MECHANICAL
CLEANING
Vacuum Method
For Sweeping
Carpets, Rugs,
Wood and Tile Floors
For Cleaning
Upholstery and
Hangings, and
For Dusting Walls and Ceilings The perfection of simplicity has at last been reached
NO ENGINES
NO SLIDING PARTS NO PACKING NO MOTORS NO PUMPS NO OILING
NO GENERATORS NO WIRING
Dust and dirt are drawn immediately to basement. Occupies very small space. Is perfectly controlled. Is noiseless.
System costs less than any other and is far less expensive to operate.
Plants installed in hotels, office buildings, theaters, clubs, apartments, stores, steamships, institutions and residences.
Write for literature describing our new simplified Mechanical Cleaning System—Vacuum Method.
American Air Cleaning Co.
SOCIETIES
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The John Stewardson Memorial Scholarship in Architecture, of the value of $1,000, the income of a fund of which the trusteesof the University of Pennsylvania are the trustees, has been awarded to W. Walter Sharpley, a former student of the University of Pennsylvania.
The holder of the Scholarship is required to spend one year in travel in the study of architecture in Europe, under the direction of a managing committee, which comprises Joseph G. Rosengarten, Warren P. Laird, James P. Jamison, George B. Page and Edgar V. Seeler. Honorable mention was given to Charles Henry Bauer.
WESTERN CANADA ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIA
TION.
A call is shortly to be made for the formation of an Association of Architects and Structural Engineers in Western Canada. The proposed name of the association is the Western Canada Architectural Association. It will be composed of honorary members, active members and probationary members. The latter class has been made purposely to allow the draughtsmen to be enrolled as members of the Architectural Association, and should be a great help to them.
Owing to the present busy building season, and at the request of a number of the outside architects, the matter of organizing has been deferred until July.
The association will procure a Dominion
charter and all architects, structural engineers and draughtsmen, from Port Arthur to the Pacific Coast, will be eligible to membership. Those wishing to be placed on the charter list should send in their names to the Secretary pro tem.: Western Canada Architectural Association, P. O. Box 347, Winnipeg, Man., or to P. O. Box 189, Regina, S ask.
The association will not interfere with or be in opposition to any local or provincial organization.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Santa Rosa, Cal.—Messrs. Smith & Stone, architects,, have begun business here.
Washington, D. C.—Mr. M. W. Bray, a structural architect, is said to have perfected a flying-machine that is out of the ordinary, in that it actually flies. Mr. Bray was interested with the late Professor Langley in his aerial experiments. The machine is of the plane variety, the hood being made of aluminum. Above the hood, horizontal propellers lift the car into the air, while the stern and bow propellers furnish the driving power, with the assistance of a gasoline engine.
Oakland, Cal.—Mr. Bryan J. Clinch, an architect and writer, died after a brief illness in the Providence Hospital, Oakland, on May 17. He was actively employed as an associate of Albert Pissis during the latter’s illness since the fire.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Mr. Albert H. Kipp, a prominent architect of this city, died sud
denly at his summer home in Dallas, May 22, heart trouble being the cause of death. Mr. Kipp was 56 years of age, and came to Wilkes-Barre from New York about twenty years ago. For a number of years he was a member of the firm of Kipp & Podmore, which drew the plans of many of the large buildings in this city. He prepared the plans for the new First National Bank, which is being erected on the Public Square.
BUILDING NEWS.
{The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Aberdeen, S. D. — The First National Bank will receive bids until 12 m., June 26, for the erection of a building, on plans by Jeffers & Henry, architects, Aberdeen.
Albany, N. Y.—It is reported that the competitive plans by Architects Fuller & Pitcher, of Albany, have been selected for the proposed Manufacturers’ Bank in this city.
Governor Higgins, it is announced, has approved the appropriations bill which provides $4,000,000 for a State Library.
Allegheny, Pa.—It is reported that Mr. Bilquist, of Sixth Ave., Pittsburg, is preparing plans for the proposed new Presbyterian JJospital, to be erected on Montgomery and Sherman Aves. According to press reports, it will cost about’$300,000.
Dept. E
452-454 East Water St. MILWAUKEE. WIS.
CLEANING
Vacuum Method
For Sweeping
Carpets, Rugs,
Wood and Tile Floors
For Cleaning
Upholstery and
Hangings, and
For Dusting Walls and Ceilings The perfection of simplicity has at last been reached
NO ENGINES
NO SLIDING PARTS NO PACKING NO MOTORS NO PUMPS NO OILING
NO GENERATORS NO WIRING
Dust and dirt are drawn immediately to basement. Occupies very small space. Is perfectly controlled. Is noiseless.
System costs less than any other and is far less expensive to operate.
Plants installed in hotels, office buildings, theaters, clubs, apartments, stores, steamships, institutions and residences.
Write for literature describing our new simplified Mechanical Cleaning System—Vacuum Method.
American Air Cleaning Co.
SOCIETIES
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The John Stewardson Memorial Scholarship in Architecture, of the value of $1,000, the income of a fund of which the trusteesof the University of Pennsylvania are the trustees, has been awarded to W. Walter Sharpley, a former student of the University of Pennsylvania.
The holder of the Scholarship is required to spend one year in travel in the study of architecture in Europe, under the direction of a managing committee, which comprises Joseph G. Rosengarten, Warren P. Laird, James P. Jamison, George B. Page and Edgar V. Seeler. Honorable mention was given to Charles Henry Bauer.
WESTERN CANADA ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIA
TION.
A call is shortly to be made for the formation of an Association of Architects and Structural Engineers in Western Canada. The proposed name of the association is the Western Canada Architectural Association. It will be composed of honorary members, active members and probationary members. The latter class has been made purposely to allow the draughtsmen to be enrolled as members of the Architectural Association, and should be a great help to them.
Owing to the present busy building season, and at the request of a number of the outside architects, the matter of organizing has been deferred until July.
The association will procure a Dominion
charter and all architects, structural engineers and draughtsmen, from Port Arthur to the Pacific Coast, will be eligible to membership. Those wishing to be placed on the charter list should send in their names to the Secretary pro tem.: Western Canada Architectural Association, P. O. Box 347, Winnipeg, Man., or to P. O. Box 189, Regina, S ask.
The association will not interfere with or be in opposition to any local or provincial organization.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Santa Rosa, Cal.—Messrs. Smith & Stone, architects,, have begun business here.
Washington, D. C.—Mr. M. W. Bray, a structural architect, is said to have perfected a flying-machine that is out of the ordinary, in that it actually flies. Mr. Bray was interested with the late Professor Langley in his aerial experiments. The machine is of the plane variety, the hood being made of aluminum. Above the hood, horizontal propellers lift the car into the air, while the stern and bow propellers furnish the driving power, with the assistance of a gasoline engine.
Oakland, Cal.—Mr. Bryan J. Clinch, an architect and writer, died after a brief illness in the Providence Hospital, Oakland, on May 17. He was actively employed as an associate of Albert Pissis during the latter’s illness since the fire.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Mr. Albert H. Kipp, a prominent architect of this city, died sud
denly at his summer home in Dallas, May 22, heart trouble being the cause of death. Mr. Kipp was 56 years of age, and came to Wilkes-Barre from New York about twenty years ago. For a number of years he was a member of the firm of Kipp & Podmore, which drew the plans of many of the large buildings in this city. He prepared the plans for the new First National Bank, which is being erected on the Public Square.
BUILDING NEWS.
{The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Aberdeen, S. D. — The First National Bank will receive bids until 12 m., June 26, for the erection of a building, on plans by Jeffers & Henry, architects, Aberdeen.
Albany, N. Y.—It is reported that the competitive plans by Architects Fuller & Pitcher, of Albany, have been selected for the proposed Manufacturers’ Bank in this city.
Governor Higgins, it is announced, has approved the appropriations bill which provides $4,000,000 for a State Library.
Allegheny, Pa.—It is reported that Mr. Bilquist, of Sixth Ave., Pittsburg, is preparing plans for the proposed new Presbyterian JJospital, to be erected on Montgomery and Sherman Aves. According to press reports, it will cost about’$300,000.
Dept. E
452-454 East Water St. MILWAUKEE. WIS.