The names of the architects entered in the competition are as follows: John H. Phillips, Frederick Giffin, W. Y. Cocken, Jr., W. H. King, Thomas Pringle, John E. Kauzor, O. J. Robling, W. P. Hutchins, Stanley Konsh, H. L. Pressler, F. G. Bruton, Harry E. Markley and Andrew Reber.
The local Chapter is also raising a fund of $1, 500 to provide water-color drawings and prints of the group-scheme for public buildings to be erected on “the Hump. ” The Chapter, has already $500 of this amount subscribed and several architects are giving their time to the work of making plans, so that by June 1 it is expected pretty full ideas of the scheme can be submitted to the proper authorities. The scheme, in effect, is much like the Cleveland group-scheme, and provides for the early erection of a Federal building, Pittsburgh City-Hall, a big addition to Allegheny County Court-House and a public library building. The buildings proposed will occupy the territory bounded by Grand street, Fifth avenue, Sixth avenue and the proposed extension of Ross street. The plan is daily meeting with more favor among leading business men and the Government officials who have lately inspected the different post-office sites offered are quite favorable to the proposition of the Chapter.
L.
CINCINNATI CHAPTER, A. I. A.
The smoke question was the sole topic of conversation at the banquet of the Cincin
nati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the Burnet House, March 20. Speeches by Dr. C. A. L. Reed, Superintendent Fehrenbach, of the City Hospital, and Prof. Marx, of the University of Cincinnati, all dealt with various phases of the smoke nuisance and its prevention by proper architectural construction. Discussion followed the speeches.
ROCHESTER (N. Y. ) ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH
CLUB.
The Rochester Architectural Sketch Club dined Thursday night, March 15, at Powers’. Covers were laid for twenty-one. Each guest received a souvenir programme. James Arnold, president of the Club, was toastmaster. He called on several members for impromptu remarks.
ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS’ ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
The Engineers’ and Architects’ Association of Southern California held its regular monthly meeting at Levy’s, March 10. Following the business meeting there was the usual dinner, at which subjects of interest to the profession were discussed.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Newport, R. I. — Mr. Louis De Coppet Bergl, architect and engineer, who has made Newport his home for several years,
has just returned after a prolonged attack of nervous prostration down South. It is understood that he intends to devote the period of his convalescence to a revision of his work, “Safe Building, ʼʼ which has been an authority on architectural construction for the last two decades.
Montgomery, Ala. — Mr. C. F. Mc- Kim, architect, of McKim, Mead & White, New York, has visited the city to advise about the remodeling of the old Confederate capitol. He was accompanied by Glenn Brown, of Washington, secretary of the American Institute of Architects.
Auburn, N. Y. — Fire Commissioner Sperry has appointed architect Frank H. Armstrong to the position of fire-marshal. The salary for the present is $25 per month. The duties of the position are to investigate applications, with the commissioner, of property owners who wish to build within the fire-districts, and examine hotels where applications are made for liquortax certificates.
Commissioner Sperry has decided to dispense with the services of a clerk and the duties will be looked after by the fire-marshall. Mr. Sperry is at work on rules defining the duties of the fire-marshal.
Newark, O. — Sanning & Patton, supervising architects and draughtsmen, have
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The local Chapter is also raising a fund of $1, 500 to provide water-color drawings and prints of the group-scheme for public buildings to be erected on “the Hump. ” The Chapter, has already $500 of this amount subscribed and several architects are giving their time to the work of making plans, so that by June 1 it is expected pretty full ideas of the scheme can be submitted to the proper authorities. The scheme, in effect, is much like the Cleveland group-scheme, and provides for the early erection of a Federal building, Pittsburgh City-Hall, a big addition to Allegheny County Court-House and a public library building. The buildings proposed will occupy the territory bounded by Grand street, Fifth avenue, Sixth avenue and the proposed extension of Ross street. The plan is daily meeting with more favor among leading business men and the Government officials who have lately inspected the different post-office sites offered are quite favorable to the proposition of the Chapter.
L.
CINCINNATI CHAPTER, A. I. A.
The smoke question was the sole topic of conversation at the banquet of the Cincin
nati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the Burnet House, March 20. Speeches by Dr. C. A. L. Reed, Superintendent Fehrenbach, of the City Hospital, and Prof. Marx, of the University of Cincinnati, all dealt with various phases of the smoke nuisance and its prevention by proper architectural construction. Discussion followed the speeches.
ROCHESTER (N. Y. ) ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH
CLUB.
The Rochester Architectural Sketch Club dined Thursday night, March 15, at Powers’. Covers were laid for twenty-one. Each guest received a souvenir programme. James Arnold, president of the Club, was toastmaster. He called on several members for impromptu remarks.
ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS’ ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
The Engineers’ and Architects’ Association of Southern California held its regular monthly meeting at Levy’s, March 10. Following the business meeting there was the usual dinner, at which subjects of interest to the profession were discussed.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Newport, R. I. — Mr. Louis De Coppet Bergl, architect and engineer, who has made Newport his home for several years,
has just returned after a prolonged attack of nervous prostration down South. It is understood that he intends to devote the period of his convalescence to a revision of his work, “Safe Building, ʼʼ which has been an authority on architectural construction for the last two decades.
Montgomery, Ala. — Mr. C. F. Mc- Kim, architect, of McKim, Mead & White, New York, has visited the city to advise about the remodeling of the old Confederate capitol. He was accompanied by Glenn Brown, of Washington, secretary of the American Institute of Architects.
Auburn, N. Y. — Fire Commissioner Sperry has appointed architect Frank H. Armstrong to the position of fire-marshal. The salary for the present is $25 per month. The duties of the position are to investigate applications, with the commissioner, of property owners who wish to build within the fire-districts, and examine hotels where applications are made for liquortax certificates.
Commissioner Sperry has decided to dispense with the services of a clerk and the duties will be looked after by the fire-marshall. Mr. Sperry is at work on rules defining the duties of the fire-marshal.
Newark, O. — Sanning & Patton, supervising architects and draughtsmen, have
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