ment accepted the protest without remark. All the evicted students were of English, Irish, or Scottish origin, their French comrades having left several days before.—N. Y. Evening Post.
Four Stories a Week.—The speed with which skyscrapers are erected in New York is illustrated by Wall Street’s twenty-five story giants which will be known as the Trust Company of America Building. It has been going up at the rate of about four stories a week. There is nothing haphazard about the construction of a skyscraper. Everything is planned to a nicety. Just when a certain height will be reached is calculated almost as accurately as just how it will be done. Even such an unforeseen happening as the steam explosion of December 16, which uprooted the street right in front of the new building and stopped traffic in that neighborhood for a couple of days, caused the builders no serious inconvenience, for the reason that the supply of materials is kept about twenty-four 1 ours ahead of the demand. As much of the steel and stone comes hundreds of miles, from mills in Pennsylvania and quarries in Northern New England, production and transportation methods are under a constant test, owing to the speed of present workmanship ; but, with rare exceptions, the test is passed triumphantly. Even special trains and special fleets of lighters are necessary to facilitate the handling of the material whose aggregate weight, in a huge structure like that soon to be in the possession of the Trust Company, runs into the tens of thousands of tons. The record in this case is worth using as a basis for future comparisons. The work above the massive foundation began on October io. The steelwork will be completed in a few days, and the brickwork by January 20 — twenty-five stories ready for finishing touches in a little more than three months. Curiously enough, the hardest and slowest work was at the beginning, owing to the fact that the Trust Company’s quarters, covering a complete floor area of 7,000 square feet, are comparatively free from columns. Altogether, six hundred men are employed, most of them bv day. The night men clear the track for the day men, and everything is ready for a new spurt when the whistle blows in the morning.—N. Y. Tribune.
Luxembourg. •— Directlv between Paris and Berlin, says Robert Shackleton in Harper’s for January, only a hair’s breadth, indeed, from being on a straight line drawn between these two cities, there lies a little and independent country. By Americans it has been inexplicably overlooked. It contains a multitude of ruined castles, perched craggily. It is of the diverting area of OQO square miles. This almost unnoticed Grossherzogthum of Luxembourg would not even now be independent had not Queen Wilhemina been a girl. It would have remained a province of the Netherlands, although hedged in (such, again, the bewilderment of it! by Germany and Belgium and France. But its constitution makes the succession hereditary in the male line of Nassau, and so at Wilhelmina’s accession it eluded her grasp and placidly entered the family circle of independent European countries: not large for its age, this new member, for its size is less than a
twelfth part of that of tiny Holland. Luxembourg, the capital of Luxembourg, is set proudly upon a plateau girdled by precipices 200 feet in height. Rivers wind circumfluent at the foot of the rocks, and from the boulevarded brink there are alluring views. Until less than forty years ago the city was of a strength only second to that of Gibraltar, but by the Treaty of London of 1867 the Powers decreed that the Duchy should thenceforth be neutral, although it was a province of Holland, and that the fortifications of the capital should be destroyed. For centuries the city held a proud distinction under the alternating rule of France and Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain; and the change has not come in order that nation shall not lift up sword against nation, but only that in case of war great armies may manoeuvre without the check inherent in the very presence at this central spot of a powerful stronghold. And so the splendid haughtiness has gone, and only fragments of the fortifications remain. But what fragments 1 Rocks honeycombed with passages and pierced with embrasures; grim piles of stones; and here and there, projecting over the edges of the cliff, the noble Spanish towers. The Powers decreed, too, that the army be reduced to a paltry 300, and the inhibition still holds. But the happy people, making a jest of necessity, smile when the handful march along with pomp of colors and blare of music, some sixth of the total army being band. But, with saving sense of humor, there is no extravagance of military title, and the commander-in-chief is but a major.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Allegheny, Pa.—A freight house and warehouse, it is stated, will be erected by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Cost, about $500,000. Alex. C. Shand, chief engineer.
Amherst, Mass.—Preliminary plans have been received from McKim, Mead & White, of New York, N. Y., for the biological and geological building for Amherst College. Andrew Carnegie has given $75,000 toward this building and the alumni has raised an equal amount.
Arverne, L. I.—Reports state that Thomas A. Roachford, a real estate dealer in Montague street, Brooklyn, will shortly be-, gin work on a large fireproof hotel, which he is going to erect on the beach, between Stratton and Storm Avenues, at Arverne. The hotel will have 200 rooms and will cost, according to the plans, about $500,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—It is stated that freight and construction yards will be built by the Central of Georgia railway. Cost. $500,000 or more. Chief Engineer, C. K. Lawrence, Savannah, Ga.
Plans have been prepared by Morgan & Dillon, architects, Prudential Building, for a business building for the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company. Estimated cost, $200,000. Alexander Bannyman is the chief engineer, Oglethorpe, Ga.
Avondale, O.—The Mosler Safe Mfg. Company, it is reported, intends erecting an apartment-house to cost $300,000.
Baltimore, Md.—Haskell & Barnes, ar
chitects, Wilson Building, 301 North Charles Street, have prepared tentative plans for dormitory building to be erected at northwest corner of Lombard and Greene Streets for the University of Maryland.
Owens & Sisco, Continental Building, have prepared plans for a large addition to the building of the Terminal Warehouse Company, at Front and Constitution Streets. The building will have four stories and will be 150x150 feet, of brick and steel construction, with electric and gas fixtures, skylights, etc. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Plans have been distributed by Architects Wyatt & Nolting for the new building to be erected at the southwest corner of Water and South , Streets, the old Baltimore Fire Insurance Company’s lot, by the trustees of the Johns Hopkins University. The building, which will be 27 by 52 feet, will be occupied by the Home Fire Insurance Company of New York. The building will have a base of granite, above which will be Indiana limestone and terra-cotta.
Press reports state that Trinity, Calvary and Emmanuel Methodist Episcopal Churches propose to unite and erect a large edifice to cost about $100,000. No site has as yet been selected.
Berkeley, Cal.—Press reports state that architects Stone & Smith, of San Francisco, have submitted plans to the Board of Education for the new Polytechnic High School to be erected at a cost of $140,000.
Boston, Mass.—C. H. Blackall, 20 Beacon Street, it is stated, is preparing plans for a theatre to be erected at Bovlston and Exeter Streets, to cost about $350,000.
The Perkins’ Hotel Company has been organized with a capital stock of $100,000. The company proposes to build a first-class modern up-to-date hotel on Bovlston Street.
Reports state that Fiske & Co., Inc.. 161 Devonshire Street, Boston, and Fuller Building, New York, are having plans prepared for improving the plant with a steel building, fireproof throughout.
The Commonwealth Trust Company, it is reported, has decided upon plans by Architects Peters & Rice for the large new office-building to be erected on Summer and Devonshire Streets. The exterior is to b white marble, with bronze grilles. The structure is to be ten stories in height, the ground floor to be one large banking room.
Reports state that plans are on foot looking towards the erection of a large hospital to be erected on Huntington Avenue and Francis Street, the estimated cost of which is to be about $1,000,000. Reports also state that Architects Codman & Despradelle will, in all probability, prepare the plans. The building to be of steel frame type with brick and stone walls, composition roofing and stone and concrete foundations.
Bristol. Tenn.—Interstate Building Company. recently incorporated with J. M. Barker, president, will erect a five story and basement office building 78x70 feet. Cost. 8-0.000.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Plans have been prepared, it is stated, by A. W. Ross. I3T Livingston Street, for an extension to the public school on Gates, near Stuvvesant Avenue. to be five stories high and 106x62 feet. Estimated cost, $155,000.
Buffalo, N. Y. — Architects Green & Wicks, it is stated, will prepare plans for a large new building for the Children’s Hospital, to be located on lots adjoining the old
Four Stories a Week.—The speed with which skyscrapers are erected in New York is illustrated by Wall Street’s twenty-five story giants which will be known as the Trust Company of America Building. It has been going up at the rate of about four stories a week. There is nothing haphazard about the construction of a skyscraper. Everything is planned to a nicety. Just when a certain height will be reached is calculated almost as accurately as just how it will be done. Even such an unforeseen happening as the steam explosion of December 16, which uprooted the street right in front of the new building and stopped traffic in that neighborhood for a couple of days, caused the builders no serious inconvenience, for the reason that the supply of materials is kept about twenty-four 1 ours ahead of the demand. As much of the steel and stone comes hundreds of miles, from mills in Pennsylvania and quarries in Northern New England, production and transportation methods are under a constant test, owing to the speed of present workmanship ; but, with rare exceptions, the test is passed triumphantly. Even special trains and special fleets of lighters are necessary to facilitate the handling of the material whose aggregate weight, in a huge structure like that soon to be in the possession of the Trust Company, runs into the tens of thousands of tons. The record in this case is worth using as a basis for future comparisons. The work above the massive foundation began on October io. The steelwork will be completed in a few days, and the brickwork by January 20 — twenty-five stories ready for finishing touches in a little more than three months. Curiously enough, the hardest and slowest work was at the beginning, owing to the fact that the Trust Company’s quarters, covering a complete floor area of 7,000 square feet, are comparatively free from columns. Altogether, six hundred men are employed, most of them bv day. The night men clear the track for the day men, and everything is ready for a new spurt when the whistle blows in the morning.—N. Y. Tribune.
Luxembourg. •— Directlv between Paris and Berlin, says Robert Shackleton in Harper’s for January, only a hair’s breadth, indeed, from being on a straight line drawn between these two cities, there lies a little and independent country. By Americans it has been inexplicably overlooked. It contains a multitude of ruined castles, perched craggily. It is of the diverting area of OQO square miles. This almost unnoticed Grossherzogthum of Luxembourg would not even now be independent had not Queen Wilhemina been a girl. It would have remained a province of the Netherlands, although hedged in (such, again, the bewilderment of it! by Germany and Belgium and France. But its constitution makes the succession hereditary in the male line of Nassau, and so at Wilhelmina’s accession it eluded her grasp and placidly entered the family circle of independent European countries: not large for its age, this new member, for its size is less than a
twelfth part of that of tiny Holland. Luxembourg, the capital of Luxembourg, is set proudly upon a plateau girdled by precipices 200 feet in height. Rivers wind circumfluent at the foot of the rocks, and from the boulevarded brink there are alluring views. Until less than forty years ago the city was of a strength only second to that of Gibraltar, but by the Treaty of London of 1867 the Powers decreed that the Duchy should thenceforth be neutral, although it was a province of Holland, and that the fortifications of the capital should be destroyed. For centuries the city held a proud distinction under the alternating rule of France and Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain; and the change has not come in order that nation shall not lift up sword against nation, but only that in case of war great armies may manoeuvre without the check inherent in the very presence at this central spot of a powerful stronghold. And so the splendid haughtiness has gone, and only fragments of the fortifications remain. But what fragments 1 Rocks honeycombed with passages and pierced with embrasures; grim piles of stones; and here and there, projecting over the edges of the cliff, the noble Spanish towers. The Powers decreed, too, that the army be reduced to a paltry 300, and the inhibition still holds. But the happy people, making a jest of necessity, smile when the handful march along with pomp of colors and blare of music, some sixth of the total army being band. But, with saving sense of humor, there is no extravagance of military title, and the commander-in-chief is but a major.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger cities.)
Allegheny, Pa.—A freight house and warehouse, it is stated, will be erected by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Cost, about $500,000. Alex. C. Shand, chief engineer.
Amherst, Mass.—Preliminary plans have been received from McKim, Mead & White, of New York, N. Y., for the biological and geological building for Amherst College. Andrew Carnegie has given $75,000 toward this building and the alumni has raised an equal amount.
Arverne, L. I.—Reports state that Thomas A. Roachford, a real estate dealer in Montague street, Brooklyn, will shortly be-, gin work on a large fireproof hotel, which he is going to erect on the beach, between Stratton and Storm Avenues, at Arverne. The hotel will have 200 rooms and will cost, according to the plans, about $500,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—It is stated that freight and construction yards will be built by the Central of Georgia railway. Cost. $500,000 or more. Chief Engineer, C. K. Lawrence, Savannah, Ga.
Plans have been prepared by Morgan & Dillon, architects, Prudential Building, for a business building for the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company. Estimated cost, $200,000. Alexander Bannyman is the chief engineer, Oglethorpe, Ga.
Avondale, O.—The Mosler Safe Mfg. Company, it is reported, intends erecting an apartment-house to cost $300,000.
Baltimore, Md.—Haskell & Barnes, ar
chitects, Wilson Building, 301 North Charles Street, have prepared tentative plans for dormitory building to be erected at northwest corner of Lombard and Greene Streets for the University of Maryland.
Owens & Sisco, Continental Building, have prepared plans for a large addition to the building of the Terminal Warehouse Company, at Front and Constitution Streets. The building will have four stories and will be 150x150 feet, of brick and steel construction, with electric and gas fixtures, skylights, etc. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Plans have been distributed by Architects Wyatt & Nolting for the new building to be erected at the southwest corner of Water and South , Streets, the old Baltimore Fire Insurance Company’s lot, by the trustees of the Johns Hopkins University. The building, which will be 27 by 52 feet, will be occupied by the Home Fire Insurance Company of New York. The building will have a base of granite, above which will be Indiana limestone and terra-cotta.
Press reports state that Trinity, Calvary and Emmanuel Methodist Episcopal Churches propose to unite and erect a large edifice to cost about $100,000. No site has as yet been selected.
Berkeley, Cal.—Press reports state that architects Stone & Smith, of San Francisco, have submitted plans to the Board of Education for the new Polytechnic High School to be erected at a cost of $140,000.
Boston, Mass.—C. H. Blackall, 20 Beacon Street, it is stated, is preparing plans for a theatre to be erected at Bovlston and Exeter Streets, to cost about $350,000.
The Perkins’ Hotel Company has been organized with a capital stock of $100,000. The company proposes to build a first-class modern up-to-date hotel on Bovlston Street.
Reports state that Fiske & Co., Inc.. 161 Devonshire Street, Boston, and Fuller Building, New York, are having plans prepared for improving the plant with a steel building, fireproof throughout.
The Commonwealth Trust Company, it is reported, has decided upon plans by Architects Peters & Rice for the large new office-building to be erected on Summer and Devonshire Streets. The exterior is to b white marble, with bronze grilles. The structure is to be ten stories in height, the ground floor to be one large banking room.
Reports state that plans are on foot looking towards the erection of a large hospital to be erected on Huntington Avenue and Francis Street, the estimated cost of which is to be about $1,000,000. Reports also state that Architects Codman & Despradelle will, in all probability, prepare the plans. The building to be of steel frame type with brick and stone walls, composition roofing and stone and concrete foundations.
Bristol. Tenn.—Interstate Building Company. recently incorporated with J. M. Barker, president, will erect a five story and basement office building 78x70 feet. Cost. 8-0.000.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Plans have been prepared, it is stated, by A. W. Ross. I3T Livingston Street, for an extension to the public school on Gates, near Stuvvesant Avenue. to be five stories high and 106x62 feet. Estimated cost, $155,000.
Buffalo, N. Y. — Architects Green & Wicks, it is stated, will prepare plans for a large new building for the Children’s Hospital, to be located on lots adjoining the old