PERSONAL MENTION
Boston, Mass. — Mayor Fitzgerald has appointed Patrick R. Kickham, a carpenter living at ii Codman Hill Street, Roxbury, a member of the commission to revise the building laws for the city of Boston. Mr. Kickham is added to the commission, making its present membership eight.
Cleveland, O. — Diamonds and jewelry valued at $1, 800 were stolen August 8 from the residence of I. J. Lehman, the architect, at No. 1984 East Eighty-fourth Street. The burglar cut a hole in the rear door and after obtaining entrance ransacked the building. Mr. Lehman is the senior member of the firm of Lehman & Schmitt, who are the architects for Cuyahoga county’s new Court House.
Columbus, O. — Messrs. Patton & Miller, architects, Chicago, Ill., have opened a branch office in this city at No. 502 Columbus Savings & Trust Building. G. E. Overton is the superintendent for the Ohio end of the business.
Detroit, Mich. — Messrs. Wm. S. Joy and Fred T. Barcroft, architects in the Ferguson Building, 230-234. Woodward Avenue, have dissolved partnership.
Paris, France. — Mr. George A. Licht, a student of architecture ot the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, has just won the Grande Médaille d’Émulation, offered by the French Government to the student receiving the greatest number values in his class. Mr. Licht is a “Prix de Paris” and holds the two-years scholarship offered by the Society Beaux-Arts Architects in New York. He is a pupil of M. J. L. L. Pascal. Mr. Licht also won, two months ago, the Grande Medaille offered by the Societe Centrale des Architectes Français for the pupil of the first class receiving the greatest number values in projects only during the last three years. — New York Herald.
Paterson, N. J. — Mr. Charles E. Sleight, through his counsel, Bilder & Bilder, has started suit in the Circuit Court against Morris Grenstein and Isaac Horwitz for $1, 000 on contract. Sleight sets forth in his declaration that he is an architect of this city and that on June 16 he was engaged by the defendants to draw plans for the alterations to a building at the corner of Fair and Washington Streets, the alterations to cost $15, 000, and as his pay he was to receive 2½ per cent, of this sum. The plans, he alleges, were suitable to the defendants, but without any warning they dispensed with his services, and it is to recover his commission that he is bringing suit.
Philadelphia, Pa. — Cecil W. Van Meter, an architect, who resided in this city, at 3704 Locust Street, died August 12 in the Presbyterian Hospital from an abscess of the brain. The young man, who was 25 years old Saturday, was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania this year.
Portland, Ore. — Mr. H. J. Hefty, architect, has gone to Europe for four or six months.
COMPETITION
THE Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Associa
tion offer five (5) prizes of $200 each, to be awarded by their Building Committee, to competitors submitting to them designs for a monument to be erected at Provincetown, Mass., to commemorate the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Signing of the Compact. The Committee do not oblige themselves to use any of the designs thus submitted, or employ any of these competitors. The monument is to be of granite, not less than 250 feet in height, built upon a hill of sand formation, about 90 feet above sea level. It is to have an inclined walk (no steps) of concrete, from bottom to top of interior. Each, competitor may submit a brief description of his design, calling attention to any points of interest. No estimates are to be submitted, as the Committee will obtain figures upon such of the designs as commend themselves to their acceptance. The monument is to cost about $80, 000. Only two drawings are to be submitted, a plan and an elevation, except that a second elevation may be sent in if necessary to explain the design. No other drawings will be received. They are to be made upon paper measuring 18 inches by 24 inches, with a single line for a border. No motto or device shall be put upon the drawings, but they shall be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name of the competitor. These drawings and envelopes will be numbered as received, and they will be known to the Committee by these numbers. All drawings must be delivered to Willard T. Sears, 70 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass., consulting architect of the Building Committee, on or before October 1, 1906. J. Henry Sears, Lorenzo D. Baker, Wm. B. Lawrence, Building Committee, the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association.
Boston, August 15, 1906. (1600-1601)
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
Mural Decorations for the Harrisburg Capitol. — Four of Edwin A. Abbey’s decorative paintings for the capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., are almost finished.
A Great Concrete Chimney. — Out in Butte, Mont., where the great stampingmills and ore-concentrating works have turned the mountain city into a titanic inferno of tall chimneys, belching black and sulphurous fumes, stands one tremendous tower, the top of which is 350 feet above the ground. When its erection was planned the first idea was to build it of brick. That would have required a thickness of twelve or fifteen feet of masonry at its base. But a constructing engineer from Chicago was called into consultation. He proposed that the huge chimney be built of concrete, and, with some misgivings, the plan was adopted. He prepared a foundation six feet deep, twelve by twelve, of concrete, with a number of steel reinforcing rods. Beginning at the ground level, he carried two thin concrete shells upward for 100 feet. The outer one is only nine inches in thickness, while, separated by four inches of space from this, is an inner shell five inches thick. At a height of 100 feet these two unite into a single seven-inch shell of concrete, which extends skyward until the vast height of 350 feet is reached. This chimney, many feet higher than our modern city skyscrapers, is therefore composed of but fourteen inches of concrete at the base and half that
amount for the upper 250 feet. It is not of plain concrete, but is reinforced both horizontally and vertically with a number of small steel rods, which were held in place until the concrete had been deposited around them, making a reinforced-concrete body superior in every way to both steel and brick masonry. There are in the United States scores of these wonderful chimneys — Technical World Magazine.
End of the Viennese Lock-out. — After a lock-out lasting for nearly two months the master-builders of Vienna have come to terms with their employes and 60, 000 men and women have gone back to work. They successfully resisted the bricklayers’ demand for a minimum daily wage of five kronen (approximately $1. 05), but agreed to concede 4. 66 kronen for the rest of the current year and the first four months of next year, and to promise a wage of 5. 4 kronen for the remainder of 1907 and the whole of 1908. The highest previous wage was four kronen. The apparent advantage obtained by the workmen will, however, really depend upon contingent agreements concerning reductions for periods of bad weather, but the presumption is that previous conditions have not been altered to the disadvantage of the men, who appear to have obtained an immediate increase of 16 per cent and a prospective increase of 33 per cent. The prevalent opinion seems to be that this increase is not unjustified, as the cost of living in Vienna is estimated to have increased by from 20 to 30 per cent., according to district, within the last few years. An interesting feature of the settlement is that it affords the first instance in which an Austrian trade dispute of such dimensions has been concluded by an arrangement covering a term of years. — New York Evening Post.
Quarrying Greek Marble. — A report from Consul George Horton at Athens indicates reviving interest in the ancient marble quarries of Greece. Among colored Greek marbles of great beauty may be mentioned those of the Island of Scyros; the green marbles of Tinos; the Cipolino marbles of Euboea, of two shades of green that blend in broad, wavy lines that run through the stone; and the red marbles of Mani, known as Rosso Antico. This latter is of a blood-red color, often traversed by veins of white, or sometimes found in solid red, A British company owns the whole of the white and blue quarries on the Penteli Mountain Range, and have spent money lavishly in developing them. The private railway of the company extends fifteen miles from the inclined plain of Mount Pentelicus. Blocks weighing twenty tons are taken to the company’s fashioning works, whence they are conveyed to the Athens railway, a distance of about eight miles, also over a private line owned by the company. Work at the Penteli quarries is kept in full swing day and night and about 1, 000 men on the payroll. It is the aim of the company to place marble on the market at less prohibitive prices than those which have prevailed hitherto. Blocks weighing as high as forty tons have been taken down to the port at Piraeus and load ed on shipboard for export. The Penteli marble is almost pure carbonate of lime, but there is more sparkle in the crystals than is
Boston, Mass. — Mayor Fitzgerald has appointed Patrick R. Kickham, a carpenter living at ii Codman Hill Street, Roxbury, a member of the commission to revise the building laws for the city of Boston. Mr. Kickham is added to the commission, making its present membership eight.
Cleveland, O. — Diamonds and jewelry valued at $1, 800 were stolen August 8 from the residence of I. J. Lehman, the architect, at No. 1984 East Eighty-fourth Street. The burglar cut a hole in the rear door and after obtaining entrance ransacked the building. Mr. Lehman is the senior member of the firm of Lehman & Schmitt, who are the architects for Cuyahoga county’s new Court House.
Columbus, O. — Messrs. Patton & Miller, architects, Chicago, Ill., have opened a branch office in this city at No. 502 Columbus Savings & Trust Building. G. E. Overton is the superintendent for the Ohio end of the business.
Detroit, Mich. — Messrs. Wm. S. Joy and Fred T. Barcroft, architects in the Ferguson Building, 230-234. Woodward Avenue, have dissolved partnership.
Paris, France. — Mr. George A. Licht, a student of architecture ot the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, has just won the Grande Médaille d’Émulation, offered by the French Government to the student receiving the greatest number values in his class. Mr. Licht is a “Prix de Paris” and holds the two-years scholarship offered by the Society Beaux-Arts Architects in New York. He is a pupil of M. J. L. L. Pascal. Mr. Licht also won, two months ago, the Grande Medaille offered by the Societe Centrale des Architectes Français for the pupil of the first class receiving the greatest number values in projects only during the last three years. — New York Herald.
Paterson, N. J. — Mr. Charles E. Sleight, through his counsel, Bilder & Bilder, has started suit in the Circuit Court against Morris Grenstein and Isaac Horwitz for $1, 000 on contract. Sleight sets forth in his declaration that he is an architect of this city and that on June 16 he was engaged by the defendants to draw plans for the alterations to a building at the corner of Fair and Washington Streets, the alterations to cost $15, 000, and as his pay he was to receive 2½ per cent, of this sum. The plans, he alleges, were suitable to the defendants, but without any warning they dispensed with his services, and it is to recover his commission that he is bringing suit.
Philadelphia, Pa. — Cecil W. Van Meter, an architect, who resided in this city, at 3704 Locust Street, died August 12 in the Presbyterian Hospital from an abscess of the brain. The young man, who was 25 years old Saturday, was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania this year.
Portland, Ore. — Mr. H. J. Hefty, architect, has gone to Europe for four or six months.
COMPETITION
THE Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Associa
tion offer five (5) prizes of $200 each, to be awarded by their Building Committee, to competitors submitting to them designs for a monument to be erected at Provincetown, Mass., to commemorate the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Signing of the Compact. The Committee do not oblige themselves to use any of the designs thus submitted, or employ any of these competitors. The monument is to be of granite, not less than 250 feet in height, built upon a hill of sand formation, about 90 feet above sea level. It is to have an inclined walk (no steps) of concrete, from bottom to top of interior. Each, competitor may submit a brief description of his design, calling attention to any points of interest. No estimates are to be submitted, as the Committee will obtain figures upon such of the designs as commend themselves to their acceptance. The monument is to cost about $80, 000. Only two drawings are to be submitted, a plan and an elevation, except that a second elevation may be sent in if necessary to explain the design. No other drawings will be received. They are to be made upon paper measuring 18 inches by 24 inches, with a single line for a border. No motto or device shall be put upon the drawings, but they shall be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name of the competitor. These drawings and envelopes will be numbered as received, and they will be known to the Committee by these numbers. All drawings must be delivered to Willard T. Sears, 70 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass., consulting architect of the Building Committee, on or before October 1, 1906. J. Henry Sears, Lorenzo D. Baker, Wm. B. Lawrence, Building Committee, the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association.
Boston, August 15, 1906. (1600-1601)
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
Mural Decorations for the Harrisburg Capitol. — Four of Edwin A. Abbey’s decorative paintings for the capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., are almost finished.
A Great Concrete Chimney. — Out in Butte, Mont., where the great stampingmills and ore-concentrating works have turned the mountain city into a titanic inferno of tall chimneys, belching black and sulphurous fumes, stands one tremendous tower, the top of which is 350 feet above the ground. When its erection was planned the first idea was to build it of brick. That would have required a thickness of twelve or fifteen feet of masonry at its base. But a constructing engineer from Chicago was called into consultation. He proposed that the huge chimney be built of concrete, and, with some misgivings, the plan was adopted. He prepared a foundation six feet deep, twelve by twelve, of concrete, with a number of steel reinforcing rods. Beginning at the ground level, he carried two thin concrete shells upward for 100 feet. The outer one is only nine inches in thickness, while, separated by four inches of space from this, is an inner shell five inches thick. At a height of 100 feet these two unite into a single seven-inch shell of concrete, which extends skyward until the vast height of 350 feet is reached. This chimney, many feet higher than our modern city skyscrapers, is therefore composed of but fourteen inches of concrete at the base and half that
amount for the upper 250 feet. It is not of plain concrete, but is reinforced both horizontally and vertically with a number of small steel rods, which were held in place until the concrete had been deposited around them, making a reinforced-concrete body superior in every way to both steel and brick masonry. There are in the United States scores of these wonderful chimneys — Technical World Magazine.
End of the Viennese Lock-out. — After a lock-out lasting for nearly two months the master-builders of Vienna have come to terms with their employes and 60, 000 men and women have gone back to work. They successfully resisted the bricklayers’ demand for a minimum daily wage of five kronen (approximately $1. 05), but agreed to concede 4. 66 kronen for the rest of the current year and the first four months of next year, and to promise a wage of 5. 4 kronen for the remainder of 1907 and the whole of 1908. The highest previous wage was four kronen. The apparent advantage obtained by the workmen will, however, really depend upon contingent agreements concerning reductions for periods of bad weather, but the presumption is that previous conditions have not been altered to the disadvantage of the men, who appear to have obtained an immediate increase of 16 per cent and a prospective increase of 33 per cent. The prevalent opinion seems to be that this increase is not unjustified, as the cost of living in Vienna is estimated to have increased by from 20 to 30 per cent., according to district, within the last few years. An interesting feature of the settlement is that it affords the first instance in which an Austrian trade dispute of such dimensions has been concluded by an arrangement covering a term of years. — New York Evening Post.
Quarrying Greek Marble. — A report from Consul George Horton at Athens indicates reviving interest in the ancient marble quarries of Greece. Among colored Greek marbles of great beauty may be mentioned those of the Island of Scyros; the green marbles of Tinos; the Cipolino marbles of Euboea, of two shades of green that blend in broad, wavy lines that run through the stone; and the red marbles of Mani, known as Rosso Antico. This latter is of a blood-red color, often traversed by veins of white, or sometimes found in solid red, A British company owns the whole of the white and blue quarries on the Penteli Mountain Range, and have spent money lavishly in developing them. The private railway of the company extends fifteen miles from the inclined plain of Mount Pentelicus. Blocks weighing twenty tons are taken to the company’s fashioning works, whence they are conveyed to the Athens railway, a distance of about eight miles, also over a private line owned by the company. Work at the Penteli quarries is kept in full swing day and night and about 1, 000 men on the payroll. It is the aim of the company to place marble on the market at less prohibitive prices than those which have prevailed hitherto. Blocks weighing as high as forty tons have been taken down to the port at Piraeus and load ed on shipboard for export. The Penteli marble is almost pure carbonate of lime, but there is more sparkle in the crystals than is