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and that they failed to pay him for his services.
New York, N. Y,—Mr. Van Campen Taylor, a New York architect, died September 8 of apoplexy at his summer home, Duxbury, Mass. Mr. Taylor had spent the summers here for the last ten years, spending the winters in New York and abroad. He was born in New Brunswick, N. J., sixty years ago, and for many years practised in Newark, N. J.
Cincinnati, O.—Joseph Emery has brought suit against N. Parker & Son, contractors, for $5,000 damages. Emery was employed by the defendants in erecting a building on Rockdale Avenue and was seriously injured when a scaffold collapsed. He charges negligence.
Eau Claire, Wis.—The firm of Naset Bros., architects, has rented offices in the Telegram Building. The members of the firm are W. O. and A. B. Naset, who have been connected with architects’ offices in St. Paul and Madison.
Louisville, Ky.—Mr. J. F. Sheblessy, of this city, won the second prize of $750 in the competition for the selection of an architect for the new Hughes High-school, at Mc Millan and Clifton Avenues, in Cincinnati. The building is to cost $500,000, and nineteen architects from various parts of the country competed for the work.
Camden, N. J.—Mr. Thomas Stephens, architect, of this city, has just been awarded a verdict for $659.40, in his suit to recover for preparing plans and specifications for a factory building (now erected) for the Camden & Philadelphia Soap Company.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
German Discrimination Against Foreign Students.—According to Consul-General Richard Guenther, of Frankfort, Germany, from time to time the German press and trade organs contained declarations inimical to permitting foreigners to participate in the studies at German institutions of learning, technical schools, and to be employed in or visit factories, etc.
The last annual report of the new Commercial Academy of Leipzig says that of the 720 students attending its courses, 382 were natives and subjects of foreign countries.
The Cologne Gazette, considered a semiofficial organ of the German Government, comments upon this statistical statement as follows:
“The proportion of foreign to German scholars gives occasion for serious reflection. The consolation frequently expressed that by these foreigners educated in Germany our commercial relations with foreign countries will be improved is very meager and cannot be maintained in the least, because it will be the natural endeavor of these foreigners to use the knowledge obtained here against German competition abroad. This is the case also in regard to our technical schools. Many of our export firms, manufacturing machines and other lines of goods, complain of the competition which is thus educated and raised, to their loss, at our high schools. Though we have little desire to hinder the spread of the results of scientific research, theoretical or practical, even toward foreign countries, still we do not deem it consistent with the principle of national education and national attainments to admit foreigners more than is strictly necessary for our national institutions of learning. The inundation of the Commercial Academy at Leipzig by foreigners exhibits in this respect a very unsatisfactory picture. As a new commercial high school is soon to be opened at Berlin, it were well to reflect beforehand on the basic principle of admitting foreign students.”
Centenary of the Arc de l’Btoile.— This is the centenary of the Arc de Triomphe de l’fitoile, the first stone of which was laid on August 15, 1806. It was begun by Napoleon to celebrate the success of. the Grand Army at Austerlitz,, but it was not completed until 1823, when it was dedicated to all the French armies since 1792.
Red Tape and Repairs.—This story, illustrative of the red tape that used to prevail in a certain department of the Federal Government at Washington, is told by an official who began his service there in the humble capacity of clerk. “Shortly after entering upon the discharge of my duties,” said the official, “I witnessed a scene in the division to which I had been assigned that astonished me to a degree. On day an elderly clerk whose desk was near mine suddenly rose from his seat, dragged his
chair to a fireplace, and, seizing a poker, attacked the offending piece of furniture with what appeared to be maniacal fury. When he had broken a leg off the chair his passion seemed to be exhausted. He flung the damaged chair into a corner of the room and, getting another chair, calmly resumed his work, just as if nothing had occurred. When the time came to leave the office that afternoon I ventured to ask a fellow-clerk, who had been a witness of the scene, what it meant. ‘Is that clerk,’ I inquired, ‘subject to attacks of that kind? The clerk questioned smiled indulgently. ‘Oh,’ be explained, ‘there was nothing the matter with him. You see one of the casters had come off his chair. The department will not replace casters — it repairs nothing less serious than a broken leg. So Blank broke one of the legs, and now he will be able to get the caster put on again.” —Success Magazine.
Denatured Alcohol a Safe Fuel.—The use of denatured alcohol as a fuel has yet to be fully developed. Although alcohol has only about half the heating power of kerosene or gasoline, gallon for gallon, yet it has many valuable properties which may enable it to compete successfully in spite of its lower fuel value. In the first place it is very much safer. Alcohol has a tendency to simply heat the surrounding vapors and produce currents of hot gases which are not usually brought to high enough temperature to inflame articles at a distance. It can be easily diluted with water, and when it is diluted to more than one-half it ceases to be inflammable. Hence it may be readily extinguished; while burning gasoline, by floating on the water, simply spreads its flame when water is applied to it. Although alcohol has far less heating capacity than gasoline, the best experts believe that it will develop a much higher percentage of efficiency in motors than does gasoline. Since gasoline represents only about 2 per cent, of the petroleum which is refined, its supply is limited and its price must constantly rise, in view of the enormous demand made for it by automobiles and gasoline engines in general. This will open a new opportunity for denatured alcohol. Industrial alcohol is now used in Germany in small portable lamps, which give it all the effects of a mantel burner heated by gas. The expense for alcohol is only about two-thirds as much per candlepower as is the cost of kerosene. Even at 25 or 30 cents a gallon, denatured alcohol can successfully compete with kerosene as a means of lighting.— U. S. Consular Report.
The Genesis of Colonial Architecture. —One of the young architects who delivers a lecture on modern architecture in the series of free public school lectures in New York had just shown his audience the beauties of the Cologne cathedral the other night, when he thought of an experience
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and that they failed to pay him for his services.
New York, N. Y,—Mr. Van Campen Taylor, a New York architect, died September 8 of apoplexy at his summer home, Duxbury, Mass. Mr. Taylor had spent the summers here for the last ten years, spending the winters in New York and abroad. He was born in New Brunswick, N. J., sixty years ago, and for many years practised in Newark, N. J.
Cincinnati, O.—Joseph Emery has brought suit against N. Parker & Son, contractors, for $5,000 damages. Emery was employed by the defendants in erecting a building on Rockdale Avenue and was seriously injured when a scaffold collapsed. He charges negligence.
Eau Claire, Wis.—The firm of Naset Bros., architects, has rented offices in the Telegram Building. The members of the firm are W. O. and A. B. Naset, who have been connected with architects’ offices in St. Paul and Madison.
Louisville, Ky.—Mr. J. F. Sheblessy, of this city, won the second prize of $750 in the competition for the selection of an architect for the new Hughes High-school, at Mc Millan and Clifton Avenues, in Cincinnati. The building is to cost $500,000, and nineteen architects from various parts of the country competed for the work.
Camden, N. J.—Mr. Thomas Stephens, architect, of this city, has just been awarded a verdict for $659.40, in his suit to recover for preparing plans and specifications for a factory building (now erected) for the Camden & Philadelphia Soap Company.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
German Discrimination Against Foreign Students.—According to Consul-General Richard Guenther, of Frankfort, Germany, from time to time the German press and trade organs contained declarations inimical to permitting foreigners to participate in the studies at German institutions of learning, technical schools, and to be employed in or visit factories, etc.
The last annual report of the new Commercial Academy of Leipzig says that of the 720 students attending its courses, 382 were natives and subjects of foreign countries.
The Cologne Gazette, considered a semiofficial organ of the German Government, comments upon this statistical statement as follows:
“The proportion of foreign to German scholars gives occasion for serious reflection. The consolation frequently expressed that by these foreigners educated in Germany our commercial relations with foreign countries will be improved is very meager and cannot be maintained in the least, because it will be the natural endeavor of these foreigners to use the knowledge obtained here against German competition abroad. This is the case also in regard to our technical schools. Many of our export firms, manufacturing machines and other lines of goods, complain of the competition which is thus educated and raised, to their loss, at our high schools. Though we have little desire to hinder the spread of the results of scientific research, theoretical or practical, even toward foreign countries, still we do not deem it consistent with the principle of national education and national attainments to admit foreigners more than is strictly necessary for our national institutions of learning. The inundation of the Commercial Academy at Leipzig by foreigners exhibits in this respect a very unsatisfactory picture. As a new commercial high school is soon to be opened at Berlin, it were well to reflect beforehand on the basic principle of admitting foreign students.”
Centenary of the Arc de l’Btoile.— This is the centenary of the Arc de Triomphe de l’fitoile, the first stone of which was laid on August 15, 1806. It was begun by Napoleon to celebrate the success of. the Grand Army at Austerlitz,, but it was not completed until 1823, when it was dedicated to all the French armies since 1792.
Red Tape and Repairs.—This story, illustrative of the red tape that used to prevail in a certain department of the Federal Government at Washington, is told by an official who began his service there in the humble capacity of clerk. “Shortly after entering upon the discharge of my duties,” said the official, “I witnessed a scene in the division to which I had been assigned that astonished me to a degree. On day an elderly clerk whose desk was near mine suddenly rose from his seat, dragged his
chair to a fireplace, and, seizing a poker, attacked the offending piece of furniture with what appeared to be maniacal fury. When he had broken a leg off the chair his passion seemed to be exhausted. He flung the damaged chair into a corner of the room and, getting another chair, calmly resumed his work, just as if nothing had occurred. When the time came to leave the office that afternoon I ventured to ask a fellow-clerk, who had been a witness of the scene, what it meant. ‘Is that clerk,’ I inquired, ‘subject to attacks of that kind? The clerk questioned smiled indulgently. ‘Oh,’ be explained, ‘there was nothing the matter with him. You see one of the casters had come off his chair. The department will not replace casters — it repairs nothing less serious than a broken leg. So Blank broke one of the legs, and now he will be able to get the caster put on again.” —Success Magazine.
Denatured Alcohol a Safe Fuel.—The use of denatured alcohol as a fuel has yet to be fully developed. Although alcohol has only about half the heating power of kerosene or gasoline, gallon for gallon, yet it has many valuable properties which may enable it to compete successfully in spite of its lower fuel value. In the first place it is very much safer. Alcohol has a tendency to simply heat the surrounding vapors and produce currents of hot gases which are not usually brought to high enough temperature to inflame articles at a distance. It can be easily diluted with water, and when it is diluted to more than one-half it ceases to be inflammable. Hence it may be readily extinguished; while burning gasoline, by floating on the water, simply spreads its flame when water is applied to it. Although alcohol has far less heating capacity than gasoline, the best experts believe that it will develop a much higher percentage of efficiency in motors than does gasoline. Since gasoline represents only about 2 per cent, of the petroleum which is refined, its supply is limited and its price must constantly rise, in view of the enormous demand made for it by automobiles and gasoline engines in general. This will open a new opportunity for denatured alcohol. Industrial alcohol is now used in Germany in small portable lamps, which give it all the effects of a mantel burner heated by gas. The expense for alcohol is only about two-thirds as much per candlepower as is the cost of kerosene. Even at 25 or 30 cents a gallon, denatured alcohol can successfully compete with kerosene as a means of lighting.— U. S. Consular Report.
The Genesis of Colonial Architecture. —One of the young architects who delivers a lecture on modern architecture in the series of free public school lectures in New York had just shown his audience the beauties of the Cologne cathedral the other night, when he thought of an experience