Standart FIXTURES GIVE PERMANENT SATISFACTION
WHEN an architect’s client finds that
Standard Porcelain Enameled Fixtures have been specified for his property he is pleased, because he has been taught by actual experiences to regard Standard
Fixtures as the most beautiful, the most sanitary and the most satisfactory equipment that he can secure. The Architect on the other hand knows that his customer has the right impression of ^taifdard
fixtures and that the test of use will increase his satisfaction.
Standard Plate p-851
PARAGON “STANDARD” Enameled Washout Closet—adapted for work requiring least possible outlay, but demanding a thoroughly sanitary and effective fixture. Enameled inside and outside with 2-inch Brass Flush Connection and Improved Roll-Top flushing rim. Woods and fittings Quartered Oak, Cherry, Walnut, High Dutch Oak, English Oak, Ox Blood, Bird’s Eye Maple, White Enamel and Mahogany.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Hollow Glass Bricks.—The demand for hollow bricks and building blocks for house construction has induced glass manufacturers to put hollow glass bricks on the market, and they promise to be used extensively for novel and artistic effects. The first glass bricks, being solid, proved a failure on account of their cost, but the hollow glass bricks can be made at much less expense. They are lighter and stronger than clay bricks, and are such excellent nonconductors that walls built of them are proof against dampness, sound, heat and cold. The bricks are sealed hermetically when hot, and are placed in walls with a colorless mortar made of special glass. The bonding strength of the glass mortar is almost as great as the bricks themselves.— Building Management.
A Japanese Bath-room.—A tiny space 4x6 feet. In it were four objects—a stool to sit upon when washing one’s self before getting into the bath, a shining brass wash basin, a wooden pail and dipper, in which to fetch the bath water, and the tub. The tub, like most private baths, was round, casket shaped, and made of white wood. It was perhaps thirty inches in diameter and twenty-seven inches high. A copper funnel or tube passing through the bottom went up inside close to the edge. This, filled with lighted charcoal, supplied heat for the water. The pipe was higher than the tub, so the water could not leak inside. A few transverse bars of wood fitted into grooves and formed a protection so the bather could kneel in the tub without coming in contact with the hot pipe. The walls
of the room were of white wood, with a pretty grain, the floor of pine, laid with a slight slope and grooved so the water might flow into a gutter and through a bamboo pipe to the yard. A moon-shaped lattice window high up let in air and light. As a provision for more ventilation the two outside walls for a foot below the ceiling were lattice of bamboo slats.
As my eye traveled from object to object, I quickly sized up the cost. For the tub 8 yen, and it would last indefinitely; 2 yen for the brass basin; 50 sen for the pail and dipper, and 25 sen for the stool. Eleven yen would fit up my bath-room, and I asked for nothing nicer.—The Craftsman.
Largest City Fifty Years Hence.—The Chicago Tribune has been figuring on the increase of population of the great cities of the world, and concludes that Berlin fifty years hence will be the metropolis of the world. This is backed up by Herr Olumke, a noted statistician. In a pamphlet he has written to set forth this prophetic theory, he says the population of Berlin is increasing more rapidly than that of any other city except Budapest, Hungary. Today Greater Berlin contains more than three million inhabitants. The rapid growth with Berlin’s political and commercial importance will place the Prussian capital ahead of London, Paris and New York. He calculates that London in 1953 will have 7,000,000 inhabitants.
Glass “Consumption.”—In the glass collection at the Museum of Art in Dresden, Germany, there is a large drinking-cup
which stands apart from all other art objects, under a heavy glass cover. It is of Dutch workmanship, and the inscriptions and style show that it was made early in the eighteenth century. The vessel is remarkable because it is known in the museum, says a Berlin paper, “as having consumption which can be communicated to other objects of glass. On that account it is isolated. There are remedies against this glass disease, which is usually developed because of defects in the glass mixture, but these have not been applied to the Dutch vessel, in order that the progress of the wasting disease may be observed.”— New York Tribune.
The Prince of Wales Invents a Grate. —A new grate has been invented by the Prince of Wales and placed in Pond House municipal dwellings, Chelsea. By a simple movement the housekeeper can transfer the fire in the kitchen grate to the sitting-room grate. Having cooked the dinner the housewife raises a slide at the back of the kitchen grate. The slide is flush with the wall which separates kitchen from sitting-room, and by simply raising a lever the. fire of the kitchen grate is tilted into the sitting-room grate.—Exchange.
Damages for Water-tank Collapse.— The sheriff has received an attachment from Brooklyn for $12,000 against Edward F. Schlichter in favor of J. & T. Cousins for damages to their factory at 373 De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, as a result of the collapse in September last of a water-tank on the roof, which tank was erected by Schlichter. —Exchange.
WHEN an architect’s client finds that
Standard Porcelain Enameled Fixtures have been specified for his property he is pleased, because he has been taught by actual experiences to regard Standard
Fixtures as the most beautiful, the most sanitary and the most satisfactory equipment that he can secure. The Architect on the other hand knows that his customer has the right impression of ^taifdard
fixtures and that the test of use will increase his satisfaction.
Standard Plate p-851
PARAGON “STANDARD” Enameled Washout Closet—adapted for work requiring least possible outlay, but demanding a thoroughly sanitary and effective fixture. Enameled inside and outside with 2-inch Brass Flush Connection and Improved Roll-Top flushing rim. Woods and fittings Quartered Oak, Cherry, Walnut, High Dutch Oak, English Oak, Ox Blood, Bird’s Eye Maple, White Enamel and Mahogany.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Hollow Glass Bricks.—The demand for hollow bricks and building blocks for house construction has induced glass manufacturers to put hollow glass bricks on the market, and they promise to be used extensively for novel and artistic effects. The first glass bricks, being solid, proved a failure on account of their cost, but the hollow glass bricks can be made at much less expense. They are lighter and stronger than clay bricks, and are such excellent nonconductors that walls built of them are proof against dampness, sound, heat and cold. The bricks are sealed hermetically when hot, and are placed in walls with a colorless mortar made of special glass. The bonding strength of the glass mortar is almost as great as the bricks themselves.— Building Management.
A Japanese Bath-room.—A tiny space 4x6 feet. In it were four objects—a stool to sit upon when washing one’s self before getting into the bath, a shining brass wash basin, a wooden pail and dipper, in which to fetch the bath water, and the tub. The tub, like most private baths, was round, casket shaped, and made of white wood. It was perhaps thirty inches in diameter and twenty-seven inches high. A copper funnel or tube passing through the bottom went up inside close to the edge. This, filled with lighted charcoal, supplied heat for the water. The pipe was higher than the tub, so the water could not leak inside. A few transverse bars of wood fitted into grooves and formed a protection so the bather could kneel in the tub without coming in contact with the hot pipe. The walls
of the room were of white wood, with a pretty grain, the floor of pine, laid with a slight slope and grooved so the water might flow into a gutter and through a bamboo pipe to the yard. A moon-shaped lattice window high up let in air and light. As a provision for more ventilation the two outside walls for a foot below the ceiling were lattice of bamboo slats.
As my eye traveled from object to object, I quickly sized up the cost. For the tub 8 yen, and it would last indefinitely; 2 yen for the brass basin; 50 sen for the pail and dipper, and 25 sen for the stool. Eleven yen would fit up my bath-room, and I asked for nothing nicer.—The Craftsman.
Largest City Fifty Years Hence.—The Chicago Tribune has been figuring on the increase of population of the great cities of the world, and concludes that Berlin fifty years hence will be the metropolis of the world. This is backed up by Herr Olumke, a noted statistician. In a pamphlet he has written to set forth this prophetic theory, he says the population of Berlin is increasing more rapidly than that of any other city except Budapest, Hungary. Today Greater Berlin contains more than three million inhabitants. The rapid growth with Berlin’s political and commercial importance will place the Prussian capital ahead of London, Paris and New York. He calculates that London in 1953 will have 7,000,000 inhabitants.
Glass “Consumption.”—In the glass collection at the Museum of Art in Dresden, Germany, there is a large drinking-cup
which stands apart from all other art objects, under a heavy glass cover. It is of Dutch workmanship, and the inscriptions and style show that it was made early in the eighteenth century. The vessel is remarkable because it is known in the museum, says a Berlin paper, “as having consumption which can be communicated to other objects of glass. On that account it is isolated. There are remedies against this glass disease, which is usually developed because of defects in the glass mixture, but these have not been applied to the Dutch vessel, in order that the progress of the wasting disease may be observed.”— New York Tribune.
The Prince of Wales Invents a Grate. —A new grate has been invented by the Prince of Wales and placed in Pond House municipal dwellings, Chelsea. By a simple movement the housekeeper can transfer the fire in the kitchen grate to the sitting-room grate. Having cooked the dinner the housewife raises a slide at the back of the kitchen grate. The slide is flush with the wall which separates kitchen from sitting-room, and by simply raising a lever the. fire of the kitchen grate is tilted into the sitting-room grate.—Exchange.
Damages for Water-tank Collapse.— The sheriff has received an attachment from Brooklyn for $12,000 against Edward F. Schlichter in favor of J. & T. Cousins for damages to their factory at 373 De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, as a result of the collapse in September last of a water-tank on the roof, which tank was erected by Schlichter. —Exchange.