Corrugated
Bars
Lend themselves to the construction of attractive buildings with ornamen
tal and architectural features as
well as to the construction
of plain and substantial
warehouses and
factories.
*
Write for our 1907 Catalog ; it contains many illustrations of well designed reinforced concrete buildings.
REINFORCED CONCRETE STAIRWAY
Wagoner Undertaking Co., St. Louis, Mo.
The Wagoner Building is constructed entirely of reinforced concrete footings, columns, girders, floors and stairs. The main girders span the entire width of the building, 40 feet, and give a pleasing and substantial effect to the structure.
Expanded Metal & Corrugated Bar Co.
Frisco Building, ST. LOUIS
The Seminary of St. Sulpice to be a Museum.—The separation of Church and
State has had, as one consequence, the alienation from their original purpose of the large buildings in the Place St. Sulpice occupied by the important seminary founded in 1649. Attached to these buildings is a beautiful garden bounded, towards Rue Bonaparte and Rue Vaugirard, by an ugly wall. The inhabitants of the quarter are demanding that this should be removed and an open grille put in front of the garden.
It is proposed to transfer to this former seminary the part of the Luxembourg Museum now crowded into the ancient Orangery, the rebuilding of which would he a costly undertaking. It would be much more practical to install the picture galleries in the seminary building, and to place some of the sculpture in the garden. Artists, foreign visitors and the inhabitants of the district, would alike applaud such an arrangement, which would give to the collection of works of modern artists a habitation worthy of them.—The Builder.
The Working Day.—Whereas, in the seventies of last century, the twelve-hour day was the rule in the building trade in Germany, there were in 1895 already 436 towns with a ten-hour day, 103 with ten and one-half hours, 818 with eleven hours, and 85 with more than eleven hours. In 1905 there were 247 towns with a nine-hour day, 293 with nine and one-half hours, 7,643 with ten hours, 1,453 with ten and one-half hours, 3,524 with eleven hours, and only 147 with over eleven hours.—New Haven Journal.
The Old World Charm of Quebec.— Dear, delightful old Quebec, with her gray walls and shining tin roofs; her precipitous, headlong streets and sleepy squares and esplanades; her narrow alleys and peaceful convents; her harmless antique cannon on the parapets and her sweet toned bells in the spires; her towering chateau on the heights and her long, low, queer smelling warehouses in the lower town; her spick and span caleches and her dingy trolley cars; her sprinkling of soldiers and sailors with Scotch accent and Irish brogue and Cockney twang on a background of. petite bourgeoisie speaking the quaintest of French dialects; her memories of an adventurous, glittering past and her placid contentment with the tranquil grayness of the present; her glorious daylight outlook over the vale of the St. Charles, the level shore of Montmorenci, the green lie d’Orleans dividing the shining reaches of the broad St. Lawrence, and the blue Laurentian Mountains rolling far to the eastward—and at night, the dark bulk of the citadel outlined against the starry blue, the trampling of many feet up and down the wooden pavement of the terrace, the chattering and the laughter, the music of the military band, and far below, the huddled housetops, the silent wharves the lights of the great warships swinging with the tide, the intermittent ferryboats plying to and fro, the twinkling lamps of Levis rising along the dim southern shore and reflected on the lapsing, curling, seaward sliding waves of the great river! What city of the New World keeps so much of the charm of the Old? —Henry Van Dyke, in Scribner’s Magazine.
Asbestos Deposits in Luzon.—Rich deposits of asbestos covering hundreds of acres and containing thousands of tons of the valuable mineral have been located in the mountains of Northern Luzon, Philippines. Samples examined in the Bureau of Science at Manila, says The Far Eastern Review, are pronounced excellent in quality, with only 1 or 2 per cent, of alloy. The deposits are inlaid between talcum and silica (both valuable deposits), and the fields of asbestos are within a few miles of excellent harbors.—Nezv York Tribune.
A Legend of Breslau.—Limerick is not the only city in the world that is concerned over its bells. Breslau has a legend all to itself, less charming perhaps than that of Limerick, hut more ruggedly impressive. Perhaps, also, it should be added that the Silesian capital takes to its legend more seriously. At any rate, it proposes to erect a monument to its great founder, whose famous bell of the Church of St. Mary was cast in 1386. The story is that when his bell was ready for casting, the founder, after his great labor, went to take food, and during his absence his apprentice, despite a strict prohibition, opened the stopcock of the crucible and let out the molten metal. The infuriated master, disregarding the youth’s appeal for mercy, made in Christ’s name, poiniared him on the spot, and finding afterward that his bell was none the worse, was plunged in remorse. Condemned for the crime, he asked on his way to the block to be allowed to hear his hell for the last time, and through the centuries ever since it has tolled the knell of
Bars
Lend themselves to the construction of attractive buildings with ornamen
tal and architectural features as
well as to the construction
of plain and substantial
warehouses and
factories.
*
Write for our 1907 Catalog ; it contains many illustrations of well designed reinforced concrete buildings.
REINFORCED CONCRETE STAIRWAY
Wagoner Undertaking Co., St. Louis, Mo.
The Wagoner Building is constructed entirely of reinforced concrete footings, columns, girders, floors and stairs. The main girders span the entire width of the building, 40 feet, and give a pleasing and substantial effect to the structure.
Expanded Metal & Corrugated Bar Co.
Frisco Building, ST. LOUIS
The Seminary of St. Sulpice to be a Museum.—The separation of Church and
State has had, as one consequence, the alienation from their original purpose of the large buildings in the Place St. Sulpice occupied by the important seminary founded in 1649. Attached to these buildings is a beautiful garden bounded, towards Rue Bonaparte and Rue Vaugirard, by an ugly wall. The inhabitants of the quarter are demanding that this should be removed and an open grille put in front of the garden.
It is proposed to transfer to this former seminary the part of the Luxembourg Museum now crowded into the ancient Orangery, the rebuilding of which would he a costly undertaking. It would be much more practical to install the picture galleries in the seminary building, and to place some of the sculpture in the garden. Artists, foreign visitors and the inhabitants of the district, would alike applaud such an arrangement, which would give to the collection of works of modern artists a habitation worthy of them.—The Builder.
The Working Day.—Whereas, in the seventies of last century, the twelve-hour day was the rule in the building trade in Germany, there were in 1895 already 436 towns with a ten-hour day, 103 with ten and one-half hours, 818 with eleven hours, and 85 with more than eleven hours. In 1905 there were 247 towns with a nine-hour day, 293 with nine and one-half hours, 7,643 with ten hours, 1,453 with ten and one-half hours, 3,524 with eleven hours, and only 147 with over eleven hours.—New Haven Journal.
The Old World Charm of Quebec.— Dear, delightful old Quebec, with her gray walls and shining tin roofs; her precipitous, headlong streets and sleepy squares and esplanades; her narrow alleys and peaceful convents; her harmless antique cannon on the parapets and her sweet toned bells in the spires; her towering chateau on the heights and her long, low, queer smelling warehouses in the lower town; her spick and span caleches and her dingy trolley cars; her sprinkling of soldiers and sailors with Scotch accent and Irish brogue and Cockney twang on a background of. petite bourgeoisie speaking the quaintest of French dialects; her memories of an adventurous, glittering past and her placid contentment with the tranquil grayness of the present; her glorious daylight outlook over the vale of the St. Charles, the level shore of Montmorenci, the green lie d’Orleans dividing the shining reaches of the broad St. Lawrence, and the blue Laurentian Mountains rolling far to the eastward—and at night, the dark bulk of the citadel outlined against the starry blue, the trampling of many feet up and down the wooden pavement of the terrace, the chattering and the laughter, the music of the military band, and far below, the huddled housetops, the silent wharves the lights of the great warships swinging with the tide, the intermittent ferryboats plying to and fro, the twinkling lamps of Levis rising along the dim southern shore and reflected on the lapsing, curling, seaward sliding waves of the great river! What city of the New World keeps so much of the charm of the Old? —Henry Van Dyke, in Scribner’s Magazine.
Asbestos Deposits in Luzon.—Rich deposits of asbestos covering hundreds of acres and containing thousands of tons of the valuable mineral have been located in the mountains of Northern Luzon, Philippines. Samples examined in the Bureau of Science at Manila, says The Far Eastern Review, are pronounced excellent in quality, with only 1 or 2 per cent, of alloy. The deposits are inlaid between talcum and silica (both valuable deposits), and the fields of asbestos are within a few miles of excellent harbors.—Nezv York Tribune.
A Legend of Breslau.—Limerick is not the only city in the world that is concerned over its bells. Breslau has a legend all to itself, less charming perhaps than that of Limerick, hut more ruggedly impressive. Perhaps, also, it should be added that the Silesian capital takes to its legend more seriously. At any rate, it proposes to erect a monument to its great founder, whose famous bell of the Church of St. Mary was cast in 1386. The story is that when his bell was ready for casting, the founder, after his great labor, went to take food, and during his absence his apprentice, despite a strict prohibition, opened the stopcock of the crucible and let out the molten metal. The infuriated master, disregarding the youth’s appeal for mercy, made in Christ’s name, poiniared him on the spot, and finding afterward that his bell was none the worse, was plunged in remorse. Condemned for the crime, he asked on his way to the block to be allowed to hear his hell for the last time, and through the centuries ever since it has tolled the knell of