when the gargoyle first made its appearance; perhaps, in opposition to the view of Viollet-le-Duc, it was coincident with elaborate stone structures, and in a less striking form belonged to the Romanesque before it blossomed in the Gothic. Nowhere more clearly than in the gargoyles of Gothic churches does one perceive that a wooden prototype has been repeated in stone. It is plain that a log bored or channeled lengthwise to form a waterspout has been finished in some eccentric shape — a chimæra, a harpy, a nondescript beast — and when required for a structure all in stone has been transferred to that material. At the same time it is worth noting that we have no certain records of gargoyles until after the Crusades, and that fact leads us to the Orient for the fashion in gargoyles that meets us in the thirteenth century. Greek and Roman architecture are not without examples. But it is in the extreme Orient that we find exact parallels — in Ceylon, rainy Burmah, and Siam. Taken by themselves, divorced from their subordinate positions, they strike us as a trifle coarse with the grotesquery of their distorted masks and muzzles. But seen in connection with the figures of divine beings, and saints, as they stand on their pedestals under their canopies, the whole combining to make a façade such as that of Rouen or Chartres appear like an intricate field of lacework, the gargoyles form a contrast at once pleasing and in harmony with good sense; they are minor parts of a great intricate whole, and should not be thought of separate from the other sculpture. — Architectural Review.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities. )
Aberdeen, S. Dak. — Bids are asked by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., until 3 p. m., September 18, for painting, miscellaneous improvements and repairs at the U. S. Post Office.
Adrian, Mich. — The committee on public library invites architects to submit plans within thirty days, free of cost, for the Carnegie library to be erected here. The cost of the building when completed will be about $25, 000.
Alexandria, La. — J. A. Bentley, it is reported, is contemplating the construction of a fireproof hotel, to cost $150, 000.
Ashland, Wis. — Architect Glenn L. Saxton, Minneapolis, Minn., has plans for a flat building for Peter Johnson. Cost, $60, 000. Bids will be received by the owner.
Atlanta, Ga. — It is stated that Joel Hurt has decided to erect a theater at Ivy Street and Exchange Place, at a probable cost of $75, 000.
The King Hardware Company will erect a new business house at a cost of $75, 000.
The local lodges of Masons will erect a temple at a cost of $200, 000. Morgan & Dillon are the architects.
Atlantic City, N. J. — Plans are being prepared for Josiah White & Bro. for an addition to the Hotel Traymore. It is to
be a nine-story reinforced concrete building. Estimated cost, $600, 000.
Auburn, Me. — Congress has appropriated $75, 000 for a new post office at Auburn.
Augusta, Ga. — Mowbray & Uffinger, 92 Liberty Street, New York, are preparing plans for a building to be erected by the Planters’ Loan and Savings Bank.
Baton Rouge, La. — Favrot & Livaudais, New Orleans, La., have been commissioned to prepare plans for a $40, 000 chemical laboratory to be erected at the State University.
Birmingham, Ala. — George Bates, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, is having plans prepared for a three-story pressed-brick building to be used for church purposes. A gymnasium will be included.
Boston, Mass. — Sealed proposals, endorsed: “Proposals for Equipment Building, ” will be received at the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, Wash
ington, until 11 o’clock a. m., August 18, 1906, and then and there publicly opened for constructing a corrugated steel and concrete extension of Building No. 103, Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. Plans and specifications can be seen at the bureau, or will be furnished by the commandant of the navy yard named. Mordecai T. Endicott, Chief of Bureau.
Brockton, Mass. — Howard & Foster, of this city, are to erect a four-story shoe factory in Pleasant Street. T he building is to be of frame construction, 151 feet frontage by 250 feet deep. Cost, about $50, 000.
All official tests and juries have given CORRUGATED BARS first place.
Additional cost per pound more than other types, yes, but A FRACTION OF ONE PER CENT. ONLY ON TOTAL COST OF STRUCTURE.
Why take chances with inferior forms of reinforcement when the use of CORRUGATED BARS insures perfect bonding and permanency of structure?
Expanded Metal & Corrugated Bar Company
FRISCO BUILDING
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI