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"" f} ift The* following different departments work together for the complete and artistic H H furnishment of a house:— g {j is one of our specialties. Our facilities for executing special work under this head t ^ Interior Hardwood Finish, Imported and Domestic Wall Papers, H % are complete. g % Mural Decorations, Fabrics for Wall Hangings, S | Lace Curtains, Leaded Glass, H H Special Furniture, Fine Oriental Rugs, § ^ Hardwood Floors. S % Upon request representatives are sent to study requirements, and original draw ls ings are submitted without charge. H * 3 t • H tiiititiiititititiiititifiTiiifiliiiiiritit^^^ 1 1 b.Til' MAn Gi#tS*baii Bttitaa- ftfctaiBi.&i„.,Carta s :::4roi)o ilrMfriSlWi WM. H. McKELVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH, PA. CARLTON STRONG, ARCHITECT, PITTSBURGH, PA. THE BVILDER Vol. 32 PITTSBURGH, PA., MARCH, 1915 No. 1 PUBLISHED MONTHLY Cast glass wasfirst use d in Rome, at an era so BY remote that no date can befixed wit h any degree of certainty. Obsidian and marble thinly ground and T. M. WALKER Owner polished were originally used, and the flattened, translucent horns of animals were used in Rome J. B. JOHNSTON Editor so late as the second century, A. D. When it is re membered that glassmaking was introduced in LYCEUM BUILDING, PITTSBURGH, PA. Rome somewhere between 536 and 106, (the lat ter date being founded upon the mention of glass by Entered at tbe Post olTice at Pittsburgh. Pa., as Second-Class Matter. Cicero), it will be seen that blown window glass, so far as its general introduction is concerned, belongs to a period nearly three centuries later than the SUBSCRIPTION, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE, ONE YEAR $3 time safely assigned for the introduction of the manufacture of ordinary glassware into Rome from Egypt. And when it is considered that, to the EARLY INTRODUCTION OF WINDOWS. "Eternal City" there flowed regularly, in the form Windows, or openings in human dwellings for of tribute, thefinest natural and artificial products the inlet of air and light and the outlet of noxious of the then civilized world, and that the skill of the vapors and exudations, date from a very remote artisan, the searching eye of the discoverer, and the period. The cave was doubtless thefirst constructed secret products of the alchemist were all levied upon habitation of primitive man, but the cave-dwellers to bring annual tribute to Rome, it is safe to assume belong to an epoch ante-dating written history, and that sheet glass was either not a Roman require no fragments of window glass have been discovered ment, or was not commercially obtainable in either among the hearth-fires, stone implements, bones fine quality or large quantity. and debris of the rock and cliff recesses in which Some fragments of rough sheet glass have aboriginal man sought safety from wild beasts, or been discovered under the earth where stood an refuge from the more dangerous members of ad ciently the foundations of the narrow walls of Rome, verse tribes and clans. and latterly, some small sashes of rough blown The tent dwelling nomads also had no windows sheet glass have been exhumed in the debris cov in the modern sense, and it is evident that though ering the site of the city of Pompeii, destroyed 79 weaving by hand was one of the earliest crafts ac B. C, but neither of these isolated facts prove that quired by barbaric tribes, nither frame, stone or the use of window glass at that period was general, brick dwellings could have possibly ante-dated the even in the chief cities, or the capital of the Roman use of metallic tools, so that the manufacture and empire. use of window glass belongs to an age later than Glazed or oiled paper, sea shells, oyster shells, that of the Egyptian pyramids. find such other materials as by grinding to thin The nomadic tribes of antiquity followed the sheets and subsequent polishing assumed translu- sun, because they lived mainly from fruits and cence, were taken advantage of in various coun herbs, the natural products of the soil, and from tries, according to the social requirements or eco the products of their herds and flocks, for which nomic conditions prevailing. Mica and, more an the best grazing spots were naturally selected. As ciently, isin-glass (dried blubber of the sturgeon). a result, the tribal tents were regularly removed as and the more or less semi-transparent skins and the flocks and herds exhausted the spontaneous entrails of animals, served to close the apertures sustenance of nature in warm and generally rain which let in air, when open, and some small degree less climates. of light, when closed. As a result of these controlling factors, the The earliest allusion to the use of glass win origin and use of window glass need not be looked dows to which any credit can be given, are those of for in an age previous to that in which civilized Gregor of Tours, in the sixth century, who refers society built cities and established permanent resi to the use of cathedral windows of colored-glass. dences, which means the establishment of law, the The cylindrical process of manufacturing sheet maintenance of order, and the recognition of human glass is undoubtedly of Roman origin, having been rights. practiced by Venetians at an early date, and is mentioned by Theophilus, as early as the twelfth 14 THE BUILDER century. This process was afterwards practiced by weeks and ended only with the total disability of the Bohemians, as most suitable in the production the guests to further take part in the festivities of their colored glass owing to the absence of waste, and enjoy the hospitalities of the house. the thinness to which their fine colors could be There was a limit set upon the cost of windows superimposed, the absence of the bullseye and cir to be donated, and only cheap affairs were legally cular form of the sheet, and the truer surface ob allowed to be presented in memory of past friend tainable for the small squares into which cathedral ship, and in anticipation of a glorious time to come. lead glazing made it necessary to divide sheet glass So in Luenenberg, 1577 and 1583, the maximum in that early period and primitive state of the art. value of a window to be donated was limited to eight From a period which may safely be placed at shillings, or two dollars, which would justify the about 100 B. C, the manufacture and use of win outlay of about half a barrel of ale. In Bremen, dow glass may be dated. Some crystalline glass 1593, the value was reduced to ten grotes, and of was made but used for thefinest articles only. course under such legal restrictions the good old Windows differ in size, shape, and methods of custom soon died out. opening and closing, the style varying in each coun A window tax was formerly levied on all dwell try. In Germany, in the houses of the peasantry, the ings having more than eight windows, F.nd was one lights and sash are small and are built in the wall, no of the crudest methods by which sovereigns for provision being made for opening them. In the cities, merly fleeced the people. In some of the small the sash, in ordinary dwellings, consists of six states of Europe even the number of doors in a lights, two small ones in the center and lower part dwelling were subject to a special tax, which was of the window, the sash being hinged to each side exacted from the landlord, and by him in turn col of the frame, and opening inwardly, closes centrally lected from the tenants. In 1695 England abandoned like a double door. The advantages of such a win the hearth tax and imposed a window tax, the lat dow is that one-sixth, one-third or one-half can be ter being less objectionable than the former be separately and independently opened, while the cause the hated excise man didn't need to enter rest of the window remains closed. the private apartments of the tenantry, as he was In England and the United States, windows obliged to do in the case of the hearth tax. The balanced in the sash have come to be in great favor, window tax was continued in England during 150 the advantage being that any amount of air desired years, and despite numerous modifications, never can be admitted to the room by either lowering the became acceptable to the people, and wasfinally re upper or raising the lower sash, and it is to this pealed in 1851. convenience that the large lights now used in ordi In France a window and a door tax has been nary dwellings is to be largely attributed. levied since the seventh year of the Republic, the The windows of ordinary dwellings in Italy, annual income from which amounts to from 45 to France, Belgium, Holland, Spain and Germany have, 50 million francs. during the past three hundred years, been glazed CALIFORNIA REDWOOD. preferably with transparent blown cylinder glass, California alone sends to the marts of the crown glass, and at a later period polished plate world the redwood. This newest of all lumbers glass being used exclusively in the residences of comes from the oldest of all trees. It comes from the wealthy, the nobility and the palaces of royalty. a tree forgotten in the world's history. No living The glass for the capitol at Washington, built in representative is to be found anywhere outside the 1800, an order for which was placed with the primi borders of this State, where it has survived the tive factory in Pittsburgh was unable to furnish cataclysms which destroyed all its fellows in the the sizes and quality required, was afterwards filled vast tracts on the European continent, and Alaska, with imported English glass. Wyoming and Colorado. In those countries are to But most of the poetry and nearly all of the be found the fossils of the cretaceous period which romance which formerly surrounded the installa show that at a former age the Sequoia had its be tion of windows and marked an epoch in village his ing elsewhere than on the Pacific Slope. tory, has vanished as completely as have the gob There is a tree in Japan which claims kinship lins of antiquity from the marshes and moorlands to the Sequoia, but the relationship, if any exist, they formerly infested. is so distant that it would not be recognized by the In the middle ages, the well to do and high up, lordly trees of the Golden State who rear their allowed their wealthy friends to donate a window heads in the clouds and send their roots into the when they built a new residence, a custom which is soil of past centuries. still preserved in the presentation of memorial win In a belt 300 miles long and 20 wide survive the dows in ecclesiastical buildings of the present day. forests through whose aisles once roamed the pre The difference between the ancient and modern historic mammoth, the cave bear, and the three- custom, however, consisted in the fact that some toed horse. What stories could these trees reveal attempt was made on the part of the builder to to the delver into the past could the language of substantially recompense the donor in this world, their whispering tops be understood. Who can tell while now, churches, building committees and what has passed since the day when these giants of pastors simply accept the windows, make brief men the forest started from the ground as green shoots ? tion of the same in the dedicatory sermon and the Nations have changed, dynasties have risen and church registry, promise a future reward in the fallen, human history and earth's geography have kingdom to come—and all's forgotten. been as the rolling waves of the sea beside the lives Not so in that elder day. The friends gathered of these mysterious relics of the past. for a house warming which meant something. Here dwells mystery; but the iconoclastic There was an amplitude of wine and a prolonged (Continued on page 39.) feast and drinking bout which often lasted for ,~i : i&tf *»( « m m m ty^ p-* p^ m m i» « ™ «* Mr fr1 r?nri r^ nf"''''"^ f"*1 f*i pr r~ n IT ?T~"'i Ti™ f'W'f'• ;• •' , ,i|i j- M H R~i ri H &1 si "• ll H H friI H &$ ; J ^• I • i •• !•' ' l- I IN IN 1 ii I X< • V- •; ':•':• t H W £•' I- i 8 I £ i t i §d ii •: !;.; II Ifltltatllilli ;" ! I Ii l:.l n-lrii ^BBWnMb"ygfiMtsM!ifwa —MHraawM^Wlll HIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIII :OR SO. At 8BSgB8gjaaBMJBWi!*WftJSSagSSaS5^^B««BMHB SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL, GRANT BOULEVARD ELEVATION, PITTSBURGH, PA. EDWARD STOTZ, ARCHITECT, PITTSBURGH, PA. X" ,?• T<>.*£ -V- >... . < : . * /,• -,n n,fct: .x SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL, FIRST FLOOR PLAN. .-••\- % rW» A V 1 " A .„nd£^ r\Y-. * h 1 :'E35 BSffl^ SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL, SECOND FLOOR PLAN. \V<^C Wo \\ -ft ,-- / \ c^1 SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL, PLOT PLAN, PITTSBURGH, PA. EDWARD STOTZ, ARCHITECT. •BA0r>lE/1T PLVi TlR^iT TLOORL. PLA/i GLAD5T0/1D SCHOOL GLADSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH, PA. 0. M. TOPP, ARCHITECT, PITTSBURGH PA. ?mm < tt a m m H O o a o tn Pi «j H H W CQ M H tt O M ~ *»* H 03 H S < PH W a K n PH H O H H 8 o H H O EO o < la H ftA>5-ft./r ftJr .-: :A_SJi£J WATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH, PA. INGHAM & BOYD, ARCHITECTS, PITTSBURGH, PA. WATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH, PA. INGHAM & BOYD, ARCHITECTS, PITTSBURGH, PA. %^AcXn xAfty*- WATT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH, PA. INGHAM & BOYD, ARCHITECTS, PITTSBURGH, PA. 1£> : ?K' tpf i •»• i |p ill IpSsiip I Hi *iz DILWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH, PA. VRYDAUGH & WOLFE, ARCHITECTS, PITTSBURGH, PA. ?c ZI HZ, Jj in: u : ] ! D0Da „.^.„.., ' • 1 I'l.fcK Or :>D'.'''Nlt I'L'DG W'¥u DILW0RTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH, PA. VRYDAUGH & WOLFE, ARCHITECTS. COLFAX SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH EDWARD STOTZ, ARCHITECT FLOOR PLANS, COLFAX SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH EDWARD STOTZ, ARCHITECT WEST FACADE, MARGARET MORRISON CARNEGIE SCHOOL, CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HENRY HORNBOSTEL, ARCHITECT THE BUILDER 39 (Continued from page 14.) in a living embrace. This fallen redwood tree is hand of man has torn the veil and commerce is six feet in diameter, and notwithstanding the fact driving back the shade into the regions whence it that it has lain for more than a century its wood came, and is sending to the busy haunts of man is as sound as any of the recently felled trees. those patriarchs of the tree world with their tradi This fact is sufficient evidence of the lasting tions from the beginning of time. quality. But there are other qualities which make Thirty-seven mills, cutting 575,000,000 feet an this lumber as especially suitable for building pur nually, are eating their way into the heart of the poses, not alone in California, but in all parts of the great redwood forests of California, and the world and especially in the tropics, where the depre question is frequently asked: How long will it dations of certain insects make house building some last? A bit of history may be the best answer to thing to be dreaded. The white ant, that terror of that question. the tropical countries, and especially of the Philip One big lumbering company, thirty-five years pine Islands, does not touch the redwood, and this ago, thought it had all its timber cut, and began to fact has brought about quite a trade between Cali look around for other tracts. That was a third fornia and the insular provinces for the purpose of of a century ago, and while the company is cutting making cabinets and boxes for the keeping of more than twice as much lumber to-day as it was records. then, the tract is not yet exhausted. Indeed con What makes redwood especially suitable for servative men have gone so far as to say that the building purposes, and for shingles is the fact that redwood forests of California, at the present rate it is practically incombustible. To those who have of cutting, will last fully 250 years. It is estimated used redwood for kindling this may sound as draw that there is an average of 50,000 feet of lumber to ing the long bow, but as there is no pitch in red the acre of redwood forest, but it must be remem wood, it will not carryfire whe n there is the slightest bered that some of these big trees contain even more moisture in it. For casing work for doors, for than that amount. One tree alone had 66,500 feet windows, and for all places where unchangeableness cut from it. is a necessity redwood is the best of all lumber. One of the old stories told around lumbering When it is once seasoned it neither shrinks nor camps regarding the size of these big redwoods is swells. It can be wet for weeks without the calipers that of a chopper who selected a tree and began showing the slightest change in dimension. This work on one side of it. After he had been cutting feature makes it especially adaptable for pattern for a week, he chanced to stroll around to the other work, as it neither warps nor shrinks and the side, and there found a man who had been cutting iron moulder will always find his casting exactly for eight days on the same tree. of the proper size. The real "big trees" of California are the Its resistance to weather and the action of the Sequoia Gigantea, but they do not furnish the true elements makes it especially suitable for railroad redwood lumber. The Gigantea wood is brittle and ties, and thousands of acres of the timber are being is not near so suitable for lumber as the Sequoia cut for this purpose. Sempervirens, from which the redwood lumber is The bulk of the lumber cut is distributed on cut. But the Sempervirens is no infant in size, as the Pacific Coast, but other countries are beginning some there are fully 50 feet in circumference, with to understand the value of the material, and al tops towering 300 feet above the ground. When it ready Germany and England are sending in large is remembered that the bark on a good sized red orders for it. Australia, the Sandwich Islands, and wood is 12 inches thick, some idea can be had as to other parts of Europe are calling for it, and as it the dimensions of the tree proper. ANCIENcomes intTo BLOCgeneraKl usOFe itCONCRET will vie Ewit MADh allE otheBYr These redwoods grow from Santa Cruz on the lumbeFIRSr inT th FRENCe marketH . PANAMA CANAL COM south to the Oregon line on the north, and as a rule PANY SHIPPED TO CHICAGO. are scattered in forests or groves, dotting the hills A cube of the first concrete made by the old and mountain slopes with patches of vivid green French Canal Company in 1886 has been received against the prevailing brown. The greatest quantity in Chicago by the Universal Portland Cement Co. is to be found in the northern counties of Sonoma, The shipment, which came from the Canal Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte, and it is here Zone via the S. S. Alliance to New York, was for that the vast lumbering interests of the State lie, warded by the Panama Railroad by authority of so far as the redwood is concerned. Geo. W. Goethals, Governor of the Zone. The Redwood, being a new lumber, has not yet won enormous use which has been made of concrete in its way among builders of other States and other controlling the waters of the canal appears to be lands, but it is fast being recognized as one of the well warranted by the endurance of this ancient most stable of all timbers. Where it comes in con specimen. tact with the ground, or with the weather there is Although the old concrete was formed in blocks no other lumber that can equal it for lasting quality. like cut-stone and not made monolithic as in all the It may be said that the reel cedar and the cypress later construction, its endurance under severe are almost as good. Redwood, is practically inde conditions is remarkable. The materials used were structible in the ground, or exposed to the air. In a Portland Cement, Bohio rock and Panama Beach the forests of Northern California lies to-day a sand. huge redwood trunk which some ancient tornado In quoting the specifications under which this sent chashing to the ground. On the fallen trunk is concrete was made Colonel Goethals says: "The growing a spruce tree. 30 inches in diameter, and Bohio rock is volcanic agglomerate of rather low fully 100 years old. This tree has grown on top of thdowe nfalle on neac trunkh sid,e itofs throote prostrats dividine ggiant and, extendinholding igt 40 THEBUILDER specific gravity and medium hardness, but very re ences to a type of engineer-architects who measured sistant to atmospheric weathering. During severe buildings and whose reportsfinally settled matters— 'northers' the breakers have, sometimes, been a sort of arbitrator. Here it will be seen, there strong enough to roll the blocks upon the beach." fore, that we have distinct references to the prin The French records of the contract of 1886, under ciple of "payment by measurement," the modern which these blocks were made, contain the follow equivalent for which is the quantity system, whilst ing specifications:— the Greek engineer-architect accords very closely, "Stone to pass through a ring 0.06 m. diameter, to the quantity surveyor of to-day. and to be washed and screened to eliminate all par Enough has been said to show that the meas ticles smaller than 0.02 m. diameter. The cement uring (or we say "quantity") surveyor has existed, mortar to be composed of 800 kilogrammes of ce certainly from the time of the Greeks and Romans. ment to 1 cu. meter of sand. These materials to be The quantity system as we know it to-day had its mixed dry upon a wooden platform under a roof, origin some eighty years ago when competing bid and water to be added by means of a sprinkling ders met and one of their number was selected to hose, taking care to use only as much water as may take off the quantities and furnish a copy to each be necessary to produce a homogeneous mortar, of his competitors. which will stick to the shovel. The concrete to be Better methods in time prevailed until the composed of two parts of mortar and three of stone. system was evolved such as I expect to see adopted After the mortar shall have been mixed as speci in the United States, i. e., compensation to the con fied above, add the stone and mix with an iron hoe, tractor through definite measurement being made until all of the stone shall be completely covered the basis of the contract. with mortar; the mixing to be accomplished with Competition, so called, among contractors is out further addition to water, the stone, however, comparatively a modern innovation. The words to be watered carefully in the pile at least one hour "so-called" are used intentionally, for under the pre before using. The concrete to be dumped into forms vailing conditions, competition intelligently and and compressed to a compact mass. Repeated conservatively conducted is the exception, and not ramminTHE gQUANTIT to be carefullY SYSTEy avoided.M OF" ESTIMATING. the rule. Our methods to-day are largely gambling methods when it comes to ascertaining the quanti By G. Alexander Wright. ties of materials which go to make up a structure The measurement and description of mechanics' and which must, of course, be accurately ascertained work and the placing of money values against such before an intelligent, satisfactory bid can be made. description is not new. Occasionally, when dis So true is this that it is a matter of common cussing the quantity system, one hears it spoken of knowledge, that fullyfifty per cent of the contracts as a "new idea." But it is not new by any means. let are the result of error, and further, that the The practice, however, of making a fixed "quan more capable and careful a bidder is, to get in all his tity" of material and labor the "essence" of the items, the less chance he has of securing a con contract, if not new, is certainly "modern." tract, profitably or even otherwise. The lowest bid, Historically speaking, there were measures of the one generally accepted, is usually anything but Quantity, areas and distances, in very early times. the most accurate. Ezekiel, the prophet, speaks of a man with a line One of the greatest inconsistencies also, in and a measuring rod in his hand. Someone has competitive estimating, lies in the fact that no said it was iust a twelve-foot rod, such for example, sooner are bidders invited to give a price on a job, as we might use to-day. Then in Zechariah, refer than they seem to compete among themselves to ence is made to the length and breadth being taken see who can take off the least quantity of material, of Jerusalem. etc., and it is surprising how well some of them That the Greek architects took their measure succeed. ments and made up their estimates of costs is gen The quantity system is not, as some persons erally admitted. Vitruvius, in his Handbook of have supposed, merely the taking off of a list of Architecture, written about the time of Augustus. items by one person, for one other person's use. mentions as one of the essential qualifications of nor does it consist solely of the listing of items by an architect, that he must be a good arithmetician individual contractors with varying methods and "to work out measurements and to estimate the uncertain accuracy, owing in part to the fact thai- cost of buildings." Indeed, in the case of public contractors are seldom, if ever, allowed proper time work in the city of Ephesus the architect was in which to make up an accurate bid. It must not obliged to give a figure representing the cost of the be overlooked that some "training" is also essential work, which was retained by the chief magistrate, to the accurate preparation and classification of and honors were conferred upon the architect if, quantities. at the end of the job, this estimate had not been ex What the Quantity System does mean, how ceeded. If, however, the cost materially exceeded ever, is the careful measurement by an independ the estimate, the architect had to make up the de ent person specially trained in this special kind of ficiency, and it is said it was a matter of regret to work, and the present age is undoubtedly the age Vitruvius that there was no such provision in the of the specialist. This specialist or quantity sur Roman law. Then, again, among the Greeks, it veyor, proceeds with his work somewhat differently was customary upon public work to publish itemized to the average contractor, for he follows certain detailed accounts of the actual cost of such works, recognized rules in taking off, abstracting and bill as well as the architect's estimate. Payment by ing, with a. view to eliminating error. He uses also measurement was very common, and we find refer certain uniform standards of measurements, and ex servepressiond fo. r Everfuturye writtereferencen wor. dHi so rcheckin figureg anis d prere- THEBUILDER 41 checking methods to ensue accuracy, must be at law and so forth, nearly all of which may be studied, to be appreciated by those to whom the avoided by adopting, more conservative modern Quantity System is unknown. A record is made of methods in our preparatory work, before contracts every item, however small, having a money value. are let. Futher, interpretation of plans and specifi These items are then all classified and arranged, cations should, in common fairness to both parties each under its proper trade or department in to the contract, be made wherever possible, before methodical order. Guess-work methods are un a contract is let, and not be left until afterwards, known to the Quantity Surveyor, whilst his accu nor to be done "as directed." Under the Quantity racy and attention to details is well worthy of com System, where the quantities are made the basis ment. of the contract, this becomes practically imperative. The surveyor who does this work is a profes Regarding interpretations, one might be excused sional man similar to the engineer and the archi for saying that it would seem, as engineers or archi tect. He should, in fact, have, and usually has had tects, to be a question of policy, as well as fairness, some experience in the work of these professions, whether we should continue to even assume the re and in addition, a practical experience acquired in sponsibility of deciding things already contracted the field in actual superintendence of construction for, according to our "judgment." If our judgment work. is to govern what a contractor must do, would it not Such a surveyor then upon commencing to take be better to consider those things which can be con off quantity from an architect's or engineer's draw sidered, and then determine them finally before a ings readily detects any ambiguities or discrepan contract is let. Many an architect and engineer has cies which exist, through hastv preparation or other suffered professionally through assuming to exer wise. Attention of the architect or engineer is at cise judiciary powers unnecessarily. But, to re once called to such matters by the quantity sur turn, notwithstanding the fact that over 40'ft; of the veyor, as he goes along. Being so detected, such entire population of our cities are dependent direct ambiguities and uncertainties can be. and are. cor ly or indirectly upon the construction of buildings, rected and adjusted, so that by the time the draw yet methods usually followed to determine the im ings and specifications reach the bidders for esti portant question of contract cost, are those usecl mating purposes, all doubts have been cleared up, generations ago; they come to us as a tradition and everything has been made so plain and accurate, from the period when tallow candles were used. that the possibility of error in quantities can be Whilst we have made wonderful strides in construc practically disregarded. tive methods and materials, and, let us hope, in de This document, prepared exclusively in the sur sign, little or no attention has been given to veyor's office, is then either printed or similarly re standardizing estimating methods. We seem to produced- and a fac simile copv supplied free of cost have been too busy "speeding up," to regard ser to each bidder, who inserts his unit price opposite iously the advantages of accuracy, when it comes each item, and readilv foots up the money cost in to spending money on construction. In the end, of dollars and cents, and which reallv is P11 that he course, it is the owner, thefinancier, who suffers. should be asked to do. The auantities of materials There are, however, indications as a result of the and labor then set forth in this document, or bill of movement initiated in San Francisco, that more Quantities represents the limit of what the con conservatism and a closer adherence to business tractor will be called upon to perform or furnish, in principles are going to be preferred by the moneyed order to complete his contract. In short, the bid interests in place of the guess work and gambling becomes a proposal to do a certain "fixed "quantity" methods which they have overlooked in the past. of work, indicated in the auantities, no more and A contract according to Blackstone. is "an no less. The contract to be drawn accordinglv. This agreement upon sufficient consideration to do, or not then verv briefly is the main underlying principle to do, a particular thing." The lowest bidder to of the Quantity System of Estimating, a definite day will scarcely admit that the contract considera quantity of work for n definite price, and pavment tion is sufficient, or that his contract obligations according to a well defined systematized method of are limite:d i toi dL oi any one particular 1thing. It measurement, and the entire elimination of those woulft;*:-*-;-*-!-*d also;-+ see;-* r*m i-*tha;-*-;-*-r*-r*ft-S'-r*-,-*-;-*-!-*t architects or engineer:-*-;-*-:-*-!-s who* well-known conditions and elements, which now * compel bidders to take rhances. nnd for whi>h all parties usually suffer in the end. the owner included, * Most of us are familiar with these wasteful, un AIKEN & CO. -:- satisfactory methods, and sometimes, even per * * nicious practices, which are followed to-dav in bid TILE WORK FOR I ding upon and carrying out work. These injure both parties to a contract, and they arise largely FINE RESIDENCES * from bidders' mistakes inficririncr. because accu -:- racy has to be so often sacrificed for an ill-advised speed. A lare-e proportion of these mistakes ocmr CENTURY BUILDING * in the hurriedfigurinar of the "quantities" bv bid PITTSBURGH, PA. -:- ders. Some of us. when we have the opportunity f of looking behind the scenes, so to speak, become +;K*-;-*-!-*-:-*-:-*;h*-;-*-:-*-:-+ft-*-;-*-:-*-:-*-;-*-:^+ft-+ft-*-;T*rH*-:-*:;* - appalled at the resultant effects of existing prac t tices, such as the enormous waste in time and * money in useless figuring, disputes, harassing con ditions, hard feeling, lack of confidence, delays, suits 42 THE BUILDER ATLANTIC TERRA COTTA CO., W. F. TRIMBLE & SON, GOLDEN & CRICK, Contractors, Fulton Bldg., 719 Penn Ave., 3512 Fifth Avenue, Bell 2507 Grant. Pittsburgh. Bell 3280 Cedar. Pittsburgh. Bell Schenley 7 Pittsburgh. PATTERSON & SHAW, WILSON CABINET CO., LYTLE-CAMPBELL CO., General Contractors, Hard Wood Interior, Contractors, 30 E. Reliance St., 2603 Penn Ave., 1007 Forbes St., Bell 443 Cedar. Pittsburgh, Pa. Grant 133. Pittsburgh, Pa. Grant 844 Pittsburgh. JOHN TRIMBLE & BROS., H. R. WALTER LUMBER CO. S. G. BALDENSPERGER, Contractors, Fine Hardwoods and Mill Work. Contractor. 2020 Chateau St., Fayette and Manhattan Sts. Highland Building, Bell 3125 C. Pittsburgh, Pa. Cedar 4063. N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. 3537 Highland, Pittsburgh. C. S. RADCLIFFE WM. T. McKISSOCK DAVID T. RIFLE, Conract Plasterer Sanitary Plumbing Contractor, 1409 Mutual St. 208 West Park Way Keenan Building, B 496 J Victor Pittsburgh Bell 1896 Cedar N. S., Pittsburgh Grant 763. Pittsburgh. permit an unduly low bidder to sign up for a piece SYRIA TEMPLE. of work are courting trouble, and in such cases, The plans are completed and bids are being re where they have constituted themselves sole ar ceived for the new Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., by biters of the contract, their judicial powers, if ex Syria Improvement Association, with offices at ercised, is open to criticism. Monongahela House, Pittsburgh, Pa. The building The principle of measure and value, or pay will have a seating capacity in the auditorium for ment by measurement, usually designated as the 4,000 and in the banquet room for 2,000. The archi Quantity System, is based upon equity and square tects are Huehl, Schmid & Holmes of Chicago, Ills. dealing. On large work it is based in Germany, The Associate Architect is Chas. J. Rieger, 421 France, Ireland, England, Australia, Scotland, and Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., from whom any in even in South Africa, where some thousand miles formation may be obtained pertaining to the (Continued in April Issue.) building and its equipment. * . , * ****************************************** t * t II iWSSmSSM II t t ! * + + +* + * + * + * * * * * t+ t+ Bartley-ONeill Company * + * + + * * * * + * *+ * + * ENGINEERING k CONTRACTING * * + * + * * * * * * * * * PENN AND THIRD STREETS t * * * * t * * The Natatorium electric sign is the most prominent in * Pittsburgh, each letter, eight feet high, towering 242 feet * PITTSBURGH, PA. * above the street. The Pittsburgh Natatorium is the finest + * J * institution of its kind in the world and enjoys a patronage T * + of over 150,000 men and women annually. A Turkish bath * + with night's lodging costs only $1. A swim in the big pool ? * * or tub bath, 25 cents. Only ladies are admitted Thursday + * + i *++++*++++++++* +++++++++4.++++<.+++lM.+++++++* **+**********************************++++* * * * THE BUILDER 43 -Iftftt*-:-^-:-;-;-;-;-:-;-;-.;-;-.:-;-:-;-.;-.;-.;-.;-;-!.^.;^^.. Alquipco Ventilating Alquipco Ventilating Roll Awning Roll Awning Appearance (Truemper I*ufeii<) In neatness and style the ALQUIPCO AWNING is DRAWING SHOWS HALF EXTENDED OSITION exceptionally appealing. Tofit an office building, apartment house or residence with ALQUIPCO Secure Rope Spool AWNINGS is to add to the structure's beauty. •« There are no slouchy, sloppy, bagging hoods when raised; instead a trim, compact roll nestled against rigleCord E^y'PuT the window top. The pull is an easy one and quick ly made by the aid of a single cord. There is no tilting or lop-sided adjustment; no catch-basins No Wings No Happing fQr rain or Cost Compared to the balloon awning the ALQUIPCO AWNING is cheaper. 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ELEVATOR ENCLOSURES BUILDERS IRON WORK WROUGHT IRON FENCES and PORCH RAILING Structural Shapes in stock ARTISTIC GRILL WORK IN BRASS, BRONZE OR IRON for hurry orders General! Office and Works, Penn Ave. and 25ih SI. PITTSBURGH, PA. S2I2-SO Smallman St. PITTSBURGH, PJt. Bell Telephone 817 Grant P. & A. Telephone 3094 Main RUDY BROS. CO SANKEY BROTHERS MANUFACTURERS OP DESIGNERS AND ALL GRADES OF WORKERS IN GLASS- STAINED, MOSAIC RED BRICK AND LEADED. :: :: :: OFFICE: 2112 CARSON STREET, SOUTH SIDE, HIGHLAND AND CENTER AVENUES, PITTSBURGH E. E. PITTSBURGH, PA. BOTH PHONES 46 THEBUILDER ititititititi3itii-ititititit-ititi3irititit-ti-isijiiitit-»it^ 3 H H * 3 H H H H H H H H H H : H H H H * 3 H H H H H H H H It C. W. GOERLITZ F. F. SCHELLENBERG, C. E. H H ftt ft! H H H H H H u H H ft! ft! H ft! *II 3 ft! ft! H H ft! ft! H H ft! ft! *H 3* ft! ft! p. p. ^efyeWeyberty * 3 H ft! H H ft! ft! *H 3H ft! 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On direct car line to Union Station and all other The Graff Company i parts of Washington. Close to all leading theatres and the business district. 100 Rooms NEWLY FURNISHED, 50 Baths. MANTELS and TILING American Plan $3.00 per day and up. Write for illustrated booklet with map. 955 Liberty Street, CLIFFORD M. LEWIS, Prop. PITTSBURGH,PA -J .i-^-. R. H. ELLIOTT E. KENNEWEG Kittanning Brick & Fire Clay Com pany = AND = Martin Brick Company MANUFACTURERS OF Twin City Art Glass Works HIGH GRADE GRAY, BUFF, MOTTLED AND RED BRICK. Corner SANDUSKY and ROBINSON Streets PITTSBURGH, PA. P. S A. PHONE 51S NORTH N. S. PITTSBURGH, PA. EmpTe Building BELL PHONE 334- R CEDAR ....-•-....----- W. W. MILLER P. & A. TELEPHONE T5T W. H. KNODELL General Contractor Copper Work & Skylights 540 WINEBIDDLE AVENUE, E. E. 510 East Diamond Street PITTSBURGH N. S. PITTSBURGH, PA. 48 T H E BUILDER Bell Phone Brady 355. P. & A. Phone Chester 68. THE THOMAS LANE COMPANY BRUCKMAN LUMBER GO. (Pennsylvania Charter) DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Ornamental Iron and Bronze Building and Hardwood Lumber, Mill Work Jail and Prison Work Yards ; West Market Street and Preble Avenue Marble, Plate and Onyx Office : Preble Avenue near Island Avenue N. S. PITTSBURGH, PA. 302 Farmers Bank Building PITTSBURGH LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, FISK 90 BAHTLET-KEIIEDT CO VILSACK, MARTIN & COMPANY Ornamental Iron and Wire Works, ENGINEERING, HEAT= ING AND VENTILATING Iron Stairs and Railing. Fire Proof Porches and Escapes, Fencing and Entrance Gates. Work of Every Descrip tion for General Contractors and Builders. 224 THIRD AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. 3222 TO 3238 PENN AVENUE PITTSBURG, PA- Bailey Farrell Bell 'Phone 3976-J Cedar Manufacturing Co. James G. Stedeford A Specialty Repairing Clocks BATH ROOM FIXTURES of other days. 403 Federal Street, Corner Stockton Avenue Third Ave. and Ross St., N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH, PA. W. H. HOFFMANN TELEPHONES : Bell, 1353 Court-P. & A. 22S2 Main RODGERS SAND COMPANY Decorator DEALERS AND SHIPPERS OF ALL KINDS OF SAND AND GRAVEL iw FARMERS BANK BUILDING BY BOAT, RAIL OR WAGON PITTSBURGH. 123 Water Street PITTSBURGH, PA. THE BUILDER 49 * * * A LIST OF BUILDINGS IN WHICH THE PLUMBING WAS INSTALLED BY + + * + GEO. H. SOFFEL COMPANY, Plumbing and Drainage Contractors, + * Phone: Bell 1860 Court 425 SECOND AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. P. & A. 422 Main * OFFICE BUILDINGS Western Theological Seminary RAILROAD DEPOTS * H. W. Oliver Building: Pennsylvania College for Women Wabash Depot. Pittsburgh, Pa. * + Bessemer Building Kindergarten Building—Blind Institute P. & L. E. Depot, Pittsburgh, Pa. + Fnlton Building Winchester School P. R, R. Steubenville Pass. Station * * Curry Building Franklin School P. 8c L. E. R. R. Shops, McKees Rocks + Jones & Laughlin Building Leo School P. & L. E. R. R. Depot, Woodlawn, Pa, + *+ Berg-er Building Beech view School P. & L. E, R. R. Depot, Aliquippa, Pa. +* * McCague Building Morse School P. & L. E. R. R. Depot, Monaca, Pa. + German Fire Insurance Building Bane School CHURCHES * * Pressed Steel Car Company Building, McKees Brashear School Third U. P. Church * Rocks, Pa. Chartiers Township School Church of the Ascension * Peoples Bank Building, McKeeaport, Pa. Bon Air School Tree of Life Synagogue * Ben Franklin Insurance Co. Building University of Michigan. Hill Memorial Gates of Wisdom Synagogue * House Building Addition Hutchison Central High School, Buffalo Grace Memorial Church * * Park Building—Remodeling PARKS First Baptist Church * * Dime Savings Bank Building, Detroit West View Park HOSPITALS t * Leader-News Building, Cleveland Coney Island Park Presbyterian Hospital Quinsy Block, Cleveland WAREHOUSES AND POWER BUILDINGS South Side Hospital * * East Pittsbugh Savings and Trust Co. Build Best Manufacturing Co., at Oakmont, Pa. Montefiore Hospital ing, East Pittsburgh, Pa, Pittsburgh Terminal (48) Warehouses St, Joseph's Hospital * * W. G. Hawkins Building Phipps Power House HOTELS * * Stambaugh Building Addition, Youngstown, Phipps Manufacturers Building Statler Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio Ohio. Meyer-Jonasson Building Fort Pitt Hotel Addition + PUBLIC BUILDINGS Speer Building Schenley Hotel—Remodeling t Allegheny County Home Dormitory Packard Motor Car Co. Garage Collins Hotel, Woodlawn, Pa. * * Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial E. J. Thompson Garage Kelly Hotel + U. S. Postoffice, Wheeling, W. Va. Pittsburgh Taxicab Co. Garage MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS * U. S. Postoffice, Wilkinsburg, Pa. Power House, Brunots Island, P. & L, E. R. R, German Club * +* IT. S. Postoffice. Uptown, Pittsburgh Point Building Pittsburgh Athletic Association Alterations to Allegheny County Court House West Penn Paper Co. Building Christian Home for Working Girls *+ * SCHOOL BUILDINGS Kelly Drug Co. Warehouse Kipp Land Co. Apartments * * Carnegie Technical School Group Atlantic Land Co. Garages Childs Dining Hall * Margaret Morrison Building for Women Westinghouse E. & M. Co. Machine Shop, Tur Victor Apartments *+ + Science Building tle Creek, Pa. Byrn Mawr Apartments *+ Machinery Hall T. C. Fulton Estate Building B. F. Jones, Jr,, Residence * *+ School of Applied Design Kaufmann Bros. Warehouse, Pittsburgh J, W. Marsh, Residence I* University of Pittsburgh Arnfeld Building, Pittsburgh J, M. Russell, Residence * •fr**********.!"!"!.********.^*********School of Mines Building Regal* Shoe Co. Building Twentieth Century Club + + School of Engineering Building Kaufmann Bros. Co. 100 Residences for Woodlawn Land Company School of Medicine Building Devillers Land Co. 100 Residences For John F. Sweeney * + School of Dentistry Building THEATRES 25 Residences for Schenley Farms Company *t Gymnasium Building Harris Theatre T, A. McGinley Residence * * Tenth Ward School District, Allegheny Victoria Theatre E. A, Woods Residence t Beltzhoover School District Liberty Theatre Goettman's Mammoth Restaurant * *+ BELL 3148 GRANT | + + + + + * t PHOTOGRAPHS * + * TO * * * * * * * AND + * ARTS CRAFTS * * * * t * * * t HESS PHOTOGRAPHING COMPANY * * * +* + 212 OLIVER AVENUE * PITTSBURGH, PA. i+±^++******************************************************************************* 50 THEBUILDER , ft-<#-*it<4iit4-ti-'m -ti—'i,<*£<«-T^ftf^ft-^ft^ftr^ftr^xV^tft^Tft^ftr^-ift^tft^ftr^tft^fti^ftr^ftr^ fti«-ft<«ftrf«ft 4 H g H 9 3 t H m m H PyQ^Q^Tf^lQ^lQ iQ lQ*lQ*iQrilf*iQ^iQ.Py.!fPiQ.pyQ»iQp!2i p,! pyl PHONE 133 GRANT WILSON CABINET CO. INTERIOR FINISH FOR FINE RESIDENCES OFFICE AND BANK FIXTURES 2603 PENN AVENUE 1. W. ZWASKA - MANACEIt PITTSBURGH, PA. *&\ ••••••MMIMMMMMTMMIMIM IIIMM»MM*IMMMM«M»IMI»IIHM**«HMf •••••*•! A J fe-i.y.-- £«Utfw .Us ;;.••"' i- ' •i.l77f.7-i<^\ . SCHENLEY FARMS The one restricted property in Pittsburgh making your in vestment secure and Home thoroughly protected. THE SCHENLEY FARMS COMPANY. Phone 3 Grant 1412 FARMERS BANK BUILDING "•••IIIIIHIIIIIHIIHIIIMMIIIIII