PERSONALS
Minneapolis, Minn. — Mr. Carl J. Harrington, a young architect of Minneapolis, left May 11 for Grand Marais on a fishing and hunting trip, and, nothing having been heard from him since, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Harrington, 2405 Portland avenue, Minneapolis, have become alarmed over his safety. Young Harrington started for the Northern woods without notifying his employers. His parents were in Europe at the time, but on their return at once instituted a search for their missing son.
Berkeley, Cal. — John C. White, an aged architect, well known for his work in earlier life, died June 7. He was one of the first California artists to contribute work to the Hopkins Institute of Art.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
Legend of an Ohio Court House. — “If the old Court-house should be torn down after the new one is ready for occupancy, some of the old-time Republicans will feel a sense of satisfaction to see the work of the architect put out of existence, ” said an aged habitue of the building yesterday. The remark revived the old story about the architect’s name being chiselled off the front of the building a day or two after the assassination of President Lincoln. The names of the architect, contractor and County Commissioners in office at the time
the building was erected had been chiselled on the front of the building near the entrance. After the word was received of the assassination of Lincoln, the Court-house architect, J. J. Husband, stood in front of the old Kennard house and shouted “He got just what he deserved. ” One of the commissioners at once called a meeting of that board and had Husband’s name removed from the building. — Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Facetious Testator. — Will-making often affords a man an unrivalled opportunity of paying off old scores and speaking his mind without any fear of unpleasant consequences to himself. The great Duke of Marlborough evidently could not resist the temptation of a farewell “slap” at his Duchess when he left her “£10, 000 wherewith to spoil Blenheim in her own way, and £15, 000 to keep clean and to go to law with. ” — Grand Magazine.
Churchyard under the Sea. — When the Coast Erosion Commissioners visited Walton on the Naze yesterday they were shown a spot north of the pier, and about a mile from the shore, which was formerly a churchyard. A quarter of a century ago the tombstones could be seen under water at ebb tide, but since then the sea has further encroached, and even when the tide is extraordinarily low and the sea clear the old burying ground is scarcely discernible from the sea level. — London Daily News.
Peter the Great and the Holly Hedge. — There is something about a holly hedge that challenges the destructive instinct in mankind. John Evelyn, the diarist, had one of the finest in England in the grounds of his home at Deptford, and Peter the Great ruined it for him. That extraordinary Czar, when he came to the docks to learn shipbuilding, took a tenancy of Evelyn’s house. Whenever he felt in need of relaxation he sat down in a wheelbarrow and caused a servant to charge with it at the holly hedge as hard as he could go. Also he cut up Evelyn’s fine lawn most terribly by “leeping and shewing of trikkes” with his suite. Altogether, he did not do the house or garden any good. But the owner could get no adequate compensation. — London Daily News.
Quarrying Glacier Ice. — In Switzerland, since the introduction of electric railways, a new and somewhat strange industry has been established in the Alpine districts, namely, the quarrying of glacier ice for distribution in the large cities. Certain of the Swiss communes or districts have been able to grant concessions of their glaciers for this purpose, and considerable sums have been expended in constructing ice slides or troughs, in which the blocks of ice, many of them of large size, blasted out of the glacier, are transported to the vicinity of the stations for conveyance, in carefully refrigerated vans or cars, to Lyons and other large cities remote from the Alps.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. S. in Arch. ) (Architectural engineering may be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc. )
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch. ) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc. )
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. (Certificate. ) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering. )
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general subjects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address: DR. J. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Architecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urbana, ILL.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Graduate School of Applied Science and The Lawrence Scientific School
offer graduate and undergraduate courses in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Geology.
For further information, address W. C. SABINE, 15 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS
has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee or Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
THE
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Washington, D. C.
DIVISION OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a four-year technical course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture, and a three-year special course for architectural draughtsmen.
For catalogues, application blanks, and further information, address
THE REGISTRAR.
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The American Architect, Publishers.
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Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring of PUBLIC & PRIVATE BUILDINGS
Willard L. Candee, H. Durant Cheever,
Managers.
Geo. T. Manson, Genʼl Sunt. W. H. Hodgins, Sec’y.
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Minneapolis, Minn. — Mr. Carl J. Harrington, a young architect of Minneapolis, left May 11 for Grand Marais on a fishing and hunting trip, and, nothing having been heard from him since, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Harrington, 2405 Portland avenue, Minneapolis, have become alarmed over his safety. Young Harrington started for the Northern woods without notifying his employers. His parents were in Europe at the time, but on their return at once instituted a search for their missing son.
Berkeley, Cal. — John C. White, an aged architect, well known for his work in earlier life, died June 7. He was one of the first California artists to contribute work to the Hopkins Institute of Art.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
Legend of an Ohio Court House. — “If the old Court-house should be torn down after the new one is ready for occupancy, some of the old-time Republicans will feel a sense of satisfaction to see the work of the architect put out of existence, ” said an aged habitue of the building yesterday. The remark revived the old story about the architect’s name being chiselled off the front of the building a day or two after the assassination of President Lincoln. The names of the architect, contractor and County Commissioners in office at the time
the building was erected had been chiselled on the front of the building near the entrance. After the word was received of the assassination of Lincoln, the Court-house architect, J. J. Husband, stood in front of the old Kennard house and shouted “He got just what he deserved. ” One of the commissioners at once called a meeting of that board and had Husband’s name removed from the building. — Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Facetious Testator. — Will-making often affords a man an unrivalled opportunity of paying off old scores and speaking his mind without any fear of unpleasant consequences to himself. The great Duke of Marlborough evidently could not resist the temptation of a farewell “slap” at his Duchess when he left her “£10, 000 wherewith to spoil Blenheim in her own way, and £15, 000 to keep clean and to go to law with. ” — Grand Magazine.
Churchyard under the Sea. — When the Coast Erosion Commissioners visited Walton on the Naze yesterday they were shown a spot north of the pier, and about a mile from the shore, which was formerly a churchyard. A quarter of a century ago the tombstones could be seen under water at ebb tide, but since then the sea has further encroached, and even when the tide is extraordinarily low and the sea clear the old burying ground is scarcely discernible from the sea level. — London Daily News.
Peter the Great and the Holly Hedge. — There is something about a holly hedge that challenges the destructive instinct in mankind. John Evelyn, the diarist, had one of the finest in England in the grounds of his home at Deptford, and Peter the Great ruined it for him. That extraordinary Czar, when he came to the docks to learn shipbuilding, took a tenancy of Evelyn’s house. Whenever he felt in need of relaxation he sat down in a wheelbarrow and caused a servant to charge with it at the holly hedge as hard as he could go. Also he cut up Evelyn’s fine lawn most terribly by “leeping and shewing of trikkes” with his suite. Altogether, he did not do the house or garden any good. But the owner could get no adequate compensation. — London Daily News.
Quarrying Glacier Ice. — In Switzerland, since the introduction of electric railways, a new and somewhat strange industry has been established in the Alpine districts, namely, the quarrying of glacier ice for distribution in the large cities. Certain of the Swiss communes or districts have been able to grant concessions of their glaciers for this purpose, and considerable sums have been expended in constructing ice slides or troughs, in which the blocks of ice, many of them of large size, blasted out of the glacier, are transported to the vicinity of the stations for conveyance, in carefully refrigerated vans or cars, to Lyons and other large cities remote from the Alps.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FOUR-YEAR COURSE. (Degree B. S. in Arch. ) (Architectural engineering may be taken in lieu of advanced design, etc. )
GRADUATE YEAR. (Degree M. S. in Arch. ) (Allowing specialization in design or in architectural engineering, etc. )
SPECIAL COURSE OF TWO YEARS. (Certificate. ) (For qualified draughtsmen; affording option in architectural engineering. )
COMBINED COURSES in Arts and Architecture, by which A. B. and B. S. in Arch. may be taken in six years.
COLLEGE GRADUATES granted advanced standing.
SUMMER COURSES in elementary and general subjects through which advanced standing may be secured.
For full information address: DR. J. H. PENNIMAN, Dean, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Four-year professional courses in Architecture, in Architectural Engineering and in Architectural Decoration. Special courses for draftsmen and constructors. Excellent library and equipment. University fees nominal.
Department of Architecture.
W. L. PILLSBURY, Registrar, Urbana, ILL.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Options in Architectural Engineering and Landscape Architecture.
College graduates and draughtsmen admitted as special students.
H. W. TYLER, Secretary,
Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Graduate School of Applied Science and The Lawrence Scientific School
offer graduate and undergraduate courses in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Geology.
For further information, address W. C. SABINE, 15 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass.
THE SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS
has established
A FREE COURSE OF STUDY
open to draughtsmen and students of any city, modeled on the general plan pursued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and comprising frequent problems in Orders, Design, Archaeology, etc.
For information apply to the Secretary of the Committee or Education, 3 East 33d St., New York City.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
St. Louis, Mo.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a professional four-year course in Architecture. Admission by examination or by certificate or diploma from other schools and colleges. Draughtsmen are admitted as special students.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
Four-year course in Architecture and in Architectural Engineering. Draftsmen and others adequately prepared are admitted as special students. For Bulletin describing work, address Dean of Department of Engineering.
THE
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Washington, D. C.
DIVISION OF ARCHITECTURE
offers a four-year technical course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture, and a three-year special course for architectural draughtsmen.
For catalogues, application blanks, and further information, address
THE REGISTRAR.
“ MONUMENTAL STAIRCASES.
40 Gelatine Plates, on bond paper, 9ʺ × 11ʺ. In Envelope. Price, $5. 00
The American Architect, Publishers.
OKONITE
INSULATED ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
Are pronounced by leading Architects to be SAFE, DURABLE and EASILY ADJUSTED for the inside wiring of PUBLIC & PRIVATE BUILDINGS
Willard L. Candee, H. Durant Cheever,
Managers.
Geo. T. Manson, Genʼl Sunt. W. H. Hodgins, Sec’y.
Candee Weatherproof Wires Okonite Waterproof Tape Manson Protecting Tape
SOLE MANUFACTURERS THE OKONITE CO., Ltd.
253 Broadway, New YorkTRADE MARK
REG. US. PATENT OFFICE.