIFTH AVENUE
ramparts of Paris seems to be no nearer a settlement now than it was three years ago, but there has been introduced into it a new element of deep human interest. So far the question has all been one of value per yard for building. Now there has been raised the question of value to the public health in the form of open spaces, and especially of playing fields for youths and children. This consideration is held to be particularly important for the more populous quarters, and the State is being urged to show some consideration to the city in this matter. It is pointed out that as former sovereigns gave some hundreds of acres from the Bois de Boulogne for fortification, the Republic might show itself equally generous in restoring the ground so given for public recreation grounds. There is one other detail about these fortification sites. The State values them altogether at 18,360,000, the city at £5,840,000. Assuming competence in the values, how can such a huge discrepancy be accounted for?—London Globe.
New Insect in Spruce Timber.—R. M. Nason, who recently has been in Kennebago Township, just north of Rangeley, in Franklin County, Maine, looking over some spruce timber land for Bangor parties, was especially requested to investigate and report concerning the strange insect that is raising havoc in the older growth of spruce. He secured larvæ and specimens of the work done by the insect, and has sent them to the entomological bureau of the University of Maine for examination to determine just what they were. The insect was discovered by W, G, Stewart, a lumber scaler
employed there, who was impressed with the danger to forests if the insects were allowed to multiply, and accordingly he notified the owners in Bangor and asked for an examination to determine just what they were. Mr. Nason was of the opinion that the insect is one of the forms of the spruce beetle, being about the size of a small apple seed and much resembling it in appearance. Its home seems to be the spruce, largely, and the trees at this time of the year fare covered with its larvæ. The bark is perforated with minute holes the insect has bored. The older trees seem to suffer worst, for the excessive amount of sap in the younger trees drowns the insect [the instant it reaches the wood, and it is not anticipated that the growth will be seriously affected. The insect will probably be further examined by the State entomologist at Augusta to determine to what extent it is to be rockoned with, and if necessary to provide warning to owners of timber land against this latest pest. The unwelcome news, following close upon the heels of the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth scares of last year, is causing them much concern.— American Lumberman.
Statue of “Reconciliation.”—R. Hinton Perry has finished the model for his bronze statue “Reconciliation,” which will be erected at a cost of about $75,000, under the direction of the New York State Monument Committee of the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Mr. Perry has been busy for more than a year on this statue which is to commemorate the battle of Chattanooga, and will be erected on the
summit of Lookout Mountain. It is expected that the casting of the statue in bronze will be finished in time for its erection next spring.—Exchange.
That the building now occupied by the Mechanics’ National Bank is on the site of the house in which the Continental Congress met from November 1 to December 24, 1874, is, according to Dr. Carlos E. God frey, beyond question. He has written to Governor Stokes that he has the original lease of the building, and papers to verify his contention. Dr. Godfrey thinks that a commemorative tablet should be erected as soon as possible. There has long been a dispute as to the building in which the Congress met, and various historians have asserted that it was the old court-house, the present site of the Trenton Banking Company, the Blazing Star Tavern, or Witte’s City Tavern, being mentioned.—New York Evening Journal.
Caracas.—My first impression of Caracas, which was reached after a journey of somewhat more than two hours, was a disappointing one, and this impression did not wear off. I had hoped, even in the present condition of the nation’s unrest, to see a city of stately pretence, cared for in a way so as at least remotely to suggest that it may at one time have justified a claim to being considered one of the most attractive cities of the western world. The. “Little Paris in the Andes,” indeed, sounds veiy fine, and is well adapted for use in steamship folders ; but, alas, how little is there to warrant this designation ! There are
Plain and Decorative
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART AND CRAFT OF PLASTERING AND MODELLING
Including full descriptions of the various tools, materials, processes and appliances employed; also of moulded or “fine” concrete as used for paving, fire-proof stairs and floors and architectural dressings, etc., and of reinforced concrete, together with an account of
Historical Plastering in England
Scotland and Ireland
ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS EXAMPLES By WILLIAM MILLAR
PLASTERER AND MODELLER
With an Introductory Chapter, entitled
A GLIMPSE OF ITS HISTORY”
By G. T. Robinson, Esq., F.S.A.
The whole fully illustrated with Fifty-five Full Page Plates and about Five Hundred Smaller Illustrations in the text.
NEW EDITION, ENLARGED AND REVISED
Large 4to (n x8%) containing 630 pages of text, strongly bound in cloth. Price, $7.50 net. Express extra.
John Lane Company, New York THE BODLEY HEAD 67 FIFTH AVENUE
ramparts of Paris seems to be no nearer a settlement now than it was three years ago, but there has been introduced into it a new element of deep human interest. So far the question has all been one of value per yard for building. Now there has been raised the question of value to the public health in the form of open spaces, and especially of playing fields for youths and children. This consideration is held to be particularly important for the more populous quarters, and the State is being urged to show some consideration to the city in this matter. It is pointed out that as former sovereigns gave some hundreds of acres from the Bois de Boulogne for fortification, the Republic might show itself equally generous in restoring the ground so given for public recreation grounds. There is one other detail about these fortification sites. The State values them altogether at 18,360,000, the city at £5,840,000. Assuming competence in the values, how can such a huge discrepancy be accounted for?—London Globe.
New Insect in Spruce Timber.—R. M. Nason, who recently has been in Kennebago Township, just north of Rangeley, in Franklin County, Maine, looking over some spruce timber land for Bangor parties, was especially requested to investigate and report concerning the strange insect that is raising havoc in the older growth of spruce. He secured larvæ and specimens of the work done by the insect, and has sent them to the entomological bureau of the University of Maine for examination to determine just what they were. The insect was discovered by W, G, Stewart, a lumber scaler
employed there, who was impressed with the danger to forests if the insects were allowed to multiply, and accordingly he notified the owners in Bangor and asked for an examination to determine just what they were. Mr. Nason was of the opinion that the insect is one of the forms of the spruce beetle, being about the size of a small apple seed and much resembling it in appearance. Its home seems to be the spruce, largely, and the trees at this time of the year fare covered with its larvæ. The bark is perforated with minute holes the insect has bored. The older trees seem to suffer worst, for the excessive amount of sap in the younger trees drowns the insect [the instant it reaches the wood, and it is not anticipated that the growth will be seriously affected. The insect will probably be further examined by the State entomologist at Augusta to determine to what extent it is to be rockoned with, and if necessary to provide warning to owners of timber land against this latest pest. The unwelcome news, following close upon the heels of the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth scares of last year, is causing them much concern.— American Lumberman.
Statue of “Reconciliation.”—R. Hinton Perry has finished the model for his bronze statue “Reconciliation,” which will be erected at a cost of about $75,000, under the direction of the New York State Monument Committee of the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Mr. Perry has been busy for more than a year on this statue which is to commemorate the battle of Chattanooga, and will be erected on the
summit of Lookout Mountain. It is expected that the casting of the statue in bronze will be finished in time for its erection next spring.—Exchange.
That the building now occupied by the Mechanics’ National Bank is on the site of the house in which the Continental Congress met from November 1 to December 24, 1874, is, according to Dr. Carlos E. God frey, beyond question. He has written to Governor Stokes that he has the original lease of the building, and papers to verify his contention. Dr. Godfrey thinks that a commemorative tablet should be erected as soon as possible. There has long been a dispute as to the building in which the Congress met, and various historians have asserted that it was the old court-house, the present site of the Trenton Banking Company, the Blazing Star Tavern, or Witte’s City Tavern, being mentioned.—New York Evening Journal.
Caracas.—My first impression of Caracas, which was reached after a journey of somewhat more than two hours, was a disappointing one, and this impression did not wear off. I had hoped, even in the present condition of the nation’s unrest, to see a city of stately pretence, cared for in a way so as at least remotely to suggest that it may at one time have justified a claim to being considered one of the most attractive cities of the western world. The. “Little Paris in the Andes,” indeed, sounds veiy fine, and is well adapted for use in steamship folders ; but, alas, how little is there to warrant this designation ! There are