PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER TILING
IN USE ON STATEN ISLAND FERRY BOATS, NEW YORK CITY.
The Thickest Rubber Tiling on the Market, being full threeeighths of an inch in thickness—much to the advantage of its wearing qualities.
SEND FOR SAMPLE TILES.
Suitable wherever a Noiseless, Attractive, Durable and Sanitary Floor is required.
The proposition we can make will show that the price of Interlocking Rubber Tiling is no longer prohibitive.
Manufactured under Letters Patent No. 708.472 and sold exclusively by us and our representatives.
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER. COMPANY
NEW YORK : 1665 Broadway
ST. LOUIS : 826 S. 18th Street
JEANNETTE, PA. CHICAGO : 166 Lake Street
PHILADELPHIA : 615 N. Broad Street
LONDON : i Snow Hill
OKONITE
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring of PUBLIC and PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape Manson Protecting Tape
Willard L. Candee,
H. Durant Cheever, Managers.
Geo. T. Manson. Gen’l Supt. W. H. Hodgins, Sec’y.
TRADE MARK
RRG. US PÛTFNT OFFICE.
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York
SOCIETIES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
The Department of Architecture of the University of California, at Berkeley, has moved into the new building constructed especially for the department near the entrance to the University-grounds.
The new building, although rough in construction, is fitted up in an entirely modern style, and contains a number of large and well-lighted rooms. The class in architecture, which has heretofore met in the office of John Galen Howard, in the First National Bank building, has also moved into the new structure.
The new building is only intended as a temporary building and will be occupied only until provision for the Architectural Department is made in one of the permanent buildings which are to be erected on the college-grounds.
TWIN CITY ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
A local [Minneapolis] book-firm has offered prizes of $150 in the aggregate for the best paper on the question whether a
brick house can be built as cheaply as a frame house, for which club members will compete. The following officers were elected : President, Cecil Bayless Chapman ;
Vice-presidents, H. T. Downs and Hugo Arnold; Secretary, A. R. Van Dyck; Treasurer, A. A. Stone ; Directors, H. H. Eads and G. A. Blowett.
CARNEGIE TECHNICAL SCHOOL.
The first class of the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, including 203 young
men, each working in a trade in the Pittsburg district, is n ow started at the Carnegie Technical School. There are nine trade courses. The men are the pick from 2,109 who applied for entrance to the schools, and 1,364 of them were admitted. Prof. C. B Connelly, who is at the head of the school, has outlined their branches as follows : Machine-work, pattern-making, blacksmithing and forging, molding and foundry-work, plumbing, sheet-metal and cornice-work, electrical-wiring, bricklaying and sign-painting.
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ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK.
The twenty-first annual exhibit was formally opened on February 2. There are 701
exhibits in all, ranging from architectural plans, pure and simple, to all sorts of municipal improvements, mural paintings, pic
tures, statuary, household utilities of beauty, book-covers and other things related to the art of architecture.
The prizes have been awarded as follows : The gold medal, for a design for ‘a small chapel to St. Peter,” has been given to George A. Licht, of New York; the silver medal, for the same subject, to Colister Morton Craig, of York, Pa. The President’s Prize, a bronze medal for a study for a mural painting, “The Conclusion of Peace after War,” goes to Hugo Ballin, and the Henry O. Avery prize, for a mural drinking-fountain for a city street, was awarded to Antonin C. Skodik.
BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS.
The Boston Society of Architects closes its thirty-eighth year. During the past year six Juniors, Messrs. Guy Lowell, F. Patterson Smith, F A. Kendall, Charles K. Cummings, L. C. Newhall, and Frank W. Ferguson, have been advanced to Regular membership. Three Regular members, Messrs. Charles D. Maginnis, B. G.
IN USE ON STATEN ISLAND FERRY BOATS, NEW YORK CITY.
The Thickest Rubber Tiling on the Market, being full threeeighths of an inch in thickness—much to the advantage of its wearing qualities.
SEND FOR SAMPLE TILES.
Suitable wherever a Noiseless, Attractive, Durable and Sanitary Floor is required.
The proposition we can make will show that the price of Interlocking Rubber Tiling is no longer prohibitive.
Manufactured under Letters Patent No. 708.472 and sold exclusively by us and our representatives.
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER. COMPANY
NEW YORK : 1665 Broadway
ST. LOUIS : 826 S. 18th Street
JEANNETTE, PA. CHICAGO : 166 Lake Street
PHILADELPHIA : 615 N. Broad Street
LONDON : i Snow Hill
OKONITE
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring of PUBLIC and PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape Manson Protecting Tape
Willard L. Candee,
H. Durant Cheever, Managers.
Geo. T. Manson. Gen’l Supt. W. H. Hodgins, Sec’y.
TRADE MARK
RRG. US PÛTFNT OFFICE.
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New York
SOCIETIES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
The Department of Architecture of the University of California, at Berkeley, has moved into the new building constructed especially for the department near the entrance to the University-grounds.
The new building, although rough in construction, is fitted up in an entirely modern style, and contains a number of large and well-lighted rooms. The class in architecture, which has heretofore met in the office of John Galen Howard, in the First National Bank building, has also moved into the new structure.
The new building is only intended as a temporary building and will be occupied only until provision for the Architectural Department is made in one of the permanent buildings which are to be erected on the college-grounds.
TWIN CITY ARCHITECTURAL CLUB.
A local [Minneapolis] book-firm has offered prizes of $150 in the aggregate for the best paper on the question whether a
brick house can be built as cheaply as a frame house, for which club members will compete. The following officers were elected : President, Cecil Bayless Chapman ;
Vice-presidents, H. T. Downs and Hugo Arnold; Secretary, A. R. Van Dyck; Treasurer, A. A. Stone ; Directors, H. H. Eads and G. A. Blowett.
CARNEGIE TECHNICAL SCHOOL.
The first class of the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, including 203 young
men, each working in a trade in the Pittsburg district, is n ow started at the Carnegie Technical School. There are nine trade courses. The men are the pick from 2,109 who applied for entrance to the schools, and 1,364 of them were admitted. Prof. C. B Connelly, who is at the head of the school, has outlined their branches as follows : Machine-work, pattern-making, blacksmithing and forging, molding and foundry-work, plumbing, sheet-metal and cornice-work, electrical-wiring, bricklaying and sign-painting.
L
ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK.
The twenty-first annual exhibit was formally opened on February 2. There are 701
exhibits in all, ranging from architectural plans, pure and simple, to all sorts of municipal improvements, mural paintings, pic
tures, statuary, household utilities of beauty, book-covers and other things related to the art of architecture.
The prizes have been awarded as follows : The gold medal, for a design for ‘a small chapel to St. Peter,” has been given to George A. Licht, of New York; the silver medal, for the same subject, to Colister Morton Craig, of York, Pa. The President’s Prize, a bronze medal for a study for a mural painting, “The Conclusion of Peace after War,” goes to Hugo Ballin, and the Henry O. Avery prize, for a mural drinking-fountain for a city street, was awarded to Antonin C. Skodik.
BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS.
The Boston Society of Architects closes its thirty-eighth year. During the past year six Juniors, Messrs. Guy Lowell, F. Patterson Smith, F A. Kendall, Charles K. Cummings, L. C. Newhall, and Frank W. Ferguson, have been advanced to Regular membership. Three Regular members, Messrs. Charles D. Maginnis, B. G.