Syrian smiths and their pupils even to this da y—Exchange.
A Whistler Anecdote.—T. P.’s Weekly prints an amusing Whistler anecdote told by Mrs. Mary Baun Ford. Whistler had been working for nearly three weeks on a scaffolding completing the ceiling of his famous “peacock room,” and duly presented his bill to Mr. Leyland. Mr. Leyland refused to pay, on the ground that it was exorbitant. Whistler did nothing for some weeks; then he made another trip to the room, put on his studio clothes, and set to work in front of one of the two peacocks. A few days afterwards Mr. Leyland, who knew nothing about Whistler’s finishing touches, brought a friend to see the room. To their astonishment, they beheld a peacock grasping a huge .pile of gold coins in one of its claws. Next morning the artist received a check for payment in full, together with a polite offer of extra payment if he would “restore that portion of the picture under the bird’s claw to the original design.”—Westminster Gazette.
Some High Chimneys.—The Boston and Montana Copper Mining Company is building a chimney for its smelting plant at Butte, which, when completed, will be the largest chimney in the world. It will be 506 feet high and 50 feet in diameter. The next largest of which there is any record is at Townsend, Scotland. This is 474 feet high with a diameter of forty-one feet. Another Scotch chimney of great dimensions is at St. Pollox. Its height is 442 feet and its diameter is forty-two feet,
Two German chimneys deserve a place in the front rank; one at Bochum measures 462 feet from base to top, with twenty-one feet diameter; the other at Mechernich has a height of 442 feet, with a diameter of twelve. A kodak factory in Rochester, N. Y., has a chimney 366 feet high, with a diameter of twelve feet, and there are two in New Jersey the dimensions of which are 365x12 and 350x10 feet respectively.— Boston Transcript.
Does Technical Training Pay?—With the object of answering in some degree the question, “Does technical training pay?” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has recently collected some figures showing the salaries being paid to men who were graduated from that institution five years ago. Out of 75 answers received from members of the class, the lowest salary reported is $1,000 and the highest $6,000. The returns show that the best-paid men are the mining-engineers, who average $2,625, while the naval-architects average $2,200, the electrical-engineers $1,700, and the biologists $1,300. Compared with the amounts to be gained in trade or speculation, these figures may seem small, but when measured by rewards of the great majority of the world’s workers, they are not meagre, and go to prove that technical education is more than an empty name.— Spring-field, Mass., Union.
Another Petrified Forest Discovered.—
H. H. Buckwalter, who has just returned from Arizona, reports that he discovered there a new. and immense petrified forest
which far surpasses those heretofore found, both in number of trees and beauty of petrifaction. He says that the trees in this forest are all solid agate most brilliantly colored, and one or two stumps taken to New York could be cut and polished into table tops and sold at fabulous prices.
Memorial Arch at Palo Alto, Cal.— It is reported that the alumni plan for the rebuilding of the Memorial Arch at the Stanford University must be abandoned because the raising of over $100,000 for reconstruction is not feasible. The authorities say that the arch could not be rebuilt out of the endowment fund of the University because all of that is needed for the restoration of the class-rooms.—Exchange.
Saving Hook Mountain from the
Quarrymen.—Anticipating that at some time public sentiment would drive them from Hook Mountain, the quarrymen five years ago planned to accomplish with one gigantic blast the removal of enough traprock from the top and river-front of Hook Mountain to last them for several years. It was calculated by engineers that several thousand tons of trap-rock could be broken loose and sent to the foot of the mountain with a ton or two of dynamite. The fact that this blast, which, if set off, would practically destroy Hook Mountain, would also probably knock down the walls of half the houses in Ossining received no consideration from the quarrymen, and the work was begun. The work continued for upward of a year. The tunnel was practically completed. A few weeks would have seen
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A Whistler Anecdote.—T. P.’s Weekly prints an amusing Whistler anecdote told by Mrs. Mary Baun Ford. Whistler had been working for nearly three weeks on a scaffolding completing the ceiling of his famous “peacock room,” and duly presented his bill to Mr. Leyland. Mr. Leyland refused to pay, on the ground that it was exorbitant. Whistler did nothing for some weeks; then he made another trip to the room, put on his studio clothes, and set to work in front of one of the two peacocks. A few days afterwards Mr. Leyland, who knew nothing about Whistler’s finishing touches, brought a friend to see the room. To their astonishment, they beheld a peacock grasping a huge .pile of gold coins in one of its claws. Next morning the artist received a check for payment in full, together with a polite offer of extra payment if he would “restore that portion of the picture under the bird’s claw to the original design.”—Westminster Gazette.
Some High Chimneys.—The Boston and Montana Copper Mining Company is building a chimney for its smelting plant at Butte, which, when completed, will be the largest chimney in the world. It will be 506 feet high and 50 feet in diameter. The next largest of which there is any record is at Townsend, Scotland. This is 474 feet high with a diameter of forty-one feet. Another Scotch chimney of great dimensions is at St. Pollox. Its height is 442 feet and its diameter is forty-two feet,
Two German chimneys deserve a place in the front rank; one at Bochum measures 462 feet from base to top, with twenty-one feet diameter; the other at Mechernich has a height of 442 feet, with a diameter of twelve. A kodak factory in Rochester, N. Y., has a chimney 366 feet high, with a diameter of twelve feet, and there are two in New Jersey the dimensions of which are 365x12 and 350x10 feet respectively.— Boston Transcript.
Does Technical Training Pay?—With the object of answering in some degree the question, “Does technical training pay?” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has recently collected some figures showing the salaries being paid to men who were graduated from that institution five years ago. Out of 75 answers received from members of the class, the lowest salary reported is $1,000 and the highest $6,000. The returns show that the best-paid men are the mining-engineers, who average $2,625, while the naval-architects average $2,200, the electrical-engineers $1,700, and the biologists $1,300. Compared with the amounts to be gained in trade or speculation, these figures may seem small, but when measured by rewards of the great majority of the world’s workers, they are not meagre, and go to prove that technical education is more than an empty name.— Spring-field, Mass., Union.
Another Petrified Forest Discovered.—
H. H. Buckwalter, who has just returned from Arizona, reports that he discovered there a new. and immense petrified forest
which far surpasses those heretofore found, both in number of trees and beauty of petrifaction. He says that the trees in this forest are all solid agate most brilliantly colored, and one or two stumps taken to New York could be cut and polished into table tops and sold at fabulous prices.
Memorial Arch at Palo Alto, Cal.— It is reported that the alumni plan for the rebuilding of the Memorial Arch at the Stanford University must be abandoned because the raising of over $100,000 for reconstruction is not feasible. The authorities say that the arch could not be rebuilt out of the endowment fund of the University because all of that is needed for the restoration of the class-rooms.—Exchange.
Saving Hook Mountain from the
Quarrymen.—Anticipating that at some time public sentiment would drive them from Hook Mountain, the quarrymen five years ago planned to accomplish with one gigantic blast the removal of enough traprock from the top and river-front of Hook Mountain to last them for several years. It was calculated by engineers that several thousand tons of trap-rock could be broken loose and sent to the foot of the mountain with a ton or two of dynamite. The fact that this blast, which, if set off, would practically destroy Hook Mountain, would also probably knock down the walls of half the houses in Ossining received no consideration from the quarrymen, and the work was begun. The work continued for upward of a year. The tunnel was practically completed. A few weeks would have seen
PLASTERING
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART AND CRAFT OF PLASTERING AND MODELLING
Including full descriptions of the various tools, materials, processes and appliances employed; also of moulded or “fine” concrete as used for paving, fire-proof stairs and floors and architectural dressings, etc., and of reinforced concrete, together with an account of
Historical Plastering in England
Scotland and Ireland
accompanied by numerous examples
By WILLIAM MILLAR
PLASTERER AND MODELLER
With an Introductory Chapter, entitled
“A GLIMPSE OF ITS HISTORY”
By G. T. Robinson, Esq., F.S.A.
The whole fully illustrated with Fifty-five Full Page Plates and about Five Hundred Smaller Illustrations in the text.
NEW EDITION, ENLARGED AND REVISED
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