war he continued in the battalion and became a captain.
Canon City, Col. — J. B. White, formerly of Clarion, Ia., has concluded to open an architect’s office in this city.
Decatur, Ind. — Mr. Albright Christen, a well-known architect and contractor, committed suicide March 2 by taking laudanum. He had been suffering for years with cancer.
Atlanta, Ga. — Mr. G. L. Norrman, architect, is again able to attend to business, after being laid up by illness for several months. He has engaged a suite of rooms on the third floor of the Candler building, which are being fitted up to make a firstclass architect’s office, to which he will move on April 1.
Worcester, Mass. — Mr. Walter B.
Nourse, an architect at 316 Day building, died March 4, aged 52 years, 3 months and 27 days. Mr. Nourse was born in Westboro, and after graduating from school in that town he came to Worcester and engaged as an apprentice with Amos P. Cutting. Afterward he formed a partnership with Albert A. Barker, opening an establishment at 425 Main street. The Barker & Nourse firm was dissolved three years ago, and since then Mr. Nourse has been located in the Day building.
Chicago, ILL. — Mr. Theodore Steuben, architect, has applied for an injunction restraining the posting and certifying of suc
cessful candidates for building inspectors who took the examination before the Civil Service Commissioners on January 13, claiming they are incompetent, and that the examination was vague and uncertain and did not test the fitness of the candidates.
New York, N. Y. — Messrs. Walter Robb Wilder and Harry Keith White have established the firm of Wilder & White and have opened offices for the practice of architecture at 5 East 42d street. Associated with Wilder & White is the firm of Wilder & Wight, of Kansas City, Mo.
Charlotte, N. C. — Mr. Franklin Gordon, architect, who came here last fall to supervise the building of the new Selwyn Hotel, has decided to locate permanently in Charlotte. Mr. Gordon is a Northerner by birth and came here as the official representative of Denny & Wachendorff, architects, of Atlanta, Ga.
Lewiston, Idaho, — J. E. Tourtellotte & Co., architects, whose main office is in Boise, Idaho, have Opened a branch office in Lewiston, Idaho.
Baltimore, Md. — Prof. Otto Fuchs, for the last 23 years director of the Maryland Institute School of Art and Design, died March 13, after a brief illness. He was 67 years old. It was largely through the efforts of Prof. Fuchs that Andrew Carnegie gave to the Maryland Institute more than $250, 000 to replace the home destroyed in the fire of 1904.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
The Modern Arch. — The “theory” of arch design remained in an elementary state until the last century, when engineers were led to examine critically into all structural means in order to fit conditions of modern industry. They took the masonry arch and developed it a certain way, but they went little farther than the greatest of the older builders, though they raised the average. Their empirical inelastic-arch theory assumed the arch-stones to be rigid and required the line of resistance within the arch-ring (for safety within the middle third). In the latter part of last century, however, the theory of arch-design began to advance again, particularly with Continental engineers. The construction of arches in metal marked the point of departure. The theory of elastic flexure was then applied to the theory of the arch, and the arched rib came into being. Instead, then, of it being a necessity for the line of resistance to be confined to the arch-ring, it was easy, at small sacrifice of economy of metal, to stiffen the arch-ring against flexure. This was now required to resist combined thrust and bending (with shear as a corollary). This is the elastic-flexure theory of arch-design. The older inelastic theory had led to the adoption of pin and similar joints at the crown and springing so as
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Canon City, Col. — J. B. White, formerly of Clarion, Ia., has concluded to open an architect’s office in this city.
Decatur, Ind. — Mr. Albright Christen, a well-known architect and contractor, committed suicide March 2 by taking laudanum. He had been suffering for years with cancer.
Atlanta, Ga. — Mr. G. L. Norrman, architect, is again able to attend to business, after being laid up by illness for several months. He has engaged a suite of rooms on the third floor of the Candler building, which are being fitted up to make a firstclass architect’s office, to which he will move on April 1.
Worcester, Mass. — Mr. Walter B.
Nourse, an architect at 316 Day building, died March 4, aged 52 years, 3 months and 27 days. Mr. Nourse was born in Westboro, and after graduating from school in that town he came to Worcester and engaged as an apprentice with Amos P. Cutting. Afterward he formed a partnership with Albert A. Barker, opening an establishment at 425 Main street. The Barker & Nourse firm was dissolved three years ago, and since then Mr. Nourse has been located in the Day building.
Chicago, ILL. — Mr. Theodore Steuben, architect, has applied for an injunction restraining the posting and certifying of suc
cessful candidates for building inspectors who took the examination before the Civil Service Commissioners on January 13, claiming they are incompetent, and that the examination was vague and uncertain and did not test the fitness of the candidates.
New York, N. Y. — Messrs. Walter Robb Wilder and Harry Keith White have established the firm of Wilder & White and have opened offices for the practice of architecture at 5 East 42d street. Associated with Wilder & White is the firm of Wilder & Wight, of Kansas City, Mo.
Charlotte, N. C. — Mr. Franklin Gordon, architect, who came here last fall to supervise the building of the new Selwyn Hotel, has decided to locate permanently in Charlotte. Mr. Gordon is a Northerner by birth and came here as the official representative of Denny & Wachendorff, architects, of Atlanta, Ga.
Lewiston, Idaho, — J. E. Tourtellotte & Co., architects, whose main office is in Boise, Idaho, have Opened a branch office in Lewiston, Idaho.
Baltimore, Md. — Prof. Otto Fuchs, for the last 23 years director of the Maryland Institute School of Art and Design, died March 13, after a brief illness. He was 67 years old. It was largely through the efforts of Prof. Fuchs that Andrew Carnegie gave to the Maryland Institute more than $250, 000 to replace the home destroyed in the fire of 1904.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
The Modern Arch. — The “theory” of arch design remained in an elementary state until the last century, when engineers were led to examine critically into all structural means in order to fit conditions of modern industry. They took the masonry arch and developed it a certain way, but they went little farther than the greatest of the older builders, though they raised the average. Their empirical inelastic-arch theory assumed the arch-stones to be rigid and required the line of resistance within the arch-ring (for safety within the middle third). In the latter part of last century, however, the theory of arch-design began to advance again, particularly with Continental engineers. The construction of arches in metal marked the point of departure. The theory of elastic flexure was then applied to the theory of the arch, and the arched rib came into being. Instead, then, of it being a necessity for the line of resistance to be confined to the arch-ring, it was easy, at small sacrifice of economy of metal, to stiffen the arch-ring against flexure. This was now required to resist combined thrust and bending (with shear as a corollary). This is the elastic-flexure theory of arch-design. The older inelastic theory had led to the adoption of pin and similar joints at the crown and springing so as
Continued on page vii.
BUSH TERMINAL COMPANY’S MODEL FACTORY
An Illustration of Our Work. All Structural Parts of Reinforced Concrete. Walls Veneered With Brick. TURNER CONSTRUCTION CO., NEW YORK