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The upper half of the sides and the roof of this home as well as the garage are covered with WEATHERBEST Stained Shingles
Residence of Dr. Charles E. Goodell, Jamestown, N. Y, Freeburg & Fidler, Architects
STAINED SHINGLES Make Lasting and Artistic Material for Roof and Sides BECAUSE FI RST-Stock is thoroughly dried before staining and every shingle is subjected to a process that treats the wood perfectly from tip' to butt thus leaving no part unprotected. Mould spores grow in the dark and destroy, therefore that part of the wood that 'is covered should be protected even more than the part that the sunlight can reach. SECOND - WEATHERBEST solution or stain is a combination of the best wood preservatives and the most lasting colors with plenty of binder included. to fasten . these durable colors to the wood so they can give maX1111l1m servIce. WEATHERBEST WILL NOT O!'~~ Y STAND THE WEATHER TEST BUT THE COST IS NOMINAL-BECAUSE FIRST-Quantity produced and up-to-the-minute factory equipment reduces cost of production to a minimum. SECOND-WEATHERBEST Stained Shingles are furnished in any color bundled ready to carryon the roof or scaffolding. This reduces carpentry labor, a big item in building. ' DO NOT DECIDE TO USE ANY OTHER STAINED SHINGLE UNTIL YOU HAVE INVESTIGATED WE AT HER B EST Color Samples on wood and full information 'frnished upon request TRANSFER STAINED SHINGLE CO., Inc. North Tonawanda, N. Y. East Chicago, Ind. ~ W EA THERBESTStained Shingles Stand the Weather Test .: ::Tl-t E . ' O :tfI ~ ' \, A,cji n EcT, E.NGINEER AND BUILDER ,, : : :' .. ,. , ' ••• ' ,) r " .> I ~"" } ' > tI-.... ,~
IThe','Manest" Natural Gas Furnace GENERATES more WARM AIR than any other gas furnace made. Why not buy the BEST , Over 4200 sold in Cleveland ALONE within the last 7 years. A RECORD THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. It can also be ATTACHED to a COAL FURNACE as an AUXILIARY. WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR.
THE "MANEST" FAMILY CLOTHES DR YER IS ABSO LUTELY FIREPROOF. Examined and approved by the Board of Un derwriters. The clothes come from this dryer as PURE and WHITE as when d ried outdoors. The SIMPLEST, MOST SANI TARY and DURABLE DR YER MADE. It is INDISPENSIBLE for FINE RESIDENCES, APART MENTS, HOSPITALS, HOTELS, Etc. Send for descriptive circular. The Mannen & Esterly Co. 2241-2255 ST. CLAIR AVE. @w1.tlJ}~ .'HE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER .... ND BUILDER J
15-2U233 When Laying Out ·House Wiring I Consider that the up to date home will have a stationary or portable vacuum cleaner. Have the outlets conveniently located for them. It will save the owner money and trouble to have this done when the house is under course of construction.
The Illuminating Company Illuminating Bulldlng CLEVELAND, OHIO PUBLIC SQUARE
Fairmount School, Jamestown, N . y . FreeburK Q!I, Fidler, Architects A. WESTERLINE & SON PLASTERERS - Plain and Ornamental KEENS CEMENT WORK A SPECIALTY STUCCO WORK Contractors for the PlasterinK on the above school and many prominent buildinKs in Jamestown 111 FRANCIS ST.. HOME PHONE 1088-8 JAMESTOWN. N . Y. 4 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
SARGENT HARDWARE Will meet the requirements of the best built Homes and Public Buildings Sargent Hardware was used in the following build. ings : Fairmount School, Murray Apartments, Allen and Callahan, East 2nd Street, pfesbytrrian Manse, L. M. Butman residence. Lakeview Ave., also resi· dences of Erwin Shearman. W. L. Booth, Mrs. Daniel Eisenburg and Joseph Graff.
McCRAY REFRIGERATORS McCray Refrigerators have been installed as follows : Resi. dences of W . T. Falconer, P. F. Simon. J. B. Fisher, Chas. Haas. Bertha Preston and Chas. C. Wilson.
The McCray is of beautiful design and work. manship and utmost care is taken with every part of every "Refrigerator".
Clark Hardware COInpany 109-1 1 1 Main Street, JaDlestown, N. Y.
VAN D.ERVOORT SUPPLY CO. JAMESTOWN, N . Y.
CEMENT, LIME, PLASTER, PLASTER BOARD, METAL LATH BUILDING TILE, FACE BRICK AND SEWER PIPE
Furnished material for all buildings in this book THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER A1"D UlJIL()J ~ R 5
Osborn's Charcoal Iron Old Style Roofing Plates Used throught ·this magnificent building
NEW COUNTY COURT HOUSE, OMAHA, NEB. JOHN LATENSEN, Architect
Only a roofing plate made from a GENUINE CHARCOAL IRON BASE coated by the full palm oil process through a seven pot old way set and carrying a coating rich in tin will stand the analysis. OSBORN'S CHARCOAL IRON OLD STYLE has been used again and again for this work and is fully in accord with their specifications.
ROOFING PLATES which are accepted by the U. S. Government certainly should be considered by all leading Architects
J. M. & L. A. OSBORN CO. Cleveland, Ohio 6 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
Post Publishing Co.'. Building. F reeburg and· Fic11er, Architects. JAMESTOWN CONSTRUCTION CO. General Contractors and Builders Structural Steel Builders' Supplies General contractors on the above building and many others in Jamestown 12-16 River Street JAMESTOWN, N. Y.
LINDBECK'S L. W. STEIN Planing Mill and Lumber Yard Contractor in Can furnish anything that goes PAINTING into a building. My eighteen years experience in the build and DECORATING ing business will ten you just what you need. Give me a can . Bell Phone 3 Home Phone 332-K 209 PINE STREET 2-16 River St., Jamestown, N. Y. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. THE OHIO I§rcbtttct ~ngfnttr anb .uflber -
W. S. JUDSON, PRESIDENT AND TREASURER. E. MARTINEAU, VICE PRESIDENT HID MANAGER. 20 BLACKSTONE BUILDING, CLEVELAND, OHIO W. S. LLOYD, EDITOR,
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Contents for July-
Modern Exterior Illumination 9 Architectural Work of Messrs. Freeburg & Fidler 14 London Building Acts 33 Campaign Against Smoke 40 The Farmer's Home of Today 42 "The Fourth" on' the Canal 50 Wanted-A Painter. 54 Editorial. 58 Mid-Summer Levity 68
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High-Class Hardwood Interior Finish Doors, Sash, Mill work for all kinds of buildings Mouldings, all kinds The Lumber Peters Mill Work and Lumber Co. Shingles 1895 Carter Road, CLEVELAND
M.J.MURRAY &CO. Fine Plumbing Hot Water and Vapor Heating
ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN 323 Washington Street JAMESTOWN, N. Y.
HIGH GRADE IMPERVIOUS FRONT BRICK BROWN, GRAY, BUFF, IRON SPOT, CORDUROY, VELOUR, DEVONSHIRE, SARUKS, BRADFORD PRESS Salt Glazed Face Brick, Fireproofing, Partition, Promenade Roofing and Encaustic Tile A FEW JOBS IN WHICH OUR_BRICK AND TILE WERE USED : JAMESTOWN. N. Y. CORRY. PA. MEADVILLE, PA. Hotel Samuels, Even,ing J oumal Buil ding. Moose C lub, Gokey Building. Murray Residence. Hotchkiss 'Dlock. ""inter Gardell, IO E: car Fritts :Resiclence, Chas. M iller Residence. No. 7 School. WARREN, PA. Treppe Residence. Fairmount Ave. School, ICeo. Leanhart Residence, New Engine HoW'~e . ~a ' g l e Temple. Dr. Beatty Residence. FALCONER. N. Y. ~ '[urray Buil ding. H igh School. Frick·MoGee Building. LUDLOW. PA. J oseph Graf Residence, Union School. GREENVILLE. PA. Presbyterian 'Manse, SHERMAN, N. y. Homer Apartment House, Immanuel Lutheran Parsonage, High School. Thid Coll ege. T. C. Campbell Residence. CLYMER, N. Y. UNION CITY, PA. \V esterma n Residence, New School- Tile High School. Dr. BedeWs Residence. ERIE, PA. Miss Williard Residence. OIL CITY, PA. Chamlber .of Commerce. )1rs. Sullivan's Garage. Geo. Veach. ~ofayer Block. Dr. John Wilkins Residence. Palace 'Hardware ,Building. WESTFIELD, N. Y. J. R. Steel Residence. ALBION, PA. Geo. Cowan Residence, Evangelical Church. Boyle Residence. Young Residence. OLEAN, N. Y. NORTH EAST. PA.' FRANKLIN. PA. F lint Residence. Ackerman Residence. Evan'gelical 'Church. Post Office. 'German Lutheran Parsonage, Steel Plant. Ross Block. T heatre. A. M. (OBBE, 27 Barrett BI~g., Jamestown, N. Y. THE OHIO ARCUx"n:CT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
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VOLUME XXIII J ULY, 1914. NUMBER 7
MODERN ,EXTERIOR ILLUMINA TION
HOW THE PERFECTiON OF THE TUNGSTEN FILAMENT HAS' SERVED. BY MEANS' OF SCIENTIFIC PROJECTORS. TO PRODUCE STARTLING NIGHT EFFECTS
Engineering Building of National Electric Lamp Association, Nel~ Park. under new illumination.
A recent electrical exhibition in Cleve world's knowledge of electricity a cen land has brought this community to a tury ago. new realization of the close and intimate "Today," the speaker said, " it takes relationship that modern life has to do three pages of the Century dictionary to with the development of electrical sci define electricity and its cognates." ence in all its forms. Pre~iously in this magazine an elabor A speaker at an engineering society ate article told of the "New Science of banquet in Cleveland, recently, referred Lighting" interiors and especially pic to an early edition of an American (Eng ture galleries and studios. lish) dictionary in whi~h a three line That is only one important branch of definition of electricity as "that form of this intricate field of scientific research. energy which impelled, when rubbed to Within the house every architect and ?"ether, one piece of amber; jet, or seal hom~ builder knows ' ~ow essential the lIlg wax, to attract another piece of am electrical inst~lIation has become, and the ber, jet cr ceiling wax," summed up the housewife knows how varied are the Ia- to TnE; OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
bar saving, comfort giving, devices of acy that would illll111inate a wide area of the present day electric appliances. store front brilliantly and with startling . .From " the .. mOl11ent the house owner effect has been a subject of investigation : t~,~es ~ hi ~ ~~cr~~c ~~r;: down town in the and experimentation at the laboratory of " .",' " . .' ! ,. •. ~ morning until he turns she switch to il- the Nati onal E lectric Lamp Association J~t(~~t~a ~ e:, tii~; s'p'n~~: ~ihies , apparently in Clevearid for a long time past. niova.ble· k~y < hole a't 'rii ght, electricity in The exper il ~l1ent a l stage is now believed one form or another is his constant com to have been passed and before a dele panion and willing servant gation of visiting illuminating engineers "Is the house wired for electricity?" is at Nela Park recently, the eng ineering said to be the first question you ask if building of that organization was illum you are seeking to rent or buy a home . inated in so striking and vivid a manner and the fir st question asked you if you as to bring forth the highest commenda want- to se ll one. ti on by the vi siting members. The merchant is as equally dependent This system of exterior illumination lIpon good lighting to di splay his goods which must have made the great build as he is upon the salesman to name the ing visible for miles across the country price. In fact the light often makes the and far out into the lake, is the result sale before the salesman himself realizes not onl y of a new and purely scientfic it. Thlls the store with all its varied form of projector as illustrated here but needs, for there is one light or form of is due to the increased mechanical li ghting, for the grocery another, for the strength that has been imparted by these jewelry store, and another for the ladies' scientists to the tungsten filaments. wear store, or the bookshop, and each one These filaments have been increased 300 is distinctive and unique in itself, is as per cent since 1908 and the strength 'of g reat a consumer of electricity as the drawn wire has increased 40 per cent home. within the last three years. As with the multiplied variety of Again the introduction of the helical, stores so with the factory, the hotel, the or coiled filament, has made possible hospital and the art museum. Each calls many new forms of lamps not heretofore for its own particular light and fixture. possible. In other words the constantly And through it all some definite archi increasing usage of electric lamps is tectural scheme must be carried out, or largely and almost solely due to the far symbolism expressed, and that is why the reaching improvements that have been subject of electrical devices has its place made at this Cleveland laboratory, and the within the pages of .an architectural pub general introductioh of the coil filament lication. type of tungsten lamp. Therefore, if we But electrical installation for the in would know the secret of this wonderful terior of the home or place of business world wide usage of electric illumin has become so familiar to the home or ation will find it in the almost invisible, store owner that we prefer for the mo often overlooked, spiral wire suspended ment to call attention to a newer phase within the globe of the tungsten burner. of electrical display and that is the exter In that deftly coiled filament sitting nal illumination of stores or large indus spider like within its hermetically sealed, trial plants. transparent home, lies the whole story of SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH modern illumination. To produce a lamp of sufficient energy In the early days the decrease of can and a projector of such scientific accur- die power in an electric lamp was often THE OHIO ARCHITECT,. ENGINEER AND BUILDER 11
the result of the blackening of the bulb illumination without spot or blemish any by particles thrown off by the filament where in the field of vision. and for many years experiments were So much for the lamp, but perfecton made . with the almost sale purpose of must also be obtained in the reflector or diminishing this black deposit. Then ex "projector" as these new forms are periments resulted in the introduction of called. Projectors have been used for a chemical in the lan;p bulb which, un arc lamps for a long time, of course, hut der proper conditions, combined with they were impracticable for illuminating the black deposit in such a manner as to large exterior surfaces as they required render it light in color and this reduced an attenclant. They were formerly hand the bulb absorption to a rema rkable de ad j usted and the ~a rb o n s would not last. gree. At the present time therefore, every The price also became prohibitive. \ Vith lamp used in the home or store above the new system this 1000~watt lamp has the 40-watt six is supplied with this a life of 600 hours and by alternate light- chemical. There is no particular advan tage in introducing the chemical into ~ l11aller lamps for the reason that the use ful life is stiil limited by failure of the filament rather than by the bulb blacken mg.
HELICAL FILAMENTS These facts are set forth simply to in di cate the care that has been taken to supply. every householder with the best illl1minant science can produce. Then came the discovery that wire drawn filaments' of all sizes could be coi led into the shape of a helical spring greatly reducing their overall length and making a practical lamp of almost any New projector, designed by National Electric Lamp Association for exterior illumination. form desired. This process -is the secret of the pres ing and darkening to obtain contrast, a ent day method of exterior illumination. lamp turning three hours a night would The diameter of the helical coil is or last thr.ee months. The cost of the il- dinarily not more than seven times the lumination being from 3 to 5 cents per diameter of the filament itself and there kilowat hour or 50 cents per hour for ten fore. the difference in potential (power) lamps. between the successive turns is very small The new lamps it should be said are 11 usually about one tenth of a volt. At inches in length and about six inches 111 this low voltage there is practically no diameter and are being rpade both 111 tendency for the current to short-circuit 1,000 and 500-watt sizes. its regular path, even when the coils ap The reflector, as has been said, is of pear to touch each other . . The new 1,000- special design. One of the discoveries watt lamp used in these illuminations are made by the young who do things at specially concentrated, apparently oc N eia Park was that a reflector which had cupying an area not more than half an a parabolic curve behind the globe . was inch square and thus insuring a uniform not projecting its ray .forward at all, and 12 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
much of Ithe light was being lost. What of the flag poles. The lamps in these was needed was hemispherical form. fixtures are 1000-watt nitrogen filled Then also the parabolic form of the for Mazda lamps. Each lamp produces Jooo ward portion needed attcntion in order candle-power. The light is sufficiently that the entire volume of light might be strong to make it possible to read the projected where it was needed. just as on words "Keith's Hippodrome" on the flags an automobile you want the light ahead. from the :level of the street. Sixteen' and not behind you. The forward part units are located on the front of the of thi~ projector-and it is a projector building. They are spaced uniformly in of Jight rather than a merc reflector a vertical direction and are located on deviates slightly from the Cllrve of the the four pilasters running l1p the front parabola in the rear portion of it. so that of the building. The lamps in these fix there are three curves. the hemisphere tures are 7'50 watt type "C" Mazda behind the lamp' and two separate curves lamps. The lamps are mOl1nted on swing ill [rOil t a~ the diagram s h o w~ . brackets. These brackets when swung in Tll\l~ there was produced a scientific bring the lamp to a position directly op light projector which po"sessed abso- posite the window, making the renewal 111t e!\' correct reflector sl1rfaces where or the cleaning of the lamp easy and con pre\'iously there IJad been obtained mere venient. The di stribution of light frolll appruximate resl1lts. the light from the this fixture is such that there are no proj edor being cuncentrated in a beam spots of lig ht at any point and the inten having a \\·i<1th of twenty degrees. Thus sity of light is so great that the bricks \\' 1.' have a polished nickel reflector. hav may be cOl1nted from the street level. in g' a maxim11m diameter of L'i in ches J nasml1ch as light is the best adver and a length of ?O inches. ti sing mediull1 known, this installation ()Ile of the fir st installations of this will l1ndol1btedly pay for itself in a short new form of exterior illumination is now length of time. being prepared for the Dime Savings The lighting does not cheapen the ap Hank huilding. Detroit, a twenty-three pearance of the building as the design of story building l ~lO feet frontage, on which the fixtl1re and the bracket is very orna IOO projectors will be used. mental and the color of light produced The Engineering Department building by the lamp is the nearest approach to of the ~ ational Electric Lamp Associa sl1nlight that has ever been obtained in tion building shown herewith, has a artificial illumination. frontage of 250 x 40 feet and was lighted The total cost of installation will be ap by ten projectors. proximately $400. While this cost may D. F. KEITH'S HIPPODROME seem high, it is due primarily to the fact Just as this issue is being printed the that the electrical circuits had to be run first illuminations ·of the flag staffs and from a point 509 feet distant and many front of B. F. Keith's Hippodrome on obstacles had to be overcome. A large Euclid avenue are being exhibited by ex terior lights, and other Euclid avenue part of this cost was taken up by the four business houses will doubtless foltow units mounted on the top of the flag Mr. Keith's example : poles. The maintenance cost is done on The lighting of this building consists the rental plan. These units are main of 20 1\1 ulti-Lux out door type "C" units. tained by the illuminating company at a Four of these units are placed at the top cost of 75 cents per unit per month. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 13
Cleveland Illuminating .Building you must be directly beneath it, That Another example of exterior illumin might be very well for Broadway, but it ation in Cleveland is that upon the upper did not seem applicable to a building like walls of the new building, on the Public ours, visible across the Cieveland Public Square,of the Cleveland Illuminating Square, Company. "I came hOllle with two t.hings pretty :\111". George E. Miller of this Company well setttied in Illy mind. One was that who has given the subject of exterior the exterior ilIulllinating scheme to be illumination considerable attention dur adopted should not be an integral part of the architectural plan,' and second, that in g the last few years said to THE OHIO .-\RCTllTECT ENGINEER .\ ND B U ILDleR :' the lamps ml1 st be located where they "The subject of exterior illulllination is could be renewed without risking a11y more or less in its infancy but as the body's life in doing so. ~cience of lighting increases there is no "The JIluminating Company's :-\rchi doubt that more and more attention will teets, ;\iessrs. Hubbell & Ben/es, had c1e, be gi ven to the subject of making notable cided upon a strip of architectural terra lJl1ilc1ings as noticable at night as by day. cotta, thirty feet deep covering the upper "When the new building of the Cleve stories of the new huilding, around the land Illuminating Company was being four sides, We, therefore, devised a constructed we were anxious to see what plan whereby a series of lamps which we could be done to make this structure a finally encased in a square box-like re icaturc of Cleveland architecture to flector, beneath the cornice and therefore \'i~itors at night as well as in daylight. easily reached any time without risk by For that purpose I visited a large num the custodian of the building. A series her of cities both east and west and got of windows 24 x:lO inches in size, and 111 0re or less in touch with conditions as glazed with alba glass, were arranged they at present exist. around the building, heneath the cornice. "Probably ,the most notable attempt at This glass was selected not only because exterior ilIul11iriation in the United States of its transparency at night but because at present is the Denver (Colorado) Gas also that its being so near the color of and Electric building. This building is the surrounding terra cotta that it was of terra cotta construction and the front indistinguishahle from it in day time. is studded with incandescent bulbs in fan Two of these box reflectors were placed tastic form, making, when lighted, a very over each window and we are using 400 hrilliant effect. There are hundreds and lamps of 100 watts, each, throwing a perhaps thousands of these mazda lamps good light down upon the walls. embedded in the walI of the building, It "This illumination might perhaps be is a distinct part of the architectural made more effective by higher power ~c h e m e. The question once arose in Illy lamps but one thing is certain and that l11ind as to what this building might look is that the installation in no way affects like ten years hence for the scheme is the appearance of the building and by the permanently embedded in the architec turning of a switch the structure looks tl1ral construction, I do not believe that like any other modern business block, that is a very wise method in view of the which of course it is," progress that is bound to take place in The exterior illumination of public and this science within the next few years, private buildings is no doubt going to be "In the new McAlpine Hotel in New a feature of night scenes in American York I saw a scheme whereby the wide cities and each of these examples is only overhanging cornice is illuminated from a step in the march of science towards beneath, Well in order to appreciate this that beneficient end. 14 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
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In "pite of much general depression ing that time devoted most of hi s time tha t ha" more or less effected ,the build to the 'construction of buildings. For ing trades in many communities, this a'bout three years he was a practical much may be said of Jamestown, NevY carpenter, mason and painter. With York. that it has at least kept up a this practical knowledge of building cheerful countenance. construction he began the study of It has not advertised its woes, if it architeoture; and for five years was a had any, and in the face of sometime student in the offices of the best archi a surrounding gloom has made the most tects in his reach. He' then opened an of its opportunities as they have pre office in Jamestown and four years ago sented themselves. last March became a partner of Mr. In the architectural line Messrs. Fidler. The new firm at once sprang Freeburg and Fidler, a ' firm composed into prominence, rapidly outgrew its of ':\Iessrs. George C. Freeburg and A. original offices and is now one of the . Howard Fidler have been more than largest and best equipped architectural prominent. Much of the up-to-date firms in New York. appearance which both the semi-public Mr. A. Howard Fidler is a native of and domestic architecture of Jamestown Guelph, Ontario, but came to James presents to the visitor is due to the town when quite a youth, thirty-eight professional activity of these gentlemen. years ago. Here he attended the local In :;ubsequent pages of ,this issue of high school and prepared for his archi the OHlO ARCHITECT,ENGINEER AND ,tectural course at Mercersburg, Penn BUILnER, many examples both in com sylvania, Academy. After practising mercial. domestic and public buildings his profession something less than a designed and st.lperintenclecl by these year alone he joined forces with Mr. architecb are presented. They, of Freeburg and has done rimch to pro course. speak more for the professional mote the prosperity of this enterprising ability of their designers than any mere architectural firm . word:; may. Of the personal history The firm now occupies offices on the of the members of this firm a word third floor of the Chadakoin Building may not be out of place' for them. and employes a large force of drafts 1\lr. Freeburg has been a resident of men and is constantly increasing its Jame"town for thirteen years and c1ur- business. o tI: o...
Freeburg and Fidler, A rchitect,. Fairmount Avenue School. Brick in this building furnished by SARGENT HARDWARE used in above building A. M. COBBE furnished by CLARK HARDWARE CO. 16 THE OHIO ARCH lTECT, ENGINeER AND BUILDER
Main Entrance of Fairmo·unt School. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. t7
E 3.gl. Temple Building. Preeburg and Fidler, A rchitects. 18 THE OHIO ARCHITECT. ENGINEER AND BUILDER
Reception Room~Eagle TCJT.ple. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. Mantel and Tile Work by FRANK A. HUMBERT, Jamestown, N.Y.
Ball room-Eagle Temple. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 19
Post Publishing Co.'. Building. I" reeburg and Fieller, Architects. JAMESTOWN CONSTRUCTION CO. GENERAL CONTRACTORS 20 THE OHIO . ARCIlITECT, ENC.NEER AND BUILDER
Building for Dr. W . W . Hotchkiss. Freeburg and F idler, Architects.
G. A. R. Memorial Hall, Little Valley, N. Y. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 21
Allen and Callahan Building. I: reeburg a nd Fidler, Architects.
,-" . --=-~ t ~ _ ... ~ ... ~ . ~ ...~ ,I!;" • Fairmount Avrnue Hose House. Freeburl[ and Fidler, .Architects. 22 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER )
Building for M. J. Murrav Co. Freeburg and Fidler, A rchitects.
Drafting Room of Architects Freeburi and Fidler, Jamestown, N. Y. · THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 23
Presbyterian Manse .. Freeburg and F idler. Architects.
Living Riom-Preabyterian Manle. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects.' 24 THE OHIO ARCIIITECT, ENGINEER ANT> BUILDER
First Lutheran Parsonage. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects.
Living Room and 'Dining Room-First Lutheran Parsona:ge. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 2S
Residence of W. F . Stitt. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects.
Winter Home 'of ,. W.' Onlr. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. 26 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
Residence of W . L. Booth. Freebu rg and F idl e r, Archit ecb .
Residence of R. W. Bil:elow. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 27
Residence of Michael Wood. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects.
Residence of Judge Jerome ~ B. Fisher, Sr. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. 28 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
Interior of Mozart Theatre. Free'burg and Fidler, Architects.
Garage of Mrs. D' A. Sullivan. Freeburg and F idler, Architects. TilE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGlNEER AND BUILDER 29
Residence of Mrs. Ida Bigelow. F reeburg and Fidler, Archil ecls.
Dinini Room-.,Residence of ., Mrs. Ida. Bigelow. F reeburg . and Fidler, Architects. 30 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEElt AND BUILDER
Residence of L. M. Butman. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects.
Reception Room-Residence of L. M. Butman. Freeburg and "Fidler, Architects. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDF.R 31
Residence of Erwin Shearman. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects.
Living Room-Residence of Erwin Shearman. Freeburg and ' Fidler. Architects. ;2 TH": OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER
Winter Garden Theatre. Freeburg "and Fidler, A rch itects. Plumbing and H eati"g in above building by C HATFI ELD & SHARP, Jnmestown, N.Y·
Interior-Winter Garden Theatre, Freeburg and Fidler, A r chitects. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINkER AND ~UILDER 33
LONDON BUILDING ACTS
INTERESTING HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CITY TOLD IN THE LAWS REGULATING ITS BUILDING FROM THE ROMAN DAYS DOWN TO THE GREAT FIRE
Any information having to do with ments and changes that are being intro the history of the city of London always duced into London's topography at the has a fascination for the intelligent present time. American reader, not because "it is Eng "The I growth of London and the lish," YOll know, but for the very sane growth of its Building Acts," Mr. Dav and logical reason that so many of our idge declares, "are so intertwined and in native American traditions, llanguage and terdependent that it is somewhat curious customs, have their foundations laid that so little research has been made into deep in English soil. the original of those laws and regula Topographically and architecturally tions \vhich have had such an important London has been a prolific subject for bearing in the forming of modern Lon- the poet, painter and novelist. Its streets o don. We .look at an old building which and buildings, both private and public, its has weathered the centuries with a sym churches, palaces and bridges have been pathetic interest and we strive to piece not only closely entwined with the his together its history, bit by bit, from the tory of the English people but have be features, one by one, that we can put a come a living part of the work of Ipany date on. Here a door has been inserted, English novels. Quite as closely allied here a window, or arch, or arcading of with Vanity Fair ~re the Sedley home later date until the finished fabric .affords near Russel Square, Colonel Pel1dennis' to the seeing eye an open book wherein clubs, as are the characters themselves, one may read of the labors and thoughts while a volume on "Dickens' London" of the bygone centuries. might well serve as a guide to many "Has it ever occurred to us to analyze parts of the English capital. o in the same way the structure of the en J I1st now the London County Council actments on which London has been is struggling with a new Building Act 0 framed? Sometimes one hears sugges for the British Metropolis and Mr. W. R. tions as to the inconsistency of various Davidge, an associate member of the In sections and regulations. It may be so. ;; titute of Civil Engineers, has been trac Is it any wonder, when we consider that ing the development of London and the perhaps one section, in its essence at long list of Lon~lon Building Acts be least, has stood the test of seven hun fore the Royal Institute of British Archi dred years of argument between the tects. So strange and wierd are many of building owner and his neighbor, another the facts uprooted by this exca:v.a.tion of perhaps is reminiscent of the days when London's past that we propose to take the only fire protection was the parish our readers into a brief excursion into "squirt" and yet another comes white-hot the by-gone building days of the Eng .from the neomodern theories of the lish capital, with the purpose of eventu structural engineer? The marvel is that ally touching upon some of the improve- the finished edifice stands so well and 34 THI'; OIBO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUlLDER looks so shai)ely on the whole, despite BUILT ON SQUARES the heterogeneous orig in of its material The Roman town areas were nearly parts." always divided by two main streets, Mr. Davidge then proceeds to give a (north and south, east and west) into ' brief sketch of the origin of London's four parts, and by other parallel streets building acts which may be only touched into square or oblong house blocks, in upon here but which are of no little his sulae and the rectangular scheme is car toric in terest. ried through with a geometrical precis- IOn. A ROMAN LONDON The insul;e were fairly uniform in Of the first Roman city known at size, approximately 120 ft. or some mul Rome as Londinium Augusta, much has tiple of that. Thus following a London been written and still more conjectured, map of 1677 and taking 'as starting but the lectmer was of the opinion that points on this map, fir st the known line of the many things he l1lay know with of the outer Roman wall; then Wren's certainty. one is undoubtedly that the clear statement of the existencle of the ROl1lan building laws as they were en Roman causeway. 18 feet deep at the forced under Augustus Cesar were put Bow Church, Cheapside, exactly beneath into execution in th e Roman outpost on the tower; then the finding in 178G in the Thames just as they were in the Im Birchin Lane, 14 feet deep, of a rough perial ci ty on the Tiber and some of these chalk pavement coinciding with the line too may have had their influence in shap of this same east and west roael we wi\I ing and modi fying later ideals. find : The streets within a comparatively re Exactly half-way along this axis line stricted area of the first settlement were is the existing Mansion House, where apparentl.\· laid out in the regular rectan formerly was the "Stocks Market," for g ul a r fa shi on, and there is no reason to centuries the traditional center of the Ro doubt that the general rectangular ar man city. rangement of the walls and streets were Approximately equidistant on each extend ed consid erably dming the 400 sid e of this central point we have west years of the Roman occ upation, though ward the Roman Temple recorded by it is probable that there was considerable Wren on the site of Bow Church, and amount of open space, within the outer eastward the Basilica near Leadenhall enclosing wails. 111 addition to the recorded by Sir Vvilliam Tite and others. areas of reserved lal1l1 outside the walls A line north and south from the Stocks belonging to the city and kept for defen Market follows as nearly as possible the SIve pu rposes. line of Walbrook, terminating at Dow gate on the river bank. Not many American visitors to Lon Taking the eastern. boundary of the ci on this summer occupyi ng that excellent first Roman city as Billingsgate, we 'have coign of' vantage, the top of a Bank 'bus old London Bridge immediately south of may be quite sure just when he is follow the Leadenhall Basilica. then Dowgate ing the comse of a Roman street as he on our central axis. The port of Queen wends his way from St. Paul to the Hithe immediately south of Bow Church Tower, but Mr. Davidge reminds us of with its earlier Roman Temple, and the one or two general principles laid down site of Baynard's Castle (a traditiOl1al as almost universal in Roman Colonial Roman stronghold ), is again equidistaht theories which may aid us. from our axis line. It is curious. to<\> , ~ THE OHIO ARCHITECT, · ENGINEER AND BUILDER that the Guildhall, another old site at one :gARLY ATTEMPTS AT FIRE PREVENTION time extending to Aldermanbury, is in a . For seven centurie~ London building central position on the same axis as . was at a standstill, but with the election Queen Hithe and Bow Church. of her first Lord l\hyor, in 1189, the sec Turning now to the particulars given ond chapter of London's building history by Professor Haverfield, we find that the begins. Like many another authority east and west line, which represents al since, FitzAlwyne, the new Mayor, saw most the actual line of Cheapside con the need for regulating the buildings tinued in a straight line east and west, is which no doubt began to spring up in exactly half-way between London Wall considerable numbers on the establish and the River, and all three almost ex ment of more settled conditions after the actly parallel. The original line of Can Conqttest. The Lonuon Assize of 1189, non street is again parallel and almost the first year of Richard 1., although it exactly half the distance between Cheap dates back before the formation of our side and the river. N early all the sub Parliamentary system, had all th e force sidiary streets will be seen to be roughly of a modern Act of Parliament, and in at right angles to these lines. its details it affords a most valuable in Finally, the dimensions of the insulre sight into the conditions of the times. forming the rectangular blocks will be Stow tells us that it remained in force for found to agree almost exactly with those upwards of 200 years. The pity of it is laid down by Professor Haverfield. that, although the Act remains, the build ings have long since disappeared. We Let no one say that modern London may well wonder whether the existing is not a lineal descendent, at any rate, of Building Acts will ever survive as the the ancient Londinium Augusta. That only record of our present day buildings. ,the Roman city was a very complete and FitzAlwyne's Assize of 1189 although highly advanced community cannot be London, written about thirty years be doubted, and it is difficult to believe that its traces could have disappeared in the fore this, records that "The only pests short period intervening between the of London are the immoderate drinking gradual withdrawal of R oman troops and of fo ols and the frequency of fires." the firm seating of Saxon power. Much Fitz Alwyne's Assize of 1189 although more probable is it that the citadel or aimed against the spread of fire, was not earlier city was fully maintained during intended to be compulsory but rather this period, and that tracks like Watling permissive in character and to facilitate street, or, in Stow',s spelling, Watheling the erection of stone party walls, to street, were formed across the lines of separate premises belonging to different the outer city to afford easy access to the owners, "especially for appeasing conten citadel. The building materials alone tions which· sometimes arise among must have formed a valuable quarry for neighbors." up to this date the greater a generation or two in search of stone or part of the city had been built of wood tile wherewith to complete or repair the roofed with straw, reeds and similar ma defences of the city. To this necessity terials and the great fire in the first year for defence mav be clue the fact that the of King Stephen (1136), which de line of the RCl~lan Wall is everywhere stroyed practically the whole city, was clearly traceable, though the exact Ene still in painful remembrance. It appears of the streets must still be the field for from the opening statements that after further research. this widespread fire the more wealthy 36 'i'HE UHIO ARCHITECT, ENGiNEER AND BUILD~R citizens rebuilt their houses with stone there are many references 111 the early party walls and covered the roofs with records to "tuyles." thick tiles, but that wood and thatch A general admonition was given to were still ill general use. whoever wished to build "to take care as he loveth himself and his goods, that he SOME EARLY PEEPING TOMS roof not with reed nor rush, but with tile The height of buildings seems to have only or shingle or boards or lead," All been a matter of sentiment. Public feel thatched houses were to be plastered over ing was outraged when anyone built within eight days, under pain of being higher than his neighbors, and we have demolished. All wooden houses in on record the sad fate of at least two Cheapside were to be pulled down or people who attempted to thus overlord amended to the satisfaction of the Mayor the community. As the chronicle says: and sheriffs. Finally, although no special "One Sir John Champneis, alderman means of escape were stipulated, the Al and mayor, built in his house a high dermen of each ward were to have "a tower of brick, the first that was ever proper hook or cord," and fire appliances heard of in any private man's house to were to be provided during the summer overlook his neighbors, and to this de months in front of every house in the light of his eye was punished with blind form of a tub, either of wood or stone, ness before his death. full of water. Another, Richard Wethell, merchant REGULATIONS AS TO PROJECTIONS tailor, built a fair house with a high Still further regulations were made tower, the second in number and first of dealing with projections from buildings. timber that ever I learned to have been All penthouses and "j ettees" (a general built to overlook neighbors in this city. name for projections) of houses were re This Richard, then a young man, became quired to be at least 9 feet high, so that in a short time so tormented with gouts folks on horseback might ride beneath in his joints of the hands and legs, that them. Irregular structures of this de he could neither feed himself nor go fur scription were required to be removed or ther than he was led, much less was he altered within forty days under a penalty able to climb and take the pleasure of the of 40s, The amount of the penalty has height of his tower." not altered during the last 700 years! All alehouses, except by special license, No stall was to project from the house to were forbidden unless of stone. Bake which it belonged more than 2% feet, a houses and brew houses were not to use dimension which to the present day is re reeds or straw, but wooel fuel. Cook tained to limit projecting cornices. shops, bakehouses, and other trade The days of Edward 1. were great in premises were to be whitewashed and building development. Not only were plastered inside and out as a preventive the city walls of London extended to in from fire, and all superfluous woodwork clude the monastery of Blackfriars removed, Even nowadays lime-whiting (1282), but many new towns in all di of timber is a common enough require rections were planned and built under ment. Edward's orders. In 1298 Edward 1. No special mention is, however, made wrote from Bordeaux asking for four ex of chimneys or flues, which were not yet pert town planners to be sent out. apparently in universal use. Curiously "The most clever and able and those enough bricks are not mentioned, though who best know how to divide order and THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 37 arrange a new town in the manner that their noon meet, and long time at sleep will be most beneficial for us and for the ing at afternoon, to the loss and hurt of merchants, and who shall be ready and such persons as they be retained within willing to go for that purpose wherever service it is therefore established, enacted we may send them." and ordained that every artificer and la These new towns or free towns may borer and ice cream churner be at work still be recognized by the names of Ville between the middle of March and the Neuve and Ville-Franche so frequently middle of September for 5 9f the clock in met with in Southern France. the morning. and that he have one half London continued to grow. On the hour for his breakfast and one hour and south side of the river Southwark was one-half for dinner at such time as he granted to the city in 1327 by Edward hath season for sleep , to him appointed III. on payment of il0 annually, and in by the statute. the reign of Edward VI., on valuable "And at such time that he shall not sleep then he is to have but an hour for consideration paid to the Crown, it was his dinner and one-half hour for his noon formed into a twenty-sixth ward, by the meat and that he depart not from his title of Bridge Ward Without. Owing work (in the summer) till between 7 and to the smoke nuisance in London and the 8 of the clock in the evening-and (in suburhs the use of coal was prohibited in winter) may be at their work in the 1306. The city began tei stretch out be springing of the day and depart not till yond its walls. The Forest of Middle night of the same day." sex and the Warren of Staines were dis It will be seen that there was no need afforested in the second year of Henry to attach to a contract a schedule of III., since which time Stow says that the rates of wages and hours of work. suburbs of London had "mightily in The following paragraph, too, shows creased with buildings." that the men in the building trade of
EARLY L ABOR TROUBLES AND WAGES those days occasionally combined for other objects than raising wages: Strikes and labor troubles are not alto "If any artificer or laborer retained in gether of recent creation. So long ago service with any person for buildin'g or as the reign of Edward III. (1350) legis reparation do assault or make or cause lation was passed with the idea of keep to be made any assembly to assault, harm, ing down wages, and during the reign of or hurt any person assigned to control Henry VIII. A free mason, master car and oversee them in their working-he penter, rough mason, brick layer, master or they so offending shall have imprison ti!er, plumber, glazier, carver or joiner ment for a year without bail." was to rece ive from Easter to Michae1- mas 6 pence by the day without meat and T l.1DOR ACTIVITIES drink or 4 pence by the day with meat After the Wars of the Ro~es were sat and drink. isfactorily over the population continued For the rest of the year these wages to flow towards London, and throughout were reduced to 5 pence and 3 pence per the Acts of Parliament from Henry In London itself, however, the Tudor against future perils of fire," ann the out period was a very active' one. side wall s of all buildings in ;,nd about Paving acts were pa'ssed for the the city were henceforth to be of brick Strand, Holborn. and 111any city streets or stone. There.was but one solitary ex (1540-2) including from Holborn west ception "for the re-building of the water wards to St. Giles-in-the-Fields and Ald works call Mr. Thomas Morris, his water gate to Whitechapel Church. house as joining'to London bridge which \Vater was laid on frol11 T yborn in was permitted to be rebuilt of timber for 1238 although the great New River un the purpose of supplying the south side dertaking of Sir Hugh Myddelton, in of the city with water, "as it, almost this volving a canal :m miles long was not hundred years hath done," completed until 161:1. This brings this down then to the re Then came the early years of Eliza building of the city after the great fire beth and efforts to provide for the ever and we propose to take up the remainder increasing population. Doubtless the of Mr. Davidge's' interesting article in jerry-builder was doing his best to sup the subsequent issue of this magazine, on ply the small houses, and an act of Par account of its historical importance. li ament was passed to provide a limit not for the number of buildings per acre but Making Cement Watertight the number of acres per building. No cottage or building was to have less than INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO four acres of grol1nd and no cottage was CONTRACTORS AND ENGINEERS Extensive experiments are being con to be occupied by more than one family. ducted at the College of Engineering of This was for villages surrounding the the University of Wisconsin to find a great Tudor estate and coal mines and simple means of making concrete water did not refer to London or other large tight. Results of g reat importance to towns. E lizabeth was attempting to stop contractors, enginee rs and farmers who the growth of London as did her Sl1C have to do with concrete construction are cessor James 1. by stopping all building said to have been obtained already, and except on old foundations, the idea being stil! more important ones are expected. apparently to keep the people on the A large cement company in the M iddle land. West is co-operating with the college by It was the great fire of 1666 that offering the facilities of its plant. broug ht forth the act for rebuilding the Already some interesting results have city of London which provided the first been obtained, says Rock Products, in the complete code of building regulations. effect of the length of the time of mix Although no doubt in its inception it had ing in a machine mixer of the batch type; some of the vices of panic legislation, the effect of the percentage of mixing the great city being described as "now upon the imperviousness of the concrete; lying buried in its own ruins," it is re the effect of having sand in dry condi markable for its statesman like grasp of tion before mixing, and the effect of hav the situation. ing the sand wet. ';WI-IO SUPPLIED THE BRICK?" The experimenters have found that The brick men of today will be glad to good results are obatined if the concrete learn that the act clearly states that remains in the mixer from two to three " building with brick is not only more minutes when dry materials are em comely and durable but also more safe ployed. For cases where the sand and THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDEI< 39 gravel or stone are damp a considerably Modern Art Glass Products longer time is required. Therefore the The growing use of art glass, polished 11se of wet sand should be avoided if ~lass store fronts and copper set and possible. The experiments showed that leaded glass work in Jamestown and mixtures consisting of one part cement, vicinity is largely due to the presence one and one-half of Janesville sand of the there of its Jamestown Art Glass work:; torpedo grade and three parts of J anes of which Mr. H. U. Sundholm is ville gravel, when mixed to a wet con proprietor. sistency, are impervious to water when This company has attained a promi ~nbjected to a pressure of 40 pounds to nent position in the city's industrial Ii fe, the square inch. owing to the high grade of materials, Mixtures as lean as one part of cement and workmanship employed in the pro to six parts of gravel (a graded mixture) duct, which consists in the manufacture have been made impervious at high pres of artistic leaded and copper set colored Stlft' by using care in proportioning the amount of water and in mixing the batch. The specimens used in making these tests are cylindrical in fon11 and so made that the faces of the cylinders, which are ] :ll/:! inches in diameter, are exposed to the predetermined water pressure. The thickness of the concrete through which the water must pass can be varied from f our to 18 inches. Ample provision is made for cleaning both faces of the cylin der before placing it upon the testing ap paratus. The apparatus itself is so ar ranged that very accurate tests can be Illade. The importance of these experiments will be . more sufficiently appreciated when it is understood that a large pro portion of the trouble arising from poor H. u. SUNDHOLM concrete is due to the use of defective sand or gravel. glass windows and doors, and polished The department is also studying the plate glass store fronts. This work is effect of varying the percentages of ce produced in a wide variety of artistic ment and water, the graduation of the designs, which are submitted cheerfully, sand and gravel (by this is meant the size with estimates, upon application to Mr. of the rocks and the fineness of the Sundholm, who is located at 58 Frai1k sand), the proportioning of the mixture, lin Street. the thoroughness of mixing and the ef Mr. Sundholm is a progressive busi f ects of different conditions on the hard ness man of many years' experience, and ening of the specimens. his loyal interest in the city in which he lives and does business is shown by Architeots Bohnard & Parson will his hearty approval of any movement alter the residence of W. C. Harrison for the development of Jamestown's at Painesville. · best interests. 40 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER CAMPAIGN AGAINST SMOKE THE. SATURDAY E.VE.NING POST TAKE.S UP Ct:DGE.LS AND DE.CLARE.S THAT SMOKE.LE.SS CITIE.S OF THE. FUTURE. WILL BE. RUN BY ME.CHANICAL DE.VICE.S The subject of smoke prevention which instead of merely letting the smoke in was dealt with in these columns, at con spector classify the worst clouds through siderable and well deserved length a his umbras cope or interferometer. month ago, has since been made the sub Public sentiment leads smokemakers to ject of a broadside attack by Thc Satur take pride in good firing. Fuel is se day E,'cHillg Post, which relates many lected with technical knowledge; boilers of the facts already set forth in these and furnaces are improved and kept pages. clean; firemen are paid better wages, Un the subject of prevention, which is trained in good firing and paid bonuses of course the main issue Mr. James H. for results in power or heat that mean Co llin ~. Thc Post writer says: reduction of the smoke evil. For the small smoke makers-little Our smokeless cities of the future will power plants, railroad locomotives, steam be run by mechanical devices ; in fact, boats. hotels. apartment houses and they are run now with smokeless ap homes in a secti on where soft coal is paratus to such an extent that if tomor used-there are now two general courses row-suddenly-all the power necessary that can be followed : First, organization in operation had to be generated by the to spread better knowledge of combus crude boilers and handfiring of twenty tion, better devices for power and heat years ago, the clouds of smoke rising in production, and better firing, so that the to the heavens would be more than a nui black smoke cloud may be reduced, at sance: they would be a calamity. least. Second, the use of some smoke Practically all the research and inven less form of power or heat. tion in power production today is in the The situation today is one where the direction of smokelessness. Waterpower majority of small sl110kemakers are fol is harnessed to turbines, electric current lowing the first course, making condi generated and transmitted over systems tions tolerable until the second course of conductors that reach farther and far is possible. ther from the source of power every Teamwork has abolished far more year. The railroads of the very near fu smoke than all the inspec tors, laws, fines ture will be operated by electric current and smoke-prevention devices. A utoma and their coal traffic must vanish-for tic contraptions for eliminating smoke coal is to be made to give up its power greatly outnumber the perpetual motion before it leaves the mines. It will be dis machines, and without teamwork are of tilled in coke evens of the regenerative about as much practical value. type. Its gases and tars will be utilized to VJhen there is a strong public senti run explosion engines, and these will run ment for less smoke in a community dynamos-prod\1cing current for trans~ everybody takes a little time to under mission to the cities. stand the complexities of the problem, The coke will go to the cities for heat- THI;: OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 41 ing purposes, and heating will probably trained man with trained assistants com be on the central-station system, whereby pet~nt to direct the work as statistician, all the work is done at a single ant and educator and prosecutor. the steam piped t9' houses, hotels, apar~ 4. The investigation of the cause of ments, stores, factories-or wher er It all fires by public officials. is needed. 5. The consolidation of all legal While the electrical men have been forces so as to provide for the system busv the gas men have not been idle. atic inspection of all buildings by local On;:e on a time it was predicted that elec firemen, and technically trained building tric lighting must bring about the ex and factory inspectors so as to insure the tinction of the gas industry; but the gas vigorous enforcement of rules for clean man has steadily refused to regard him liness, good housekeeping, and the main sel f as a dead one, and in the develop tenance of safe and unobstructed exits, ment of gas cooking in homes and gas fire-fighting apparatus and other protec appliances for industrial purposes he has tive devices. set the electrical man a brisk pace. 6. The especial safeguarding of Together they are running a neck-and schools, theaters, factories and all other neck race toward the goal of smokeless places in which numbers of people con ness-and that is the general goal toward gregate or are employed. which every other modern tendency in 7. The vigorous state and municipal work and living is headed. regulation of the transportation, storage and use of all inflammable liquids and ex plosives. For Safety First 8. A careful study of municipal water At the eighteenth annual meeting of supplies, their adequacy and reliability the National Fire Protection Association with special rderence to their adequacy the following measures were advocated in case of conflagrations. in its warfare against the needless sacri 9. The universal adoption and use of fice of human lives and property by fire: the safety match. 1. The encouragement of fire-resist 10. The education of children and the ive building construction through the public generally in careful habits regard adoption of improved building codes by ing the use of fire. all states, cities and towns. The inclu sion in such codes of adequate rules for exit facilities based on the occupancy for Geography all buildings. A story from Illinois tells of the visit 2. The adoption of laws or ordinances of a county superintendent of schools to requiring the installation of automatic a school in a neighboring county. After sprinkler systems as fire extinguishing he had spoken to the pupils the teacher agents in all factories commercial estab said: lishments and city blocks. The adoption "Children, who knows where Cincin of ordinances requiring the construction nati is?" of fire division walls not only as a prop "Fourth from the top!" came the in erty protecting device, but as providing stant reply. the best life-saving exit facility. It is said the superintendent enjoyed 3. The establishment by law of a fire the incident, whether he keeps track of marshal in every state, who shall be a National league baseball or not. 42 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER THE FARMER'S HOME OF TODAY LIKE ITS OWNER, IT IS UP TO DATE IN MANY PARTICULARS, BUT THE ARCHITECT CAN RENDER THE OWNER GREAT SERVICE STILL Comparisons are not always odious, al brings purchases from the store that the though that old saw is often put forth as farmer has ordered by 'phone. Besides, an undisputed fact. For instance, sup he can ship small a rticles of farm pro pose we compare the average farmer of duce by Parcel Post. A ll of these things today with the average farmer of 50 keep him in very close touch with the years ago. The farmer of 50 years ago, outer world. Combine these advantages or rather the type we more often see with the fact that he can have the latest cari catured now, is on the · vaudeville music from hi s player-piano or victrola, stage, and probably more here than it etc., and the comparison between the ever was anywhere else, says Ben F. farmer of today and of fifty years ago Cobh. inThe N ational Builder. is an interesting subject for thought. The farmer of fifty years ago had a I find I have only touched on a few of hard row to hoe, because people in gen the conveniences in compa rison to what eral did not realize that ther e was any there is. I have left out the automobile thing to farming. except planting, hoe altogether. The automobile means a ing and trusting in Providence for a good deal more to the farmer than it crop. e10es to the city man; for where the city Tmpr ovcments came to the fa rmer. man uses it mostly for pleasure, the The number of these improvements I farmer uses it 1110st for real business. It coul d not begin to enuil1erate, for it is a time saver and is doing a great work takes several good sized catalogs to put in showing the farmers the necessity for them understandingly before the public. good roads. It is safe to say that six \Vith the improvements in farm machin automobiles owned by six farmers, Ii ving ery came conveniences such as the aver On the same roael, will do more towarel age farmer never dreamed existed until making the farmers improve that road lately. It is nothing out of the ordinary and get others to help them, than can for the fa r111 e r to have hot and cold water be done by six mass-meetings in that on tap in several rooms in his house, a town. telephone. a house lighted with electric All of those improvements and con ity, or if not near enough to an electric veniences and not a word said about the plant, it is no uncommon thing to find a house as yet, and the house of the up-to farm honse li ghted by gas, the gas plant elate farmer should sho"" as much ad hein g on the farm and owned and run vancement as is shown in his farm ma by the farmer. chinery. Speaking of advancement in The rural delivery was established a the farming di strict, there was most few years ago (which gave the dweller likely more need of improvement and ad in the country nearly the same chance of vancement in the little red school house getting hold of the news that the city than anywhere else. Strange as it may people have, and now the Parcel Post appear, there never was a district school THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ' ENGINEER AND BUILDER house in the country in which there was let him draw the plans, or, as has been ever taught anything about farming. All done in many cases. build the house the teaching seemed to be in the line of without a plan, and following this system fitting the scholars to enter clerking, has put many an unsightly building by banking or some profession, and until the roadside. some far-sighted person suggested agri I have mentioned the additional cost of cultural colleges, nothing as ever done to architect's plans, but with the system ad assist the farmer's boy to follow in the vised by The National Builder, an archi footsteps of his father or to teach him tect's plan can he used and the cost of how to improve on the old methods. bui!ding the house will be reduced. The Perhaps I should apologize for calling cost of the plans and specifications are the fountain of learning in the country more than saved, from the fact that the the little red school house. I must have builder does not have to stop and plan read that sentence somewhere, for all of as he goes along, for he has a complete the country school houses that I ever saw working plan and specification for his were painted white if they were painted build i ng before him. at all. I ,do not know what improve Did you ever know of a carpenter who ment has been made in the district school, put up a set of buildings like these shown hut I do know that the agricultural col in this article. and planned them himself ? leges have done much to dignify the call Of course it is possible, but he would be ing, that they have proven that in order an exceptional workman and I very much to be a successful farmer it requires doubt that such a man lives in your hrains, and that intelligent farming will town. hring as good results as the average This is' the day of specialties. The hu siness man can show in the city. architect has made a life study of his The fanner as a rule is a conservative business and his plans combine comfort, man. His first good building is for his convenience and art. The contracting ~ t oc k , for stock well taken care of means carpenter knows hi s part of the work and iJ etter returns for his labor. A real up every man under him is particularly fitted to-elate farm house is considered in the for that portion of the work that is given lin e of a luxury, but the farms today to him to do. The sub-contractors are show that the farmer is iildulging quite proficient in their different department~ a little in the luxury of a well built, con of the business, and the combined efforts ven ient house. produce a building that stands as a mon Today, in a section of the country that ument to the skill of all. has been settled for some time, the farm I used to have a lot of sympathy for huildings are a pretty good indication of the farmer, but I got over it a long time the quality of the soil. There is another ago. I found that I was wasting my time improvement that has come to the farmer and energy, and when the grocer told - it is the house planned by an architect. me the other clay that he was paying This means a more artistic and conven $8.00 a barrel for apples, I decided that ient home. It means more than that-it I was the one that needed sympathy. I means a good deal more value put On the do not envy him, however, although he I)roperty than the extra cost of the plans ;des to town in his automobile, while and specifications. I ride in the street cars at five cents per The old way used to be to tell the car to save money to buy his products. I penter the number of rooms wanted and am reminded that 44 !'HE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER "The strength of this mighty nation O ut in \Vyoming, three years ago, I I~ not in the palace grand. saw seven steam plows working on one Rut in the homes of the farmer, tract of land. Each machine turned \\,hn gathers wealth from the land." fourteen furrows. and I was told that Success ful farming is only brought each set of gangs turned over 24 acres abol1t by good soil and brains, and good of ground each day. I am not asking building ~ on the farm are indications of my readers to believe this, but I did, and both. Brains alone willllever make com you would. coltld yOlt have seen the olttfit. plete success, neither will soil without Don't you suppose that the man who brains. although with good soil a man could plan this kind of farming, could af may make a certain amount of success, ford to have a good home? in ~ Jlite of the fact that he is short of The farmer who contemplates building gray matter. should realize that the architect can help Some mi ght think, as they look this him. There are numberless barn and plan over and notice conveniences, that house plans that have been worked out in it is pretty rich for a farmer. But this detail, (by Illen who have made a study would be a mistake, for there is nothing of farm convenience), that can be pur too good for the man who not only digs chased for a small sum. Perhaps some his own living out of the ground, but of these would suit you. You may have helps to feed the nation. ideas of your own, that are far ahead of anything yet planned. If this is the ~ 0 one has a better righ t to the con veniences and comforts of life than the ca ~e . put your plan and ideas before an people ,ye look to for the real prosperity architect and he will help you whip them into shape. of the country. There are a lot of peo Until quite recently, but few houses ple living today who have not awakened built in the country were planned by to the fact that farming is a real busi architects, and most country homes that ness. the same as merchandizing or bank are being built now from architects' ing. But that does not alter the fact, and plans, are built for city people to use as when we think of a real farmer, we country homes. There is occasionally should not dwell on the man Wh0111 Will one built for an agriculturist, but seldom Carleton wrote of when he said, one for a real farmer. I have been told "J've worked in the field all day, that the difference between an agricul A-plowing the stony streak; turist and a farmer is that the first named I've scolded my teams 'tiJl I'm hoarse, earns his money in the city and spends it I've tramped 'till 111y legs are weak; in the country, while the farmer earns his I've choked down a dozen swears; money in the country and spends it in the (So's not to tell Jane fibs) city. \\Then the plow-point struck a stone, The time is soon coming when the And the handle punched my ribs." farmer is going to appreciate the value The real farmer is one who directs a of the architect's work and when that time business, be it large or small. If he comes, he will have a more convenient does handle a plow occasionally, it is a and more comfortable home, and he will plow of more than one point, and he does assist the contractors in the smaller not wear himself out walking, but rides towns to improve his ideas in regard' to and the machine he rides turns two or building generally. This is no fling at the three furrows much easier than Will small town contractor, but we improve Carleton's farmer turned one. by experience and the experience of the THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 45 I architect in the large city, who is all the than frame cOllstruction. Experience time studying out new ideas to improve and investigation, however, have shown an artistic design and combine this with this belief to be a fallacy. The large comfort and convenience, is well worth number of brick residences that have knowing about. been built during the last year have done There is one thing {hat the owrier of much to establish the fact that brick is property in the city found out a long time really the best material for the econom ago, aJid that is that property can be sold ical builder to use. quicker and at a better price }f well "An investigation of the costs of build tal~ en care of. A coat of paint will often ing materials with the aid of an archi enhance the value of a house several tect will prove both interesting and in times the cost of the paint. The average strtlctive. especially when the brick con farmer seems to think that as a farm is struction is compared to the cost of ~ o ld by the acre, the buildings cut but frame construction. In frame construc-' little figure, but this is a mistake. Well tion, labor is employed in seven different 11l1ilt buildings, in perfect repair, a well instances, namely: (1) The studding, kept front yard, and a good garden, will which forms the frame of the building; go a long ways toward selling a farm. (2) the sheathing; (3) the building Another thing that must be considered proper; (4) the weather boarding; (5) is the location of the buildings. I once the lathing; (6) the plastering, and (7) heard a man tell a farmer, who was try the painting. which requires three coats ing to sell him his farm, that if the build to get good results. In brick construc ings had been located on a certain eleva- tion but two processes are necessary: . tion. a quarter of a mile from where they (1 The brick work, and (2) the plas stood, that he would be willing to buy the tering. place and pay his price. When the "Carefully compiled statistics show iarmer asked why, the gentleman pointed that the actual cost of brick walls over to a most glorious sunset. "That's all frame varies frol11 15 to 40 per cent, de ri ght," said the farmer, as he gazed with pending largely on the price of the face a perplexed look at the sky, "but we don't brick selected. As the walls of any build plant nothing up there." ing cost only about 10 per cent of the total, brick construction would add only from 2 to 4 per cent to the total first Why He Likes Brick cost of the building. As it is neces WESTERN ARCHITECT DECLARES FOR ECONOMY OF THIS sary to repaint a frame dwelling every ANCIENT MATERIAL few years, it will readily be seen that A.n Indianapolis architect, who was re brick . construction, besides being the cently asked, by a prospective home best, is the cheapest. A building con builder why so large a number of small structed of brick is much easier heated houses were being constructed with brick than a frame one, and the saving in fuel exteriors instead of frame, as in the past, is an item to be considered. Also, it and questioning the economy of brick must not be forgotten that with the faces construction, made the following state and shades of brick now being manufac l11ent, reported by '-'Brick and Clay tured it is possible to build a handsomer Record." building of brick than from any other "There is a belief in the minds of a material." great many people that brick construc The day is fast wani!lg when archi tion costs from 40 to 50 per cent more tects will tell clients that it is impossible 46 fHE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER , to build in brick unless an expenditure of because the construction of the building a large amount is contemplated; experi was of wood. A different arrangement ence has proven a costly teacher, but the of the same materials might, in every lesson is well taught and the knowledge instance, have saved the situation. widely spread. • The Collinwood holocaust was made possible the day the steam pipe rested on the wooden joist. The loss of life is Making School Houses Safe never solely because the building is of HOW THE ARCHITECT CAN CO NTRIBUTE TO THE PROTEC wood, but is because the doors swing in, TION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY or the stairways are open, or a partition The statement made in these pages a partially blocks the exit, or because there short time ago on the authority of Mr. is some other bad arrangement. The Frank Irving Cooper, architect and presi cost of construction would, in many in dent of the Massachusetts Society of stances, have been no greater if it had Heating and Ventilating Engineers, to l ~ee n originally otherwi~e arranged, If the effect that "the Collinwood, Ohio one is sick, he sends for the skilled physi sc hool catastrophe could be repeated any cian; if he has a difficult law problem, he day so little have the lessons taught by employs the experienced attorney; but that fire been heeded" has naturally at in the construction of a schoolho L1 se, the tracted widespread attention to the ques job is apparently too often left to an in tion of fir e prevention in public school experienced architect, and this in the buildings. face of the outcry of everybody, that R. H. Thoma s, Clerk of the School there is nothing too good for the chil Board of Portland, O regon. writes to dren. In a bulletin (E-132), published The ;\merican School Board J ournal on last August by the Russell Sage Founda this suhject as follows : tion, nl1mbers of pictures are given of "Si\FTY F JR5T" fire traps-both burned and unburned which never could have been designed by ] ust now there is a great clamor for an architect alive to such dangers. I was "safety first." This has crystalized leg astonished to read the statement that the islation, especially upon the construction Collinwood tragedy could be repeated of schoolhouses. In recent years, the to ~l ay, in every state in the Union. cost of schoolhouse construction has in creased many per cent. The protection 1\'IE1\ 1\5 OF FIRE PROTECTION of th'e ch ildren is a serious question; but In passing, I wish to remark that a are we sure we are reaching the real fire alarm box ca n be installed in a build problem by just fir eproofin g school ing, at a cost of about $120. The won houses, and nothing more ? der is, that with private alarms in so The word "safety" has no positive many business houses all around, that mea ning of its own ; it is entirely com the public boxes are often no nearer than parative. \Vhat would be safe in one several blocks. to a school. Will some place, might not be ,so considered in an one be so good as to tell us why the other. But this is sure; the constructive schools have not long ago been provided? material placed in schoolhouses, can no We install expensive sprinkler systems, more insure absolute safety to children, stancipipes, and hose, chemicals and local than statutes can in sure absolute right alarms. Why not the departmental among men. It is possible that there alarm to the nearest fire station? never was a schoolhouse disaster simply The common citizen engrossed with THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 47 his business, doesn't know what is wrong Sanitation in Country Homes when he reads of a schoolhouse disaster. A pure water supply is one of the He reasons that the building was of most important faotors in country life wood contruction, or it wouldn't bt~rn; today, as typhoid fever, dysentery and and immediately begins a campaign for other disorders may be carried by im fireproof construction-not knowing, per pure waters. Surface water supplies haps. that his child goes to a school should not be used for household pur where there are broad corridors, plenty poses. They should not even be used of stairways, and exit. doors which never for laundry purposes unless no other lock from the inside; where the boilers supply is available. Rain water from are inspected quarterly, and the build the roof is often polluted by dust, ings examined by the fire chief neadly as leaves and the drippings from birds. often. His child is reasonably safe from Any person who drinks warter from fire; and if he were to consult his archi surface supplies endangers his health if· tects instead of his excited neighbor, his such supplies are not adequately pro campaign would probably not begin. tected and then purified. In solving this problem, the first duty Where underground waters are hard is to select an architect who will design to obtain, cisterns may be used where a building safe as to fire; safe, if possible, the store of rain water and surface as to panics;' safe as to sanitation; safe supplies will be filtered and partially as to pupils' eyesight; as convenient as purified. may be; reasonably attractive in appear The cistern should be of water-tight ance ; and at a moderate cost. construction, to prevent leakage and to In the architectural work, no rea~on prevent pollution from the neighboring able expense should be spared. If 'the soil, says a writer in The Plumbers selected architect is not an authority on Trade Journal. It should have an over fire and other building dangers, the flow drain and a tight cover. There money expended in having his plans ex should also be suitable provision for perted, would be well used. The plans straining or filtering the w~ter previous should especially guard against panic. I tJ its entrance to the cistern. believe I am safe in saying that at least. Farm wells are often · polluted from nine out of every ten lives lost in a school .local sources. They are often located fire, would have been saved if there had for convenience near the barn or stable, been no panic, even in the face of the or close to the back door, out of which many difficulties durin gthe fires. Now, if household slops are thrown. The soil the architect can possibly provide a plan surrounding the well becomes saturated for a building so that a panic can be with organic filth and allows the sur avoided, he has provided against 90 per face water percolating through it to cent of the danger, without the expense carry its load of contamination into the of strictly fireproof materials. well. The curbing or covering is often Mayor Mitchell of New York City has loosely constructed of boards, permit signed the Heights of Buildings bill ting small animals and vermin to fall which recently passed the legislature, and into the well, and surface water carry it has now gone to the governor for his ing filth and manure, especially after approval. Mayor Mitchell, however, is rains, runs into the well from the top. doubtful of the constitutionality of the Both deep and shallow wells are sub measure. ject to contamination. The safety of 48 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER water ~ uppli es ,,·hen near sources o t Lo, The Tall Skyscraper po~sible ~ uria ce IX") lIution often depends la rgely on the character and quality of WESTWARD "THE INFANT TERRIBLE OF ARCHITECTURE" TAKES ITS WAY AND NOW RISES "HIGH ABOVE the material in which the \\" ell is sunk. PUGET SOUND The c of 76,560 gross tons will be carried, the 25 per cent of the area of his lot. He steel for the superstructure alone weigh might buy of his neighbors their rights ing 4-,732 gross tons." in this upper air, but in no case could Hawaii, the Island of Guam and the more than one-quarter of a block be cov land of the :M indanaos, have not yet ered by structures of more than the been heard from but who can doubt that standard height. ~1 :}- 2 :\23:1 :'IIanila, lV1ayaguez. or Fort Santa Crux "The effect of such a building ordi \rill ere long compete with their eastern nance would be to build up a city of cousi ns, on our western coast, in feats of towers. The possible beauties of such sh scraring also? construction need no exposition. while it :\[eanwhile we learn from a table pre would insure a larger proportion of pared by Rudolph P. Miller, superinten rooms with light and air than any level dent of buildings of :Manhattan, that system could do. there was a marked decrease in the num Meanwhile, the tall building craze ber of "skyscrapers" built in l\Janhattan seel1l~ to have moved westward with all in ] £l1:l, as compared to the preceding its strange and illogical trappings. A year, and that but fifteen. buildings over friend sends a photo-card from Binning t\relve stories were proposed, as against ham, Ala., with a view of a twenty-six thirty-three in In2. stor~ ' building of undeniable architectural "The location of tall buildings con value were it located on Broadway and tinues to be in the lower, or downtown -!2el street; but as apparently unneeded in ~ec tion of the city." Birmingham as a twenty story water One may only take an afternoon stroll tank on the L. & ~. railroad. It has . along that former pride of America simply satisfied a local desire to be " like "Lower Broadway" in New York to see New York," whether there is any need \\·h at has hecome of what was once the of being "like New York" or not. greatest shopping district outside Paris In Minneapolis, we also hear the "old in the world, but now in a sad state of quarrel." In the midst of much "con demolition, in order to recognize how fusion of tongues" regarding these mu ch s k~· scraper construction has been modern Babel towers let us repeat l\llr. ove rdone even in that metropoli s Ralph Adams Cram's wi~e words in a :\o ne of the recent "towers" are said recent issue of this magazine: to be paying interest on their cost. The "The steel frame .is the enfallt terrible removal of the municipal offices of Man of architecture, but like so many of the hattan from a ~ented towe r to the Muni genus it may grow up to be a serious cipal building is said to have left an un minded citizen anel a good father. It is filled ga;:- in one and various other causes not that now, it is a menace, not only to ha ve opera ted to render others less de architecture, but to society; but it is sirable. young and it is ha'ing its fling. I f we Says Carpellfer alld Builder on this can make it realize that it is a new force, same suhject : not a substitute we shall do well. \Vhen "The proposition of Ernest Flagg, it contents itself in its own sphere and architect of the Singer tower, seems to the municipality says kindly but firmly come nearer a rational solution of the thus far and no further-the thus far be problem than any other yet offered. ing about one hundred and twenty-five Flagg would fix a height to which all feet above street level in the very wise buildings might go. The man who town of Boston-then it may be a good wished to build higher could do so -on servant." 50 THEOHlO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER Fourth of July 1914 was a great for this purpose. The chairman of day on the Canal Zone at Panama, and this committee has engaged the Colon well it may have been for the "Old municipal band, in addition to the Tenth Flag" flew over open water from Ocean Infantry band, to furnish music during to Ocean. The canal is open and earn the day and evening. ing money-the "$" being the presenL "The I-Ion. 'Villiam Jennings Price, day symbol for success. United States Minister to Panama, has With a surplus of $6,000 on hand. been invited to deliver the oration, and that being everl less than the amount has accepted." of money already received by Uncle A notable poster issued by the Sam for tolls, Cristobal, on the Atlantic Panama - Pacific International Exposi side of the Canal, was selected as the tion Company portrays "The Ninth scene for the principal celebration and Task of Hercules" in which the god of representatives of all the departments strength is seen forcing apart the sides of the Panama Canal, the Pacific Rail of the great Culebra mountain while road and the military organizations on through the open gorge may be seen the hthmus, took part-or at this writ the completed canal, the open ocean ing are billed to. and the towers of the Exposition build Li ,; ten to this:- ings beyond. The train schedule will provide for It i·s a great poster, portraying a the running of trains from both ter mighty task and the important thing minals about every two hours, with a about it all is that the great oceans are shuttle service between Las Cascades forever linked together, that the Panama and Pedro Miguel connecting with all Canal is an accomplished fact, and is main 1in e trains in either direotion. doing business long before its most "Refreshments will be served free on sanguine engineers anticipated. the dock, as in previous years. The May 18, 1914 saw the fait accoH!lpli, Cristobal hotel will be kept open for as the great wonder of the century, when many hours cluring the day and evening. three barges laden with sugar passed as practicable, for the serving of meals through the canal while on June 8 at 30 cents each in either coupons or the steamer Alliallca of the Panama cash. Sandwiches will be sold through Railroad Steamship Line was success out the day at the Canal clubhouse, and fully locked through Gatun Locks out a special holiday service will be pro into the channel of the lake and thence vided for at the Hotel Washington. back through the locks, being the first "Provision will be made for dancing 'ocean passenger vessel to pass the locks in the afternoon, as well as in the even of the Cana!. ing, and a space on the dock 200 feet in In other words the canal is in com length and full width will be reserved mercial operation and !.lp to June 1st TRIO; OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 51 Furthermore the Pacific Steamship the canal had actually earned $7,356.12 \ in tolls, -this being the charges on Company is already ' preparing for a 6,130 tons of freight. fortnightly service from Liverpool td In other words Practical Uncle Sam the east coast of South America thence sees no need to wait for President through the Strait of Magellan and up Wilson to lead his warships through the west coast to Panama and through the canal but already proceeds to earn the Canal back to Liverpool. interest on his $375,000,000 investment. So fast do things move on the The A llianca, carrying a number of Isthmus these days that this system people in addition to the officers and may be in full operation .before these crew, and officials concerned in the pages can be printed. operation arrived at the approach of Three sections of fender chain, two the onal at 6 :45 on the morning of the of which were 158 feet long, and one 8th, says the Canal Record, and the of which was 110 feet long, all three towing was begun by four electric loco making one complete chain, 426 feet in motives at 7 :17. length, have arrived on the Isthmus. The ship left the locks on the up One chain is being ins taMed between lockage at 8:48 a.m., and after describ chain fender machines Nos. 824 and ing a wide circle in the lake returned 825 at Pedro Miguel Lock, to protect to the approach. Towing on the down the intermediate gate in the east cham lockage was begun at 9 :52 a.m., and ber. With the delivery, three and two the ship entered the approach channel third's complete chains, out of the 24 . from the lower lock at 11 :33 a.m., re required, have reached the Isthmus. turning to its dock at Cristobal imme Fifteen have been manufactured, most diately thereafter. During the progress of them now being under test in the of the vessel through the locks it was United States. The delivery of the wholly under control of the lock oper chain operating machinery, built by the ating force. Dynamometers were at United Engineering and Foundry Com tached to the towing lines during a part pany, has been completed. of the trip to register the pull of the The chain fenders are the last of the towing machines. The Canal tug Cocoli large items of the lock operating and was locked up to Gatun Lake with the protective devices to be installed. The A llial1ca. delivery of the chains, which are of The steamer Ancon was locked unusual size and present many difficul through at Gatun on Thursday fore ties in manufacture, has been uncertain. noon, June 11, the operation being Chains have been under order at three similar to that of the Allianca. different American chain works simul Moreover the dry excavation on the taneously, and The Panama Canal is Canal proper has been at last completed, now inviting tenders from Europe for the final shovelful of material from the the remaining nine. The chains average sides of the east bank of the Cut, be from 418 to 434 feet in length, and the tween Culebra village and Rio Grande two for protecting the lower guard having been removed on June 8th. This gates at Miraflores Locks are each 784 excavation was being made as a pre feet long, being specially arranged on ventative against fUl1ther possible slides account of the tidal fluctl1~tion . They and ten train crews were at work on weigh about 85 pounds to the foot, the job up to the date mentioned. nearly three times as much as the heav- 52 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER iest rails on t,he Panama railroad. The Civil War in which Hayes, Garfield, links are made from bars three inches Benjamin Harrison and McKinley all, in diameter, and each link in the prin of course, participated. cipal part of the chain is 17 ii1ches long Thus from the prim and precise little by lO% inches wide. The chains are city of Quincy, Mass, whence came the designed to withstand normally a ten Adamses, father and son, and which the sion of 220,000 pounds, or approxi New England tourist most frequently mately 100 gross tons, which is about knows, because it leads him to the plant SO per cent of their breaking load. of the Fore River steamship company, through IVrontecell o or Mount Vernon ( the home but not the birth place of A New American Shrine \iVashington), we trace our way logi cally enough through Ftemont and Mentor to the present day industrial Me KINLEY MEMORIAL AT NILES. OHIO, WILL HAVE INTERESTING PLACE IN NATION'S HISTORY town of Niles, where the last presiden In the generations to come Ohio will tial birth place memorial is now to be be found by the youthful student of erected, in memory of O hio's disti;l American history to be quite as inter guished son. esting a spot as the region about Bos The trustees of the National McKin ton, Lexington and Concord, or Vir ley Birthplace Memorial Association are ginia, with its hi storic Richmond, Mt. reported to have recently made this de Vernon, or .Montecello. Chronologi cision, and propose to co-operate with cally Ohio's place in American history a committee of the American Inti may be well said to fit in exactly this tute o f Architects in holding a competi third chapter of our National life. tion for securing a suitable design for Setting aside for New England her the Memorial. rightful place in the Colonial and Revo The building is expe0ted to include lutionary period of American history, an auditorium seating 1,000, a public important as Virginia's paf\t in that library, a McKinley relic room, assem drama was and, reserving for her the bly halls for the Grand Army of the even more conspicuous stage set for Rept;blic and for Spanish - American the period of the "late unpleasantness" war veterans, and a room for the meet- the sons of Ohio were largely cast for ings of city officials. that period of reconstruction which fol A site of about five acres has been lowed the war of the Rebellion and donated by N iles. It is said that cemented i,ts wounds, uniting the Blue $170,000 has been obtained by public and the Grey once more under the subscription and that $30,000 additio;1al administration of an Ohio president, at has been pledged, or will be available San Juan, Santiago and Havana. when needed. Thus with the Adamses, representing Massachusetts, Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, one preceding Architect R. H. Hinsdale has drawn the first Adams and the other three intervening between the first and plans for a residence on Clifton boule second, with Harrison, Tyler and Tay vard for Charles Williams, costing lor completing the Virginia contingent, $lO,OOO. Mr. Hinsdale also is the Grant the first Ohioian may well be architect for a $15,000 residence for R. said to have been the produot of the Wall at Shaker Lakes. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 53 Modesty Marks Latest "Scraper" cupy this historic site is one which also has been prominent in the history of NEW YORK' S LATEST WORD IN TALL TOWERS IS CONTENT New York, the Mis&ion of Our Lady of WITH TWELVE STORIES AND IS ON SOUTHERN- MOST TIP OF ISLAND The Rosary, probably the best known New York City's furthest south sky building of its kind in this country. scraper is to be a building of consider abl e charm, It is not going to be one of the cloud piercing kind, but a twelve What One Sprinkler Did struoture of pleasing design. It ~ t o ry Speaking of fires and fire protection, i~ to stand on historic ground at the which Tfn; OHIO ARCHI1'ECT, ENGI north corner of Whitehall and State NE ER AND BUILDER is constantly en ~t r ee ts overlooking Battery Park, ac co rding to the New Yorll Sun. deavoring to. keep before its readers, O riginall y the structure was planned because fire destruction and building to be twenty-two stories high, but in construction seem to be constantly and deference to the rising sentiment against needlessly at war with each other, we buildings which shut out the light and are reminded that the severest fire dur air of their neighbors and tend to cause ing the month of May in the United congestion in the streets the owners h.ad States was right here in Cleveland. the plans changed so that ten stones The value of a sprinkler plant is set were eliminated. forth in a statement covering this fire, a Part of the site of the new structure contemporary reminds us as follows: once held the home of Peter Stuy- "The fire was of an unusual nature, . vesant. The land was then the south in that it completely cleaned out one ernmost point of New York, and be large lumber company, damaged another fore the old Governor's home stretched lum'ber company, partially destroyed the the upper bay with a view right down Central Viaduct and N. Y. C. & St. L. to the N arrows. The affairs of the R. R. trestle, destroyed about a dozen Dutch colony were directed from this freight cars, including part of a circus house until the English took over Man train, and spread to a large sprinklered hattan, when Gov. Dongan made the elevator. The elevator was iron-clad Stuyvesant place his residence. For on frame, with small windows at the <>O'e nerabons the seotion near the house top. The heat passed through the win was the centre of all society and cul- dows and opened eight or ten sprinklers ture. in the elevator. The sprinklers prompt Robert Fulton was a later occupant ly and effectively responded, the elec of the dwelling which replaced the tric fire pump properly responded and Stuyvesant house. Fulton's house was the supervisory connections transmitted right on the corner of W h~tehall and flow alarm. Had the elevator burned State streets. It was here that he lived it is difficult to tell what might have and worked out the problems of steam happened, as it stood in the direct path navigation. of an extensive lumber and manufac John Ericsson, builder of the Moni turing district beyond." tor, was a later tenant of the house. It was his invention that revolutionized fighting ships and prepared the way for Architect E. J. Schneider is erecting the armor dad vessels of today, Right a power plant for UrsuEne convent, next to the new building that will oc- Nottingham. 54 THl~ OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER There will SOOI1 be an openmg for FRIEDERANG MENTIONED. some ambitious American mural deco A Brooklyn artist, M'aximillian F. rators, and a chance that the final Friederang, who has done considerable touches may be placed upon the unfin work in the Capitol, is talked of as ished frescoes by Constantino Brumidi, likely to receive the contract if it is in the dome of the National capitol, if awarded. the bill recently introduced by Senators The frieze, 75 feet above the floor of O'Gorman of N ew York and Smith of the rotunda, at first glance gives the Idaho passes Congress, says a Wash impression of bas relief. It is a fresco, ington correspondent of The Christian however, the work of Constantino Science IvIouitor. Brumidi and Filippo Costaggini, both The O'Gorman bill proposes a com Italians. It represents scenes in the mission con sisting of the Vice-Presi history of the new world from the time dent, the speaker of the House and the of its discovery. Brumidi's work in committees of library in both houses to cluded the landing of Columbus in provide for this work, authorizing the 1492; entry of Cortez into the halls commiss ion to advertise for designs and of t,he Montezumas in 1521; Pizarro's spend $10,000 for its accomplishment. conquest of Pero in 1523; buriel of The only qualification is that the artist DeSoto in 1541; Pocahontas saving ~e lected shall be of national reputation. Captain John Smith in 1606; landing Three subjects are proposed by Sen of the Pilgrims in 1620; and . Penn's ator O'Corman, one representing Grant treaty with the Indians in 1682. and Lee shaking hands at Appomattox Costaggini took up the work where symbolical of the preservation of the Brumidi left it in 1881,completing the Union and a unitecl country, another figure o,f Penn and continuing the representing the Panama canal in opera frieze to include the following scenes: tion and the third depicting aerial navi Plymouth colony in 1620; treaty be gation. The Grant and Lee subject tween Govenior Oglethorpe of Georgia and the Indians in 1732; battle of Lex ~a s planned by the original artist, Brumidi, and it is this that has delayed ington in 1775; reading the Declaration completion of the frieze for many of Independence in 1776; surrender of years. T'he question has been brought Cornwallis in Yorktown in 1781; Te up a number of times . and considered cumseh at battle of the Thames in by the library committees, but each 1813; General Scott's entry into the time it has been dropped on propqsal to City of Mexico in 1847, and the dis include this subj ect, to avoid offense to covery of gold in California in 1848. certain Southern members who thought SUSPENDED SINCE 1889. the South would not approve. Since May, 1889, work upon the THE OHIO ARCHITE~T, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 5S frieze has been suspended, principally The Cape Cod Canal because no subjects have been deter It is anticipated that the Cape Cod mined upon for the final groups. It Canal will be ready for use next fall, was Brumidi's intention to have only but in any event that it will be finished one more design, but Costaggini crowd and in operation in 1915. In creating ed his work so there is room for two. this new route between New York and He proposes the junction of the Union Boston, 66 miles are saved over the and Central Pacific railroads at Pro old Vineyard Sound route and 144 montory Point, Utah, with Leland Stan miles over the route around Nantucket ford driving the golden spike connect~ light. ing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in More important still than the saving 1869 ; and the opening of the world's of distance is the avoidance of the dan fair in 1893, with President Cleveland gerous shoals off Cape Cod. According touching the button. In 1896 Senator to statistics about 25,000 vessels round Hansborough reported a resolution to Cape Cod every year between Boston complete the frieze and it passed the and New York, so that there will be an Senate but not the House. It was op average of 69 vessels a day passing posed because it provided for depi~ting through the canal. The schedule of President Cleveland, whereas neIther charges .contemplated is 5 cents per N ashington nor Lincoln were included gross ton for each vessel passing anywhere in the frieze. Other oppo through. The canal i s controlled by a nents said they never could agree to an private corporat'ion , the Cape Cod Con historical frieze in the dome of the struction Company. Its total cost wiIi capital that carried no hint of the civil approximate $12,000,000 and it ha;; war, and it is over this point that the been dredged to a bottom width of 100 work has been postponed to this day. feet at a depth of 30 feet. ATTRACTED BY CAPITOL. Brumidi came to the United States in 1852. He saw the possibilities in State Department of Architecture the Capitol for his allegorical frescoes, To enable the state architect to catch simil ar to the fifteenth century work up with the work of his office, which i.; of ~/Iich;el Angelo, and gained permis said to be three years behind, and sion to try his art on the walls of the provide for a l'arger and more efficient House agricultural committee, now ap force in his office, the N ew York "State propriations committee room, where he Association of Architects is pushing a depicted "Cincinnatus Driving the bill before the Legislature to create a Plow." His first work secured him State Department of Architecture with regul ar employment at $8 per da~ deco the state architect at its head, app~intecl rating walls of rooms and corridors in' for a term of six years by the governor the building, which compensation was with the advice and consent of the increased later, thro~gh the influence of senate. The bill provides for a larger Jefferson Davis, to $10 per day. Some staff of expert assistants, increases the of his works outside the Capitol are: salary of the state architect to $10,000 "Crucifixion" in St. Stephen's, Rome; a year, and provides that the present "St. Paul and St. Peter" in the Cathe state architect shall be continued 111 eI'ral of Philadelphia; and "Holy Trin office for six years from January 1, ity" ' in the Cathedral of Mexico City. 1914. 56 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER Saving Forest Waste cesses, the finished lumber forms only 39 The forest products exposition recently per cent of the tree. The waste involved conclmled in N ew York presented many in building the house amounts to 4 per models and charts from the forest service cent more, so that the proportion of the which showing of wood, particularly the original tree which finds itself finally in the finished dwelling is not more than 35 use of by-products. per cent. The amount of wood used and wasted But all of ' the two-thirds need not be is shown in a series of models depicting wasted. Some of it at least should go all stages of the lumber industry from into by-products, according to the forest the tree standing in the forest to the service which is studying such utiliza boards and sh ingles in the finished dwell tion. The bulk of the waste such as tops, ing-. The first model of this series por barks, slabs and edgings, can be made in tr~\'ed a number of trees standing in the to charcoal, turpentine, tannic acid, wood for·est. The next model showed these alcohol, acetate of lime, pulp and paper, same trees felled. and forming a pile of and even the sawdust is made into wood logs and a heap of tops and branches. alcohol and grain alcohol, and used in The succeeding step was a miniature di fferent forms for fuel. sawmill , beside which are piles of lumber, Illustrations of this utilization of mill of slabs, and of sawdust, all from the waste are shown at the exposition in a logs shown in the previous model. The series of wall cases. One case shows the next model told what became of the use by a knife manufacturer of the dog rough boards after they had been wood waste of a maker of shuttle blocks. through the planing mill; the resultant Another case shows how the waste in material in several piles-one of edgings volved in making large school furniture and trimmings, one of shavings, and one is converted into scrubbing brush backs of the planed boards. Last was a newly for a brushjactory. Other cases display fini shed dwelling house, around which shoe lasts made from discarded tenpins, are the odds and ends of the lumber left the use of waste veneer cores for nine over from the building. rollers and for paper pulp stock, sa \Ydust The relative amount of material used made into floor sweeping compounds, and wasted is indicated roughly in these and dowels of various sizes man"ufactured models. but is shown according to actual from cooperage waste. scale in another part of the exposition in Another exhibit consisted of the in a series of diagrammatic charts. In the flammability test upon shingles treated logging process, 13 per cent of the stand with certain chemicals. One-half of a ing tree is left in the stumps and tops, shingle is treated, the other half left un leaving 87 per cent to go to the sawmill. treated. With the best preservatives so The various forms of waste shown at the far devised. a flame which causes the un sawmill constitute about 43 per cent of treated half to burn does not affect the 'the original tree so that the rough boards treated half. constitute the remaining 44 per cent. Most of the sawmill waste is unavoidable, Will Meet at 'Frisco it is asserted, and due to economic con One hundred and eighty-one con ditions; the millmen say they take out all gresses and conventions have voted to they can afford to. meet in San Francisco during the year Seasoning reduces this to 42 per cent. of the Panama-Pacific International Ex After the planing and other finishing pro- position. rl'HE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 57 Building Material Prices P laster board, $16 to $17 per 1,000 For the benefit of prospective build . square feet. ers the current price list of building Face brick, $14 to $30 per 1,000. supplies in Cleveland, wagon lots, curb Portland cement, cloth sacks, $1.60 delivery, will be printed hereafter each to $1.70. ' 111 0nth: Lime, 200-pound barrel, 60c to 70c. Torp~do sand, 6;,ic per 100 Ibs. Urick ...... $7.50 Bank sand, 5c per 100 Ibs. Face Brick ...... $16.50 to 30.00 Crushed gravel, 6c per 100 pounds. Portland cement, in paper, per bbl. 2.00 Crushed stone, 6 3-5c per 100 pounds. Coml11on .90 Roofing gravel, 7)c:ic per 100 pounds. Bulk lime, per cwt...... 40 Hydrate lime, per sack ...... 22 Crushed stone, per ton ...... 2.00 Time Showed Growth Lake sand, per ton ...... 1.75 New construction in Cleveland during Sanded wall paper cloth, per ton.. 7.50 the month of June was $3,126,595 Sewer pipe, 3 to 12 in. ss. 65 per cent. against $1,803,805-a gain of 73.4 per off li st; 15 to 24 in. ss. 64 per cent. cent. Dun's review says: off list. "Building permits issued in June PITTSBURGH, PA. make quite a satisfactory comparison Face brick, $15.00 to $20.00. with those of the same month last year, Sewer pipe, 80 per cent. off list. the total granted at seventy-five lead Cement, in cloth bags, $1.46 f. o. b. ing centers in the United States calling Pittsburgh; in paper bags, $1 .50 to for expenditure of $72,740,000, against $1.55 f. o. b. Pittsburgh. $68,972,000, a gain of 5.5 per cent. Lath, hemlock, $5.50 per thousand; Much the most favorable showing is chestnut, $5.25 per thousand. made by New York City, the amount Sand, in carload lots, 40 cents per at that center being $14,256,000, an in ton on car at loading point; for big crease of no less then 29.2 per cent. city delivery contr~cts, 80 cents per ton compared with $11,030,000 for the cor delivered; for small city contracts, $1.00 responding month a year ago. per ton delivered. Among the cities where the most pro Stone, crushed, 70 cents per ton at nounced increases appear are Baltimore, quarry, plus 55 cents per ton freight, 151.1 per cent. ; Chicago, 29.3; Cleve Pittsburgh rate. land, 73.4; Columbus, 21.6; Kansas Stone, bridge, $4.25 per cubic yard City, 80.4; Hartford, 97.6; St. Paul, at quarry, plus $1.50 per cubic yard 84.8; Seattle, 48.9; Toledo, 118.1 ; freight, Pibtsburgh rate. Wilkesbarre, 365.9; and Worcester, Stone, curbing, 30 cents a lineal foot 38.1. There were losses at Houston of at quarry. 57.7 per cent. ; Los Angeles, 30.5; Stone, cobble, 75 cents per ton at Minneapolis, 11 .3; . Newark, 46.2; Phila quarry, plus 65 cents per ton freight, delphia, 9.8; Pittsburg, 34.7." Pittsburgh rate. CHICAGO. The Cleveland Material Co. have Cement plaster, $8.50 to $9.50 per since June 1 been located in their new ton. and larger quarters at 1800 Scranton Wood fibre plaster, $9.50 to $10.50 Road, where they are better equipped per ton. to take care of the trade. 58 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER " Safety" on the--Great Lakes THE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PASSENGER VESSEL INTERESTS OF THE LAKES, AS WELL AS THE IN TEREST OF PASSENGERS, MADE BY US MONTHS AGO, APPROVED BY CON ~rcbittct GRESSIONAL COMMITTEE Wi,th a year SO plethoric in maritime disasters, a s has bee n the present, it is gratifying to recall that, so f a r at w. S. JUDSON, Pres. and Treas. least, the Great Lakes h ave bee n com E. MARTINEAU, Vice-Pres. and Mgr. Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. paratively free frol11 accident or misfor W. S. LLOYD, Editor, tune. Published monthly by TH'E ARCHITECT AND The passenge r season , which h as be BUILDER COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A., in the interests of the Architect, come a continuo u s p erformance o n the Engineer, Builder and Client. ocean highways of the world is practi Terms of subscription to THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER, including cally jus t beginning o n its inland water postage, $1.011 per year, payable in advance. Single Copies 15 cents. ways, h o w ever , and while not boasting Cleveland Chapter American Institute of Architect. o f tha t good Providen ce which has so President ...... " . W. H. BOHNARD Vice-Pres...... G. S. BOHM far prevented mishap upon the lakes, Sec.-Treas ...... H. B. BRIGGS Regular monthly meetings first Thursday of each it is fair to conclude that the same month at Hollenden Hotel. careful naviga tio n, will continue to aid The Cleveland Architectural Club President ..... _... _.. ______.. _. . H. D. HUGHES in the preventio n of d isaster in the Vice· Pres...... W. R. POWl')LL Secretary ...... _...... L. Fl')WS,MITH, JIR. future as in the pas t. Treasurer ...... WlM. A. BOHNARD Librarian ...... W. A. HUDSO!'+ This statement is introductory to the Offices Rooms 70 3-4-5 The 1900 Euclid Avenue Building. fac t that the passen ger v essel interests The Cleveland Engineering Society o n the Great Lakes appear to have Presid ent ...... E. H. WHITLOCK Vice -P res...... W. A. HANLON won a substantial vic to ry in the House Secretary ...... _. . .. DAVID GAEHR Treasurer ...... E. E. RANNEY o f Representative committee's amend Lib rarian ...... G. H. TINKER Regular meetings 2d & 4th Tuesdays 01 each month at ment to the LaFollette bill, which has rooms of the Society, 313 Chamber of Commerce ,Bldg. reported back to that body som e weeks The Cleveland Builders' Exchange President .. _...... _.... GE;O. A. RUTHERFORD ago. Vice-Pres. . __. . _. . _. _. _. _. _. ___ . _A. C. KLUMPH Secretary ...... E. A. ROBERTS R eade r s o f this magazlI1 e will r e Treasurer ...... HENRY WATTERSON Exchange and Display Room s, 3rd floor Cleveland m ember that as far back a s November Chamber of Commerce Bldg. of last year TI-IE O H IO ARCHITEC'l', The Columbus Builders' and Traders' Exchange President ...... B. M. FREEMAN ENGINEER AND BUlLOER, unde r the title 1st Vice-Pres. 0 ...... R. L. WATSON 2nd Vice-Pres ...... W. H. BECKETT of "'Freeze or B urn' Legislation" Secretary ...... CLARENCE METTERS Treasurer ...... EPH. L. HARRIS called a ttention to "many pro visions of Office and exhibit rooms fourth fl oor, the Arcade Bldg_ 240 N. High Street. COlumbus, O. LaFo lle tte's Seamen's B ill, S e nate Bill The Dayton Builders' Exchange No. 1.36, as impraoticable for lake, bay President ...... JOHN C. GOHN Vi ce-Pres...... CHARLES E. SLAGHT and sound steamers, the reason ' being Treasurer ...... JOHN W. BOIRl')N Secretary ...... W. A. PHFiLPS that the B ill imposes o n the Great Seventh floor, Fourth Street Arcade Bldg., Dayton, O. Lakes , bay and sound s teamships im Canton Builders' Exchange. Pre.ident .... E. J. LANDOR poss ible conditions , drawn to cover only Treasurer ...... J. E. RABER Secretary ...... , ...... C. R. KUMPF ocean going traffic, and make no allow Assistant Secretary .... . _..... _..... WM. T_ KIRK Regular meetings, first · Wednesday of each month. ance fo r the conditions o n these water Exchange rooms, third floor Savings & Loan Building, 206 W. Tusc. St. ways a s compared with the ocean high The Pittsburgh Builders' Exchange. ways." President...... R. K. COC HRAN E Secretary . .. EDM UND M. TATE The demand in the o riginal bill that Treasurer ...... T. J. HAMILTON 2.07 Fulton B.)dg., Pittsburgh, Pa. passenger boats sho uld carry enough THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 59 life boats to accommodate, in emer changed to require two "certified life gency, every passenger and every mem boat men" instead; this new title being ber of the crew at one time, and that intended for any member of the crew every passenger vessel should carry who shows ability to handle a lifeboat. enough able seamen to give each life This, manifestly, is an important con boat two, it was shown would be be cession. yonel all reason on the inland steamers. The action of the House committee Taking the steamers "SeeandBee" or on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, in the ' equally modern "City of Detroit III" this matter, seems to indicate that some of Ollr Lake Erie service, for instance, members of the present Congress, at the LaFollette bill would have meant least, are learning with Brother Roose the imposition of impossible conditions, velt that it is use1.es~ . to regulate busi as it is obvious that a steamer even of ness by destruction," and as THE OHIO this size would not require anything ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER like the number of seamen which the pointed our several months ago, "turn ] lill required. Nor, upon the Great ing the inmates of frame lodging houses Lakes, did we believe it was necessary out of doors to freeze, in mid winter, to co ver the decks of a steamer with in order that they should not burn life boats enough to accommodate every indoors on account of improper fire passenger and every member of the protection," is a poor policy to apply crew . These provisions were indeed either on land or water. impossibl e of fulfillment. The Bill has now been changed to read that during the real passenger season What Shall I Do? from J\hy 15th to Sept. 15th, lake ves THE ANNUAL PROBLEM THAT CONFRONTS THOUSANDS OF ~cls need carry lifesaving craft to ac SCHOOL GRADUATES commodate 50 per cent. of the people - If "this leafy month of June," is dedi aboard, three-fifths of which may be cated to brides and roses, it is none the ra fts and not less than two-fi fths boats. less devoted to the Commencement clay _-\ s ,to the rest of the year, relatively exercises of every school and college in unimportant in this particular industry, the land. vesscls are required to carry full equip It is a launching day for thousands of mcnt. The wisdom of the provision young men and women who after cer that vessels whose keels are laid after tain years of scholastic effort are now July 1 next year shall be built to carry setting forth upon their chosen sea of ef full life-saving equipment may be ques fort to make their way in the world. ti oned. The importance of such an event in However, a distinction is drawn be the lives of so many individuals cannot tw een vessels which ply exclusively be over estimated. within three miles of shore and those The question not only presents itself whose courses lie further out. For as to what these young people are to do, those near-shore boats the question of but also how far our modern methods of what life-saving craft each shall carry education prepare them to accomplish is now left to the government steam that which they seek to do. Of the mil boat inspection service. lion and one-half of the boys and girls The provision that every passenger in the high schools of America and the vessel should carry enough able seamen eighteen million in our elementary to give each lifeboat two has now been schools nearly all will soon enter the in- 60 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER dustries as workers or leaders, says a ti on 582,150 employes; in personal ser writer in Th e Mallllal Trainill g Maga vice. 2,577,9 57; 1,5 60,72 1 saloon keepers ; = III C. and 1,455,677 se rvants and waiters. \Vith them, as with the graduates from These startling fi g ures show what a piti the hi gher institutions of learning, the ful field in the special industries, "voca question of occupation is the most impor tional g uidance" has to offer to the child tant one. The welfa re of the working that wants to become a skilled workman. people of the nation this "magazine de The difference between shopwork and cl a r e~ is at stake l11ll e~s some plan is de scholastic work is so g reat in kind and vi sed to prc'ent m.an.\' young' men of na output that there is no necessary con ti ve ability h om drifting into unskilled necting link between them. T he one is work. :\ low g rade of raw material chieH), conce rned with a material output, ca u ~ ing an increased cost o f production and th e other with the development and and stati onary and diminishing measures culture of an expanding human soul. as measured by purchasing power. It Notwithstanding all that has bee n said loob. thi s writer thinks, as if om na and the uncertain direct progress thus tional a ppetite or power consumption had far made in vocational guidance, yet rapidly outg rown our capacity for the everywhere on the anvil is being ham production of necessities of life. P op me red out by blind impulse a sort of ulati on is outrunning the means of sub workable method that will result in some sistance. A more productive method of thing valuable eventually. agTi cu1tural and stock raising industries. F lippantly enough, We advocate the will tend possibly to level down the cost adaptation of the school work to the o f subsistance. An issue is squarely daily invocations of the community, but presented to the educator of this coun when it comes to picking out the boy or try to meet in a la rge way the duties g irl for the job and fi tting him or her vi olently thrust upon them. The means in to it without fail , a new revelation is thus far employed are inadequate, reach needed. ing not more than one per cent of those I t appears to this writer that a new wh o should be trained for skilled labor. profession has to be created, and its T he latest available statistics dealing duties defin ed, if it is to be advanced be with the occupations of persons over ten yond the handling in an empirical way. years of age show definite work for 80 The first qualification of such a specialist per cen t of the males and 18.8 per cent is to know human nature as he sees it in of the fe males. That is, four-fifths of the raw, and what it can be trained into the males and one-fifth of the females doing most successfully among the 303 are employed in paying occupations. In different occupations in which the A mer 1!) OO. there were (iO O,OOO carpenters in ican people are engaged. The prelimin the U nited States. 277,500 painters and ary knowledge must include the physical, varni"hers, D7',78 5 plumbers and gas-fit moral, intellectual, social, and economic ters, 290.000 iron and stree1 workers, phases of the applicant's equipment and 155 .174 printers and pressmen, 364,884 constructive ability potentially for suc dressmakers, 87',8..J. D milliners, and 50,717 cess in a pa rticular line of work. A com electricians. The number eng-aged in plete inventory of the child's possibilities, agricultmal pursuits was 10,381,765; me including his potential stock of brain and chanical and manufacturing activities hand power, ought to be made upon a 7,085,309; 42,326 wholesale merchants; basis of scientific accuracy. This is the and retail dealers, 790,886; transporta- . personal equation demanding investiga- THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BU'l.DER 61 tion in all its varying factors. There is human experience arranged on a scienti no special department of human nature fic , or semi-scientific conception for in our universities now that is competent thinking and working purposes. Life to deal with this subject. Such a depart leads one to a point where one beg ins to ment ought to be created. reflect or think about his knowledge, and In the fields of employment, under when the young person has reached this modern stressed conditions, shifting and condition his case is hopeful. changing and displacements, are con J n conclusion the writer finds : stantly occurring. Restlessness and eco (a) As a general ?tatement, the one nomic waste abound on every hand. One who is just a specialist is a narrowist, is tempted to ask what is the matter and sees only in straight lines just before when everybody complains ? Beginners hi s nose. l1 suall y see just ahead, if diligent and im (b) The greatest thing a boy or a proving in their work, to a chance for girl can learn is to do one's duty cheer better wages, which acts as a stimulus fully, even when it is unpleasant. fo r a time; but not always when changes (c) A young person who is placed in and strikes and lockouts are common. a wage-earning position should be fol T he employers of labor value permanent lowed up by a systematic oversight with and progressive and improving em the same care as he was in his behavior ployees. All these factors should center and. studies in the upper grade work in abol1t one who enters an occupation with the elementary and high school. the view of becoming an efficient worker, (d) He should do his present job so and wants to be weighed by the em well that those who inspect his work will pl oy er, and to weigh himself by his own advance him to a bigger and better job. ideals. To fit the boy or the girl to the job, or the job to the boy or girl, there (e) He must accustom himself to is the rub, and it is still rubbing. pull hard against the collar whenever Most people go thru life indifferent to necessary, and not grttmble. its great purpose, acting under the im (f) He must continually increase and pression that things will turn out well, or solidify his knowledge and grow in it at any rate, better in the end. It is a every day. truism that everyone can not do every (g) As a man he must be bigger thing, and yet the recklessness with than his job, however large it may be. which vocations are happened into is one If one is settled on the bed rock of right, of the queerest corners in individual his duty, obedience, industry, and keeps a tory. So often interest lies in one direc good aim before him and lives up to it, tion and the work one does in another. he has no need of a Regularly Ce rtifi To face this problem in a manly way is cated Vocational Counselor outside his to ask what is it, what is its purpose, its parents, immediate teachers, and a safe full meaning, and the underlying princi business or professional man from the ples upon which it is , based, and how outside. these can be put into successful operation and reduced to a working test. If it is Architects Meade & Hamilton have a question of human knowledge; it has awarded to James Young the carpentry been developed out of human experience. contract and to the Baldwin Construc No knowledge is possible outside of some tion Co. the masonry contract on the sort of life experience. The content of residence for R. Ziesir'lg, Wade Park. any science is simply an embodiment of Ave. N. E. 62 'l'HE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER New Architectural Fraternity A Modern Fir:e Station Two architectural societies, one at An illustration elsewhere 111 this the University of Michigan and the magazine shows fire station Number other at the University of Illinois, have Five in Jamestown, New York, designed affiliated and incorporate unde-t- the by Messrs. Freeburg and Fidler of that laws of the State of Illinois to form the city which dese.rves the attention of first national professional architectural public authorities who have such build fraternity-Alpha Rho Chi. ings under contemplation. Their charter sets forth the distin The building, which is modern ill guished purpose of professional ad every detail in construction and design, vancement in the art ane! science of has its interior wall s lined with glazed architecture. brick. Besides the usual equipment for Each chapter of the new organization rapid ciescent through the building there has a large membership. The chapter is also a spiral 5tairway leading from at Illinois has among its honorary mem the basement to the second floor. bers Professor L. H . Provine, Acting In the basement there is a trough Head 0 f the Deparotment of Architec constructed for the purpose of washing tu re; Dr. N. C. Ricker, Professor of hose which are then dried by being Architectural History, and Mr. A. H. laid on a slanting rack adjacent to the Kil11ball of the Department of Design. trough instead of the older methods of I-laving a firm belief in the value of drying the hose in a specially con fraternity life in the ordinary academic structed tower. coll ege TnE OHIO ARCHI'l'EC'l', ENGI The sleeping apartments for the, men NE I;; R AND BUlLDER extends congratu are also of the most approved design, lations to Alpha Rho Chi and trust that the upper fl oors of the building being it l11ay extend its "g'rip" and password fini shed in paneled oak, the living and along the line to her sister architectural reading rooms being bright and cheer schools, which she no doubt will. ful, and shower baths being provided Coll ege fraternities have a strong for all the members of the Company. hold, and will always continue to have In other words, station house N um a strong hold, upon the undergraduate ber Five in Jamestown is one of the mine\. Within the walls of most of show places of the town and its men these "Frat" houses or "lodges" friend are very proud of it. ships are formed which outlast most college associations. Members of Greek letter fraternities no maHer how long Home Comforts Supplies they have been absent from their Alma The requirements of the modern Mater always find the old "lodge" or home include both protection against "house" a waiting them-and are again Summer heat and Winter cold. The "at home." College fraternities are also ice man and coal man of-ten meet at as a rule, keeping pace with the times the same doorway for both are neces and advancing in many ways into sary to present day demands. stronger and stronger organizations. Proper refrigerator service 'and ade The young architectural student no mat ter where he may go, will never, we quate furnace capa{:ity are as requisite ' veI1lture, have reason to regret is asso to comfort as sunshine and fresh air. ciations with the architectural fra,ternity They are rationally designated as -if he is lucky enough to be invited "home comforts" and The Clark Hard to join it. ware Company, 109-111 Main Street, THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 63 Jamestown, N. Y., is supplying the mittee, The East Ohio Gas Co., Cleve home owners of that city and com land; Dr. E. P. Hydca, Chairman, Re munity with both these necessities. ception Committee, National Lamp The Round Oak Furnace, for winter, Works, Cleveland; Mr. C. L. Law, New and the McCray Refrigerator, for sum York Section, The New York Edison mer, make the home comfortable all Co., New York City; C. L. McKinstry, the year round. Chairman, Entertainment Committee, The commodious residence of Mr. Erner Electric Co., Cleveland; H. N. W . J. Maddox on Allen Street, James Sibbald, Master of Transportation, N a town, is equipped with a magnificent tional Lamp Works, Cleveland; A. G. opal glass lined, McCray refrigerator Summerell, Chairman Hotel CommiHee, supplied by this company, which testi National Carbon Co., Cleveland. fies to its adaptability to the highest Invitations were also extended, but domestic service. for various reasons the following other Many beantiful Jamestown homes are committee members were unable to at eqt1ipped with the Round Oak furnace, tend this luncheon : G. S. Barrows, rendering them cosy all the year round. Philadelphia Section, The United Gas The residence of Dr. A. F. Livingston Improvement Co., P.hiladelphia, Pa.; J. on Forest Avenue is an example of this W. Cowles, New England Seotion, The modern heated home installed by the Boston Edison Co., Boston, ' Mass.; C. Clark Hardware Company who have A. Luther, Chicago Section, People's hardware equipment for every domestic Gas Light & Coke Co., Chicago, Ill.; use. Mr. Mathias Turner, Chairman Finance Committee, The Clevel·and Illuminating Illuminating Engineers Co., Cleveland. PREPARATIONS IN PROGRESS FOR ANNUAL CONVENTION The meeting was a most enthusiastic OF THIS SOCIETY TO BE HELD HERE SEPTEMBER one and plans were discussed for the 21 TO 25, NEXT handliilg of details connected with each The fir st meeting of the Committee Chairmen who will conduct the Con separate committee and the Chairman's vention affairs for the next annual Con duties clearly outlined. vention of the Illuminating Engineering Each Committee Chairman was asked Society to be held in Cleveland from to appoint as many other members Sept. 21 st to 25th inchisive was held 'on his committee as he deemed proper at Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio, on and it was suggested and agreed to, that VVed nesday, June 17th, when the Gen a meeting of each of the various com eral Chairman gave a luncheon to the mittees was to be called and work various committee chairmen appointed. assigned each committee man so that Those present at this meeting in the committee chairmen might meet cluded: Mr. W. M. Skiff, Chairman, National Lamp Works, Cleveland; Mr. again on Monday, July 6th to further A. J. Brown, Sec., National Lamp discuss the work of the vanous com \i\iorks, Cleveland; Mr. H . B. Dates, mittees. Chairman Attendance Committee, Case Further announcement will be made School of Applied Science; S. G. Hib in the OHIO ARCHITECT from time to ben, pittsburg Section, Macbeth Evans time concerning hotel headquarters, en Glass Co., Pittsburg, Pa. ; F. R. tertainment features aild papers to be Hutchinson, Chairman, Publicity Com- read and discussed. / 64 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER jamestown's Eagle Temple library are easily accessible, is the main The Fraternal O rder of Eagles of feature of this fl oor and is fini shed in Jamestown, ~ ew York is probably as a most up-to-date rn anner. A mission, proud a body of F. O. E.'s. as ever or lounging roo 111 , is located ill the forega,thered in a fraternal home. The center of the front and is in mi ssion cause for all this is the recent comple style bearing many evidences of modern tion of the temple for the Jamestown arts and craft. .\ cri e, :\umber Eight Hundred and Six The parlor is located on the left of teen, which was designed for them hy the mission rool11 and will be finished \1 e;;srs. F reeburg anrl Fidler, ,'\rc11i in mahogany with green decorations and teet;; of that city, will be furnished with solid mahogany The Eagle T emple is located on the furniture. ! Connecting with the parlor ea;;t ;; ide o f \Vashington street, between and opening into the central lobby will west third and fourth streets, and is be a room set apart for a library. four stories in height. with 'a frontage Passing frol11 the central lobby through of fi fty-five feet and a depth of one a c1 as:;ic coll onade one enters the pool hundred and twenty. and billiard room. Space is provided The building is a fire-proof structure fo r six tables, The room is fini shed of steel and concrete, the front, which in mi ssion style, having beam ceiling. is de5 igned for stores on the fi rst fl oor, Opening off the central lobby and COI1 - consisting of rough texture brick o f a necting with the se rvice kitchen on the rich brO\\'n color, with a lime stone fac left and -the billiard room on tl;e right, mg. is situated the dining room. The din T'hree tie rs of front windows are en ing room is fini shed in early English, closed within three al'C'hed panels, the having paneled wainscoting, crowned pillars between the dividing arches being with a wide plate rail. surmounted with an ornamental stone A t the rear and to the left o f the cap upon which a large eagle with out dining room will be a kitchen in suffi stretched wings is seen to have appar cient size to serve the capacity of the ently just aJighted. An attractive cor dining room. Connecting with this nice adds finish to the building. kitohen will be a dumb waiter running A very useful adjunct to. a down from the large kitchen above to the town cl ub house consists of an auto alley below. mobile garage in the basement of the· The third fl oor which represents the building. The office of the garage oc crowing feature of the building, con cupies a part of the first floor space, tains one of the largest auditorium,; the cars being lowered · into the base in the city, having a large stage with a ment by means of an automobile ele proscenium arch 24 feet wide and 18 yator . feet high. The main fl oor has a seat F rom an entrance lobby, with tile ing capacity of about 800 with addi fl oor and marble wainscoting, an ele tional boxes on the balcony fl oor to ac vator and ornamental iron and slate commodate almost as many more. The stairs lead to the upper floors of the floor is mitered and makes one of the building. These are entirely dev.oted most attractive dancing halls in the to the uses o f the organization, the .city, A s before mentioned the kitchen, seoond containing the club rooms of the which is by no means an unimportant Order . A large central lobby from adjunct to .an Eagles' aerie, is located whi ch the dining room, billiard r00m, on this floor being 36 x 18 feet in size. ., ". , Tilt OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINttR AND BUILDER 65 Without intending to enter into iom liability to, blistering afterwards, and this pl ~ t e desc riptioil of this building, i't is being so, many decorators eschew the sa'id the fourth Aoor contains the boxc; use of, black altogether unless practicall y which overlook the auditorium on three forceo by the client's wishes to use it. ~ id es giving a total capacity of nearly That such a state of matters should Ii ft een hundred persons. still prevail, is bad ; for with the spread There is also a mezzanille Aoor be of technical knowledge, something better t ween the base ment and the first Aoor might well be expected, but probabl y it containing bowling alleys, a sw imming is due to decorators who do not keep pool. shower baths and the service de th emselves up-to-date by reading tracle partment o f the club. journals, etc. The boil er and power room is located T o all who know of the excell ent under the sidewalk in the front of the ready-hound pigments which are now on building. There will be two boilers, a the market, and have heen for a few large one for heating the building and a years', this difficulty can easily be over , mail er one for heating the swimming come. With these. when placed upon a pool. A well will be drilled for the proper ground, blistering and cracking ' purpose of securing a supply o f water and there will also be located in the are obviated to a g reat extent. and. as they are eminently suitable for varnish ba~eJ11ent a water pump, pressure .tanks, etc. There is ample room in the base ing on, their use for outside work will ment for an electric plant with which be acknowledged. to provide light for the building and Black ground in turpentine and mixed thi s will doubtless be installed event with varnish or Japan gold size in suffi uall y. In the meantime all of the elec cient quantity for binding properly, tric wires entering the building are en might. and has been. it is true. used in closed in underground conduits, thus stead of this later black. but. as is well a voiding the danger ot' fire from this known there is always som~ little diffi source. culty in mixing black to proper con From the construction of this build sistency after it has been ground in tur in g it will be seen th'at the architects pentine. and witl~ the ready-bounel black. are in every way prepared to meet the this is avoided. large st demands of their client, while Besides. the fact of it s being bound at the club's house itself speaks for the the outset. and during the g rinding pro ,; ucial life and activity of this growing cess. really amalgamates the binding :\ew York community. me diul11 and pignlent better. This. to gethe r with the claim that the binding merlilll11 is superior to gold size c r or Black for Outside Work dinary varnish. makes snch a black Black as a paint for outside work is worth consideration. and \ve leave it to sekt om in req uest, qnd though there may OUf readers as to whether it would not he many reasons for this which may be be worth a trial. As such ready-bound difficult to explain there is one which is colors only require thinning with turps obviolls, says The Decorator of London, to he fit for use, they are also quite safe Eng. in the hands of a careless or ~nferior Ordinary vegetable black, owing to its workmiln, who. lInc1 er the circumstances, greasy nature, is rather a diftlcll1t pig would not be inclined to llse a.ny o,ther ment "to handle properly withol1t gre&t medium as. of course, he might th\nk of 66 THB OHIO ARCHITBCT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER doing with another black. and, perhaps. The Fire at Salem to the detriment of the paint. if not "OLD WITCH HOUS'E" AND HAWTHORNE'S BIRTHPLACE ordinary oil color. Where this last DESTROYED, BUT MANY HISTORIC HOMES paint-oil black- is required for a fini sh HAPPILY ESCAPE without varnish, the ready-bound black Readers of THE: OHIO ARCHITECT, may be thinned with linseed oil to which ENGINE;ER ,\ ND BUILD I2R will surely ha::: been added a suitable quantity of agree with us in thankfulness that good liquid driers, and will be found serious and unfortunate as was the con quite reliable, but in general, it is best flagration at Salem, Mass., first that for work under varnish, and when the actual loss o f life was so small , thinner! only with turpentine. In any and second that many of the historic case. to have a suitable black for the homes alld public buildings at this fir st pl1rp o~e is a matter of importance. quaint old New England city were left un scathed. It may at first seem lackipg in human kin dness to suggest that \ve should be A Johnson Memorial thankful that one portion rather than The contract fOl" erecti on of the another of any town should be saved grallite pedestal for the T om L. John from destruction especiall y where the son memori al to be placed in the Public loss has fall en upon the poorer resi square. Cleveland. on the site o f tht: dents of the place. That, however, is pre:,e nt lil y fO llntain, has been given to not the spirit in which we share with many, in expressing thanks those exam the \Vorden - Crawford Co., Citizens ples of colonial architecture and the building. many relics of historic interest in Salem T he memorial was des igned by were spared the general conflagration. Sculp tor H erlllan N. Matzen of the Around the "Old Salem Doorways," CI(' \" eland School of Art. The pedestaL about "The House of the Seven which is to be of Connecticut granite. Gables" , the old Custom House where lI·ill ,; upport a heroic size sitting fi gure Hawthorne served his country and of of the former mayor. The entire cost which he wro te so often, abode memo of the work will be approximately ries which will las.r as long as our I;i s $18.000. 'Work will be started at once torY continues. T o have lost them and the menlO rial will be completed and would have been a national loss, as our dedi cated late this fall. regret that the Old " \Vitch House," rece ntly doing duty as a prosaic drug store at E ssex and 1\ orth streets, tes tifies. A rchitects .:\Iaurer & Mills have The Joseph ,Cabot house btiilt in 1745 all'arded contracts on the Glenville Bap and the birth place of Hawthorne were ti st church at E. 105th and E lgin Ave. among the buildings destroyed and we N . E . as follows : Carpentry, J. B. will all admit that they in stance build Hawerott; slate roof to Pailke & Son; ings that neither money not human sheet metal. to W . J. Birmingham; effort can replace. plumbing, Spitz Plumbing Co.; lathing, It seems a little strange, a writer in A. Loyer Co. ; roofing, Ind e pend~nc e the New York SUIl remarks, "In view Roofing Co., and plastering, H. H. of this disaster, to read in some of the Deter Co. early accounts of Salem's industries THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDEJ< 67 that so afraid were the inhabitants of a of the Seven Gables" Hepzibah Pynchon conflagration that they founded what kept shop. It was built in 1662 and were known as fire societies or fire occupied by members of the Ingersoll clubs as early as 1744. These fire clubs family, some of Hawthorne's relations did great service. Hawthorne himself lived in several Every member was provided with a of the Salem homesteads. To his birth bucket and a bag ami many of the clubs place he retnrnecl again and again. that met in halls and public places hael Then he resided on Dearborn street, at always near at hand ladders' that could 14 Chestnut street, then as now the be reached easily. Under the stair aristocratic residential part of the town. ways in . Salem homesteads the present and afterward he moved to 12 lVIall generation carefully kept these old-time street where was written "The Scarlet buckets ' to show the age and value ,of Letter." the family tree. Some members of the In the custom house he served as clubs were also provided with bed keys Surveyor of the Port and there a great with which to unlock the heavy four deal of hi s writing was done. Of his post beds when the danger of loss (bys there he wrote, "If I had stayed threatened:" ." four years longer in the custom honse I should have truly rusted away and Of all the many interests with which never been heard of again." the commercial life of Salem has been The birthplace of Hawthorne was a cOllnected none has been more 1111- sombre looking house, gambrel roofed portant than the leather trade. It was with a single chimney, built flush with ill one of the leather factories, the Kohn the sidewalk. There were eight rooms, Leather Company, located right in the most of them small, and an attic in the heart of the comtmercial district, that gable. It was like many other houses the fire started. in the town and owed to his birth in it John Endicott, one of the first and its sole di stinction, bcking all archi most important of the pioneers, was of tectural interest. a practical turn of mind, and in the Modern Salem, outgrowth of so many examination of applicants who wanted years of struggle, of rich gifts and sub to go with him to the N ew vVorld he stantial bequests, has been as noted for selected those whose attainments could its fine school, its museum, its new be of use in founding a prosperous and hospital, gymilasium, clubs. both for peaceful settlement · in the wilderness. men and women. homes for the aged Tanners, shoemakers and other crafts and institutes of sociological and phil men were especially to hi s liking, and it anthropic import, as it has been for its is clue to this forethought that Salem fine old homes and gardens. soon came to be known as a centre of The Salem Club, 011 the' square, was the leather industry. Thus by a strange once the residencr of George Pe~boc1y, law of cause and effect the town owes the banker, who gave $140,000 for the its present disaster to the foresight Peabody Museum, which is filled with which contributed to its prosperity. art treasures. I,t is known as the Pea The birthplace of Nathaniel Haw body Academy of Science. thorne has been one of the places visited by tourists who have followed' his trail Plans have been prepared by Archi all over this town, which he helped tect H. F. Stunr, for erection of a make famous and which he left in 1850, residence for C. Gebquer on E. Over never again to return. In "The House look road, Cleveland Heights. 68 THE OHIO ARCHITECT. ENGINEER AND BUILDER r~~., 1,00 ,"~.~?:.~~~.~~~.. ~:~Iro:~.. o,",. I tit ARCHITECTS FOR OUR JULY DIVERSION /I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ] t is mid-summer and mast 'Of us wha Teck, waste-praduct 'Of a carrespond-. have anything ta cia are away an 'Our ence school. I know you're nat that halidays in stead 'Of daing it, and mast kind, Tom; in fact, I've waited far yau of thase wha stay at home declare that 'Often w·hile you heard a man thraugh with .. watch ful waiting" they might his story, but then you are bigger and as well have gane alang alsa, sa there mare intelligent than the average prac is raa111 far a litHe jocasity even in titianer· and realize that a man must the semi-technical magazines this month. learn the new things somehaw 'Or fall At least "Tam Thumtack" and the into a rut and that when a vitally inter eelitars 0 f A reli itcetuyc and Building ested expert will tell him first hand all seem ta think so, and this, an the can abaut it, it's the quickest way to' get flict between the special process man a strangle hald an a new idea." the man with the new flaaring, the new "You're all wrang, Jack," said I roafing, 'Or the new what-not that enters after thinking it over. "You ga araund inta every crack and crevice of building ta yaur farmer compatriots with yaur canstruction nawadays-seems ta suit head laaded with in farmatian, but yaur the weather conditians for July. shaulder laaded with chips. Yau for Says Jack Shrewd 'Of the Billings get that yau are ilO langer an architect Shrewd Floar system in belittling his and when all's said and done are but former colleagues, the architects: a manufacturer ask~ng favars 'Of archi "\Vhy, Tom, you knaw haw much tects, asking the boam 'Of a specifica the fiverage architect earns, 'Or doesn't tian * * * *" earn. My clerks get more. Bllt I've "Asking nothing! Tam. I am simply had the littlest 'Of the l·ittle break six trying ta gimlet thase boneheads sa engagements with me hand-running. I've that I can let in the bright light that had the very men wham I used ta times have changed since Kidder wrote despise as my professional copy-cats, his Pocket-Baok. I'm not asking favars, insult me through the 'Office boy. I've I'm daing favors! I've got a real me s ~ hael ta can duct business with his key sage far everyone of them. Lots 'Of baard Sadie instead of the architect the other men wha visit their 'Offices wha has ta stand off the landlarcl as with madels and literature have a mes many manths 'Of the year as yau can sage far them, also. They aught ta be eat 'Oysters. I've had to talk business anxious to be informed. They are with Whippersnapper 'Of Dinky and all accused 'Of being impractical, and Whippersnapper while he put an his justly so; and demanstrators coulc! gloves going down in the elevator. I've make them practical. We bring prac been instructed in floar canstructian tical things to their very offices to show fram the planking in the ark to the them how they work. Da they learn? fireproofing 'Of Hades by little Archie Why, they won't even see us. They THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 69 won't find out how a new screen works of five to see our next exhibition III un til a mosquito drills M rs. Big Client's New York City. I'll authorize you to epidermis. A child, an Indian, or a offer to give away a thousand feet of sc ientist would beseech us for a look. my c.onstruction. to the first of their An architect won't even read our cards. clients to use it and put in the rest at E very other class of men in vestigates cost, one which I'll . name arbitrarily. new things. When they put a mule in That's a fair test of your arguments a cage arid lower him into a subway in favor of yo ur broad-minded profes excavation with a windlass 'and boom. sion. " all the seven ages of man look into the " Done. I'll take you. I'll round up all fiv e." matter. W hen they put a man through i the airlock of a foundation caisson, the N e can eliminate many o f the efforts but the interview with Mr. E dson is average passerby will stop long enough cleverl y told to wit : to learn all about it. H e'lI take a les I hadn't had a first chance at E dson son from that obse rvation to store in and since I had tried all the others, hi s brain. How about your architect ? I thought in all fairness he ought to Se nd me around to tell him about his get an equal chance at my three hun brother mule and he'll throw me out of dred dollars in my original role of plain hi s offi ce . Send me to explain an air·· demonstrator! His offic e made me lock and he'll bawl me out of his place write my name and business on a card unde r three atmospheres' pressure. I and, wonder-of-wonders, Edson would know you'll say that the subway people see me. I fo unel a tiny man whose a ren't trying to sell the mule, and the face gave the impression of a H owarcl Foundation Company isn't trying to sell Pyle pirate. H is manner was alert and the sand-hog to the innocent bystander punctilious, but gave me an uneasy im -so he has no suspicious of the in pression of snobbishness. But I as structor's self-interest. Well, I may be sumed my most conciliating address and trying to sell them a fl oor Qut they told him that I had seen and admired don't have to buy it and they can get his work; thought he was progressive' the information free gratis for nothing - "Yes' ! Yes!" snapped M r. Edson ap by giving up ten minutes' time. When parently seeing the glimmer o f a great a shopper spends her time before a light, and "I wanted him to see' my new beautiful window display, she doesn't construction." " What ? See your new have to buy it. She can find out just construction! A re you taking up my how much stoc king Anthony Comstock time trying to get me to specify some and Fashion will let her show a police thing! I won't take it up with you at man without buying the slit. in the skirt . all. I'm busy! Get out! George !" he or the stocking to fit it. You archi shouted, as he tore out of the room. tects eit·her haven't got anything to "Show me that c ~ rd! " . There he read learn with or else it's too full of vani the words "about new construction." ties to leave space for realities." "Damn it all, George !" I heard him "Hush, Jack! You're disturbing the sputter. "I thought he was a client peace of the Rams' Club." who wanted a new building!" "You're ''I'll tell you what, Tom, I'll bet you the worst of the lot," I said to myself a dinner here at the Rams' Cluh with as I went down the stairs. "I know champagne in Ram's horns of plenty I could work you so well with my great that you can't disguise yourself as a client act that I won't take the trouble .demonstrator and get two aTchitects 'Out to try it." 70 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER O n Friday I went to Jack's demon Ventilating Engineers Wanted stration in my own proper person. The U nited States Civil Service Awaitin g him were the three architects Commission announces an open compet and Foster's head draftsman. I had itive examination for heating and ven-· won my dinner. De ,,; t made -the strong tilating engineers, for men only, 0 11 ~s t im pression, Drake seem cd very solic August 5 and 6, 1914. From the regis itous. The head draftsman was the ter of eligibles resulting from this onl y man who was really sin cere. The examination certification will be made othcrs were onl y memorizing their im to fill a vacancy in thi s position at promptu speech to spring on Mr. $ 1,800 a year in the United State.; Domin ee. Shrewd was nonplussed but Military Academy, Vole st Point, N . Y. , delighted. and vacancies as they may occur in That ni ght at thc Rams' Club our positions requiring similar qualifications, little table was a beautiful picture. No unless it is foune! to be in the interest body el,c has the art of our chef and of the service to fi ll any vacancy by the Rams pride themselves on the way reinstatement, trans fer, or promotion. they set the stage and the table. Two The appointee should be thoroughly pastmasters had chosen the viands and famili ar with direct and indirect heat illY mind was relieved anew every in ing of large buildings; the thermograde stant by the thought that it was Jack and thermostat systems of regulation ; who wa ~ paying. \tV hen we were al the operation of motor-driven fans ; most through and very happy, Jack steam fitting; regulation of reducing asked me about the four who had at valves, steam traps, etc. tended -the demonstration. I thought best to disclose my client bait which had landed all the others, but expa Misnamed, If It Is tiated on my reception at Edson's, hi s She (with newspaper)-There's a mi stake and then the rude di smissal. place in ~e nn sy l vania call ed Economy. Jack seemed vexed during the telling He-I'll bet it's not a summer resort. of my cli ent trick, but when I got through with E dson he began to laugh And Worrying Over the Job in a way which would frighten wild "Some people believe that eating salt animals in a menagerie, but passes at turns the hair gray." the Rams' Club unnoticed. When at "It's earning my salt that turned last he got breath enough he just m1l1e gray." shouted, "Edson wouldn't look at my ft oor! Vvhy, Good Lord, mati, he tIl We furnished vented it!" RUSSELL & ERWIN HARDWARE Should Hear Him Then on the Eagle Temple, Post pubiishing Co., Lutheran Parsonage and other buildings Wife (complainingly) - You never designed by Freeburg & Fidler. have a good word to say for me. You LET US FIGURE WITH YOU never praise me up to anyone. C. A. LUNDQUIST CO. H ub-I don't eh! You should hear HARDWARE me describe you at the intelligence office JAMESTOWN, N. Y. when I'm trying to hire a cook. 72 THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER INDEX TO ADVERTISERS A M Adams. Ira ...... 79 Mannen & Esterly Co ...... 2 American Metal Weather Strip Co ...... 83 Mantel, Tile & Grate Monthly...... 83 Martin-Harriss Co ...... ,' .... Inside Hack Cover B Meader & Olson ...... iH ilerejik...... 81 Mouat-Squires Co ...... t>6 Bloomquist, J. Edga r ...... 77 Murray&Co., M.J...... 8 Bommha rdt, John A. & Co...... 8:] Bostwick Sted Lath Co...... First Inside Cover N Brown Vincent Co...... " .. 80 National Fixture Co...... 7n Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co .... . Outside Back Cover National Lead Co . J ...... H~ C National Safe & Lock Co ...... ,...... 87 Nelson Bros...... 74 Camp Conduit Co ...... 81 · Camp Art CO' I The ...... 76 o Chamberlin Metal Vy~ather s trip Co .. Inside First Cover Ohio Sash & Door Co...... Outside back cover and 84 Ohio Quarries Co...... 75 C hnttie!d & S haqj . . Outside back cover Ohio Typewriter Exchange ...... HO Chautauqua Lumber Co ...... 73 Osborn,]. M. & L . A., Co ...... 5 City Sheet Metal & Roofing Co . HI Claus, A ...... 79 p C lark Hard ware Co ...... 4 Cleveland Art Metal Co...... 82 Page, Wm R., Boiler Co '...... 81 Ckn'land & Buffalo Transit Co .... . •...... •...... 8:; Pasquali, Son & Co ...... 81 Cleveland E lectrotype Co ...... •...... 8;; Pennington Metal Weather Strip Co . . .. . :;0 Cohbe. A. M...... 8 Perfection Furnace Pipe Co ...... Outside Bat'k Cover Collings. C larence H .. Co ...... 85 Peters Mill Work & Lumber Co ...... S Columbia Iron & Wire Works ...... 81 PinyouD & SOD, F. C...... 87 Corona 80 Poplowsky Plumbing Co...... • .. 81 Probeck, P.]. Co 7\1 D Diedrich •. Carl J ...... 79 .Detroit & Clen:land Navigation Co. 8.1 Q Donnelly. W. E. & J. J .... 7n Queisser- Bliss Co . . H2 & 84 E R Elanclcf, Daniel ...... 7H Realty Trust Co ...... 80 Electrical Mfg. Co . 79 Reaugh Construction Co ...... ' .' 8~ F Reliable Roofing Co ...... • ...... 80 Riester & Thesmacher Co ...... 80 Fuller. Geo. A. & Co...... !lO Roodman, J. E ...... 87 G Rose Iron Works 85 'Geist Cement product Co ...... 80 G ilhcnls, J. B...... !lO S Gilbcrcls Heaity Co. .. 80 Schellentrager. L. F...... ' 71) Gu stafson, H e nning ...... 80 Scboedinger, F. O...... :;0 H Standard Supply Co ...... Back Inside Cover Stein, L . W .. . .f ...... (1 Haas, C has. C ...... 78 Steffen, Geo. W ...... 79 Hanson Electric Co, ...... 74 H a lter, Jacob & Sons ...... 80 T H enry, T. E ., Furnace Co...... Outside Back Cover Hess (Steel Medicine Cabinet) ...... 8.5 Taplin, Rice-Clerkin Co ...... First Inside Cover Humbert, Frank A...... i4 Threlkeld-Walter Engraving Co...... 71 Transfer gta ined S hingle Co., Inc...... I I Tower Machinery Co .. : ...... 81 Iceless Refrigerator Co ...... 80 Tyler, W. S., Co...... Outside Back Cover Illuminating Co ...... '...... 3 u J United Electric Mfg ..~~...... 77. J a mestown Construction Co...... 6 J ame,town Cut Stone Co...... 13 V Jamesto wn Art G lass Works ...... 86 Johnson & Hanson...... 73 Van Sickle, W. B., Co ...... 87 Johnson, Frank 0 ...... 74 Van Dervoort Supply Co...... 4 Judso n Printing Co...... 80 Vedder Electric Co ...... - ...... 81 Venetian Art Mosaic Co...... 79 It Keighley Metal Ceiling & Mfg. Co ...... •...... 79 W K ell ogg Structural Steel Co...... 78 Watson Manufacturing Co ...... Inside back cove~ ~ Kerber, J. L. Electric Co...... 81 Wayvell Cb~ll & Co...... 85 , Kingsl~y Paper Co ...... 85 Weber, Lin..r:~'Hall Co ...... 80 i ~ste rlin" ~~ ~ Son ...... ' 3 I. L w"st Si~e..'t Metal Works...... 79 Lackawanna Bridge Co...... 77 WhipllJ, Gla.s Co...... 81 1 lAtimer Construction Co ...... , ...... 81 Wpo CHAUTAUQUA LUMBER CO. JOHNSON & H'ANSON Dealer. In Rough and Dressed LUDlber , PA'/NTS Bnd GLASS Lath, Shingles, Sash, ,Doors Interior Finishing 01 all kinds , CeDlent, Roofing and Wood Wall Board Estimates on all kinds of PAINTING and PAPERtNG Office and Yard. Clinton Street, near Eiirhth HOME PHONE 413 JAMESTOWN, N. Y. Cor. East Third and Spring St.. Both Phone. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. ·1 Fairmount School, Jamestown, N . y . -Freeburg a!iI. FIdler, Architects JAMESTOWN CUT STONE CO. BUILDING STO~E CONTRACTORS We furnished the cut stone on the above building. Also the) buildings of Murray Apartm~nts, Mrs. ,Ida Biglow, J. E. Graff and Presbyterian Manse. ESTIMATES ON WORK GLADLY FURNISHED Office and, Yard, 61 River 'Street, JAMESTOWN, N. Y. Bell Phone 1042·R 14 THE OHIO ARCHiTECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER Reception Room-Ragle Temple. Freeburg and Fidler. Architects. FRANK A. HUMBERT (Associate The Fox-Davis Mantel Co. Inc.) MANTELS. TILES and GRATES. MARBLE and SLATE. FIREPLACE TRIMMINGS We fwnisbed and installed the Mantels in the Reception Room of the Eagle Temple shown in the above illustration and pra ELSON BROS. HARRY G. LYONS General Planing Mill Builders' Supplies Manufacturcri of SASH and DOORS - Lumber, Latb, Shingles, OF EVEi(y DESCRiPTION Sash, Doors and I NTERIOR FINISH A SPECIALTY Building Material For millenee of the exceptional hie.b quality of OU f work we rdcr )'OU to me buildioCJi iJiustuted in thil illuc 1U0,. of whicb we ba.. e supplied the ~ill work. Te1qIboBe 12Z9 Office and Mill, 235.237 Prospect Street 50-52 Market ~.JAMESTOWll, B. Y. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. BdJ"'-616 Home Phone 12-8 FRANKO. JOHNSON The HANSON ELECTRIC Co. IIIau_ .. JOHNI ON t1 THORPE GENERAL slIEfi METAL CONTRACTOR ELECTRiCAl CONTRACTING 'ft.aJIbJg. J:avesspoatla&sJaU RooflnS ElECTRiCAl SUPPUES ConIIu Work aDd Geaeral JobblUg Steel celUJlgs,Sky-JJgbt. aa4 J'unIau WHOlESAl£ MIlD a£JAlL Work aSpedaItJ 0.7-8 Arcade Building. Second floor .-a-DAVIS IMJIU)DfG 32 Main SIred JAMESTOWN. N. Y. 322 W_"",", St., JAMUTOW., ••T~ THlt dHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 73 "BUCKEYE GRAY" SANDSTO;NE i Building Stone, Flagging, Curbing, Rough, Sawed, Planed and Turned. MANY DISCRIMINATING ARCHITECTS are SPECI- . . -.- FYING OUR MATERIAL. THE OHIO QUARRIES COMPANY CITIZENS BUILDING CLEVELAND 76 THE OHIO ARCHITECT. ENGINEER AND BUILDER Residence of Mrs. Ida Bigelow. Freeburg and Fidler, Architects. HOME PHONE 294-K BELL PHOHE 1156-R DA N I E L ELAN DE R, CONT';~li1~~ AN'O Contractor on the above residence and many others in l ames town. Estimates g ladly furnished. 608 WINSOR STREET JAMESTOWN. N. Y . " We Photograph Everything" Our various Types 0/ Lenses and Plates are adapted to all needs THE CAMP ART CO. A.N. CAMP AL. DOWNS RICE J. STUART HUSBAND PHOTOGRAPHERS JAMESTOWN. N. Y. The illustrations in this magazine were taken by the corp of Pho.tographers from our Studio TH1~ OaIO ARCaITl!;CT, ENGINl!;l!;R ,AND BUILDER 77 ' , LACKAWANNA BRIDGE COMPANY CONSULTING ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS OF STEEL Si"RUCT'URES GENERAL CONTRACTORS FOR FIREP'ROOF CONSTRUCTION NEW YORK CHICAGO BUFFALO ~ MILWAUKEE HOUGHTON, MICH. WORDEN-ALLEN COMPANY First L'!theran Parsonage. This building equipped ,with a Tuec Stationary Cleaning System Installed /Jy the Tuec Company of Jamestown Over 6000 Residences e.quipi;led with Tuec Cleaners. J. EDGAR BLOOMQUIST, Manager THE 'UNITED ELECTRIC CO.~ Mfg. 13-'19 Eo 3d St.,Jaln_town. N, Y. CANi'ON~ OHIO 78 TIle OHIO Ai~Cl-i:ITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER · .KELLOGG STRUCTURAL STEEL CO. Manufacturers of IRON -AND STEEL WORK FOR BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES General Office: Builders' Exchange Building, Court and Pearl Streets BUFFALO, NEW YORK Long Distance Phones: Bell, Seneca 2 Federal 2055 Fairmount School, jamestown, N . Y. -Freeburg i;& Fidler, Architects CHAS. C. HAAS; General Contractor and Builder Contractor for the above school, also many of the prominent buildings and residences in Jamestown 10th and Monroe Streets Both Phones JAMESTOWN, N. Y. THE OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER 79 I .. G. W. MEADER, 613 E. Sixth St., Home Phone 1287 Geo. W. Steffen ANTON E. OLSON, 27 Maple St., Home Phone 671 Book Binder MEADER & OLSON PAPER RULING AND BOOKBINDING Contractors for all kinds of OF EVERY DESCRIPTION PLASTERING AND CHIMNEYS Main 2677 Over 20 Years' Experience 411 Frankfort Avenue, N. W. Cleveland, O. JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK w. E. & J. J. DONNELLY UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS 406-407 CUYAHOGA BUILDING, CLEVELAND, OHIO The DONNELLY FIRE and DRAFT DOOR. Main 926 FOR ELEVATOR OPENINGS MANUFACTURED BY IRA ADAMS ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION WEST SIDE SHEET METAL WORKS In Every Detail DONNELLY BItOs. PROP. Rooms 320·21 Central Trust Building 611 Long Ave.N. W. CLEVELAND, O. Ask for Catalogue 746 EUCLID AVENUE CLEVELAND, O. Cuyahoga FLOORING OF CHUR ...· HES, HALLS S. Keighley Metal Ceiling & Mfg. Co. Central 3105 W VESTIBULES, BATH ROOMS, ETC. SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF The Venetian Art Mosaic Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Lock-Joint Metal Ceilings Marble and Glass Mosaics Terrazzo Floors a Specialty PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA 233 Prospect Ave. N.W. CLEVELAND, O. JL jf. ~cbelltntragtr The P. J. PROBECK COMPANY REFRIGERATORS Architectural Modeler and Carver For all requirements our specialty. Also complete Plastic Relief Ornaments, Composition lille of up-to-date mercantile store fixtures. Caps, Brackets, Etc. 2337-2343 E. 4th St. S. E., Cleveland, O. 1562 West Third Street CLEVELAND. O. Both Phones Refrigerators Bell, Main \684-1 Cuy., Cent. 398-W For Residence, Grocer, Butcher and CARL J. DIEDRICHS Florist CARPENTER AND BUILDER The National Fixture Co. Metal Weath~' Strips a Specialty Ground Floor Rockefeller Bldg. 807 Long Ave. N. W. Cleveland. O. A. CLA US CUY. CENT. 5213 INCORPORATED 1905 THE , Manufacturer BANK, CHURCH and STORE FIXTURES ELECTRICAL MFG. CO. FINE FURNITURE Montels and Odd Furniture a Specialty Switchboards and Cabinets 2415 Forestdale Ave. CLEVELAND, OHIO 2163 E. Second St., S. E. CLEVELAND 80 THl'~ OHIO ARCHITECT, ENGINEER AND BUILDER THE The Weher, Lind & Hall Co. THE O\:.DEST ESTABLISHED .JUDSON PRINTING COMPANY CO~[lI[ERCIAL PRINTEHS Painters & Decorators CLEVEJ.AND IN THE MIDDLE WEST 1805 E. 12th St. North of Union Club Cuy. Cent. 461 After 5:30 call f Bell, East 588 J. l. GILBERDS Organized H)05 W. 1. GILBf.RDS Bell, Main 21()ij 1 Cuy Cent. 5();14W FOR YOUR GRAVEL OR SPECIFICATION GILBERDS REALTY CO. ROOFING CALL RELIABLE ROOFING CO. REMOVED TO 648 ENGINEERS BLDG., CLEVELAND 309 Main St. Jamestown, N. Y. Bell, Ridge 860 ] Cuy., Cent. 7189 K D. A. PENNINGTON, Manager TH[ IC[L[SS R[fRIG[RATOR CO. The 4418 EUCLID AVENUE Pennington Metal Weather Strip CLEVELAND Company 1276 WEST BOULEVARD CLEVELAND, O. JACOB HALTER & SONS GEORGE A. FULLER CO. SHEET METAL CONTRACTORS BUILDING 2604 WALTON AVENUE CONSTRUCTION SOUTH 750-.1 New York CLEVELAND. O. Pittsburgh CENT. 5547-R CLEVELAND Chicago 38 Taylor Arcade Washington HENNING GUSTAFSON MANUFACTURER OF General Contractor and Builder METAL CORNICE & SKYLIGHTS ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED Eave Trough Conductor Pipe and Architectural Sheet Metal Work Home Phone 247·K Jobber of Tin Plate Metals and Tinners' Supplies 30 Bush St. JAMESTOWN, N_ Y. COLUMBUS. O. "Quality Talks" Metal Cornice, Metal Windows. Skylights, Fire Doors. Steel Ceilings. Ornamental Hollow Steel The Geist Cement Product Co. Doors and frimmings Builders'Supplies, Asphalt Shingles. Sewer Pipe THE REISTER & THESMACHER CO. M8nuf8~tllr('r8 Rnd Contra~tt)r8 In Denison Ave. and West 73rd Street W. & L. E. R. R. SHEET METAL WORK Both Phones CLEVELAND, OHIO J. B. GILBERDS MONEY TO LOAN On Good Building Propositions CONTRACT PAINTER AND FINISHER INTERIOR FINISH A SPECIALTY THE REALTV TRUST Co. Res., 57 Hazzard St.. Jamestown. N. Y. 3 .39 THE ARCADE, CLEVELAND Both Phones CENTRAL !S2 Standard Folding EAST 2324 CENT. 2784-R CORONA Typewriter Visible Writer. Two Color Ribbon. best Mani- THE BROWN·VINCENT CO. folder. all com&ete. Size (folded) 9x II x4. Weight 6 Ibs. rite for Hooklet. DOORS, SASH, INTERIOR FINISH GLASS, FRAMES, MILL - WORK OHIO TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE. 746 EUCLID AVE., CLEVELAND 1804 E. 55th St. CLEVELAND