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VOLUME 124 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 19 3 6

COVER REFLECTING POOL, ADMINISTRATION CENTER FOR LOS ANGELES Proposed by William Lee Woollett, Architect FRONTISPIECE TERRACES AND GARDENS, ADMINISTRATION CENTER, LOS ANGELES Proposed by William Lee Woollett. Architect TEXT

ADMINISTRATION CENTER FOR LOS ANGELES . . . . II Wm. Hamilton

TWO LOW COST MEDICO-DENTAL OFFICE BUILDINGS . . . 17 Frederick W. Jones ARCHITECTURE AT THE NATION'S CAPITOL 27 Katherlne Stanley Brown THE SAN FRANCISCO MINT 33 A WORLDS FAIR ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY 34 PRIZE AWARD HOUSE 37 BUILDING MODERNIZATION 39 DOME ROOF ELIMINATES COLUMNS AND TRUSSES ... 41 L H.NIshklan.C.E. THE BONNEVILLE DAM PROJECT 43

MONEL METAL MEETS GROWING FAVOR OF ARCHITECTS . . 46 PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ADMINISTRATION CENTER, LOS ANGELES 11-14 William Lee Woollett, Architect WILLIAM LEE WOOLLETT, ARCHITECT 12

PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WATER FRONT. BERKELEY . . 15

OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. S. N. WEIL. RODEO. CALIFORNIA . 18-21 Hertzka and Knowles. Architects

OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. C. B. KNOWLES. OAKLAND . . . 22-25 Hertzka and Knowles, Architects SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE. LINCOLN MEMORIAL. FOLGER SHAKES- PEARE LIBRARY AND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, WASH- INGTON 27-30 Drawings by Rudolph Stanley Brown FREDERICK W. JONES UNITED STATES MINT, SAN FRANCISCO 33 Editor Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Architect PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF 1938 SAN FRANCISCO BAY WORLD'S HOMER M. HADLEY FAIR 34 ROBERT DENNIS MURRAY RESIDENCE OF THE MISSES GAIL AND MARIE HOUSTON, IRVING F. MORROW WESTWOOD 37-38

L. H. NISHKIAN H. Roy Kelley, Architect A. A. BROWN INTERIOR OF BUILDING FOR STEEL-FORM CONTRACTING COM- 42 Contributing Editors PANY, SAN FRANCISCO L. H.Nishkian. C.E.

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THE .\RCHITECT AND ENGINEER—January, 1936—Vol. 124. Number 1. Published Monthly—$4.00 a year. $ .60 a copy. Foxcroft Bldg., San Francisco. F.ntered as second-class matter, November 2, 1905, at the Post Office at San Francisco, California, under the act of March 3, 1897. NOTES AND COMMENTS

ENDORSEMENT by the Los PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT COMPARATIVELY little has Angeles Municipal Art Commission of a stands like iron in his belief that we have been said of the inconsistency between covering a comprehensive scheme billboards and highway beautiflcation: report come to a stage in the country's devel- for the civic center and related areas and in most states the two flit side by opment when unlimited, unrestricted com- in the Angel city, discloses a plan ambi- side or in annoying sequence past the petition must give way to cooperation, tious and imposing that might have mate- eye of the motorist. and a planned economy substituted for rialized but for a change of policy by That billboards are ugly will be denied the helter-skelter, the Federal Government, which at the haphazard, dog-eat-dog by no one except those financially inte- last minute has indicated its intention of system under which America has been rested. That they are a menace to safety choosing a different site than the one living. These same friends insist that the has been from time to time asserted but near the Railroad Terminal for its dis- President believes that the profit motive is not easy to prove except where they actually obstruct view of the road at tributing post office. That Mr. Wool- can be divorced from greed and brutal a lett's unique and not impractical "sunken curves or intersections, and where be- disregard of ethics and fair play. Cour- garden" idea met with the unanimous yond question, highway authorities should age, initiative and enterprise are to be approval of the city's art commission, is have power to remove them. preserved as precious heritages, but they indicated by its endorsement of the sur- The inconsistency between billboards vey and passage of a resolution request- must be the real article, and not mere and landscape improvements should be ing the author to submit a copy of his masks for rapacity. On that platform, I apparent to anyone, observes a writer in report to the American Institute of Arch- believe industry can stand with him. On Roads and Streets. Of what use is it itects for an opinion. that platform let us proceed now to to develop beautiful perspectives, or graceful slopes, or plantings of green pledge ourselves to go on to a new phase shrubbery in the vicinity of a wood or of usefulness.—Clyde G. Conley, Presi- metal sign which draws the eye by its dent American Institute of Steel Con- developments size, sharp outline, and vivid color? It is OUTSTANDING struction. silly to say that we need not look at in home design this year promise to cen- the sign if we don't want to. for it is ter around the kitchen and bath room. put there to be looked at, and its every The use of drawn metal for sinks and enough, scientific lighting of rooms is feature is carefully designed to force at- drainboards will make for more attrac- not yet generally practiced. All of this tention. Every beauty of adjacent land- tive kitchens and greater permanency of means that building science has not ad- scape is overwhelmed by its presence; fixtures, while bath rooms may be made vanced as far as the Sunday supplements while the distant scene too often is more colorful than ever by using two like to believe but has made definite broken, marred, or actually obscured tone colors, streamlined, of drawn metal. and, in some cases, extraordinary prog- by it. Somebody has remarked that the bath- ress. The building industry is about at A few far-seeing corporations already room of tomorrow will be such a pleas- midfield toward the goal of reducing the have stopped their billboard advertising ant place that "singing in the bathtub" cost and improving the quality of the and others undoubtedly will follow suit, will become a national habit. And this " house. but many will refuse to give up what same wag adds: "Should you wish to they consider a good advertising me- sing 'The Star Spangled Banner' while dium. These latter should be restricted bathing you can stand up in safety be- by law as far as can be done under the cau.se some of the new tubs have non- REFERRING to present day Constitution. skid bottoms." housing tendencies. Ely Jacques Kahn. 1 i 1 A.I.A., has summarized his prognostica- tions as follows: THE Oregon State capitol com- Flat and sloping roofs will hold their petition is creating nation-wide interest COMMENTING on home build- own. and details of the program are expected ing progress the past year The Archi- Glass will bulk much larger in con- to be made public shortly by the State tectural Forum says: struction uses. Capitol Reconstruction Commission. The "The greatest advances have been in In metals, bronze is still the favorite, building is to cost $3,500,000 and prizes equipment and appliances, particularly but it needs much care. Design tends to of sufficient size to attract the best pro- in air conditioning, heating, plumbing simpler forms. fessional talent in the United States, are and electrical devices, nearly all of We will not fake one material to look to be awarded. Appointment of a techni- which are suitable for houses of con- like another. cal adviser will be followed by the prep- ventional construction. Air conditioning Economic conditions bar tall struc- aration of a program of procedure. Mem- has increased in excellence and dropped tures, but capital will be back in the bers of the State Capitol Commission in- in cost. Improvement in kitchen equip- skyscraper field when land values and clude T. H. Bandfield. H. H. Lake and ment has been spectacular. Strangely rents create the right demand. Dr. H. H. dinger.

JANUARY. 1936 The Public Market Building at Portland, Oregon, illustrates the distinction lent to commercial structures by architectural concrete. Lawrence, HoUord, AUynS" Bean, architects

. . . IT BRINGS NEW FREEDOM TO DESIGN, NEW ECONOMY TO BUILDING

THE technique of using concrete as a deco- maintenance under the widest range of service rative material is advancing more rapidly and climatic conditions. today than ever before. To help you design your next building in archi- It is noteworthy that during the depression, with tectural concrete, let us send monographs cover- building in general at its lowest ebb, concrete has ing specifications, construction and design details, established itself as a foremost combined archi- and textures. Write us or mail the coupon. tectural and structural material. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Depl. 3012 Whatever the function of the building contem- 564 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. plated, concrete lends freedom in design. Recent 816 W. Fifth St., Loi Angelei, Calif. 903 Seaboard BIdg., Seattle, Wash. concrete exteriors of note run the gamut of architectural types. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Concrete is a practical material —consistently Please send monographs on architectural concrete. Also D booklet, "Beauty in Walls of Architectural Concrete." economical in first cost —durable and low in TOWARD A Name BETTER PRACTICE P. O. Box or St. No. City PRACTICAL MONOGRAPHS FOR YOUR FILE

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JANUARY. 1936 #; TERRACES AND GARDENS, ADMINISTRATION CENTER LOS ANGELES PROPOSED BY WILLIAM LEE WOOLLETT, ARCHITECT AMBITIOUS WORLD WIDE

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REFLECTING POOL. LOOKING TOWARD CITY HALL. ADMINISTRATION CENTER. LOS AN- GELES. PROPOSED BY WILLIAM LEE WOOL- LETT, ARCHITECT

ADMINISTRATION CENTER FOR LOS ANGELES by WILLIAM HAMILTON

FORMER San Francisco architect W. L. Woollett, the author, is architect A has proposed a series of competi- member of the Art Commission of the City tions, world-wide in scope, covering of Los Angeles, and also a member of the a period of possibly twenty years, whereby Mayor's Civic Center Committee, both of it will be possible to attract artists of re- which organizations have received the known from the four corners of the world, Woollett survey favorably. to create an adequate plan for a new Ad- The accompanying drawings were made ministration Center in Los Angeles. by Mr. Woollett for the purpose of arous- the ensemble. Beginning with the Acropolis,

a prominent feature of the group, it is proposed to terrace the hill, which exists as Old Fort Hill, for the purpose of an outdoor Architectural Garden and Museum. The crowning feature for the terraces would be the Opera House, which is cast in the form of a stepped pyramid. On special occasions the outside, as well as the inside, may be used as an auditorium. The advent of the loud-speaker makes this arrangement a practical means for accommodating occa- sional large audiences. This exterior seating capacity also provides a grandstand for those who wish to view the pageantry of a great city.

"Just below this group, on North Broad- way, the city has already provided for a Police Building, which may be located in the ensemble drawing by means of a small tower.

"To the left of the proposed Opera House WILLIAM LEE WOOLLETT, ARCHITECT group, the Hall of Jusice, just completed, is

His Plan for an Administration Center in Los the first of a series of county buildings Angeles approved by Art Commission which in time might be expected to reach to the top of the hill. On the other side of the ing interest in an Administrative Center and sloping garden space, which forms the to further the idea of creating an adequate background for our present City Hall, we plan by means of competitions to be held in see the newly finished State Building, first the leading capitols here and abroad. Mr. of a series of structures which should be Woollett describes the features of his sur- necessary for the business of the State of vey as follows: California. "The site chosen for the Administrative "In front of the City Hall stretches the Center is at the geographical center of the 'mail', already dedicated by the mayor's metropolitan area, which curiously enough, given word to the purposes of added cir- corresponds with the center of population culation for traffic and parking. A Prado' of this area. The physical characteristics of for the people begins at the old Plaza, near this site are dramatic. To the West the the Mission Church, and extends to the shadow of "Old Fort Hill" dominates the Church of St. Vibiana on Second Street. scene as would an Acropolis; to the East This great open space, comprising as it does. expansion is blocked by the railroads and Main and Angeles Streets, and the the bed of the Los Angeles River. The prin- Los block between these streets, will serve to cipal buildings for this Administrative Cen- foster the centralizing of business in this ter are located on wide thoroughfares which of the metropolitan area. constitute the vortex of the metropolitan part traffic system. This site is also the site of "Immediately north of the City Hall, on the ancient "Pueblo" of Los Angeles. the block now occupied by the Post Office,

"The general perspective view is ambi- the Federal Government proposes to erect tious, but there is not a fictitious feature in a large building, (i.e. some fifteen stories

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER AIR PLANE VIEW OF PROPOSED CIVIC CENTER, LOS ANGELES Proposed by William Lee Woollett. Architect

PRELIMINARY STUDY OF ADMINISTRATION CENTER. LOS ANGELES Proposed by William Lee Woollett. Architect

JANUARY. 1936 13 DETAIL OF RAILROAD STATION. ADMINISTRATION CENTER. LOS ANGELES Proposed by William Lee Woollett, Architect high) which would be about one-half the the City Hall. The plan adopted for the height of the tower of the Citv Hall. " The Railroad Station does not make the gesture studied plan of the Administrative Center, as suggested here. Mr. Woollett thinks, will be useful in esti- The adopted city plan has. unfortunately, mating the probable effect, aesthetically, of no main artery leading directly to the City a fifteen story building, in the location pro- Hall, the center of the Administrative Cen- posed, upon the City Hall as the central ter. Hence Mr. Woollett has proposed a feature of the Administrative Center; and series of secondary axis leading to the City Mr. Woollett also suggests that the Acrop- Hall. North Broadway is one of these. By ohs upon which is placed so great an em- means of a very minor change in the street phasis, might be considered as superfluous near the proposed Police Building it will be as background for such a building. possible to view the North profile of the The old Plaza Church near the old Plaza City Hall as one approaches the city from is shown on the fringes of a proposed new Pasadena. "old' Spanish town which is intended to "The Los Angeles Chinatown, as shown perpetuate the spirit and simplicity of the to the East of the City Hall, already has its present Olvera Street. foundation partly laid, as the Chinese are "The Railroad Station, shown on the now living in this locality. In time we may plan, as accusing the City Hall, in the form

" hope for a skyline similar to the one shown of its "plan and entourage of fountains, in the lithograph. gardens, etc., is proposed as a focal point for one of the secondary axis leading to "That anything like these sketches will

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER " ever be built is remote but not improbable. the world would be glad to come to Los Mr. Woollett explains. "The actual form Angeles to work if they could be assured, which the improvements will finally assume not only of compensation for their labors, will be dependent upon the idiosyncrasies but an attitude of reverence and respect of many different minds. The object of for their ability, an attitude which is so these studies is to stimulate interest in this often found in foreign capitols, and con- superb architectural problem so that, as time cerning which we, of a newer and fresher goes on, the citizens of the City of Los An- civilization, know so little." geles may be moved to place the details of The survey has been indorsed by the this development in the hands of the great Los Angeles Art Commission and a copy painters architects, sculptors, and of the has been transmitted to Sumner Spaulding, world. president of Southern California Chapter, "During the period of construction of American Institute of Architects: also cop- this Administrative Center, a great part of ies to Admiral Christian Peebles, procure- which must necessarily be built during the ment division. U. S. Treasury Department, succeeding ten years, Los Angeles would Washington: L. O. Whitsell, president of probably be able to go a long way toward the California State Railroad Commission, achieving its goal of becoming a recog- San Francisco: M. C. Blanchard. chair- nized art center. However, this would de- man of the Engineering Commission, pro- pend very largely on the manner in which posed railroad terminal, Los Angeles, and these competitions were sponsored. Un- Lloyd Aldrich, city engineer of Los An- doubtedly artists from the four corners of geles.

PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WATERFRONT. BERKELEY. CALIFORNIA

With Federal aid Berkeley's waterfront is being transformed from muddy tidelands into a beautiful aquatic park and yacht harbor. The Eastshore Highway, which will be Berke- ley's major arterial to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, will provide a natural tidal basin for the development of an aquatic park. Total cost of the project is estimated at $1,000,000.

JANUARY. 1936 MURAL: THE FIVE CONTINENTS.' BY FRANK BERGMAN

ENGINEER 16 THE ARCHITECT AND TWO LOW COST MEDICO -DENTAL OFFICE BUILDINGS

FREDERICK W. JONES

TWO low-cost office buildings, de- building and the combination of medical signed along modern lines to meet and dental offices, have been factors con- individual requirements of profes- tributing to the success of the projects. sional practice with efficiency, maximum Dr. S. N. Weil, in commenting on his have recently been completed — one at new offices, said that by contributing to the Rodeo. Contra Costa County, California, improvement of his community he takes in and the other Oakland. greater pride in his practice and his pa- Through their simple, practical design tients, in turn, take greater pride in him. the two buildings reflect the dignity and Dr. Knowles finds that he enjoys work- progressiveness of the medical and dental ing so much more in his new surroundings professions. Both undertakings, based on that he can accomplish better work with sound business principles, are already pay- less effort than formerly. ing investments with improved working A. Lyle Winslow. M. D.. who leases conditions for their owners. The architects. from Dr. Knowles. finds that his attractive Wayne S. Hertzka and William Howard offices, planned and built specially for him. Knowles. found that efficiently planned have brought him many new patients. rooms, properly lighted and ventilated, en- abled the doctors to better care for more In addition to the advantages above men- patients at one time than was possible in tioned the owners have, in these two the usual type of office. Ease of access buildings, self-supporting investments from the street, the prominence of the which, when thev retire, can be sold or

JANUARY. 1936 17 i

OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. S. N. WEIL, RODEO, CALIFORNIA Hertzka and Knowles, Architects

Without sacrificing informality, the architects sought to endow this building with the special character of a physician's office in a small town. Dignity without extravagance, and an abrupt departure from customary residential design, were the principal requirements. Cost, including architects' fee, approximately $7,150.

CONSTRUCTION OUTLINE

Foundation: Portland cement.

Frame Construction: No. 1 Common Douglas fir. Redwood sills. Balloon type framing.

Exterior Surface: 3 coat stucco, smooth sand finish, Golden Gate Tan Plastic: white Mon- terey sand.

Roof: 10-year guaranteed flat roof.

Sheet Metal: Flashings and decorative facias gakanized copper-bearing steel —Fordercr Corn- ice Works.

Doors: Interior—Douglas fir. Exterior— Philippine mahogany.

Steel Sash: Projecting type with lower vents extended in.

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PLAN, OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. S. N. WEIL, RODEO Hertzka 6 Knowles. Architects rhe problem offered here was to meet the needs of a physician and surgeon in a town where there was no hospital. Spe- ial electrical equipment, not generally required, had to be provided in a compact plan. In addition, a complete dentist's )ffice was included so that the unit could serve as the town health-center.

OPERATING ROOM

The examination room serves also

as a minor surgery and is equip-

ped to handle emergency cases not

ordinarily brought to a physician's

office. A special operating room

type steel window gives maximum

natural light.

ANUARY, 1936 DETAIL. OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. S. N. WEIL, RODEO HERTZKA AND KNOWLES, ARCHITECTS i

20 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER WAITING ROOM. OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. S. N. WEIL. RODEO Hertzka and Knowles, Architects

ented for additional income. In striking Dr. S. N. Weil's Building ontrast to this the money expended for Investment omparable rented space over a period of Contract cost of building $6,500.00 ears would be considerably greater than Landscaping and miscellaneous hese investments without having anything items 300.00

show for it upon retirement. Architect's Fee 650.00 Both buildings are frame construction Cost of lot 800.00 i/ith stucco exteriors. The interiors are Total Investment $8,250.00 imply treated plaster walls, soundproofed Expenses: /aiting rooms and linoleum and tile floors. Operating "he psychological problem of putting pa- Taxes $1.00 per month ients at their ease was solved by providing Insurance 2.10 estful and pleasant waiting rooms, care- Gas ( Including hot water ully planned circulation of traffic and fully for Apt.) 8.70 nclosed treatment rooms. The plans are so Electricity 3.50 rranged that, after consultation, patients Water (Including water nay leave the building without re-entering for Apt.) 3.00 he waiting rooms. Gardening 2.50 An analysis of the cost of the two Miscellaneous upkeep 2.50 espective buildings follows: Total Operating Expenses per mo. .$23.30

ANUARY. 1936 OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. C. B. KNOWLES, OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA 1 Hertzka and Knowles, Architects

As in the Dr. Weil Building, modern design was felt by th; architects to be the simplest and truest expression for a medico-dental building. Textural differences between simple materials were used for decorative effect, and a color i scheme of cerulean blue, rose and cream, played an important part in the composition. Cost—$5,500 including architect's ' fee.

CONSTRUCTION OUTLINE

Foundation: Portland cement.

Frame Construction: No. 2 Common Douglas fir. Redwood sills, Balloon type framing.

Exterior Surface: 2 Coat stucco, painted with "Bay State" brick and cement coating; Fin- ished Redwood board and batten.

Roof: 10-year guaranteed fiat roof.

Door: Interior—Douglas fir and Philippine mahogany. Main Entrance— Philippine mahogany.

Steel Sash: Standard Light Casement without vertical muntins and set in place with fixed lights at bottom.

Wiring: Red Seal certified.

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PLAN. OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. C. B. KNOWLES. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Hertzka and Knowles, Architects

Although built upon a narrow lot. all important rooms have ample outside light. Both examination room and minor surgery have special operating room type steel windows. The plan is arranged so that patients enter a reception room common to both dentist and physician, but may leave by separate exits. The large corner window affords the reception room an outlook toward the street.

OPERATING ROOM

Convenient wall niches in front of

the operating chair are provided

for technical books and interesting

exhibits.

JANUARY. 1936 23 DETAIL. OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. C. B. KNOWLES. OAKLAND HERTZKA AND KNOWLES, ARCHITECTS

24 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER WAITING ROOM. OFFICE BUILDING FOR DR. C. B. KNOWLES. OAKLAND Hertzka and Knowles, Architects

Capital Investment Operating Expenses:

6' , Interest on Total Invest- Taxes $15.00 per month ment per month $41.25 Insurance 2.10 3% Depreciation Fund 17.00 Gas and Electricity 13.75

Gross Expenditure per month $8 1 .55 Water 3.50 Income Gardening 1.00 Dentist's Office $25.00 Miscellaneous Upkeep 2.50 Nurse's Apartment 25.00 Total Operating Expenses Total Income per month $50.00 per month $37.85 Total Cost of Owning Building Capital Investment

Per Month $31.55 6' , Interest on Total Invest-

( May be considered as ment per month $54.00 rent per month) 3'( Depreciation Fund per month 13.00 Dr. C. B. Knowles' Building Gross Expenditure per Investment month $104.85 Contract Cost of Building $ 5,000.00 Income Landscaping and miscellaneous Physicians Office including items 300.00 Gas and Electricity 57.00 Architect's Fee 500.00 Total Cost of Owning Appraised Value of Lot 5,000.00 Building per month $ 47.85

Total Investment $ 1 0,800.00 (May be considered as rent per month)

JANUARY. 1936 25 PENCIL SKETCH BY NATT PIPER, ARCHITECT

26 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER —

ARCHITECTURE AT THE NATION^S CAPITOL

By KATHERINE STANLEY BROWN

in The Federal Architect

THE city of Occasionally the architect of the building Washing- or the sculptor of the monument has felt

t o n , of the underlying idea of his problem so pow-

which the beauti- erfully and his technical skill is so great ful plan by L'En- that his creation actually is suffused with

fant has been the spirit of the idea that prompted it. well carried out Certainly this must be true in the case of SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE and added to by the Lincoln Memorial, else why do thous- the members of the various commissions in- ands of people from every w^alk of life, volved, has, in spite of expert advice and experts capable of analyzing the source of the expenditure of a great deal of money, each fragment of its pure and beautiful mind in the last fifty only achieved to my Greek details, and laymen unable to do years five or six supremely beautiful and more than feel impressed, stand before it therefore supremely successful structures. motionless, speechless? It is a good test of

Architecture is a blend of practical a building's worth if before it one has necessity and artistic ability, but though nothing to say. To the expert, counting one of the two may outstrip the other the twelve columns across the front, pos-

neither is sufficient, nor are both. There sibly daring to criticize the effect of the lift

is possible in a building a quality of mind of the parapet across the facade, it becomes

which is extremely difficult to trace or des- a pleasurable exercise of skill, like analyz- cribe, an infusion of spirit, a meaning. ing symphonic form when listening to a Possibly the idea of the building itself Tschaikowsky symphony. But as he listens

the event it commemorates, if it is a mem- the musician is moved, perhaps in an even orial, —is so stirring that not only the greater degree than in the days before he architect but the layman regarding the com- was so technically perfect. As he speaks, pleted structure reads between the stones, the archaeologist, the artist, is stirred, but

as it were, and feels an emotional reaction he seldom says those simple things that we which the actual mortar and bricks, pro- all feel, for his mind is accustomed to in- portions and details have no power to give. volved convolutions.

JANUARY, 1936 27 —

If the emotional experience is great E. Housman. He says when a "line of enough, however, he is thrown back into poetry strays" into his memory it is accom- ". the lay vocabulary. A fine critic of design panied by various symptoms: . . a shiver stood beside me the other night before the down the spine; there is another which con- Memorial to Lincoln. The moon gave sists in a constriction of the throat and a enough light for every detail of the facade precipitation of water to the eyes; and there to be visible, the majestic flood-lighted is a third which I can only describe by bor- monument to Washington shimmered in rowing a phrase from one of Keat's last

DraiL'iiit by Ruilolpli Slant, y Bra-u'ii LINCOLN MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON. D.C.

Henry Bacon, Architect

the long reflecting pool, the statue of letters, where he says, speaking of Fanny Lincoln—which no one could really do, Brawne, everything that reminds me of her which Daniel Chester French almost did goes through me like a spear.' The seat was bathed in a soft blue light. The idea of this sensation is the pit of the stomach." of Lincoln, the man, his integrity, his work It would almost seem that poetry, as Hous- was upon us. "In this temple as in the man also says, and by that same token, art, hearts of the people for whom he saved the architecture, sculpture, were "more physi- union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is cal than intellectual." enshrined forever." We stood without Empathy, the act of feeling one's way speaking. "Knocked cold," as the present into a work of art, seeming to be one with generation might say. The man who stood it and thus understanding it, is a scientific beside me said: "That thing makes me fact. It is easier to describe the feeling want to cry." when the work of art is small, whole, as a A small boy of my acquaintance when piece of beautiful sculpture, a picture, or a asked to tell how one tells real poetry from poem. A building can seldom be grasped mere verse replied: "It's poetry if it makes in more than one dimension. One may your stomach feel funny." This is not far stand in front of it, and admitting that it from the scholarly analysis of the great A. has a plan, and three or fifty other sides,

28 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER forgetting that and judge it from the impact pleasing to the eye, and in its stylized ani- of the idea of its facade upon one's mind. mals and unexplained shapes one adds to the pleasure of its symmetry an extra touch Memorial First Lincoln of surprise. The rear elevation is not so

It is from this superficial, but certainly perfect but we have agreed to gaze in each

not unusual, limited point-of-view that I case upon a single facade. It is a building say there are only five or six supremely which subdues one, awes one. The emo-

beautiful creations in Washington, of tional reaction to it is intense, a combination

Drauiiif liy Rudolph Stanley Bro'uii THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY, WASHINGTON. D.C.

Paul P. Cret. Architect

which for sheer inexplicable loveliness I of awe and curiosity. What does it mean?

should put the Lincoln Memorial first. And What do the Freemasons stand for? Even

I would follow it by the Temple of the as before the Lincoln Memorial we think Scottish Rite. not of the building but of Lincoln, here we To the architect the Temple of the Scot- think of that secret and useful order with

tish Rite is a piece of archaeology. It is an its roots, its origins far back in early tradi- enlarged, a modified Mausoleum of Halli- tions. The idea dominating the structure!

carnassus; it is a projection of ancient Prior to the fifty-year limit which I have

shapes and symbols whose meaning is deep arbitrarily set myself, there are so many in the rites and traditions of "the ancient and successful and beautiful old buildings in

" accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. Washington that one would have to deal Its carved sphinxes gaze down upon Six- with them separately. The Washington teenth Street with as much aloofness and Monument is a superb example of the em- unexplained calm as their ancient Egyptian bodiment of an idea. George Washington prototypes. The whole building towering is a legend, a tradition; although much is above us, with each delicate cornice and known about him, much is disputed, and no moulding evenly balanced, each line of the two Americans admire him for quite the

whole duplicated and repeated, is infinitely same reasons. Nothing therefore could ex-

lANUARY, 1936 29 press the nation's veneration and admira- and power of Shakespeare's mind, reflect tion for him but just such an abstraction as the hold that mind has kept through the the monument planned by Mills, a simple centuries over humanity. The simple purity and yet majestic shaft, meaning little or of that building, of the conception of that everything, depending upon your own building, puts to shame the grandiose Ro- knowledge and point-of-view. The Patent man elegance of the Supreme Court across Office, the Treasury Building, the old Post the street. Office, all built by Mills, are beautiful and The integrity of truth in order to admin- were the beginning of a Greek tradition ister justice should have been the spirit for Federal buildings which has persisted until this day with, through the years, less successful results.

All Fine Buildings, But—

The White House by Hoban is a splendid building, but to come to our problem, what is American, and recent, and fine in Washington today? The Pan-American building is fine, but it is recapitulated Span- ish. It is history. Paul Cret. who with

Albert Kelsey designed it would be the first to say so. The Freer Gallery has the ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, distinction of simplicity but it is not an WASHINGTON, D.C. interesting building until one enters the Bertram Goodhue, Architect courtyard, despite the fact that a fine architect, Charles Piatt, built it. The Archives actuating the creation of that building. To

Building is dramatic, but it has too much the lay eye no such honest proposition is appliqued to it, it is "fussy, " to use a dress- visible. Directly across the street from the making term. It has not that peaceful re- Folger Library a little Lutheran church serve only possible through great wall from the Church of the Reformation, is al- spaces, skillful fenestration and restrained most very good. It is quiet and meaningful use of ornament. As you go by, the but limited in that the impression of a

Archives Building glitters and flashes at single sculptured panel, which is the church you. I can only call it over-dramatized. front, is all that is fine. Another note-

worthy building is the municipal power So then, this ideal facade that I am plant designed by Paul Cret. There the searching for must give me a sense of peace, vertical lines, the condensed simplicity of of power, and of spirit. It must show me the whole, make it outstanding among other what the building is for to some extent, it buildings erected for the same purpose, but must dominate my critical faculty, and give the mass of the building in itself has not to me a pleasurable emotion. I submit for this my eye sufficient lift and inspiration to rank high office the Folger Shakespeare Library it among my list of ideal Washington build- of Paul Cret. There the tall windows, the ings. mouldings and cornices which seem to me to be the original conceptions of the archi- And the fourth building that I would tect, the beautifully sculptured panels por- have you look at is the Academy of traying characters from some of Shakes- Sciences Building by Bertram Goodhue. peare's plays, the tragic and comic muses Long, restful, simple, the proportions of over the great doors, approach the majesty that facade are exquisite. The most exact

30 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER and beautiful Greek detail is used, the come? The sunlight changes on the sculp- color scheme of white marble and bronze tured face. A man? A woman? Is that a turned green is beautiful, and the great wall shroud or only a cloak to shelter one from spaces, in which in the Greek tradition the the world? The sensitive lips; the brooding stone courses are laid in uneven heights, eyes, closed as if in death, but closed too are most interesting. Few of us can trans- only as if in penetrating thought. The flesh late the Greek inscription that is applied is alive. Is it only grief? Or sleep? It is to the frieze. But in our very inability so not entirely known if John Adams' wife to do lies another certain symbolic power died accidently or by her own forethought. of. the building itself. Who among us dares Perhaps that is what St. Gaudens wanted to say that he understands the wonders of us to know. That life is fluid, uncertain, science? And though we invent and dis- unsolved, everchanging. To put that into cover and explore—and pin down on paper. stone, into bronze is a superb achievement. in machines, in power daily more and more The Titanic Memorial has no such seclu- the facts of science the illusive cause, the — sion and peace to shelter its noble thought why these things are so eludes us forever. nor is it nearly as fine. On the esplanade I feel that this building suggests all that to swinging down from Georgetown to the the lay mind, with the three shallow blue river, one goes by it quickly, carelessly. But pools of water before it reflecting the even so, the most casual traveler feels the changing sky, a poetic reminder that al- lift of those outstretched arms. "To the though we catalogue facts stolidly within brave men who perished in the wreck of the our buildings, outside the changing water, Titanic. They gave their lives that women wind and sky can find no adequate re- and children might be saved." It is caught corder. forever in stone, that thought, that in honor women and little children, save them first. Two Small Memorials Call it gratitude, chivalry, what you will. These are the buildings, and in a word The thought stirs the blood, the thought in the interior of each is sufficiently impres- stone does likewise. Henry Bacon, the arch- sive as well. But there are two small mem- itect of the Lincoln Memorial, designed it. orials which, since I limited this article as Gertrude Whitney was the sculptor. It is I did to what is American, recent and fine as the embodiment of a single idea, fine in Washington today, must be men- even if it in no way approaches the superb tioned. If they are not strictly architec- abstraction which is the Adams Memorial. ture, at least an architect shared the planning and the design of them both. Greek Traditions Praised

The Adams Memorial. Ten feet from Perhaps all that I am saying after all is it one sits in the small enclosure planned so that Henry Bacon was a great architect; skillfully by Stanford White, cut off from that I greatlyadmire the work of Paul Cret; the depressing stones to the dead, cut off that Bertram Goodhue was the most origi- from crowds and heat and traffic by tall nal architect that this country has yet pro- holly bushes, tall pine trees. It is strange. duced; that Lee Lawrie and John Gregory mysterious, overwhelming. What does and Brenda Putnam are fine sculptors, that that single figure, fashioned of bronze, Augustus St. Gaudens and Daniel Chester seated on granite, everlastingly silent, want French were. That may be all, and yet us to know? Is the expression that of resig- what I have wanted to say is this: We nation? The world has failed but we will have learned one thing in America about not let it know that we know? Arc we to architecture, now that modernism has come

turn to believe that this life over, there is more to I Please Page 40)

JANUARY. 1936 UNITED STATES MINT. SAN FRANCISCO. OFFICE OF SUPERVISING ARCHITECT

GILBERT S. UNDERWOOD. ARCHITECT

ONE OF THE INTERESTING FEATURES OF THE DESIGN. NOT LEGIBLE ON

THE PERSPECTIVE DRAWING. WILL BE A SERIES OF DISKS—REPLICAS OF

AMERICAN COINS — TERMINATING THE TOP OF EACH RECESSED PIER.

EACH COIN WILL BE THREE FEET IN DIAMETER AND ARRANGED IN CHRO- NOLOGICAL ORDER TO PORTRAY THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN COINAGE

FROM THE FIRST MINTING IN PHILADELPHIA TO THE LAST SIGNIFICANT

COIN MADE IN CALIFORNIA.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER THE SAN FRANCISCO MINT

THE SITE of the proposed new Mint disks tell the story of minting in the United in San Francisco, bounded by Du- States from the first coin struck in Philadel- boce Avenue on the south, Webster phia to the last signficant coin struck in

Street on the west, Herman Street on the California. Each coin is in its chronologi- north and Buchanan Street on the east, is a cal order, so that a numismatist or a lay- precipice of serpentine rock which rises man may read the history of American coin- ninety feet above the lower street level. age by walking around the building.

Forty feet of rock is being removed to The public spaces are developed in a create the plateau which will receive the simple but effective manner in marble and building. bronze. Surfaces are plain, almost severe. The original proposal for the building Changes in material are used to obtain em- provided for a facing of granite with an phasis rather than projected or moulded alternate proposal for using terra cotta. forms. Lighting is indirect without the use The building at the base is 207'-9" along of exposed fixtures. All ornament through- the front and 185'-1" in depth. It is de- out the building is symbolical in nature and signed in modern classical style, and its has its inspiration from the coins processes walls will enclose four stories in front and of manufacture. The building is fireproof three stories at the rear. and earthquake-proof throughout. Vibra-

Basically the building is a manufacturing tion tests were taken on the site and vibra- plant. It must respond to the need of man- tion periods recorded before engineering ufacturing processes, in light, in area, in calculations were started. ventilation and in efficiency. In the archi- The site is to be landscaped with Cali- tectural design this is expressed in large fornia flora. Its rocky character will be re- areas of window space and duo-lateral lieved with shrubs, but the natural forma- lighting from both the outside and the in- tion and the varying and interesting color side court around which the building is of the native rock will be an important part built. of the landscaping scheme. A formal hedge Across the Duboce front of the second will separate the slope of the rocky site floor are grouped the administrative and from the sidewalk, otherwise the landscap- related clerical offices and such spaces as ing will be largely informal. A stair rising are provided for contact with the public. from the center of the site on Duboce Ave- While essentially a structure for the nue will unite the base of the site with the minting of money, the building is designed building. A continuous drive 20'-0" wide in a spirit of dignity. Its facades are sym- surrounds the building at the level of the metrical and regular in repetitive elements plateau. It is entered from Herman Street of pier and window. Its base slopes into at the north which is the main motor en- the rocky hill, lending strength to the com- trance to the building. Parking space is position of the building and its relation to provided for sixty-five cars. the site. Terminating the top of each deeply Clinton Construction Company, of San recessed pier is a replica of an American Francisco, are the general contractors, and coin, some three feet in diameter. These construction is well under way.

JANUARY. 1936 33 PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF 1938 SAN FRANCISCO BAY WORLDS FAIR, YERBA BUENA SHOALS, CALIFORNIA

Architectural Commission: Geo. W. Kelham, Lewis P. Hobart, Ernest Weihe, Timothy

L. Pflueger, Arthur Brown, Jr., and William G. Merchant; Will P. Day, Director of Works.

A WORLDS' FAIR ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY

less than three years cities around Berkeley, Albany, Hayward, San Leandro, INSan Francisco Bay will celebrate an Sausalito. San Rafael, Richmond, San international exposition to mark com- Jose, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San pletion of the world's two largest bridges. Mateo. Burlingame and others. This will be the first international celebra- The inspiration of the J.nternational Ex- tion to be held in San Francisco Bay position will be the completion of the Gol- Region since 1915 when Panama Pacific den Gate Bridge, linking San Francisco International Exposition marked the com- with Marin County and the Redwood Em- pletion of the Panama Canal. Sponsoring pire, and the completion of the San Fran- the exposition will be the San Francisco cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge crossing the Metropolitan area which includes the cit- 854 miles of the bay between San Fran- ies of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, cisco and Oakland.

34 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER -

The Golden Gate Bridge, costing $35.- The exposition site will be reached by the 000.000 boasts the longest suspension span bridges and also by ferries from San Fran- in the world. The 4200 foot span between cisco. Ample parking space for normal at- the San Francisco and Marin towers is tendance is provided. The exposition site 700 feet longer than the celebrated George can be reached in approximately 10 Washington Bridge. The Golden Gate minutes time, either from downtown San Bridge is also the first large bridge ever Francisco or from downtown Oakland. to be constructed across open sea. Its 746 Ideal weather conditions prevail at the foot towers are the tallest structures west shoals site. Government records show an of Chicago. Started in 1932. its comple- almost complete absence of fog and rain tion is expected early in 1937. during the months the exposition will be The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. held, and average wind velocity of only costing $77,000,000. is in reality a series six miles an hour. bridges of from San Francisco to Yerba The exposition will be in sight of both Buena Island in the center of the San Fran- bridges and directly connected with the cisco Bay and thence to Oakland. A San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. double-deck six lane roadway will take Funds for seawall and fill for the expo- care of both automobiles and interurban sition site have been provided through a train traffic. Towers of the bridge rise 520 $3,043,000 Federal grant. The feet above water, higher than the city's WPA roadways, causeway, trestles, landscaping, skyscrapers. Foundations of some of the and drainage of water systems are provided piers lie more than 200 fet below the level through an additional grant of $1.- of the bay. requiring in their construction, WPA 296.000. further grant of $1.711. engineering methods never before employ- A PWA 000 to be matched in part by local funds, ed. Started early in 1933, the San Fran- will provide paving, ferry slips and some cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be open for buildings. It is estimated that in addition traffic the latter part of this year. The tun- to this $6,000,000 in Federal funds, another nel through Yerba Buena Island, connect- $6,000,000 will be raised through private ing the San Francisco and Oakland units subscriptions, for building and administra- of the bridge, is the world's largest vehic- tive expenses. A campaign for private sub- ular bore. scriptions, through sale of bonds, is now The site of the exposition lies in the cen- being planned. ter of San Francisco Bay, midway between An attendance of between 15,000,000 San Francisco and Oakland, on shoal land and 20.000.000 is expected, which should located just north of and adjoining Yerba enable the exposition to meet all operating Buena Island. It is in the geographical expenses and to retire all obligations. The center of a population area of 1,785.000. attendance at the Panama Pacific Interna- During the current year, an area of 385 tional Exposition in 1915 was 13.000.000. acres of this shoal land will be filled in to Chicago's Century of Progress drew 22.- provide the site of the Exposition, and 000,000 people in 1933 and 17,000,000 in after the Exposition the land will be used 1934. for a modern municipal airport and sea- Approximately one year will be required plane base. According to present plans, to complete the fill and seawall. During that the exposition area will be 5500 by 3420 time, architectural plans for the buildings, feet—more than a mile long and about taking in the requirements of the exhibitors two-thirds of a mile wide—larger than the and the needs of the airport to be estab- site of Chicago's Century of Progress. lished after the exposition, will be com-

JANUARY. 1936 35 pleted so that actual construction of the president of the Hearst Corporations; Ken- buildings can start in 1937. neth R. Kingsbury, president of Standard Oil Company, and George D. Smith, It is estimated that the exposition during man- 1936 and 1937 will provide employment for aging director of the Fairmont and Mark hotels. is more than 3,000 people in construction Hopkins Treasurer John F. Forbes, of work. An additional 10,000 persons will head John F. Forbes and Com- pany, financial experts. Secretary be employed during the exposition itself. and Chief Counsel is Colonel Allen G. Wright. The exposition will be international in Chairman of the Board of Directors is Ath- scope. Its theme will be modern develop- oll McBean, president of Gladding, Mc- in communication ments transportation and Bean & Co. as symbolized by the bridges, by the trans- executive oceanic air services and the progress in The committee consists of R. F. Allen, Alfred Cleary, radio and television. Participation of for- J. George Creel, F. Forbes, R. B. eign nations, particularly those around the John Hale. J. W. Mail- liard, Pacific and Central and South America, al- Jr.. Atholl McBean, B. B. Meek, Ken- neth R. Kingsbury and Smith. ready is being arranged. The unique loca- George D.

exposition it tion of the makes possible to The City of San Francisco which owns have merchant and naval vessels from every the shoal lands, has leased the property to nation in the world actually of a part the the company for exposition purposes, and exposition, anchoring alongside the exposi- the company will act as official agent of the tion or tying at the piers. the up Because City of San Francisco in the administration exposition grounds will later one of become of Federal funds to be spent on the project. the most centrally located and busiest air- ports in the world, aviation activities and The architectural commission is headed developments will also be dominant features by George W. Kelham. Members of the of the celebration. commission include: — Lewis P. Hobart, Ernest Weihe, Timothy Pflueger, Arthur The San Francisco Bay Exposition, Inc., Brown, Jr., and William G. Merchant. which will operate the exposition, is a private non-profit company of civic, business Director of Works for the exposition is and financial leaders of the San Francisco W. P. Day. Assistant to the president and Metropolitan area, headed by Leland W. director of exploitation is Howard Free- Cutler, former president of the San Fran- man. Executive officer for the Exposition cisco Chamber of Commerce. Vice Presi- Company is Brigadier General William E. dents are Bert B. Meek, executive vice- Gillmore, U.S.A., retired.

36 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER RESIDENCE OF THE MISSES GAIL AND MARIE HOUSTON. WESTWOOD. CALIFORNIA

H. Roy Kelley. Architect

PRIZE AWARD HOUSE

FORMAL Colonial type residence The accompaying illustration and plans, A won for its designer. H. Roy Kelley. show the prize winning house—a Colonial architect of Los Angeles, the 1935 dwelling owned by the Misses Gail and House Beautiful prize. The award was Marie Houston in Westwood. California. made by a jury consisting of nationally The exterior is of brush coated common known architects named by the A. LA. brick with shingle roof. The interior par- Judgment was based on excellence of de- titions are plastered and the floors are of sign and plan, economy in space subdivis- oak and linoleum. The house is equipped ions and convenience: adaptation to lot and with a modern type gas-fired unit furnace, orientation and skill in the use of materials. controlled Readers of this magazine are familiar with distributing thermostatically Mr. Kelley's success as the winner of warm air. A gas range and automatic gas numerous national competitions during the water heater are also part of the heating past several years. equipment.

JANUARY. 1936 37 DINING ROOM, RESIDENCE OF THE MISSES GAIL AND MARIE HOUSTON, WESTWOOD. CALIFORNIA H. Roy Kelley. Architect

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PLANS. RESIDENCE OF THE MISSES GAIL AND MARIE HOUSTON. WESTWOOD. CALIFORNIA H. Roy Kelley. Architect

38 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER BUILDING MODERNIZATION

By CLARK BAKER

is merchant eager THE alert architect is realizing that Not only the individual right now he is on the eve of an to improve his building, but there is a grow- upswing in building modernization, ing tendency toward the continuance of particularly of commercial building fronts. the cooperation learned during the past few an upswing which can mean a great deal years, and groups of neighboring merchants to him both in income and reputation. are considering modernization plans which are designed to harmonize entire blocks, or is attitude of commercial There a new business areas. establishments toward the maintenance of An experiment of this kind projected by attracive buildings an attitude which — the property owners in a down town section came out of the experience gained during of Oakland embraced plans for the harmon- the depression a knowledge of the value — ious modernization of an area of several of the attractive and prosperous appear- blocks. Out of this original plan has come ance of building-front. In other words, a the complete modernization of fourteen the architect no longer has to "sell" his buildings in the area, and many of the client on the advantage of modernizing his others are planning to follow through building front the client realizes its dol- — within the next year or two. lars-and-cents value and is in a receptive And such far-reaching development re- mood to consider plans. quires a great deal of foundation work While the depression taught the com- and the collective study of all the crafts mercial world the importance of attractive represented in carrying out such a pro- buildings, financial stringency prevented gram. From this necessity has developed the majority from profiting from this knowl- an organized group which includes, in addi- edge. Now the Federal Housing Act or- tion to property owners, representatives of ganization is arranging the financing of each craft involved, such as architects, con- modernization on very favorable terms, and tractors, designers, lighting specialists, and hundreds of merchants are taking advant- the glass, tile, paint, and decorative metal

age of the opportunity to remodel their industries. In addition, practically all of the stores and business properties. clubs and associations devoted to civic im-

lANUARY. 1936 39 provement have representatives at the a business area, as in both cases each meetings, at w^hich different aspects of the profits by the activities of the others. The problems are presented by a representative craftsman has a wider knowledge of his member of each craft, and the problems dis- part in the total effect, and the individual cussed by the entire group. In this way store gains by the attractiveness of neigh- every member is aware of the complete boring buildings. problem and how his particular contribu- Whole-hearted support is given these co- tion to the total effect of a building front operative activities by a varied list of inter- is affected by the other factors. ested groups. Store managements know As an example, the representative of the the selling power of attractive fronts, prop- window glass industry gains an under- erty owners welcome the increased per- standing of how lighting can be planned centage of revenue on their investments, to eliminate the danger of undesirable re- realtors find modernized buildings easy to flections in the glass. The representative lease or sell, citizens want a beautiful city, of the paint company learns what effect architects are benefited by the attractive different methods, colors, qualities, and in- setting for their buildings. tensities of lighting have on pigment colors. The civic interest groups are particularly The architect and lighting specialist study interested in programs of modernization of each others problems too, in order that the downtown property, especially at the pres- carefully planned architectural effect is en- ent time when much property is in a run- hanced, not reduced in effectiveness, the by down condition after several years of busi- lighting. ness depression, and they are lending their Group study by the crafts involved has whole-hearted support to this program been found as highly desirable as group which promises increased attractiveness for action of property owners in modernizing the city.

ARCHITECTURE AT THE NATION'S CAPITOL

(Concluded from Page 31]

and gone its bones, that structuralism. ture of England and made some lovely

functionahsm, whatever you wish to call it, things, especially in our Colonial period, is a necessary fact in the creation of beauty. but now we seem to have lost the knack of

And then I, tentatively, because of this I doing more than actually copy. But with the am not sure, suggest that where an archi- Greek revival Federal buildings of Mills tect makes use of pure Greek detail, or of we struck a sure and a firm note. . . . There original detail based upon Greek traditions, are dozens of beautiful fragments in he comes nearest to pleasing our national Washington, certain corners of houses, eye. For no reason perhaps beyond the fact bridges, columns, fountains; but these five, that the Greek brought detail closer to possibly six creations seem to me in beauty beauty than the architects of any other and in meaning to have accomplished their period. We copied the Georgian architec- purpose.

40 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER DOME ROOF ELIMINATES COLUMNS AND TRUSSES

L H. NISHKIAN, C. E.

ANCIENT structures are generally crete dome structure of new form recently distinctively different from modern designed by the writer and built in San Fran- structures in one particular, namely, cisco. The dimensions of the room shown in the use of materials which take heavy are 70' 1" x 44' 6". The side walls are 9" tensile stresses. In all ancient works the thick: the end walls 6" and there are only major stresses in a structure had to be from 4 columns, one in each corner, and one end necessity compression stresses. Thus were is open practically the full width of the

developed to a high degree the arch and building. The rise of the dome is 8 feet. the dome heavily buttressed to insure com- The joist are 4"x8"-24" c-c, and the slab pression under the spreading action of such is 2 Vj" increased to 5 "at ends where shear- structions. ing stressed require a thicker slab. With the extensive use of steel, modern In this type of dome there are, in addi- structures have developed new forms prin- tion to the direct stresses resulting from the cipally because with the use of steel in spreading action due to the rise of the tension we no longer need heavy piers and center, certain bending moments to be buttresses to span over large areas. This taken care of. The concrete joist shown development has occurred in practically all are designed to span the width of the types except in domes. Heavy buttresses straight sections of roof, namely, about in domes have been eliminated by the use 16 feet. The spreading action of the roof

of ring steel, but it is still generally felt is resisted by the sloping side sections of that the dome structure itself must be spher- the roof acting as approximately horizontal ical or approximately so in shape, and fully girders and transferring the entire thrust symmetrical about a vertical axis to insure to the end walls where the necessary ten- the absence of tensile stresses. sile steel in the form of reinforcing bars is With the proper use of steel, however, provided. Considerable shearing stresses it is not necessary to be so limited in the are developed in the roof slab and the end shape of dome structures. The accompany- walls which are, however, readily taken ing photograph shows a reinforced con- care of by the proper use of steel.

JANUARY, 1936 INTERIOR REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING FOR STEEL FORM CON- TRACTING COMPANY. SAN FRANCISO. SHOWING NEW TYPE OF ROOF CONSTRUCTION. L. H. Nishkiaa C.E.

Upon removal of the shores the center space and utility; absence of trusses which

dropped a total of 1 8" and each side wall gives a maximum of head room; naturally

spread 1 16". When the sun warmed pleasing appearance; adaptability to archi- the roof, the expansion caused the center tectural treatment; better lighting and ven-

to rise to its original position but, of course, tilation; less subject to fire damage and the lateral spread w^as not decreased. lesser cost for a similar construction with In this particular instance, a three part trusses. In this instance, the only extra roof was used. This can be varied to suit cost involved over a similar roof on trusses conditions. A roof may be made of two, was about $150 for reinforcing steel. Steel three, four, five or more parts, depending roof trusses, with supporting columns for on the area to be spanned, and the archi- this building, would cost not less than tectural treatment and other requirements. $600, showing a saving of $450, or about There is limit to the no spans one may go 1 5c per square foot in this case. to except, as in all types of construction, The building was built for the Steel- the economic one of increasing costs with Form Contracting Co., for the storage of increasing spans. Concrete joists are here forms. Space utility, head room and econ- used; beam and slab or slab construction omy were the controlling factors. are equally possible, the choice depending entirely on consideration of cost and ap- The various advantages listed above, pearance. make this type of roof construction particu- The many advantages of this type of larly adaptable for use in garages, hangars, domed roof are obvious, such as absence of dance rooms, large dining rooms, auditor- columns which gives a maximum of usable iums and theaters.

42 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER THE BONNEVILLE DAM PROJECT

SPANNING two channels—an island Three — Relocation of railroads and and the boundary line between Ore- highways on both sides of the river. This gon and Washington—the Bonneville involves raising four miles of Union Pacific Dam is fast becoming a reality. Eventually System tracks in Oregon a maximum of this stupendous project will harness the 34 feet, and relocating most of the Co- Columbia River and put its waters to work lumbia River Highway east of Cascade creating electricity for manufacturing and Locks: on the Washington side, it means domestic consumption. Completion of the relocating about two and one-half miles dam is scheduled for July. 1937. A writer of the Evergreen Highway, and raising in the Standard Oil Bulletin summarizes the tracks of the Spokane. Portland & the project into four units: Seattle Railway a maximum of seven feet for a distance of almost five miles. One — A main spillway dam between Bradford Island and the Washington Four— Incidental work, including such shore (the widest channel), with an over- preliminaries as the building of construc- all length of 1250 feet and a spillway tion camps, social and sanitary facilities for crest 900 feet long. This will be joined to the workers, and homes for the employees the power-house dam by a huge L-shaped who will remain after the project is com- levee across the island. pleted.

Two — Power-house and navigation Engineers say that the Columbia is the locks between Bradford Island and the greatest potential power-producer in North

Oregon shore. It is planned to install at America: that it is capable of generating first two units of equipment for generat- about fifteen times more power than it ing 115.000 horsepower, but the founda- would be possible to produce by using all tion work and substructure will provide of the capacity of Niagara Falls; and that for the addition of four more units to dou- this and the other New Deal project in the ble the electric output. The navigation Columbia Basin (the Grand Coulee Dam) locks will be capable of raising ocean- will be two of the nation's greatest hydro- going vessels from the lower river level electric developments. These statements to the upper river level, enabling them to rre easy to credit, for the Columbia is sec- penetrate several hundred miles inland. ond only to the Mississippi in volume of

JANUARY, 1936 ig west, duwnslream. from the Oregnn side of the Colu River, this view shaws the site of the

ville project before work was started. The river may see ile. bi:l its volume of water makes this

onstructian one of the most difficult ever attempted. i Photograph hy Pholo-Arl Studios)

One view of the naviBatioii l..ck» U-ms built bet»ccn Bradford Island and the Oregon sho

Above is seen the present Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way. The tracks of this line w

moved higher up the canon slope so big ships may pass where trains now run.

44 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER The power-house dam as seen from the downstream side. Over the roads in the foreSn-und cnn

Standard Oil trucks with fu€< and lubricants used by the contractors. When the project is completed, these

roads will be buried beneath water flowing through the power-house above the dam.

A recent photograph of the power-house dam, across the river channel on the Oregon side. The view is of the upstream face: during construction the water of this channel has been diverted. The power-house at this point will generate 115. OCX) horsepower, or 86.000 kilowatt:>: later this output may be doubled. Illustrations Courtesy Standard Oil Bulletin

JANUARY, 1936 water. It rises in Canada, follows a devious This project is so varied in its aspect, course through Washington, burrows its so tremendous in its scope, that it holds way through the Cascade Range, via the interest for the general public as well as famous Columbia River Gorge, flows for construction men and engineers. Among through a green and fertile region, and other things planned on a huge scale is a finally joins the Pacific beyond Astoria. double radial cableway, now under con- Naturally the damming of such a stream struction, for use in pouring the concrete involves tremendous physical difficulties. for the main dam. It w^ill have a span of The first problem is to divert part of the 2025 feet, supported by one tail-tower 217 water so that construction work can pro- feet high and two head-towers each 90 ceed—in itself a task such as is faced by feet high. The gigantic bucket that travels few engineers. If you care for figures, here this cableway will be able to deliver 25 are a few: At its peak flow, this river car- tons of mixed concrete on each trip. This ries more than 756,000,000,000 gallons of is just one of the sights that will attract water a day past a given point. The aver- visitors when the "pouring " stage of the age flow during each twenty-four hours dam is reached. Right now there are for would supply the City of Portland scores of interesting activities, from moving one day's thirty-seven and one-half years— rock and earth in wholesale quantities, to supply every four seconds. And finally, erecting the masonry barrier across one the average annual flow is enough to cover channel. Oregon over two feet four inches deep. The aim of the Bonneville Dam project It is impossible to work in the river dur- is to bring about development in industry ing flood periods, and this means that one- and agriculture of the Pacific Northwest. half of the main dam must be completed There ''is a vision of great transmission lines in the working season of about eight months between floods, although much carrying electrical energy far and near. other work can be carried on the year Since the dam is located on two trans-con- around. During the winter there are the tinental railroads, the suggestion is that added difficulties of snow, low tempera- industrial plants locate in the shadow^ of the ture, floating ice in the river, and many tree-clad hills. The construction of the other conditions not encountered in a more navigation locks and the proposed deep- southern clime. Therefore it is necessary ening of the channel are to permit the to provide better than ordinary housing, loading of factory and farm products di- complete little cities for the army of work- rectly into ships for transport to all parts ers. of the world.

A RAINY DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO, NOT 20 YEARS AGO. AS YOU MIGHT THINK AT FIRST GLANCE, BUT TODAY WHEN HORSE DRAWN VEHICLES ARE AS SCARCE AS HENS TEETH

Photo by J .E. Jcllick

46 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER HOME OF THE MODERN METAL AI'I^LIANCE COMPANY. OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA

MONEL METAL KITCHEN MEETS GROWING FAVOR

THE growing popularity of monel metal for the Modern Metal Appliance Company has been domestic uses has brought a new company incorporated and offices and show rooms have into the Trans-Bay field. With W. H. Picard. been established at 4238 Broadway. Oakland, for many years a leader among the contracting The location is an excellent one. being part way plumbers in Northern California, as its president, between Oakland and Berkeley, close to Pied-

ALL FIXTURES. TOP OF SINK, ETC.. IN THIS MODERN KITCHEN ARE MONEL METAL

JANUARY, 1936 47-51 mont, and with the completion of the Bay Bridge, will be within driving distance of San Francisco. Formal opening of the display rooms was held IbOOK RLVILW5 early in December with a preview for architects and home builders, many of whom were astonished at the remarkable developments that have been made in recent months in monel metal prod- Specification Documents — Classified and ar- ucts, together with the greatly reduced prices. ranged by David H. Merrill, Assoc. Mem- The new company is exclusive California dis- ber Am. Soc. C.E.; and Theodore C. Combs. tributors of such nationally known products as Assoc. Mem. Am. Soc. C.E. Contains 522 pages. Published for the Pacific Coast Build- the Whitehead monel metal storage heaters, range ing Officials Conference, by R. C. Rolling boilers, tanks and water softeners; Inco standard- and Associates; Los Angeles, California. ized "Streamline" kitchen sinks, and "Straitline This volume will be found to have the utmost cabinet sinks, tops and back splashers; also metal interest to architects, engineers, contractors and cabinets, flat rim bowls, strainers and faucets. general building officials. It covers the whole With reduced prices on monel metal goods field of specifications referred to under the uni- architects are specifying them and they find their form building code, which are legally a part of clients more receptive to their installation, since the code, and are required to be filed with the they not only insure greater durability than other city or county clerk. fixtures but are designed with an attractiveness There are sixty - three standard and tentative that make for a kitchen ideal in appearance and specifications and test programs compiled from efficiency. Monel metal is two-thirds nickel and many sources. The text is amplified by the addi- one-third copper—it is corrosion resisting and tion of a number of well executed drawings and will not rust. Monel metal is said to be more illustrations. Nationally recognized engineering than twice as strong as the material used in any and technical societies have assisted in the prep- other range boiler manufactured. aration of this data.

One wing of the Oakland building is devoted Color in Sketching and Rendering by Arthur to model kitchen exhibits of monel metal equip- — L. Guptill; Pencil Points Press, ( Reinhold ment while the other portion of the building is Pub. Corp.) 330-West 42nd Street, New arranged with bath room displays for Mr. Pic- York City, Price—$10.00. ard's separate plumbing business. The upstairs Several years ago there came to the attention portion is given over to the executive offices and of the writer a copy of a book by this same storage room. author. At that time mention was made of the beauty and completeness of that volume.

"Color in Sketching and Rendering", is one of

the outstanding books of its type to be published in 1935. The architect who lives again his student days — the days in which he had the time and tlie full inclination to sketch those things that appealed to his developing sense of perspective and his widening vision—will find in this book a source of pleasure and delight. One can live again in

retrospect these sketching journeys and it is a safe bet that many an architect who sees this book will dig out from almost forgotten corners the drawings and the color sketches made long ago for interesting comparison.

BAKERSFIELD SCHOOL BUILDINGS Kern County Union High School District will

hold an election January 17, at which time it is proposed to vote bonds in the sum of $200,000, proceeds to be used to finance high school improvements in Bakersfield. A similar proposal was defeated at an election held on December 6. NOCTURNE BY A MINOR OR ASYLUM FOR ARCHITECTS Chas. H. Biggar. Haberfelde Building. Bakers- field, is the architect. (Caption suggested by a subscriber)

52 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER NEW SCREEN FOR METAL CASEMENTS

A problem which has offered considerable dif-

ficulty to architects and builders is that of attach- ing screens to metal casement windows. The Marvel Casement Screen Company of Brooklyn has recently introduced a new screen, complete

! ly to the sash. However, all of these required special tools for attachment, and were not always satisfactory in operation, since the mechanism was delicately adjusted and easily damaged. i This new screen can be put on in a few minutes by any handy-man without the use of tools. The clip, which is shown in the accompanying photograph, is the secret of the simple

installation of this new device. This clip is made of spring steel, securely attached to the screen frame, and when once in place makes a permanent attachment. The method of pivoting the clip is unique and is the important patented fea- u ture of the new screen. The screen is said to be particularly suited for use in large apartment houses, hospitals, offices and public buildings.

with a light frame of its own. which attaches directly to the casement frame by means of a patented clip. Screen and frame are made of rolled steel, and can be obtained in a variety of finishes, such as stainless steel, japanned, or lacquered in various colors to harmonize with the decorative scheme.

As will be seen from the accompanying photo-

graphs, the screen is hung on pin hinges to its own frame. The latter remains attached to the casement and need not be removed to detach

the screen. Provision is also made for easily replacing of the bronze screening in case of damage or corrosion.

Ever since the general introduction of the steel casement window the problem of screening has been one of considerable difficulty. Many types of screens have been tried, such as roll screens, slid- ing screens, and others which were hinged direct-

JANUARY. 1936 1

ARCHITECTS' CONTRACTS FOR NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS

A revised Agreement Form "G" governing con- Architect's fee, with certain exclusions of work tracts with architects for preparation of drawings in connection with which the Structural Engineer and specifications for new school buildings in Los performs no services;

Angeles has been adopted by the Board of Edu- ( d ) The Architect shall retain a Mechanical cation in that city. The new form, submitted to Engineer who shall be paid (by the Architect) a the building committee by Secretary H. E. Griffin, fee of not less than 5% of the contract cost of was prepared in collaboration with various repre- construction work that is based on drawings and sentatives of the business manager's division, in- specifications prepared by the Mechanical Engi- cluding the board's architect, A. S. Nibecker. the neer; controller and a representative of the county coun- (e) The Architect shall retain an Acoustical

sel's office. Some of the main features of the re- Engineer if necessary; vised Form "G" were summarized by the secre- (f) All employees engaged under the Agree- tary in his communication to the building com- ment shall be paid not less than the following mittee, as follows: hourly wage rates: (a) The drawings and specifications shall be Senior Technical Employees. $1.25 per hour. prepared so that the ultimate construction cost Junior Technical Employees. $0.8714 per hour. shall not exceed the preliminary estimate; and in Apprentice Technical Employees, $0.50 per hour. such manner as to conform to all relevant laws of Bookkeepers, typists, and other similar non- the State and to the Rules and Regulations of the technical employees. $0.60 per hour; State Division of Architecture; (g) Every employer of labor shall carry proper (b) The fee to the Architect shall be 8S^ of compensation insurance: the original contract cost, plus 89f of the cost of (h) Provisions for time limits for the comple- extras to the contract when the Architect is re- tion of the architectural work;

quired to perform services in connection there- (i) The Board may cancel the Agreement if with; and the fee is to be paid to the Architect. the Architect fails to provide prompt, efficient and as follows: thorough service;

20% upon approval of the preliminary work: (j) The Board may suspend indefinitely or up to 50/r upon the submission of the working abandon the construction of the building, in which drawings and specifications to the State Division event the Architect shall be paid in proportion of Architecture; up to 60% upon adoption by the to the work performed by him; Board of the working drawings and specifications: (k) The Architect shall supervise and superin- up to 75% upon award of the contract for the con- tend the construction work and shall approve the struction work; up to 85% upon completion of contractor's requests for payments; and

50% of the construction work; and up to 100% (1) All drawings and specifications shall become

upon completion of the construction work; it being the property of the District:

understood that, if after adopting the working Revised Form "G " includes other provisions

drawings " and specifications, the Board does not similar to Agreement Form "G heretofore used advertise for bids for the construction work within bv the Board. thirty days, the fee shall be paid up to 75% as full and final payment to the Architect for services to the date of the payment; $750,000 PORTLAND BUILDING (c) The Architect shall furnish structural engi- Plans are nearing completion by staff archi-

neering services; and if a Structural Engineer is tects of Montgomery "Ward and Co. for a nine- retained by him, the Structural Engineer shall be story and basement wing addition to the Port- local paid (by the Architect) a fee of not less than 2% land store. According to J. D. Bullock, on wood frame buildings and 2l4% on all other manager, about $750,000 will be spent on the im- buildings, computed upon the same basis as the provement which will be started in the near future.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ARCHITECTS NEEDED TO "HUMANIZE" SMALL HOUSE

Jl CTION by architects to aid mass building of such proposals be of a simple nature to be read- small houses is urged by a committee on site ily understood by the average type of builder and planning and grouping of the New York Chapter sales agency in the field. of the American Institute of Architects headed "Lot lines should not become too complicated, by Henry Wright, city planner. To "humanize" and spaces requiring common maintenance should the small house, architectural studies of commun- be avoided or left optional with the builder. On ity organization are needed, according to the com- the other hand, builders must be convinced that mittee. they have a valuable selling advantage in featur- "The small house field can be reached and im- ing permanent qualities and livability in place of proved only to a limited extent if the efforts of possible easy turnover and quick profit. confined merely to the reduction of architects are "The American Institute of Architects can aid plans the improvement of design." the cost of and morally as well as technically by sponsoring the the committee says. "This field has been and will needed reforms in building laws and city planning continue to be served mainly by the mass builder so as to encourage desirable departures from the for and who has obvious advantages economies ordinary cut-and-dried but extravagant processes methods of large scale financing. of suburban land expansion. Some of the exist- to produce a more cred- "His failure in the past ing wastefulness could be curtailed by altering because of his limitations itable output has been street patterns, and safety, interest, and quiet appreciation of the pos- in planning ability and in could be introduced into residential neighborhoods. sibilities of group planning inherent in mass meth- "As a better understanding on the part of both ods. It is therefore believed that one of the most the architect and the builder is developed, the important opportunities for the architectural pro- latter will naturally bring in his problems to the fession lies in making studies of and suggesting individual architect for solution. Architectural the possibilities of better community organization studies with the encouragement of the Federal open to the mass producer." Housing Administration, should do much to Mass production of small houses can be relieved humanize the small house in our midst.' of monotony by the simplest means, while pre- Discussing site costs, the committee states that serving the inherent economies, the committee de- lots with completely developed improvements will clares. "A staggered frontage is possible in group average not less than thirty dollars per foot with building but unattainable through individual pro- the normal street plan and without speculative cedure." it is explained. "The private lane or cul- profit. de-sac has further advantages in both economy "Lower costs may at times be available through and living quality but is less appropriate to a sacrifice or where less complete improvements are gradual building procedure than to a situation in required or in smaller cities. It is considered de- which it can be completely built up in one process. include with even such inexpensive "The variations are of the simplest nature. sirable to houses more land than is customarily offered by variety being obtained by grouping rather than the large builder. A fifty-foot lot of from 5.000 by trite changes in a uniform elevation. A con- to 6.500 square feet, depending upon depth, is. siderable degree of good orientation may be however, somewhat overgenerous and out of pro- achieved by merely turning a simple plan. Effec- portion to the house cost proposed. tive group relations and interesting external ap-

pearance is also produced more tellingly than by "Fifty feet for the width of the lot is essential 'dolling up' the individual house. A better rela- to a good standard of spacing on the basis of a

tion of garden to living area in the house is also uniform set-back. Certain simple departures from arranged. such set-back can. however, be suggested which "More subtle and interesting effects can be se- would add to the appearance of the neighborhood cured where the plans can be carefully worked and reduce the average frontage to forty feet, or out for the use of two or more standard base $1,200 for the lot with complete public and basic plans, with, however, uniform kitchen, bath, and lot improvements. A further saving of perhaps

stair features. It is considered imperative that all $200 might be had through the possibilities of

JANUARY. 1936 55 narrow roadways and less expensive pavements in WESTINGHOUSE GOLDEN JUBILEE " minor streets and cul-de-sacs. Fifty years of progress and usefulness were The committee, in addition to Mr. Wright, was the key notes of the golden anniversary of the composed of J. Andre Fouilhoux, John Theodore Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com- Haneman. and Frederick G. Frost, winners in pany celebrated by its 43,000 employees and the New York Chapter's recent low cost house friends, January eighth. In all the principal cities competition, in which first and fourth prizes were where the company maintains executive offices or awarded to Mr. Fouilhoux for his design of a plants, the employees gathered around the festive home aimed to meet the needs of 75 per cent of board to listen to a nation-wide hook-up of an the nation's population. The committee's report address by A. W. Robertson, Chairman of the was based upon a study of the forty-one designs Board of the Westinghouse Electric and Manu- submitted by thirty-two architects. facturing Company. Mr. Robertson was intro- HARDWARE IN MODERNIZATION duced by F. A. Merrick, president of the company. As modernization sweeps in expanding volume The banquet here was held at the Hotel over the country, it finds a strong base in hard- Oak- ware. Classification of jobs undertaken shows land, and was attended by approximately five people. hardware in practically every one. Work listed hundred W. R. Marshall, vice-president, as redecorating, exterior repairs, outside painting presided. The program included music and informal talks, concluding with interesting with its inevitable scaffolding, remodeling gener- two moving ally, interior repairs, reconstructing bathrooms and picture reels.

kitchens, addition of rooms, all calls for articles During the fifty years of the company's corp- manufactured by the hardware industry. More orate existence many advanced engineering pro-

specifically analyzing this work, which is running jects have been successfully achieved. The record into the hundreds of millions of dollars, we find starts in 1886 with the development of a trans- average percentages of total to be: — heating, former which made possible the whole alternating 17.71; redecoraing interiors, 15.30; plumbing, current system and ended in 1935 with the con- 11.74; exterior repairs, 9.86; painting outside, struction, for the Boulder Dam, of two of the 9.70; roofing. 9.61; general remodeling, 7.02; in- largest water wheel generators in the world. terior repairs, 6.61; cementing 3.84; lighting, 2,90; During the past year, the company also equip- additional rooms, 2.19; bathroom remodeling, 2.15; ped the New York, New Haven and Hartford

kitchen remodeling, 1.12; miscellaneous. 0.25. One Railroad's stream-lined train "Comet " with Diesel manufacturer, who has offered credit to property engines and electrical equipment throughout. Con- owners, has uncovered a fact of tremendous bear- tinued progress this year may be looked for from ing on the final outcome of the better housing Westinghouse engineering and research activities. movement. He says only $1 of every $6 spent Highly trained scientists and technicians may be on home improvements is credit money. This expected to uncover new secrets to be crystalized shows home owners are using their savings. As into epic-making applications of electricity to all savings bank deposits have increased steadily in complex activities of modern life. the past few years, this tendency to use savings for home investment argues for continued expansion of such operations. And they all call for TO MODERNIZE 80 BUILDINGS more hardware. — Condensed from Hardware Messrs. A. R. Walker and P. A. Eisen, 708 World by Real Estate Digest. Pacific Commerce Building, Los Angeles, have been retained by the North Vermont Avenue Im- CITY-COUNTY BUILDING provement Association, in an advisory and con- Richard S. Requa. William Templeton John- sulting capacity, to design a general community son. Louis Gill and Sam W. Hammill, architects, scheme for proposed improvements to buildings all of San Diego, are preparing plans for a on North Vermont Avenue, between Franklin city-county office building to be built in the new Avenue and Los Feliz Boulevard. Between 75 civic center at the foot of Ash Street in San and 80 buildings, with a total frontage of 1960 Diego, a cost WPA project. J. H. Davies, Ocean feet, are involved in the project. Estimated Center Building, Long Beach, is the structural of the improvements is $2,500,000. The associa- engineer. The building will be a two-story and tion, headed by Frank H. Partridge, has request- part three-story reinforced concrete structure with ed the Los Angeles Planning Commission to re- a steel frame tower. Estimated cost is $1,000,000. zone the property.

56 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER JOHN PARKINSON. Mr. Parkinson's son. Donald B. Parkinson, was taken into the firm in 1920. and in recent years The death of John Parkinson, for many years the responsibilities of the business were gradually one of the leading architects of the west, occurred transferred to him. Among the notable structures at his home. 1201 San Vicente Boulevard. Los designed by John Parkinson & Donald B. Park- Angeles. December 9. of a heart attack. inson are the following: Federal Reserve Bank, Los Angeles Gas & Electric Building, Title In- In the 46 years he practiced architecture, first surance Building, Title Guarantee Building. Bul- in Seattle and later in Los Angeles. Mr. Parkin- lock's Wilshire, D. Spreckels Building. San son designed several hundred buildings, most of J. Diego: Wilshire Medical Building, Banks-Hunt- them commercial structures. His contribution to iey Building. Harry Bauer Building. Union Depot, the business and industrial development of Los Ogden. Utah: Broadway Department Store: First Angeles, is familiar to many. National Banks of Beverly Hills. Santa Barbara was born in Scorton. Lanca- John Parkinson and Long Beach: Elks Club and Security Bank. England. December 21, 1861. He attended shire. Santa Barbara: six buildings at University of and received his first training in building school Southern California—administration, law. science. and design at Bolton. When he construction Students' Union. Bridge Hall, physical education his majority he came to America spending reached building. a short time in Winnipeg. Canada, and Minne- apolis. Minnesota. Mr. Parkinson took an active interest in civic affairs. While in Seattle he assisted in drafting In 1889 Mr. Parkinson went to Seattle. Wash- a new building ordinance for that city and was ington, and opened an office, designing many a member of the commission which drafted a buildings in that city and vicinity. It was there new building code for Los Angeles in 1900. He in 1889 he met Weymouth Crowell. who later be- was a former member of the Los Angeles Munic- came a successful Los Angeles contractor and who ipal Art Commission and a life member of the erected several of the first structures for which American Institute of Architects. Mr. Parkinson was architect. There also was formed the brief partnership of Parkinson & Evers. terminated by Mr. Parkinson buying his partner's interest in the business. In 1891 Mr. Parkinson WILLIAM H. WHARFF was appointed city school architect and in the next few years he designed a score of school buildings At the age of ninety-nine. William H. WharfF. for Seattle and surrounding communities. pioneer architect of Berkeley, passed away at his in that city. New Year's Day. Mr. WharfF In 1894 Mr. Parkinson settled in Los Angeles home the architect of the Berkeley Masonic Temple and opened an office for practice of architecture. was built nearly fifty years ago. He was a native of His first commission was designing the Currier Maine, and came to California in the Building on Third Street, between Broadway and GifFord. seventies. served in the Civil War and knew Spring, in which he maintained an office for a He founded the Lincoln Fellowship and number of years. Later, in 1896. he designed the Lincoln. He of Lincoln Post, G.A.R. Homer Laughlin building on Broadway, just south was a charter member said to have been the oldest living mem- of Third Street, which was the first steel frame He was Mr. WharfF had been a Mason fireproof building in Los Angeles. ber of the G.A.R. since 1870. From 1905 to 1915 Mr. Parkinson practiced in partnership with Edwin Bergstrom under the firm name, Parkinson & Bergstrom. the latter retiring AUGUST NORDIN from the firm on the e.xpiration of their partnership agreement. The death of August Nordin. architect, oc- During the depression, following the war, Mr. curred at the University of California Hospital, Parkinson was commissioned as architect for the San Francisco. January eighth. Mr. Nordin's Los Angeles Union Terminal buildings, a group death followed a heart attack. He was 67. Dur- of large reinforced concrete structures which cost ing his practice in San Francisco, he designed around $7,000,000. He was also architect for the more than 300 structures, the most recent being original Los Angeles Coliseum, which seated the Foshay Building on Kearny Street, San Fran- 75,000 and later for the enlarged Coliseum which cisco. Mr. Nordin was a member of Islam now seats 105.00C. Temple Shrine and the Scottish Rite.

JANUARY, 1936 57 WORK RELIEF PROJECTS The third survey, that of American architec- - ture, will be made in only 30 states, California i A treasury warrant for $3,217,300 has been being allotted $22,000, Oregon $7,000, and ( countersigned to permit the Works Progress Ad- Washington $7,000. ministration to direct work-relief assistance to educational, professional and clerical persons by Under the fourth survey, collection of data carrying out the following types of projects: and photographs of vessels formerly used in the U. S. Marine, California will receive $9,000, Ore-

1 nation-wide survey of state and local ( ) A gon $3,000 and Washington $9,000. historical records. »i I'. (2) A nation-wide survey of Federal archives. S. F. ARCHITECTURAL CLUB ( 3 ) A survey in 31 states to obtain exact measured drawings and photographic records of im- Walter C. Clifford is the new president of the portant examples of American architecture. San Francisco Architectural Club, with Walter ' Ruppel, vice-president, and Richard Audsley, sec- obtain (4) A survey in 27 states to and com- retary. pile historical data pertaining to design, construc- The following committee chairmen have been tion and usage of vessels formerly a part of the named: Walter Ruppel. entertainment; Frank United States Merchant Marine. Records of I Trabucco. publications, and Richard Audsley, drawings and photographs of these vessels will publicity. Otto Hintermann is a new trustee and be placed in the National Museum. Chas. Conti, director. In addition, a general inspection will be car-

Retiring President Hintermann is recipient of ! ried out in ail Federal Government-owned build-

a past president's charm, bearing the insignia of i ings in New York City and Detroit. Bacterio- the San Francisco Architectural Club. logical tests of water supplies of these cities will be made and the use of dyes will be employed to trace any suspected pollutions. Of the total DESIRES CATALOGUES allotment. $182,500 will be devoted to this pro- The firm of Herbert & Caulkins, architects gram, of which New York City will receive $163.- of Santa Rosa, announces a dissolution of partner- 784 and Detroit, $19,716. ship and C. A. Caulkins, Jr., will continue the Under the survey of state and local historical practice of the profession with an office at 426 records, lists will be made of records now in the Rosenberg Building, Santa Rosa. Mr. Caulkins hands of state, county and local governments as would like to receive manufacturers catalogues and well as those available from historical societies building material samples from San Francisco and accessable individuals. All data will be com- firms. piled into a master inventory and will be deposited with appropriate Federal agencies. Alloca- tions to the western states for this survey are as REVISED BOOK ON STUCCO follows: Arizona, $6,000; California, $80,000; "Portland Cement Stucco" in its revised form Colorado, $12,000; Idaho, $4,600; Montana, should serve as a welcome addition to the library $6,000; Nevada, $2,000; New Mexico, $6,000; of the builder, architect and home owner. Oregon, $9,400: Utah, $5,000; Washington, complete $20,200; Wyoming, $3,000. This edition has instructions on how to produce a variety of stucco textures, each step archive survey will be carried forward as The illustrated by photographs and the final texture distinct from that which can be carried in the reproduced in full color. budget for the National Archives. The volume Throughout the book are pictures of attrac- and department of origin and the exact location tive houses finished in Portland cement stucco. of archives will be ascertained and the relation These range from thirty years of age to the to the standard archival serials of the affected modern style of today—from a cottage to the government departments will be shown. In addi- towering Edgewater Beach Hotel. Modernizing tion, reports under which archives are kept and is also discussed and "before and after" pic- the determination whether better provisions can tures are included, be made for the preservation of records will be studied. Appropriations for the western states A full set of specifications for the proper ap- are the same as for the historical records survey plication of Portland cement stucco both on new

except that Washington is allotted $16,800, and old buildings completes the story.

58 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER With the Architects

BUSY ON RESIDENCE WORK PERSONAL

New work in the office of Edwin L. Snyder, Fran'cis W. Grant, who has been construc- 2101 Addison Street. Berkeley, includes a $12,000 tion superintendent for John Graham. De.xter brick veneer dwelling on Alvarado Road. Berk- Horton Building. Seattle, for the past 13 years, eley: a $7,000 house in Rockridge. Oakland; a was recently appointed PWA resident engineer brick veneer house in College Park. Sacramento, and inspector to supervise work on six construc- a Monterey-Colonial dwelling in Berkeley for A. tion projects at Medical Lake and Cheney, T. Beckett, and three houses on Grizzly Peak Washington. Boulevard, Berkeley, for Randolph F. Parks. S. Lee HiNMAN, architect, who has been affiliated with the Clise interests as building mana-

MEDICO DENTAL BUILDING ger for the past several years, is resuming pro- Plans have been completed for a two-story fessional practice, becoming associate architect medico-dental building to be built on Bancroft on the staff of Graham and Painter. Ltd.. Dexter Way. near Telegraph Avenue. Berkeley, and to Horton Building. Seattle. be leased to a number of physicians and dentists William R. Grant, architect of commercial in the University City. The owner of the prop- buildings, is now occupying a new office at 312 erty is Mrs. E. L. Turner, the architect Julia Lloyd Building. Seattle. Morgan, and the builder. H. K. Henderson. Walter F. Fuesler. has moved his office from MILLER AND WARNECKE BUSY 615 Architects' Building to 539 No. Mansfield Avenue. Los Angeles. Miller and Warnecke. Financial Center Build- F. Bissantz has moved from 1101 ing. Oakland, report activity on several houses Edgar Architects' Building. Los Angeles, to larger quar- in the East Bay: also another Class C store building on Lakeshore Avenue. Oakland. A ters, suite 912. in the same building. recent contract to be awarded in this office is a Louis L. Dorr has moved his office from 1107 $6,200 house for Carrell Weaver on Ocean View Signal Oil Building to 906 Architects' Building, Drive. Oakland. Los Angeles.

Howard H. Riley, architect, has resumed prac- DUPLEX MUNICIPAL RESIDENCE tice, his office being in the Joseph Vance Building. City of Vallejo is the owner of a two-story The Seattle. At present he is devoting his attention to frame and stucco duplex residence to be con- small house design. structed on the reservoir site, three miles out of B. Dudley Stuart is now occupying an office Vallejo for employees of the Water Department. suite on the sixth floor of the Thompson Build- There will also be a garage and laboratory, the ing. Seattle. He has several commercial projects total cost being estimated at $12,000. under consideration, and has been consistently active in modernizing work. AWARDED RESIDENCE CONTRACT Messrs. Nordin and Anderson, architects of William Martin. 666 Mission Street. San Fran- Los Angeles, have moved from the Transamerica cisco, has been awarded a contract to make alter- Building to 422-25 Insurance Exchange Building, ations to the residence of Dr. Randolph Flood. that city. 3055 Divisadero Street. San Francisco. Farr and Ward, 68 Post Street, San Francisco, are the Gordon B. Kaufmann has moved to 627 architects. South Carondalet Street. Los Angele* where he is occupying attractive new offices. CALIFORNIA-COLONIAL RESIDENCE William H. Rabe. assistant city engineer at A two-story and basement California-Colonial Ventura, has recently been granted a permit to residence has been designed by F. L. Confer. practice as a structural engineer by the California architect, 2812 Russell Street, Berkeley, for M. State Board of Registration of Civil Engineers. Stracham of the Hotel Harrison, Oakland. The The City of Ventura has lately accepted the uni-

house is to be built in Piedmont Pines. Oakland. form building code.

JANUARY, 1936 59 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MARTIN J. RIST BUSY In addition to a group of houses in San Jose, Officers for 1 936 have been elected by South- Martin J. Rist, Phelan Building, San Francisco, ern Cahfornia Chapter, A. I. A., as follows: Ralph is busy on plans for a prospective hospital and C. Flewelling, president; Eugene Weston, Jr., has completed drawings for a two-story and base- vice-president; George J. Adams, secretary, and ment market and office building on Columbus Samuel E. Lunden, treasurer. S. B. Marston was Avenue and Green Street, San Francisco. elected director of the three-year term. Henry Carlton Newton and Reginald D. are Johnson BUSY ON RESIDENCE WORK the hold-over directors. Henry H. Gutterson, 526 Powell Street, San Delegates to the Institute convention to be held Francisco, reports that his office is busy designing in Williamsburg, Va., next year, were elected several dwellings, one in Ross, Marin County, and as follows: Carleton M. Winslow, E. Allison. J. the others in the San Mateo Peninsula District. A. M. Edelman, H. C. Chambers and Robert Orr. Alternates are: Eugene Weston, Jr., A. C. COUNTY COURT HOUSE Zimmerman. Roland Coate. Samuel E. Lunden Working drawings have been completed for a and Reginald D. Johnson. Class A Court House at Salinas, estimated to Sumner Spaulding, who presided at the Decem- cost $450,000. Charles A. Butner and Robert ber meeting, announced that the January meet- Stanton, Salinas and Pebble Beach, are the ing would be in the nature of a memorial to the architects. late John Parkinson. A vote has been taken by letter ballot on the MODERN PIEDMONT DWELLING question of issuing a life membership in the Chap- Michael Goodman, 2163 Center Street, Berk- ter to A. M. Edelman, only surviving charter eley, has completed plans for a modern style member. Presentation of the certificate was made residence to be built in Piedmont, features to at the January meeting, when Mr. Edelman read include brick glass and air conditioned heat. the minutes of the first Chapter meeting.

Designs or pictures of executed buildings re- HOTEL ON MT. HOOD lated to sport activities which will be selected Construction of a hotel on the slope of Mt. for the American section of the international com- Hood has received WPA approval. An all-year petitive exhibition of the 1936 Olympiad should round hotel to accommodate 300 is planned. The hotel will be 62 miles from Portland via Mt. Hood be directed to Richard J. Neutra. Los Angeles, member of the architectural committee. Loop Highway and Government Camp. SAN FRANCISCO CONVENT John Foley, 770 Fifth Avenue, San Fran- NOT SO GOOD J. cisco, has prepared plans for a two-story rein- A recent Associated Press dispatch from Wash- forced concrete convent for Sacred Heart Parish ington, D. C, states that "the Federal Home to be built on Oak Street, east of Fillmore, San

Loan Bank is considering establishing an archi- Francisco, at an estimated cost of $60,000. tectural service for home builders. Officials declare that the service would be available to build- PALO ALTO STORE BUILDING ers from Savings and Loan Associations, and Messrs. Farr and Ward, 68 Post Street, San other members of the bank system." Does this Francisco, have awarded a contract for con- mean another architectural bureau to compete struction of a one-story reinforced concrete store with individual practitioners? building in Palo Alto for the A. B. Morton Com- pany. The building will cost $12,000.

CIVIC AUDITORIUM MERCED BUILDING ACTIVITY Eureka, Humboldt County, is to have a new The new year started with considerable build- civic auditorium, costing $120,000. Plans were ing activity in Merced, including construction of prepared by Franklyn T. Georgeson, of Eureka, a new wing to replace a portion of the El and W. H. Ellison, structural engineer. Capitan Hotel, damaged by fire; a physicians' and dentists' building at 19th and L Streets for PASO ROBLES GYMNASIUM Dr. Bruce E. McConnell and associates, and re- A $36,000 gymnasium is planned for the Paso construction of a warehouse and office building Robles High School. Preliminary drawings have for the Yosemite Portland Cement Company, been made by Orville L. Clark, 369 North Ridge- damaged by fire last year. wood Place, Los Angeles.

60 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SEEKS CO-OPERATION OF INSTITUTE

Urging the use of "every technical and artistic as shoddily as the average speculative structure. resource," the American Institute of Architects "The government is also in a unique position to has pledged its aid to Federal, state and munici- perform a service of education for its citizens of pal governments in creating a public architecture distinct advantage to the intellectual life of the which will advance the cultural standards of the nation. That is to hold up before the people a nation, it is announced by Stephen F. Voorhees high standard of excellence both in design and of New York, president of the Institute. craftsmanship, utilizing for this purpose every aesthetic and technical resource of the nation, so that The Institute, through its officers. Chapters and every citizen may have the opportunity of becom- committee on public works, is ready to co-operate ing familiar with good architecture, good painting "in the development of methods and policies for sculpture and so that the cultural stand- improving and perfecting the planning, design and and good of the people as a whole may be continually construction of government buildings," and has ards improved. so informed President Roosevelt, the appropriate "There are two great emotions that in the past committees of Congress, and the heads of the de- have inspired artists to accomplish things almost partments and independent agencies of the gov- their power; the sentiment of religion and ernment concerned with the planning of govern- beyond the sentiment of patriotism. Religious fervor has ment structures, according to Mr. Voorhees. raised great cathedrals the very sight of which "The Institute's offer of advice and co-operation stirs the capacity for reverence and awe, and the is made in a spirit of patriotic service and of in- love of country in past ages has expressed itself telligent and sympathetic understanding of the in monuments which we cannot see today without difficulties and problems with which they are feeling the warmth of sentiment that brought them faced," Mr. Voorhees said. "It is in the interest into being. The government owes it to its citi- of the public that all government buildings should zens to guide this depth of feeling into worthy represent and embody the highest standard of channels. " architectural design, taking into account all aes- The report describes the relationship which thetic, all practical, and economic considerations." should exist between the architectural profession Mr. Voorhees made public a report of the Insti- as represented by the Institute and the govern- tute's committee on public works, of which Fran- ment, saying: cis P. Sullivan of Washington is chairman, which "The government has a right to receive and asserts that "the government is in a unique posi- its citizens have a right to demand that it require tion to perform a service of education for its citi- and insist upon the highest type of architectural zens of distinct advantage to the intellectual life service available. The architecture of the public of the nation." buildings should represent the best which the architecture is appropriate "No for any building highest talent of the country is capable of pro- in which even the least important of the many ducing. activities of our nation's government is housed, "The architects of this country as the profes- except an architecture is that great and noble and sional body of men whose education, whose train- inspiring, presenting to the citizen an outward ing and whose whole lives have been devoted to expression of the dignity, the nobility and the this field are the men best qualified to advise the greatness of his country in which he takes pride," government as to how this end can be achieved. the report declares. "When the appropriate means for accomplish- "Just as the average citizen's blood is stirred ing this end have been determined, these and by the flag flying over a body of troops or the these alone are what architects should advocate, review of a great fleet of war vessels, he feels and if in any instance personal interest should inspired by the dome of the Capitol rising over come in conflict with the common good, it is the the headquarters of the nation's government and architects' interest and not the general welfare by the refined beauty and historic significance of of the country that must be postponed. the White House. He is similarly inspired in a "In order to accomplish any useful and benefi- greater or less degree by the government in all cial result, architects must begin and go forward its manifestations when these are dignified and in a spirit of helpful co-operation, with a com- worthy, so that there would be a distinct loss to plete and sympathetic understanding of the point the spiritual and patriotic relation between the of view of the administrative officers of the gov- citizen and the government if its activities were ernment and the many conflicting demands which carried on in bare warehouses without architectural they are forced to take into account, and of re- significance or dignity, constructed as cheaply and strictions of law, of procedure and of policy." lANUARY, 1936 HIGH COST OF IGNORING SAFETY FIRST RULES

By C. G. Chipchase

WHY do some employees trained in "safety" The following narrative seems to have a place overlook or forget the simple principles of in this article. It is about an accident in which I

"safety first" when they leave their places of em- had first-hand information; it concerns the non- ployment for the night or over the week end? observance of "safe practices" when off duty or There are any number of such cases, trained work- when not under the influence of safety regulations ers having accidents while off duty, involving in industry. members of their families, friends, and others, at The victim in the case, when occupied by his home, on the highway, or in their other pastime regular employment, was an electrician and line- activities. man employed by a large power company as an Accidents are caused mostly by the failure of artisan. He was first-class, receiving top wages some person or machine to perform work in a and was constantly employed. I know that he proper manner. A great many machine failures received, with others, good safety instructions can be prevented by previous inspection and main- from the company's safety engineer and its fore- tenance, but the ultimate power to prevent man- man. This information was verified by the em- tailure lies with the man himself. ployee to me: he knew all the "safe practices" and A man must be more than just a good workman "first-aid procedures " that any efficient employee

I'o be efficient, for if he is to maintain that efficiency should know. This person had a pastime interest he must be a safe worker. I would not give a in a small farm which was located about one hour's cent for a man who worked without regard to drive from his permanent town home. He spent safety. Even if he worked without pay and was many hours working on the place during his spare fortunate in not having an accident, he would still time. When his crop was ready for harvest he be a liability instead of an asset, for his influence spent a vacation period there to harvest the crop on his fellow employees would destroy the safety and prepare it for market. morale of the organization. In the process of preparation he used a hulling In modern industry, the habitually unsafe worker machine which was driven by a three-horsepower is simply not wanted. There is no place for him. electric motor, belted to the low-down jack shaft To quote the words of a prominent executive: "If of the machine, which he did not provide with a We know our job we will not have accidents." so proper guard. There were other hazardous ex- let's get acquainted with our jobs. It, therefore, posures which were not protected, but he felt he follows, to be successful with our work or our knew of their existence and that he would be pastime activities, we must not only work with our cautious of them and thus protect himself against hands, but use our heads also. If a thinking man accidents. will do his work in his place of employment or at The vacation period came; he and his family home efficiently and safely, his reward will surely moved out to the farm, here they enjoyed the free- come. dom of country life, all had good health, good Much has been said about safe practices at the appetites and plenty of food, including the wine factory or other places of employment and with of the countryside. This man imbibed freely; in all the teaching and lessons learned through bitter fact, excessively of the wine. His wife forbade experiences you would think that the "safety him against this excessiveness. She was con- mindedness ' of the great majority would be more cerned about his automobile driving, fearful he pronounced, but when one stops to consider the would endanger others on the highway or bring large number of traffic accidents involving auto- disaster upon himself, which was all good and mobile, the pedestrian, passenger buses, etc., and timely on her part, but no thought was given to home accidents, which are more numerous and just the hulling machine. as fatal as industrial accidents, you sometimes The safety instructions given him by his em- wonder if the participant ever heard of "safety." ployers included directions not to wear loose cloth-

The old adage "self preservation is the first law ing, shirt sleeves unbuttoned fiying in the breeze, of nature" and the foundation of safety seems to etc, but to wear short sleeves or rolled up sleeves, have lost all of its old significance, especially when so that they would not catch in moving parts of traffic accidents in all parts of the country hold the machinery. Here is where he made his mistake; lime light so constantly, and home and off-duty his neighbors cautioned him to stop his drinking accidents are running a close second. if he intended to work around the huller or he

62 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER — —

LACK OF LIGHT AND AIR BLIGHTS HOUSING VALUES

Failure to recognize the economic value of light borhoods. Neither was the community at large. and air has been the greatest single and funda- Social agencies were concerned, and various in- mental error in the production of housing units dividuals and groups face to face with the living for sale, according to William Stanley Parker. conditions being created were fighting for more Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. light, air and sanitation.

"I am not referring to the aesthetic and social "Building laws, step by step and slowly, re- values of light and air but to their cold, hard flected this pressure with improved minimum pro- boiled financial value." Mr. Parker e.xplains. "The visions for courts and coverage which immedi- real estate expert and businessman of the time, ately became ma.ximum provisions in the eyes of with nothing much but dollars and cents in mind, the speculative builder of low cost housing. In wholly failed to gauge this underlying economic Boston a first enactment of a requirement for a asset. ten foot rear yard to every tenement house illus-

"This is not so strange in the real estate trates a step that when taken was progressive if broker with current sales primarily in mind, but not revolutionary but which now is seen to have it is more significant in the loaning agencies pre- legalized wholly undesirable conditions. sumably interested in long term investment values "This thought should give us pause today, as back of their mortgages." we now look back on many similar inadequate Progress that has been made toward greater minimum provisions, when we attempt to deter- light and air in low-rental housing units Mr. mine any new legal minima with which to con-

" Parker credits to social agencies fighting for im- trol future low rental housing. proved living conditions, while real estate in- Crowded tenements resulted from this earl) terests were concerned chiefly with immediate shortsightedness and. Mr. Parker adds, "the sales. same failure is visible today in small house de- "During the early portion of the past half cen- velopments where the houses are being placed forces were impelling the develop- " tury various too close together. ment of areas of low-rental housing units with In the type of housing selected for a site, as regard solely to their immediate marketability." well as in the matter of light and air. he urges he points out. "The producers of these housing that the needs of the families be considered. units were not concerned with problems of city Eliminating the two-family house which he be- planning and the development of desirable neigh- lieves better for investment than for rental. Mr. Parker limits the choice in large scale rental oper- would surely get tangled up in the mechanism. ations to three types—the single free-standing This advice was not well received as you can house, the row house and the multi-family dwell- imagine, but one day when he was going over the ing. machine, turning down the grease cups and oiling "Conferences can continue to debate the rela- up after the noon hour, while the huller was under tive values of these types. ' he says, "but hous- power, his shirt sleeve on the right arm was caught ing authorities and their architects and other ad- in the bite of the pulley on the jack shaft. His visers must make specific decisions on each point arm was twisted and torn badly. When he gained in the light of the special conditions connected consciousness at the hospital some twenty miles with a given site. Here they meet the necessity away a few hours later, he learned the sad news for the various compromises always inherent in his arm had to be amputated at the shoulder. a building operation due to special local condi- His earning power as an electrician had van- tions and differences of opinion. ished and what little savings he had went for medical aid. Later he said: "It was my own fault. "A construction program necessitates keeping

I knew better, and with all the training we ve had one's feet on the ground, and on the particular

at the company's e.xpense. I had to throw it to the piece of ground that constitutes the site of the 'four winds' only to bring a burden to myself and project. In doing this, local statistics require

" to my family. careful study and yet cannot be accepted too While the preceding accident seems shocking, rapidly as proof of what sort of housing units are there are numerous other happenings around the needed. The e.xisting units were provided not home and during our leisure time that are just as because they were right and desirable or actually- hazardous and disastrous and are worthy of your desired, but because they were being built and close attention. California Accident Commission bought or rented, and others like them could be Bulletin. marketed at a profit.'

JANUARY. 1936 63 position in industry and labor in the county. In

ORIGIN OF NAMES OF addition it is famed for its Bartlett pears and at

CALIFORNIA COUNTIES Placerville. known as Hangtown in early days, is one of the largest packing sheds in the world.

This is the fourth article in the series giving Dairying and livestock are important industries. derivation of the names of California counties, the El Dorado is an internationally famous resort

first appearing in September: country and it is estimated that 250,000 persons annually drive through the county over the Lin- El Dorado—Created February 18, 1850. One coln Highway connecting San Francisco with of the original twenty-seven counties of California. Nevada. In Placerville are buildings made of Francis Orellana. a companion of the adventurer brick manufactured in 1852. There are many vil- Pizarro, wrote a fictitious account of a wonderful lages and towns founded in the gold-rush days province in South America, of a fabulous region which still are in existence. Population: 8.325. of delightful clime and never - fading verdure, Area: 1737 square miles. abounding in gold and precious stones, where wine Imperial County—Created August 15, 1907. It gushed forth from never-ceasing springs, and derived its name from the Imperial Valley, sit- wheat fields grew ready-baked loaves of bread, uated therein, and was organized from part of and birds already roasted flew among the trees, San Diego County. and nature was filled with harmony and sweetness. Imperial, "The Winter Garden of America", From this description, a gold-bearing belt was has been transformed from a harsh and uninvit- called El Dorado, as in later days it has been ing desert of cactus and sage brush to a veritable called Klondike. So, when the discovery of gold Garden of Eden. Imperial Valley is the largest by James W. Marshall at Coloma in January. irrigated district in the world. A great portion 1848. became known to the world, California, and of the county, the tenth largest in California, lies particularly that part where gold was discovered, below sea level, but in the eastern section are was called "El Dorado", and it was from this the Chocalate Mountains, and near San Diego fact that the county was given its name upon its county a chain of mountains extends south across creation. the international boundary and are considered county embraces 1,111,680 acres, the El The among the most picturesque in Southern Cali- National Forest covering 251,800. while Dorado fornia. total timber lands have an acreage of 586,645. In ancient times the valley was part of the Gulf For approximately 40 miles the topography chang- of California, later being filled in with deposits es, ascending to 10,020 feet at Pyramid Peak, and decayed vegetation brought down from the then sloping to an altitude of 6225 feet at the mountains in past ages by the Colorado river, Nevada line. Picture a beautiful mountainous forming a soil to be compared for productiveness country carpeted by almost one sweep of pine with the Nile Valley in Egypt. Salton Sea, cov- forest, with shimmering lakes, including the in- ering an area 35 by 14 miles, remained but slowly comparable Lake Tahoe, and sparkling streams, drying up. More than 515.000 acres are under and you have El Dorado. irrigation in the county and many thousands of General John C. Fremont with a party of pio- additional acres will be cultivated after the com- neers, following directions given by Indians, pletion of Boulder Dam. reached Lake Tahoe February 14, 1844. General Cotton production is an important industry with Fremont gave the lake the name of his companion 22,165 acres now devoted to it. The leading crop traveler, Bonpland, a noted botanist. Later Lake is the Imperial Valley cantaloupe with an annual Bonpland was changed to Lake Bigler, in honor value of approximately $13,000,000 while other California's third In 1861 at- of Governor. an melons shipped have an annual valuation of about tempt to change the name to Tula Tulia failed $9,000,000. Lettuce is in second place as a dis- and in 1862 William Knight of Los An- Henry tinct crop with a valuation of about $11,000,000 geles, who crossed the plains in 1859, persuaded a year. Imperial is the tenth cattle-producing a group of prominent to back his efforts to men county of the state. Dairy products contribute call the lake "Tahoe", an Indian name meaning more than $3,000,000 annually. Calexico, the Im- "big water", or "high water", or "water in a high perial Valley gateway to Old Mexico, is the port place". land the The office at Washington and of entry to Lower California. Statistics show that press approved of the name. 8,000.000 persons and 2.400,000 automobiles cross Since the day when James Marshall found gold the international boundary here annually. El in the tail-race of Captain John Sutter's mill at Centro, the county seat, had a population in 1907

Coloma, in January, 1848, El Dorado has produced of 125; today it boasts 8434. Population: 60,903. millions in gold. Lumbering holds an outstanding Area: 4089 square miles.

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Estimator's Guide Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc.

In many instances NRA prices are still in force. Another month may find some material changes in price quotations. A 10% raise is being considered. Amounts quoted are figuring prices and are made up from average quotations furnished by material houses to three leading contracting frms of San Francisco.

NOTE—Add 21/2% Sale Tax on all materials but not labor.

All prices and wages quoted are for San Cement, $2.25 per bbl. in paper sks. Heating- Francisco and the Bay District. There may Cement (f.o.b. Job, S. F.) $3.00 per bbl. Average, $1.90 per sq. ft. of radiation be slight fluctuation of prices In the interior Cement (f.o.b. Job, Oak.) $3.00 per bbl. according to conditions. and southern part of the state. Freight Rebate of 10 cents bbl. cash in 15 days. cartage, at least, must be added in figuring Calaveras White $6.00 per bbl. Iron — Cost of ornamental Ir country work. Medusa White $8.00 per bbl. etc., depends on designs. Forms, Labors average 25.00 per M

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu- Bond— 1'/2% amount of contract. sive of forms, pe rcu. ft. 30c LunKber prices delivered to bidg. site .

4-inch concrete basement floor No. 1 c _ _...J32.0O per M No. 2 c _ - 27.00 per M I2I/2C to 14c per sq. ft. Selectlo 0. P. 36.00 per M Brickwork 4'/2 Inch Concrete Basement floor 2x4 No. 3 form 22.00 per M 1x4 No. 2 floor ng VG _. .._ 54.00 per M Common, $35 to $40 per 1000 laid, (ac- I4'/2C to 16c per sq. ft. I«4 No. 3 floor ng VG _._ 47.00 per M cording to class of work}. 2-inch rat-proofing 6'/2C per sq. ft. 1x6 No. 2 floor ng VG-. ... . 54.00 per M Face, $75 to $90 per 1000 laid, (according l'Ax4 an d 6. N 0. 2 flooring -_ 54.00 per M Concrete Steps - $1.25 per lin. ft. to class of work). Slash gra in Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.10 1x4 No. 2 floor f4nnn per M

1x4 No. 3 floe ... .- 36.00 per M lin. ft. Dampproofing Waterproofing— and No. 1 c ru"n^f:-rG: .. 32.00 per M Brick Walls, using pressed brick on edge, Lath 6.50 per Two-coat work, 15c per yard. 60c sq. ft. (Foundations extra.) Membrane waterproofing—4 layers of sat- Shingles (add cartage to price quot Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $ .75 1 . Ip urated felt, $4.00 per square. Redwood , No. $1.00 pe bd

ft. Redwooc , No 80 pe bd Ir sq. Hot coating work, $1.80 per square. Red Ce Jar ._ _ .95 pe bd le. Common f.o.b. cars, $12.00 job cartage. Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San Face, f.o.b. cars, $45.00 to $50.00 per Frascisco Warehouse. 1000, carload lots. Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building) — (f.o.b. job) HOLLOW TILE FIREPROOFING 13-16x31/4" T & G Maple J 1 20 .00 M ft.

Electric Wiring—$12.00 to $15.00 per outlet I l-l6x2iA" T & G Maple 132.00 M ft. 3x12x12 in $ 84.00 per M for conduit work (including switches). '/8X31/2 sq. edge Maple 1 40.00 M ft. 4x12x12 in 94.50 per M Knob and tube average $7.00 per outlet, I3-I6X2IA'' yax2" 5-16x2- 6x12x12 in 1 26.00 per M T&G T&G Sq.Ed. including switches. 8x12x12 in 225.00 per M CIr. Otd. Oak _.$200.00M $150.00 M $180 M Sel. Otd. Oak 140.00 M 120.00 M 135 M HOLLOW BUILDING TILE (f.o.b. job) CIr. Pla. Oak ..._ 135.00 M 107.00 M 120 M Sel. Pla. Oak 120.00 M 88.00 M 107 M carload lots. Clear Maple 140.00 M 190.00 M 8x12x51/2 $ 9't-50 Laying & Finishing 13c ft. lift. 10 ft. 6x12x51/2 73.50 Prices vary according to capacity, speed Wage— Floor layers, $7.50 per day. and type. Consult elevator companies. Discount Building — 5%. Average cost of installing an automatic Paper

1 ply per 1000 ft. roll _...$3.50 elevator in four-story building, $2800: 2 ply per 1000 ft. roll _ 5.00 direct automatic, about $2700. 3 ply per 1000 ft. roll 6.25 Composition Floors— 18c to 35c per sq. ft. Brownskin, 500 ft. roll 5.00 In large quantities, 16c per sq. ft. laid. Brownskin Pro-tecto-mat, 1000 ft. roll ...lO.OO Sisalkraft, 500 ft. roll 5.00 Mosaic Floors 80c per sq. ft. Excavation— Sash cord com. No. 7 $1.20 per 100 ft. Sash cord com. No. 8 1.50 per 100 ft. Duraflex Floor—23c to 30c sq. ft. Sand, 50 cents; clay or shale, 80c per yard. Sash cord spot No. 7 1.90 per 100 ft. Rubber Tile—50c per sq. ft. Sash cord spot No. 8 _.- 2.25 per 100 ft. Teams, $10.00 per day. Sash weights cast iron, $50.00 ton. Terano Floors 45c to 60c per sq. ft. Trucks, $18 to $25 per day. Nails, $3.50 base. Sash weights. $45 per ton. Teraiio Steps $1.60 lin. ft. Above figures are an average without water. Steam shovel work in large quantities, less; hard material, such as rock, Millwork— Concrete Work (material at San Francisco will run considerably more. bunkers) —Quotations below 2000 lbs. to O. P. $100.00 per 1000. R. W., $106.00 the ton. $2.00 delivered.' per 1000 (delivered).

No. 3 rock, at bunkers $1.75 per ton Fire Escapes— Double hung box window frames, average,

No. 4 rock, at bunkers 1 .70 per ton with trim, $6.50 and up, each. Ten-foot balcony, with stairs, $75.00 per Elliott top gravel, at bnkrs 2.00 per ton including trim (single panel, balcony, average. Doors, 1% Washed gravel, at bunkrs 2.00 per ton in. Oregon pine) $8.(X) and up, each. Elliott top gravel, at bunkrs 2.00 per ton Doors, including trim (five panel, 1% In. City gravel, at bunkers 1.70 per ton Oregon pine) $6.50 each. River sand, at bunkers 1.80 per ton Glass (consult with manufacturers) — Delivered Screen doors, $4.00 each. bank sand I20cu.yd. Double strength window glass, 15c per square foot. Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft. Note—Above prices are subject to discount Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high. of lOc per ton on invoices paid on or be- Quartz Lite, 50c per square foot. per lineal ft., $6.50 each. fore the 15th of month, following delivery. Plate 75c per square foot. Art. $1.00 up per square foot. Dining room cases, $7.00 per lineal foot. SAND carpentry, Wire (for skylights), 35c per sq. (not Labor—Rough warehouse heavy Del Monte, $1.75 to $3.00 per ton. framing (average), $12.00 per M. Obscure glass, 26c square foot. Fan Shell Beach (car lots, f.o.b. Lake Ma- For smaller work average, $27.50 to $35.00 iella), $2.75 to $4.00 per ton. Note—Add extra for setting per 1000.

JANUARY, 1936 65 — —— — — — —

Dealers) 2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath % .80 Marble— (See Redwood Shingles, $11.00 per square in 3 coats, metal lath and plaster 1.25 Keene cement on metal lath 1.30 place. Painting— Ceilings with ^4 hot roll channels metal lath .75 Cedar Shingles, $10 sq. In place. Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath yard Recoat, with Gravel, $3.00 per sq. Two-coat work 29c per plastered 1 .50 Slate, from $25.00 to $60.00 per sq. laid. Three-coat work 40c per yard Shingle partition % channel lath 1 side 85 Single partition % channel lath 2 sides 2 according to color Painting lOc per yard and thickness. Cold Water inches thick 2.75 Whitewashing 4c per yard 4-inch double partition ^A channel lath 2 sides Turpentine, 80c per gal., in cans and 75c 1 .30 Sheet Metal— 4-Inch double partition channel lath 2 % Windows— Metal, $2.00 a sq. foot. per gal. in drunns. sides plastered 3.00 Fire doors (average). Including Raw Linseed Oil—80c gal. in bbls. Plastering — Exterior hardware, Boiled Linseed Oil—85c gal. in bbls. Yard $2.00 per sq. ft. 2 coats cement finish, Medusa Pc-tland Cement Paint, 20c per brick or concrete wall $ 1 . 1 lb. 2 coats Atlas cement, brick or concrete Skylights- wall 1.35 Carter or Dutch Boy Whtte Lead In Oil (in Copper, 90c sq. ft. (not glazed). 3 coats cement finish. No. 18 gauge wire steel kegs). Galvanized iron, 25c sq. ft. (not glazed). mesh 1 .50 Per Lb. 3 coats Medusa finish. No. 18 gauge wire mesh 2.00 I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight lO^c Steel Structural Wood lath. $6.00 per 1000. —

500 lbs. and less than I ton lots lie 2.5-lb. metal lath (dipped) 17 $100 ton (erected), this quotation Is an II/2C 2.5-lb. metal lath (galvanized) 20 Less than 500 lb. lots I average for comparatively small quan- S.-t-lb. metal lath (dipped) 22 Dutch Boy Dry Red Lead and Litharge (In tities. Light truss work higher. Plain 3.4-lb. metal lath (galvanized) 28 steel kegs). %-Inch hot roll channels, $72 per ton. beams and column work In large quan- Finish plaster, $18.90 ton; in paper sacks. I ton lots, 100 lb. kegs, net wt..._ lO^c tities $80 to $90 per ton cost of steel; Dealer's commission, $1.00 off above quotations. lb. less than I ton lots I Ic 500 and $13.85 (rebate lOc sack). average building, $89.00. Less than 500 lb. lots III/2C Lime, f.o.b. warehouse, $2.25 bbl.; cars, $2.15 Steel Reinforcing Red Lead In Oil (In steel kegs) Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.), $16.00 ton. Wall Board 5 ply. $50.00 per M. $85.00 per ton, set, (average).

I I2I/2C ton lots, 100 lb. kegs, net. wt. Hydrate Lime, $19.50 ton.

500 lb. and less than I ton lots I2I/2C Plasterers Wage Scale $1.25 per hour Lathers Scale 1.25 per hour Less than 500 lb. lots 13c Wage Stone Hod Carriers Wage Scale I.IO per hour Note—Accessibility and conditions cause Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot In place. Composition Stucco—$1.60 to $2.00 sq. yard wide variance of costs. Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00, Boise, (applied). $3.00 sq. ft. in place.

Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. in Patent Chimneys Plumbing place. 6-Inch $1.00 lineal foot From $65.00 per fixture up, according to 8-Inch 1.50 lineal foot grade, quantity and runs. Store Fronts 10-inch 1.75 lineal foot Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner, 12-Inch 2.00 lineal foot Roofing center and around sides, will average 75c per lineal foot. "Standard" tar and gravel, $6.00 per sq. Plastering I nterlor- — for 30 sqs. or over. Note—Consult with agents. Less than 30 sqs. $6.50 per sq. mod lath .70 Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square. Tile— Floor, Wainscot, Etc.— (See Dealers). SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING TRADES WAGE SCALE all Established by The 1 Tipartial Wage Board November 9, 1932. Effective on wo rk January 1. 1933, to remain in effect until June 30. 1933, and for so long thereafter as economic conditions emain substantially unchanged.

This scale is b, ht-hour day and Is to be considered as a mlnlmur skill and craft knowledge may be paid In excess of the amounts Journeyman CRAFT CRAFT Mechanics CRAFT M chanics Asbestos Workers $6.40 Iron Workers (Bridge and Structural) $9.60 Stair Builders $7.20* Bricklayers 9.00 Iron Workers (Hoisting Engineers) 10.00 Stone Cutters, Soft and Granite 6.80 Bricklayers' Hodcarriers Laborers (6-day week) _ 5.00 5.60 . 8.00 (Outside) 7.20* Lathers, Channel Iron 8.00 Cabinet Workers . 7.20 Caisson Workers (Open) Water W. 8.00 Lathers, All Other 6.80 8.00 Carpenters _ 7.20* Marble Setters 8.00 5.00 Finishers 7.20 Marble Setters' Helpers 5.00 Cement Tile, Cork and Rubber 7.20 Cork Insulation Workers 7.20 Millwrights 7.20* Welders, Structural Steel Frame on Build! gs 9.60 Electrical Workers Mosaic and Terraiio Workers (Outside) 7.20 . 8.00 Electrical Fixture Hangers Mosaic and Terrazzo Helpers 5.00 Auto Truck Drivers— Less than 2,500 lbs. 5.50 Elevator Constructors Painters 7.00 Auto Truck Drivers—2,500 lbs. to 4,500 lbs. 6.00 Elevator Constructors' Helpers Painters, Varnishers and Polishers (Outside).. 7.00 Auto Truck Drivers^»,500 lbs. to 6,500 lbs. 6.50 Engineers, Portable and Hoisting . Pile Drivers and Wharf Builders 8.00 Glass Workers (All Classifications) 6.80 Pile Drivers Engineers 9.00 Auto Truck Drivers—6,500 lbs. and over 7.00 Hardwood Floormen 7.20* Plasters and Hodcarriers (See wage 5.5« 6.40 under Plastering). 6.00 7.20 6.50 7.20 6.40 Plow Teamsters 4 Horses 6.50 7.20 9.00 6.00 'Established by Special Board Steam Fitters 8.00 Scraper Teamsters, 4 Horses 6.00 GENERAL WORKING CONDITIONS

1. Eight hours shall onstltute 's work for first four hours after the first eight hours, time Any work performed on such jobs after mid- all crafts, except as otherwise noted. and one-half. All time thereafter shall be paid night shall be paid time and one-half up to time. Saturday (except Laborers), Sun- four hours of overtime and double time there- 2. Where less than eight hours are worked pro double after (provided, that if a new cre'i Is em- rata rates for such shorter period shall be paid. days and Holidays from 12 midnight of the preceding day, shall be paid double time. Ir- ployed on Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays Hodcarri- 3. Plasterers' Hodcarriers, Bricklayers' respective of starting time, overtime for Ce- which has not worked during the five preced- ers, Roofers' Laborers Engineers, Portable and ment Finishers shall not commence until after ing working days, such crew shall be paid and Hoisting, shall start 15 minutes before eight hours of work. time and one-half. No iob can be considered other workmen, both at morning and at noon. as been regis- 10. shall straight 4. Five days, consisting of not more than eight On Saturday Laborers be paid ciatlon and a hours a day, on Monday to Friday inclusive, time for an eight-hour day. determination has been made that the iob shall constitute a week's work. falls within the terms of this section). 11. Where two shifts are worked in any twenty- 5. The wages set forth herein shall be considered four hours, shift time shall be straight time. Recognized holidays to be: New Year's Day, as net wages. Where three shifts are worked, eight hours' Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, pay shall be paid for seven hours on the sec- 6. Except as noted the above rates of pay apply Admission Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas only to work performed at the iob site. ond and third shifts.

7. Transportation costs in excess of twenty-five 2. All work, ex for whom no cents each way shall be paid by the contractor. shall be per 15. Men ordered to report for work, ntitled to P. employment is provided shall be e 8. Traveling time in excess of one and one-half A. M. and 5 M. two hours' pay. hours each way shall be paid for at straight 3. In emergenci time rates. vacated unti the close of business, men re- 16. This award shall be effective in the City and 9. Overtime shall be paid as follows: For the porting for vvork shall work at straight time. County of San Francisco. Carpenters, Workers (Outside), Hardwood Floormen, Millw rights, or NOTE: Provision of paragraph 13 appearing in bra ( ) does not ap ply to Cabinet Stair Builders.

66 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER YOUR CLIENT WANIS

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PACIFIC COAST ELECTRICAL BUREAU SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES 447 Sutter Street 601 W. 5th Street

This Inyo County— Created March 22, 1866. This Kern CoHnfy—Created April 2. 1866. river, county got its name from a tribe of Indians who county derived its name from the Kern inhabited that part of the Sierra Nevada moun- which was named for the lieutenant of that name in tains. The meaning of the word "Inyo" never of General John C. Fremont's third expedition has been determined. 1845-47. Massachusetts, Although Inyo is the second largest county in With an area about the size of mountains, the state it is fifty-first in population. Fruitful this county is made up of picturesque farming lands, towering mountain ranges and productive valleys and arid deserts. Vast under- minerals huge desert expanse combine to make it a unique ground resources of petroleum, gas and enough county. Here is located the famed Death Valley, supply the markets of the world, while which has taken a heavy toll in human lives and cotton and wool are produced to clothe 100,000 live yet in the winter time is one of California's great- persons. Varied fruits, field crops, vegetables, est scenic attractions. In summer the temperature stock and dairy products and scores of manufac- reaches HO degrees, but from October to May turing plants add to the prosperity of Kern. 3.000.- the climate is delightful. Here it was that Death The mountain area comprises more than Valley Scotty became famous and built the great 000 acres, including a portion of the Sequoia and desert mansion that lures tourists. Good highways Santa Barbara national forest. The Sierra Nevada extend into the Valley from Barstow to the south on the east and Tehachapi Mountains on the

and Owens Valley on the west. The county is a south offer excellent hunting, fishing and camping. mecca for hunters, fishermen, mountain climbers The Golden State Highway running from north

and vacationists and its lakes are beyond com- to south. El Centro Sierra, from Mojave up

pare. Los Angeles obtains its water supply from through eastern Kern to the Inyo-Mono play- Owens Valley through an aqueduct 250 miles in ground, an excellent highway leaving Bakersfield, length. Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the traversing the Seqouia National Forest and a fine United States, rises majestically to a height of road crossing northwestern Kern in its course to 14,496 feet, and there are nine mountains over the coast route highway at Paso Robles provide 14,000 feet high and several times that many rang- splendid means of seeing this extraordinary ing from 12.000 to 14,000 feet. Population 6.555. county. Area: 9991 square miles. Live stock raising is an important industry. Cot-

JANUARY. 1936 67 ton production is increasing annually, 66,000 acres

being now devoted to this product. Kern is well MOXEL METAL adapted to fruit growing. Oil has been produced [High Nickel Alloy'] in the county for forty years and at present more than per cent of the oil producing in is the accepted material for soda foun' 50 area the tains and lunch-room equipment, just as state is here. Randsburg, a Mojave Desert town, with a population of is the it is the universal metal for food service 443, home of the fa- equipment in leading hotels and restau- mous Yellow Aster gold mine, which has produced rants throughout the country. $18,000,000, and the Kelly mine, also one of Cali- fornia's best gold producers. Population: 82,570. Area: 8003 square miles. CORROSIRON ENGINEERING CONFERENCE {^AciJ Resisting Irori] The recent election of officers for the Sixth Midwest Power Engineering Conference assures is the accepted material for draining an organization of power specialists well versed waste lines. CORROSIRON meets all in the dissemination of power information cover- State and Municipal specifications for ing the fields of generation, distribution and util- drain lines from school laboratories and ization. chemistry rooms. The work of carrying on the program for the meeting scheduled for April 20-24 inclusive at

Chicago, is in the hands of the newly elected Pacific Foundry Company Ltd. officers. Headquarters at 308 W. Washington Pacific Metals Company Ltd. Street. Chicago, are busy on the elaborate program being prepared. The conference will be sponsored by the local

470 East Third St. 3100 Nineteenth St. 551 Fifth Ave. sections and regional divisions of the following: LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK American Institution of Electrical Engineers American Society of Civil Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers Edison Electrical Institute Western Society of Engineers National Safety Council American Society of Refrigerating Engineers BUILD Official hotel meeting headquarters will be at the Palmer House, Chicago, where the entire WE L L — fourth floor has been reserved for meetings, lunches and receptions. Afternoon sessions will Amphitheatre where A PROPERLY designed and well con- be held at the International the Midwest Power Show will be held. '^*- structed building is a credit to any city and a profitable investment for its JOHN TREANOR owner. John Treanor, president of the Riverside Port- land Cement Company, Los Angeles, met a tragic Such structures are the Stand- death on his ranch, eight miles southeast of War- ard Oil Building, Matson October 20, when he fell from Building, Four-Fifty Sut- ner's Hot Springs. branches ter Street, Stock Exchange, the roof of a barn while trimming some S. F. Base Ball Park, Mills from a tree. He was standing on the peak of the Tower, Opera House and roof when his feet slipped and he was hurled 25 Veterans' Memorial, San feet to the ground, falling upon the heavy prun- Francisco, Olympic Club Al- ing shears in his hands, and sustaining a fracture terations, Santa Anita Rac- ing Plant and other notable of the skull. busi- structures — all built or super- Mr. Treanor, who was 52, had extensive vised by — ness interests, investing largely in land and irrigation projects in San Diego county. He was Lindgren Swinerton, Inc. & president of the San Diego Water Company, San Standard Oil Building 605 W. Tenth Street Diego Water Supply Company, Carneros Ranch San Francisco Los Angeles and Vineyard Company, a director of the Union We Maintain a Termite Control Department Bank ft Trust Company. Security Title Insurance Company and other corporations.

68 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER !

OLD MISSION TO BE RESTORED

Popular interest in the architecture of old Span- ish missions and churches has been stimulated through recent studies by representatives of the National Park Service. Department of the In-

terior, of seventeenth and eighteenth century edi-

fices in Sonora. Mexico. Under the leadership of Schofield De Long. with permission from the Mexican Government, a party of six architects and museum specialists visited Magdalena, San Ignacio. Caborca. Oqui- tea. Dolores, and other Sonora towns and ob- I tained measured drawings, photographs, and

I notes of the structures, and will reconstruct the picture of the missions. Their report will guide the museum experts in making exhibits for the Tumacacori Museum and their studies will contribute to the restoration of the courts and buildings of the Tumacacori mission.

Tumacacori. near Tucson, in southern Arizona,

is one of the missions originally established by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. Spanish mission- ary and explorer.

PITTSBURG HOSPITAL Financing is under way for a two-story reinforced concrete hospital at Pittsburg, estimated to cost $70,000. Dragon and Schmidts, of Berkeley. are the architects.

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We offer a complete service to Archi- JOHNSON 0:i Burners ... all of them ... are famed for efficiency, for economical operation. Hefe. for tects and Engineers with information smaller homes, is the Johnson Tvpe B. low in first cost as well as in cost of operation. Available in various models according to radiation required up to on manufacturers' representatives and 1385 square feet and for either gravity or pump feed, it represents a recommendation that can be made details of materials. with the same confidence felt in commending any Johnson burner to the home-owner.

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lANUARY. 1936 69 WOLMAXIZED LUMBER TKe FEDERAL Specified for use in Residences ARCHITECT Factories Warehouses and Permanent Structures of Every Type Safeguards against attack from Decay or Termites

American Lumber and Treating Co. Special subscription rate 2 years for 37 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, 111. San Francisco Office Los Angeles Office $1.50. Write your name and address Rialto BIdg. 1031 S. Broadway New York Office across this and mail to 1420 New 25 Broadway St. Louis Office Shreveport Office York Avenue, Washington, D. C. Arcade Bids. 509 Market St. West Coast Plants at Bill later. Wilmington. Calif. Wauna, Ore.

DO YOU KNOW spiff ^0 SOONER ^™^'"^ltff that HAWS ANGLE STREAM DRINKING FOUNTAINS meet with the requirements of the American Public Health Association?

Catalog P details these requirements and illustrates our complete line. WJltir^ Copy on request. SANITARY DRINKING FAUCET Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and HAWS CO. leOS Harmon Street Berkeley, Calif. other exacting property owners have

insisted upon Wall Kover because it covers solidly with one coat. ..shows

no brush marks or laps... and is "no sooner spread

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70 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN SAN VALLE TILE KILNS TO row? TREES 165 N. LA BREA AVE. • LOS ANGELES WHITNEY 3406 Improper cutting by unskilled hands caused this "tree tragedy." ROOFING TILE IN TEXTURES- And all because its owner COLORS — PRICES THAT APPEAL thought that he could save on in- experienced service. It is our pleasure to have supplied San Valle Tile Fact is, had he known it, he on a number of the outstanding buildings de- could have had genuine Davey signed by Architects Henry Carlton Newton and Tree Surgery Co. do the job for Robert Dennis Murray. practically the same cost — perhaps even less — and eliminated the possibility of such damage. Don't risk this happening to your trees. Insist on genuine Davey B AXC Tree Surgery Co. Pressure Creosoted whenever they Lumber need attention. Call or write FOR TERMITE AND the DECAY PROOF nearest address below for free in- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION spection and estimate. CREOSOTED AIVD UIVTREATED PILING DAVEY Eiclusiv* SaUt TREE Ag«nt« in California for WEST COAST WOOD PRESERVING CO Seattle, Wash. SURGERY CO., LTD. SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES J. Russ BIdg. H. BAXTER & GO. Sfory BIdg. SUtter 3377 TUcker 333 Montgomery St. 1929 601 West Filth St. San Francisco Los Angelet SKILL • KNOWLEDGE • EXPERIENCE

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CALIFORNIA SHADE CLOTH CO. 210 Bayshore Blvd., San Francisco

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Wholesale Distributors No. I Drumm St., San Francisco SLOANE-BLABON LINOLEUM Los AMBASSADOR VENETIAN BLINDS Angeles Oakland

^NUARY. 1936 —

EVERY BATHROOM IN AMERICA CONSTRUCTION CENSUS WILL WANT THIS COMPLETELY A Nation-wide census of con- AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC HEATER P. F. REILLY covering Every balhroom ^^^^^ struction, 1935 opera- need! tiejl th independent oF tions, began January 2. The first Building othe WESIX census of construction was made Contractor The By^TH -A-MATI in 1929 and has been widely used w :six portable and Manager of ELECTRIC in connection with the problems ideal a id safest Construction for bath ^ HEATER of the construction industry. Up- fori. NowWESIX to-date information for this im- AUTOMATIC ^^"^^ eleclnc heater for the bathroom— portant industry will be available built-in and out of the way—and with 730 ELLIS STREET fully AUTOMATIC temperature con- from the 1935 census. trol —two features that very definitely San Francisco utmost safety and comfort. result in Figures will be secured for the This new WESIX BATH-A-MATIC DERHILL 5829 produces liealthful warmth without UN smudge or odors quickly and eco- number of persons employed by nomically —quicker than any furnace or other auxiliary equipment. contractors, man-hours of work Employs same proven double-action principle used in famous WESIX portable heater— circulates the heat and in 1935, disbursements for salar- radiates a cozy glow just like sunshine' NO MOVING PARTS—No fans to create breeze and drafts— nothing to ies and wages, value of contracts gel out of order Standard hnish: beautiful rustproof Good BuiMings Deserve chromium. Standard size: 1500 watts. Uses regular 110 and orders received during 1935, volt current. Also made in other finishes and sizes for he Good Hardware ing Enioy th Ithful, value of construction work per- endable and economical WESIX electric heater, ea quickly installed by your own electrician. $29. formed, and expenditures for WESIX ELECTRIC HEATER CO. materials. In addition, informa- CALIFORNIA 390 FIRST STREET SAN FRANCISCO. tion is to be obtained for the loca- THE WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF MAJOR eitCTtlC MCATtRS tion of the business establish-

First Era SI 36 WESIX 390 St . San ncisco ments that are reguarly maintain- Please send me your booklet on for BATHROOM AUTOMATIC HEATING ed by contractors, the legal form —for OTHER ROOMS — fc r ENTIRE HOUSE of organization (firm or corpora-

Addr S! 1 tion), and the kind of construction business in which they were 581 Market Street engaged during 1935. SUttcr 6063 To augment the value of the construction statistics, some fur- Melrose Lumber ther information will be collected & Supply Co. in detail at the request of the in- ANDERSON dustry. Two sets of figures, for example, will be secured for per- & sons employed. One will give an RINGROSE LUMBER AND analysis of employees by broad MILL WORK occupational groups for a stated one-week pay period (that ending General Contractors nearest October 26 has been des- 46th Ave. and E. 12th St. ignated). The other will present Oakland the total count of employees on 320 Market Street, San Francisco Phones; FRuitvale 0240 — 0251 the 15th of each month of 1935. Phone DOuglas 1373 As to work performed, the sched-

ule form is arranged to show five separate types of construction, further classed as new construc- JOSEPH MUSTO tion or remodeling, repairs and SONS-KEENAN maintenance. Private construction MURALS COMPANY and public construction are also to be reported seoarately. With for Hotel Cocktail Rooms MARBLE these breakdowns, it will be pos- Theaters, etc. sible to present a statistical pic- and ture of construction activities in HEINSBERGEN ONYX sufficient detail to be of real value DECORATING CO. to the industry.

535 NORTH POINT STREET 7415 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angele SAN FRANCISCO Such questions as: Why is a 1801 S. SOTO STREET being taken? Francisco LOS ANGELES construction census 401 Russ Building, San — Why have certain questions

72 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINE been covered in the census?—and Pacific What is to be done with the census returns when they are re- Aluniilite Manufacturing ceived?—^are often asked.

Company The construction census is be- by ing taken because of the need for High Class Interior Finish fuller information for construction K a w n e e r Quality Millwork operations. The industry is of such great importance, measured • 454 MontKomery St. S41 Merrill Are. San Francisco Los Anseleft either in terms of the number of Store Front.s - GArfield 7755 AXridse 9011 Windows persons that look to it for their

1315 Seventh Street, Oakland livelihood, or by the expenditures and

GLencourt 7850 it makes for materials and equip- Architectural Castings ment, that its progress and what

it is doing concern almost every in other industry's plans for the immediate future. Polished Satin Smith The construction industry em- Lumber Company or ploys, in normal times, a very WHOLESALE - JOBBING - RETAIL substantial proportion of the total Anodic Finish FACTORY AND BUILDING LUMBER number of American workers. PLYWOODS - ROOFING are disbursed directly DISTRIBUTING YARDS Large sums THE for wages and salaries. The ex- San Francisco Oakland penditures for material and equip- 19+h Ave. & ment affect many related indus- 4th & Channe Estuary tries engaged in manufacturing as OF CALIFORNIA MArket 0103 FRuitvale3174 well as those engaged in trans- BERKELEY YOUR INQUIRIES SOLICITED portation. Active construction also means more activity in retail and wholesale trade, transportation CEMEXTEX! and finance. BROWXSKIX" Construction is recognized as Specified for RESILIENT WATERPROOF an important element in the eco- BUILDING PAPER Stucco and Concrete nomic welfare of the nation. It Will water-proof and is a measure of the progress made THE BUILDING PAPER WITH beautify! in providing and maintaining the A FACTOR OF SAFETY Recenf users physical plant needed for produc- Hayward High School Shensfone Apartments tion and other commercial pur- 470Mandana Blvd., Oakland poses, and the structures needed Angler Corporation Framingham, Mass. TAKE A LOOK! for housing. The results of the PACIFIC COAST DIVISION census will therefore be of wide- 564 HOWARD STRECT FRANK W. DUNNE CO. SAN spread interest. FRANCISCO 4lst and Linden Oakland DOuglas 44li In designing the report form to

be used for the census it would have been very easy to list a large number of questions for the con- TRANSIT- MIX tractors to answer. The policy, LUXOR however, was to limit the ques- CONCRETE tions to the ones that are of fun- WINDOW SHADES damental importance. Valuable Translucent Shading A Perfect-Blend assistance in this was secured of highest count Material of the leaders of from a number cambric the construction industry that Golden Gate Atlas were available for consultation. It is believed that as a result of this Materials Co. William Volker & Co. procedure the report form pro- SillMnlh and Harrison Streets 631 Howard Street San Francisco vides for the essential basic facts Phone HEmlock 7020 San Francisco of the industry, yet is not so

JANUARY, 1936 73 lengthy as to require an unduly large amount of work on the part FORDERER of the contractor. Cornice Works Manufacturers of The census tabulations will be Hollow Metal Products of particular interest to the indi- Interior Metal Trim Elevator Fronts and Cabs vidual contractor for appraising Metal Wall Plugs, Anchors, Etc. the operations of his own estab- Sheet Metal Products Sanitary Metal Base lishment. Figures for the relative Commercial Refrigerators cost of labor and material to be Building Paper Pump Governors Metal and Wire shown by classes of work and by Accessories Safety Pump for Concrete trades, for example, will enable 269 Automatic Gas Reg- POTRERO AVENUE ulating Valves San Francisco, Calif. Little Giant the contractor to compare his own HEmlock 4100 Gas Burners Improved Oil results with those of the branch CONSULT OUR ENGINEERING Gas Burning Burners DEPARTMENT Equipment Oil Pumping Sets of the industry in which he is Vacuum Pump Oil Valves Governors interested. Oil Strainers Vacuum Regulating Valves Steam Oil Strainers Continuous Flow Duplex Oil Pumps Steam Traps Rotary Oil Pumps CONTRACTORS' TAX MacDonald & Kahn Thermostats Boiler Feed Pumps Reducing Valves State Registrar of Contractors Water Heaters Boiler Feed-Water William G. Bonelli has Regulators Oil Meters announc- General ed the release of a Digest of the Contractors VAUGHN-G.LWITTCo. laws of all the states of the Union ENGINEERS licensing or taxing construction

C. W. Vaugtin, President and Manager contractors. The Digest, prepared

MANUFACTURERS AND under the direction of Assistant Financial Center Bldg. DISTRIBUTORS Registrar Glen V. Slater, is ex- 405 Montgomery St. «24-28 Mollis St. Phone Olympic 6084 pected to be of material value to Emeryville Oakland, Calif. San Francisco the construction field and particularly to contractors whose operations extend into states other than California.

Robert W. Hunt Company The study shows that twenty- ENGINEERS THE TORMEY nine of the states impose no Inspection - Tests - Consultation taxes or regulations. The balance COMPANY Schools and Other Structures Are Buih as Designed of the states have statutes of

When Construction Materials are varying classes, some of which GENERAL PAINTERS Inspected at point of Manufacture and during Erection by require the examination of con- AND DECORATORS ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY tractors with nominal fees, while others impose Cement, Concrete, Chemical, Metallurgical, high taxes but no Phone UNderhill 1913 X-Ray and Physical Laboratories form of qualification or examina-

;hicago - New York - Pittsburgh tion. 563 FULTON STREET Los Angeles - All Large Cities San Francisco San Francisco, 251 Kearnv Street Farthest advanced in the field of regulation, according to this report, are Arizona, California and Utah. Both the Arizona and Utah statutes appear to have been G. P. W. based entirely upon the California CRAN E Act prior to its amendment this JENSEN & SON High Class Plumbing year providing for a directional Fixtures board of seven members from the construction industry. Building Construction "The California Act". Regis- trar Bonelli observes, "gives a wider degree of protection to the

320 Market Street, San Francisco public and assistance to the in-

Phone 2444 dustry, without in any sense of the term being a revenue meas- All Principal Coast Cities ure."

74 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ALL SET FOR BOOM Bethlehem Steel Belief that 1936 will see im- McNEAR BRICK portant revelations in the low-cost COMPANY Company home building field was expressed Manufacturers of recently by Bennett Chappie, General Offices: BB Bethlehem. Pa. vice-president of The American Commoii Brick AND Rolling Mill Company and chair- STEEL BRIDGES Haydite and BUILDINGS man of a committee associated with the Purdue Housing Re- "The Light If'eight Aggregate" San Francisco search Foundation. 20lli and Illittois Sis.

Seattle Salt Lake Cit.v "The prospective home owner Office W. Andover Street Krarns Bldg. can now get up steam in the 419 Rialto Bldg. 417 Berry Street Portland San Francisco San Francisco American Bank Bldg. boiler for his ride into new envir- EXbrooki87l MArket 2770 onments and new comforts for his home and family," Mr. Chap- pie said in an interview.

He credited the Federal Hous- DI^WIDDIE MULLEN MFG. ing Administration with working C01\STRUCTI01\ COMPANY diligently to perfect a reasonable COMPAl^Y program for government insured BANK, STORE AND OFFICE borrowing, in order that homes • FIXTURES—CABINET WORK may be purchased on the install- OF GUARANTEED QUALITY BUILDERS OF ment plan. In his opinion, this CHURCH SEATING was the spark needed before any GOOD BUILDINGS real start could be made. Office and Factory: "With a good reputation for 64 RAUSCH ST., Bet. 7th and 8th Sts. CROCKER BUILDING San Francisco paying his bills, and with a rea- Telephone HEmlock 2858 SAN FRANCISCO sonable expectation of steady income, the prospective home owner can borrow eighty per cent of the cost of a new home for $7.43 a Specify thousand per month." Mr. Chap- San Francisco pie said. DICKEY ClAV Bridge "One disturbing factor which Bay has held up this opportunity, es- PRODUCTS • pecially in the lower income rac-

Contracts Completed ket, is the cost of building houses. Paving: Brick The problem resolved itself into Fireproofing Tile Wall Coping U. S. Marine Hospital Floor Tile Flue Lining one of finding out how to build Common Brick Dickey Flashing Bio Ford Assembly Plants, a house that the working man Seattle, Long Beach and W. S. DICKEY CLAY MFG. could afford to own and live in. Richmond COMPANY The challenge went out to arch- 116 New Montgomery St., Oakland Approach to San Francisco. Calif. itects, building material manufac- lOS Jackun St., Oakland, Calif. Bay Bridge turers, contractors, real estate men, and home appliance manu- Contracts Awarded facturers. U. S. Mint, San Francisco Administration Building and "One of the most promising of REPUBLIC STEEL c o R P O R A T 1 O N Toll Plaza. Bay Bridge, the new ideas," Mr. Chappie said, Oakland "is the factory - fabricated steel "'^^R^^^ • house. Two different types, the Manujacturtrs oj ENDURO Stainless Steel; TON- Frameless - Steel house and the Clinton CAN Copper Molybdenum Iron Steelox house have emerged from Construction Co. Sheets and Pipe; and Steel Pipe, the experimental field and have Sheets and Reinforcing Bar for | of California demonstrated the practicability every building purpose. 923 Folsom Street and economy of their types of Wfite far Inlormation San Francisco construction. Rialto Buildinff, San Francisco, Calif. Gdiaon Building. Loa Angelei, Calif. sutler 3440 year 1935." said, "rep- "The he White-Henry-Stuarl Bldg., Seattle Wash. resented a time of trial and error.

JANUARY, 1936 of hope and despair, of failure and success, in trying to meet the Independent COMMON housing problem, but out of it all has come a stronger and more Iron V^orks BRICK determined group—those who are S+rucfural Steel If you like good brick and good sure that 1936 will see important Iron service, phone us for informa- revelations in their chosen field.' Ornamental tion, you will find that it ahvays Steel Service Stations pays to be our patron. BUILDERS' CODE Steel Tanks Standard Steel Mill Buildings A code of self-government spon- Remillard-Dardini Co. Bridges Phone TEmplebar 8133 sored by eight employer associa- 569 - 3rd Street. Oakland Office, tions. San Francisco Building Plants 821 Pine Street Oalcland n Jose Pleasanton CIreenh Trades Council and the Bay Counties District Council of Car-

penters, is still operative in the San Francisco Bay District. The employer associations comprise the A. KNOWLES master plasterers, sheet metal, SISALKRAIT REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. heating and piping, tile, mason and ornamental Contracting electrical contractors, "More than a iron and cabinet manufacturers. Plasterer None of the general contractor or- building paper" ganizations has endorsed the code but individual general contractors 982 Bryant Street will be asked to conform to it in THE SISALKRAFT CO. conducting their business, it is 205 West Wacker Drive San Francisco (Canal Station) Chicago. 111. stated. 55 New Montgomery .Street San Francisco. Calif. UNderhlll 4048 The code is drafted along the lines of the NRA code for the building trades, regulating procedure in bidding and defining unfair M O 1\I E L JOHX trade practices. It will be admin- CASSARETTO istered by a board consisting of METAL four employers and four employ- —Since 1886—And Still Active— For the Modern Kitchen ees. Provision is made for contin- Building Materials Heaters, boilers, storage tanks, uance until July 1, 1936. of e.xist- water softeners, cabinet tops.

READY MIX CONiCRcTE '

ing wage agreements. "Streamline" or ' Stra itiine" ROCK - SAND - GRAVEL - LIME CEMENT - PLASTER - MORTAR « ?3 a Kitchen Sinks METAL LATH - WOOD LATH See our display rooms, arranged for STUCCO - VvIRE NETTING OIL TERMINAL your convenience Service Unexcelled Eleven and one-half acres of MODERN METAL foot of Walnut Street. Bunliers land at the APPLIANCE CO. Sixth and Channel, San Francisco Alameda, have been purchased by 4238 Broadway Oakland, Calif. Phones: GArfleld 3176, GArfield 3177 the Santa Cruz Oil Company from the Anglo - California National Bank, as a site for terminal facili-

ties. In addition to being used as Specify a terminal site, storage facilities CarlT.DoellCo. oils and fish products for vegetable PATNE Plumbing will be provided. It is also planned to erect an experimental plant For Heating or Winter Heating for the processing of various sub- Air Conditioning Many Types of Equipment stances of this character. Plumbing Contractor available. A heating system Veterans Memorial Building The head office of the Santa for every type building. Oakland Cruz Oil Company is 311 Califor- Street. San Francisco, and the 467 21ST STREET nia PAYNE FURNACE OAKLAND officers include Stanley Hiller, & SUPPLY COMPANY

president; Coney, vice-presi- • California Telephone GLencourt 8246 J. J. Beverlv Hills dent, and L. R. Kerdell. treasurer.

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All Firms are Listed by Pases, besides

beins srouped according to Craft or Trade.

Star {*) indicates alternate months.

AIR CONDITIONING The Union Ice Company, 354 Pine St-eet, San Francisco ' NEW THIS MONTH ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COnA N. Clarl & Sons, 116 Natoma Street. San Francisco 6 Gladding McBean & Co., 660 Market Street. San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard • Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South. Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor St., Portland; 22nd and Market Streets, Oakland: 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane; Vancouver, B. C. 9 BATHROOM HEATERS Remillard-Dardlnl Co. .76 Wesix Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street. San Francisco; 631 San Julian Street,

Los Angeles; 2008 Third Avenue. Seattle. Wash _ 72 BRICK—FACE, COMMON. ETC. A. Knowles 76 N.Clark & Sons, 116 Natoma Street, San Francisco - 6 Gladding McBean & Co., 660 Market Street. San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South. Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor St., Portland; 22nd California Sales Co., Inc. 2 and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane; Vancouver. B. C. 9 W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco; factory, Niles. Calif.; yards, 7th and Hooper Streets, San Francisco, and 105 Jackson Brass & Kuhn Co. 80 Street, Oakland; Factory in Livermore 75 McNear Brick Company, 419 Rialto Building and 417 Berry Street, San Francisco 75 Remillard-Dardini Co., 569 Third Street. Oakland 76 Wesix Heater Company 72 BUILDERS HARDWARE "Corbin" hardware, sold by Palace Hardware Company, 58! Market Street, San Francisco 72 California Electrical Bureau 67 The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn.; Monadnock BIdg., San Francisco; Los Angeles and Seattle BUILDING MATERIALS Modern Metal Appliance Co. 76 Building Material Exhibit, Architect's Building Los Angeles 76 BUILDING PAPERS Pacific Gas & Electric Co. 67 The Sisalkraft Company. 205 W. Wacker Drive. Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery

Street, San Francisco - 76 "Brownsltin," Angier Corporation, 370 Second Street, San Francisco _ 73 CEMENT Portland Cement Association, 564 Market Street. San Francisco; 816 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles; 146 West Fifth Street, Portland; 518 Exchange Building, Seattle Back cover "Golden Gate" and "Old Mission," manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co.,

I I I Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland. Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover CEMENT TESTS—CHEMICAL ENGINEERS Robert W. Hunt Co., 251 Kearny Street, San Francisco 74 CEMENT—COLOR "Golden Gate Tan Cement." manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co.. Ill Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 75 CEMENT PAINT General Paint Corporation, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Oakland, Portland and Seattle 70 California Sales Company, 444 Market Street. San Francisco 2 CONCRETE AGGREGATES Golden Gate Atlas Materials Company, Sixteenth and Harrison Streets, San Francisco 73 John Cassaretto, Sixth and Channel Streets. San Francisco 76 CONCRETE CURING & PROTECTION

The Sisalkraft Company, 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 76 CONTRACTORS—GENERAL MacDonald & Kahn, Financial Center BIdg.. San Francisco 74 Lindgren & Swlnerton, Inc., Standard Oil Building. San Francisco 68 Dinwiddle Construction Co., Crocker BIdg., San Francisco 75 Clinton Construction Company, 923 Folsom Street. San Francisco 75 Anderson & Rlngrose, 320 Market Street, San Francisco _ 72

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ANNOUNCEMENTS [PAGE INDEXED]

CONTRACTORS—GEN ERAL Page P. &. W. Jensen, 320 Market Street, San Francisco .. 74 Bros., Phone GArEeld 1164 Monson 475 Sixth Street, San Francisco .. 78 P. F. Reilly, 730 Ellis Street, San Francisco Wm. Martin & Son Hunter & Hudson DAMP-PROOFING & WATERPROOFING Consulting "Golden Gate Tan Plastic Waterproof Cement," manufactured by Pacific Portland Engineers Cement Co., I I I Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San DESIGNERS OF HEATING ^^'^9° Second page of cover AIR CONDITIONING The Sisalkraft Company, 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery VENTILATING Street, San Francisco 74 AND WIRING Bay State Brick & Cement Coating, sold by California Sales Company, 444 Market SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL Street, San Francisco _ _ __._ 2 AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP- DOORS—HOLLOW METAL MENT OF BUILDINGS Forderer Cornice Works, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco _ 74 Kawneer Mfg. Co., Eighth and Dwight Streets. Berkeley 73 41 SUTTER STREET DRAIN PIPE AND FIHINGS ROOM 710 "Corrosion" Acid Proof, manufactured by Pacific Foundry Co., 3100 Nineteenth Street, San Francisco California San Francisco, and 470 E. Third Street, Los Angeles 68 DRINKING FOUNTAINS Haws Sanitary Drinking Faucet Co., I b08 Harmon Street, Berkeley; American Seating Co., San Francisco Los Angeles and Phoenix - - 70 ENGINEERS—MECHANICAL ELEVATORS Hunter & Hudson, 41 Sutter Street, San Francisco 78 ELECTRIC AIR AND WATER HEATERS Sandoval Sales Company, 557 Market Street, San Francisco 71 Wesix Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 631 San Jullon Street Los Angeles: Third 2008 Avenue, Seattle, Wash ._ 72 ELECTRICAL ADVICE Pacific Coast Electrical Bureau, 447 Sutter Street, San Francisco, and 601 W. Fifth

Street. Los _ Angeles _ ^7 Pacific Elevator and ELEVATORS Equipment Company Pacific Elevator and Equipment Company, 45 Rausch Street, San Francisco 78

HOLLOW TILE AND BRICK FENCES 45 Rausch Street, San Francisco W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 75 FIXTURES—BANK, OFFICE, STORE HEmlock 4476 Brass & Kuhn Company, 1917 Bryant Street, San Francisco ._ 80 Mullen Manufacturing Co., 64 Rausch Street, San Francisco 75 Pacific Manufacturing Company, 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oakland, Los Angeles and Santa Clara 73 GAS FUEL MONSON BROS. Pacific Gas Association, Inc., 447 Sutter Street. San Francisco 4 GAS BURNERS • Vaughn-G. E. Witt Company, 4224-28 Hollls Street, Emeryville, Oakland 74 GAS VENTS General Payne Furnace & Supply Co.. Beverly Hills, California 76 GLASS Contractors W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San Francisco. Branches and dealers throughout the West * LIbbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio; 633 Riaito BIdg., San Francisco; 1212 Architects BIdg.. Los Angeles; Mr. C. W. Holland, P. O. Box 3142, Seattle 5 475 SIXTH STREET Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Grant Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. W. P. Fuller & Co., ' San Francisco Pacific Coast Distributors ..- • HARDWARE DOuglas 1101 Palace Hardware Company, 581 Market Street, San Francisco 72 The Stanley Works, Monadnock Building, San Francisco; American Bank Buirdi'ngrLos

Angeles __ * HEATING—ELECTRIC Apex Air and Water Electric Heaters, Sandoval Sales Company, 557 Market Street, San Francisco 7 WesIx Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 63 I San Julian Street Los Angeles: 2008 Third Avenue. Seattle, Wash ' 72 HEATING EQUIPMENT Payne Furnace & Supply Co., Beverly Hills, California 76 HEAT REGULATION Johnson Service Company, Milwaukee, represented on the Pacific Coast by the following branch offices: 814 Riaito BIdg., San Francisco; 153 West Avenue 34 Los Angeles; 1312 N.W. Raleigh St., Portland, and 473 Coleman BIdg., Seattle... 3 DALMO HOLLOW BUILDING TILE (Burned Clay) N. Clark & Sons, 112-116 Natoma Street. San Francisco; works. West Alameda... WINDOW 6 Gladding, McBean & Co., 660 Market Street, San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor Street, Portland! PRODUCTS Twenty-second and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane- DALMO SALES CORPORATION Vancouver, B. C __ 9 511 Harrison St., San Franciiee 78 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ANNOUNCEMENTS [PAGE INDEXED!

Page W. S. DIcltey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco; factory, William Martin Niles, Calif.; yards, 7th and Hooper Streets, San Francisco, and 105 Jackson Street, Oakland 75 & Son INSPECTION AND TESTS Robert W. Hunt Co., 251 Kearny St., San Francisco 74 Builders LACQUERS General Paint Corp., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tulsa . W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San Francisco. Branches and dealers throughout the West

666 Mission Street LINOLEUM San Francisco Sloan-Blabon linoleum, sold by California Shade Cloth Co., 210 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco 70 Telephone SUtter 6700 Evenings: GArfield 9456 LUMBER Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- land: Los Angeles and Santa Clara 73 Smith Lumber Company, Nineteenth Avenue and Estuary, Oakland 73 Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Forty-sixth Avenue and E. Twelfth Street, Oakland 72 E. K. Wood Lumber Company, 4701 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles; I Drumm Street, San Francisco; Frederick and King Streets, Oakland 71 MARBLE American Marble Co., P.O. Box 578, South San Francisco _ 79 Joseph Musto Sons-Keenan Co., 535 N. Point Street, San F.-ancisco 72 MILLWORK We Print E. K. Wood Lumber Company, No. I Drumm Street, San Francisco, Oakland, Los The and ARCHITECT Angeles ..- - - - 71 ENGINEER Melrose Lumber & Supply Company, ForTy-sixth Avenue and E. Twelfth Street, Oakland 72 Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- "A Thing of Beauty land; Los Angeles and Santa Clara 73 Smith Nineteenth and Estuary, Oakland 73 Is a Joy Forever" Lumber Company, Avenue METAL 942 HOWARD STREEr MONEL SAN FRANCISCO "Inco" brand, distributed on the Pacific Coast by the Pacific Foundry Company, Harrison and Eighteenth Streets, San Francisco, and Eagle Brass Foundry, Seattle... 68 Kitchen sinks, heaters, storage tanks—Modern Metal Appliance Company, 4238 Broad- way. Oakland 76 MURALS MARBLE Helnsbergen Decorating Co., Los Angeles and 401 Russ Building, San Francisco 72 OIL BURNERS

S. T. Johnson Co., 585 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco; 940 Arlington Street, Oakland; AMERICAN MARBLE 1729 Front Street, Sacramento, and 230 N. Sutter Street, Stockton 69 COMPANY Vaughn-S. E. Witt Co., 4224-28 Hollis Street, Emeryville, Oakland 74 ONYX Joseph Musto Sons-Keenan Co., 535 No. Point Street, San Francisco 72

ORNAMENTAL IRON

P.O.Box 578 Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Street, Oakland 76 South Francisco, San Calif. PAINTS. OIL, LEAD Phones: SUtter 2840 W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San Francisco. Branches and dealers through- South City 161 out the West * Frank W. Dunne Co., 41st and Linden Streets, Oakland 73 Seneral Paint Corp., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tulsa.— 70

PAINTING. DECORATING. ETC. "The Only Pacific Coast Factory" The Tormey Co., 563 Fulton Street, San Francisco 74 m * » Helnsbergen Decorating Co., 401 Russ Building, San Francisco 72 THE HERMAIVN PARTITIONS—MOVABLE OFFICE Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco: 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- SAFE COMPANY land; factory at Santa Clara _ 73 M«nufdC»urers and Dealers W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montg-omery Street. San Francisco 75

FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF PILES—CREOSOTED WOOD SAFES. VAULTS, SAFE J. H. Baxter & Co., 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco and 60IW Fifth Street. DEPOSIT BOXES Los Angeles 71 PLASTER Howard & Main Sts. "Empire" and "Reno Hardware Plaster," manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co.. San Francisco I I I Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover Telephone GArfield 3041 PLASTERING A. Knowles, 982 Bryant Street, San Francisco 76

JANUARY. 1936 79 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ANNOUNCEMENTS PAGE INDEXED" Page HOME BUILDING PLATE GLASS While improvement has marked Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio; 633 Rialto BIdg., San Francisco: 1212 Seattle 5 all divisions of the trade, the most Architects BIdg., Los Angeles; Mr. C. W. Holland, P. O. Box 3142, abrupt rise the past year has been PLUMBING CONTRACTORS AND MATERIALS in home building. The gradual Carl T. Doell Co., 467 Twenty-first Street, Oakland ^6 ''"' abatement of the doubling-up of Crane Co., all principal Coast cities families, the increase in marriages, PRESSURE REGULATORS and the desire for better living Oakland 74 Vaughn-G. E. Witt Co., 4224-28 Mollis Street, Emeryville, conditions, which naturally devel- ROOF MATERIALS ops with the general expansion of Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard, Gladding, McBean & Co., 660 Market Street, San business, have been the chief con- Portland: Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor Street, Tv/enty-second and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane; tributions to the gain, according --- ' Vancouver, B. C - to a recent Dun 6 Bradstreet re- 6 Clark & Sons. 112-116 Natoma Street, San Francisco; works. West Alanneda N. port. SAND. ROCK AND GRAVEL There has been no important 76 Cassaretto, Sixth and Channel Streets, San Francisco - John change in building costs, the aver-

SHADE CLOTH age being at about the same level Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco 70 California Shade Cloth Co., 210 as it was a year ago. Lumber SHEET METAL WORK prices have been steady, while Forderer Cornice Works, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco 74 cement quotations have not risen above the slight advance made at STANDARD STEEL BUILDINGS the beginning of the year. Other Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Street, Oakland 76 items, especially plumbing sup- STEEL—STAINLESS plies, electrical fixtures, and some Republic Steel Corporation, Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; Edison BIdg., Los Angeles; hardware items, have been ad- White-Henry-Stuart BIdg., Seattle - - 75 vanced moderately. STEEL, STRUCTURAL The complete insolvency record Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Street, Oakland..... 76 Fran- Judson Pacific Company, C. F. Weber BIdg., Mission and Second Streets, San of builders since 1927, including 70 cisco, shops, San Francisco and Oakland the eleven months of 1935, as Pacific Coast Steel Corp.—See Bethlehem Steel Company, Twentieth and Illinois compiled by Dun 6 Bradstreet. Streets, San Francisco; Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles; American Bank Building, Portland, Ore.; West Andover Street, Seattle, Wash. 75 Inc., shows:

STORE FIXTURES Failures Among Builders Braas & Kuhn Company, 1917 Bryant Street. San Francisco 80 Year Number Liabilities 1927 353 $21,712,457 STORE FRONTS 1928 489 27.891.511 Kawneer Mfg. Co., Eighth and Dwight Streets, Berkeley 73 1929 555 27,031,089 TEMPERATURE REGULATION 1930 417 20.263.506 Milwaukee, represented on the Pacific Coast by the follow- Johnson Service Company, 1931 344 22,995,950 ing branch offices: 814 Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; 153 West Avenue. 34, Los Los Angeles; 1312 N.W. Raleigh St., Portland, and 473 Coleman BIdg., Seattle... 3 1932 497 42,079.919 1933 259 16,464,857 TERMITE CONTROL—WOOD PRESERVATIVE 1934 242 11.010,426 E. K. Wood Lumber Company, No. I Drumm Street, San Francisco; 4701 Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles; Frederick and King Streets, Oakland 71 1935* 161 6.232.234

J. H. Baxter & Co., 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, and 601 W. Fifth Street, (*) January to November. in( Los Angeles 71 American Lumber & Treating Company, Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; 1031 S. Broadway Los Angeles 70 BRAAS & KUHN TREE SURGERY CO. Davey Tree Surgery Co., Ltd., Russ Building, San Francisco; Story Building Los Angeles 71 VALVES MANUFACTURERS & DESIGNERS Sloan Valve Co., manufacturers of Sloan flush valves, 4300 West Lake St., Chicago, 111. 69 VAULT DOORS STORE, OFFICE, BANK, Hermann Safe Co., Howard and Main Streets, San Francisco 79 BAR FIXTURES WINDOWS • Kawneer Mfg. Co., Eighth and Dwight Streets, Berkeley 73 1917-19 BRYANT STREET Dalmo Sales Co., San Francisco 78 SAN FRANCISCO WINDOW SHADES Telephone MArket 2776 California Shade Cloth Co. 210 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco 70 Wm. Volker & Co., 631 Howard Street, San Francisco 73

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TEXT NEW HOME OF THE CALIFORNIA FRUIT GROWERS EXCHANGE, LOS ANGELES 9 Homer M. Hadley TEXAS CENTENNIAL 15 Jan Isabelle Fortune MAYA ARCHITECTURE 19 Robert B.Stacy Judd ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION 25 Reginald D. Johnson CAMBODIAN PAGEANT 33 BRACING SMALL FRAME STRUCTURES 37 A. L. Brinkman THE TERMITE SITUATION 41 A. A. Brown AIR CONDITIONING 75

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Herrick Hammond, Chicago, a past ert W. Sawyer, Bend; George R. eminent American SeEVEN president of the American Institute Lewis, Pendleton; George A. Mar- have accepted the invi- architects of Architects, and Howard Major, of shall, Baker; Dr. Ernest C. Dalton, St. of Russell F. Whitehead, edi- •ation Palm Beach, Florida, designer of many Helens; J. H. Lake, Portland; Mrs. tor of Pencil Points, to act as judges notable buildings in Florida. Gordon Voorhies, Medford; Dr. H. H. n the Pencil Points-Portland Cement dinger, Salsm. ^ssociation architectural competition.

Cash prizes totaling $7,500 are L/.AST MONTH WE REFERRED jffered for the best designs of firesafe to the proposed nation-wide archi- oncrete houses. /%T LAST the Institute has competition for a new state l-ecturai taken a stand on advertising. There Two separate problems are In- In the capitol at Salem, Oregon. can no longer be any question about olved. One is the design of a con- several meetings have been meantime Its attitude toward the publication o* family with two crete house for a Capitol held by the Oregon State brochures containing the work of without full-time ser- rhildren and a which has Reconstruction Commission an architect or firm of architects, /ant, the house to be suitable for a arrange all de- been authorized to made possible by a motly array of northern climate. The other is to tails. The commission has named Carl advertising. Such publications have design a house for the same size F. Gould, of Bebb and Gould, archi- been open to much criticism and Family, under similar conditions In a Seattle, Washington, techni- tects of ethical debate in the past. southern climate. cal adviser, and upon Mr. Gould will That they have taken legitimate ad- According to Mr. Whitehead, be- rest the exacting task of preparing a vertising away from regularly estab- sides architectural merit, the designs program and general information to lished architectural magazines (this will be judged from the standpoint of contestants. Mr. Gould is eminently publication, for example), magazines the practicability and economy of fitted for the position. No member that are dependent upon the support construction, the value of the houso of the profession in the Pacific North- of the building trade, there can be ,as an investment during a twenty- \/est ranks higher. He has been hon- no reason to doubt. As high as $150 year amortization period, and adapt- ored by the Washington State Chap- per page has been paid by building ability to concrete construction. ter, American Institute of Architects, material houses and manufacturers, serving as its president, and the There are two first prizes of $1,500 not because they expected to get any National body also has recognized his 'each; two prizes and second of $750, new customers from prospective high ideals and, besides making him two third awards of $500 each. There clients who happened to read the a Fellow, has several times named will twenty honorable men- also be advertisements, but because they felt him on important Executive Commit- tion awards of in each of the $50 obligated to "do something" for the tees. two classes. architect. "Just cold-blooded black- The jury of awards will consist of after The competition is open to all mall," one manufacturer said five two architects, two members 'architects and architectural drafts- — placing his firm's signature to a sub- of the commission and one citizen. imen in continental United States. stantial advertising contract following with the Plans must be In the hands of Mr. The architect members will receive a telephone conversation "would appre- 'Whitehead, professional adviser of $250 each for their services. Follow- architect who said he In making the competition by March 9. ing the receipt of a protest from ciate the firm's cooperation Oregon architects against the hold- the book a success." The judges will be: Atlee B. Ayres, ing of a national competition, the Insti- of San Antonio, Texas, who is an Now, after many years, the commission stipulated that the con- authority on Spanish colonial archi- tute has declared itself as lookI,ng test winner, should he be a non- tecture; William D. Crowell, of St. with disapproval on the publication Oregon resident, must affiliate with Louis, member of the architectural of the work of its members in any an Oregon firm in preparing working tfirm of Mauran, Russell & Crowell; publication supported in any way by plans. iRobert D. Kohn, of New York, a past advertisements, except in regular

Ipresident of the American Institute J. A. McLean, Eugene, is chairman magazines, and the Committee on jof Architects; Carl F. Gould, of of the commission. Alton John Bassett, Practice must henceforth consider iBebb & Gould, Seattle architects: executive secretary, has opened an such practice as unprofessional con- i Edmund B. Gilchrist, Philadelphia, office at 714 Porter Building, Port- duct and so report to the Judiciary noted as an authority on small house land. Other commission members Committee the cases brought to the and country estate architecture; C. are: T. Harry Banfleld, Portland; Rob- attention of the committee.

FEBRUARY, 1936 DETAIL OF ENTRANCE, SUNKIST BUILDING, LOS ANGELES

WALKER AND EISEN, ARCHITECTS THE W ARCHITECT & ENGINEER

February, 1936

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NEW HOME OF THE CALIFORNIA FRUIT GROWERS EXCHANGE, LOS ANGELES

by Homer M. Hadley

In a comparatively brief number of years this organization has justified itself both to its ^ECENTLY completed and only members and to its customers, by its enter- occupied, is the new home of the a few weeks prise, fair dealing, and notable development California Fruit Growers Exchange in Los An- of markets for citrus fruits. Who is there in directly geles. The building West Fifth Street, the land unfamiliar with "Sunkist" products? opposite Bertram Goodhue's great Public Lib- To whom does not that name immediately are the Edison Building and the rary. Nearby suggest large and gloriously golden oranges full Los Angeles Biltmore. of the fresh sweet juice that frees the palate

The building was planned as a permanent of "past regrets and future fears"? It is this home and headquarters for one of the coun- new building which henceforth will be the try's most active and successful cooperatives: source and origin of the "Sunkist" message to that of the citrus fruit growers of California. the nation and to the world.

FEBRUARY. 1936 So long as we human beings retain our up the hill to the north; that there is about 30 preference for sunlight and daylight, so long feet difference in grade elevations between will the problem of floor arrangements in office the two streets at the intersection and that buildings in general resolve into the familiar vehicular connection between them is had by three-span solution of a central corridor space means of a street which parallels and adjoins between the living and working spaces which Fifth Street, descending from hlope Street to adjoin tho exterior walls. Such is the floor a grade connection with Fifth in front of the

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plan here in a U-shaped building to the ex- Edison Building. The retaining wall referred terior of which modern mass effects and ver- to separates Fifth Street from the connecting tical lines have been adapted in the manner street. At its westerly end it has attained a shown in the accompanying illustrations. commanding height. Stairs connect the two A special local feature influencing the design streets here and the upper flights and landings of the Sunkist Building is the long and gradu- of the stairs, cantilevered out from the wall, ally rising retaining wall on the north side of I'^urther emphasize and give prominence to it.

Fifth Street which terminates at Hope Street It is the proximity of this wall and the desira- and which abuts the new building. bility of avoiding a too abrupt change from

It should be stated that the site of the build- its pronounced mass, that led to the treatment ing is at the northwest corner of Fifth and adopted for the lower two stories of the Sun- hlope Streets; that FHope Street rises steeply kist Building and for the large areas of blank

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER with and having poured the concrete against wall space which there occur. It Is not until Celotex, the fine textures of which were the third story is reached that the typical given to the concrete. Wide horizon- character of the occupancy is manifested. thereby textured surfaces en- The high ground of hHope Street and at the tal bands of these soft the room, each uniformly colored a soft rear of the building required heavy retaining circle pastel shade, delicately varying walls on those sides of the building so the use buff-green the adjoining bands from which it is sep- of the ground story for garage purposes is from

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courses of silver. most appropriate. There are two quite widely arated by narrow recessed decorative treatment re- separated entrances to the garage off of Fifth A most interesting rear of this lobby are stairs and Street, midway between which is the main sults. At the access to the offices above entrance. elevators giving these entrance is had into the This entrance, done in marble and aluminum and beyond the garage. lintelled a large decorative panel, interior of ! and by story, centrally located on the opens into a spacious terrazzo-floored lobby In the second of the building, is the large having color-decorated concrete ceiling beams Fifth Street side room where official meet- and most pleasingly colored and textured walls. spacious directors' ] discover that ings of the organization are held. Its lighting 1 It is a surprise akin to a shock to are entirely artificial, there these soft appearing walls are of concrete! and ventilation window space in this room. The The effect results from having lined the forms being no

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concrete beams of Its ceiling are exposed ing. Not only good intentions but experience, and are decorated in color. Upon Its walls skill, and Intelligence are compounded with It. are several murals depicting California scenes. An effort was made to create In every work-

Above this room is the open-aired roof garden man an Interest in his job and a feeling that

in the court space created by the U-shape of his help and cooperation were of real Import- the upper building. Needless to say particular ance In the production of concrete which, when pains were taken to have a waterproof separa- the forms were stripped, would be found sound tion between the garden and the directors. and without serious blemish. Foremen were A most excellent and uniformly high quality charged with responsibility for producing de- of concrete was produced in the Sunkist Build- sired results. They had standing orders to

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER I reject any batch of concrete which in their i judgment was unsuitable for the work at hand, They were required to nnake good not ex- j — cuses. With walls eight inches thick, reinforced on both faces with double layers of bars in- clined at a 45° angle for nnost effective earthquake bracing, placement was not a simple,

easy matter yet it was successfully performed.

The concrete was mixed on the job. With theaggregates known, technical recommendations were obtained for the proportions in which several sands and gravels should be combined to produce a concrete of desired strength and workability. Minor adjustments of these proportions were made from time to time as job conditions necessitated. The average mix was l-2'/2-3'/2 with 3/^" maximum MURAL DEPICTING EARLY DAYS OF CITRUS INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA, SUNKIST BUILDING, LOS ANGELES size aggregate.

The concrete was tamped and puddled in the forms by hand. After placement was completed, the entire exterior was gone over, any panels. Production and Distribution, wherewith

projecting fins were removed, and a colorless the wings of the upper building terminate, surface waterproofing was everywhere applied. were cast in place. The panel over the main en-

The color of the building is simply the natural trance was precast and was set in a recess left

light grey tone which its concrete possesses. to receive it. This particular procedure was due to the building being ready and the con- Wall forms were made of veneer. By using crete poured before the waste mold was made. 5-ply thickness, the veneering itself spanned

between the vertical studs and carried all construction loads and pressures as well as impart- ing to the concrete the smooth plane surfaces that were desired. Cut into strips of uniform

width, oiled with form oil, carefully wiped off

to remove excess oil, these forms were used repeatedly. On each operation the strips were cleaned, oiled and wiped. They were always

carefully set in true horizontal position. They produced very pleasing surfaces and the faint lining of the concrete which their edges caused

is most successful. There is a suggestion of courses and jointing and an escape from the monotony and sameness with which large plane surfaces of uniform color and texture inevitably are afflicted.

There are several large decorative panels on the exterior of the building. They were cast l' MURAL SYMBOLIC OF CITRUS INDUSTRY, ASSEMBLY in waste molds and have details and surfaces ROOM, SUNKIST BUILDING, LOS ANGELES

which are sharp and clean cut. The large vers and Prunier.

FEBRUARY, 1936 There are several exceptionally fine large pre-

cast grilles.

When plans were being drawn for this building, thorough economic analyses was

made by the mechanical engineer, Franklin R. Winch, of the various types of heating

systems available, using electricity, oil and gas for fuel. A report was prepared and presented to the building committee which decided that the heating system should be DETAIL SUNKIST BUILDING, LOS ANGELES planned for the use of gas as a fuel and that Waller and Eisen, Architects

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the boilers should be particularly designed for gas burning.

Plans and specifications were prepared accordingly. A two-pipe up-feed vacuum heating system serves the cabinet type copper finned coiled radiators for the offices of the upper floors. The various spaces on the lower floors, such as the board room, committee

rooms, directors' rooms, etc., Sive heated, air conditioned and cooled from two central units

located in the mechanical equipment room. The heating system has approximately 4200

sq. ft. of direct heating surface and about

2500 sq. ft. of equivalent direct radiation in Indirect surface. Capacity of the refrigeration

units for air cooling Is about 30 tons.

The building Is of reinforced concrete throughout. Consideration of space needs, of normal structural requirements, of earthquake resistant requirements, or architectural possi-

bilities, of fire resistance — and of the cost LER PLANT IN SUNKIST ANGELES thereof—determined the type of construction.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Built of native stone, the $1,200,000 State of Texas Building at the Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, will be typical of the nation's largest comnnonwealth. It will be 488 feet wide and 258 feet deep. Its center. 80 feet high, will house the Niche of Heroes. Illustrious figures from Texas history. Its mammoth front wings will be devoted to regional rooms with the Hall of 1836, replica of a Texas mission, and the Hall of 1936 in modernistic style, occupying opposlre ends. The building wl'l contain a basement auditorium.

TEXAS CENTENNIAL

A NEW NOTE IN EXPOSITION ARCHITECTURE

Jan Isabelle Fortune

know, for the Texas Centennial is the third exposition of international importance which HI Centennial Ex- HE Texas has known the sure touch and certain technique will set a new style position building program of Senor Larrinaga's versatile hands. In 1913 which is destined to have a lasting effect upon he was assigned to the work of the Panama- of the world." This the future architecture Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. In 1934 Larrinaga,* was the statement made by Juan B. he was called to San Diego, where he was given coiorist and delineator for the Exposition, at the position of designer and art director for should Dallas. And certainly Senor Larrinaga the California Pacific International Exposition.

Jua B. Lan the p'< esq little vlllagi of Now he is called upon to help the Texans put San Antonio. California. June 15. 1885. father was Francisc over their big event. Larrinaga, eldest sonn of one of the many Spanish colonists who trav- elled south from San)n Francisco during the gold rush, colonized and

settled in the souther;rn part of the state. In 1898 the elder Larrinaga The Texas Centennial promises to be unlike sent his son into the United States to complete his schooling at old any other previous exposition in this country. St. Vincent's College in Los Angeles. After school days were over, young Larrinaga trie to clerk in a department store, but found Its background is different — more colorful, the work too monotonous and uninteresting. He took his meager savings and headed for Old tvlexico. Once there he spent his time more romantic, more splendidly comprehen- wandering among the ancient ruins of Aztec civilization; spent hours in the Academia de San Carlos studying the old masters. Back in the sive, with a wider sweep and scope of time and opera company as interpreter and United states he joined a touring place. The beginning of Texas ante-dates any assistant to the scenic director. His rise to fame thereafter was rapid. Notable executions by Larrinaga include the Shrine Temple, Los on the North American continent. Texas has Angeles, all the decorative work for Cecil B. De Mille's "King of Kings." "White Gold.' "The Country Doctor." Douglas Fairbanks' had so many sources from which to draw her "Gaucho." William Hart's "Tumble-weed," Dolores Del Rio's "Carmen," and many others. materials: the ancient Spanish, the early Aztec,

FEBRUARY, 1936 i^^t'x, StfJHKC4S*_:

DALLAS SKYLINE FROM WEST CORINTH STREET VIADUCT

Photo by Lloyd M. Young

ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. DALLAS

George L. Dahl, Centennial Architect

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER I'tuntiitg by J. B. Lurriiiaga HALL OF VARIED INDUSTRIES, TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION

George L. Dahl, Centennial Architect

the Indian, the French, Mexican, Colonial, and manent. Only buildings erected by private modern. exhibitors will be of temporary construction.

In the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Fran- For this reason, it has behooved the Exposi- cisco, the Spanish motif was used as the theme, tion management to build well for permanency, and carried out in the architectural design. to attempt by architectural design and artistic

With this background there was created a treatment to tell the story of what each build-

colorfully beautiful exposition which dazzled ing will house, and fit the building to its con- the eye and stirred the senses. tents.

At San Diego, the builders depicted the The result of this need has evolved a new whole history of Southwestern Architecture style of architecture, a new trend for the with a combination of Pueblo Indian, Aztec, future builders to follow. Out of the Texas ultra- Mayan, Spanish, Colonial Spanish, and Centennial will come an architecture which modern. The result was a satisfying, lovely reflects the cultural development of an empire exposition as beauty of line, color. to form and and its people; an architecture with the feeling

But the Texas Exposition will be different of the Aztec expressed In simple lines; an from both of these, and from all other World's architecture with the touch of the ancient and fairs. Francisco Diego were both San and San the classical in the massive pylons and terraced riots of color. The Texas Exposition will be effects; an architecture with the Latin-Ameri- more subdued, more in harmony with the ulti- can feel of romance and golden sunshine; and mate purpose of each structure. For there is withal, an architecture that is as modern as this difference about the Centennial Exposi- Texas is. tion—all major exhibit buildings, the various will the ' museums of art, horticulture, natural history, The Hall of State, which dominate

and the $1,200,000 hHall of State will be per- Exposition grounds, will symbolize this new

FEBRUARY, I93S —

MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM BUILDING, DALLAS, TEXAS Alfred G. Bossom, Architect

Topping the Building is a Neon lighted reproduction of Pegasjs, the flying horse the largest neon-lighted sign in the world.

architecture. In fact, the hHall of State will, in colorful murals, this structure will typify nnod- my belief, become a symbol of Centennial ern Texas and her progress, at the same time architecture for the world. Builded on a foun- recalling the glorious history of the past four dation of native red granite, the building centuries. Texas is building a Centennial for proper fashioned of Texas limestone and mar- the world, and the architecture of the future ble, ornamented with heroic statuary and will be colored by it for all time.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

i MAYA ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECT -EXPLORER REPLIES TO CRITIC

Robert B. Stacy-Judd

tempts to adapt Mayan architectural motifs to modern .N the August 1935 number of American conditions, the author merely builds the Architect and Engineer an announcement up a story in defense of his claim to having solved at least appeared stating that "in an early issue we the major problems. His solution is based upon the results of shall publish a paper by Mr. Gerhardt Kramer his experiment with a hypothetical project .... on Maya Architecture in Modern Design." known as Continuing, the announcement informed the a Pan-American Peace Palace.

reader that Mr. Kramer disagreed with opin- I shall first consider the portion of Mr.

ions I had expressed in the series of five Kramer's article in which he criticises my design articles which The ARCHITECT and ENGIN- for the Aztec Hotel. He says: "On the ex-

EER published during the winter of 1933-4. terior of the Aztec Hotel in Monrovia, Cali-

According to the report, Mr. Kramer said "I fornia, an assortment of scrolls have been

do not agree with the opinions of this author. tossed together and placed on bare wall sur-

(Referlng to myself.) I feel that the archi- faces where decoration was thought necessary.

tectural profession should be interested In hav- The designer has failed utterly in interpreting ing the correct archeological side of this ques- the symbolism or the craftsmanship of the tion presented." originals." (Boldface are mine.)

Frankly, I welcome criticism and hope to En passant, I might mention that I have in

learn thereby. I Although have devoted ap- my possession a souvenir of the delightful two proximately fourteen years of my life to a very weeks I spent as a guest of Frans Blom, leader intensive and almost continuous study of Maya of the Tulane Expedition, at the Base Camp at culture, and especially Its architecture, I realise Uxmal, Yucatan. The souvenir consists of a that I have yet a great deal to learn on the photograph of the Casa de las Monjas a^ subject. Anticipating constructive and help- Uxmal, on which Is inscribed the names of all ful criticism from Mr. Kramer's articles, or at the expedition members. Including least an opinion worthy of consideration, my that of Ger- surprise hardt Kramer, whom I presume is the author was great when I read in Mr. Kramer's promised article that, with the exception of of the article I am now replying to. If my the somewhat doubtful approval given to the surmise is correct, Mr. Kramer may read In my western architects for their "unsuccessful" at- book, THE ANCIENT MAYAS, a recounting

FFBRUARY. 1936 of considerable happenings at the jungle base few excerpts from writings concerning the

camp in which he took part. subject in question, penned by, at least, equally

The Professor, again if my surmise is cor- qualified but more kindly critics.

rect, will no remember a certain night doubt Major George Oakley Totten, A. I. A, archi- in March, 1930, when, on top of the Casa de tect and author of an elaborate work, MAYA

las Monjas in Uxmal, I gave a short talk before ARCHITECTURE, In which illustrations of the the members of the Tulane University Expedi- Aztec Hotel appear, says: "The so-called tion, at which he was present. The Gerhardt Aztec l-^otel at Monrovia, California, by Rob-

Kramer I refer to was at that time an architec- ert B. Stacy-Judd (which is Aztec In name only, J. tural student under Professor H. Thompson. but Maya In feeling) is bold and original. The

On the occasion of which I speak, at the request furniture and minor details have received care-

of Frans Blom, I gave a resume of my practical ful study and have been well carried out." in adapting art motifs to mod- attempts Maya Alfred G. Bossom, well-known architect, one

ern conditions. At that time I par- American of the earliest Maya enthusiasts and author of ticularly stressed the point that the Aztec "AN ARCHITECTURAL PILGRIMAGE INTO Hotel, Monrovia, was purely an experiment, OLD MEXICO," writes "I noticed those of

and that at the time I designed the structure your very interesting Monrovia Hotel In the

I knew practically nothing concerning the sym- June issue of Architecture and Building, and if bolic meaning of Maya art motifs. This build- you could let me have prints . . . etc." Later, ing, by-the-bye, was designed about thirteen Mr. Bossom wrote me as follows: "I believe years ago and Is credited in every civilized now you are the only one In America who is country on earth as the first Maya-motif really following on that activity, (referring to design to be actually Incorporated in a com- the Maya art motif introductions) it has un- pleted structure. limited possibilities .... I do wish you the

The Aztec Hotel in Southern California very greatest possible success in the architec-

tural pioneering that you are doing, and it I presume the Professor read my series of

v/ould be a very great delight one day, I am articles published in the ARChllTECT and sure, to have the opportunity of meeting you." ENGINEER during 1933-4. In which event he

could not have failed to note my comments on Professor Rexford Newcombe, A. I. A., His- page 25, of the February 1934 issue of that tory of Architecture Professor, University of

journal. I wrote, "Not that I considered its Illinois, author of numerous architectural books, (the Aztec hHotel) design indicative of a new and one of the leading architectural educators

style. To me this structure when completed in America, says: "This Aztec Hotel I find a

was unintelligible. As a creation it fascinated most delightful excursion into one of the mosl"

me. But it lacked reason." This would indi- fruitful fields of design that the American

cate that Professor Kramer's remarks are not architect could possibly explore. I congrat- exactly original. ulate you upon the re-emptlon of this real Apparently the article describing my at- American type of architecture." Professor tempt to interpret the Maya art motifs, and Newcombe was one of those who decided that

the method In which I have endeavored to re- a review of my Maya adaptations should be construct them under modern American con- given almost the entire issue of "The Western

ditions, failed utterly to impress the professor. Architect," published in July, 1927. After

No reference to these items Is made in his publication he wrote me as follows: "I am sure article, neither does he condescend to com- that your work merits the attention we have

ment upon the few later examples of my works. given it, and I confidently look forward to an

As the Professor has chosen my first experi- increasing Interest in the thing you are trying

ment upon which to heap his condemnatory to do. Your attack is an original one and you

remarks, I believe it is only fair that I quote a are to have all the credit that comes from

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER originating something new and worthwhile." Christian era, therefore It is reasonable to

In my possession are scores of similar favor- assume considerable changes had taken place able comments from architects and editors of in architectural form and decorative design leading architectural journals throughout the from the period of its founding until deserted world, not to mention the hundreds of lengthy by the Itzaes in the middle of the 7th century, illustrated national and international journal, A. D. Obviously, after the Itzaes returned to magazine and newspaper articles from every Chichen-ltza, approximately 987 A.D., a con- civilized country on earth. siderable building program was undertaken.

it is In Professor Kramer's article not clear At the beginning of the I I th century, upon the to. me in what manner he has given the archi- arrival of Kukulcan, another building revival tectural profession "the correct and archeo- took place. In my belief similar conditions pre- logical side of this question (boldface are mine). vailed in numerous other cities situated In the

The only apparent effort he makes to give this northern area, or Yucatan. If such was the

"correct" information is his statement that case then evidence should be forthcoming to "The architecture of this region (Yucatan) substantiate the belief. theoretically is not pure Maya." The remark, On Page 31 of the January issue of The however, should be qualified. On pages 35 Architect and Engineer, I recite an Instance in and 36 of the December, 1933, issue of The connection with the Castillo at Chichen-ltza

Architect and Engineer, I clearly indicate the which partially confirms my belief. On Pages fact of foreign Invasions into Yucatan and the 117 and 125 in my book THE ANCIENT consequent introduction of Toltec and, later, MAYAS, I give as my opinion the high proba-

Aztec cultures. bility that the Casa de las Monjas in Uxmal, Yucatan, has been built over; the earlier Old and New Empire Beliefs Maya art is plainly to be seen on an Inner face. Among my many somewhat revolutionary theories concerning the history and architec- In T. A. Willard's book THE LOST EMPIRE tural remains of the Maya civilization, is one OF THE ITZAES AND THE MAYAS, published disagreeing with the so-called Old and New In 1933, the author recites the incident of the Empires belief; the former supposedly confined finding of nineteen stones, or stelae. In Uxmal, to the south of the Maya area, the latter to by Frans Blom, which "afforded him a great the north, or Yucatan. thrill." After examination Blom decided they Professor Kramer says, "During the sixth were of the "Old Empire" period. He there- and seventh centuries of our Christian era these upon set back the age of Uxmal "at least five cities (referring to those of the south) were hundred years earlier." In my book THE abandoned and new cities founded and colon- ANCIENT MAYAS, I mention this Incident as I was present with Blom on that memorable occa- ized in Yucatan" (boldface are mine). I believe sion. I am the first to point out that this Is apparently an error and have offered reasons for so be- Professor Kramer in his article mentions lieving. It is my theory that the cities of human sacrifice and leaves the reader to infer

Yucatan are at least as old as those of the that the custom is Mayan. Much has been south. Upon their return to Yucatan in the written describing the ancient Mayas as pag- latter part of the tenth century, A.D., after ans, savages, barbarians, and perpetrators of over 300 years desertion, the Mayas "built human sacrifice. All the evidence, however, over," or placed new exteriors over the original clearly Indicates contrary characteristics. They structures. There appears sufficient evidence were a highly advanced race of people and to prove that Chlchen-ltza, one, if not the there is no evidence whatever to show that the largest, of the northern cities, was deserted Mayas performed human sacrifice. The de- circa 642 A.D. It is further evident that this grading custom was introduced into Yucatan city was founded by Itzamna shortly after the by Kukulcan. The rite was an Aztec innovation

FIBRUARY, 1936 and formed one of fhe many "abominations" four sides of the pyramid." (Boldface are ascribed to those people and which were mine.) The correct- forced upon the gentle Mayas. Surely the writer is in error. Practically out in many ways ness of this statement is borne every stairway up the Maya structure is un- in addition to the writings of Landa, Santill- usually wide. Each of the four stairways up anda, Alonzo de Rrojas, and others. the sides of El Castillo, the great pyramid at

One of the most misleading statements Chichen-ltza, for instance, is 44 feet wide. made by the Professor in his concern that the Usually, one of the outstanding features of architectural profession be "correctly" in- Maya architecture is a wide stairway. Thinks Critics Speak too Hastily formed as to Maya archeological facts and his obligation, is his endeavor to fulfill that worthy When it comes to discoursing upon the unsubstantiated remark that the lower part of merits or otherwise of examples of Maya adap- the area of the so-called Central America— tations to modern American architecture, I this Maya Old-Empire— Is the centre "In which feel that Professor Kramer's inexperience in the great culture probably developed." (Boldface practical field of architecture has led him to are mine.) speak too hastily. It will be noted that he has

his view- This Information, right or wrong, is undoubt- chosen as an example, to illustrate edly Important and belongs to the "archeo- point, his own conception of a "Pan-American logical side of this question," as the Professor Peace Palace." with puts it; but, when he says "I do not agree In the average experience of a practising the opinions of this author (referring to my- architect such sublime commissions are few and of his own self) and promptly expresses one far between, in fact it is the subject of every reader (though not original), in all fairness to the architect's dream, and as such, in the vast least some and himself, he should produce at majority of instances, it so remains. If only we evidence In support of his contention. of the profession could choose the type of Pro- architectural subject nearest our heart's desire, It Is my strong belief that neither the Peace Palaces, and similar monumental struc- fessor nor any other Maya student can pro- tures would probably take first place. Unfor- duce one tittle of evidence to uphold such a tunately, when a hard-headed group of busi- statement. To the contrary, all the testimony ness men desire, for instance, indicates that the ancient culture arrived hur- a hotel design comprising an odd assortment of practical re- riedly on the shores of Central America and quirements In the Yucatan. The earliest works are undoubtedly planning, combined with an outstanding decorative treatment to create un- the best and there is positively no evidence to usual public appeal, the handicap is obviously indicate progress in Maya art at any stage. In concern. I one of deep fact it has long been my firm opinion (which

have endeavored to back by argument and If Professor Kramer has carefully digested confirming data, and which Is alluded to in my the contents of my articles to which he refers,

articles and enlarged upon In my books) that, in he will recall the paragraph describing my self-

all probability, the Maya civilization arrived imposed task, which consisted of endeavoring a period when Its cuture on this continent at to create a basis (at no time have I stated the was actually on the decline. The theory that result was final, or even approaching finality) the Maya art was born, flourished, and died in for an essentially Columbian architectural style

Central America, or any part of the Americas, for all types and classes of structure commonly

Is, In my opinion, without foundation. demanded in North America. In each and the examples are actual com- Another misleading statement in the Profes- every Instance missions, the requirements of which were car- sor's article Is that "Comparatively narrow of individual clients. stairways rose at steep angles up the front or ried out to the instructions

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER In common practise the architect seldom has emulating similar results. Obviously, such a

ideal conditions to fulfill, such as environment, task is not to be accomplished alone through

site and requirements. the experiments of a single individual, neither

can it completed in a single lifetime. Professor Kramer's article includes, what be "Atlantis, Mother of Empires" must be inferred as original thought with him,

nothing more nor less than a brief summary of When it comes to the question of interpret-

the substance of my five articles, the full con- ing Maya symbolism, of which the Professor

tents of which he consistently ignores in his infers I am ignorant, I must ask his indulgence

criticisms but never hesitates to turn to for until my "Atlantis, Mother of Empires" is off

opinions. hHe says: "Our immediate predeces- the press. This work is the result of over

sors in architecture had the same difficulty twelve years intensive study and research in

adapting the Classic to their designs. It was the Maya and many other fields of thought.

only after they had stripped the ancient build- Therein I submit my theories, not only those ings to their meagre skeletons and learned the to which Professor Kramer objects, but nu- principles of the construction and the relation- merous other far more radical opinions con- ship of the sculpture to the construction that cerning Maya history and art. Therein, too,

they were able to make logical nnodifications." I deal with Maya symbolism and symbolism in (Boldface are mine.) general, ancient religions, ethnology, legends, architecture, root languages, These words are precisely the intent and mythology, cus- toms, the origin of art motifs, astrology, racial meaning embodied in my articles, and also my books THE ANCIENT MAYAS and ATLAN- migrations and distribution of early cultures throughout the world, etc. TIS, MOTHER OF EMPIRES. In The Architect

and Engineer issue of November 1933, page It must be admitted t!iat the origin and early

39, I say: history of the Maya civilization has roused a

world of speculation, and that it is a subject "Recalling no parrallel case from which to upon which no two authorities agree. There- borrow experience I was left to my own de- fore, it Is unwise at this time to take a too " vices. definite stand on any one point. The student My first act was to reduce the Maya art of Maya culture, however, has a virgin field of to 'constructive sentences' and an 'alpha- thought before him. He is free to speculate bet' as applies to the 'language of archi- at will, but if his theories are accompanied by tecture.' logic, sound reasoning, and corroborative data, After this a 'grammar', or the science of they are at least worthy of serious considera- the right use of the 'language,' was em- tion. ployed. After having carefully read Professor Kram- This 'parsing' process reduced the Maya er's article I fail to find any corroboration of his art as a composite whole to fundamental objections, or fulfillment of his promise to give units. the "correct archeological side of this ques- By rearranging these fundamentals on new tion", In fact I find no item mentioned which is lines, architectural from a standpoint of not more fully described in my own articles and

it reasonable to antici- 'grammar,' seemed still further expressed in my book. It is far pate an ultimate distinct style acceptable to from my intention to be intolerant when con- American demands." sidering the opinion of others, but, in view of The Mayas took the form of the lowly ser- the general lack of knowledge on the subject, pent and progressed the simple motifs through the reader should have been supplied with conventionalism to abstract design of great sufficient convincing and corroborative data in beauty. My humble efforts aspire to a similar support of the Professor's objections to my be-

formula, but with no exalted expectation of liefs.

FEBRUARY. 1936 ^^rcr.ATiwiNi BuiLliNG. NAVAL AIR STATION, ANACOSTIA

Plans by U. S. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Washington, D.C.

BARRACKS AND MESS HALL, PEARL HARBOR, T.H.

Plans by U. S. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Washington, D.C.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER DESIGN FOR A POST OFFICE BUILDING

Reginald D. Johnson, Architect

ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION DESIGN INFLUENCED BY ENVIRONMENT AND TRADITION

Reginald D. Johnson

in The Federal Architect

Second: V/e come to that school of thought

vj^lNCE the Columbian Exposi- which still holds very closely to the past for its inspiration, but shows a breaking away from tion in Chicago in 1892, it is possible to trace traditionalism. architects four more or less distinct philosophies of de- exact The who represent this school a rule sign at work in this country in the solution of were educated as architectural problems. along strictly traditional lines, but it is evident

that in the minds of these men there is a revolt First: We have that great school which is conscientiously and religiously following prece- against the Inconsistency of trying to solve modern problems with the definite limitations dent in Its effort to clothe our modern structures with stone, brick or wood. The argu- laid down by precedent; and, while they struggle to free themselves from the shackles of ment of this school of thought is of course that tradition, they are only able to to while they recognize that evolution in design do so a very limited extent, due to the fact that In their is bound to take place, they nevertheless be- youth they had been so thoroughly grounded lieve the only safe and sane course is to proceed with the greatest of caution and the in the philosophy of the older school of minimum amount of experimentation. Such thought. Their whole approach toward a problem In design is automatically delightful buildings as the Boston Public Lib- based upon precedent. rary and the Freer Gallery of Art are excellent

examples of this philosophy showing, at the Bertram Goodhue, during the period of his

same time, strong indications of the Individ- association with Ralph Adams Cram, Is an ex- uality of their respective designers. cellent example of what I have in mind.

ftBRUARY. 1936 Third. We now come to that school of The first school of thought, as ably inter 1 philosophy in architectural design which is the preted by that great firm of architects—Mc- direct result of the restraint placed upon the Kim, Meade and White—had unquestionably honest expression of materials and construc- one basic inconsistency, namely, the impossi- tion. Almost in desperation, we see a school bility of adapting in a logical manner the de- giving birth to a new concept of architectural signs of the past to modern materials, modern thought. Many of our great "skyscrapers" and workmanship and modern construction. I, for the Nebraska State Capitol illustrate this one, nevertheless feel that in certain instances

DESIGN FOR A POST OFFICE BUILDING

Reginald D. Johnson, Architect

point-of-view. environment and tradition in certain commun-

Fourth: As in all schools of philosophy, ities in this country warrant, to a great degree, whether relating to architecture, economics or this approach toward the subject. For exam- politics, we have an extreme left wing. We ple, there are many delightful towns in New hear much of "Functionalism" in architecture, England and in the South, and a few in the and we are surfeited with designs which ex- Southwestern section, where precedent in the press nothing else, and thereby are supposed past has been so well established that we are merit our approval. This ultra-modern to more than justified in carrying forward our school has, however, taught us some very valu- newer buildings in at least the spirit of what able lessons. As a result of its experiments, has gone before, no matter what the Modern- we are beginning to think in terms of filler walls ist may say to the contrary. These instances and cantilever construction in our designs, need the skill of the traditionalist In their solu- rather than simply in the terms of bearing tion, but they are comparatively few and far walls, as in the past. between. By and large, we need in this coun- Let us now, as it were, try to stand back and so-called "modern" see these four philosophies of design in their try much more of the true relationship to modern conditions. point-of-view.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Personally, I do not feel, however, that the we are unconsciously developing a somewhat

extremist in Modernistic design has any chance different aesthetic reaction from the past. For of permanently satisfying the aesthetic needs some reason, we seem to demand expressions

of our country. The pure Functionalist soon in positive vertical or horizontal motifs plus

finds that if he carries his philosophy to its great simplicity. The desire for simplicity un-

logical conclusion there is nothing left but wall questionably is largely due to the fact that

surfaces and openings, and he is already trying the tempo of our lives today is far faster than

to camouflage this by all sorts of clever tricks in former ages, and as a result we are, gen-

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DESIGN FOR A POST OFFICE BUILDING

Reginald D. Johnson, Architect

which are in themselves mere subterfuges. erally speaking, a somewhat tired people, and Over a period of many years, man's aesthetic therefore demand simplicity rather than elab-

expression has always been logical, and with oration and stimulation In aesthetics, whether

this assumption I think we can see evolving It be In architecture, painting or sculpture. from the four philosophies mentioned above a The mere copying of the past has gone for type of design which will —first, be functional good and ever. The future of architectural in plan, section and elevation; second, will expression, with the exception of a few loca- express the materials used; and third, be based tions where tradition has a very strong foot-

on pleasing forms derived and evolved from hold, unquestionably will be some honest, past centuries of endeavor, and adapted when straightforward form of the structure with the necessary to new materials. Really worth while minimum amount of ornament and detail.

new forms in both detail and mass will only In brief, the architects of today are discard- evolve slowly. ing plagiarism and returning to honesty—an In making this statement, I am also taking honesty which, previous to the machine age,

for granted that with the introduction of the was characteristic of all good architecture, machine age and with the streamline, which we and not something newly discovered by the I

admire In the aeroplane and the automobile, Extreme Modernist.

FEBRUARY, 1936 Second f/ooR.p \

J^jidence to bf iui/f at Jouth Pasadena

I THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER iAH FRANCI80% »VmUC LIRRAMT

•iacon'd f/oor I c &

J. OS Aiyy f Ifs Ct i

FEBRUARY. 1936 CHIMNEY DETAIL, RESIDENCE OF THEODORE OFF. HOMBLY HILLS

H. ROY KELLEY, ARCHITECT

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER RESIDENCE OE THEODORE OFF, HOMBLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA

H. Roy Kelley, Architect

RESIDENCE OF MR. AND MRS. THEODORE OFF This early American type residence has an excellent outlook upon a broad expanse of the surrounding mountains of hlolmby Hills and Bel-Air.

It is located within a few minutes drive of the University of California at Los Angeles.

The exterior half timber work is of weathered oak. The exterior plaster

is an old weathered natural stone color which blends with the natural

stone of the chimneys. The roof is of weathered hand split shakes. The walls of the principal rooms are of a slightly textured cream- colored plaster with oak beams and wood ceilings. The floors are oak planks of random widths.

FEBRUARY, 1936 "YOUNG WOMAN"

BY HELEN PHILLIPS

Awarded Museum Purchase Prize, 56th Annual, San Francisco Art Association, now showing San Francisco Museum of Art.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER CAMBODIAN PAGEANT

Artists Ball Colorful and Resplendent

O^AN FRANCISCO has again

cliown to the world that it "knows how." The

latest exemplification of this now famous saying of the late President Taft, was the

Cambodian Ball and Pageant, depicting the

Fall of Angkor Vat, at the Municipal Audi- torium, the night of January 17th, under the auspices of the San Francisco Art Association.

With Timothy L. Pflueger, architect, as its

versatile general director, the Parilia proved

one of the most successful affairs of its kind

ever undertaken in these parts, and this In the

face of the fact that it was the fourth event of

MoLlltt Photo similar nature to be given by the Art Asso- A close up of Buddha, the central figure of the Carr ciation. bodian Pageant and Bait, Municipal Auditorium, Sa Francisco. Lucien Labaudt, well-known San Francisco artist was art director.

The story of the Pageant was compiled from various Cambodian myths by William H. Smith,

Jr., who acted as production director.

An outstanding pageant entitled to international recognition, was the verdict of such distinguished critics at Maurice Sterne, internationally famous painter and sculptor. Col.

W. de Basil and S. Hurok of the Monte Carlo

Ballet, who were present, as well as Lady Mendl,

(the former Elsie De Wolfe), and Prince Valde- mar of Denmark.

It was to Introduce the pageant that the

' -^pl Teller of Tales spoke (In the person of Edgar Walter, sculptor), and when he had done, the nine thousand spectators saw towering before

them a temple-like structure of colossal pro-

portions. It rose upwards Into shadowed

space In broad tiers which were designed

eventually to hold the 881 participants in the

Life size elephant bearing Prince and Prince: pageant. Its central feature was an enor- Cambodian Pageant.

FEBRUARY, 1936 "Siam" (Second unit of California School of Fine Arts] pays homage to Prince and Princess, Cambodian Pageant. Note life size white elephant, followed by a baby white elephant bearing royal pair.

Moulin Photo "Java" (East Bay Artists Unit) presen+Ir two colossal Javanese marionettes, 18 feet high and painted in blue, magenta and gold.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER mous green Buddha, sculptured by Robert tive Cambodian dance was performed on the Howard. main floor by a large group (Anne Mundstock, To give some idea of the proportions of choreographer), with Marcelle Chesse and

the pageant, it were best to explain that the Patrick Bradfield as the principals. In silver.

hall in which it was held occupies a city block. "Burma," Betty Horst Dancers, 10 girls,

The setting, with a stage in front of it, stretch- gold and green, in a finished Burmese dance, ed the width of one end. The pageant en- on the stage. "Java," East Bay Artists, 35, tered opposite the stage, and moved the blue; two colossal, articulated Javanese mari-

length of the hall to it. As each of the 12 onettes, 18 feet high, operated with sticks,

units of which it was composed finished its and painted in blue, magenta and gold, ac-

performance, the participants took assigned companied by a devil dance, in masks. "Ton- places on the tiers above the stage. The en- kin," San Francisco Architectural Club, 110, tire action was accompanied by an orchestra yellow-green; a group of effective banners, of 30 pieces. some 30 feet high; Indo-Chinese dance.

The units are described, with an outstand- "Siam," California School of Fine Arts, first

ing feature of each, as follows, in the order group, 150, red-orange and gold; flame dance of their appearance: "The Frieze of the on floor. "Ceylon," Rudolph Schaeffer School Lotus," Alumni Association, California School of Design, 25, red-violet. "India," George of Fine Arts, 100 participants; costumes green Pring dancers, 55, blue-violet; Nautch dance and silver. On a litter carried on the shoulders on stage. "Siam," California School of Fine of 12 men, a large silver lotus flower on which Arts, second group, 150 orange-red, white sat Siva and Parvati, performing a ritualistic and silver; a life-sized white elephant, followed dance. by a baby white elephant, bearing a prince "Frieze of Maidens at the Fountain," Cali- and a princess, respectively. fornia School of Design, 24 girls carrying Lastly, Naga, the Seven-Headed Cobra, at-

water jars and flowers; costumes red-orange. tended by 30 Indriyas in green and gold, ap- "Frieze of the Heavenly Maidens," San Fran- peared, to wreak vengeance. Her snake body,

cisco Society of Women Artists, 50, many 30 feet in length, uncoiled as she approached

carrying tall, stylized palm trees with white the stage. Angkor-Vat became enveloped in

stems; costumes blue-green. "Anam," Chi- smoke and flame, which had its destruction

nese Art Association, 22, yellow - orange. from the profaning eyes of Man. Group dance on floor, followed by solo sword Summing up Junius Cravens writes: dance on stage. "Thus ended what was probably one of the "Court of Kambu," San Francisco Art As- most resplendent pageants that has been

sociation, 100, orange-red and gold. King staged anywhere in our time. It was so color-

Kambu (Victor Arnautoff, artist) and Princess ful in pattern, so colossal in scale, that adjec-

Naga (Esther Bruton, artist) entered on life- tives seem inadequate in attempting to de-

sized elephants, attended by symbol-bearers. scribe it. It was artistically conceived and They dismounted and ascended their throne, executed, expertly directed and beautifully at the feet of the Buddha. Then a most effec- performed."

FEBRUARY, 1936 JoE B. LARRINAGA OF HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, colorist and delineator for the Texas Centennial Exposi- tion, shown in his studio with a model of one of the buildings for the Fair. The Californian predicts that architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition will set a new fashion for construction.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER BRACING SMALL FRAME STRUCTURES

A NEW PROBLEM FOR CALIFORNIA BUILDING INSPECTORS

A. L. Brinkman, Berkeley

erable literature dealing with the relative stiff- ness and rigidity of various types of frame HEN the Riley Act was walls and special bracing designs. enacted by the California Legislature in 1933, the Building Inspector was confronted with two If, on the other hand, the Building Inspector problenns, neither of which had been very interpreted the Act In such a manner that all seriously considered in connection with the new buildings were subject to Investigation, usual small frame dwelling, store, warehouse, the second problem became a very real one, or multiple garage, unless some special pro- and was further expanded by the natural ques- vision existed in the local code. tion: How detailed and complete an analysis

is justified in the above type and class of The first problem was: Shall the lateral force structure? law be applied to minor structures, such as It is thought by the writer that possibly the those mentioned above? way this problem was handled in Berkeley might The second: What allowances shall be made be of general interest, and below Is given a for the ordinary traditional types of wall con- brief outline of our present procedure, dat- struction, such as horizontally and diagonally ing from May 1 , 1 933. sheathed walls, wood lath and plastered par- First of all, it was assumed that all new titions, stucco, and fire-blocking or herring- structures must be properly braced to comply bone bridging? with the law. Next, the bracing system was

In some localities, the first problem was optional with the designer, and certain values dismissed as being unimportant for frame of bracing elements were assigned, such as structures of the conventional type not over 65 lbs. per linear foot for horizontal sheathing three stories in height. This action, of course, (net wall length) but no credit was allowed eliminated consideration of the second prob- for instance, for wood lath and plaster or for lem, hlowever, in this connection, at that fibre boards. time there was already in existence a consid- Then, certain mandatory requirements were

FEBRUARY, 1936 TYPICAL COMPRESSION BRACIMG DESIGMS ^ 3 V

ELEVATIONS

(4" wall)

i^ 1-A4-450 fe:i 2-A4-450-}: J c

\ (Halved and -'<3 \ fitted)

ALL BRACING PLACED SYMMETRICAL WITH CENTER LINE OF WALL AND CLOSE TO CENTER OF MASS

brace set up, such as: "balanced" footings (Inverted I have never had to analyze or specially

T sections, double-battered, or combinations), such a structure, and I don't want to take the two 3/8-inch deformed bars in the lower half time or incur the expense of hiring an engineer

of all footings, bolted mud-sills (usually 3/4- —so what is a simple method of bracing the inch bolts, 10 inches long, at 6 foot intervals). ordinary frame dwelling?"

insist Gable ends were required to be braced, and This put us on the spot-— ; should we open fronts of garages were strengthened by that a man who was building a $3,000 one- horizontal diagonal bracing or by diagonally story, five-room dwelling, pay an engineer to sheathed floors overhead. go over the plan and design a bracing system? (Remember, the majority of such plans are not In the case of small stores, a reinforced con- designed by either an architect or engineer.) crete U frame was built on the front, the

upright legs acting as cantilevers in resisting As a result, it was decided to publish a small forces parallel to the plane of the open front. table of values of what we called the "Berk-

These U frames are useful in one story rein- eley Compression Brace" —a very simple brace forced concrete or brick structures, being for which we claim no credit as to its origin-

adaptable as longitudinal and transverse stiff- ality. ening bents. It consists of the usual diagonal integral

Finally, some designers would say, "Well, blocking, reversed in direction from customary

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER —

fashion, In order to "pick up" a maximum dead cripples, which were usually scrap lumber any- load vertical resisting couple, and having the how. head and foot cut off horizontally to meet Thus, if the designer furnished us a strain vertical cripples which extend from head to sheet showing the forces assumed, and reas- plate and foot to sill, and arranging special a onably expected, to be acting on bracing dapped-end design at plate and sill (see walls, and the "type" of brace taken from our sketch). table, v/e accepted the plans and felt that a We also encourage the use of diagonal reasonable compliance with the Act had been sheathing, both single and double, allowing achieved. double values when walls are diagonally The consideration of torsion, "center of sheathed in opposite directions on opposite rigidity," "center of mass" and rotation in sides of a wall. these minor structures, was dispensed with in The compression brace was well received, all but the most exceptional cases. as the final test was the carpenters, and they The tables reproduced in this article are had absolutely no trouble in accommodating

their traditional methods to this brace. The based on nominal sizes, and ordinary work-

retention of the integral blocking also served manship, using No. I Common Dimension O. P.

as fire blocking, the only "extra" being the few or equal lumber.

VALUES ASSIGNED TO COMPRESSION BRACES AND SHEATHING

(Based on P-900 p.s.i. Q-300 p.s.i.)

(S -75 p.s.i., an d EQK inc.-33%|

a -H 3rizontal sheafhing (net wall length) (a 65 lbs. per linear foot.

b--D agona sheathing (net wall length) (a 185 lbs. per linear foot.

Type of Size of Size of Size of Depth of Horizontal Brace Diagonals Cripples Plates Daps Resistance 12" Studs) @45° 1" A4 2"x4" 1 "x4" 2"x4" I600# B4 3"x4" 2"x4" 2"x4" 1" 3I20#

C4 A4 plus B4 in tandem in same wall or plane 4720#

D4 Two B4's in ta idem in same wall or plane 6240# 1" A6 2"x6" 1 "x6" 2"x6" 2400# B6 3"x6" 2"x6" 2"x6" 1" 4680#

C6 A6 plus B6 in tandem in same wall or plane 7080#

D6 Two B6's in ta idem in same wall or plane 9360#

: (NOTE For larger value , check dead load couple.) TYPE OF END DAPS (see ske kh).

F 3r braces at 60°, use 0.6 of above values.

FEBRUARY, 1936 A STUDY IN ROOF LINES

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER THE TERMITE SITUATION

PUBLIC INTEREST INCREASES AS NATIONAL MAGAZINES DIRECT ATTENTION TO ALARMING CONDITIONS

A. A. Brown, C. E.

years past these buildings have suffered an

HE Incidence of termite dam- annual average fire loss of $250,000,000, or about $10 per dwelling. Many guesses have age in the United States is assuming genuine as to annual damage by termites importance on the part of the public as evi- been made to wooden structures. The Bureau of Entomol- denced by leading magazine articles appear- ogy of Washington has used the figure of ing in the Saturday Evening Post, Time, and $40,000,000 to represent this annual damage. Readers Digest. All of these publications are The National Committee on Wood Utilization of national circulation, and such articles are places the figure at $45,000,000. intended to direct the attention of the public to important developments which would be of Of the wood frame buildings inspected in the interest to the reader. Other popular maga- San Francisco Termite Survey, more than 82 zines in recent months have also carried articles per cent were found to be infested by one or on this same subject. The interest thus shown more species of termites. The estimated dam- should prove helpful in directing attention to age to these structures varies from $25 to sev- the need for local investigations, and the prep- eral thousand dollars, and in a few Instances aration of standard specifications to deal with caused the condemnation and subsequent the problem in major communities. Conditions demolition of the buildings. In approximately

retard or accelerate the destructive in- which I per cent of those structures found to be activities of these pests vary greatly from fested, structural weaknesses were discovered community to community. With more than requiring immediate repairs to safeguard pub- fifty species native to our country, and the lic safety. A number of buildings of two or conditions surrounding the activities of these more stories were found with columns so various species differing one from another, it heavily damaged as to destroy their structural should be apparent that no stereotyped form- value and require their replacement. One of ula for their control can be used without refer- the most serious cases of this kind to come ence to the specific conditions to be met. to my attention was a two story and base-

It said that sure to has often been a way ment building where fourteen of the wooden gain a man's interest is through his pocketbook. columns in the basement were removed and While this may not be true of all individuals, replaced with steel. In a six story apartment its appears to be true with most of us. Ter- building it was necessary to replace a 10x10 mites are touching the pocketbook of Ameri- wooden column in the basement. can home owners. According to the Bureau Termites Infest Industrial Buildings of Census Reports of I 930 there are more than contiguous twenty-five million buildings (houses and apart- The buildings in seventy-five ments) In the United States. For a number of blocks within the fire limits of the 1906 con-

FEBRUARY, 1936 flagration were inspected, and provide a yard- Committee. Both major groupings of ter- stick for estimating the approximate damage mites have a number of things in common: done to structures by wood-destroying organ- they depend upon cellulose for food; they al- isms. Within this area, one corporation owns ways have fungi present in their burrows as some twenty-seven buildings. At its request an aid to provide a balanced diet. This these structures were inspected in company material supplies the proteins. They live a wih two of its maintenance engineers. At the hidden life protected from their natural ene- conclusion of the inspection these engineers mies, the ants; they are blind and shun light estimated that it would require the expendi- except at the swarming season when the re- ture of $100,000 to repair the damage un- productives have eyes and are attracted to covered. These, of course, were Industrial light. There Is a wide variation, however. In type structures, and the average unit of ter- their tolerance to the percentage of moisture mite destruction was higher than is normally present and In the ability to produce moisture found in a dwelling. Assuming that all the from the wood. We found from laboratory buildings within the fire limits have been con- determinations that Zootermopsis can success- structed subsequent to the fire of 1906 with fully colonize In wood containing as little as an average of approximately 25 years, the 13.35 per cent moisture, and they are also annual damage by these insects is far greater found nesting In wood with 220 per cent than is commonly estimated. Indeed, it may moisture by dry weight of the wood. The exceed the loss caused by fire. formula for cellulose Is C6-hHI0-O5. Breaking

down this formula Into two parts, and by tak- To support any building on shoring and re- ing oxygen from the air, termites are able to place main columns is, at best, a costly pro- obtain six parts of carbon dioxide (C02) and cedure, and as noted above this has been done five parts of water (hH20). Thus, by controlling in a number of instances. An apartment house the circulation of air In their colony, and pro- built in 1907, repaired in 1914, the lobby of ducing water by chemical processes from which was reconstructed in 1928 due to Zoo- otherwise dry wood, once established the Zoo- termopsis infestation, was again reconstructed termopsis can create sufficient moisture to in 1935 due to the destructive work of these live In dry wood. This ability on the part of insects. The repairs to this building on each wood-dwelling termites to create their own occasion merely provided the termites with a moisture supply, makes the problem of pre- fresh new food supply. It Is well known that vention, eradication and control more complex termites prefer new, freshly-cut lumber to old, than in the case with the ground-dwelling dry, and thoroughly seasoned material. In termites. making such repairs, chemically treated wood that has been rendered unpalatable to termites should be used. Wood Dwelling Termites Active

In San Francisco we are dealing with two Subterranean termites depend primarily for major types of termites, namely the Rhino- their moisture supply upon ground connec- termi+idae, which make their home either in tions. They seem unable to create moisture whole or In part In the soil, and the Kaloter- from the wood to the same extent as the wood- ml+idae, which make their home In the wood. dwelling termites. Consequently it Is not so

In the latter classification we have two major Important In making repairs where subterran- types: Zootermopsis, the so-called damp-wood ean termites are Involved to eliminate all termite, and Kalotermes, commonly known as members of the colony, since the remaining the dry-wood termite. This latter group was members will In all likelihood dry up and die. not reported as being present In San Francisco, Not so with the Zootermopsis. Members of

In the report of the Termite Investigations such a colony which remain after repairs have

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER been completed will, within six to seven weeks, against the ravages of these pests finds him- develop supplementary reproductives which self often surrounded by properties harboring are more prolific egg-layers than the original large nests of termites, to which he has neither queen. access nor jurisdiction. Such conditions Indi- cate the Interdependence of neighbors In the Wood dwelling termites have been found in control of these pests. 44 per cent of the buildings infested, and in 56 per cent of the structures, subterranean While the number of infestations by wood- (ground dwelling) termites were present. San dwelling termites are not quite as numerous as variety, the cost of Francisco is a city that is very compactly those of the subterranean The built. Residential lots are small, usually 25 feet making repairs Is usually much greater. their own wide, and in most instances buildings are con- ability of these Insects to create structed to within an inch of the property moisture and not depend upon moisture from of their line. Subterranean termites are known to build the ground, greatly extends the range frequently found runways in the ground traversing great dis- destructive activity. They are tances, as well as reaching considerable depth. in the second, third, and fourth floors of build- the engineers of In one instance subterranean termites entered ings. Some two years ago, termite-proofed a Class A structure through joints in the con- one of our railway companies crete of the basement floor some 25 feet one of their large train sheds Infested by Zoo- below the street level and constructed covered termopsls, on the assumption that by cutting runways to the furnishings on the main floor. off the supply of moisture from the ground the The ability of these subterranean termites to termite colonies would die out. In their treat- travel under the ground surface from one place ment they bored holes In the top of the under- the ground, and to another, probably accounts in a measure pinning some distance above at the for the very heavy percentage of infestations inserted a quantity of paris green; and of holes were filled with the In wooden structures In San Francisco where base, a number These latter buildings are constructed in contact one with crystals of paradichlorobenzene. poisonous the other. Termites under these conditions evaporate slowly and the heavy become not only the problem of the individual fumes, being heavier than air, are supposedly the grooming property owner, but a neighborhood problem distributed in the wood. Due to of paris green has as well. As an example of the situation created habit of termites, the use effective In poison- by these conditions, the owner of a home con- in many instances proved termites when intro- structed within the last three years became ing a colony of dry-wood their runways; but sufficient mois- interested in the termite problem and reduced into ture appears to be present In the galleries of quested that his property be inspected. It the Zootermopsis to cause this poison dust to was built on a 25 foot lot and within less than cake and render It more or less ineffective. A one inch of the adjoining structures. hlis recent Inspection of this same train shed dis- property was found to be infested to a minor closed that the termites had moved up, and degree, but the older adjoining buildings were that many of the main building columns above heavily Infested. The owner in this case was the first floor are now heavily infested. interested In eradicating the termites on his own property. On the other hand, his neigh- Should Study Habits of Insects bors were not at all interested. In a block con-

taining fifty to sixty homes, where the space In another building infested by Zootermop-

In between such buildings Is less than one Inch, sis, the underpinning was entirely renewed and where more than eight out of ten houses July 1935. During the fall months, the tenant are infested with termites or beetles, the was annoyed by frequent swarms of winged

individual attempting to protect his property reproductives appearing in the building. A

FEBRUARY, 1936 recent inspection showed these termites to be tube, the end of which is phosphor coated and colonizing at and above the first floor, indicat- acts as a projecting screen when energized by ing that the work of eradcation in the first the sound waves. The characteristic sound

place was incomplete, or fully developed alates waves are reflected on this screen in the form

would not now be present. of curves visible In daylight. Only by the use of such apparatus, or other scientific equip- These incidents illustrate the importance of ment, can one be reasonably certain that all knowing the habits of the insects encountered hidden sources of Infestation have been des- before any attempt is made to prescribe a troyed. It is difficult, if not impossible, to remedy. In every instance where inspections establish general rules for control and eradica- have been made following attempts to eradi- tion that would apply equally in ail communicate Zootermopsis, we have found these ter- ties. The existence of a large percentage of mites still present. buildings on 25 foot lots, together with the

To locate and destroy all members of a prevalence of Zootermopsis in San Francisco, colony of wood-dwelling termites the use of a presents a combination of conditions that are

high gain audio amplifier in conjunction with peculiar to this city. To successfully cope with

an osclloscope should be encouraged to de- the problem created by termites in any com-

tect their presence by sound. The osciloscope munity, it would seem necessary that one

is far more sensitive to sound vibrations than should be familiar with the physical property the equipment commonly used for the magni- relationship, as well as the biological problem fication of sound. It is a large bell-shaped presented.

SKETCH BY ERNEST PETERSON

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER UNUSUAL FEATURES OF A LOS ANGELES AIR CONDITIONING INSTALLATION

copper tube cooling element, and a wool felt

pocket type air filter. The cabinets are of JJLNTEREST in air conditioning is furniture steel finished in walnut, the castings being centered on actual installations in use, are of aluminum, the heating and cooling coils rather than on equipment alone. A particularly are copper tubing, cadmium plated, and the interesting and recent installation, incorpor- steel parts are cadmium plated to prevent ating novel features, is a one-story reinforced corrosion. The heating and cooling elements concrete building at 1138 So. Broadway, Los are combined in a single physical unit having Angeles. The building is approximately 50 ft. common fins, two banks deep, but with entirely wide, 80 ft. deep, with a 20 ft. ceiling. It is separate tubing, the heating coils occupying divided into a large front room, with a mezza- the position of the first bank, the cooling units nine extending to the rear wall above three that of the second. rear private offices, vault and toilet rooms. The A duct through the wall back of each unit main floor is cement on dirt and is covered with linoleum. Occupied by a finance com- allows 100 percent outdoor air to be drawn through the unit, or a circled louvre in the front pany, the building Is used throughout for office purposes. of the unit may be opened to allow re-circulation of inside air. Opening this front louvre The air conditioning system consists of for re-circulation also turns a damper that cuts seven standard Conditionair room units, a off about half the area of the outdoor air Inlet. newly perfected appliance recently intro- This arrangement is intended to permit intro- to the field, served a central gas-fired duced by duction of 100 percent outdoor air or a mini- hot water generator and a central refrigera- mum of 50 percent outdoor air even when the tion unit. Four of the room units are located re-circulation inlet is used. Incorporated in in the main office and one in each of the three each unit is a storage chamber for disinfecting, rear private offices. The hot water generator perfuming or medicating the air. Aromatic is located in one of the toilet rooms near the material from the chamber is drawn in by the the ceiling of which is center of the building, fan and mixed with the air discharged by the full height of the building and is provided the unit. This function may be operated regardless with a skylight ventilator. The refrigeration of whether air is being entirely drawn from lead to the unit is located under the stairs that outdoors or partly re-circulated. mezzanine. hlot water for the heating element and

The Conditionair room units contain a pro- chilled water for the cooling element is sup-

peller type fan driven by a I 20th horsepower plied to each room unit through copper tubing motor, a spray type, atomizing humidifier, a Insulated with wrapped felt and laid on the finned copper tube heating element, a finned ground under the cement foor. Water for

FEBRUARY, 1936 I

the humidifier nozzles is taken from the hot average consumption of 16 gal. of water per water lines. A copper tubing waste line from hour. each room unit runs under the floor to a cov- For cooling purposes, city water supply is ered sump in the floor of a toilet room. connected to and passes through a pair of Electric energy for the fan motors is sup- twin heat exchangers in series. The primary plied by a convenience outlet located in the side of these heat exchangers is chilled by wall back of each unit. A rheostat permits fan direct expansion of a refrigerant supplied operation at 450 r.p.m., 900 r.p.m., and 1250 by a 3 - horsepower refrigeration unit, which r.p.m, at which speeds the fan is rated to with the heat exchangers Is located In an insul- handle respectively 100, 200 and 300 cu. ft. of ated compartment under the mezzanine air per minute. An unusual provision Is that stairway. The unit Is set to reduce the of water cooling for the rheostat and motor temperature of the water passing through the by means of encircling coils of I 3-Inch cad- heat exchangers to 40 deg. F. Three-eighth mium plated copper tubing around each, inch copper tubing from the heat exchanger through which water from the chilled water outlet to each unit conveys the chilled water, line passes. which, forced by city water pressure passes

The most unusual feature of this installation, through the unit's cooling element and is perhaps, is the scheme by which city water wasted to the drain connection. The amount pressure is used to convey the hot and chilled of chilled water passed through the cooling

units it Is water to the room v/here wasted to element is controlled by a valved inlet and a the drain after passing through the unit. metered orifice outlet. The average maximum

For the hot water source a gas-fired auto- water consumption for cooling is rated at 16 matic instantaneous water heater of 4.1 gal. per hour. Water condensed from the air gallons per minute, 60 deg., rise capacity, In the cooling process and excess water from is used. Located in the corner of one of the the humidifier nozzles Is collected in a drip pan toilet rooms, this heater is connected to city connected to the drain lines that serves the water supply just as It would be for domestic heating and cooling elements. hot water, and in fact, it does furnish hot The installation provides extreme flexibility, water to two lavatories, hlowever, the heater's each room unit operating independently. main fuction is to supply the finned heating Moreover, the output of each unit may be elements of the air conditioning room units fan with hot water, and from the heater outlet a varied Independently by changing the reducing or increasing the quantity of 3^ 8-inch copper tube runs to each unit. Open- speed, passing through the ele- ing a valve at the inlet of the heating element hot or chilled water of any room unit operates the automatic instan- ments, or changing the setting of the re-circu- taneous heater in exactly the same way as lating damper. The use of city water pressure turning on a hot water faucet, hlot water, to control the gas fuel used for heating, by forced by city pressure, passes through the selecting an Instantaneous automatic water unit's heating element after which it is wasted heater in place of a heating boiler, while not to the drain connection through a metered new In principle, is unusual for a heating instal- orifice. This orifice is sized to allow a maximum lation.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER .

FERRIED ON BARGES roadway trusses for the Ba', Idge are lifted from midbay into position

and fastened to suspender cables as shown in sketch.

TRAFFIC STARTS OVER BAY BRIDGE IN LESS THAN TEN MONTHS

tidal wave of public interest in California whicli

is to produce a tremendous exposition on a N LESS than ten months, com- specially made island in San Francisco Bay in pletion of the world's largest bridge will be 1938. The entire west is tributary to these California history. great bridges and California is the special Despite the pace of the 30-hour week and beneficiary. the obstacles which nature places in the way "The engineering wonders of these two rec- when man seeks to set new engineering fron- ord-breaking structures have turned the eyes tiers in defiance to the hazards of deep water of the world on America, on California, and on and dizzy heights, the world's largest bridge San Francisco Bay just as Boulder Dam has from San Francisco to Oakland may finish — turned the spotlight on Los Angeles. ahead of schedule. By November, 1936, its first Chief Engineer C. \-\. Parcel! expects to "During year we expect the bridge have finished the paved decks so that the to carry 6,000,000 vehicles, and full prosperity bridge may be opened to traffic for the Stan- only needs to return to give the bridge an annual passenger traffic of ford-California big game which will be played 50,000,000 persons." at Berkeley this year. A report to Governor Merriam sets forth the following schedules for completion of units Thus far approximately $40,000,000 has been of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge this expended on bridge and approaches. The rail- year: way portion will not be completed until after the highway decks have been opened to the BERKELEY UNDERPASS—now complete. traveling public. Referring to the importance EAST BAY DISTRIBUTION VIADUCTS— of both the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge proj- complete April I ects, Earl Lee Kelley, Director of Public Works, MAINTENANCE BUILDINGS IN OAK-

LAND TIDELANDS—complete July I. is quoted, in the last issue of California hligh- EAST BAY BRIDGE— cantilever closed ways and Public Works as follows: March 7. "The building of this world's greatest $77,- PAVING EAST BAY—complete May 7. 600,000 bridge between San Francisco and YERBA BUENA ISLAND—upper deck of

Oakland, and its sister bridge, the $35,000,000 tunnel and all island work, including the tunnel

Golden Gate structure, sets in motion the —complete June I.

FEBRUARY, 1936 Courtesy California Highways and Public Works BUILDING THE WORLD'S GREATEST BRIDGE. SHOWING WORKMEN TIEING HUGE TRUSSES TO CABLES

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER .

BUILDING WORLDS GREATEST BRIDGE

Left to right: Leiand F. Cutler, Director Earl Lee Kelly, Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell. and Jesse Jones, Chairman of the RFC.

WEST BAY BRIDGE—(The twin suspension lined with concrete by the end of 1935 and bridges, East Bridge and West Bridge, over construction of the upper deck started. At the the West Bay Channel, between San Francisco beginning of 1935 the vehicular tunnel was In and Yerba Buena Island) —The west bridge will the stage where three small excavations (two at be completed first, with all of Its spans hung the bottom and one at the crown) had been from the cables by March 15, and the steel bored through the wall and the concrete foot-

floor In by April I 5. The East Bridge, between ings for part of the side walls poured. the concrete center anchorage and the Island, Therefore, during 1935 It may be said that 283/4-Inch cables for which are now being spun, save for three pilot tunnels, entire excavation will have Its decks hung by June I 5 and Its steel of the Yerba Buena Island tunnel was accom- floor In by July I 5; all paving In the West Bay plished. In the category of concrete work, will be complete by September 15. all but the footings for the side walls were SAN FRANCISCO APPROACHES—com- poured during the year 1935—the footings plete July I by having been laid In the fall of 1934. Similarly,

ENTIRE BRIDGE— (exclusive of railways)— all the concrete viaduct at the east portal of paved by September 15 and cleaned up ready the tunnel, a section of the bridge approxi- for traffic by November, 1936. mately 800-feet long, was built during 1935.

Work completed In 1935 Is listed as follows: WEST BAY—At the start of 1935, the last EAST BAY—Five 504-foot through truss of the foundation work was being done; some spans, east and west cantilever anchor arms, concrete was still being poured at Pier A near west cantilever arm, completed In 1935. Beale Street, San Francisco; and the concrete YERBA BUENA ISLAND—Three 300-foot center anchorage, a mile off the San Fran- deck truss spans over the east side of the cisco shore, was being raised by the super- island completed In 1935 together with towers structure contractor to the height where it was supporting them. The vehicular tunnel through to be taken over by the Columbia Steel Com- Yerba Buena Island was fully excavated and pany for cable spinning. The superstructure

FEBRUARY, 1936 EASTERLY TOWER OF SUSPENSION SECTION OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY BRIDGE, 1110 FEET WEST OF YERBA BUENA ISLAND, SHOWING ENTRANCE TO TUNNEL.

Etching by Chesley Bonestell

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER WESTERN END SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE

The landscaped plaza, shown above, is between hlarrison and Bryant Streets, San Francisco, and marks the western end of the San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge at Fifth Street, San Francisco.

Here the main traffic will flow on to the upper deck of the bridge,

which begins its gradual ascent on an easy grade, rising from I 1.57 feet

at Fifth Street level, to 260.76 feet at the high point of the bridge on the concrete center anchorage, a mile east of San Francisco.

The roadway of the upper deck of the bridge at this entrance way at

Fifth Street will be 58 feet wide.

The design of this plaza was created by the Board of Consulting

Architects, consisting of Timothy L. Pflueger, Arthur Brown, Jr. and

John J. Donovan.

contractor had erected Towers W-2, W-3, and Bridge and East Suspension Bridge were built W-6; and had raised W5 to 155 feet with and the spinning machinery erected. Spin- approximately 350 feet to go. The fenders ning was completed during the year on the for Pier W-4 and W-3 were not yet complete. West Bridge between San Francisco and the Eyebars on both the San Francisco and Center Anchorage; and half completed on the Verba Buena Island Anchorages had been set East Bridge between the Center Anchorage up and were practically ready for cable spin- and Yerba Buena Island. Cable bands were ning, and locker posts at Pier W-l on the bolted around the suspension cables and the Embarcadero and at Yerba Buena Island Anch- first sections of the actual decks of the bridge orage were under way. were being hung from the cables in the last During 1935, catwalks on both the West month of 1935.

FEBRUARY. 1936 DRAWING BY HEILBOR^

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEE COMPETENT ARCHITECTURAL SERVICE IMPROVES SMALL HOUSE DESIGN

STEPHEN F. VOORHEES, A. I. A. PRESIDENT,

REVIEWS 1935 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

the Improvement in this class of construction.

Improved conditions in the 'Residential building continues to lead the construction industry are reported from all field in volume of new construction. It Is not sections of the United States by the Regional necessary to quote statistics to show the ob- Directors of the Annerican Institute of Archi- vious need of this activity. The cessation of tects, according to a survey of progress In building during the past four years; losses architecture and building during 1935 by resulting from fires; depreciation; the increase

Stephen F. Voorhees, President of the Institute. in number of families; all are factors In the Impending housing shortage. A marked increase in architectural employment, amounting in some localities to an actual "Federal housing agencies, by their promo- scarcity of draftsmen, is a significant feature tional activities, have directed public attention of the recovery in this industry, Mr. Voorhees toward home building and financing on a sound declares. basis. Present building prices and rising rentals are factors favorable to residential building at The Institute Directors, Mr. Voorhees re- this time and indicate continued activity in ports, urge that governmental participation In 1936. the field of low rental housing be llmilted to procuring and disseminating necessary general "That the architects of the country have information and to furnishing financial aid for devoted much time during the recent years of such projects, leaving to local agencies such inactivity in building to a study of the problems functions as location, design, construction, and of their many sided profession is Indicated in administration. the reports of committee chairmen made at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the The Directors, he explains, recognize the Institute. importance of town planning and other local considerations in the formation and operation "New materials and methods of construction of a national program for the development of have been studied and experiments conducted low rental housing. looking toward an improved technique in build- parallel the "Non-residential building has maintained a ing that would improvements made lines of production. The new year will steady increase over 1934 totals and con- in other experiments put to the test tinued to increase during the closing months of see many of these of practical application to building. the year, which normally show a reduction in volume of new construction," Mr. Voorhees "hHow to Improve the poor quality of design says. "Federal assistance by loans and grants so evident in the average American small house of money to finance the building of schools has been the concern of the American Institute and other public structures is contributing to of Architects for many years. Efforts to find

FEBRUARY, 1936 a way to apply the architect's talents in this greater consciousness of the social aspect of field have met with little success. Lending the architect's practice, Mr. Voorhees points agencies have been slow to see the advantages out. of architectural service as a protection to "Town and regional planning is receiving their loans. greater recognition by the architectural schools

in preparing architects to broaden their "One of the most encouraging experiences hor- izons and to participate to a greater extent of the past year has been the higher rating in social and civic activities attained by plans prepared by architects when The value of planned communities and garden submitted for government insured morgages as suburbs as opposed to the haphazard placing compared with plans prepared without benefit of dwellings so prevalent in our cities is re- of architectural service. ceiving increased attention. "To further this work the Directors of the "In view of the prevalent preoccupation of American Institute of Architects endorsed a many architects with functional planning, and plan to establish local groups of architects pre- with full recognition of the research and reas- pared to furnish architectural service in the oning so logically expressed in plan and struc- small house field in a manner to meet local ture, the Institute's Committee on Education opportunities and demands for such profess- believes that the time has come for the expres- ional service. sion in our architecture of something beyond "The Directors also tendered to Govern- the purely utilitarian that might be called ment agencies promoting better small house either charm or beauty, but without which our in rais- building the assistance of the Institute creations fail to realize their full possibilities. of the ing the standards of va'ue by means "The Committee believes that this quality of competent architectural ser- employment is more likely to be embodied in our archi- vice." tecture when we recognize our debt to the

In the field of architectural design, there has past and the value of its lessons In meeting the developed during the economic depression a problem of today."

J oL'p -uecj^o HOL>(a_ L.«\ <*>•'. jT^-iL-JEf. Jo-Hjjjw

DRAWING BY STANLEY JOHNSON

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER With the Architects

NEW COUNTY BUILDINGS BAKERSFIELD ARCHITECT BUSY The Charities Commission of Alameda County has Charles H. Biggar, Haberfelde Building, Bakersfield, been authorized by the Board of Supervisors to enter has a considerable amount of school work in his into an agreement with Will G. Corlett, architect, Bank office, including an extension to the high school library of America building, Oakland, to prepare plans for building, a three-story structure with tile roof, esti- several additional county hospital buildings in hligh- mated to cost $90,000; an athletic field with grand- land Hospital grounds, the Fairmont hHospital, and the stand, etc., for the Kern County high school and a Arroyo Sanitarium, to be erected as WPA projects. new auditorium for the Standard School, the latter

The proposed buildings include a central clinic a $120,000 project. at the hlighland hHospital, central heating plant and dormitory building for the help in the Arroyo Sani- SACRAMENTO JUNIOR COLLEGE tarium, and a ward building at Fairmont. The Federal Bids are being taken for the second unit, consist- government has already earmarked upward of $410,- ing of an 1 8-classroom structure, to the Junior Col- 000 for part of the work. lege in Sacramento. The first unit costing $125,000 is

under construction. The architect, Harry J. De Vine, WATSONVILLE RESIDENCE has drawings fifty percent completed for two more units an assembly hall and wings for the arts, engi- A two-story modern style house is planned at Wat- — sonville for Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, from drawings by W. neering and music departments. W. Wurster, 260 California Street, San Francisco, who has also completed plans for a frame apartment GARDNER A. DAILEY BUSY building to be built on the south side of Bay Street, The office of Gardner A. Dailey is busy on several east of Hyde, San Francisco, for Nora Kenyon, at a new residence projects, besides alterations to the cost of $20,000. G. P. W. Jensen is the contractor. home of Reed Funston at 2672 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, and additions to the residence of Mr. and MARKET BUILDING Mrs. George Oppen at 3665 Washington Street, San Francisco. Martin J. Rist, Phelan Building, San Francisco, has awarded a contract for a two-story and basement market building for Joseph Capurro to be built at HILLSBOROUGH APARTMENTS

Columbus Avenue and Green Street, San Francisco. J. S. Gould, 251 Kearny Street, San Francisco, is

Mr. Rist is working on plans for several additional preparing preliminary drawings for a residence apart- dwellings in El Camino Park, San Jose, for the Pasetta ment building to be built on the Spreckels Estate at

Estate. The same office is also busy on sketches for Hillsborough, San Mateo County. Howard Spreckels a hospital. Is the owner. The improvements will cost in the neighborhood of $50,000. MILLER AND WARNECKE ACTIVE New work in the office of Miller & Warnecke, arch- PALO ALTO RESIDENCES itects, Financial Center Building, Oakland, includes a John K. Branner, Shreve Building, San Francisco, $10,000 steel and brick store building on Lakeshore has completed drawings for a $16,000 brick residence Boulevard, Oakland, a two-story Colonial house in for Dr. Eph Weiss, 1412 Tasso Street, Palo Alto. Walnut Creek for W. J. Chapman, and a Spanish Mr. Branner has also completed drawings for a style dwelling in Hayward. $10,000 Colonial home in Crescent Park, Palo Alto. for James Wallace. DESIGNING MANY RESIDENCES Chester H. Trelchel, 696 Cleveland Street, Oak- SANTA ROSA HOSPITAL land, has completed drawings for a Colonial dwelling A contract has been awarded to the P. J. Walker

in Oakmore Highlands, Oakland, for A. E. Fifield; a Company, San Francisco, to build a two story steel

six-room dwelling on Chelton Drive, Oakland, for E. frame hospital at Santa Rosa for Sonoma County for

Longfellow and an Early California residence in Red- $223,000. John I. Easterley, Exchange Building, Santa wood City for F. W. Freechtle. Rosa, is the architect.

FEBRUARY, 1936 BERKELEY RESIDENCE PERSONAL R. G. De Chene, 364 14th Street, Oakland, has GEO. WELLINGTON STODDARD, architect of

prepared drawings -for a $7500 residence to be built Seattle, and Mrs. Stoddard, spent the Christmas holi-

in Peralta Park, Berkeley, for Mr. and Mrs. Higbee days at Palm Springs.

Williams. HARRY E. HUDSON, of Seattle, attended the Rose The same architect has completed plans for a resi- Bowl game at Pasadena on New Years Day. Oakland, dence on Brann Street, near 65th Avenue, WILLIAM H. WEEKS and HAROLD H. WEEKS, a $6000 Spanish dwell- for Edward Henninger, and architects, announce the removal of their offices from Berkeley, for Leiand ing at Ward and Mllvia Streets, the Underwood Building to the Balboa Building, 593 S. hiawkins. Market Street, San Francisco.

COLUSA BANK BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO APARTMENTS Plans are being completed by the engineering de- R. R. Irvine, architect, of San Francisco, is prepar- partment of the Bank of America, San Francisco, for ing plans for a three-story stucco apartment building a one-story steel and concrete bank building at Colusa. in Marina District, San Francisco, having 18, two and L. hi. Nishkian, San Francisco, is the structural engi- three-room apartments. The same architect has com- neer. pleted working drawings for a three-story frame apartment building to be erected on the north side MERCED HOTEL of Taraval Street, west of 24th Avenue, San Fran- Plans have been completed by Messrs. Kent & cisco, at a cost of $16,000. Hass, San Francisco, for additions and alterations

to the El Capitan hlotel at Merced. Construction is DESIGN THE expected to go forward within thirty days. FURNITURE AND OF HOME The second part of R. M. Schindler's article on PACKING HOUSE FOR WINTERS "Furniture and the Modern House," the opening chapter of which appeared in this magazine in Decem- The Winters Dried Fruit Company will erect a new ber, will be published in the March number. The packing house from plans by Dragon & Schmidt, arch- subject of special furniture design to fit the type of itects, of Berkeley. The building will be part one and construction of private dwellings (particularly the part two stories, of reinforced concrete and will cover modern home) is discussed at length. ground area 60x230'.

$8000 DWELLING ATHLETIC FIELD Plans have been completed and a contract awarded Plans are being prepared by Charles H. Biggar, for the construction of a two-story stucco dwelling architect, Heberfelde building, Bakersfield, for an

near the Berkeley line in Contra Costa County for athletic field, including reinforced concrete bleachers,

V. A. Kimberley. The archi+ect is Warren C. Perry, etc., to be erected on the Lincoln High School campus 260 California Street, San Francisco. at a cost of about $100,000. An application for a Federal grant for financing has been filed. LIVE STOCK PAVILION New bids are being taken for a reinforced concrete THREE RESIDENCES live stock pavilion and race track in Visitacion Valley, F. L. Confer, 2812 Russell Street, Berkeley, reports County. The plans were prepared San Mateo by completion of plans for a California Colonial house W. D. Peugh, 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. in Piedmont for C. G. Morse; a two-story residence in Bids are scheduled to be opened Tuesday, March 17th. Piedmont Estates for Mr. Beebe and a $7000 resi-

dence in Lakeshore Highlands, Oakland, for Mr. Prost. ALAMEDA COUNTY BUILDINGS Several new buildings are planned this year for ' GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDING Alameda County. W. G. Corlett has been commis- Plans have been completed by William Mooser, sioned to prepare drawings for new units and addi- architect, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, for a tions to the Arroyo Sanitarium and Fairmont Hos- reinforced concrete grammar school to be erected in pital. Nevada City for the Nevada City Grammar School

District. The cost is estimated at $97,000. WILLIAMS & WASTELL BUSY

New work in the office of Williams & Wastell of Oakland, include a $12,000 California Colonial brick ELK HORN SCHOOL

veneer residence in Piedmont, a store building on A $16,000 frame school building is being designed Lakeshore Boulevard, Oakland, and a Mediterranean by Joseph Losekann of Stockton for the Elk Horn

style residence in Piedmont for Andrew Christ. School District.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER DR. ELWOOD MEAD Company, and finally, with the Columbia Steel Com- pany, in Dr. Elwood Mead, Commissioner U. S. Bureau of full charge of office and of all engineering,

Reclamation, since 1924, died at his home in Wash- contracting and erection in the Pacific Coast territory. ington, D. C, January 26, following soon after the Among the bridges to come under his charge were the celebration of his 78th birthday. hlis death was Carqulnez Straits Bridge, the Southern Pacific Railway attributed to thrombosis. Bridge at Suisun, California, and the new $70,000,000 State Highway Bridge across San Fran- Dr. Mead was closely identified with the develop- cisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, ment of the west for more than half a century as a now being completed. recognized expert on reclamation problems and ren- Mr. dered distinguished service as chief of the Reclama- Schneider was past president of the Engineer's Club tion Bureau. of San Francisco and past president of the San Francisco Section, American Society of Civil Engineers. hie was born at Patriot, Indiana, In 1858, and was His social affiliations Included membership In the graduated from Purdue University in 1882 with the Bohemian Club, Commonwealth Club of California, degree of bachelor of science and again in 1884 with Commercial Club of San Francisco, the Masonic bodies, the degree of master of science. hHe was later including the Shrine, and the Claremont Country Club. recipient of a degree in civil engineering from Iowa

State College in 1904 and in 1925 was made a doctor of laws by University of Michigan. WM. E. HIGSINS After his graduation at Purdue he spent a year with Death came to William E. HIgglns, one of San Jose's the U. S. Engineers as assistant and for several years best-known architects, January 26, following a held a professorship in Colorado Agricultural School. somewhat protracted Illness of acute lung congestion From 1888 to 1899 Dr. Mead was territorial and state and heart trouble. Mr. HIgglns succeeded to the engineer of Wyoming. For the next ten years he was business of Wolfe and HIgglns upon the death of Mr. chief of irrigation and drainage investigation, U. S. Wolfe some years ago. He designed many buildings Department of Agriculture and at the same time pro- in Santa Clara county, including public and com- fessor of irrigation practices at University of Cali- mercial structures and several hundred dwellings. The

fornia, Berkeley. deceased was a member of Golden Rule Lodge, F. & A. M. A widow and four children survive. In 1907 Dr. Mead was called to Australia as chairman of the Rivers and Waters Systems Commission of Victoria. Returning to America in 1915 he resumed CHINESE ARCHITECTURE his connection with University of California as pro- How Chinese architecture may be adapted to fessor of rural institutions. His appointment as com- modern-day American needs was discussed by Henry missioner. Bureau of Reclamation, was made by Presi- K. Murphy before members of the Oakland Forum at dent Coolidge April 24, 1924, and he held the position the City Club Theater recently. continuously until his death. In that period he super- Mr. Murphy was formerly architectural adviser to vised a long list of outstanding Federal reclamation the National Government of China when the City of projects, most important of which was the Boulder Nanking was laid out. Later he was architect for the Dam project. Nanking Revolutionists' Memorial group. His methods of combining Oriental and Occidental

modes of architecture have been employed In the con-

EDWARD J. SCHNEIDER struction of many commercial buildings In China. The

Edward John Schneider, 60, contracting manager lecture was Illustrated with pictures and lantern slides.

of the bridge and structural department of the Colum- Mr. Murphy's lecture was the first In a series dealing

bia Steel Company, subsidiary of the United States with art and architecture, to be held under the club's

Steel Corporation, died January 25 in Berkeley, fol- auspices. lowing a week's illness with heart disease.

Mr. Schneider was born In Pontlac, Illinois, where he NEUTRA AGAIN HONORED received his early education, later graduating from the Announcement that Richard J. Neutra, Internation- University of Illinois, College of Sanitary Engineering. ally known architect, has been appointed a member of He spent his entire business life in the design, con- the summer session staff of the University of California tracting, and erection of fabricated steel structures. at Los Angeles, has been made by Dr. J. Harold Wil. Including many of the most important steel buildings Hams, dean of the session. and highway and railroad bridges in the West. The U. C. L. A. summer session begins June 27 In May, 1907, he moved to San Francisco to become and closes August 7. Most of the classes are to be contracting manager, first for the American Bridge open to everyone interested, regardless of previous Company, then for the United States Steel Products college training.

FEBRUARY, 1936 HOME BUILDING COSTS VARY IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY

first floor, three bedrooms on the second floor and an

attic. The exterior is of wide-board siding with brick nil T COSTS the buyer of a home nearly and stucco trim. A one-car, attached garage is in- half again as much in one section of the country as cluded. Unusual materials and construction features it does in another to build the same identical one- are avoided. The design meets the requirements of family house, according to the Federal Home Loan the average municipal building code. This home might Bank Review. The same home that can be erected in be placed generally In the $6,000 price class, excluding Columbia, South Carolina, for only $4,337, would cost land value. as much as $6,442, in Providence, Rhode Island. The basic data consists of prevailing unit prices of Exactly the same dwelling can be constructed in materials and labor, compiled throughout the country Baltimore for $5,028, but costs $6,033 in Cumberland, by the personnel of the Reconditioning Division of the Maryland, only 125 miles away. In Chicago, the same Home Owners' Loan Corporation, which includes archi- can be bought for $6,361, In Hartford, Connec- home tects and builders familiar with local construction ticut for $5,846, In Oklahoma City for $5,756, in practices. Items for overhead expense and contrac- Pensacola for $5,095 and in Colorado Springs fo'- tor's profit are added. $5,972.

These comparisons are revealed by preliminary re- HEAR EARTHQUAKE TALKS ports of the construction cost of an identical dwelling, The Structural Engineers' Association of Northern received from 27 cities in all parts of the United California, held their first regular meeting for 1936 at States, which points out that labor supply, trans- the Engineers' Club, January 14. Following an ex- tation facilities and accessibility of materials play the cellent dinner the members and a number of invited most important parts in determining the local cost of guests, listened to a highly interesting and instructive building the average small home. The figures cover discussion of the Helena earthquakes. only the actual construction outlays and do not Include The speakers were F. P. Ulrich, U. S. Coast and home-mortgage financing costs, which vary widely in Geodetic Survey; H. M. Engles of the Board of Fire different sections. Underwriters and H. J. Brunnier. All three spoke Recognizing the vital influence of construction cost's from first hand information, having visited Helena on the volume of home building and the activity of during the progress of the quakes. Mr. Brunnier is mortgage lending operations, the Board is developing supervising some rehabilitation work in the area for first exact index ever attempted to cover the local the the Helena Board of Education. Mr. Engles seemed trend of cost of small home construction in every part thoroughly conversant with conditions in Montana. of the country, represented by actual data in some 70 Among other things he made it very emphatic that Current costs of materials and labor will be in- cities. much of the damage to schools and other public cluded, and the rising or falling trend thus disclosed at buildings was due not so much to faulty materials and three-month intervals for the guidance of prospective poor construction as to inferior design. Many of the owners and the executives of home-financing In- home older buildings seemed to stand up under the up- stitutions. heavals better than the newer ones.

"The possible uses of accurate local Indexes of The Association has reelected John B. Leonard small-house construction costs are many," the Reviev/ president for 1936. says. "The movement of building costs, in relation to I rentals, contracts or expands the volume of home con- K. E. PARKER NAMED PRESIDENT struction. It is, therefore, a factor that must be known The directors of Central California Chapter, Asso- to all agencies concerned in the building or financing ciated General Contractors, have elected K. E. Par- of homes—home-financing institutions, builders, mater- ker, San Francisco building contractor, president of the ial dealers, and real estate operators. This is particu- Chapter for 1936. Mr. Parker succeeds Geo. Green- larly true if the home is being built to sell. In addition, wood of the P. J. Walker Co., who has been president current costs of construction determine the replace- since the Chapter was organized in 1934. ment cost of any existing building, and so must be Other new officers are: John Cahill, vice-president, included in the making of any appraisal." and R. Walberg of Lindgren and Swinerton, treasurer.

The typical home specified as the standard of com- W. E. Hague is secretary-manager.

parison is a detached house of 24,000 cubic feet vol- The Chapter board of directors for 1936 Is composed ume of sound design and workmanship, containing a of John Cahill, George Greenwood, H. H. HI!p, K. E. living room, dining room, lavatory and kitchen on the Parker and R. Walberg.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ARCHITECTS CONVENE THIS YEAR IN HISTORIC CITY OF WILLIAMSBURG, VA.

TACOMA BUILDING PROGRAM

The Tacoma Society of Architects is lending enthu- HE A. I. A. Board of Directors have siastic support to a $5,000,000 residential building convention com- adopted the recommendation of the program backed by the Pacific First Federal Savings mittee that the 68th convention be held at Williams- and Loan Association of Tacoma. Va., 5 to 8. burg, May Architects participating in the program are: Roland Hotel accommodations In Williamsburg are Inade- E. Borhek; Heath, Gove and Bell; A. Gordon Lumm; quate for an Institute convention; but at Old Point Mock and Morrison; Silas E. Nelsen; Russell, Lance and Comfort, 38 miles distant over good roads, the modern Murl; Stanley T. Shaw; and Sutton, Whitney and Hotel Chamberlin has adequate accommodations. It Dugan. is proposed to establish headquarters at Old Poir"+ Comfort and hold sessions there and at Williams- NEW BOOKLET burg using automobiles busses for transportation be- Rlchards-Wilcox Manufacturing Company of Aurora, tween the two points. Illinois, have recently issued a very interesting and The significance of Williamsburg as a center of well arranged brochure, "DOORWAYS." historical and architectural interest may be recalled It fittingly illustrates several of the doors and door- by the following brief description: way hardware manufactured by this company. The wide-awake In 1699, following the burning of Jamestown, the architect and builder, as well as the gen- General Assembly passed an Act directing the build- eral contractor, will find It worth their while to write for ing of a Capitol and the City of Williamsburg at what a copy of the brochure which will be mailed Dromptly was then known as Middle Plantation. Previously, the upon receipt of request. main building of the College of William and Mary, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, had been built at SAN DIEGO CHAPTER Middle Plantation. This building became the western San Diego Chapter, The American Institute of terminus of the main axis of the city plan, the new Architects, held its annual meeting January 16, and Capitol building forming the eastern terminus. A elected the following officers: President, Frank L. cross axis is terminated at the north by the Palace of Hope, Jr.; Vice-President, Ray Alderson; Secretary the Royal Governors. The plan is notable for its Sam W. Hamlll, and Treasurer, Richard S. Requa. openness and for the effective placing of its public William Templeton Johnson and William P. Lodge buildings. were elected to the Board of Directors. The city thus founded grew rapidly and soon became the center of the political, educational and social

life of the Virginia colony and held this preeminence PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATES the until 1780, when the seat of government was removed At last meeting of the California State Board to Richmond. Virginia during this period was the most of Architectural Examiners (Northern Division) Pro- visional Certificates wealthy and Influential of the colonies and its Capitol were granted to the following: Chester City reflected in Its architecture and its gardens the O. Root, Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte; culture and refinement of the best element of the Robert E. RIggs, Route 80, Berkeley; Irving F. Brown,

colonists. 1408 Burlingame Avenue, Burlingame.

The Civil War and a period of prolonged depression thereafter contributed largely to the decline of SKETCH COMPETITION

this once distinguished city and many of its precious Preparations for holding the annual Summer Sketch- buildings and gardens disappeared. ing Competition for Washington architectural students and draftsmen are being of The story of the restoration of Williamsburg is too made by George Gove well known to require retelling. Tacoma, chairman of the educational subcommittee of

the Washington State Chapter, A. I. A. Prizes will be The Institute Directors believe that the holding of offered In the several different classes. the convention in this environment will make a strong appeal to the membership. The cooperation of Wil-

liamsburg Restoration, Inc., and the College of William MUSIC HALL

and Mary is assured. The latter has reserved Phi Working drawings have been prepared by Wm. H. Beta Kappa Hall for the convention meetings and has and Harold Weeks, architects, Balboa Building, San invited the Institute to be their guests at luncheon on Francisco, for a reinforced concrete and brick veneer

one of the convention days. music hall in Santa Rosa.

FEBRUARY, 1936 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER China In private practice and publicly as architectural advisor The regular monthly meeting of Northern California to the Chinese Government. Current Chapter, the American Institute of Architects, was Chinese architecture was the theme of his talk. The audience was taken held at the St. Germain Restaurant, San Francisco, back a few centuries Tuesday evening, January 28; President Will G. Cor- by lantern slide illustrations of the old Chinese work, while the salient features In that lett, presiding. embodied era were pointed out. The current work which was next shown Guests included Henry Killam Murphy, A. LA, Prof. was referred to as the Rennalssance of Chinese Archi- Knight and Messrs. Funk and Graybar. tecture. In this. It was observed, the dominant Chinese

Prof. Cyril Knight of the University of New Zealand characteristics prevailed, with modification suited tc at Auckland, was introduced by Mr. Hays, Mr. Graybar modern form of construction and modern requirements of Wisconsin, was Introduced by Mr. Evers. J.H.M.

The Committee on Practice through its chairman, Mr. Gutterson, presented a tentative report on the MODERNIZATION BRINGS PROFIT proposed schedule of minimum fees which had been Norman J. Rodder, In Hotel Management, writes: assigned to it for study. It was stated that the Income of a Chicago hotel was jumped from $150 schedule had been approved by Southern California to $1,000 a month by modernization. It is a four- Chapter, and conditionally by the State Association, story building. Designed as a bachelor hotel, with subject to the approval of Northern California 15 rooms and one bath on each floor, the owner Chapter. complained she couldn't even give the rooms away. favored the principle of higher fees The report An architect advised her to cut Its 60 rooms to 40, without committment to definite percentages and using the lost 20 to make a bathroom and closet for with suggested 6% as the minimum basis reasonable each new unit. He did this by splitting In half the higher fees for types of buildings offering greater center one of every three adjoining rooms, thus put- difficulty In performance of service. ting the new bathrooms back to back, saving labor

The members were asked to express their re-action and piping. They got white fixtures against walls of to the schedule so that reply could be made to the rose ceramic tile, bordered In black, every tub with other organizations. Mr. Evers felt that the recom- shower. Bedrooms were redecorated and refurnished mendation of the Chapter should be more specific In latest style. Work started on the fourth floor, which was fully rented and stated his approval of the schedule In toto. before the third could be completed. Messrs. Johnson, Hays, Garren and others offered Entire modernization, including Improvement of heat- pertinent observations. ing plant, cost $7,500, which was financed by the plumbing contractors, who agreed to take $300 a Mr. Evers moved that the recommended Schedule month in payment, with interest, thus making the of Fees as proposed by Southern California Chapter changes pay for themselves out of Increased rentals be approved as a reasonable charge for architectural In less than three years. services. The motion was carried and the committee was thanked for Its efforts in the matter.

The death of Harris Osborn, Associate, was an- MODERNIZING FARMHOUSES Ways of bringing farmhouses up-to-date are des- nounced as having occurred October 22, 1935. It cribed in was Instructed that a committee be appointed to a new Farmers' Bulletin No. 1749, Modern- draft a fitting resolution of respect. izing Farmhouses, issued by the U. S. Department of

Agriculture. It contains comprehensive Information on The motion of Mr. MIchelsen was unanimously costs and details on remodeling to meet a variety oF approved that the State Department of Public Works needs. be requested to establish a district office in San In it are floor plans, photographs or sketches of 13 Francisco for the convenience of the profession and typical farmhouses which have been remodeled by construction industry in checking plans for schools and their owners, with descriptions and costs of the work. other public works. There are also floor plans, worked out by state agricul- Mr. Bakewell recommended that the Competition tural colleges, for remodeling five common types of Committee consider the advisability of listing the houses. Alternate plans for most of the houses sug- names of jurors In competition programs. This knowl- gested by the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering are he thought, with edge, might have weight an architect also shown as well as floor plans of the original homes. In deciding whether to enter or not. The committee The plans are of typical farmhouses In various sec- was Instructed accordingly. tions of the country and are for one- and two-storied

Business was brought to a close at this point and structures. Sizes of houses range from 3 rooms to 10, Henry Killam Murphy, A.I.A., was Introduced as the the latter allowing separate apartments for two guest speaker. Mr. Murphy has spent many years In families.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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Estimator's Guide Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc.

Amounts given are figuring prices and are made up from average quotations furnished by material houses to San Francisco contractors.

NOTE—Add 2'/2% Sale Tax on all materials but not labor.

All prices and wages quoted are for San Cement, 2.50 per bbl. in paper sks. Heating Francisco and the Bay District. There may Cement (f.o.b. Job, S. F.) $3.00 per bbl. Average, $1.90 per sq. ft. of radiation, be slight fluctuation of prices in the interior Cement (f.o.b. Job, Oak.) $3.00 per bbl. according to conditions. and southern part of the state. Freight Rebate of 10 cents bbl. cash in 15 days. cartage, at least, must be added in figuring Calaveras White $6.00 per bbl. Iron — Cost of ornamental iron, cast iron, country work. Medusa White $8.00 per bbl. etc., depends on designs. Forms, Labors average $30.00 per M.

Averages cost of concrete in -^lace, exclu- Bond — 1'/2% amount of contract. sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft. Lumber (prices delivered to bidg. site).

4-inch concrete basement floor No. I common $33.00 per M

No. 2 common _ 28.00 per M I2I/2C to 14c per s^. ft. Selection O. P. common 38.00 per M Brickwork 4/2 inch Concrete Basement floor 2x4 No. 3 form lumber 24.00 per M

. laid, 1x4 No. 2 flooring VG , 60.00 per M Common, $35 to $40 per 1000 (ac- I4'/2C to 16c per sq. ft. 1x4 No. 3 flooring VG 50.00 per M cording to class of work). 2-Inch rat-proofing 7'/2C per sq. ft. 1x6 No. 2 flooring VG 60.00 per M Face, $75 to $90 per 1000 laid, (according MAx4 and 6. No. 2 flooring 65.00 per M Concrete Steps -- $1.40 per lin. ft. to class of work). Slash grain Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.10 1x4 No. 2 flooring $45.00 per M 1x4 No. 3 flooring 38.00 per M lin. ft. Dampproofing and Waterproofing No. I common run T. & G 31.00 per M Brick Walls, using pressed brick on edge, Lath 7.00 per M

Two-coat work, I 5c per yard. ft. (Foundations extra.) 60c sq. price quoted) — Membrane waterproofing—4 layers of sat- Shingles (add cartage to Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $ .75 bdle. urated felt, $4.00 per square. Redwood, No. I $1.10 per ft. Redwood, No. 2 90 per bdle. sq. Hot coating work, $1.80 per square. Red Cedar 1.00 per bdle. Common f.o.b. cars, $12.00 iob cartage. Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San Face, f.o.b. cars. $45.00 to $50.00 per Francisco Warehouse. 1000, carload lots. Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building) — HOLLOW TILE FIREPROOFING (f.o.b. job) 13-16x31/," T & G Maple.... $120.00 M ft. 132.00 ft. Electric Wiring—$12.00 to $15.00 per outlet I 1-16x21/4" T & G Maple M 3x12x12 in $ 84.00 per M for conduit work (including switches). y8x3'/2 sq. edge Maple 140.00 M ft. 4x12x12 in 94.50 per M 5-16x2" Knob and tube average $7.00 per outlet, 13-16x21/4" 3/8x2" 6x12x12 in 126.00 per M T&G T&G Sq.Ed. including switches. 8x12x12 in 225.00 per M CIr. Qtd. Oak $200.00 M $150.00 M $180 M Sel. Otd. Oak 140.00 M 120.00 M 135 M HOLLOW BUILDING TILE (f.o.b. iob) CIr. Pla. Oak 135.00 M 107.00 M 120 M Sel Pla. Oak 1-20.00 M 88.00 M 107 M carload lots. Elevators Clear Maple -... 140.00 M 100.00 M 8x12x51/2 $ 94.50 Laying & Finishing 13c ft. II ft. 10 ft. Prices vary according 6x12x51/2 73.50 to capacity, speed Wage— Floor layers. $7.50 per day. and type. Consult elevator companies. Discount Building Paper— 5%. Average cost of installing an automatic _..$3.50 1 ply per 1000 ft. roll _ elevator In four-story building, $2800; 2 ply per 1000 ft. roll - 5.00 direct automatic, about $2700. 3 ply per 1000 ft. roll 6.25 Composition Floors— 18c to 35c per sq. ft. Brownskin, 500 ft. roll 5.00 10.00 In large quantities, 16c per sq. ft. laid. Brownskin Pro-tect-o-mat. 1000 ft. roll Sisalkraft, 500 ft. roll 5.00 Ivlosaic Floors—80c per sq. ft. Excavation Sash cord com. No. 7 $1.20 per 100 ft. Sash cord com. No. 8 - 1.50 per 100 ft. Duraflex Floor—23c to 30c sq. ft. Sand, 50 cents; clay or shale, 80c per yard. Sash cord spot No. 7 1.90 per 100 ft. per ft. Rubber Tile—50c per sq. ft. Sash cord spot No. 8 _ 2.25 100 Teams. $10.00 per day. Sash weights cast iron, $50.00 ton. ferano Floors 45c to 60c pe sq- — Trucks, $18 to $25 per day. Nails, $3.50 base. Sash weights, $45 per ton. rerano Steps— $ 1 .60 lin. ft. Above figures are an average wUhout water. Steam shovel work In large quantities, less; hard material, such as rock, Millwork— Concrete Work (material at San Francisco will run considerably more. bunkers)—Quotations below 2000 lbs. to O. P. $100.00 per 1000. R. W., $106.00 the ton. $2.00 delivered. per 1000 (delivered). No. 3 rock, at bunkers.- $1.80 per ton Fire Escapes Double hung box window frames, average.

No. 4 rock, at bunkers 1 .75 per ton with trim, $6.50 and up, each. Elliott Ten-foot balcony, with stairs, $75.00 per top gravel, at bunkers 2.IOperton trim (single panel, balcony, average. Doors, including 1% Washed gravel, at bunkers . 2.10 per ton in. Oregon pine) $8.00 and up, each. Elliott top gravel, at bunkers 2.10 per ton Doors, Including trim (five panel, 1% in. City gravel, at bunkers 1.75 per ton Oregon pine) $6.50 each. River sand, at bunkers 1.80 per ton Glass (consult with manufacturers) — Delivered bank sand 1.20 Screen doors, $4.00 each. cu. yd. Double strength window glass, 15c per square foot. Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft. ^ofe—Above prices are subject to discount Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high, of lOc per ton on invoices paid on or be- Quartz Lite, 50c per square foot. per lineal ft., $6.50 each. fore the 15th of month, following delivery. Plate 75c per square foot. per lineal foot. Art, $1.00 up per square foot. Dining room cases, $7.00 JAND Rough carpentry, warehouse heavy Wire (for skylights), 35c per sq. (tiol Labor— Del Monte, $1.75 to $3.00 per ton. framing (average), $12.00 per M. Obscure glass, 26c square fool. Han Shell Beach (car lots, f.o.b. Lake Ma- For smaller work average, $27.50 to $35.00 iolla), $2.75 to $4.00 per ton. Note— Add extra for setlinq per 1000.

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Mdrble (See Dealers) 2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath $ .80 Redwood Shingles, $11.00 per square — 3 coats, metal lath and plaster 1.25 place. Keene cement on metal lath 1.30 Painting Ceilings with 3/4 hot roll channels metal lath .75 Cedar Shingles, $10 sq. In place. Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath Recoat, with Gravel, $3.00 per sq. Two-coot work 29c per yard p lastered 1 .50 Slate, from $25.00 to $60.00 per sq. laiu Three-coat work 40c per yard Shingle partition % channel lath I side 85 Singfe partition 3/, channel lath 2 sides 2 according to color and thickness. Cold Water Painting lOcperyard inches thick 2.75 Whitewashing 4c per yard 4-mch double partition 2/4 channel lath 2

sides 1 .30 Turpentine, 80c per gal., in cans and 75c Sheet Metal- 4-inch double partition 2/4 channel lath 2 Windows— Metal, $2.00 a sq. foot. per gal. in drums. sides plastered 3.00 Fire doors (average). Including hardwan Raw Linseed Oil—80c gal. In bbls. Plastering — Exterior Boiled Linseed Oil—85c gal. in bbls. Yard $2.00 per sq. ft. concrete Medusa Pctland Cennent Paint, 20c per 2 coats cement finish, brick or wa 1 1 $ 1 . 1 lb. 2 coats Atlas cement, brick or concrete Skylights- wall 1.35 Copper, sq. ft. (not glazed). Carter or Dutch Boy White Lead in Oil (in 90c 3 coats cement finish, No. 18 gauge wire steel kegs). Galvanized Iron, 25c sq. ft. (not glazedti mesh 1 .50 Per Lb. 3 coats Medusa finish, No. 18 gauge wire mesh 2.00 I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight 103/40 Steel —Structural Wood lath, $6.00 per 1000. 500 lbs. and less than I ton lots lie 2.5-lb. metal lath (dipped) 17 $100 ton (erected), this quotation is, a Less than 500 lb. lots III/2C 2.5-lb. metal lath (galvanized) 20 average for comparatively small quani 3.4. lb. metal lath (dipped) 22 Dutch Boy Dry Red Lead and Litharge (In titles. Light truss work higher. Plail 3.4-lb. metal lath (galvanized) 28 steel kegs). %-inch hot roll channels, $72 per ton. beams and column work in large quait Finish plaster, $18.90 ton; in paper sacks. I ton lots, 100 lb. kegs, net wt 102/40 titles $80 to $90 per ton cost of steet Dealer's commission, $1.00 off above quotations. 500 lb. and less than I ton lots lie average building, $89.00. $13.85 (rebate lOc sack). Less than 500 lb. lots Il'/2C Lime, t.o.b. warehouse, $2.25 bbl.; cars, $2.15 Steel Reinforcing Red Lead In Oil (in steel kegs) Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.), $16.00 ton. Wall Board 5 ply, $50.00 per M. $85.00 per ton, set, (average). I ton lots, 100 lb. wt. I2I/2C kegs, net. Hydrate Lime, $19.50 ton.

500 lb. and less than I ton lots I2I/2C Plasterers Wage Scale $1.25 per hour Lathers Scale 1.25 per hour Stone Less than 500 lb. lots 13c Wage Hod Carriers Wage Scale I.IO per hour Note Accessibility and conditions cause Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in placa — $1.60 to $2.00 sq. yard Composition Stucco— Sandstone, Blue, Boisil wide variance of costs. average $4.00, (applied) $3.00 sq. ft. in place. Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. Patent Chimneys Plumbing place. 6-inch $1.00 lineal foot From $65.00 per fixture up, according to 8-inch 1.50 lineal foot grade, quantity and runs. Store Fronts 10-inch 1.75 lineal foot Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner 12-inch 2.00 lineal foot Roofing center and around sides, will averao 75c per lineal foot. "Standard" tar and gravel, $6.00 per sq. Plastering — Interior for 30 sqs. or over. Note—Consult with agents. Yard Less than 30 sqs. $6.50 per sq. 1 coat, brown mortar only, wood lath $0.60 2 coats, lime mortar hard fI,Tish, wood lath .70 Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square. Tile— Floor, Wainscot, Etc.— (See Dealers*!

SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING TRADES WAGE SCALE 1

Established by The 1 Tipartial Wage Board November 9, 1932. Effective on all wo rk January 1, 1933, to remain in effect until June 30, 1933, and for so

This scale is based on an ght-hour day and employees of superior skill and era ft knowledge mc unts t forth herein. Journeyman Journeyman ...leymfi CRAFT Mechanics CRAFT Mechanics CRAFT Mechankft Asbestos Workers $6.40 Iron Workers (Bridge and Structural) $9.60 Stair Builders $7.» Bricklayers 9.00 Iron Workers (Hoisting Engineers) 10.00 Stone Cutters, Soft and Granite *.» Bricklayers' Hodcarriers 5.60 Laborers (6.day week) 5.00 Stone Setters, Soft and Granite .. 8.(» Cabinet Workers (Outside) 7.20* Lathers, Channel Iron 8.00 Stone Derrickmen Caisson Workers (Open) Water Work 8.00 Lathers, All Other 6.80 Tile Setters Carpenters 9.00 Marble Setters 8.00 Tile Setters' Helpers Cement Finishers Marble Setters' Helpers 5.00 7.20 Tile, Cork and Rubber Cork Insulation Workers Millwrights 7.20* 7.20 Welders, Structural Steel Frame on Buildings 9.61 Electrical Workers 8.00 Mosaic and Terrazzo Workers (Outside) 7.20 Welders, All Others on Buildings 8.W. Electrical Fixture Hangers 7.00 Mosaic and Terrazzo Helpers 5.00 Auto Truck Drivers— Less than 2,500 lbs. Elevator Constructors . 8.68 Painters 7.00 Auto Truck Drivers—2,500 lbs. to 4,500 lbs. t.Ok Elevator Constructors' Helpers . . , 6.08 Painters, Varnishers and Polishers (Outside).. 7.00 Truck Drivers—4,500 lbs. to 6,500 lbs 4.51 Engineers, Portable and Hoisting 8.00 Pile Drivers and Wharf Builders 8.00 Auto lbs. and over 7.0^ Glass Workers (All Classifications) 6. 80 Pile Drivers Engineers 9.00 Auto Truck Drivers—6,500 5.51 Hardwood Floormen 7.20' Plasters and Hodcarriers (See wage scale General Teamsters, I Horse Housemovers 6.40 under Plastering). General Teamsters, 2 Hvirses W Housesmiths, 8.00 Architectural Iron (Outside) . 7.20 Plumbers General Teamsters, 4 Horses «J* Housesmiths, Reinforced Concrete, or Rodmen 7.20 Roofers (All classifications) 6.40 Plow Teamsters, 4 Horses t.5» Sheet Metal Workers 7.20 Sprinkler Fitters 9.00 Scraper Teamsters, 2 Hors 'Established by Spe Steam Fitters 8.00 Scraper Teamsters, 4 Horses - i-Oi GENERAL WORKING CONDITIONS mi' 1. Eight hours shall constitute a day's k for first four hours after the first eight hours, time Any work performed on such lob: after all crafts, except as otherwise noted. and one-half. All time thereafter shall be paid night shall be paid time and oni time. Laborers), Sun- four hours of overtime and double 2. Where less than eight hours are worked pro double Saturday (except after (provided, that if a new cre'i is ei rata rates for such shorter period shall be paid. days and Holidays from 12 midnight of the preceding day, shall be paid double time. Ir- ployed on Saturdays, Sundays or Holidal 3. Plasterers' Hodcarriers, Bricklayers' Hodcarri- respective of starting time, overtime for Ce- which has not worked during the five preeo-l ers, Roofers' Laborers and Engineers, Portable ment Finishers shall not commence until after ing working days, such crew shall be pai Hoisting, shall start minutes before and 15 eight hours of work. time and one-half. No iob can be considei other workmen, both at morning and at noon. as an emergency iob until it has been re( straight 4. Five days, consisting of not more than eight 10. On Saturday Laborers shall be paid tered with the Industrial Association and hours a day, on Monday to Friday Inclusive, time for an eight-hour day. determination has been made that the shall constitute a week's work. falls within the terms of this section). 11. Where two shifts are worked In any twenty- 5. The wages set forth herein shall be considered four hours, shift time shall be straight time. 14. Recognized holidays to be: New Year's M net ages. Where three shifts are worked, eight hours' Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Da pay shall be paid for seven hours on the sec- 6. Except as noted the above rates of pay apply Admission Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christm ond and thircT shifts. only to work performed at the job site. Day. 7. Transportation costs in excess of twenty-five 12. All work, except as noted in paragraph 13, report for work, for whom - cents each way shall be paid by the contractor. shall be performed between the hours of 8 15. Men ordered to employment is provided shall be entitled i 8. Traveling time In excess of one and one-half A. M. and 5 P. M. two hours' pay. hours each way shall be paid for at straight 13. In emergencies, or where premises cannot be time rates. at' vacated until the close of business, men_ re- 16. This award shall be effective in the City 9. Overfime shall be paid as follows: For the porting for work shall work at straight time. County of San Francisco,

NOTE: Provision of paragraph 13 appearing in bra( kers (Outside), Hardwood Floormen, Millwrights,

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEE,, FIREPROOFING OF STRUCTURAL STEEL

by S. H. Ingberg The man nlio k/k.s/xt.s doicii a ivell About the ^oods he has to sell The need for some form of fire protection for metal on't the gleaming, golden dollar: members became evident in the early days of metal- W reap framed construction following fires producing general Like one who climbs a tree and hollers. collapse of unprotected structures. This yielding under load at elevated temperatures should be expected for structural steel, considering that rolling is done at ^RUE today as in April, 1905 when temperatures well below those to which it may be this homely bit of wisdom was heated if exposed unprotected in building fires. printed in Volume One, Number One of The strength of structural steel under short-time THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. It Is quite probable, too, that the very tests in tension, and in compression for relatively first advertisement was delivered "from stable sections, is higher in the temperature range the tree tops" . . . Picture caveman Ig F than at ordinary temperatures, the 300 to 600° with his stock of selected rocks, the increase being as much as 25 percent at temperatures sharpest for use as axe heads, the heavier near 450 to 500" F. This, however, has no decided ones for cave walls, rude fireplaces and such. There were no newspapers, radios significance as far as fire resistance of unprotected (lucky Ig), nor magazines In those days. members is concerned, since exposed in any fire of The only way in which Mr. Ig could make consequental import, they would attain higher temper- known his wares and attract cave-dwellers atures in a comparatively short time. However, this from surrounding hills to come and trade property gives in effect an added factor of safety for meat, skins and maybe wives, for supplies the Ig Materials Co. (the orig- members that are protected so that they will not from inal building supply house) was to climb attain temperatures exceeding these limits. a tree and holler.

The main object of structural protections is to pre- So down through history . . . Paul Revere vent the of in occurrence temperatures the metal that with his horse, the town crier with his induce failure under the supported loads. For recog- bell, the redskin with his smoke-signal nized design working stresses, this means that average broadcast (first blanket coverage) . . . the evolution of the advertising medium temperatures over the stressed sections of structural continued. steel members must be maintained below about I000°F. This has been confirmed by tension and com- It was not until the year 1905, that the then adolescent Western building Indus- pression tests of steel specimens and also by fire tests try was given a much needed monthly of building members. architectural journal. In the format of

It was formerly usual in public regulations such as THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. Since then building In the West has building codes, to require a minimum uniform thickness steadily advanced (excepting the recent of protection irrespective of type of material. As respite while prosperity was "on strike") knowledge increased the value of on the materials and this publication has grown with it applied, as judged by performance in representative faithfully mirrored development and fire tests, the more effective insulations were required achievement, during the more than thirty Intervening years. The resultant widely to be applied in less thickness than the others. Of

recognized medium . . . reaching all fac- late years, thickness requirements except as backed tors (architects, engineers, contractors, by results of tests, have been in superseded part by owners) in the specification and purchase

performance requirements in terms of fire resistance of building materials ... is available to

developed In prescribed tests. While this places the those firms planning aggressive sales promotion during the coming months. materials on a fairer basis with respect to each other,

unless care is taken in setting performance limits, Incidentally, your advertisement In THE protections may be prescribed not commensurate with ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, far from a mere whisper," will be a good healthy the fire severities to be expected In given locations. "holler" heard by (or rather, read by) a While much remains to be done on development of substantial proportion of all your pros-

basis for estimating fire severity, judicious application pects In the allied building Interests.

of available data will enable the desired results to be attained with the use of the least bulk, weight, and cost of protecting materials. The methods of application as well as the properties of the materials are THE ARCHITECT & ENGINEER important in this respect. Thus, depending on choice 68 POST STREET SAN FRANCISCO of aggregates. Identical columns protected with a 832 W. 5TH STREET LOS ANGELES

2-inch thickness of Portland cement concrete will

-EBRUARY I93t MODELS DEPICT DEVELOPMENT OF THE DETACHED DWELLING

Sumatra and Borneo still use this plan of building

O,F SPECIAL appeal to those whose construction. interests lie in the planning or construction of homes Egyptian House is an exhibit demonstrating the development of the detached dwelling, at the New York Museum of Moving up some 8,000 years, the second unit in the Science and Industry In the R. C. A. Building, 30 exihibit shows an Egyptian house of about 4,000 B.C. Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. The home of a wealthy Egyptian has been chosen for A series of eleven models, built to the scale of one- this illustration, a structure equivalent to what might

quarter inch to the foot by Helen and Hugh Perrin, be a $50,000 house today. Set in the desert, against a

of Boston, shows the progression of the housing idea background of pyramids and sand hills, this flat-roofed,

from the perched-on-stilts dwellings of river and jungle three-sided building Is surprisingly surrounded by life thousands of years before Christ, to the home of green shrubbery and gay flowers, the latter as charac- the well-to-do 1936 suburbanite. Each model repre- teristic of a home of this era as the stone or sundried

sents a sharply distinctive step in the history of home- mud which built the house Itself. The ancient Egyp-

building. tians, it is reported, were so fond of flowers and growing things that they transported earth for long A typical Neolithic Lake village of about 12,000 distances in order to make their gardens In the midst B.C. begins the series. Roughly constructed of plaited of the desert. The interior court, enclosed on three twigs, straw, reed or leaves, this primitive home stands sides by the body of the house and its two wings, on a high platform well out from the shore of lake or testifies to the outdoor life led by the people of that river so that a bridge connecting with the land could land and time. In the midst of the court stands the be pulled up when necessary for defense. A single family hearth for cooking, off to one side Is a religious large platform accommodates several houses, a number niche, while a shaded loggia afforded opportunity for of families occupying each house. The tiny figure of rest and relaxation. A bed on the flat roof, reached a man outside one of the houses, bent over one of the by an outside staircase, shows where most of the coils of fish line scattered about the platform, illus- sleeping was done. trates the main occupation of the community—fishing through holes in the platform. Occasionally, as indi- Also built around a court, but far more sheltered cated by a man putting out to sea in a rough boat from the weather and definitely designed for indoor in a corner of the model, the fishing was carried on in living rather than the Egyptian opposite, is the Roman the open water. Traces of ancient villages of this type house of about 400 A.D., which is the third model in are still to be found along the Congo, the Amazon the display. A special feature to be noted is the and other large rivers, and primitive tribes of Java, construction of the roofs, sloping toward a central

opening, so that rain might be diverted into the pool FIREPROOFING OF STRUCTURAL STEEL in the center of the courtyard. (Concluded from Page 63) develop fire resistance ranging from M/2 to 7 hours. The fourth model is that of two Saxon houses, three

A large range obtains also for tile and block pro- hundred years later. One Is little more than a lean-to tections, methods of application being particularly shelter, built of forked sticks with a roof of reeds important. covered with sod. Grass, growing freely on the sod

It is also noted that aside from the minimum require- of the roof, offered good grazing to the family pig

ments for safety, which it is the intent of building and goats, and the tiny figure of one of the latter codes to achieve and which concerns mainly prevention perched on the roof above the head of the house- of major collapse, protections can applied that will be holder sitting outside the door, shows that they availed greatly decrease the fire damage to the structural themselves readily of the privilege. The second house members and the protective materials as well. Here In this unit was evidently constructed by the owner at also properties of the materials as well as manner of a later and more prosperous period of his life. A application must be considered. The degree of pro- long, low building, designed with a special eye to the tection is also Important since the lower the tempera- of an increasing number of oxen, its ture attained in the metal, the less destructive effects accommodation should be expected from differential expansion between door had a fiigh threshold and low head so that the the portions of a member and between individual visitor must stoop to enter and. In this highly unstra- members of a structure. getlc position, could be dispatched easily with a blow

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from a club if the home-owner was not attracted by elegance in the American scene. An "old-fashioned" the looks of his caller. A small third building, built house, the observer says of it today, passing It by for on a high platform, stands at one side, and was used architectural types closer to his own generation. A partly as a storehouse and partly as a retreat for the bird house high on a pole, and a square summer house, ladies of the household during the day. dominate the front lawn, with a bird bath occupying the center of the side lawn. A lady driving smartly An armored knight, riding off on horseback with his up to the door with her tandem of horses and her lance upright in his hand, adds a picturesque touch to spotted coach dog running behind, adds the final the fifth model, that of a Norman manor house of the touch of local color. 13th century. The building is of the semi-castle type A contemporary American suburban home com- and combined a thatched roof with stone walls. Tall pletes the series. The model-makers chose to depict and narrow arched windows were scarcely more than an adapted English-type house, with the familiar slits in the thick walls, the upper ones with wooden ground-level entrance, built-in garage, driveway and shutters and the lower ones protected by iron gratings. flower-beds—what might be described as a good

house in a good suburb. The figure of the home-owner, 15th Century Home inspecting with apparent dismay a rear tire of his In the sixth unit of the display, a substantial, half- coupe, just emerging from the garage, supplies the timbered English house of the middle 15th century last necessary louch of reality to this picture of life in exhibits a lavish use of glass in Its windows, mute Suburbia. evidence of a more peaceful spirit in the countryside. The building of the models for the exhibit was done Slate roofing, elaborate chimneys and pleasant orna- under the supervision of Albert Farwell Bemis and mentation in brick and wood likewise attest to an John Burchard, II., author of "The Evolving House architectural mood changing slowly from the defensive A History of the Home." to the cultural.

Model 7, a Georgian house of the middle 17th century, introduces the typical brick structure of the CONTRACTOR BENEFITS BY RULING balance period, characterized by much emphasis on According to a recent ruling of Judge W. D. Held, of the house, with the and symmetry. The main body of Sonoma county, equity should afford relief to a doorway approached by a double stair flanked by a contractor making a bona fide error in compiling a delicate iron railing, is supported on each side by a bid, against forfeiture of a check submitted with the wing, probably a library on one side and the kitchen bid guaranteeing the bidder would enter into a con- on the other. tract If awarded the job. The ruling restrained the Healdsburg High School District from confiscating a By way of abrupt contrast, the eighth model Is that certified check given by George Petersen, building of a 17th century Iroquois Long hfouse, a thing of contractor of San Leandro, guaranteeing a proposal forked poles, lashed rafters and bark shingles, standing for erection of an addition to a high school building. in the center of a strong stockade. These Long hlouses The court found that Petersen had made an honest of the Iroquois Indians were in reality an early type mistake in his bid and that the school district had of apartment house, the model shown representing suffered no damage by the contractor's refusal to living accommodations for eloht families. accept the job.

Still in the 17th century, but well on to its end, is the adapted Early American house shown in the NEW KAV/NEER PRODUCT ninth model. The wide boards, small windows and Recently published manufacturer's literature includes front overhang are familiar features, while the wagon folders on two new products of The Kawneer Company, wheel leaning against the barn, the in the pump middle Miles, Michigan. of the backyard, and the woodpile at the kitchen door Tho Kawneor Medium Sealair Window is intended provide a homely authentic atmosphere. prl.marily for commercial use and is of slightly heavier construction than the Kawneer Light Sealair Window, American Victorian House v/hich is for residential use.

The advent of the jigsaw, making it possible to cut The new Kawneer extruded store front construction, out of wood quickly and cheaply all sorts of ornaments with continuous spring grip, supplements the well- formerly carved with great labor out of stone, is l,nov/n Kawneer rolled store front construction. Thus conspicuously celebrated in the American Victorian Kav/neer offers the architect and builder a choice of house which constitutes the tenth model. All dressed either extruded or rolled construction with ample

up with fancy trimmings, the comfortable. If somewhat resiliency and glass protection in either case. Full

fussy-looking residence is a counterpart in minltiture sized architect's details are available in addition to

of numerous dwellings still bearing witness to past the six-page file size folder.

FEBRUARY, 1936 METAL CRIBBING PROVIDES EXCELLENT RETAINING WALL FOR COUNTY HIGHWAY NEAR MORAGA, CALIFORNIA I— Preliminary excavation for the wall. 2— Placing the tirst course of cribbing units on correct line and batter. 3—Assembling or erecting the cribbing courses. •)—Cribwall complete, ready for the remainder of the backfill. 5—Completed job. The roadway above at the right can be visualized. I THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER LOS ANGELES CHAPTER ADDRESSED BY Tulare counties, and this area was a part of Mariposa

SCHOOL ARCHITECT county. In 1852 Tulare was formed, but it was not until

At the February I I th meeting of Southern Cali- 1893 that Kings came into existence by divorcing fornia Chapter, A. I. A., A. S. Nibecker, Jr.. architect itself from Tulare. In 1908 about 100 square miles for the Los Angeles Board of Education, gave an were taken from Fresno county and added to Kings. address on "The Use of Pernnanent Materials and Tulare Lake, at one time covering thousands of Simpler Plans, Rather Than the Construction of Archi- acres, a paradise for game and waterfowl, gradually

' tectural Monuments, In Modern School House Design. has been drying up and as early as 1881 settlers began

Commenting on plans that are prepared for Los to take up land in the lake bed. After years of tre- Angeles school buildings, Mr. Nibecker said that one mendous reclamation work, practically the entire lake thing most architects forget when submitting prelim- bed now Is under cultivation, producing abundant crops inary drawings is a plot plan, which must be provided. of wheat, barley, corn, alfalfa and cotton. Peaches

The proper location of the building on the site is of are the most important of a large variety of fruit

Importance, as Is the position of the structure in order crops. Poultry raising is a rapidly growing industry to take best advantage of natural light. end Kings ranks second In butter manufacturing in

Other points stressed in school house design were California. Kings has one of the greatest oil fields in the provision of toilet facilities on the ground floors the world, Kettleman Hills being mostly within its of elementary schools, stairways at extreme ends of territory. The assessed valuation of Kings has nearly the buildings (high school stairs to be twice the width doubled since 1928. Population: 25.385. Area: 1159 of those in elementary schools), and equal toilet fa- square miles. cilities on all floors of high schools. Since the earthquake of 1933, according to Mr. LAKE COUNTY—Created May 20, 1861. This Nibecker, a lot of useless ornamentation and projec- county derived its name because of the many charming fons have been eliminated. Windows are provided lakes within its borders. for light and not architectural effect, and the building This county presents enchanting scenery, offers op- must stand without a lot of maintenance and must portunities in all lines of agricultural endeavor, prox- be what he termed kid proof." imity to the leading markets, is known as a land of

The width of the walls, he said, must be kept within highways and Is one of the leading playgrounds in reason and the corridors kept at the proper width. Northern California. The high The school board expects at least 50 per cent of in- mountains surrounding the county probably acted as barrier to the until structional area In all buildings and considers this an a white man the early economical plan. forties, at which time a few Russians came from Fort The board looks to the architect for complete pro- Ross and Bodega, in what now is known as Sonoma fessional services and for actual Inspection of the county, to establish parts of this region for their czar. his title work in return for the fee paid, which Is considered General Vallejo and brother claimed to a ample for good service and a satisfactory profit to large grant of land in 1847. Soon a few other white the architect. pioneers settled and raised thousands of head of

(Continued on Page 71) cattle, undisturbed by the 6,000 peaceful Indians who

called this land home. However, the Influx of people ORIGIN OF NAMES OF began to crowd the docile Indians and a few endeav- CALIFORNIA COUNTIES ored to establish rule over them, finally leading to much bloodshed. This is the fifth article In the series giving derlviatlon Indian folklore and early California history do not of the names of California counties, the first appearing reveal when this region experienced a gigantic vol- in September: canic upheaval. There are high mountains and peaks, KINGS COUNTY—Created March 22. 1893. This numerous streams, scores of mineral springs, a dozen county was created out of the western part of Tulare valleys and the largest lake of fresh water In the state. county, and took its name from Kings river, which, There are more mineral springs In Lake than in the according to history and tradition, was discovered in countries of Europe, visited annually by 75,000 per-

1805 by an exploring expedition and named Rio de los sons. Clear Lake, the Indian name for which is "Lu-

Santos Reyes (the "river of the holy kings"), from poyama," is one of the prettiest bodies of water in which it obtained its present name. the world and covers an area of 84 square miles.

In the lower center of the great San Joaquin valley Mount Konocti, known locally as "Uncle Sam, ' rises to lies one of the smallest, one of the youngest, but one a height of 3000 feet and almost divides the lake. of the richest and most resourceful counties of the Hunting and fishing lure the sportsman. state. Kings county is known as "The Little Kingdom Lake has famous quicksilver mines which have yielded

' of Kings because of the wealth and diversification more than $4,000,000. Lake's leading crops In order of the products of this area. In 1852 there were only of their Importance are pears, walnuts, hay, grapes, 100 settlers In the region now known as Kings and barley and wheat. Live stock and lumber industries

FEBRUARY. 1936 are prosperous. Population: 166; area: 1 238 square MOXEL METAL miles. [High Nickel Alloy] LASSEN COUNTY—Created April I, 1864. The of this county was taken from Mount Lassen, the is the accepted material for soda foun- name tains and lunch-room equipment, just as only active volcanic peak in the United States, which was for Lassen, a native of Switzerland, it is the universal metal for food service named Peter equipment in leading hotels and restau- one of General Fremont's guides and a famous trapper, rants throughout the country. frontiersman and Indian fighter, who was killed by the Piutes at the base of this mountain In 1859. This county has an unusual history. Barely over the CORROSIRON stage of pioneering, compared with other counties, rail lines and highways now serve various districts, the [Acid Resisting /ro/i] lumbering industry is one of the greatest of Its kind is the accepted material for draining in the west, cattle and sheep raising are very import- waste lines. CORROSIRON meets all ant, and Lassen is a popular vacation land. The mini- State and Municipal speciiications for mum elevation of the county is 3949 feet. drain lines from school laboratories and Peter Lassen, rugged adventurer, Isaac Roop, first chemistry rooms. verrltorlal governor of Nevada, and Lieutenant John C. Fremont, youthful army officer, were the early

pioneers. Lassen crossed the plains from Missouri in

Pacific Foundry Company Ltd. 1839 en route to Oregon. In 1844 he settled on his grant on Deer Creek. Three years later he brought Pacific Metals Company Ltd, another party out from Missouri and settled in Indian

Valley, Plumas county. In 1855 he went to hioney

Lake Valley where he lived until he was killed by Indians 1400 South Alameda St. 3100 Nineteenth St. 551 Fifth Ave. LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK In 1859. hHIstorIc Lassen records relate: "Believing themselves to be out of California, the

settlers of hloney Lake Valley fought off Plumas county

officials who claimed juisdiction over them. As a con- sequence hloney Lake Valley became a sort of "No

Man's Land," harassed by savages on all sides and

Infested by outlaws. In 1856 the settlers, In the belief BUILD they were in western Utah, organized a territory about the size of Nevada and called It "Nataqua." Peter WELL — Lassen was elected surveyor and Isaac Roop recorder. Later the settlers joined those of the Carson Vallev organize territory and A PROPERLY designed and weU con- country in their efforts to a call It Nevada. The government was slow in acting ^ * structed building is a credit to any and they organized a provisional territorial govern- city and a profitable investment for its owner. ment and elected a legislature and a full set of officials. Roop was named governor. Before long, howeve--, Such structures are the Stand- the government organized the territory and In 1861 ard Oil Building, Matson James W. Nye was appointed governor, hloney Lake Building, Four-Fifty Sut- Valley was put Into Lake county, Nevada. After re- ter Street, Stock Exch.'^nge, peated clashes with Plumas county officials, a joint S. F. Base Ball Park, Mills survey California and Nevada and hloney Tower, Opera House and was made by Veterans' Memorial, San Lake was found to be In Plumas county. The people Francisco, Olympic Club Al- of the valley asked to be set off Into a new county and terations, Santa Anita Rac- In 1864 the California legislature granted their request. ing Plant and other notable The new county was named Lassen." Population: structures — all built or super- Area: 4531 square miles. m vised by — 12,589. Lindgreii & Swinerton, Inc. LOS ANGELES COUNTY—Created February 18,

Standard Oil Building 605 W. Tenth Street 1850. This Is one of the original twenty-seven counties San Francisco Los Angeles of California. The words "Los Angeles" In Spanlsri We Maintain a Termite Control Department literally mean "the angels" and are a contraction or the original name "Pueblo del Rio de Nuestra Senora

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La Reina de Los Angeles de Porcluncula" ( "the town of the river of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels"). It will therefore be observed that Los Angeles really was HOW MUCH named for the Virgin Mary, commonly called "Our for your tree, Lady of the Angels" by the Spanish. On September

7, 1781, Governor Felipe de Neve issued orders from the San Gabriel Mission for the establishment of n MISTER? puebb on LI Rio Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles and of course you wouldn't sell your trees, even if under the protection of Nuestra Senora La Reina de you could. Like any other asset however, you Los Angeles (Our Lady, Queen of the Angels), the should appraise and preserve their value. Each year Davey Tree Surgery Co. is instrumental mission by this name having been dedicated three in saving millions of dollars in tree values for days before, having practically the same title. This California home owners. Why not let us check up pueblo in time became known as the Ciudad de Los on your trees?

Angeles, "the City of the Angels," and it is from this A complete inspection might reveal conditions which, nipped in the bud, at small now, that the county derived its patronymic. expense might cost a great deal more to remedy later on. This county has almost half the population of Cali- For truly, in tree surgery, if in anything, "a stitch fornia. Its growth in the last decade has been one of " in time saves nine. the wonders of America. It is nearly four times the PRECAUTION! To avoid disappointment, make size of Rhode Island. In 1910, the population was sure you get genuine Davey Tree Surgery Co., 504,131, or 124 per square mile. The 1930 census Ltd. You'll find the cost no higher— besides your trees are too precious to entrust to unknown hands. revealed a population of 2,208,492, or 536 per square mile. Los Angeles is the greatest agricultural county DAVEY TREE in the state and the 1920 Federal census ranked it first among all the counties in the nation. SURGERY CO., LTD. Los Angeles harbor was built at a cost of many Russ Building San Francisco SUt+er 3377 millions, $10,000,000 of which was contributed by the Story Building Los Angeles TUclter 1929 MaHei Building Phone: 2-2817 national government. It is the world's leading oil exporting and lumber importing port. The county, KNOWLEDGE due to its vast oil and natural gas production, ranks first in mineral production. Nearly every commercial product known to California is produced on its 12,653 farms. Citrus fruits head the list of these products.

The county's motion picture industry stands as a gigantic structure spoken of only in terms of millions of jr j% dollars. The greatest electric interurban system in the world is here with over 1200 miles of tracks serving R^s« 1 fifty-four incorporated cities in four counties and trans- porting annually 125,000,000 passengers. Population: /l%V ^ 2,208,492; Area: 41 15 square miles. SiiHHI MADERA COUNTY—Created March II, 1893. viiH

"Madera" in Spanish signifies "timber," and the county got its name from the town of Madera, situated within its limits, which town originally was surrounded by groves of trees. J Fertile plains and valleys, rich foothills carpeted by ^ vast stretches of orchards, a wealth of mineral de- r/ie luxury of efficie7icy posits and scenic mountain regions with dense forests at I'he price of ec o?io my of pine and fir, are Nature's gifts to Madera. Within

the county lies a part of Yosemite National Park and JOHNSON Oil Bu ners ... all of them ... are famed portion of the Sierra National Forest. In north- a large for efficiency, for economical operation. Here, for smaller homes, is the Johnson Type B, low m first eastern Madera is one of California's national monu- cost as well as i cost of operation. Available in various nnodels ace ording to radiation required up to Devil's ments, a strange formation of rock called the 1385 square feet a d for either gravity or pump feed, it represents a re commendation that can be made Postpile of tall posts of hard rock, six-sided composed with the same cc nfldence felt in commending any Johnson burner to the home-owner. and fitting closely together, resembling the Giant's

Causeway in Ireland. s. T. JOHNSON CO. An attraction to motorists is the Madera-Mariposa

Big Tree Route known as "Discovery Road, " traversing 940 Ar Ington Street Oakland, California much of the territory over which Major Savago and

FEBRUARY, 1936 the Mariposa Battalion, in early days, chased a bana

of marauding Indians who had hiding places in un-

known canyons in the higher mountains. While on the heels of a fleeing band of redskins, Major Savage and

his men reached the rim of the "Valley of Valleys.'

Ahead was such a gorgeous view that they reined in their horses, forgetting the objects of their chase, and IMMpVELT gazed with startled wonder. They had discovered Yosemite. Redecorated all of their Madera soils are those of the rich San Joaquin ivith superb suites Valley and the county's agricultural products cover

a wide range. Population: 17,164; Area: 2112 square WALLKOVER miles. MARIN COUNTY—Created February 18, 1950. FLAT One of the original twenty-seven counties of the state,

it derived its name from Chief Marin, of the Licatlut A tribute by a tribe of Indians. In 1815, a military expedition of the tamous hotel to Spanish proceeded to explore the country north of a famous paint. the bay of San Francisco. This action aroused the ire I se Coupon of the Licatiut tribe and a desperate engagement was jor Sample fought in the valley now known as Petaluma Valley.

Marin led the forces of the Indians with wonder- PAINT Chief ^GENERAL t ful strategy and bravery. At the same time, his sub- r («'->^ CORPORATION &'?)»: f cliicf Quentin gave battle to a second division of the

Spon'sS army at the point which still bears his name,

(.it This Coupon for Punta de la Quentin. In 1824 the chief was captured, FREE SAMPLE but escaped, locating on a small island in San Francisco Wall Kover Flat bay. Later he again was captured and sentenced to death. Priests of San Rafael Mission saved him and

converted him to their faith. He died in the mission

in 1834.

This county, known as "Marvelous Marin," is a lovely THE portion of the Redwood Empire and one of the most

picturesque counties in California. VV'ith its woods

and hills, gardens and trees, surrounded on three sides by the Pacific ocean and San Francisco and San Pablo

By LD N6 ilER AL bays, Marin is a land of beautiful homes. Almost in

its center stands Mount Tamalpais at the base of which

are the world-famous Muir Vv'oods, named in honor

of John Muir, the naturalist. In this great grove of

EXH B T redwoods are trees ranging in age from 500 to 3000

years. The tribe naming Mount Tamalpais is a matter

of controversy. Some insist it was the Lacatuits, while

the Smithsonian Institute has given its choice to the name "Hookoekos." Some believe the name came LOS ANGELES from the Nicasio tribe, but whatever the tribal name,

it generally is conceded that the Indians called their

" land "Tamal —the word from which is derived Mount Tamalpais and Tomales Bay.

In 1579, Sir Francis Drake entered the harbor now We offer a complete service to Archi- known as Drake's Bay, visible from Tamalpais, where tects and Engineers with information he made repairs to his Ye Golden tHinde and obtained on manufacturers' representatives and provisions.

is one of the counties leading in the pro- details of materials. Marin duction of farm and dairy products. General farming FIFTH at FIGUEROA and cultivation of orchards are carried on although the agricultural area is limited. Population: 41,648; Mutual 6306 Are:;: 529 square miles. Next: Mariposa, Mendocino and Merced—Editor.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER (Continued from Page 67) More care should be exercised by the architect in E A X CO estimating the cost of his job, Mr. Nibecker stated, Pressure Creosoted Lumber and a special effort made to keep the cost within the FOR TERMITE AND DECAY PROOF estimate, thereby simplifying matters for all con- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION cerned. CREOSOTED AIVD Donald Cunliff, construction UIVTREATED superintendent of the PILIIVG Los Angeles Board of Education, advised architects Exclusive Sales Agents in California for to watch costs, avoid change orders and sign their WEST COAST WOOD PRESERVING CO. Seattle, Wash. PWA documents. Construction costs are 10 to 15 per cent higher than they were six months ago, he J. H. BAXTER & GO. said, and may go higher. 333 MoMlgoraery St. 601 West Fifth St. San Francisco Los Angeles Specification work was discussed by A. C. Zimmer- man, until recently employed by the school board.

Many specifications turned in by architects could have been greatly improved, he said, principally because they did not follow requirements and were not prop- APEX erly edited. AIR ELECTRIC WATER

Myron hlunt, chairman of the Chapter's county HEATERS Se-d l\ir .Arcli tcct's courthouse committee, gave an interesting account C;-.talov;uc D:;throom Hc::t?rs in the Standard of the work his committee has done in endeavorina Co;o.c. lOCO to 2500 Watts ^14 00 to ^27.50 to arrive at a satisfactory solution of the location of the proposed Los Angeles county courthouse. AFEX MANUFACTURING CO. 1.501 Powell Slrcet •ille. Oakland. Calif. This committee, conoosed of Mr. Hunt, Reginald D. D!: -ibul Johnson and Donald B. Parkinson, together with three S.Tidov.-l Sf les Co. Phone KEarn.v 7010 civic leaders and three county department heads, Market Street, San Francisco, Ape.x Sal s Co. have been instructed by the supervisors to figure out Industrial Street, Los Angeles. Phone Mutual 9141 a way of building a suitable building on property now owned by the county.

It Is the opinion of these men that an office-type building with high ceilings, a portion of It adapted to courtroom purposes, erected on county - owned property north of the hHall of Justice, between Broad- way and Spring Street, would be the economical plan Producl of for the present. The cost at this time, as reported CALIFORNIA SHADE CLOTH CO. to the conr^Ittoc by authorit"c'. of Drivatoly-held 210 Bayshore Blvd., San Fif.ncisco property on the west side of Broadway, between First Maniifncliirers of and Temple Streets, precludes the use of that site. QUALITY HAND MADE SHADE CLOTH

Should the next generation decide to acquire this IN ALL GRADES or some other courthouse site the recommendation is Wholesale Distributors that the present courthouse be so designed, engi- SLOANE-BLABON LINOLEUM neered and constructed as to make It convertible into AMBASSADOR VENETIAN BLINDS a county office building.

In the meantime the recommendation is that the courts be so amply provided for that if the next generation decides to continue to use this building, enlarged, as a permanent courthouse. It will be adequate STRUCTURAL STEEL and dignified. Standing committees were named as follows: Eth'cs For Class A Buildings, and Practice—H. C. Chambers, chairman, Roland E. Coate, Edgar Maybury, Carleton M. WInslow and Bridges, etc. A. C. Zimmerman. Education — Sumner Spaulding, chairman, Wm. H. Schuchardt,, C. Ralmond Johnson. H. C. Nickerson and Paul Robinson Hunter. Member- JUDSON PACIFIC CO. ship—W. L. Risley, chairman, Herbert J. Powell, Ben 609 MISSION STREET H. O'Connor, H. G. Spielman and Wm. S. Mackay. SAN FRANCISCO Affiliated Societies — Edgar Bissantz, chairman. Fi- ^^ Plants: San Francisco - Oakland = nance—Samuel E. Lunden, chairman.

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EVERY BATHROOM IN AMERICA CITIES WILL CHANGE WILL WANT THIS COMPLETELY Transformation of the nation's cities AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC HEATER P. F. REILLY will be the major task of architecture needs heal ihal is for the ne.v.t generation, Louis La indcpendenl ol Building Beaume, vice president of the Amer- WESIX ^ Contractor ican Institute of Architects, declares BATH -A-MATIC and Manager of ELECTRIC in an optimistic forecast of progress ideal and s allied indus- Construction (orbalhroom.,_ . HEATER y in the construction and (on.NowWESIX tries for 193.6.

Not only architects but manufac- bull of the andN 730 ELLIS STREET /AUTOMATIC turers of building materials, quarries, trol —two features that very definitely San Francisco result in utmost safety and comfort. mills and mines, labor and transpor- This new WESIX BATH-A-MATIC UN DERHILL 5829 produces healthful warmth without tation will share in a sustained up- smudge or odors quickly and eco- nomically —quicker than any furnace swing after five or six years of rothe proven double-action principle used in Employs same distress, due to the curtailment of famous WESIX portable heater— circulates the heat and radiates a 3I0W lust like sunshine' NO MOVING cozy investment building on a large scale, PARTS—No fans to create breeze and drafts— nothing to get out of order Standard finish beautiful rust proof GoodBmldmgsDeserve Mr. predicts. chromium Standard size 1500 watts. Uses regular 110 La Beaume volt current Also made In other finishes and sizes lor heat, Goo (3 Hardware ing any size room or entire home Enioy this safe, healthful, This revival, avoiding the specu- dependable and economical WESIX electric heater, easily and quickly installed by your own electrician. $C'29 = lative excesses of the I920's and WESIX ELECTRIC HEATER CO. shaped by sound principle of city tin Cf planning, will, he foresees, embrace M&JOB ELECTRIC HEATERS FHE WOPtO S 1*1IGEST MANUrACTUBtft OF vast modernization and rehabilitation SI First St , San Francisco 36 WESIX 390 as well as the erection of Please send me your booklet on operations HEATING —for BATHROOM AUTOMATIC state, —for OTHER ROOMS —lor ENTIRE HOUSE new homes and Federal, Name municipal, commercial, and insti- Address tutional structures.

"Our cities have grown like weeds, 381 Market Street and we cannot begin remaking them SUtter 6063 too soon," he says. "They are sym- toms of anarchy, and of a disregard Melrose Lumber for the decencies and amenities of & Supply Co. life. They must be remade in the ANDERSON interest of sound economics, hygiene,

traffic simplification, convenience and & beauty. This metamorphorsis will con- RINGROSE LUMBER AND stitute the principle field of architec- MILL WORK tural endeavor for years to come. the dawn of "Many signs indicate General Contractors a new era for the architectural pro- 46th Ave. and E. 12th St. Oakland fession. As general business recovery 320 Market Street, San Francisco Phones: FRuitvale 0240 — 0251 proceeds, the demand for new structures will grow. In the domestic field Phone DOuglas 1373 we may confidently expect increased and healthy activity for these reasons: JOSEPH MUSTO "First, homes do deteriorate, and SONS-KEENAN repairs too long deferred contribute MURALS to further deterioration. The time

COMPANY is at hand when conditions are ripe for Hotel Cocktail Rooms, for a vast volume of modernization Theaters, etc. MARBLE and rehabilitation if the nation's investment in existing structures is to and be salvaged. H E 1 N S B E R G E N ONYX "Second, due both to the normal DECORAT! NG CO. expansion of population and to better 535 NORTH POINT STREET 7415 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles SAN FRANCISCO business conditions, a great number 1801 S. SOTO STREET LOS ANGELES of new dwellings are needed. Espec- 401 Russ Building, San Francisco

ially is this true in the field of moder-

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ately priced homes. That the nriove- Pacific ment to supply this need is well under way no one can doubt. A 1 u m i 1 i t e Manufacturing "This movement offers both a Company challenge and an opportunity to the architectural profession. The demand High Class Interior Finish for individual, well-planned, well-de- K a w n e e r Quahty MilKvork signed, and well-constructed homes at

moderate cost is becoming more in- 454 Montgomerr St. 611 Merrill Ave. sistent San Francisco Los Angeles day by day. Also the demand Store Fronts - ^ indows GArficId 7735 AXridge 9011 for the modernization and improve-

ment of existing structures calls for 1315 Sevcnlh Streel. Oakland and skill, ingenuity, GLencourt 7850 and common sense on the part of the architect. Arcliitectnral Cajitings

Federal Public Works involving in architectural elements such as post offices, court houses, custom houses, Polished Satin Smith and departmental structures have al- or Lumber Company ways constituted a source of inspira-

WHOLESALE - JOBBING - RETAIL tion and interest to the architectural Anodic Finis^h FACTORY AND BUILDING LUMBER profession, but the volume of such PLYWOODS - ROOFING building has always been small in com- DISTRIBUTING YARDS THE parison with the nation's normal San Francisco Oakland building budget. • 19+h Ave. & Today states and municipalities, * '^ C O M P A N N Y * 4th & Channel Estuary as well as the national government, OF CALIFORNIA MArket 0103 FRuitvale3l74 are undertaking programs of con- BERKELEY YOUR INQUIRIES SOLICITED siderable importance in this field. We

may also expect some activity in other public building, such as state

and municipal eleemosynary institu-

• I]\SPECT • tions. The building of schools is be- "BROmXSKIX" THE FOLLOWING WALL JOBS ing encouraged by grants from the RESILIENT WATERPROOr BUILDING PAPER LN ALAMEDA COUNTY PWA, and the profession of architec- AND YOU TOO WILL SPECIFY ture is benefitting by the stimulation DUIVNE S.\TI1\' W.4LL of this activity. THE BUILDING PAPER WITH A FACTOR OF SAFETY FIIMSH We have heard much talk of low VETERAN MEMORIAL BLDGS. cost housing on a large scale, and HIGHLAND HOSPITAL some noteworthy projects have been Angler Corporation LATHAM SQUARE BUILDING. undertaken under the sponsorship of OAKLAND Framingham, Mass. the Federal Government. However, PACIFIC COAST DIVISION FRAI^nC W. DUNNE CO. the Government's program in this 41st and Linden Sts., OakLnnd field has encountered many obstacles

which have retarded its development. Some of these obstacles have been legal, some economic, but as the social necessity for slum clearance TRANSIT-MIX and better housing for our working LUXOR people becomes more generally un- CONCRETE derstood, it cannot be doubted that WINDOW SHADES ways will and means be found to Translucent Shading A Perfect-Blend , eradicate the blighted areas in great Material of highest count cities. In this field the services of cambric the architectural profession are of Golden Gate Atlas paramount importance. "All of these activities, whether Materials Co. William Volker 8C Co. Sixteenth and Harrison Streets they Involve the rehabilitation of 631 Howard Streel San Francisco Phone HEmlock7020 existing buildings, the construction San Franciii'o of small homes, large scale housing

FEBRUARY, 1936 operations, commercial or Institu-

tional buildings, should be solved In FORDERER

the light of modern and common Cornice Works Manufacturers of sense city planning.' Hollow Metal Products The past five or six years of com- Interior Metal Trim L^pT Elevator Fronts and Cabs parative inaction have been not al- Metal Wall Plugs, Anchors, Etc. together fruitless, according to Mr. Sheet Metal Products La Beaume. "Architects," he con- Sanitary Metal Base Commercial Refrigerators tinues, "have had ample opportunity Building Paper Metal and Wire Accessories Pump Governors Oil Heaters to analyze the factors which brought for Safety Pump Relief Valves Concrete about the stoppage of building on a Governors Oil-Burner 269 POTRERO AVENUE Automatic Gas Reg Governors large scale after the debacle of 1929. San Francisco, Calif. ulating Valves Little Giant HEmlock 4100 Gas Burners Improved Oil For ten years or more previous to the CONSULT OUR ENGINEERING Burners DEPARTMENT Gas Burning crash, we had witnessed an orgy of Equipment Oil Pumping Sets Vacuum Pump Oil Valves speculative building, perhaps unpar- Governors Oil Strainers Vacuum Regulating alleled in history. Valves Steam Oil Strainers Continuous Flov/ Duplex Oil Pumps "The field of the speculative build-

Traps Rotary Oil Pumps er, previously restricted to the erec- MacDonald & Kahn Thermostats Boiler Feed Pumps tion of jerry-built houses in urban Reducing Valves Water Heaters Boiler Feed-Water and suburban subdivisions, had been General Regulators Oil Meters enormously enlarged. Every city In Contractors VAUGHN-G.LWITTCo. the country succumbed to the specu- ENGINEERS lative craze. Office buildings, hotels, and apartment houses multiplied as C. W. Vaughn, P esident and Manager if supply the needs of a MANUFACTURERS AND by magic, to Financial Center Bldg. DISTRIBUTORS supposedly Inexhaustible stream of 405 Montgomery St. «24-2e Mollis St. Phone Olympic (064 tenants. Emeryville, Oakland, Calif. San Francisco "Land values and building costs rose with the height of the scaffold-

ing, but almost as soon as the scaffolding was removed these values Robert W. Hunt Company suffered a precipitous decline. The ENGINEERS past five years have been years of THE TORMEY Inspection • Tests • Consultation liquidation, deflation, and readjust- COMPANY Schools and Other Structures ment. Losses have been largely writ- Are Built as Designed ten off and tenants are returning to GENERAL PAINTERS When Construction Materials are Inspected at point oj Manu/acture make use of the facilities provided and during Erection by AND DECORATORS ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY for them In such prodigal measure."

Cement, Concrete, Chemical, Metallurgical, FIRST FOREIGN EXHIBITOR Phone UNderhill 1913 X'Ray and Physical Laboratories II HIE Commonwealth of the Chicago - New York - Pittsburgh 563 FULTON STREET Philippines has accepted San Fran- Los Angeles - All Large Cities San Francisco San Francisco, 251 Kearny Street cisco's invitation to participate in the 1938-9 World's Fair.

In a letter to Mayor Angelo J. Rossi and Leiand W. Cutler, president of the San Francisco Bay Expo- P. G. W. secre- E sition, Inc., Jorge B. Vargas, CRAN JENSEN & SON tary to President Manuel Quezon, an- High Class Plumbing nounced that the Commonwealth Fixtures Secretary of Agriculture and Com- the Building Construction merce has been instructed by President to begin Immediate studies looking toward Philippine participa-

tion. 320 Market Street, San Francisco The Philippine government thus be-

Phone 2444 comes the first foreign Nation to Cities signify its Intention of taking part In All Principal Coast the San Francisco World's Fair.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER BEAUTY IN ARCHITECTURE Bethlehem Steel A,N APPEAL for beauty in San Francisco Company architecture is made by the Commit- tee on Education of the American Bay Bridge General Offices: Bethlehem, Pa. Architects, of which Dean Institute of • William Emerson of the School of STEEL BRIDGES Contracts Completed Architecture of Massachusetts insti- and BUILDINGS lute of Technology is chairman. U. S. Marine Hospital San Francisco Los AnKele "In view of the prevalent preoccu- Ford Assembly Plants, 20th and Illinois Sts. Slau Seattle, Long Beach and Seattle Salt Lake City pation with function rather than de- W.AndovtrSlreel Kearns Bide. sign, and the tendency to regard Richnionil Honolulu. T. H. Oakland Approach to Schuman Bide. composirion as little more than the

assembling of pre-fabricated units, Bay Bridge the committee believes that the time has come to make an appeal for Contracts Awarded U. S. Mint, San Francisco beauty in our architecture—for the Administration Building and expression of something more in the MULLEN MFG. Tell Plaza, Bay Bridge, COMPANY exterior of a building than the mere Oakland portrayal in diagrammatic form of • the structure as shown in plan. BANK, STORE AND OFFICE Clinton FIXTURES—CABINET WORK "With full recognition of the re- OF GUARANTEED QUALITY search and reasoning so logically ex- Construction Co. CHURCH SEATING of California pressed In plan and structure, we be-

lieve that something more Is needed; 923 Folsom Street

Office and Factory: something beyond the purely utili- San Francisco 64 RAUSCH ST., Bet. 7th and eth Sfs, sutler 3440 San Francisco tarian, that might be called either Telephone HEmlock 2858 charm or beauty, but without which

our creations fail to realize their full

possibilities. Our appeal is that this is worth striving for, and that it is Specify McNEAR BRICK more likely to be embodied in our COMPANY architecture when we recognize our DICKEY debt to the past and the value of Manufacturers of ClAV its lessons In meeting the problem of PRODUCTS Coinmon Brick today." AND Dickey Mastertile Face Brick Haydite Ellis F. Lawrence, of Portland, Ore- gon, is a member of this committee. Fireproofing Tile Wall Coping "The Light Weight Aggregate"

W. S. DICKEY CLAY MFG. Office Yard COMPANY 419 RIalto eidg. 417 Berry Street HOT SPRINGS 116 Ne Montgomery St., San Francisco San Francisco oil San rancisco. Calif. EXbrook 6871 MArkef 2770 Twenty years ago an prospector 103 Jacku St.. Oakland, Calif. working in the White Sands region of Otero County, New Mexico, was astonished when he tapped a subter- DIl^WIDDIE ranean cauldron of hot water at a REPUBLIC STEEL COXSTRUCTION depth of 988 feet. CORPORATION The water reached 94 degrees P.,

COMPANY and flowed 1000 gallons a minute. Manujacturers oj

• While this freak of nature brought ENDURO Stainless Steel; TON- CAN Copper Molybdenum Iron no joy to the luckless prospector, it BUILDERS OF Sheets and Pipe; and Steel Pipe, is certain to bring pleasure to thous- BUILDINGS Sheets and Reinforcing Bar for GOOD of vacationists in the future. ands near every building purpose.

Development of a recreational Write for injormation Rialto Building, San Francisco, Calif. CROCKER BUILDING park and wild game refuge in what Edison Building. Los Angeles. Calif. SAN FRANCISCO is now the White Sands National White-Hcnry-Stuart BIdg., Seattle, Wash. Monument extension recreational

FEBRUARY, 1936 —

project, today is being carried on by the National Park Service. COMMON The hot water, gushing upward Independent through an eight-inch casing, has Iron IVorks BRICK formed a lake of 200 acres. Wild Structural Steel If you like fjood brick and K"0'1 fowl have claimed the lake as their Iron service, phone us for informa- own. Thousands of sightseers visit Ornamental tion, will find that it ahva\s you the place annually, many coming from Steel Service Stations pays to be our patron. Lincoln National Forest 20 miles east. Steel Tanks The vast expanse of pure white Standard Steel Mill Buildings Remillard-Dandini Co. gypsum, called the "Alabaster Sand Bridges Phone TEmplcbar 8133 Office. 569 - 3rd Street. Oakland Dunes," for which the National Monu- Plants ment was created, is said to be the 821 Pine Street Oakland ,n Jose Pleasanton Greenbrae only phenomenon of its kind In the

world. Plans call for pipe-lines from the hot water gusher to the National Monument recreational center. A. KNOWLES The Park Service will maintain and SSALKRAFT administer the area—one of 46 simi- REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

lar developments In progress through- Contracting out the United States. "More than a Plasterer building paper" DOUGLAS FIR HANDBOOK

The "Douglas Fir Use Book," a new Bryant Street THE .SISALKRAFT CO. 982 and enlarged handbook for architects 205 West Wackcr Drive for San Francisco and engineers, giving load tables (Canal Station) Chicago, III. 55 New Montgomery Street Douglas fir lumber, formulas for var- San Francisco. Calif. UNderhill 4048 ious kinds of loading, and other structural and design data, has been Issued recently by the West Coast Lumber- men's Association, 364 Stuart Build- M o N E L JOHX ing, Seattle, Washington. The book CASSARETTO has been designed to supply all the M E T A L —Since 1886—And Still Active- data about Douglas fir that a design- For the M odern Kitchen Building Materials er would need in using this lumber for Heat 2rs, boilers, storage anks, READY MIX CONCRETE grades and notes on their use; prop- water softeners, cabinet tops. ROCK - SAND - GRAVEL - LIME any construction purpose. It includes "Stre amiine" or ''StraitI ne" - - CEMENT PLASTER MORTAR K I t c h e n k s Information on: basic laws for stress Sin METAL LATH - WOOD LATH STUCCO - VvIRE NEHING ertles and factors related to longi- See oi r display rooms, arranged for your convenience Service Unexcelled fudlnal shear, compression and tension M O D E R N MET A L Bunkers stresses, deflection, effect of duration P P L 1 N E C . Sixth and Channel, San Francisco A A C O of time of load, and factors of safety; 4238 E Oakland, Calif. Phones: GArfield 3176, GArfield 3177 roadway an exposition of timber connectors

split rings, toothed rings and shear plates; grade marking; a grade-use guide that describes grades and makes Specify CarlT.DoellCo. grade-use recommendations; formulas for various kinds of loading PATNE Plumbing bending, shear, deflection and deflection loads; properties related to Heating For Heating or Winter weight, areas, section moduli, mo- Air Conditioning Many Types of Equipment ment of Inertia, and moments of Plumbing Contractor available. A heating system Veterans Memorial Building resistance; Inch-width loads; span for every type building. Oakland load tables for joists and beams;

maximum spans for joists and beams; 467 21ST STREET PAYNE FURNACE OAKLAND loads for plank and laminated floors & SUPPLY COMPANY and roofs; loads for posts and struts, Telephone GLencourt 8246 Beverly Hills - California and loads for studding.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Classified Advertising Announcements

All Firms are Listed by Pases, besides

being grouped according to Craft or Trade.

Star (^) indicates alternate months.

NEW THIS MONTH AIR CONDITIONING

The Union Ice Company, 354 Pine Street, San Francisco - - 4 ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA fJ. Clark & Sons, 116 Natoma Street, San Francisco 6 Gladding McBean Street, Francisco; Los Feliz Boulevard & Co,. 660 Market San 2901 American Lumber & Treating Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. faylor St., Portland; 22nd

and Market Streets. Oakland; I 102 N, Monroe Street, Spokane; Vancouver. B. C. 9 Co. 3 BATHROOM HEATERS

Wesix Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 63 I San Julian Street. Los Angeles; 2008 Third Avenue, Seattle, Wash 72 Union Ice Co. 4 BRICK—FACE. COMMON, ETC. N.Clark & Sons, 116 Natoma Street, San Francisco Gladding McBean & Co., 660 Market Street, San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard Remillard-Dandini Co. 76 Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor St., Portland; 22nd and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane; Vancouver, B. C. W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co.. 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco; factory. Wesix Heater Company 72 Niles, Calif.; yards, 7th and Hooper Streets, San Francisco, and 105 Jackson Street. Oakland; Factory In Livermore 75 McNear Brick Company. 419 Rialto Building and 417 Berry Street. San Francisco 75 Remillard-Dardini Co., 569 Third Street, Oakland 76 BUILDERS HARDWARE Make the old stucco color- "Corbin" hardware, sold by Palace Hardware Company, 581 Market Street, San

Francisco _._ _ 72 ful and water tight by ap- The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn.; Monadnock BIdg., San Francisco; Los Angeles and Seattle * plying one or more coats of BUILDING MATERIALS Building Material Exhibit, Architect's Building, Los Angeles 76 BUILDING PAPERS BAY STATE The Sisalkraft Company, 205 W. Wacker Drive. Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery

Street, San Francisco - - _ 76 Brick and Cement "Brownskln." Angler Corporation. 370 Second Street. San Francisco 73 Coating CEMENT Portland Cement Association, 564 Market Street, San Francisco; 816 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles; 146 West Fifth Street, Portland; 518 Exchange Building, Manufactured by a company who Seattle Back cover products have been on the mark "Golden Gate" and "Old Mission," manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co., for over half a century.

I I I Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover CEMENT TESTS—CHEMICAL ENGINEERS Robert W. Hunt Co., 251 Kearny Street, San Francisco 74 CEMENT—COLOR "Golden Gate Tan Cement," manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co., I I I Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 75 CEMENT PAINT General Paint Corporation. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland and Seattle 70 California Sales Company, 444 Market Street, San Francisco - ._ 77 CONCRETE AGGREGATES Golden Gate Atlas Materials Company, Sixteenth and Harrison Streets, San Francisco 73 John Cassaretto, Sixth and Channel Streets, San Francisco 76 Distributors CONCRETE CURING & PROTECTION CALIFORI^A SALES The Sisalkraft Company, 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery Street. San Francisco _ 76 COMPANY. I]\C. CONTRACTORS—GENERAL MacDonald & Kahn. Financial Center BIdg., San Francisco 74 444 MARKET STREET Llndgren & Swlnerton, Inc., Standard OH Building, San Francisco 68 Dinwiddle Construction Co.. Crocker BIdg.. San Francisco 75 SAN FRANCISCO Clinton Construction Company, 923 Folsom Street. San Francisco 75 Anderson & Ringrose. 320 Market Street. San Francisco 72

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CONTRACTORS—GENERAL Page S. P. W. Jensen, 320 Market Street. San Francisco .. 74 Phone GArfield 1164 Monson Bros., 475 Sixth Street, San Francisco .. 78

P. F. Rellly, 730 Ellis Street, San Francisco .. Tl

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Cement Co., I I I Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San DESIGNERS OF HEATING Diego Second page of cover AIR CONDITIONING The Sisalkraft Company, 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery VENTILATING AND WIRING Street, San Francisco 74 Bay State Brick & Cement Coating, sold by California Sales Company, 444 Market SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL Street, San Francisco 2 AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP- DOORS—HOLLOW METAL MENT OF BUILDINGS Forderer Cornice Works, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco 74

Haws Sanitary Drinking Faucet Co., I bOB Harmon Street, Berkeley; American Seating Co., San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix 2 ENGINEERS-MECHANICAL ELEVATORS Hunter & Hudson, 41 Sutter Street, San Francisco 78 ELECTRIC AIR AND WATER HEATERS

Sandoval Sales Company, 557 Market Street, San Francisco.- - 71 Wesix Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 631 San Julion Street, Los Angeles; 2008 Third Avenue, Seattle, Wash. 72 ELECTRICAL ADVICE Pacific Coast Electrical Bureau. 447 Sutter Street, San Francisco, end 601 W. Fifth Street. Los Angeles 67 Pacific Elevator and ELEVATORS Equipment Company Pacific Elevator and Equipment Company, 45 Rausch Street, San Francisco 78

HOLLOW TILE AND BRICK FENCES 45 Rausch Street, San Francisco

W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., I 16 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 75 HEmlock 4476 FIXTURES—BANK. OFFICE. STORE Brass & Kuhn Company. 1917 Bryant Street, San Francisco 80 Mullen Manufacturing Co., 64 Rausch Street, San Francisco 75 Pacific Manufacturing Company, 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oakland, Los Angeles and Santa Clara 73 BROS. GAS FUEL . MONSON Pacfic Gas Association. 447 Sutter Street, San Francisco 5 GAS BURNERS • Vaughn-G. E. Witt Company, 4224-28 Hollis Street, Emeryville, Oakland 74 GAS VENTS General Payne Furnace & Supply Co., Beverly Hills, California 76 GLASS Contractors W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San F.ancisco. Branches and dealers through- • out the West * Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio; 633 Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; 1212 Architects BIdg., Los Angeles; Mr. C. W. Holland, P. O. Box 3142, Seattle 5 475 SIXTH STREET Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Grant Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. W. P. Fuller & Co., Francisco Pacific Coast Distributors • San HARDWARE DOuglas 1101 Palace Hardware Company, 581 Market Street. San Francisco 72 The Stanley Works, Monadnock Building, San Francisco; American Bank Building, Los

Angeles .v 2 HEATING—ELECTRIC Apex Air and Water Electric Heaters, Sandoval Sales Company, 557 Market Street, San Francisco 7| Wesix Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 631 San Julian Street, Los Angeles; 2008 Third Avenue, Seattle, Wash 72 HEATING EQUIPMENT Payne Furnace & Supply Co., Beverly Hills, California... 76 HEAT REGULATION Johnson Service Company, Milwaukee, represented on the Pacific Coast by the following branch offices: 814 Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; 153 West Avenue, 34, Los Angeles; 1312 N.W. Raleigh St., Portland, and DALMO 473 Coleman BIdg., Seattle.... 3 HOLLOW BUILDING TILE (Burned Clay) N. Clark & Sons, 112-116 Street, WIXDOW Natoma San Francisco; works. West Alameda 6 Gladding, McBean & Co., 660 Market Street, San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard. Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor Street, Portland; PRODUCTS Twenty-second and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane; DALMO SALES CORPORATION Vancouver, a B. C 511 Harriton St., San Franciico

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W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 Now Montgomery Street, San Francisco; factory, William Martin Niles, Calif.; yards, 7th and Hooper Streets. San Francisco, and 105 Jackson Street, Oakland 75 & Son INSPECTION AND TESTS Robert W. Hunt Co.. 251 Kearny St., San Francisco 74 Builders LACQUERS General Paint Corp., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tulsa-- 70 W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San Francisco. Branches and dealers throughout the West

666 Mission Street LINOLEUM San Francisco Sloan-BIabon linoleum, sold by California Shade Cloth Co., 210 Bayshore Boulevard, 70 Telephone SUtter 6700 Evenings: GArfield 9456 LUMBER Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- 73 Smith Lumber Company, Nineteenth Avenue and Estuary, Oakland 73 Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Forty-sixth Avenue and E. Twelfth Street, Oakland 72

E. K. Wood Lumber Company, 4701 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles; 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco; Frederick and King Streets, Oakland 2 MARBLE > American Marble Co., P.O. Box 578, South San Francisco 79 7? MILLWORK We Print

E. K. Wood Lumber Company, No. 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco, Oakland, Los The ARCHITECT ^nd Angeles 71 ENGINEER Melrose Lumber & Supply Company, Forty-sixth Avenue and E. Twelfth Street, Oakland 72 Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- "A Thing of Beauty 73 Is a Joy Forever" Smith Lumber Company, Nineteenth Avenue and Estuary, Oakland ..73

942 HOWARD STREET MONEL METAL SAN FRANCISCO "Inco" brand, distributed on the Pacific Coast by the Pacific Foundry Company, Harrison and Eighteenth Streets, San Francisco, and Eagle Brass Foundry, Seattle.... 68 Kitchen sinks, heaters, storage tanks— Modern Metal Appliance Company, 4238 Broad- 76 way, Oakland - MURALS MARBLE Helnsbergen Decorating Co., Los Angeles and 401 Russ Building, San Francisco 72 OIL BURNERS AMERICAN MARBLE S. T. Johnson Co., 585 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco; 940 Arlington Street, Oakland; 1729 Front Street, Sacramento, and 230 N. Sutter Street. Stockton 69 COMPANY Vaughn-G. E. Witt Co., 4224-28 Hollls Street, Emeryville, Oakland 74 ONYX '^ Joseph Musto Sons-Keenan Co 535 No Point Street San Francisco 7? ORNAMENTAL IRON p. 0. Box 578 Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Street, Oakland 76 South San Francisco, Calif. PAINTS, OIL, LEAD

Phones: SUtter 2840 W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San Francisco. Branches and dealers through- South City 161 out the West S Frank W. Dunne Co., 41st and Linden Streets, Oakland 73 General Paint Corp., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tulsa--

PAINTING, DECORATING, ETC. "The Only Pacific Coast Factory" 74 » • • 7? THE HERMANN PARTITIONS—MOVABLE OFFICE Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street. San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street. Oalc- SAFE COMPANY 73 Manufacturers and Dealers 7S FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF PILES—CREOSOTED WOOD SAFES, VAULTS. SAFE J. H. Baxter & Co., 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco and 60IW Fifth Street, DEPOSIT BOXES Los Angeles 7 * * * PLASTER Howard & Main Sts. "Empire" and "Reno Hardware Plaster," manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co., San Francisco 1 1 1 Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover Telephone GArfield 3041 PLASTERING A. Knowles, 982 Bryant Street, San Francisco 76

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Page OREGON STATE CHAPTER PLATE GLASS Fred Aandahl, member of Sutton, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo. Ohio; 633 Rialio BIdg., San Francisco; 1212 Whitney Lewis Architects BIdg., Los Angeles; Mr. C. W. Holland, P. O. Box 3142, Seattle... 5 and Aandahl, Build- ing, Portland, was PLUMBING CONTRACTORS AND MATERIALS elected president Carl T. Doell Co., 467 Twenty-first Street. Oakland 76 of the Oregon Chapter, A. I. A., for

Crane Co., all principal Coast cities 74 the 1936 term at the annual meeting, PRESSURE REGULATORS January 28, at the Congress hlotel,

Vaughn-G. E. Witt Co., 4224-28 Hollis Street, Emeryville, Oatland 74 Portland. Other officers chosen were: ROOF MATERIALS Vice-president, Rol Morin; secretary, Gladding, McBean & Co., 660 Market Street, San Francisco; 290! Los Feliz Boulevard, John T. Schneider; treasurer, Harold Angeles; First Los 1500 Avenue South, Seattle: 79 S. E. Taylor Street, Portland; D. Marsh; trustee, Hollis Johnston. Twenty-second and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane; Vancouver, B. C 9 AH reside in Portland.

N. Clark & Sons. 112-116 Natoma Street, San Francisco; works. West Alameda ,. 6 Oregon architects were urged by SAND, ROCK AND GRAVEL Carl F. Gould, Seattle architect and John Cassaretto, Sixth and Channel Streets, San Francisco 76 technical advisor to the capitol com- SHADE CLOTH mission, to lend support to the Ore- California S'-ade Cloth Co.. 210 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco 70 gon State Capitol Reconstruction

Commission in its efforts to SHEET METAL WORK provide Forderer Cornice Works, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco 74 an adequate and thoroughly modern new state capitol building. STANDARD STEEL BUILDINGS Following the serious business, the independent Iron Works, 82 1 Pine Street, Oakland 76 architects and their guests were en- STEEL—STAINLESS tertained by a hi-jinks program under Republic Steel Corporation, Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; Edison BIdg.. Los Angeles; White-Henry-Stuart BIdg., Seattle 75 the direction of the inimitable Har-

STEEL, STRUCTURAL old W. Doty, toastmaster. Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Street, Oakland 76 Judson Pacific Company, C. F. Weber BIdg., Mission and Second Streets, San Fran- WASHINGTON STATE CHAPTER cisco shops, San Francisco and Oakland _ _ ... . 7| Lance E. Gowen, Seattle architect Pacific Coast Steel Corp.—See Bethlehem Steel Company, Twentieth and Illinois Streets, San Francisco; Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles; American Bank Building, and faculty member of the Univer- Portland, Ore.; West Andover Street, Seattle, Wash 75 sity of Washington, has been elected STORE FIXTURES president of the Washington State Braas & Kuhn Company, 1917 Bryant Street, San Francisco 80 Chapter, AJ.A.. Other officers are:

STORE FRONTS First vice-president, Floyd A. Nara- Kawneer Mfg. Co.. Eighth and Dwight Streets, Berkeley 73 more, Seattle, second vice-president.

TEMPERATURE REGULATION Nelson J. Morrison, Mock and Mor- Johnson Service Company. Milwaukee, represented on the Pacific Coast by the follow- rison, Tacoma; third vice-president, ing bianch offices: 814 Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; 153 West Avenue. 34, Los Los Angeles; 1312 N.W. Raleigh St., Portland, and 473 Coleman BIdg., Seattle... 3 Harold C. Whitehouse, Whitehouse Wil- TERMITE CONTROL—WOOD PRESERVATIVE and Price, Spokane; secretary, E. K. J. treasurer, Al- Wood Lumber Company, No. I Drumm Street, San F.ancisco; 4701 Santa Fe liam Bain, Seattle; Ave., Los Angeles; Frederick and King Streets, Oakland 71 bert M. Allen, Seattle. J. H. Baxter & Co., 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, and 601 W. Fifth Street. officers Los Angeles Following the election of 7 | American Judge Roger J. Meakim, King County Lumber & Treating Company, Rialto BIdg., San Francisco: 1031 S. Broadway Los Angeles 3 Superior Court, delivered an address. TREE SURGERY The program, arranged by Donald Davey Tree Surgery Co., Ltd., Russ Building, San Francisco; Story Building Los Angeles 71 Thomas, entertainment committee VALVES chairman, included specialties by the Sloan Valve Co., manufacturers of Sloan flush valves, 4300 West Lake St. Chicago, III. 2 Sallle Sue White Dancers, accom- VAULT DOORS panied by Bernice Campbell. Hermann Safe Co., Howard and Main Streets, San Francisco 79 WATERPROOFING ELECTRIC HEATERS Bay State Brick & Cement Coating, California Sales Co., 444 Market Street. San "Find a cold spot and you'll fina Francisco 77 modernizing work," says Heating and WINDOWS Ventilating. Unit heaters are hailed Kawneer Mfg. Co., Eighth and Dwight Streets, Berkeley 73 as among the best remedies. They Dalmo Sales Co., San Francisco 78 may be put almost anywhere and WINDOW SHADES shifted readily. The electric kinds are California Shade Cloth Co. 210 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco 70 Wm. Volker & Co., 631 Howard Street, San Francisco 73 especially convenient.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER SAN FRANC/SCO PUBLIC LiBRARy Periodical dept

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REGON STATE CAPITOL COMPETITIOI C H i e NEW RECTORY, SAN JUAN BAUTISTA MISSION • MORROW & MORROW, ARCHITECTS • P. T. WALLSTRUM, CONTRy»

TAN PLASTIC (^ Li t a V ill helps produce desired effects

Golden Gate TAN PLASTIC was used EXPOSE throughout the construction of the new rectory ... a wing of San Juan Bautista Mission, founded in 1797. C O N C R E T The walls required no subsequent treat-

ment after the forms were stripped. TAN Exposed concrete is meeting today's dema PLASTIC pourability was a factor in pro- economy without sacrificing structural sti ducing the desired architectural effects. or appearance. TAN PLASTIC is a "natur; {Signed} IRVING F. MORROW this purpose. Morrow & Morrow, Architects San Francisco First, it makes it possible to produce water-:

concrete with greater ease and certainty, i

for its pourability makes it easy to puddle i STUCCO a solid mass, free of pockets, voids and t

POOLS combs. Last but not least, its basic color...a^

MONOLITHIC pleasing tan, makes it unnecessary to add ac; CONCRETE ants which might affect porosity and unifo* BASEMENTS tASTie Next time you have a water-proof job, tr)

MORTAR PLASTIC . . . used right, it will never fail yo CAST STONE

PACIFIC PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY • SAN FRANCIS^ — NOTES AND COMMENTS TEXAS ARCHITECT SCORES MODERN STYLE one architect "My work shows W'HAT thinks of the up over that of my "Will they redesign the Missions, Ra- modern trend in architecture Is re- Spanish wife's great grandfather because mona's marriage place and Santa Barbara? flected In the following letler penned by my buildings represent a college educa- Will there be a revolution? I hope so. I L. S. Sanderson, architect, of Laredo, tion. They have Texas, dynamic symmetry, hot and hope they give the punishment of the horses after he had cold water with built-in soon read the December douche basins. All to these Imps that are trying to change the Modern number of very modern to be THE ARCHITECT so harmonious at the sound of children's dancing feet to the buzz AND ENGINEER. The Texan cannot see same time with the old buildings. Or that of a machine.

any logic or sense In Is I thought they were until good common sub- modern Decem- "What has changed the functions of eat-

stituting ber when 1 the so called moderne for a style received this special modern ing, sleeping, loving, fighting, drinking,

issue. I that his countrymen have learned Now don't know. 1 to love Maybe cannot smoking or dying to require new forms for and -which suits their needs and climatic see well any more or have gone loco trying their exercise? What is a new form? Have conditions. to make the Indians understand the same Wright, Corbusier, Neutra or Weatherhead, things the To ease his anxiety and assure him there first Spanish settlers tried to get Individually or collectively, ever produced

is nothing to worry them to understand. about we would like lo a single damn thing that tops or equals have him read Reginald Johnson's article the work of Reginald Johnson, Gordon in the February ARCHITECT AND ENGI- Kaufmann or John Austin? If they have I "For years I have thought that my work, NEER on "Architectural Expression". Let us say peccavi . I did not know it. I will built in the Spanish manner, with thick quote paragraph a which seems particularly pull them over the face of the United walls of stone and heavy carved beams, was applicable to Mr. Sanderson's perturbation: States in an ox cart, so they can lash my mighty fine, especially those having glazed " 'Modern design' must of necessity be shanks with a cow hide whip every step of tiles and carved furniture from Spain and influenced by environment and tradition. the way for my impudence and show them- Mexico. But now 1 don't know. It looks For example, there are many delightful selves off to the students of America as the ll

MARCH, 1936 k ENEAN THEATER, PITTSBURG. CALIFORNIA

F. FREDERIC AMANDES, ARCHITECT THE ARCHITECT & ENGINEER

Vol. 124 March, 1936 No. 3

GARDEN VIEW, RESIDENCE OF MRS. A. BROWN, ATHERTON

F. Frederic Amandes, Architect

TWO THEATERS AND SOME RECENT HOUSES

BY F. FREDERIC AMANDES

This does not mean that modern design is passe. On the contrary, the movement has

ARCHITECTURE is finally accomplished some good. For one thing it emerging from a period of unrest and despite has brought the architect to a point where the teachings of a few modern extremists, the he realizes the necessity of a fresher and less traditionalists are moving ahead. To attempt traditional approach to his problems. So If to overthrow precedents that have weathered the functionalists have overstepped they have the test of centuries is folly, many architects at least performed a useful service In calling opined when the movement was young, and attention to the need of simplification and for now they are boastfully crying: "We told you a clean, outright architectural treatment. so. " The modernists are retreating and ex- Certain types of buildings are being success- treme Is giving way to conservatism and com- fully handled along modern lines with the mon sense. chances favorable for a continuation of this CALIFORNIA Mural by A. Helnsbergen TWO VIEWS OF FOYER, ENEAN THEATER. PITTSBURG. F. FREDERIC AMANDES, ARCHITECT

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER AUDITORIUM, ENEAN THEATER, PiTTSBURG, CALIFORNIA

F. FREDERIC AMANDES ARCHITECT

MARCH, 1936 practice for some time. The motion picture house, for example, offers an opportunity for the use of materials not heretofore assembled. We find sheet metal and glass replacing heavy gold ornamentation while concealed lights have been substituted for the once popular crystal chandeliers. Theater owners have discovered that besides good entertainment they must offer their patrons interiors both unique and co'orful, together with comfortable seats, good pure air and smoking con- veniences for both men and women.

Such is the type of theaters designed by F. Frederic Amandes of San Francisco and ex- emplified in the new Pittsburg Theater and the remodeled Fox-California in Richmond.

PITTSBURG THEATER— In spite of a shallov/ lot and building code restrictions, a spacious FOX THEATER, RICHMOND. BEFORE ALTERATIONS F. Frederic Amandes, Architect lobby has been provided and throughout the entire building there is a noticeable absence or Increase the height of the lobby celling, there- cubical waste space. By using an inverted truss by giving the foyer a more imposing appear- overhang for the balcony, it was possible to ance. A unique feature of the lighting equip-

ment is the center celling fixture in the auditor-

ium which Is in the form of a sun-burst and

designed so that it may be illuminated In colors to blend with the action of the picture.

For example, if there is a moon scene, the lights

are dimmed to a soft silver glow. If the scene

is a storm the lights change from green to

amber. The fixture is made of sheet metal and

glass. Aside from this ceiling light there is no

other fixture visible in the house, so cleverly have they been made a part of the architecture of the interior. The color tones of the auditorium are henna, buff, cream, gold and

silver.

RICHMOND THEATER—One need only to look at the two exterior pictures, the old and

the new, of the Fox-California Theater in Rich- mond, to appreciate the improvements that

have been made in the appearance of this

building. The feeling is decidedly modern.

In providing additional seating accommodations the architect, Mr. Amandes, and the structural engineer, W. Adrian, adopted a FOX THEATER, RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA, AFTER ALTERATIONS plan of economy that has worked out with

F. Frederic Amandes. Architect even greater success than anticipated. The

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER PROSCENIUM ARCH, FOX THEATER, RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA

F. FREDERIC AMANDES, ARCHITECT

MARCH, 1936 AUDITORIUM, REMODELED FOX THEATER, RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA

F. FREDERIC AMANDES, ARCHITECT

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RESIDENCE OF DR. AND MRS. HAMILTON H. ANDERSON SAN FRANCISCO F. Frederic Amai ides, Architect problem was to reduce the steepness of the to the French Provincial. His own studio home, balcony, dispense with the protruding steel which is illustrated here, is an example of his girders, and at the same time preserve sight ideas in residence architecture. lines. This has been accomplished by anchor- Mr. Amandes' rise to prominence as an ing the steel joists to the main plate girder architect has been rapid. In less than ten years in such a way that they form one continuous he has moved along from a draftsman and art ioist. student to association with leading members ' * * * Mr. Amandes does not advocate extreme of the profession, and today he maintains his modern design for domestic architecture, hie own office. A native of London, he comes does not consider this style adaptable to the from Swiss-French parentage. During his stu- needs and comforts of the average American dent career, Mr. Amandes was awarded two family. He prefers to stay with the old schools Beaux Arts medals for creditable architectural in house design. Simplicity, neatness, conven- designs. When not engaged In the practice of ience, comfort, these are all essential details his profession he finds enjoyment and relaxa- for a livable American home. If his client has tion as an operatic baritone and builder of no preference for style, Mr. Amandes is partial water craft.— F. W. J.

MARCH, 1935 f

RESIDENCE OF DR. AND MRS. HAMILTON H. ANDERSON, SAN FRANCISCO

F. FREDERIC AMANDES, ARCHITECT

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER LIVING ROOM, RESIDENCE OF DR. AND MRS. H. H. ANDERSON, SAN FRANCISCO

F. Frederic Amandes, Architect

DINING ROOM,

Residence of

Dr. and Mrs. Hamiltc

H. Anderson,

San Francisco

F. Frederic Amandes,

,^rchitect STUDIO-RESIDENCE OF F. FREDERIC AMANDES, SAN FRANCISCO

KiEL^T Floor. 6> e.cowq Fi.oob,

PLANS. STUDIO-RESIDENCE OF F. FREDERIC AMANDES, SAN FRANCISCO

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER LIVING ROOM. STUDIO-RESIDENCE OF F. FREDERIC AMANDES, SAN FRANCISCO

F. Frederic Amandes. Architect

FACADE, RESIDENCE OF MRS. A. BROWN, ATHERTON, CALIFORNIA

F. Frederic Amandes, Architect

MARCH, 1936 RESIDENCE OF MiSS MYRTLE A. JOHNSON, WOODSIDE, CALIFORNIA

F. Frederic Amandes, Architect

RESIDENCE OF MISS MYRTLE A. JOHNSON, WOODSIOt, CALIFORNIA

F. Frederic Amandes, Architect

T:HE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ENTRANCE TO FRENCH CHATEAU, CALIFORNIA SPRING GARDEN SHOW, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

Patrons attending the show in the Oakland

California Sprins Garden Exposition Building will enter immediately into Show a French market place, surrounded by a ten foot wall with imposing tower. In a projection

hHILE rare and beautiful flowers and plants are being "forced" into BUTLER S. STURTEVANT Landscape Director California early maturity for exhibition in the California Spring Garden Show. Oakland Spring Garden show in Oakland next month, experienced craftsmen in architecture, landscaping and interior decorating are concen- trating on the details of the show requiring their expert attention. The landscape director of the affair, Butler S. Sturtevant, has asked the foremost craftsmen in these fields to co- operate and they are enthusiastic. The theme of the show will be the "Chateau Gardens of France," embodying the creation of three small home-units representing Modern French, French Provincial and Louis XIV types of architecture, and each one complete with its individual type of landscaping and interior decoration.

MARCH, 1936 in one of of the side wall will be a typical French Cath- collection of wild-flowers arranged

olic Shrine, with market baskets placed at the the several lattice houses. foot of the wall. A sidewalk cafe under brightly The modern French home unit designed by

colored awnings will be found in this area also. William W. Wurster will show a French morn- textiles, furniture In the center of the market place will be a panel ing room with modern and made of colored stone and blossoms, typical color scheme arranged by Armstrong, Carter

of street decorations in Mediterranean coun- and Kenyon, interior decorators. Landscap-

tries on fete days. Sponsoring this unusual dis- ing for this unit will be done by Thomas D.

play is the Business Men's Garden Club of Church of San Francisco. Oakland. Steps leading upward to the top of The French Provincial home-unit has been the wall command a view of the Chateau gar- designed by Henry \-\. Gutterson of San Fran- dens, parterre, French lattice houses, neatly cisco, who last year designed the beautiful trimmed lawn panels, garden statuary and Georgian manor house which formed the ent-

fountain and pool in the manner of the one at rance to the garden show, hielen Van Pelt, Versailles. landscape artist and Arthur Baken, interior decorator, both of San Francisco, are collabor- Priceless orchids of many varieties will be ating with Mr. Gutterson. seen through a series of arches in the vicinity The Louis XIV home unit is the work of Clar- of the Versailles pool. ence A. Tantau of San Francisco. Leslie Kller

So that patrons may remain for many hours of Palo Alto will do the landscaping and VV'Ini-

in the Chateau Gardens, members of the fred Wise of Oakland, the interior decoration.

board of directors of the show, headed by Abe In addition there will be a garden unit de-

P. Leach, president, have arranged for many signed by a student at the University of Cali-

rest benches near the wall terrace and around fornia in the Division of Landscape Architec-

the fountain. In addition to the big beds of ture, and whose plan was chosen In competi-

brilliant and large blooms, there will also be a tion with other students in this department.

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Frank L. Foley, General Contractor NEW HOME OF POMONA TILE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LOS ANGELES

Monte D. Healey and Arthur W. Hawes Architects

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER TOWER OF INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA GEO. W. KELHAM ARCHITECT

MARCH 1935 —

F U N U AND T H

I THEORy OF INTERIOR DESK

the space conception and must therefore be eliminated architecturally for the sake of clar- HE architecf of the past con- ity. They are either folded up and stored away ceived the house as a group of separate rooms, or made transparent to become inconspicuous. carved out of his structural mass, like the holes This is the real meaning of the metal chair. in a piece of cheese. Each room was complete Its essence is its transparency—the lack of in itself with only a slight relation to the next which immediately delegates to the realm of one. It was possible to decorate each room in idle phantasies all the "fashionable" designs in a different "style", and finally, In our times, to which bulging upholstery masses are suspended add an American bathroom without any shock on snaky metal braces. to the sensibilities of the occupant.

The folding chair is the more radical solu- The Space Architect sees the house (or the tion of the space architect's problem — it whole town an articulation of the one cos- avoids blurring of the space scheme by leav- mic space. The house becomes an organism ing the realm of furniture altogether; it be- in which all rooms are related to each other, comes part of the occupant like his shoes and representing variations of one basic theme. clothes and will develop his final shape out of The house becomes a weave of a few basic this new constellation. materials used to define his space forms. The furniture which is stationary (beds, etc.), be- COMPOSITION AND SCALE comes part of this weave, until it is impossible to tell where the house ends and the furniture The social structure of the past was based begins. The few places which are necessarily on a pyramidal conception of the universe.

movable (chairs, etc.), become so in an accent- The world was seen as built up from a wide uated degree. Moving, they are unfit to define common level to the authoratative position of

EDITORS NOTE—This article is a confinu king and Sod. And all the detail groups of Irstallmer.t of which w.is published ENGINEER for December, 1935. the social building—family, monastery, etc.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER MODERN HOUSE

BY R. M. SCHINDLER

were again built on the sanne form schenne. and allows us to stretch our hands out horizont-

This pyrannldal conception of the world seenns ally. It has accorded to any individual the to have blinded the feudal artist to the beauty privilege of the king to consider himself and

of any other scheme of composition, hlouses, his action sacred at all times. Our houses lose furniture, Including their details throughout, their forbidding faces and become three-di-

fit themselves Into the outlines of an upright mensional beings In a three-dimensional world.

triangle—each piece in shape and meaning an One of the most primitive tricks for impres- altar to the Idea of centralized authority. sive representation was accentuation by size. The stereotyped form-sentence of the con- The king with cloak and crown became a giant

ventional designer: base, body, cornice, crown, and his palace reflected his grandeur. It was

—has now lost Its meaning. The contemporary natural that social prestige attached itself to form-sentence may move horizontally, around dimension and the architect of the last cen- the corner, or even downwards. turies used a scale which was social rather than The social position of each member of the human. pyramid of feudal society had to be expressed Only lately have we again discovered the outwardly. Representation became one of the real height and breadth of a human being. important functions of any Individual. Life Ceilings shelter us Instead of crowning our

lost its fluidity, and separated Itself Into alter- position. Doors are to walk through rather nating periods—front stage for representative than to form an impressive frame for one who

action and backstage for private life. The carefully pauses on the threshold. The chair house expressed and furthered this scheme. supports the back rather than to produce an The front-elevation with the main entrance, and aura for our head. the other sides with the backdoor, belonged to two different worlds. POSTURE

Our time, with a more democratic scheme, The postures we assume in our unconscious

has discovered the meaning of the neighbor daily life are rigidly predefined in our culture.

MARCH, 1936 This means that they not only express this quickly to our intentions. It is Impossible to culture, but that through them the Imagination hurry in a Roman toga, or to sit down quickly of the architect may profoundly influence our if it requires a servant to move our chair. A spirit. Our furniture in compelling certain highly polished parquet floor can only be the positions is directly molding physical traits, stage for a circumspect execution of repre- manners and culture. sentative postures. Our house should give us The high straight-backed mediaeval chair ease and freedom of action—a request which | reproduces an epoch, and requires a position "period furnishing" Is unable to satisfy. impossible for us. Grandmother's wing-chair ORGANIZATION of a more recent period, around which her grandchildren gathered and in which she ailed The preservation of fluidity and continuity and died sitting, represents a different world, of space In the house eliminates all features contrasting with our low clubchair and our which are too self-centered. Conventional de- supine position for rest and death. It seems sign Invariably breaks up all flow by a repeated that cur nervous intensity In action requires In use of symetrically arranged and therefore turn a more relaxed rest position. Even sitting self-centered groups. This holds good for at our work we are apt to seek the horizontal rooms as well as furniture. Therefore, contem- by putting our feet on the desk. porary work will usually shun the circular room, the cupola, a furniture This tendency, together with our changing arrangement which faces a center attitude toward the floor, lowers and spreads point (cut-a-corner position) and symmetrical our furniture. The stationary furniture, espec- pyramldical pieces—even if they masquerade under a modernistique ially, stops leaning against the wall and tries form- to merge with the floor. The imaginary hori- skin. It ends the work of the conventional decorator whose scattered groupings zon in the room has dropped from door to of odd pieces lost all elbow height. This divides the room at a lower have artistic meaning. _^m level and Increases Its spaciousness. The height The space architect organizes the room ac- '^| of the window-sill of yesterday is conflnlngly cording to his purpose and still maintains an high today, the coming window will extend its unobstructed natural motion through the house. pane to the floor. Not, as the mechanist claims, This does not Interfere with the tendency of because we are able to make larger panes, but most rooms to face a fireplace, a view, or some on the contrary. It Is because our inner urge other feature of special interest. The furniture requires it, that such larger panes are made. will be arranged in such a way as to facilitate The conventional picture above the fireplace the contemplation of the center of Interest

Is high above our horizon, and if we really want from all points of the room where this can add to study a painting we set it on the floor. to the charm of living.

The celling has completely disappeared The room will clearly separate areas for the above our line of vision and we no longer lavish different postures of Its users. Open spaces for our decorative talent on its surface. Our in- communication should be well-connected and tensity of action has Increased the necessity allow short traffic lanes. Areas for sitting, and for elbow room. The accepted standing and low places for horizontal rest will relate them- walking position of the conventional ballet selves In proper sequence to the lanes of com-

(heels together, toes apart) which children were munication. They will succeed each other In trained to assume fifty years ago, has given definite sequence towards the center of inter- way to the more active one of the toes polnt- est, so that the standing person will be behind inb straight ahead. Our wardrobes recede Into the sitting one and that the latter with table the wall. The concentric grouping of furniture and chair will not obstruct the view from the gives way to a linear one. The mobile piece couch. This means that Instead of pointing at must be small and light enough to respond the center of Interest in the conventional way

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER by some axis of symetry, it will be featured by Only by confining the machine to making the downward slope of the plane which con- parts (units) which, through the very fact of nects the tops of the furniture. This will further their precision, may be joined freely, can we emphasize such a center by means of a large subdue its mechanical ferocity to individual open floorspace in the foreground, replacing human expression. The machine, contrary to the conventional emphasis by means of a frame common opinion, can develop such individuali- and a suppraport; it will allow the introduction sation to a degree of which the handicrafter of an accent in the room without stopping the could never have dreamed. desired flow of the space toward the next one. The "Schindier Units" permit the assemb-

Together with the natural interlacing of the ling and rearranging of their parts into furni- areas of communication, the house will achieve ture, which will respond to the particular con- an organic unity impossible in the "period ditions of any room, according to the individ- house" and its present rehash. ual character of the occupant. They consist of a number of top-units which are assembled

FLEXIBILITY first. They form a skeleton which receives shelves and doors for cupboards or drawers of Intimacy of connection between the house sizes. and its furniture does not imply that all rooms The following considerations governed their must forever retain their original design. For design, which separates them definitely from the large group of people, especially, who live the conventional sectional book case etc. in apartments and move from place to place, They are square, a static room is not practical. It should be low and wide. They do possible on the one hand to move the furni- not produce furniture forms standing up ture into rooms of different shapes without against the wall. Placed one above the other difficulty, or on the other to rearrange the they establish several horizontal planes throughout the room, giving the furniture the charac- same room to fit a new accupant. The implied ter of floor urge towards individualization grows con- terraces. stantly, and contemporary furniture must sat- They have no definite front, but may be isfy it in order to be successful. One solution used turned in all four directions. The resulting for this problem is shown in the author's furniture has no representative face, but is "Schindier Units", composed of a few simple three-dimensional. units they allow rearrangement, addition, and No unit is symmetrical in itself. It therefore subtraction with ease. permits the establishment of form relationships

with its neighbors. The result is consequently The basic idea for such a unit scheme is not the formless pile of self-centered elements thoroughly modern and could not have been which the usual type of unit furniture produces, conceived in a period without machine pro- but a form organization with definite character duction. It illustrates at the same time that and variable individuality. most of the sloganists advocating machine production do not yet understand its essential The scheme further includes large floor pil- features. The machine which is used to fabri- lows, which may be changed into armchairs by cate whole objects: houses, desks, etc., takes simply adding an adjustable back and arms. its production scheme from the craftsman. Several such seats and backs joined together The latter, however, maintains a certain alive- form the couch, which may be of any length, ness in his product by his inability for exact or a corner seat. repetition. The machine, for which exact repe- Further individualization may be achieved tition is the very essence, when misused in by the addition of a few specially made parts, such a way will cause a deadly standardization which may be of sufficient emphasis to alter of our lives. the character of the whole assembly.

MARCH, 1936 THE FOUR ELEMENTS: LIGHT

Earth, Water, Fire, Air. The effort of man to multiply the hours of the day by artificial suns has discovered for The mainspring of primitive life was fear. him one of the most potent and subtle mater- "My house is my castle" shows how that emo- ials for room building. This is possible only tion adhered to man throughout his develop- since we have been able to disassociate the ment up to the immediate past. The most light from a concentrated source and under- "comfortable" house was the one which faintly stand it as an attribute of space. reminded him of the feeling of relief felt by The harnessing of electricity has freed our the animal, and by his ancestor, upon entering artificial light from the candelabrum and the a secluded cave. light fixture. It is able to filter into the room

Only the contemporary architect has real- space without emphasizing its source, in a way

ized that this period of fear has passed. The similar to daylight when it is not confined to elements are no more our masters and enemies: a small windowpane. Light and darkness and they are our friends and servants, and the colored lights are building materials as effec-

out-of-doors is our playground. The house tive for the defining of rooms as are steel and

opens wide towards the garden, and if it is to concrete.

be comfortable, it must be able to furnish us This use of light in contemporary work Is artificially a suitable climate without losing the completely contradicted by any emphasis of 1 feeling of openness. Our newly-acquired abil- the source: the "light fixture." No effort of ity to manufacture our own climate must not any fashionable designers can create a "light separate us from our natural contact with the fixture" — the favorite stamping ground of

elements. They serve us admirably in thei-" half-baked imaginations—which is in truth con- domesticated form, flowing through pipes temporary or modern.

ducts, and wires, but life would become un- The space architect uses the illumination of bearable if we were to surround ourselves only the room to shape it richly without necessity 1 with servants. To insist that ventilating win- for cumbersome material divisions, hie uses it

dows, light windows, fire places and pools are to connect rooms in spite of a partition be-

rendered obsolete by our ducts and pipes, is tween them for practical reasons. The light of

merely to repeat another half-truth of the the room matched in the garden will join the modernistic sloganist. The open window, the two and effectively suppress a glass wall be- furtive sunray, the natural breeze, lightning tween them.

and thunder, the crackling flame, the bed And his power will be complete when the under the stars, are thrilling experiences not to present primitive glass wall develops Into the

be surrendered from our daily life. Our houses translucent light screen. The character and

must admit the elements as friends. The color of the light issuing from it will permeate

functionalist who preaches that the canned life space, give it body and make it as palpably

of our top-story city apartments is the ideal plastic as is the clay of the sculptor. Only of the future, forgets that the revolt against after the space architect has mastered the

the confining features of such city life is ready translucent house will his work achieve its ripe

to kill the city altogether. form.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER A MODERN BEACH HOUSE BY GORDON B. KAUFMANN

zACH HOUSES in the modern design are beconning MASTER BED ROOM, BEACH HOUSE FOR increasingly popular. In December The Architect and Engineer pub- NORMAN CHANDLER, lished pictures and plans of an interesting beach house in Richmond by Alamitos Bay, California W. W. Wurster. In this issue is shown an eight-room moderne beach Gordon B. Kaufmann, dwelling, with strong nautical treatment, at Alamitos Bay, Gordon B. Architect Kaufmann, architect. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Chandler are the owners of the house which is constructed of wood f'-ame with exterior of flush redwood boards and horizontal flush redwood mouldings for architectural effect.

The exterior walls are finished with a patent hard- board, etc., laid in symmetrical horizontal panels and finished with semi-gloss enamel. The floors throughout are covered with linoleum. Provisions for heating the residence has been made by installation of gas radiant fire wall heaters. The kitchen is equipped with a modern gas range, and an automatic storage type water heater.

MARCH, 1936 Polytechnic High School

at Long Beach

MlLy NE of the outstanding school

buildings to be designed and erected in Cali- fornia since the state's "lateral force" law

became effective, is the Polytechnic hligh School group at Long Beach, hlugh R. Davis,

architect. The new structures, with one exception, replace buildings that were badly

damaged in the 1933 earthquake. The single

building to survive the disaster is the auditorium which has been redesigned and practically rebuilt to conform to the requirements of the California state lateral force law. The other

buildings, all new, form a splendid group, structurally well designed and architecturally pleasing.

When the new plant is entirely completed the Board of Education anticipates an enroll- ment of 4000 students, greater than that of

most universities. In replanning the group to meet the requirements of this large student body, two limitations placed upon the architect, Hugh R. Davis of Long Beach, were thei location of the auditorium and a strip of priv- ately owned land on the Fifteenth Street front-

age of the site, which extends for two blocks along Atlantic Avenue to Seventeenth Street.

It is expected this strip will be later acquired

by the city in which event the gymnasium will

be moved from its present temporary location

to the south line of this property, making a

large quadrangle for physical education ac--

tivities.

For planning, the high school plant was divided into three general departments. Aca- demic, Manual and Physical education. As the'

\' last mentioned is compulsory in California, was necessary to place the academic buildingr as near the street as practicable to obtain the Upper Picture — Redesigned Auditoruim, Polytechnic High necessary open play area, the manual art:' School, Long Beach building being placed on Seventeenth Street Center—Commercial Building Below—Commercial and Science Buildings facing the play area. m

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEEI Redesisned and Rebuilt to

Resist Earthquakes

General requirements of the plant originally outlined included 73 classrooms, 7 laboratories, a music hall, 10 shops, 2 gymnasium floors, a swimming pool, a cafeteria and orthopaedic rooms. Provision was made for financing the project on this basis in an application approved by the Public Works Administration, the total estimated cost being 939,495, of which amount $225,738 was to be a Federal grant.

Largest in the group of new buildings are the Commercial and Science Units and the Administration building. The former extend along Atlantic Avenue, with a total frontage of 520 ft. These structures are two stories, the

Commercial building being 203 ft. long and the

Science building 318 ft., with only a one-inch open joint to interrupt lateral forces separat- ing them. The former is 60 ft. wide and the latter the same width with an ell 36 ft. wide extending out 100 ft. toward the street. The Administration building, also a 2-story structure 250 ft. long and 60 ft. wide, is immediately back of the buildings on Atlantic Avenue, facing on a court.

All the buildings are connected by a covered way, the roof being designed as an outdoor corridor.

The structural design of the buildings to

resist lateral force equal to I 10 gravity was simplified to some extent by elimination of weight and lowering the center of gravity. The latter was accomplished by laying the first floor slab of reinforced concrete directly on the ground and tying It to all the major footings. This plan also eliminates all stairs to the first floor. By the type of construction adopted and the structural design followed it Upper Picture— Redesigned interior of Auditori Polytechnic is estimated that the usual dead load of pre- High School. Long Beach earthquake structures was reduced by 60 per Center—Shop interior cent. Below—Class Room in Science Building

MARCH, 1936 HALF SECTION SHOWING PINI5M AND MECHANIUL HALF SECTION SHOWINO iTItUCTURAL STEEL FWME t. EQUIPMENT REINFORCED CONCRETE OIAPHRAM — 1.—Combination heating and ventilating unit. 2.— Fresh air Inlets. 3.— Plenunn. 4. "Dalmo" awn- ing type windows. 5.— Lockers. 6.—Continuous steel sash, double. 7.—Welded steel Joists. 4 ft. apart, steel deck welded to joists. 8.—Acoustic plaster ceiling. 9.—Maple block flooring on Thermax. 10.—Maple block floor on concrete. II.—Asphalt tile on Thermax. 12.—Asphalt tile on concrete. 13.— Reinforced concrete diaphragm. 14.—Corridor column piers. 15.—Beam coupling corridor column piers in pairs. 16.— Exterior column piers. 17.— Built-up roof with gravel finish, level. 18.—Skylight. 19.— Built-in lighting units controlled by electric eye.

The structural design of the buildings to protection for the structural steel frame were safely resist both gravity and earthquake, or met by wrapping the columns with metal lath lateral loads was influenced by the desire to and covering them with one inch of cement reduce dead weight of the structure to a plaster while the floor, or ceiling and roof con- minimum, insistence of the architect on prac- struction provided the necessary protection to tically continuous window areas on outside beams and saved the weight and cost of two- classroom walls, necessity for continuous tran- Inch concrete fireproofing for these members. soms and locker space in corridor walls, and Floor and roof construction consisted of the method of heating rooms which required specially designed steel joists, or light trusses, Individual heating units between the celling supporting Robertson Keyston beam steel and the floor or roof above. floors with a span of 4 ft. on the second floor

and 8 ft. for the roof. A structural steel frame with rigid column connections and a light weight floor and wall Cost of the reconstruction work, including construction were considered the best solu- fees, was $.085 per cu, ft., according to a tion of these problems. Requirements of a writer In Southwest Builder and Contractor. two-hour fire-resisting rating for exterior walls C. Gordon DeSwarte of Los Angeles, Is of this type of building, imposed by both the structural engineer for the academic buildings state and local codes, was fulfilled by metal and Laurance J. Waller, of Los Angeles, struc- studs with one inch of cement plaster on both tural engineer for the auditorium. hlomer sides. Such a wall weighs less than 30 lbs. per Fisher of Los Angeles, Is the mechanical sq. ft. Code requirements of one-hour fire engineer.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER "MANUFACTURED WEATHER"

John J. Ddvey, Architect

to produce a mild distribution and sufficient fresh or revitalized air to eliminate smoke and O THE general public "Air objectionable odors.

Conditioning" is a comparatively recent devel- An installation that does not perform all of opment and the layman has not as yet been these functions is not a complete air condi- educated to appreciate the exacting require- tioning system. The type of equipment and ments of the term. He is generally unaware of control naturally varies with the specific re- its limitations, although he recognizes it that quirements, character of space, and number should lead to greater physical comfort. of persons accommodated within the enclosed The innumerable types of equipment now area. offered indicate that the term is being indis- Equipment or apparatus that but partially criminately applied to installations and devices fulfills the above requirements should, for the of almost every description. This, together with protection of both the industry and the public, the contradictory and, in many instances, mis- be so designated as to clearly set forth the leading claims presented in behalf the of man- specific purpose for which it is Intended, viz: ufacturer relative to the performance, initial Cooling, Humidiflcation, Air Movement or Air and maintenance costs of his particular equip- Filtration. ment, have created much confusion in the Air at any given temperature will absorb public mind and naturally prompt the oft re- only a specific amount of moisture. The cooler peated inquiry "What is Air Conditioning?" the air the less moisture It is capable of hold- Air conditioning, or as one prominent organ- ing, and vice versa. ization aptly terms it "manufactured weather," When introduced by Infiltration Into a is the process by which the temperature, heated area, cold outside air with its low moisture content, movement and cleanliness moisture content mixes with warmer air of of the air In enclosed spaces intended for greater humidity and as It becomes heated ab- human occupancy, are simultaneously control- sorbs all possible moisture from persons or led and maintained within definite specified objects which it surrounds, creating a dry con- limits at all seasons of the year regardless of dition of relative low humidity. This Imparts a weather conditions. feeling of chilliness to the occupants even The equipment controls the temperature by though the thermometer shows no change in summer cooling and winter heating, regulates temperature. To overcome this condition, it humidity by addition or elimination of mois- is necessary to increase the moisture content ture, and creates movement by the even dis- of the air within the enclosed area. tribution and circulation of both tempered and In warm weather the opposite condition pre- humidified air. It provides enough ventilation vails. Warm or humid outside air with its high

EDITOR'S NOTE— Mr. Davey's answer to ttie question: "What Is A!r moisture content, upon becoming mixed with Conditioning?" was first published in the Bulletin of the Illinois Society of Architects. the cooler, dryer Inside air, results in a feeling

MARCH, 1936 ^

of discomfort to the occupants due to the or steam boiler and the air conveyed to and excess heat and high humidity. To remedy this from the various rooms by a system of ducts. situation the excess moisture must be removed. Primarily intended for "winter conditioning"

This is usually accomplished by passing the only, in combination with a refrigerating

air through a spray chamber or over a surface machine or a supply of sufficiently cold water,

evaporator. The temperature of the warm or it constitutes an "all-year-round" installation.

humid outside air coming in contact with the Another efficient and popular device is the

cooling medium is immediately lowered to the "fan furnace type," consisting of an enclosed required dew point or to where a portion of coal, gas or oil burning unit from which the con-

its moisture content is condensed. The cooled, ditioned air is distributed. If provided with air

de-humidified air, when circulated through the filter and humidifier, it becomes a winter sys- conditioned area, absorbs heat and moisture tem and by the further addition of summer

and the process is repeated. cooling equipment, meets "all season" require-

The inside air, plus a certain percentage of ments.

fresh outside air, may be recirculated and the A simple installation, particularly adapted to

excess air is forced out by means of an exhaust individual rooms in existing buildings which per- fan or by leakage through cracks around doors form all functions of summer conditioning, viz: and windows. cooling, dehumidification and air circulation, A proper comfort zone, or condition accept- consists usually of a cooling coil and fan enable to at least 50% of the occupants, has closed in a small portable cabinet which can be been definitely established. In winter a temp- placed in any desired location. erature of 68° to 70° F and a relative humidity The refrigerating medium may also be or moisture content of 20 to 50%; in summer housed in the cabinet, thus forming a complete

70° to 85° F and 50% humidity, depending on self-contained unit, or it can be installed in outside conditions, has proved generally sat- another location and connected to the cabinet isfactory. by small refrigerant lines. Where more than

Experience and extensive research on the one room is to be cooled, several of these part of both engineer and manufacturer have cabinets can, under certain conditions, be produced many types of conditioning equip- operated from a single refrigerating machine. ment adaptable to almost any need. These For "year round" service, room cabinets range from the large commercial systems to similar in appearance to the simple cooling the popular small units and apparatus espec- units, but containing in addition a heating

ially adapted to home use. The latter give coil, an air filter and humidifier, are available. practically the same results as do the larger These, when connected to the radiator system

installations and also provide a greater degree and in combination with a suitable refrigerat-

of health, comfort and resistance to disease ing unit, meet all conditioning requirements. than is possible with the simple heating system. The basic principles of air conditioning have

For new homes a central system is prefer- been definitely established. However, as with

able. This consists of a basement unit which all mechanical Installations, the results ob-

houses the fan, filter, humidifier and heating tained depend largely upon the ability and coil. The latter is connected to the hot water experience of the designing engineer.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER FUTURE OF THE STEEL HOUSE

Edward L. Soule

necessary for you to peruse your technical magazines and trade papers to become ac- 1LT IS rather difficult to attempt quainted with how many organizations are to tear an industry, even though it be an infant, deep in the development of into small technical parts and make them un- methods and in technical research of various materials in their derstandable in so short a time as that allotted at-

tempt to solve the problem. And It is only for this discussion. Rather, it becomes a from this concentration necessity to define the existing requirements of thought and effort that the eventual leaders of the steel will for a successful steel home; one that will find home evolve. favor with the home building public. There Is, without doubt, a very generous It is possible there Is a bit of misconception potential market for the steel home. Those of on the part of the general public as to what the more advanced type of design are, or

constitutes a steel home. I find in my contacts should be, flexible enough to definitely fit in with persons more or less Interested In the sub- with the more modern, as well as the standard ject, that their first conception seems to be architectural treatment of any locality. It ."something of a pre-fabricated nature, a house should also be adaptable enough so that inter- that can be screwed or bolted together In ior arrangement may be handled without sacri- some magical way and present an interior and

exterior of smooth, polished chromium, in very

modernistic design and for which the cost will be something far below that of any other type of construction.

It is true that what has been done toward EDWARD L. SOULE, the perfecting of steel home construction has President, been, too often, a method of adaptation of Soule Steel Co. existing patented units regardless of their San Francisco ^ adaptability to a sane method of steel construction.

It has been several years since steel was first used as a frame for home construction. During these elapsed years many different

methods have come on the market. It is only

EDITORS NOTE-A paper read by Mr. Soule before representatives of the Iron. Steel and Allied Industries of the State of California, at the Del Monte Hotel. February 7-8. 1936.

MARCH, 1936

I / fice of comfort or space. There should be no that is practically all that is used that will safe- ^ limitation to the exterior or interior finish. guard the home from its natural enemies—fire, Costs, when compared with the old type of dry rot, termites and the endless number of construction, should be favorable, when it is things that cause home deterioration. considered that the steel home is a product of These two types of steel frame construction excellence and longevity; that homes ranging are detrimental to the successful marketing of in cost from $5,000 upward, fall into the nat- the steel frame as a method of home building ural market for steel construction. that will render a service far In advance of anything that has been available to the home

Many Types of Steel Houses owner In the past.

There are many types of steel homes on the For a successful steel home, it Is necessary market at the present time. First, we find that to have in mind the necessities of the eventual type of construction that adapts already exist- owner of the structure. It must be borne in ing units, and with practically no change, util- mind that there are many different geograph- izes them as framing units for homes. As a rule ical areas and as many different types of these units will be found to do only an approxi- architectural treatment in vogue In the United mate job. They have limitations, because in States. Each of these must be made a part of the first place they were not made for the any plan to market a steel home, if success is purpose of a light weight rigid steel frame for going to crown the efforts of the marketer. In home construction. each of these areas definite care should be given to the ordinances governing load carry- Into this category fall those types that have been fabricated by the builders of heavy steel ing capacities and stress analysis in all its de- construction. They have applied their basic tails. method of building to the construction of Should Fabricators Do Actual Designing? homes, and we find their construction methods to be unwieldy, their frame too heavy and In the past most construction has been pre- without the flexibility that permits the function dominantly of wood. With the steel home it is of other necessary trades and appurtenances expeditious to use wood for decorative pur- that must be incorporated In a finished build- poses only; otherwise the steel Is defeated in ing. As a rule the time of erection is too great Its first Importance. It must be so flexible that because the heaviness of the construction it will be easily adaptable to any type of con- material precludes shop unit pre-fabrication. struction and with any materials in vogue within

Any home that can be built of wood can be any building area. It must be adaptable to any built of steel, but because of the non-flexibility type of design and so engineered as to give of the majority of the steel framing systems it maximum load carrying ability with a minimum

will be found that the efforts of the marketers of dead weight. "box" type of home. for the are concentrated on the I believe it is going to be necessary

In some types the different members are fabricators of the steel home to do the actual bolted into position; in others the uprights are designing of the homes to be marketed. While,

set in the concrete of the foundation. In most as a rule, he Is Interested only In the frame of

cases the exterior walls are thin, not exceeding the house, he Is, at the same time, going to

four inches in thickness, and the standing mem- have to produce a home with all the little re- bers, being of solid steel, afford practically no finements included, that have become so nec-

accessibility for interior wall installations of the esssary to the housewife In her daily home plumber and the electrician. management.

There is a second type that has a tendency To be able to market a steel home, in which

to defeat the first principles of steel construc- the steel frame is only a small fraction of the

tion. It is true that a steel frame is used, but total cost, and to gain his livelihood from the

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER sales of this steel frame, without unduly bur- ations the sale and fabrication of small indus- dening the balance of the construction with trial buildings, schools, hospitals, and small carrying-charges, is going to require a mer- commercial and apartment buildings. There is, chandiser of rare ability. at the present time, in various sections of the

Standardization is another thing that must country, a very definite trend to the lighter be considered. Up to and including a certain types of construction on some of these. point there must be standardization, but to Of primary importance, after the steel frame exceed this point will defeat any program that has been fabricated and is in place, is the inter- adheres to it. Production Is of much more im- ior and exterior finishes and the method em- portance than Standardization. To temper ployed in their application. The first prerequi- standardization with flexibility, both in design site of a steel home Is Its fireproofness. Unless and construction method, should be the aim of this can be maintained over a period of several every fabricator of the steel home. hours the prime feature of the frame is de- To successfully produce a marketable steel feated. It then becomes a great necessity to home. It is going to be necessary to have out- know that the steel frame is adequately pro- standing design. Both floor plan and elevation tected from without and within by some must be of merit. This constitutes the eye and method of Insulation that will allow it to retain mind appeal to the home builder. Carrying on Its original shape and carrying capacity from this point, the engineering detail must be through an ordinary period of conflagration. so accomplished as to allow for no mistaken There are many methods available, but It will theories to enter into the actual fabrication remain for the individual fabricator to select and construction. It is, beyond a doubt, going and market, along with his steel home, the to be necessary to pre-fabricate in the shop necessary protection to make It all that such and erect in the field. The methods of doing a home should be. this must be worked out by each fabricator so there will be little lost time and no lost effort. A secondary, but almost as important a con-

sideration in some sections of the country, is 'Show Window' for the Steel Home the ability of the frame to withstand seismic shock. Erection In the field will be found to be the Various theories have been worked out

for this, but it Is not intention "show window" for the steel home. It Is only my to go into

them today. I only want at that point that the general public will be to remark In passing able to gain an intimate acquaintance with that a steel frame, to outlive the present day the various types of construction and the long term mortgage, must be so engineered as to incorporate these essentials In methods used in placing the units. It Is more two a greater than could be expected, to hope that the pub- degree than any other items in the entire con- lic will be able to gain more than a cursory struction program. knowledge, or idea, of the merit of any steel Should all of the essentials to the construc- home from a hasty inspection of one in the tion of a steel home, thus far discussed, be in- course of erection; but they will be greatly corporated in the structure, it is only natural Impressed with the skill and the time element that It will be of such soundness that the lesser In the construction. The compactness and the destructive forces will have no opportunity to portability of the various units will be found to attack its parts. It will be rat and vermin proof. have a great bearing on the public mind. Termites and the various wood boring insects

I believe that from a sound engineering will have nothing upon which to feed. Ade- standpoint it will be found Impractical to ex- quately damp-proofed, it will outlast the mort- ceed three stories in height with this type of gage period and be a sound and healthy habi-

construction. I think, however, this will allow tation for many years exceeding the period in the fabricator to include in his marketing oper- which It Is being paid for.

MARCH. 1936 Desirability of Steel Frame Houses United States there is a very definite trend to-

ward the building of homes. This trend is being The ideally constructed steel home, with subsidized by the Government, and it is gen- structurally correct units, has two major out- erally expected within the next year that it standing features of desirability. First: The will grow to such proportions that It will be- walls between the exterior and the interior come one of the major operations of the finish, and all interior partition walls, should be country. To be ready to take advantage of continuously open for the circulation of air. this natural condition the fabricator of steel Second: The size of the openings in each mem- homes is going to have to perfect an organiza- ber should be such as to admit all conduits, tion of sufficient strength to cope with a flood pipes and conductors, as well as the necessary of Interest If he is expectant of receiving a cross ties to insure structural stability, in this just share of the natural business that will fall way assisting the installation of electrical, heat- within the limitation of excellence of construc- ing and plumbing systems, as well as the newer tion and price standard, hie is going to have air conditioning now becoming so popular. to Iron the "bugs" out of his type of construc-

I believe, insofar as the marketing of these tion and make it as universally correct as is

it is steel homes is concerned, that going to possible and still remain within the dictates of a be necessary for every fabricator to enter sound engineering principles. FHe is going to

program of education. It is in this effort that have to meet the advanced trend in building

the larger steel producers can be of great design and construction that is now expected assistance. For each individual fabricator to of the master builder by the general public,

try and make an individaul effort to publicize hie is going to have to conform to the dictates

the steel home would lead to a slow and biased of the speculative builder so that he in turn program of education conducted through ad- may offer something of an advanced nature to vertising designed to sell ONE particular type the buying public, thereby netting the fabri-

of construction. This would be confusing, more cator increased volume. hHe is going to have than instructive, and would, without doubt, to watch the trends of the increased commer-

slow up the public acceptance. I suggest that cial, school, hospital and small apartment

the effort directed to sell the public on the buildings, hie is going to have to increase, as

Idea—the desirability of a steel home—should rapidly as Is demanded by consumption, his

be a communal undertaking of those vitally production and distribution methods. But first,

interested. he is going to have to build a steel home that

Let me summarize a bit in conslusion. will do all the things claimed for it, and above

Throughout the length and breadth of these all, one that will sell.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER —

NATION WIDE BUILDING CENSUS

GIVES EMPLOYMENT TO 3,000 PEOPLE

the field job. As soon as all reports from a

given district are obtained, that office Is T,HE BUILDING INDUSTRY Is closed and the working papers follow the in- about to have Its first complete census In many dividual reports to headquarters. years. A force of 3000 persons is being employed to gather and compile Information, and As rapidly as the postoffice delivers the in- returns are already pouring into the Census of coming reports, they are checked again to assure completeness of the canvass. Each Business headquarters in Philadelphia. hHow enumeration district has an identification num- this data is being assembled, analyzed and ber. Indicative of the State and County, as converted Into composite statistics Is most interesting. well as having definitely circumscribed territorial limits. Previous census records afford a From the moment the census report is ob- means of checking on coverage and other tained from a contracting firm, the Informa- phases of the canvass. tion Is carefully handled In a systematic and Released for editing and analysis, the re- expeditious manner. Its confidential nature Is ports are sorted by branches of business—con- guarded as carefully as money In a bank. struction, retail trade, wholesale trade, trans- A more far-flung field organization could portation, communication, business services, hardly be formed than Is required for a nation- amusements, hotels, and the other branches wide census. Each state Is divided Into super- covered by the census which is indicated by visor districts, further sub-divided into many the form on which each report Is made. After enumeration districts, based on the probable being sorted by major business classifications, number of business firms as well as territorial the reports are sent to these business divisions extent. In the Bureau, which are headed and super-

There are more than 400 supervisor offices, vised by division chiefs who are specialists in from which the thousands of enumerators work. their respective fields.

Yet the whole canvass Is to the last planned Within the construction division the reports detail. It moves with precision. are further sorted by kinds of construction As the canvass of an enumeration district building, highway, heavy construction, and so proceeds, the reports are assembled in folios forth. Then groups of clerks trained In each at the supervisor's office and sent by regis- of these fields examine and test the reports, tered mail to the Philadelphia headquarters. code them and prepare them for statistical

All checking in the field offices is restricted to tabulations. features pertaining to the canvass—whether a The kind-of-buslness classification is estab- report Is complete and whether the canvass of lished by the answer to a specific question, and an enumeration district Is complete. That Is further verified by other information on the

MARCH. 1936 schedule received. This classification is usually of similar classification and lose their individ- the popular designation by which the concern ual identity. No figures for a classification is known, such as "air conditioning", or in (whether a business, area or type of operation) accordance with the principal kind of construc- are published unless enough individual reports tion performed. are included to make it Impossible to distin-

Each individual report is carefully edited to guish the facts about any particular individual eliminate errors in preparation — misplaced firm or corporation. entries and inconsistencies. Code symbols are Every step in the work makes for accuracy entered on the report for use in mechanical in the final results. All changes and adjustments tabulation. A certain code number may mean are made in accordance with approved statis- that the contracting firm is independent and tical methods, usually after reference to the individually operated, or a unit of a branch business involved, and only by persons prop- system, or whatever may be the form under erly trained for that work. which it is operated. In other fields of business, Each detail on a report is prepared carefully such as wholesale, or banking, or real estate, for the composite statistical arrays—to be similar subdivisions of the business are desig- shown by kinds of business and by area sub- nated by code numbers. divisions, by types of operation and by legal Entries under each main inquiry on the forms of organization, and under the various schedule-report are handled separately, and other headings. carefully studied for consistency. Operating When finally released by the editing and revenues, operating expenses, and employ- coding groups, the reports are consecutively ment data are scanned and scrutinized by dif- numbered and assembled in folios by states, ferent individuals for inaccuracies—assayed to counties and cities. The folios are then ready prevent distortion of the composite statistics. to be sent to the machines where the data will In this respect, the work Is particularly anal- be transformed to punch-cards, preparatory to ogous to that In a factory where each piece is subsequent machine tabulation. It is from the calibrated and tested before assembly. mass totals produced by these machines that

Each part of the report is also edited and the many statistical tables are prepared which coded by different persons—and subsequently finally become the formal printed census re- is reviewed and critically analyzed. The whole ports. set-up for this work is a system of checks and A force of nearly 3,000 workers, under the balances, in which the element of error ap- direction of Fred A. Gosnell, Chief Statistician proaches the Irreducible minimum. Then the in charge, is required at the Philadelphia office individual figures are consolidated with others of the Bureau of the Census for this work.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER . !0 m ]i» I*»r;*^«3?!#-, y

PROMT OF SAN FRANCISCO TERMINAL, sr.cvir.g elevateo ro.-r.p

The building provides a waiting roonn 135 feet wide by 220 feet long

SAN FRANCISCO TERMINAL of Bay Bridge as it will appear when completed is indicated by white

arrow. The building will accommodate six trades of the interurban railway loop Illustrations Courtesy California Highways and Public Works

MARCH. 1936 OVER RIVER, RAILROADS. AND BOULEVARDS, a wide 1100-foot viaduct will carry the high-

way extension link of Figueroa Street fronn Tunnel No. I of the chain of three tunnels built

through Elyslan Park in Los Angeles to join North Figueroa Street on the other side of the river

valley. The main river span will be 200 feet long. This sketch by Charles Owens is reproduced by courtesy of the Los Angeles Tinnes

Courtesy California Highways and Public Works

TUNNEL VISTA SHOWING THREE COMPLETED FIGUEROA STREET BORES THROUGH PARK

Los Angeles, California

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER SAN FRANCISCll puni-IC LIBRARY PERIODICAL DEPT.

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END BARRIER TO LOS ANGELES TRAFFIC

by Chas. W. Jones

around the mountain, through the congested business section of the city. r OR years the mountains and At last, due to the combined efforts of the the Los Angeles River have been a barrier to city, the state, and the Federal government, through traffic on FIgueroa Street, one of the the engineering dream of breaking through the

main north and south traffic arteries In the barrier to secure a direct route for FIgueroa

City of Los Angeles. This traffic In the past Street traffic Is about to be realized. The com- has been forced to take a long circuitous path plete program Includes a chain of four tunnels.

TUNNEL PORTAL AT ELYSIAN PARK AND RIVERSIDE DRIVE, LOS ANGELES, WHERE VIADUCT WILL CONNECT

MARCH, 1936 three of which have already been bored will be done under the direct supervision ol through the mountain, and the fourth is under the state. construction. Viewing the project from a construction part of this re- As program, the state has standpoint, some of the major problems will be cently awarded a half million dollar contract the building of deep river piers adjacent to the

for I the construction of a 000-foot viaduct link railroad tracks without endangering or inter- starting at the northerly tunnel portal in Elysian fering with railroad service and the spanning Park. of San Fernando Road without interrupting The viaduct will cross the various above street car and vehicular traffic. It is proposed tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the to construct the main river pier on the north tracks of the Los Angeles Railway, the Los bank of the Los Angeles River around and over

Angeles River, and San Fernando Road to join the large Glendale outfall sewer without injur- North Figueroa Street, and will also make di- ing that structure. rect connection with the proposed Arroyo The erection of the unusually long steel plate Seco Parkway to South Pasadena and Pasa- girder spans, which will arch the tracks and the dena, a new route added to the State hHighway Los Angeles River will also be an interesting System by act of the legislature of 1935. construction problem. The engineering forces of the state of Cali- The contract for the viaduct fornia and the city of Los Angeles cooperated has been awarded to the low bidder on a bid price of in designing the viaduct. It will be an impos- $578,420. However, supplemental work to ing structure with a main river span 200 feet be accomplished by the Southern Pacific long crossing the river at an elevation of some Com- pany, in addition to a contingency will 70 feet above the stream bed. Long spans Item, bring the cost of this project to approximately will cross the railroad tracks on each side of $678,000. The contract provides for 300 work- the river. The vehicular roadway will be 44 ing days in vv'hich to complete the viaduct. feet in width and, in addition, there will be sidewalks on each side of the roadway. The North Figueroa Street road, tunnel and

This project, which will give employment to viaduct projects will provide a continuous many persons, will be financed from Federal through artery for traffic to and from the rap- funds made available under the 1935 appor- idly developing areas across the river at the tionment of Emergency Relief funds. The work north, northwest, and northeast of Los Angeles.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER PROGRAM FOR OPEN COMPETITION FOR OREGON STATE CAPITOL

erty, and, to eliminate unnecessary loss and waste In

this state. It shall be unlawful for any person to prac- HE Oregon State Capi- tice the profession of architecture or to assume or use the title of architect, or any title, sign, cards, or tol Reconstruction Commission proposes to device indicating, or tending to Indicate, that such hold a competition for the selection of an person is practicing architecture or Is an architect, architect to design and supervise the con- or to represent In any manner that he Is an architect, struction of a Capitol building at Salem, Ore- without first qualifying before the board or obtaining gon. a certificate of registration as provided by this act.

There are to be no specially invited com- This act shall not be construed to affect or prevent the practice ... of engineering by a professional petitors. engineer duly licensed under the laws of the state, The Commission has retained the services nor apply to any person engaged In architecture or of Carl F. Gould, F.A.I.A., of Seattle, Wash- engineering work as an employee of an architect or

ington, as its technical adviser in the prepar- registered engineer, nor shall It prevent draftsmen, ation of the program given below. clerks of the work, superintendents and other employees of registered architects and registered profes- The attention of competitors Is called to sional engineers under provisions of this act, acting the following sections of the Oregon Code, under Instructions, control or supervision of their em- 1930, and Amendments thereto relating to ployers. Provided that such engineer, person, or per-

the practice of the profession of architecture sons, designated shall not use the designation archi- unless licensed under in Oregon: tect, architectural or architecture

the provisions of this act. . . . OREGON CODE, 1930 No corporation or stock company shall be entitled 68-306. EXAMINATION—CERTIFICATE OF REG- to a certificate to practice architecture. . . . ISTRATION—NONRESIDENTS. A partnership may engage In the practice of archi- (c) Any person who is a registered or certified arch- tecture provided a firm name or title is used contain- itect in another state, where the qualifications are ing only the name or names of the registered archi- equal to those required In this state shall, In the dis- tect or architects of such firm. cretion of the board, be entitled to a certificate of All such partnerships when organized or formed and registration without examination. when any change in the personnel of said partnership OREGON CODE, 1935, SUPPLEMENT occurs, whether by withdrawal, addition, resignation 68-304. UNLAWFUL TO PRACTICE PROFES- or death, shall make and file with the secretary of SION OF ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT OBTAINING the board of architectural examiners, a sworn state- CERTIFICATE — CORPORATIONS AND PARTNER- ment giving the names and addresses of all such

SHIPS. In order to safeguard life, health and prop- members. 68-308. REFUSAL TO GRANT AND REVOCA- charge or charges at their next regular meeting. Any TION OF CERTIFICATES—CHARGES—HEARING. person who is a holder of a certificate of registra- The state board of architect examiners may refuse tion, or who is an applicant for a certificate of regis- to grant or may revoke a certificate of registration tration against whom any of the foregoing grounds to practice architecture in this state upon the follow- for revoking or refusing a certificate of registration is ing grounds, to wit: presented to said board with a view of having the board revoke or refuse to grant a certificate of reg- in 1. The employment of fraud or deception ap- istration, shall be furnished with a copy of the com- plying for a certificate of registration or in passing plaint, and shall have a hearing before said board in an examination as provided in this act. person, or by attorney, and witnesses may be exam- the holder of such certificate 2. Upon proof that ined by said board respecting the guilt or innocence impersonating a practitioner of registration is falsely of the accused. Said board may prescribe rules and or former practitioner. regulations under which applicants for certificates of

3. That the holder of a certificate is practicing registration, or persons whose certificates of registra- under an assumed, fictitious, or a corporate name con- tion have been revoked may apply. to the provisions of this act. trary For assistance in the construction of the Capitol,

4. Upon proof that the holder of such certificate a Federal public works grant in the sum of $1,125,- of registration is guilty of fraud or deceit, or of gross 000 is being made. The grant is made on terms em- negligence, incompetency or misconduct in the prac- bodied in PWA regulations. A detailed statement tice of architecture. regarding these regulations may be obtained from the Oregon PWA authorities, or Alton John Bassett, 5. For the conviction of a crime involving moral Secretary of the Capitol Commission, 714 Porter turpitude or proof of habitual intemperance, the using Building, Portland, Oregon. of morphine, opium, cocaine or other drugs having similar effect, by the holder of such certificate of Definition of Words and Terms registration.

The words "The Act" as used In this program, un- 6. Upon proof that the holder of such certificate stated, shall refer to Chapter 74, Ore- of registration did wilfully evade or try to evade any less otherwise gon Laws, Special Session 1935. or all laws, ordinances, codes, regulations governing construction and/or buildings, of the state or counties The word "Owner" as used in this program, shall and cities of this state. mean the State Capitol Reconstruction Commission,

which is the duly authorized body to reconstruct the 7. Upon proof that the holder of such certificate State Capitol Building. of registration permitted his seal to be affixed to any Oregon plans, specifications or drawings that were not pre- P.W.A.: Federal Emergency Administration of pared by him, or under his personal supervision, by Public Works. subordinate or subordinates. his regularly employed Winner: Author of winning design.

8. Upon proof that the holder of such certificate Associate: The associate is the Oregon architect or did receive, unbeknown to the party of registration firm of architects with whom the winning architect or parties for whom he is doing work, such rebates, will be required to associate, if the winner is not an of moneys and/or favors, to which commissions, grants Oregon man. he is not entitled or justified in receiving. Architect: Whenever the word "Architect" is used of such certificate 9. Upon proof that the holder in this program, unless otherwise indicated, it shall require- is practicing contrary to the provisions and include the words "or architects", and the words "or ments of this act. firm or firms of architects," and it shall mean, and in- associate architect, The state board of architect examiners shall have clude the winning architect, and all architects collaborating with any of power to revoke, suspend, or annul the certificate of and any and registration to practice architecture in this state, or them. an architect, or reprimand, censure or otherwise dis- of Contract Between cipline an architect in accordance with the following Conditions provisions and procedure: Architect and Owner Duties of the Architect Any person may prefer charges against a holder to make such revision of his of such certificate of registration to practice architec- The Winner agrees as may be necessary to complete ture. Such charges shall be in writing and sworn to competitive scheme and to provide the drawings by the complainant and shall be forwarded to the the preliminary studies necessary for the conduct of the board of architect examiners, which shall act on such and specifications

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER work and to obtain the approval of the Owner and self with a registered architect residing in the State the State Director for the P. W. A. These drawings of Oregon. The associate architect will be selected by and specifications must be delivered to the State the Owner in consultation with the technical adviser Director of the P. W. A. by September 15, 1936. from those judged competent and acceptable to the All such drawings are instruments of service, except winner and the Public Works Administration State the drawings entered for the competition, and remain Director. the property of the architect.

Article I. That said winner shall all For the purpose of taking bids the winning archi- make sketches, working drawings, details, specifications, etc., call- tect will be required to furnish 12 complete sets of ed for or required the contract with the prints and specifications. by Own- er, and shall conduct such conferences and make The Winner agrees to prepare the design of the such Inspections of the work as shall be required entire building or buildings, and the design of its by said contract, the Owner or by the exigencies constructive, its engineering requirements, special or of the work, and shall at all times maintain in fact otherwise, decorative work, and fixed equipment, and his position as architect under the terms of said if further retained by the Owner, its movable furni- contract with the Owner. ture, the treatment of its grounds, and to direct the design of the sculptural features and/or mural paint- Article 2. That said associate shall represent the Win- ings. ner during his absence from Salem and shall per-

The associate agrees to prepare or advise as to all form for him all the services required in the proper forms connected with the making of proposals and supervision of the work provided for in the con- contracts, to issue all certificates of payment, to keep tract between the Winner and the Owner. proper accounts and generally to discharge the necessary administrative duties connected with the work. Article 3. That said associate shall at no time have authority to Issue orders to prepare or change The associate agrees to supervise the execution of drawings or specifications, which shall materially all work committed to his control. modify those prepared by the Winner, nor shall The associate agrees to furnish the Owner progress they In any way supplant said Winner as the arch- reports from time to time during construction, and itects In any work connected herewith except as a comprehensive report upon the building when com- otherwise provided In this agreement, or with plete. Included in this report shall be all guaranties, the consent of the Winner. names of all contractors and sub-contractors, names of all men or firms furnishing materials and their ad- Article 4. That the said associate shall at all times for might of in dresses reference and as be value keep In close contact with the work, by such per- maintenance of the building. sonal Inspection at least once each week, and

In consideration of the submission of drawings in within three days of the day on which certificates this competition, and the mutual promises enumer- are Issued, as hereafter provided; shall be subiect ated in the subjoined "Conditions of Contract be- at all times to calls from the Owner for confer- tween Architect and Owner," the Owner agrees, and ences as representing the Winner, and shall keep each competitor agrees if the award be made In his the Winner advised as to the progress of the favor, immediately to enter into a contract contain- work by a written report at least once every two ing all the conditions herein following; Including the weeks. conditions in the agreement between the Winner Article 5. That said associate shall pay at his own and the Associate, and until such contract Is exe- expense for all telephone and telegraph charges, cuted, to be bound by the said conditions. stationery, postage, clerical and other office ex- The duties of the Winner include all of the cus- pense. In Salem or elsewhere In Oregon, incidental tomary duties of an architect except those specific to the proper performance of this agreement, and duties contracted for by the associate. said winner shall pay at his own expense all simi-

lar expenses from his own office. The Agreement

Article 6. That said associate shall, in the absence of The agreement into which the winning and associate the winner have full authority in the direction of architect shall be required to enter Is substantially as the work as representative of the winner to the follows: degree herein provided, and all orders or direc-

The adjudged winner of the competition, If not a tions issued by said winner shall be issued through resident of Oregon, will be required to associate him- the said associate.

MARCH. 1936 Article 7. That said associate shall direct the taking Duties of Owner

of bids and make his report and recommendations Payment

to the owner, and shall receive all applications for The Owner agrees to pay the architect for his serv-

payments from the contractors, shall properly ices, which Include the necessary engineering serv- check same and shall Issue certificates for pay- ices for heating, ventilating, and electric work, a sum

ments to the contractors on behalf of the winner equal to six (6) per cent of the cost of the completed as provided for by the contracts. work that comes under his supervision, as evidenced by the contractor's certificates Issued, to be divided

Article 8. That, In consideration of and conditioned between the winner and associate In accordance with upon the faithful performance by the said asso- articles 8 and 9 of their agreement.

ciate of the duties provided for in this agreement, The owner further agrees to reimburse the archi- the said winner agrees to pay to the said asso- tect the cost of transportation and living Incurred by

ciate two percent of the cost of the work, which him while in the discharge of duties connected with

sum shall be computed by deducting one-third the work, an amount not to exceed $5000.00. Such of the architectural fees that are paid to the traveling expenses shall be Incurred only as author-

winner, except that the winner and associate shall ized by the Owner. share the cost of the mechanical engineering work, The times and amounts of payments to the archi-

in the proportion of two to one, which work shall tect shall be as follows: the announcement of the the be based on l'/2% °^ '"'"s cost. Upon award by Own- er, the Winner will receive l/IO of the total com-

Article 9. That all payments to both the winner and mission.

to the associate shall be made at the same time Upon the Owner's approval of preliminary sketches,

as provided elsewhere In this program conditioned i/IO additional. only upon the progress of the work, but not con- Upon completion of the working drawings, 2/10 ditioned upon the work of the other; and that additional.

these payments shall be made directly from the Upon P. W. A. approval of working drawings, 2/10 Owner to each of the parties hereto. additional. The remainder of the fee as determined by the

Article 10. This agreement shall at all times be sub- omounts of the certificates of payment for work per- ject to cancellation upon direction of the Owner, formed issued to the contractor. and upon reasonable notice. Upon such cancella- All sets of prints and specifications that may be necessary over and the 12 sets furnished tion the complete records and files of the party above by or parties whose services are to be terminated the Winner will be paid for by the Owner at actual shall be turned over to the Owner. Such cancel- cost. The Owner reserves the right to require the Win- lation shall take place only should the architect In ner to furnish a plaster model of the proposed build- the judgment of the Owner prove Incompetent, ing; the actual cost of which will be paid for by the and after his having received equitable compen- Owner. sation for all work performed up to time of removal. Information, Clerk of the Works

The Owner agrees to furnish all Information as to Article II. This agreement pertains to the work con- requirements; to pay for all necessary surveys, borings nected with the construction of the Capitol build- and tests, and, after the building contracts have been ing at Salem, and to no other work whatsoever. awarded, for the continuous service of a clerk of the

works of approved competence whose selection shall Article 12. It is understood and agreed by the part- be agreed upon mutually by Owner and Architect ies hereto that the work forming the subject mat- and whose duties are subject to the direction of the ter of this contract is being In financed part by Architect. the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Reports made by the clerk of the works shall be Works of the United States of America, and Is made In duplicate, one copy to be furnished to the subject to all of the rules and regulations issued Owner and one copy to the Architect. by it, governing construction work and the matter and method of keeping records thereof. And the Awards parties hereto agree to assume that part of this The Owner has authorized, and agrees to make the expense, which by Its nature attaches Itself to that following awards:

share of the work undertaken by each of the First Award: To the author of the winning design, parties hereto. the architectural commission.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Five additional awards: To the authors of the next The technical adviser will open the package of five most meritorious designs, the sum of $1500.00 drawings in the presence of the Chief Justice of the each. Oregon Supreme Court, and will place a number The order for payment of the upon awards will be made each of the drawings and a similar number upon by the Owner within 20 days after the the decision of blank envelope. The envelope will be deposited the judges has been announced. In safekeeping until opened by the technical adviser in the After the award is made to the winner, a complete presence of the jury and the Owner, after the list of selection for competitors will be sent to each competitor, the award has been made by the jury. together with the report of the jury. Credentials of Competitors Communications Mandatory Provision for Anonymity During Progress There shall be contained in each set of drawings a of the Competition sealed package wrapped in white, opaque paper with Mandatory no marking of any kind upon it, which will be marked Questions must be made anonymously to the tech- for Identification by the technical adviser, and will nical adviser, who will answer by simultaneous bulle- not be opened until the envelope containing the au- tins to all competitors, and these bulletins shall be- thor's name is opened. This package must contain come part of the program. It is left to the discretion the following: of the technical adviser to determine the pertinence The competitor's of questions, and the necessity for a reply. (1) name and address. No A competitor shall communicate — orally or in (2) statement that he is a citizen of the United writing—with the Owner, the executive committee, States. or the jury, nor with the technical adviser except by (3) A statement that he Is an architect registered question submitted anonymously through the Owner's in his own state or by the National Council secretary. of Architects Registration Board.

Provision for Date After Which No Questions (4) A statement that the drawings were made in Will be Answered his office and that he affirms the authorship

Mandatory is his.

No communications will be answered that are re- (5) A statement concerning his education, offices ceived after April 10, 1936. he has worked in, and how many years he has

Anonymity of Drawings been in practice. Mandatory (6) List of three projects of some magnitude exe- The drawings to be submitted shall bear no name cuted under his direction, to show capabili- or mark which could serve as a means of identifica- ties for preparing working drawings. tion, nor shall any such name or mark appear upon the wrappings of the drawings, nor shall any com- (7) Photostatic copies of two (2) sheets from sign- petitor directly or indirectly reveal the identity of his ed contract plans of buildings executed under design, or hold communication regarding the com- his direction and two (2) photos of executed petition with the owner, nor with the jury, nor with buildings. the technical adviser, except as provided for under If a competitor is unable to submit such "COMMUNICATIONS," above. copies because of dissolution of partnership, destruction of records or any other reason, he It is understood that in submitting a design, each may submit evidence relating to the fact and competitor thereby affirms that he has complied with supply other material in evidence of his quali- the foregoing provisions in regard to anonymity and agrees fications for the consideration of the technical that any violation of them renders null and adviser. void this agreement and any agreement arising from It. (8) A statement that In submitting drawings for Method of Submitting Drawings this competition the competitor agrees to Mandatory abide by all the provisions and rulings that are made or implied in this program and as Accompanying each set of drawings shall be a may sealed, opaque, white envelope, 4"x9l/2", without be interpreted by the technical adviser. name or marking, enclosed within the package, con- Should an architect, wishing to enter this competi- taining the name and address of the competing arch- tion, realize he may not qualify under the above itect. "Credentials of Competition," he may, provided he

MARCH, 1936 is a registered architect, associate himself with one dition arises as suggested in second paragraph of who does so qualify. Authority of Jury below, and then only to the tech-

The competitor must declare his intention of enter- nical adviser.

ing the competition before April 1 0th, 1936, and any association made at that time must remain In force Jury as to the winner until completion of building. The Jury shall consist of two architects, neither of

whom shall be a resident of Oregon, two members Examination of Design and Award of the commission, and one outstanding layman from

After the competition has closed, the technical ad- Oregon. The professional members of the Jury shall be men of recognized standing. The names of the viser will open the packages as provided, and will examine the designs to ascertain whether they comply jurors will not be announced prior to the award. with the mandatory requirements of the program, and Method of Selection will report to the jury any instance of failure to comply with these mandatory requirements, but shall con- The Jury is to be selected by the owner. The tech- vey no Information to the jury that might prejudice nical adviser is not a member of the Jury. The arch- its independent judgment. itectural members of the Jury are to be selected by

The Owner agrees that the jury will satisfy Itself of the Owner from a list of names submitted by the the accuracy of the report of the technical adviser, technical adviser. The Jury, two members of which and will place out of competition and make no award will come from states other than Oregon, will con- to any design which does not comply with these man- vene on the 25th day of May, 1936. at 9:00 a.m. datory requirements. The jury will carefully study the program and any modifications thereof, which Authority of Jury may have been made through communications, and The Jury after viewing the drawings, and having will then consider the remaining designs, holding at satisfied itself after advice by the technical adviser least two sessions on separate days, and considering that they conform to the mandatory provisions of the at session all the in each drawings competition, and competition, will deliberate until a conclusion is reach- will make the awards, by secret ballot, and by major- ed by a majority. It will then prepare a written re- ity vote. port containing the verdict. The report of the Jury

In making the award the jury will thereby affirm shall be made public and the decision will be announc- that it has made no effort to learn the identity of ed by the owner. various the competitors, and that it has remained If upon examination of the competitor's credentials In Ignorance of such until identity after the award by the technical adviser, it Is his opinion that the was made. author of the design selected by the Jury has not shown that he has the requisite experience, the matter Date and Place of Receiving shall be referred to the Owner for decision, and the and Time Allowed competitor's plan In question, will be designated as Mandatory "qualified" or "not qualified," according to the deci- All packages containing drawings entered in this sion of the Capitol Building Commission. competition must be received at the office of, and be If the decision of the owner is that the competitor addressed to Arthur S. Benson, Clerk of the Supreme is not qualified, the credentials of the competitor Court of Oregon, Salem, Oregon, on or before the placed second shall be examined and the award made 22nd day of May, 1936. These packages shall be to him If qualified. This procedure shall be followed secured in ordinary detail paper, sealed with plain in order of award until a qualified architect is named. wax, and shall bear no marks, save the above address, The opening of the envelope containing the name and shall be delivered by an express company, and of the author of the selected design will automatically in no other way. All drawings except those receiving close the contract between him and the Owner, sub- awards will be returned to their authors within ten ject to his qualifications and to the correctness of the days after the date of the award, the Owner assum- representations made by the competitor. ing no responsibility in case of loss or damage In transit or otherwise. Those designs receiving awards The Site will be returned In similar manner after the close of

the public exhibition. The drawings of the winner The site available for the Capitol building Is the

shall be retained. The awards are to be made on or property owned by the state, as described in section

before May 28, 1936. In making the awards the jury 6 of the act, and as shown upon the site plan which

shall indicate an order of choice from first to sixth Is inserted In the official program. Under the present but shall not make this decision public unless a con- law the commission can only consider this particular

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER i property as available for the construction of the Cap- calculated from the finished level or levels of the itol building. lowest floor to the highest point of the roofs, and con- The power plant shown on the site plan is built tained within the outside surface of the walls. underground and will rennain in use to serve the Capi- The actual volume of all architectural features add- tol building. The Capitol building shall be designed ing to the bulk of the building, shall be included in to make use of this heating plant. computing the cubage. Light walls of an area of less The State Office building, the Supreme Court than 400 square feet shall not be deducted. One- building, and the Agriculture building shown upon half of the volume of porticos with free-standing sup- the site plan are owned by the state and located on ports. If any, and other similar projections, shall be state property, hlowever, these buildings need not taken. Minor extraneous projections constituting fea- influence the architectural style or treatment of the tures of exterior design shall not be included. site of the main Capitol building. In calculating cubage, account shall be taken of In developing the plan lay-out. It Is suggested that variations in the exterior wall surface, as, for ex- Summer Street be considered as the axial approach ample, the projection of a basement story beyond the to the Capitol building. It is possible that the state general line of the building. will ultimately acquire the half-blocks or full blocks A cube diagram on tracing cloth, showing method on each side of Summer Street, extending a block or adopted in cubing shall accompany each set of draw- more to the north of Court Street. Competitors may ings. This diagram shall show in plan the wall face assume that this additional property will be acquired, at the main story, and shall scale accurately, with and at their discretion may include other state build- principal dimensions figured. A tabulation showing ings in the group lay-out. At least one other building how the cube was obtained shall appear on the cube must be shown, namely, a State Library building with diagram. approximately 20,000 square feet ground floor area. Other possible future structures include an additional Design State Office building, a building for storage of archives, and a state museum. There shall be no descriptive matter accompanying The trees which are apparent from the air-view of the design. the site in the official program, are of mature growth, The competitor may accent the traditional, the giving character and adding to the beauty of the more functional or modern, or he may combine their capitol grounds and Willson park. As many of these influence in his design. An outstanding solution is trees should be preserved as possible. desired and one that will be looked upon now, and In preparing and submitting drawings, the entire hereafter, with an ever awakening interest by the site Including Willson park may be assumed as level. people of the State of Oregon.

Cost Drawings Mandatory to be Furnished For the purpose of this Competition the cost of the Mandatory building is to be figured at 80c per cubic foot, and A. Block plan showing the location and relation- the total thereof, figured on this basis, shall not ex- ship of the described buildings and their surround- ceed $2,200,000. This sum shall include architect's ings as shown on the city plan, at scale of 1/64" fees, but shall not include the cost of furniture and equals one (I ) foot. furnishings. B. Plans of all floors. Including basement, at scale

of 1/16" equals one (I) foot. Material C. Front elevation, scale at 1/16" equals one (I) The building shall be of fire-resisting material and foot. constructed according to the best practice. All mate- D. Side elevation 1/16". rials are to be of the best quality, with preference E. One longitudinal section, scale at 1/16" equals given to the use of materials that are manufactured one ( ) foot. I or can be procured In the state of Oregon. Mate- The elevation shall be rendered in monochrome. The rial to be used for the facing of the exterior of the floor plans shall show where the solids are cut filled building shall be left to the discretion of the competi- in full black. Fixed furniture only shall be shown, and tors. no elaboration of corridors or hall floors permitted. Cubage The section will not be rendered except a wash where Mandatory the solids are cut.

Cubage shall be so computed as to show as ex- The names of the various parts of the plans shall actly as possible the actual volume of the building. be lettered in a single-line block letter and each room

MARCH, 1936 shall have Its total floor area and dimensions marked Square Feet

Hearing Room, seating .. In figures. capacity 200 ... 1,850 Mailing Room Lavatories, toilets, etc. shall Each drawing have the inscription, "Oregon •Separate exits should be provided fo both Legislative Houses, distinct from State Capitol Competition" and subtitle specifying trance to the building

the subject of the drawing and the scale to which it Is 2. Executive Departrr

drawn. There shall be no other notes or descriptive matter shown on the drawings.

All lettering shall be a single line. All drawings and 300 400 Stenographers' work room 250 shall be upon white mounting board. Sheets of any Meeting room (used jointly with oar J of Contr ol) 1,000 Total Office Space 4 150 one competitor shall be of a uniform size. Each sheet 200 Vault 400 shall have a plain border of a single line only—this 600 1 200 Toilets, etc. border to show a uniform margin of one-half ('/2") Location: It is desirable to have the Gov ernors of- inch. fice easily accessible or adja cent to both the House and Senate, and to the Boa d o f Con trol. A private exit is desirable. Budget Department: Accommodations Required Budget Division 400 BOO 200 The various departments of the State Government Total Office Space 1.400 Small Vault 50 will require rooms and space In the locations and of Total Storage Space 50 Toilet the approximate sizes Indicated on the schedule fol- Location: Adjacent to Governor Secretary of State: lowing. The size requirements stated In the schedule Reception room 500 may be varied to the extent of not more than ten General office 3 500 Secretary of State Private office . 400 per cent above or below the figures given. Chief Deputy Private office 250 350 800 The setting aside of extra space, marked "unas- Accounting Division 900 900 slgned" for the use of minor departments, will not be Total Office Space 7.600 Vault (two levels ft? 400) 800 prejudicial In the judgment of the drawings, provided Storage (may be in basement) .... 10,200

Total Office 1 .000 Space 1 that the total cubage limit Is not exceeded. Toilets, etc. Location: Preferably on 1st floor Treasury Department: The size and arrangement of toilet facilities, cloak 600

General office (behind counter) .. rooms, storage rooms, etc., are left 1.800 to the discretion 400

Deputy Treasurer Private office .... of the designer, unless specifically 250 scheduled. 400 Bookkeeoina Division 300 The amount of space devoted to non-essential uses Cashier Total Office Space 4.100 shall be reduced to a minimum, consistent with the Vault (two levels (a 400) Sorage (may be In basement) monumental character of the building, and the neces- Total Storage Space - 5.600 Toilets, etc. sity for providing adequate circulation. Location: Near Governor. Secretary of State. Tax Commision State Tax Commission: Wherever storage space Is located on a different Reception Lobby Secretary's office level from the office space It serves, a private con- -'s offices (3 @ 250) Work necting is stairway desirable. Work room Conference room Total Office Space Schedule of Space Requirements Two Vaults (total) ., Storage (may be in Square Total Storage Spac I=eet Toilets, etc. I. Legislative; Location: Preferably and Secretary of (A) House of Representatives State Board of Control Public Reception Lobby Lounge including prov Secretary's

ited :r of Ten members) a I offic 4,500 Large Con littee Meeting roor Large C< littee Room Total Offici 5.440 imittee le in rooms [ age @ 300 sq. ft.) 3.000 Storage (ma^ basement) 1,040 Stenograptiers room Total Store Space 1,040 Engrossing room Toilets, etc. Speaker's Office Location: Ne etary of State, State Post Office, Sergi t-at-Arms, Bill Clerk, etc. 700 Tree and Budget Departn Total State Land Bo Lobby (8) Senate: Ma' Work' Chamber to seat 30 members 3 200 Private offic Public Galleries [.J... | looO Conference (ff 400 Lounge (2 200) and Lockers (including provision for a lim- Total OffI ited number of women members) 1,400 File Room Large Committee Room I 200 Vault Large Committee Room _ 800 Total Storage Spac littee rooms (average @ 300 sq. ft.) 3.300 Toilets, etc. Stenographers 500 Location: Near Gov Secretary of State and Engrossing Roc 500 State Treasurer Presiding Offic offic Post Office, Se 'geant-at-Arms, Bill Clerk, etc. 700 Total Barber Shop (C) Miscellaneous: Ways and Means Committee: Building Superintendent and storage .. Large Room. 1,200 sq. ft.: two small rooms @ 200 Ample provision for ventilating equipn- sq. ft.: Stenographers and Clerks Office, 250 sq. ft. 1.850 vator service is required.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER —

THE BIGGEST JOB OF THE not assume Its rightful place of leadership in the re- BUILDING INDUSTRY habilitation of the building Industry until all branches of that industry act (Prepared by the Federal Housing Administration) as a co-ordinating force to sell more and better homes.

The recognition of that fact by the Industry may be a long forward step towards the realization of the pur- ,EADERS of the building industry who pose. But unless every person connected with the build- recently participated In a nation-wide radio forum all ing industry regards himself as a working part of that agreed that the biggest job confronting the building co-ordinating force and puts all his energy back of the industry is stimulating the desire for home ownership. movement, complete success will be delayed. Selling the idea of home ownership to the American To make this co-ordinating force effective, each in- people has been the biggest job of the industry for dividual connected with the building industry should the past few years. The drop in home construction to approach his acquaintances, and look up others, who one-tenth the average yearly building program of the are or should be potential home owners. They should years before the depression, made the solving of the educate these prospects to the value of a home Invest- problem essential. Until residence construction again ment, and also clear up any doubts in their minds as approaches the volume of the pre-depression era, it is to the manner of financing the construction of a new asserted, the building and heavy goods industries will residence. lay dormant and general business recovery remain uncertain. Progress In construction and Improvements in methods of financing home construction have provided the It was vitally necessary for the American people to industry with sound arguments to prove that any reput- begin that long deferred residence building program. able man with a decent job can buy or build a home, Attempts were made during the past few years by vari- if he has saved 20 per cent of Its cost and has an in- ous groups of the building industry to persuade the come that warrants him to support a family according prospective home owner to take action. But not until to American standards of living. 1935 was much headway made in this up-stream fight to revive residence building. Th ose reasons are:

In 1935 the efforts of the building Industry, in the I —The general Improvement of business conditions discouraging struggle up-stream against the current of has made his job more certain. apathy brought on by the depression, received strong 2 —The improvement of the mortgage assistance from the Government, which made the going market has made funds available for home building easier. The Federal Housing Administration's program at rates lower than formerly obtained. for increased residence building was put in operation in the closing month of 1934. 3 —The establishment of the Mutual Mortgage In-

By March 1935 the leading Institutions had ana- surance Plan of the Federal Housing Administration corrects the faults of lyzed the plan and the necessary machinery for Its the old short term mortgage sys- with Its operation had been set up, with the result that $4,772,- tem first and second mortgages and their ex- 728 of mortgages were accepted for Insurance that pensive renewal charges. It is based upon a single month by the Housing Administration. From then on mortgage system which gives full security to the bor- the amount of Insured mortgages written by the lend- rower as well as to the lender. Eighty per cent of the appraised value of ing institutions steadily Increased until In the latter the home (including house and lot) months of 1935 insured mortgages were being written may be loaned on one mortgage up to a limit of The at the rate of a million dollars a day. During the off $16,000. amount of the down payment is reduced to a of season building month of January this year, $21,337,- minimum 20 per cent of the appraised value. 926 worth of mortgages were Insured by the Federal 4—Under this Single Mortgage System, the bor- Housing Administration. rower can pay off the mortgage in monthly Installments Since the start of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance which Include that month's Interest on the money bor- Plan the proportion of new residential building financed rowed, a portion of the principal, and Installments on under the plan has steadily risen until It has reached each year's taxes and each year's Insurance premium. 37.2 per cent of the estimated residential construction Thus over a given period—anywhere up to 20 years

In the United States. the entire amount of the mortgage is paid off and the

home is free of all debt. Since all of this new residence construction Is being paid for out of private funds, there Is no good reason 5—At no time during the repayment of this type of why every man In the building industry should not get insured mortgage will the owner be faced with the back of this movement to assure the continuance of necessity of renewing the mortgage. No longer will sound, constructive stimulation of residence building. lump-sum payments for taxes, premiums or interest Building authorities agree that home construction will come as an unpleasant shock to the budget.

MARCH. 1936 feet high, feet long, with 6—There is a degree of safety in building a home Exchequer Dam, 350 960 a financed under the Single Mortgage System that was carrying capacity of 75,000 second-feet and backing lacking under the old system. The property standards the waters of Merced River up for 12 miles. Popula- laid down by the Federal Housing Administration tion: 3233. Area: 1463 square miles. assure the home builder of a square deal. In its insur- offices competent men, trained In the technique ing MENDOCINO COUNTY — One of the original construction methods, valua- of architectural design, twenty-seven counties of California. The county de- tion procedure and subdivision analysis, will protect rived its name from Cape Mendocino, which was dis- the home builder's interests in regard to the design of covered and named by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in his the quality of material, the workmanship, the house, 1542, and named for Don Antonio de Mendoza, the price and the location. first Viceroy of New Spain, or Mexico, appointed by

Those reasons are fundamental arguments in favor the King of Spain In 1535. of home ownership upon which the Industry can well Magnificent Mendocino, in the Redwood Empire, is base its sales efforts. noted as a paradise for the tourist, vacationist and

sportsman. In the empire as a whole are nearly 2000

miles of trout streams, many miles of ocean and surf ORIGIN OF NAMES OF fishing and game in abundance. Approximately 97 CALIFORNIA COUNTIES per cent of the world's redwoods are here, and the Redwood Highway through the county has the company of these giant trees for 100 miles. Salmon caught This is the sixth article in the series giving derivation In the coast waters are shipped to all parts of the of the names of California counties: world. Created February 18, 1850. MARIPOSA COUNTY— Lumbering and commercial fisheries are Mendo- original twenty-seven counties of the One of the cino's principal industries. Uklah, Potter, Round and county took its name from the Mariposa state. The Little Lake valleys are among the most productive river. The meaning of "Mariposa" in Spanish is agricultural areas in the state. Mendocino ranks fifth "butterfly." There is some doubt as to how this stream In the production of apples, eighth in pears, thirteenth derived its name. According to one story. In June, in plums and prunes and tenth In juice grapes. party of Callfornlans from the San Joaquin 1807, a Principal industries on the coast are lumbering, stock- Valley one of their annual excursions into the made raising, dairying, fruit raising, general farming and Sierra Nevada mountains for the purpose of hunting fishing. The Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg is elk. Camping upon the banks of a river, they were the third largest manufacturer of redwood lumber in with the butterflies of most charmed and delighted the world. Population: 23,505. Area: 3539 square variegated and gorgeous colors that hovered around miles. (Next month—Merced, Modoc, etc.) them in countless numbers, and because of this they gave to the stream the name "Mariposa." Another beautiful story, and probably more authentic, is that BOOK REVIEWS

first in the mountains of that region be- the explorers THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE:—by Ralph Dut- held for the first time a pretty lily growing everywhere, ton; Foreword by Osbert Sitwell: Charles Scrlb- gay-colored and spotted and in some respects resemb- ner's Sons, New York; Price:—$2.75. ling the wings of a butterfly. In their admiration, they A very attractive book, containing some historical gave to this dainty flower, the Calochortus, the name facts concerning its subject matter, and several superl- of Mariposa (butterfly) lily. ative illustrations. To the architect whose Interests are particularly in Mariposa Is known as the "Mother of Counties" be- connection with residence work, and to whom house cause it once comprised one-seventh of California's architecture is paramount, this book will be a more area, hiere Is the world-famous Yosemite Valley. The than welcome addition to his library. county embraces magnificent mountains, extensive The end-papers are of special interest and are of a forests, flower-strewn mountain meadows, cool canyons type not usually seen in the general run of books of and sparkling streams. It is host to a greater number this type. of tourists than any other county. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING AND DETAILING:— Not only is the scenery unsurpassed, but large by J. Ralph Dalzell; and James McKinney; Pub- ranches produce fine strains of hogs, sheep and cattle, lished by the American Technical Society, Chi- grain and hay, mountain vegetables and fruits, and cago; Price:— $2.00.

mining plays an important part in the industrial life A nicely arranged little manual, devoted to refer- and wealth of Mariposa. The old Mariposa mine has ence, general practice and technique. The chapters

produced more than $7,000,000 In gold and the are grouped under such headings as Architectural

Princeton mine, $5,000,000. Ore in the Spread Eagle Drawing; Architectural Detailing; Rendering In Pen

runs about $10,000 to the ton. hiere is the great and Ink; Landscaping.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER With the Architects

ROOS BROS. IMPROVEMENTS EL CAPITAN HOTEL ADDITION A. R. Williams, architect, Mercedes Building, San Scheduled to be completed by July 15, reconstruc- Francisco, has recently returned from the East where tion of El Capltan Hotel and the erection of a new he went to gather Information and Ideas to be used store building at the corner of 17th and M Streets in with extensive Interior improvements to connection In Merced, will begin within a month. Roos Brothers' stores In California. The largest proj- The new hotel will be four stories In height, will ect will be extensions to the Market Street store of contain 33 rooms with baths and showers. It has been the firm in San Francisco. A portion of the first, second leased for ten years to John A. Robinson, Jr., opera- and third floors of the Phelan Building have been tor of the Maze Hotel, who will operate both prop- leased and the ground floor will be arranged for erties. merchandise display while the second and third floors The lobby will be floored In tile, and in an Inside will be used by the executive and service departments. patio will be a fountain. Air conditioning will be a Plans for the exterior treatment of the building are feature of the hotel. Kent and Hass are the archi- being prepared by Bliss & Fairweather. tects.

SAN FRANCISCO THEATER MILLER AND WARNECKE BUSY The first new theater to be constructed in San Miller Francisco for some time is being designed by John and Warnecke, architects In the Financial

hi. Ahnden, architect, 822-39th Avenue, San Fran- Center Building, Oakland, have been exceptionally

cisco, for Messrs. Sbarboro & hi. L. Tetjen. The new busy since the first of the year. Scarcely a week has

playhouse will be located on Chestnut Street, near passed that they have not sent out plans for one or

Scott, San Francisco, and will cost between $75,000 more new projects. During the present month plans

and $100,000. L. H. Nishkian Is the structural engi- have been completed and bids taken for a $20,000

neer. Mr. Nishkian is also the structural engineer for frame apartment house In Oakmore Highlands for

extensive alterations to the Capital Theater In Sacra- Dr. Leon R. Dupulch and a California Colonial brick mento. veneer residence in Claremont Pines, Oakland, for Mr. and Mrs. George Harlow. CHICO HOSPITAL Messrs. Cole & Brouchard, of Chico, have com- TO PREPARE SCHOOL PLANS pleted working drawings for a $75,000 frame hospital George Kllnkhardt, formerly with Henry H. Meyers building In Chico for the Enloe Hospital Association. and now in the drafting department of the Oakland W. Adrian is the structural engineer. Mr. Adrian Is Board of Education, has been commissioned to pre- also doing the engineering work for a Class C store pare plans for a new unit to the Roosevelt School building on Grand Avenue, Oakland, Noble & Archie T. at San Leandro, estimated to cost $60,000. There Newsom, architects, and a reinforced concrete gym- will be eight classrooms and an auditorium. H. J. nasium In Nevada City, William Mooser, architect. Brunnier is the structural engineer. MARIO CORBEH BUSY New work in the office of Mario Corbett, Benjamin SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENCE Hotel, San Includes two-story duplex Franklin Mateo, a Plans have been completed by W. W. Wurster residence in San Francisco for Mr. and Mrs. A. V. and a contract has been let to Lindgren & Swinerton, Graalfs; a Colonial house in Hillsborough to cost Inc., for a splendid new home for Mortimer Fleish- remodeling of the floor $10,000 and some ground hacker at Pacific Avenue and Pierce Street, San of the Mercantile Building, Market Street, San Fran- Francisco. It is estimated the Improvements will cost cisco, for the Sterling Furniture Company. in the neighborhood of $40,000.

APARTMENT BUILDING IN OFFICES R. R. Irvine, 3431 Market Street, San Francisco, has ARCHITECT NEW completed plans for a 3-story frame and stucco apart- Frederick H. Meyer has moved his offices from the ment house on DIvIsadero Street, south of Marina Underwood Building to a roof studio in the Kohl Build- Boulevard, San Francisco; also a three-story frame ing, San Francisco. The new quarters of Mr. Meyer are apartment building at Broderick and Francisco Streets, not only conveniently located but afford splendid light San Francisco, both for Ben Llebman. The total cost and a fine view of the city and bay. Plenty of inspira-

of the improvements is estimated at $1 10,000. tlon for the drafting force.

MARCH, 1936 EXPOSITION BUILDING PORTLAND CHAPTER COMMIHEES

Architectural drawings and specifications of the Committees to handle Chapter activities for the $150,000 Administration Building for the 1939 World's 1936 season are announced by President Aandahl of Fair have been completed and a construction contract the Oregon Chapter as follows: to Lindgren & Swinerton. The three has been awarded Membership: Hollis Johnston, chairman; John T. southeast corner of Bush story building will occupy the Schneider, Richard Sundeleaf and C. H. Wallwork. San Francisco, and will serve as and Stockton Streets, Building Laws: William G. Holford, chairman; Fred the headquarters of the Exposition Company, now S. Allyn, George H. Jones and F. T. Webber. located in the Financial Center Building. Professional Practice: William H. Crowell, chairman; Architecture of the building, designed by William Harold W. Doty, Leslie D. Howell, C. D. James and P. Day, Director of Works for the Exposition, is neo- Jamieson Parker. classic with a modern influence. The general color of City and Regional Planning: Harrison A. Whitney, the building will be a light tan beige with the sash chairman; Pietro BelluschI, Hollis Johnston and Folger tinted a light emerald green. Modern illuminating Johnson. effects will be provided to bring out the beauty of the Bush Street facade which includes a colonnade Public Information: Roi Morin, chairman; Harold Stanton. of cast stone. D. Marsh, George H. Jones and Glen Education: Glenn Stanton, chairman; Roscoe Hem- NEW MEMBERS OF STATE BOARD enway, Ernest Tucker and W. R. B. WIllcox. Governor Merriam has made a number of long de- Legislation: Walter E. Church, chairman; Leslie D. ferred appointments on the California State Board of Howell, Francis Jacobberger and Clifford Claussen. Architectural Examiners, Northern and Southern Di- Entertainment: Harold W. Doty, chairman; Francis visions . The appointments are as follows: Jacobberger, Rol Morin, Clarence Wicks and Thayne Northern District: C. J. Ryland, Monterey, incum- Logan. term ending 1939; hiarry J. Devine, Sacramento, bent, Public Works: Jamieson Parker, chairman; Ormond incumbent, term ending 1939; Arthur H. Memmler, R. Bean, Hollis Johnston and David L. Foulkes. Berkeley, succeeding Chas. F. B. Roeth, Oakland, term Exhibition: Herman Brookman, chairman; Margaret ending 1940; W. C. Perry, Berkeley, incumbent, term Fritsch, John R. Dukehart, Abbott Lawrence and Wy- ending 1940. man K. Bear. Southern District: hiarold Burket, Ventura, Incum- Special Committee on Honor Award: Roi Morin, bent, term ending 1939; Harold C. Chambers, Los chairman; Fred Aandahl, Herman Brookman, Harold Angeles, incumbent, term ending 1939; G. Stanley W. Doty and Jamieson Parker. Wilson, Riverside, incumbent, term ending 1940. Subcommittee on Competitions: Fred Aandahl, Board of Registration for Civil Engineers: Henry R. chairman; William Crowell William Holford. Dewell, San Francisco, Incumbent for term ending 1939. H. and G.

NEW ARCHITECTURAL FIRM OREGON CAPITOL COMPETITION Under the firm name of Smith, Carroll and Johanson, An architectural competition to select plans for a partnership for the performance of architectural the new Oregon State Capitol will close May 22 service was recently formed by Frank M. Smith Jr., under a schedule adopted tentatively by the State Theodore B. Carroll and Perry Johanson with office at Commission in charge of rebuilding the Capitol. The 4512 University Way, Seattle. Mr. Carroll graduated jury will make the award on or before May 29. Final from the School of Architecture, University of Wash- plans are to be submitted by Sept. 15. ington, several years ago, and recently passed the Two architects, not residents of Oregon, two capi- Washington state professional examination, and wcs tol commissioners and one layman will compose the issued a license to practice. jury. Their identity will not be disclosed prior to the OAKLAND STORE BUILDING award. A contract has been awarded by Williams and Cost of the capitol has been set at $2,200,000, and preference to Wastell, of Oakland, for the construction of a Class architects will be instructed to give C reinforced concrete store building on Grand Ave- Oregon materials and products.

nue, Oakland, for J. W. & L. E. DInsmore. Contract A fee of 4 percent will be paid the architect who

price was $12,000. designs the $2,200,000 building. If he resides outside

the state. If a non-resident architect is selected he

PIEDMONT RESIDENCE must have an associate in Oregon, who will be paid an Frederick H. Reimers, 233 Post Street, San Fran- additional fee of 2 percent. The non-resident architect

cisco, has completed plans and awarded contract for will be allowed $5,000 for traveling expenses in addi-

a $35,000 California Colonial residence in Piedmont tion to his fee. Architect Carl F. Gould of Seattle

for Mr. Captoin. Is the technical advisor.

56 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ACTIVE SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB The Structural Engineers Association of Northern The February meeting of the San Francisco Archi- California has recently held two meetings of excep- tectural Club was unusually well attended. President tional interest to the members and invited guests, with Walter Clifford presided. The following committees

large attendances at both affairs. were appointed for the ensuing year: Class, Albert W.

The Golden Gate Bridge was the subject of an in- Kahl; Entertainment, Walter Ruppel; House and Re- Kuhn; Finance, Waldon B. Rue; teresting talk by A. F. McLane, at the February 1 Ith freshments, Walter

meeting of the Association in the Engineers' Club, 206 Membership and Reception, Otto G. Hintermann; Sansome Street, San Francisco. The speaker exhibited Library, Leo S. Daly; Exhibitions, Leiand Hyde and a number of views of the bridge and answered ques- Harold Wagner: Constitution and By-Laws, Ira

tions in regard to the progress work. Springer. The feature of the February meeting was an

On March 17 the Association met in Oakland, join- interesting lecture by Clifford Nelson of the San

ing with the East Bay structural engineers in a day of Francisco Recreation Commission, illlustrated with

sight seeing and good things to eat. After a visit to the technicolor movies. East Bay terminals of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay The club participated in the Cambodian Ball, given Bridge the members and guests viewed some elabo- by the San Francisco Art Association on January 17. rate tests of steel sections of the Bay Bridge at the The club group, 180 strong, represented "Tonkin

' University of California laboratory. Later in the day China. Walter Ruppel and his able assistants, who a general meeting was held at which short addresses worked hard for several weeks prior to the ball making

were made by Oakland city officials and officers of the "props" and scenic effects, are to be complimented Engineers' Association. on the success of the club's participation.

At 6:30 o'clock dinner was enjoyed at the hlotel The new Atelier season opened auspiciously with ten

Oakland. The committee in charge of the affair con- members taking the esquisse for the "Sierra Nevada

sisted of B. J. Osborne, Prof. C. F. Wiskocil, Prof. Ski Club" project. This season, the Atelier is collabo-

'. R. E. Davis, W. Adrian, A. W. Anderson, M. P. Kitchel, rating with the School of Architecture at the Univer- i E. H. F. Frisell, W. G. Corlett, H. A. Cox and V. R. sity of California in the problems of that school. Juies

I Sander. Wm. H. Popert was chairman of the public- will be chosen for each problem from members of the

ity committee. Northern California Chapter, A. I. A. Messers. Mario j

John B. Leonard has been named president and V/. J. Ciampi and Preston Ames are the Atelier patrons. Adrian vice-president of the Association for 1936. The A new class, under the direction of Irving F. Mor- directors are Wm. H. Popert, Jesse Rosenwald and row, architect, has been formed to thoroughly imbue

the new Atelier students In the rudiments of Archi- I John J. Gould.

Members of the executive committee are Erie L. tectural Design, History and Composition.

Cope, L. H. Nishkian, H. M. Engle, A. V. Saph, Jr., Officers and directors of the club are as follows:

A. W. Anderson, H. B. hiammill and Theodore P. President, Walter C. Clifford; Vice-President, H. Dresser, Jr. Walter Ruppel; Secretary, Richard E. Audsley; Treas- (ENGINEERS RECEIVE PERMITS urer, A. N. Granish; Directors, A. L. Kahl, Charles ContI, Ira Springer; Trustees, Harry C. Nye, Waldon The California State Board of Registration for Civil B. Rue, Otto G. Hintermann.— R. E. A. Engineers, at its meeting held in Los Angeles, March

4, issued certificates of registration to

O. H. Amman, New York City, N.Y.; Wm. P. Crea- VALLEJO ELKS BUILDING ger. New York City; Robert W. Wood, New York Construction of a new building to replace the one

City; E. A. Dockstader, Boston; Theodore C. Coombs, burned some time ago will be commenced this year Los Angeles. by the Elks' Hall Association of Vallejo. The new struc-

Authority to use the title "structural engineer" was ture will occupy the site of the old structure at granted to Hunley Abbot, New York City; Ernest Georgia and Sonoma Streets, Vallejo. hllllman, Los Angeles; Peter A. hforn, Los Angeles.

The Board approved for examination in Civil Engi- IN NEW LOCATION neering Design and Construction, the following appli- The Association For Advancement of Home Build- cants: ing has moved from the Architects' Building to the

Spencer W. Lowden, Bishop; J. E. Griffiths, Whit- Exhibition Hall of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-

tier; Bruce M. Dack, Los Angeles; C. K. Wells, Long merce, where it will maintain an Architects' Exhibit

Beach; Richard N. Thomas, Arcadia; S. A. Soder- and complete building information center. strand, Oakland. The following applicants for land surveyor's licenses TEMPERATURE CONTROL were approved for examination: The Johnson Service Company announces publica-

Russell W. Cummins, Mina; Norman B. Bailiff, San tion of a new pamphlet "Johnson Automatic Tempera- Francisco; D. D. FHillyard, Santa Ana; Takeo Shlka- ture and Humidity Control," with an attractive blue

mura, Mountain View. and gold modernistic cover. Booklet is A. I. A. file size.

MARCH, 1936 RUBBER -OCKTAIL LOUNGE IN HOTEL PORTAGE, AKRON, OHIO, SHOWING ETC. 'lURALS. TIRE CHANDELIERS, RUBBERIZED UPHOLSTERING,

OF THE RUBBER MURAL DEPICTING THE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH RUBBER INDUSTRY, HOTEL PORTAGE, AKRON, OHIO

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER UNIQUE COCKTAIL LOUNGE

Murals and Fittings all oF Rubber

Ku,JBBER, long recognized as one of the basic commodities contributing to the advancement of civilization, has made its entrance into the field of fine arts, as a result of its use in a group of historic and classic murals which decorate the walls of the rubber room in the hlotel Portage, Akron, Ohio.

The idea of producing murals in various colors of compounded rubber is believed to be original with

S. R. Real, proprietor of the Portage.

Mr. Real employed the facilities of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., to produce the rubber which was made in large sheets of the same compound used in high grade rubber flooring. The murals, depicting the rubber industry from plantation through factory operations, are the creation of Ivor Johns, Cleveland artist.

The rubber room and its fittings were designed especially to accommodate and harmonize with the murals by Kenneth C. Welch, architect, of Grand ENTRANCE TO 'RUBBER ROOM' HOTEL PORTAGE. Rapids, Michigan. AKRON, OHIO

MURALS DEPICTING MANUFACTURE OF RUBBER. TABLE TOPS. CHAIR COVERS AND FLOORS ARE RUBBER

MARCH. 1936 Originals of the murals were produced by Mr. Johns H. H. Richardson really knew very little about

on a greatly reduced scale, in the colors desired for Romanesque architecture. hHls ornament was original, the finished work. Each mural then was projected to more often Syrian than Romanesque. In all his churches

exact size In charcoal outline on heavy wrapping paper the object most admired by the public-at-large, the and the colors to be used indicated by number-code. tower of Boston's Trinity Church, was not designed by Each expanse of color then was cut out to serve as Richardson at all. It was an adaptation by the slickest a template or pattern. of exterior decorators, the late Stanford White, then

a draughtsman in the Richardson office, of lantern Pieces of the rubber flooring material in the desired the of Salamanca Cathedral, when Trinity's builders colors, then were cut out carefully to the exact shape added announced that they were unable to execute Richard- represented in the original paintings by aid of the son's more original first design. templates and mounted In their proper places on fibre- Born in Parish, in board with the aid of rubber cement. The finished St. John's La., 1838, hHenry hlobson Richardson went to Harvard his stuttering murals then were erected into place on the walls. when kept him from a West Point appointment. He was In all, there are seven murals, four of which are the second famed U. S. architect to study his profes- approximately life-size and three about one-quarter sion in Paris. Once back in his native country his life-size. success as an architect was rapid. Rebelling against A research laboratory scene; two factory scenes and the General Grant era of architecture, he won com- a cotton plantation scene are on the side walls. Above petitions right and left while his prize-winning designs the three sides of the bar or counter, are as many brought in other commissions. One of his least suc- rubber plantation scenes. cessful, most "RIchardsonian" buildings, the New York While the idea of interpreting murals in rubber is State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He the outstanding feature of the rubber room, rubber was called In as architect after graft and mismanage- is also used for floor covering, bar-counter and fac- ment had used $7,000,000 of public funds and only ing, table tops, wainscoting, etc. carried the original design of Architects Arthur D.

Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal celling that RICHARDSON v. RICHARDSONIAN Richardson designed for the Senate Chamber was (From Time) secretly executed In papier-mache by a political con- hienry hlobson Richardson died of Bright's disease tractor. on April 1886, two years after the first 27, steel frame Romantically slim and handsome In his youth, Henry building had been erected In Chicago. Unlike his Hobson Richardson grew into a great bearded barrel admirer, the late Louis Sullivan, Richardson had nothing of a man, proud of his wife and six children, his com- to with the of do development the skyscraper, but bined home and office, his vast capacity for cham- because he was the most important U. S. architect of pagne and the bright yellow vests he wore with eve- the 19th Century, Manhattan's Museum of Modern ning clothes. Though he built several churches he was last Art week hung a gigantic portrait of him In its by no means a religious man. In fact at dinner one lobby, published a scholarly critique of his work and evening his good friend Phillips Brooks, rector of Bos- displayed photographs and plans of his most important ton's Trinity, was abashed to learn that Architect Rich- buildings all over the ground floor. ardson had never read the Bible. Architect Richard-

Few U. S. schoolboys have ever heard of hi. hf. son promised to do so, started at Genesis, read

Richardson. If they have eyes to see, though, they straight through the night. At breakfast next morning

cannot help being aware of the type of architecture he lustily hailed his family:

he popularized; if they are schoolboys of taste they "I have been reading the Bible, and It's the damn-

view It with alarm. No man was ever more betrayed edest most interesting book I ever read In my life." by his imitators. What the trade knew as "Richard- sonian Romanesque" are the banks, schools, churches, ENTERS CONTRACTING BUSINESS libraries, jails which still dot the land, built of the W. C. Tate, Jr., who has been Identified with the knobblest of rough-cut masonry, with livid tile roofs, McNear Brick Company for some time and who years arched windows and a profusion of useless squat tow- ago built the first steel frame house in the Bay District, ers. What his admirers have never ceased to point has re-entered the general contracting business with out Is that Richardson himself was very seldom Rich- offices at 883 Market St., San Francisco. Mr. Tate ardsonlan. His best buildings: the Marshall Field will figure all types of building construction. Wholesale Store in Chicago, hHarvard's Sever Hall, the

Albany City hiall, Boston's Brattle Square Church ("The

Church of the hloly Bean Blowers "). These were heavy- PERSONAL

set. Impressive buildings befitting a stolid age, but all A. F. Rosenheim announces the removal of his of- were well-planned, magnificently proportioned and fices to suite 518 Chamber of Commerce Building,

still serve as an Inspiration to young architects. Los Angeles.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER —— — •

Estimator's Guide Giving Cost of Building Materials, Wage Scale, Etc,

Amounts given are figuring prices and are nade up from average quotations furnished by material houses to San Francisco contractors.

NOTE—3% Sales Tax on all materials but not labor

All prices and wages quoted are for San Cement, 2.50 per bbl. In paper sks. Heating— Francisco and the Bay District. There may Cement (f.o.b. Job, S. F.) $3.00 per bbl. Average, $1.90 per sq. ft. of radiation, be slight fluctuation of prices In the Interior Cement (f.o.b. Job, Oak.) $3.00 per bbl. according to conditions.

and southern part of the state. Freight Rebate of 10 cents bbl. cash in 15 days.

cartage, at least, must be added in fguring Calaveras White $6.00 per bbl. Iron — Cost of ornamental Iron, cast iron, country work. Medusa White $8.00 per bbl. etc., depends on designs. Forms, Labors average $30.00 per M.

Average cost of concrete in place, exclu- Bond— 1'/2% amount of contract. sive of forms, 35c per cu. ft. Lumber [prices delivered to bidg. site).

4-Inch concrete basement floor No. I common $33.00 per M No. 2 common 28.00 per M I2I/2C to 14c per s^. ft. Brickwork- Selection O. P. common 38.00 per M 4'/2 Inch Concrete Basement floor 2x4 No. 3 form lumber 24.00 per M 1000 laid, 1x4 No. 2 flooring VG 60.00 per M Common, $35 to $40 per (ac- I4'/2C to 16c per sq. ft. 1x4 No. 3 flooring VG 50.00 per M cording to class of work). 2-inch rat-proofing 7I/2C per sq. ft. 1x6 No. 2 flooring VG 60.00 per M Face, $75 to $90 per 1000 laid, (according MAx4 and 6, No. 2 flooring 65.00 per M Concrete Steps $1.40 per lin. ft to class of work). Slash grain

Brick Steps, using pressed brick, $1.10 1x4 No. 2 flooring $45.00 per tvl 1x4 No. 3 flooring 38.00 per M lln. ft. Dampproofing and Waterproofing— No. I common run T. & G 31.00 per M Brick Walls, using pressed brick on edge, Lath 7.00 per M Two-coat work, 15c per yard. ft. (Foundations extra.) 60c sq. quoted) — Membrane waterproofing—4 layers of sat- Shingles (add cartage to price Brick Veneer on frame buildings, $ .75 urated felt, $4.00 per square. Redwood, No. I _ - $1 .10 per bdle. sq. ft. Redwood, No. 2 90 per bdle. Hot coating work, $1.80 per square. Red Cedar 1.00 per bdle. Common f.o.b. cars, $12.00 job cartage. Medusa Waterproofing, 15c per lb., San Face, f.o.b. cars, $45.00 to $50.00 per Francisco Warehouse. 1000, carload lots. Hardwood Flooring (delivered to building) — HOLLOW TILE FIREPROOFING (f.o.b. iob) 13-16x3'/," T & G Maple..._ $120.00 M ft. Electric 132.00 ft. Wiring—$12.00 to $15.00 per outlet I l-l6x2iA" T & G Maple M 3x12x12 in $ 84.00 per M for conduit work (includ'ng switches). Vex3i/2 sq. edge Maple ..._ - _.. 140.00 M ft. 4x12x12 in 94.50 per M y8x2" 5-16x2" Knob and tube average $7.00 per outlet, 13-16x21/4" 6x12x12 In 126.00 per M T&G T&G Sq.Ed. including switches. 8x12x12 In 225.00 per M CIr. Qtd. Oak _...$200.00 M $150.00 M $180 M Sel. Otd. Oak 140.00 M 120.00 M 135 M HOLLOW BUILDING TILE (f.o.b. job) CIr. Pla. Oak 135.00 M 107.00 M 120 M Sel. Pla. Oak 120.00 M 88.00 M 107 M carload lots. Elevators— Clear Maple -... 140.00 M 100.00 M 8x12x51/2 $ 94.50 Laying & Finishing 13c ft. lift. 10 ft. Prices vary according to capacity, 6x12x51/2 73.50 speed Wage— Floor layers, $7.50 per day. and type. Consult elevator companies. Discount 5%. — Average cost of installing an automatic Building Paper ft _..$3.50 elevator In four-story building, 1 ply per 1000 2 ply per 1000 ft 5.00 direct automatic, about $2700. 3 ply per 1000 ft 4.25 Composition Floors— 18c to 35c per sq. ft. Brownskin, 500 ft 5.00 In large quantities, 16c per sq. ft. laid. nskin' Pro-tect-o-mat, 1000 ft. roll -...10.00 Sisalkraft, 500 ft. roll 5.00 Mosaic Floors 80c per sq. ft. Excavation— Sash cord com. No. 7 _ $1.20 per 100 ft. Sash cord com. No. 8 1.50 per 100 ft. Duraflex Floor—23c to 30c sq. ft. Sand, 50 cents; clay or shale, 80c per yard. Sash cord spot No. 7 1.90 per 100 ft. Sash cord spot No. 8 2.25 per 100 ft. Rubber Tile—50c per sq. ft. Teams, — $10.00 per day. Sash weights cast iron, $50.00 ton. Terano Floors 45c to 60c per sq. ft. Trucks, $18 to $25 per day. Nails, $3.50 base. Sash weights, $45 per ton. Teraiio Steps $1.60 lln. ft. Above figures are an average without water. Steam shovel work In large quantities, less; hard material, such as rock, Mlllwork— Concrete Work (material at San Francisco will run considerably more. bunkers)—Quotations below 2000 lbs. to O. p. $100.00 per 1000. R. W.. $106.00 the ton. $2.00 delivered. per 1000 (delivered). No. 3 rock, at bunkers ...$l .80 per ton Fire Escapes— Double hung box window frames, average,

No. 4 rock, at bunkers 1 .75 per ton with trim, $6.50 and up, each. Ten-foot balcony, with stairs, per Elliott top gravel, at bunkers 2. 10 per ton $75.00 balcony, average. Doors, including trim (single panel, 1% Washed gravel, at bunkers... 2.10 per ton In. Oregon pine) $8.00 and up, each. Elliott top gravel, at bunkers 2.10 per ton Doors, including trim (five panel, 1% In. City gravel, at bunkers 1 .75 per ton Glass (consult with manufacturers) — Oregon pine) $6.50 each. River sand, at bunkers 1 .80 per ton Delivered bank sand... 1.20 Screen doors, $4.00 each. cu. yd. Double strength window glass. 15c per square foot. Patent screen windows, 25c a sq. ft. Note—Above prices are subject to discount Cases for kitchen pantries seven ft. high, of lOc per ton on Invoices paid on or be- Quartz Lite, 50c per square foot. per lineal ft., $6.50 each. fore the 15th of month, following delivery. Plate 75c per square foot. Art, $1.00 up per square foot. Dining room cases, $7.00 per lineal foot. SAND carpentry, Wire (for skylights), 35c per sq. (

MARCH, 1936 61 — —

Marble— (See Dealers) 2 coats, hard wall plaster, wood lath $ .80 Redwood Shingles, $11.00 per square m 3 coats, metal lath and plaster 1.25 place. Keene cement on metal lath 1.30 roll Cedar Shingles, $10 sq. in place. Painting— Ceilings with % hot channels metal lath .75 Ceilings with % hot roll channels metal lath Recoat, with Gravel, $3.00 per sq. Two-coat work 29c per yard plastered 1 .50 Slate, from $25.00 to $60.00 per sq. laid Three-coat work 40c per yard Shingle partition % channel lath I side 85 Slngre partition % channel lath 2 sides 2 according to color and thickness. Cold Water Paln+Ing lOcperyard inches thick 2.75 Whitewashing 4c per yard 4-Inch double partition % channel lath 2 1.30 Sheet Metal- Turpentine, 80c per gal., in cans and 75c 4-Inch double partition % cha el lath 2 Windows— Metal, $2.00 a sq. foot. per gal. in drums. sides plastered 3.00 Fire doors (average), Including hardware, Raw Linseed Oil—80c gal. In bbls. Plastering — Exterior— $2.00 per sq. ft. Boiled Linseed Oil—85c gal. in bbls. coats cement finish, brick or con< Pc-tland Cement Paint, 20c per 2 Medusa wall lb. 2 coats Atlas cement, brick or con< Skylights-

wa 1 1 _ 1.35 Copper, 90c sq. ft. (not glazed). Carter or Dutch Boy White Lead in Oil (in coats cement finish. No. 18 gauge 3 Galvanized iron, 25c sq. ft. (not glazed).

steel kegs). mesh , 1.50 Per Lb. 3 coats Medusa finish, No. 18 gauge . 2.00 Steel Structural I ton lots, 100 lbs. net weight lO^c Wood lath, $6.00 per 1000. ton (erected), this quotation is an 500 lbs. and less than I ton lots lie 2.5-lb. metal lath (dipped) _... .17 $100 20 Less than 500 lb. lots III/2C 2.5-lb. metal lath (galvanized) average for comparatively small quan- 3.4-lb. metal lath (dipped) 22 Dry Litharge (in tities. Light truss work higher. Plain Dutch Boy Red Lead and 3.4-lb. metal lath (galvanized) 28 steel kegs). 3/4-inch hot roll channels, $72 per ton. beams and column work in large quan- Finish plaster, $18.90 ton; in paper sacks. tities $80 to $90 per ton cost of steel, I ton lots, 100 lb. kegs, net wt..._ IOy4C Dealer's commission, $1.00 off above quotations. average building, $89.00. 500 lb. and less than 1 ton lots lie $13.85 (rebate lOc sack). Less than 500 lb. lots .-.MI/2C Lime, f.o.b. warehouse, $2.25 bbl.; cars, $2.15 Steel Reinforcing Lime, bulk (ton 2000 lbs.), $16.00 ton. Red Lead in Oil (in steel kegs) Wall Board 5 ply, $50.00 per M. $85.00 per ton, set, (average). I ton lots, 100 lb. kegs, net. wt. I2I/2C Hydrate Lime, $19.50 ton. $1.25 per hour 500 lb. and less than I ton lots I2'/2C Plasterers Wage Scale Lathers Wage Scale 1.25 per hour Stone- Less than 500 lb. lots 13c Hod Carriers Wage Scale - - 1.10 per hour Granite, average, $6.50 cu. foot in place. Note—Accessibility and conditions cause Composition Stucco—$1.60 to $2.00 sq. yard Sandstone, average Blue, $4.00, Boise wide variance of costs. (applied). $3.00 sq. ft. in place. Indiana Limestone, $2.80 per sq. ft. \r Patent — Chimneys Plumbing— place. 5-inch $1.00 lineal foot From $65.00 per fixture up, according to 8-inch 1.50 lineal foot grade, quantity and runs. Store Fronts— 10-inch 1.75 lineal foot Copper sash bars for store fronts, corner 12-Inch 2.00 lineal foot Roofing— center and around sides, will average 75c per lineal foot. "Standard" tar and gravel, $6.00 per sq. Plastering Interior— — for 30 sqs. or over. Note—Consult with agents. Yard Less than 30 sqs. $6.50 per sq. only, wood lath $0.60 ird tinish, wood lath .70 Tile, $20.00 to $35.00 per square. Tile— Floor, Wainscot, Etc.— (See Dealers). SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING TRADES WAGE SCALE all work January to re in effect until 1933, for so Established by The 1 Tiparlial Wage Board November 9, 1932. Effective on 1, 1933, main June 30, and long thereafter as economic conditions remain substantially unch nged.

id on an eight-hour day and Is to be considered skll and craft knowledge may be paid in excess of Journeyman Journeyman CRAFT Mechanics CRAFT Mechanics CRAFT Mechanics Asbestos Workers $6.40 Iron Workers (Bridge and Structural) $9.60 Stair Builders $7.20* Bricklayers 9.00 Iron Workers (Hoisting Engineers) 10.00 Stone Cutters, Soft and Granite

Bricklayers' Hodcarriers 5.60 Laborers (6-day week) _.. 5.00 Stone Setters, Soft and Granite .. 8.00 Cabinet Workers (Outside) 7.20' Lathers, Channel Iron Stone Derrickmen . 7.20 6.80 Caisson Workers (Open) Water Work 8.00 Lathers, All Other . 8.00 Carpenters 9.00 Marble Setters 8.00 Tile Setters' Helpers 5.00 Cement Finishers .7.20 Marble Setters' Helpers 5.00 Tile, Cork and Rubber 7.20 Cork Insulation Workers 7.20 Millwrights 7.20' Welders, Structural Steel Frame on Buildings 9.60 Workers 7.20 Electrical Workers 8.00 Mosaic and Terrazio (Outside) Welders, All Others on Buildings 8.00 Helpers 5.00 Electrical Fixture Hangers 7.00 Mosaic and Terrazzo Auto Truck Drivers— Less than 2,500 lbs 5.50 Elevator Constructors Painters 7.00 8.68 Auto Truck Drivers—2,500 lbs. to 4,500 lbs 6.00 Polishers (Outside) 7.00 Elevator Constructors' Helpers _ . 6.08 Painters. Varnishers and Auto Truck Drivers^l.SOO lbs. to 6,500 lbs 6.50 Engineers, Portable and Hoisting 8.00 Pile Drivers and Wharf Builders Auto Truck Drivers—6,500 lbs. and over 7.00 Glass (All .. Pile Drivers Engineers 9.00 Workers Classifications) . 6.80 5.50 Plasters Hodcarriers (See wa General Teamsters, 1 Horse Hardwood Floormen , 7.20' and 6.40 under Plastering). General Teamsters, 2 Horses 6.00 liths, 7.20 Plumbe BOO General Teamsters, 4 Horses 6.50 6 40 7.20 (All classifies itions) Plow Teamsters, 4 Horses 6.50 Sheet Metal Workers 7 20 Scraper Teamsters, 2 Horses 6.00 Sprinkler Fitters .. - 9 00 4 Horses 6.00 Established by Spe Steam Fitters Scraper Teamsters, GENERAL WORKING CONDITIONS ork performed on su ch jobs a fte mld- 1. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for first four hours after the first eight hours, time Any w tim c nd one-half up to all crafts, except as otherwise noted. and one-half. All time thereafter shall be paid night shni be paid e (except Laborers), Sun- four h 3urs of overtime a nd Tie 2. less double time. Saturday Where than eight hours are worked pro s em- that 1 a new ere days and Holidays from 12 midnight of the after pro vlded, rata rates for such shorter period shall be paid. Sun or He lldavs preceding day, shall be paid double time. Ir- ployec Saturdays, days eced- 3. Plasterers' Hodcarriers. Bricklayers' Hodcarri- respective of starting time, overtime for Ce- which has not worked c irir g the five p ers, Roofers' r ew shall be paid Laborers and Engineers. Portable ment Finishers shall not commence until after orkir a days, such Hoisting, ons dered and shall start 15 minutes before eight hours of work. time a nd one-half. No ob can be c other workmen, both at morning and at noon. as an eme rgency iob u til it has be en regis. shall paid straight Associatio 1 and 4. Five days, consisting of not more than eight 10. On Saturday Laborers be tered with the Industr' al that th e 10b hours a day, on Monday to Friday Inclusive, time for an eight-hour day. deterrr inn' on has been ade shall constitute a week's work. falls w ithin the terms of th s section) 11. Where two shifts are worked in any twenty- 5. The wages set forth herein shall considered shift time shall be straight time. be four hours, Recognized holidays to be: New Year's Day, as net wages. shifts are worked, eight hours' Where three Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, paid for seven hours on the sec- 6. Except as noted the above rates of pay apply pay shall be Admission Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas ond and third shifts. only to work performed at the lob site. Day. 7. Transportation costs in excess of twenty-five 12. All work, except as 15. Men ordered to cents each way shall be paid by the contractor. shall be irfori employment is p A. M. a 5 P. M. 8. Traveling time in excess of one and one-half two hours' pay. hours each way shall be paid for at straight 3. In emergencies, c ot be time rates. effective in the City and vacated until the be of San anclsco. 9. Overtime shall be paid as follows: For the porting for shall light tli or Carpenters, Cabinet Workers (Outside), Hardwood Floormen, Mill ghts, NOTE: Provision of paragraph 13 ng In brackets ( ) does not apply to Stair Builders.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER —

STATE ASSOCIATION MEETING AT LONG BEACH

The Directors and District Advisors of the State Association of California Architects met at the Laffett Hotel, Long Beach, Friday evening, January 24. E. W. 'WCXJi Mayberry, president of the Long Beach Architectural Club presided. Robert H. Orr's report of the meeting

Is given herewith In part: lUMpVELT

The discussion for the evening revolved about the Redecorated all of their

theme that is most near to each one's heart. The form- superh suites ivith ula for a beam may be worked out with precision but the formula for the practice of architecture Is as varied WALLKOVER as there are individuals. To think that an association

can solve the difficulties of each District and each in- FLAT

dividual seems quite absurd and yet to listen to con- A tribute by a versation one would think that that is its purpose? To famous hotel to answer: Is it of any use to the public? Does it maintain a famous paint. ethics of practice? Does it create special privileges

for a few? Why does it not solve local problems? Can

it produce direct and tangible benefits to the indi-

vidual or is it a mere organization for good fellowship?

Perhaps it will be well to begin by reciting from the

Constitution and By-Laws: "This Association is established to advance the science and art of architecture; to insure to the public efficient architectural service; to encourage architectural education; to maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of architecture;

WHAT DO yOUR CLIENTS SAY To Prospectre Builders Who Ask Them About Your Pl.anning?

Are they saying the things that will build your reputation? Are they

enthusiastic about the building after occupying it for a time?

Electrical adequacy is imperative if a building If the architect has not made provision for is to be satisfactory—adequacy not only for this increasing use of electricity, wiring is the present, but for many years to come inadequate to carry increased load, and con-

because the electrical age is in its infancy. venience outlets are not available for added New applications are being evolved daily. equipment. The building owner's only re-

course is to rewire. This is often very ex- OFFICE BUILDINGS have in the last five pensive whereas it would have been simple years increased use of electrical office equip- and inexpensive to insure adequacy while ment hundreds of times. find many STORES building. more electrical equipment necessary to modern merchandising. HOMES are continu- Be sure your clients are telling inquirers that ously adding apphances. your plans provide electrical adequacy.

PACIFIC COAST ELECTRICAL BUREAU SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES 447 Sutter Street 601 W. 5th Street

MARCH. 1936 to enlighfen the public in relation to the province of

architecture in the body politic; to advocate proper MOXEL METAL legislation and to oppose improper legislation affect- [High Mckel Alloyi ing architectural practice; to support the State Board of Architectural Examiners; to co-operate with other is the accepted material for soda foun- professional associations and to cultivate social inter- tains and lunch-room equipment, just as course among Its members." it is the universal metal for food service If all of these things were done how happy we would equipment in leading hotels and restau- be. The public has a vital Interest In architecture and rants throughout the country. the science of architecture Is dependent upon the pub-

lic at all times. The science of architecture Is not Indi-

vidualistic. It is a rare indlvldaul who can shape the CORROSIRON destiny of any science. Without the Guilds perhaps [Acid Resisting Iron~\ the great architectural monuments of the Old World

is the accepted material for draining would never have been builded. Without organization, waste lines. CORROSIRON meets all of some kind, the public would be at the mercy of indi- State and Municipal specifications for vidualists of every degree and temperament, without

dram lines from school laboratories and recourse from any of the attending Ills. Ethics of prac-

chemistry rooms. tice is to place restraint and inflict punishment. For a

child this Is often daily practice because It does not

know better, It has to be brought up and taught that

Is and a wrong which sooner or later be- Pacific Foundry Company Ltd. there a right comes a part of its being. Pacific Metals Ltd. Company So It Is with the beginner In architecture. It might be unethical for the beginner to cut the price a bit

for the first job. Considering he does, what can be 1400 South Alamed 3100 Nineteenth St. 551 Fifth Ave. the value of service of one's first building compared LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK with the practitioner of long standing? Step by step

he learns that his services are worth more and he begins to take on the standards that organized society estab-

lishes. Because the State Association Includes all archi-

tects, from the beginner to the finished product.

If there be such a being; and further, by reason

WOLMANIZED steps In architecture whereby of the progressive after years of practice, when one should know better LUMBER than to be unethical, he can affiliate himself with the American Institute of Architects, which provides these OVER A MILLION FEET requirements, the State Association deliberately and advisedly excludes ethics as within Its province, except A MONTH . . . to frown upon unethical practice and advise that It Is not a part of honor. is being used In the Los Angeles area Special privileges for the few seem to Imply that alone. Architects have found In Wol- some are placed in position without due course of

manlzed Lunnber the low cost, practical reason. To achieve and acquire is a privilege open to upon the State medlunn for termite and decay proof all. Why do not young men find a seat Board of Architectural Examiners and what would be construction. Clean, odorless, paint- the thought If a Provisional Licensed one should? Per- able — Wolmanlzed Lunnber connblnes haps the Implication would be unqualified. From this find how old a person the structural properties of wood with view point let us proceed to should be to be eligible to hold office in The State lasting protection. Association. From the By-Laws: "Executive Board:" "Two members of the State Board of Architectural AMERICA!\ LUMBER & TREATIIVG CO. Examiners chosen or appointed by the members there- Execu- of .. . shall Ipso facto become members of the 37 West Van Buren St. tive Board." And, "Two members of the Chapter of CHICAGO, ILL. The American Institute chosen by the members or ap-

OS Offic. of the San Francisco Sales Office Angeles Sales pointed . . . shall ipso facto become members Hi New Montgomery St. 1031 South Broadway Executive Board." There Is no choice here to Include Phone SUtter 1225 Phone PRospect 5558 men who do not have professional standing growing

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERR I out of years of practice. Aside from the Director of The American Institute of Architects for the Sierra Nevada Division, for the other four members there are ALL AROUND THE WORLD no limitations. These four are selected from and by the you'll find District Advisors, regardless of years of service. This

.stem should be democratic enough to bring in young len and have them advance step by step to the various rtices. If it does not work out that way then something

must be wrong and that may be attributed to a lack of

interest, which is altogether too prevalent.

Within the past few years, not a few architects have established themselves in interurban communities where

heretofore no architect existed or could exist. From this riiay be drawn the inference that more and more small work is being committed into the hands of architects.

"The little fellow," es he is pleased to call himself, feels that the territory is his by right of domain and resents the intrusion of the city gentry coming in and taking the plums. He feels, at least some do, that it is the Association's duty to protect him. How this may be

done Is beyond comprehension. To undertake such a task would be to set up a dictatorship and a dictatorship can only lead to discord, dissension and ill feeling of such a magnitude as to cause its undoing. Instead, if it were possible, would it not stifle "the science and art of architecture," "efficient architectural service," "architectural education," "'honor and dignity of the

profession," all of which the Association is duty bound to uphold and promulgate. To provide direct and tangible benefits cannot be measured as a matter of days, months or even years. Those who have practiced their profession for years and years can reflect back and say quite positively that in their lifetime the profession has made considerable BUILD progress, and ranks upon a higher plane today than ever before. Back of this achievement stands some- WE L L — thing above, beyond and over Individual effort, and that something Is nothing more than the benefits A PROPERLY designed and well con- accruing from many years of organized work. -^ ^ structed building is a credit to any Good-fellowship is an adjunct worthy of our high- city and a profitable investment for its est esteem. It Is that affection that can be found in owner. no other way than by social contact with one's fellow man. To stand aloof, Such structures are the shun one's competitor, if that is Stand- what he ARD Oil Building, Matsox should be called, finding no pleasure or profit Blhlding, Four-Fifty Sut- in sharing the views of others of like kind, is not good- ter Street, Stock Exchange. fellowship; it is not even good understanding of one's S. F. Base Ball Park, Mills responsibility in the task he has set his hand and heart Tower, Opera House and to do. Veterans' Memorial, San Francisco, Olympic Club Al- Mr. Matt Piper, chief building inspector, of the City ter.ations, Santa Anita Rac- of Long Beach, paid a deserving compliment to the ing Plant and other notable Long Beach Architects. structures — all built or super- vised by —

PASO TIEMPO CLUBHOUSE Lindgreii & Swinertoii. Inc. Plans are being prepared by Clarence A. Tantau, Standard Oil Building 605 W. Tenth Street 210 Post Street, San Francisco, for a new clubhouse San Francisco Los Angeles at Paso TIempo, Santa Cruz, for Miss Marion Hollins. We Maintain a Termite Control Department The design will be Spanish.

MARCH, 1936 .

OAKLAND OIL BURNER MANUFACTURER Architects • • REVIEWS RECENT HEATING EXPOSITION

s a f e g u a r d

y o u r buildings EATURED by an unusual annount of interest on the part of 44,695 visitors who came to see a i n s t c a ga de y products displayed by over 300 exhibitors, the Fourth International Heating and Ventilating Exposition — o r t e r 111 i t e "The Air Conditioning Show"—held in the International Annphitheater, Chicago, January 27-31, was voted a t t a c k b y "the best ever" by the industry and the public alike. De- s P e c i f y i 11 g spite the elaborate displays, some exhibitors were in- clined to regret that they had not contracted for even more space, and had not featured their equipment

WOLMANIZED or CREOSOTED even more strikingly. In most of the exhibits display technique reached a high point with the dynamic treat- LUMBER and TIMBER ment predominant. The audience could see how things

worked by watching them in operation.

The Exposition was held during the same week as E. K. WOOD LUMBER CO. was the annual meeting of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers where attendance "Goods of the If oods" is your guarantee for —

Quality and Service records were broken with a registration of over I 200

engineers and technical men from all parts of the NO. 1 DRUMM ST.. SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES OAKLAND United States and from abroad—and the mid-winter meeting of the National V/arm Air Heating and Air Conditioning Association, also a mecca for enthusiastic attendance.

J. C. Johnson, President of the S. T. Johnson Oil Burner Company of Oakland, was among the Cali- fornians to attend the exposition and he says he was particularly impressed with the business-like desire to LUMBER AND learn on the part of those who visited the show. Dis- plays were designed to answer this demand for knowl-

edge. Many new products were shown for the first MILL WORK time, and many models of equipment and complete installations were in operation. The displays included for Eneaii Theatre almost every type of device used in heating, cooling and ventilating, including the residential, the industrial Pittsburg and the commercial air conditioning fields. Featured also were steam and hot water boilers, furnaces, boiler- F. Frederic Aiuandes, Architect burner and furnace-burner units, central and unit air

conditioners, controls, valves, pumps, traps, oil burn-

ers, stokers, gas burners, heating surfaces, radiation

FURNISHED BY accessories, unit heaters and coolers, water heaters, insulation, piping, sheet metal, refrigerating machines REDWOOD and accessories, fans and blowers, air filters, instruments, tools, welding apparatus, motors, drives, regis- Manufacturers Co. ters and grilles, to name but a few. Little was neglected,

either in the range of the exhibits or in attention given , PITTSBURG, CALIFORNIA them by those who attended.

Manufarlurers and Wholesalers of Conditioning the air in winter by heating it is an"! Redwooil Screen and House Doors age old custom which has created industries, fashioned and General Millwork of All Types. domestic habits and engendered a long line of specific

apparatus burning wood, coal, gas, oil and electricity.

Yet all this served merely to provide higher tempera-

tures in enclosed spaces during the cold portions of

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER the year. The more recent efforts to do something the same in summer, but in the reverse direction, has led to a broad new development known as "air conditioning. " The Fourth International HHeating and Ven- AETNA tilating Exposition marked another stage in the transi- tion between old time equipment for specific purpose CONSTRUCTION and new type systems which serve all of the weather requirements throughout the year. Whereas formerly some exhibitors showed furnaces, boilers, ventilating fans, or air conditioning equipment, the trend now is to WillDuerner. Jr. consolidation. This year's Exposition proved that whether originally the manufacturer had been making oil General burners, coal furnaces, or ventilating fans, he was now Contructors offering whatever equipment was necessary properly to condition a given space, winter or summer, with 238 Arleta Avenue. San Francisco respect to temperature, humidity, and air circulation. DEIaware 0440 In the oil burner field, Mr. Johnson said, the tendency was completely to enclose the operating unit within a steel jacket which would make it more attrac- Contractors tive in appearance without increasing the maximum for the residences of dimensions. Sometimes the oil burners were furnished Miss with domestic hot water coils to provide hot water Myrtle A. Johnson. Wood.>;ide service without the use of a storage tank. Thus heating, source of heating, Mrs. a. Brown. Atherton and hot water supply were all made available within a single unit. and the studio home of Quick heating with respect to water supply was offered F. as an auxiliary feature to several types of boiler Frederic Amandes. San Francisco and furnace equipment. For heating large buildings there were new steam heating systems which provided for direct-by-the weather control. It Is claimed that these keep the building supplied with just sufficient steam to maintain comfortable temperatures without 'Estimates waste. Furnished" Phone 346 Accessory equipment in the oil burner field included strainers, pumps, motors and the necessary conduits and insulation. One of the innumerable special devices was a fan unit which could be slipped into a gas range oven to provide, with the door open, early morning HORACE J. kitchen comfort through warm air circulation. Radiators continued to disappear in the wall, and a wide assortment of cabinets were used to assist them. The use of 8c pulverized coal for domestic heating was promoted by equipment especially designed for handling this fuel. One design for mechanical heating units offered a SAL E. SIINO patented arrangement whereby the air to be heated is returned at the of top the furnace casing and is pre- heated before entering the filter and blower compart- General ment. The arrangement is said to Increase the overall heating efficiency of the compartment. There were Contractors many devices for putting the hot water heating unit inside the central heating system.

Heating systems Included the circulation and con- Pittsburg Theater trol of subatmospheric steam. This development was said to represent a valuable scientific achievement In steam heating. Not only the amount but the temperature of steam Is varied, depending on the weather for differential operation. There are no limitations on the i'lO Black Diamond Street Pittsliur". ("alif. source of steam. Steam may be supplied by high pres-

MARCH 1936 sure boilers, low pressure boilers, central heating plants E A X € or from the exhaust from turbines or power plants. Pressure Creosoted Lumber A combined vapor turbine and electric vacuum heating pump handled the condensation and air from heat- DECAY PROOF FOR TERMITE AND ing systems continuously as long as steam was on the BUILDING CONSTRUCTION boiler, using no electric current until steam was below CREOSOTED Al^D UNTREATED one pound. Then the electric motor cut in until ade- PILING quate steam was again available. Exclusive Sales Agents in California for WEST COAST WOOD PRESERVING CO. Some of the exhibits featured model houses by means Seattle, Wash. of which the Exposition visitors could themselves oper- J. H. BAXTER & GO. ate little valves and see where the heat went round 333 Montgomery St. 601 West Fifth St. and up, and where It came out. In one Instance neon Francisco Los Angeles San tubing was used to denote the pipe lines. In one

model the visitors could operate a system of temperature regulation to observe the manner by which ordi-

narily the control operates in response to outside \ r»T7x^ 1 weather conditions. Oil burners, and fuel oil pumping « AIR ELECTRIC WATER and preheating equipment were well represented by HEATERS operating displays. Send for Architect's Catalogue Bathroom Heaters in the Standard Colors, 1000 to 2500 Watts JURY FOR BRIDGE COMPETITION ^14.00 to ^27.50 The following jury of nationally known architects APEX MANUFACTURING CO. 1501 Powell Street and engineers has consented to serve as judges in the Emeryville. Oakland, Calif. Distributors eighth student bridge design competition held annu- Sandoval Sales Co. Phone KEarny 7010 ally by the American Institute of Steel Construction: 537 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. Apex Sales Co. H. H. Allen, Vice President, J. E. Greiner Company, 1855 Industrial Street, Los Angeles, Calif. consulting engineers of Baltimore. 1 hone Mutual yi 11 | Arthur G. Hayden, designing engineer, Westchester County Park Commission, White Plains, N. Y.

Theodore E. Blake, architect. New York. Archibald Manning Brown, President Architectural League of New York.

\-\. H. Saylor, Editor of Architecture. Product ot CALIFORNIA SHADE CLOTH CO. Students of engineering and of architecture In the 210 Bayshore Blvd., San Francisco colleges and technical schools of the United States are

Manufacturers of eligible to participate in this competition. The prob-

QUALITY HAND MADE SHADE CLOTH lem is a design for a grade elimination over-pass. The IN ALL GRADES students are now Invited to submit their preliminary

Wholesale Distributors designs which the Jury will review on April 15, and SLOANE-BLABON LINOLEUM select therefrom the ten best. The students who de- AMBASSADOR VENETIAN BLINDS signed those will be requested to make finished draw-

ings which the jury will judge on May 13. The best of

the final drawings will receive a cash prize of $100.

The second best will be awarded $50 in cash. The prize winners and those receiving honorable mention will STRUCTURAL STEEL receive certificates of award signed by the jury.

For Class A Buildings, STATE REGISTRAR OF CONTRACTORS Bridges, etc. Earl S. Anderson of Los Angeles has been named State Registrar of Contractors by the California State

Contractors' License Board, which is a division of the JUDSON PACIFIC CO. Department of Professional and Vocational Standards. Mr. Anderson succeeds W. G. Bonelli, who has been 609 MISSION STREET SAN FRANCISCO acting as Registrar for the Board In addition to his regular office as Director of the State Department, and = Plants: San Francisco - Oakland = member of the Governor's cabinet.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER !

OREGON CHAPTER A.I.A. Present af the February 18 meeting at the Ains- worth Coffee Shop, Portland, were Messrs. Aandahl, HOW MUCH Morin, Marsh, Johnston, hHerzog, Jacobberger. Clau- sen, Stanton Parker, Foulkes, Wardner, A. Lawrence, for your tree, Brookman, Sundeleaf, Bear, Wicks, Dukehart, Turner. Belluschi, Crowell, Doty and Schneider. MISTER? President Aandahl precided. Of course you wouldn't sell your trees, even if Mr. Morin was instructed by the President to write you could. Like any other asset however, you a letter of appreciation to the Gas Company for loan should appraise and preserve their value. of broadcasting equipment. Each year Davey Tree Surgery Co. is Instrumental in saving Mr. Morin referred briefly to the data being gath- millions of dollars in tree values for California home ered by relief workers for preparing "The American owners. Why not let us check up on your trees? Guide," a WPA project. This collection of volumes is A complete Inspection might reveal conditions the first comprehensive attempt to publish an Ameri- which, nipped In the bud, at small expense now, can Baedecker. One of the important might sections of this cost a great deal more to remedy later on. Guide is For truly, concerned with architecture and every im- In tree surgery. If In anything, "a stitch portant in time saves nine." building in each locality is to be listed, with the of PRECAUTION! To avoid disappointment, make name the architect, date, styles, use, size, cost and sure you get genuine Davey Tree Surgery other interesting facts. Co., Ltd. You'll find the cost no higher besides The — your data for Multnomah County is being collected trees are too precious to entrust to unknown hands. by a Miss LaFrance. and Mr. Morin urged that each Chapter member give her every assistance possible DAVEY TREE when she calls, or to list his own buildings with complete information SURGERY and mail same to Mr. Roi L. Morin, CO., LTD. Russ Buildii 1601 Public Service BIdg. . San Francisco SUHer 3377 Story Building Los Through previous Angeles TUcker 1929 arrangement with the WPA, all Mattel Building Fresno Phone: 2-2817 architectural data for this locality is to be revised and SKILL KNOWLEDGE edited by the Public Information Committee of the EXPERIENCE Oregon Chapter. Draft of circular letter to all political subdivisions of Oregon was read and discussed. Mr. Stanton reported on letter received from Na- tional Committee on Education, urging greater activity along lines of education by the "Mentor" system. It was moved and seconded that Mr. Stanton's recommendations be accepted and that Mr. Stanton so in- form Mr. Zantzlnger.

A report was submitted by A. Lawrence on travels and sketches of H. E. hfudson, third holder of the Ion Lewis Traveling Scholarship. Some of Mr. hludson's sketches were exhibited at the meeting.

A report was made by Mr. Clausen on the "Buffalo Plan" of The Small hlouse Bureau. Motion amended that report be accepted and that Mr. Shreve be informed that the Chapter consider the plan against the best practices of Architecture and should be rejected. T/ie luxury of efficie?icy Mr. Herzog moved that the report be accepted; at the p7'ice ec 07i seconded by Mr. Parker. Motion as amended carried. of omy Mr. Brookman was Instructed to report on holding an exhibition for spring. JOHNSON on Burners ... all of them ... are famed for efficiency, for Mr. Herzog moved that Exhibition Committee economical operation. Here, for ar- smaller homes, is the Johnson Type B, low in first cost as well as in cost of operation. Available in range to hold the exhibit early in April. Motion sec- various models according to radiation required up to 1385 square feet and for either gravity or pump feed. onded and carried. J. T. S. — It represents a recommendation that can be made with the same confidence felt in commending any Johnson burner to the home-owner. ADDITION TO CHURCH Charles S. T. F. Maury, Monadnock Building, San Fran- JOHNSON CO. cisco, Is preparing plans for alterations and additions 940 Arlington Street Oakland, California to the First Presbyterian Church at Richmond.

MARCH 1936 1

S. F. FAIR NOT TILL 1939 San Francisco's World's Fair will open Saturday, February 18, 1939, and run for 288 days to Saturday,

December 2, 1939. The decision to stage the Fair in 1939, rather than 1938, was reached immediately after the ceremony at HERRICK Verba Buena Shoal celebrating the IROIV WORKS of physical work on ' actual beginning /\ 1 /N STRUCTl RAL STEEL ^1 \] the project. [ I8TH AND CAMPBELL STS, regret the necessity of wait- "We OAKLAND, CALIF. ing an additional year," said Leiand Phone GLencourt 1767 POMONA TILES W. Cutler, president of the Exposi- tion. "However, circumstances be- FOR yond the control of the Exposition Bathrooms and Kitchens Company, resulting in various delays, CONCRETE WORK in over 60 colors dating back more than a year to the PITTSBURG THEATER protracted controversy over the Fair

site, have made it advisable, in our IT areboiises and Display Rooms J. H. FITZMAURICE opinion, to choose the year 1939. Concrete 135 Tenth St. . . . San Francisco Our directors have consistently asserted that our forthcoming Fair Contractor 217 S. La Brea Ave. . Los Angeles must eclipse all previous expositions. 6106 Roosevelt Way . . Seattle it has During the past several weeks 2857 HANNAH STREET become apparent that in order to OAKLAND Phone HIgate 24?0 open it in 1938, we should be com- POMONA TILE MFG. CO. ?es. phone GLencourt 031 pelled to sacrifice careful planning P L A N T P O M O ^ A. C A L I F. and promotion of the enterprise. "Rather than attempt to rush this the fifteenth annual drive for com-

great project through at the cost ot munity improvement is actively un-

its ultimate beauty and success, we derway. The Guidebook is being prefer to wait one more year, con- mailed to some 5000 Better Homes fident that the people of California chairmen throughout the United

will endorse the wisdom of our deci- States from the Better Homes in sion." America headquarters at Purdue With the date definitely fixed, University. The booklet forms the Mr. Cutler declared that the Expo- basis of organized effort throughout

sition will begin immediate efforts the country to help people improve to bring more than 1,500 national their homes and their communities. conventions to San Francisco and The campaign culminates in Better the Bay area in 1939. Homes Week, April 26 to May 2. Exposition leaders pointed out that The campaign for 1936 stresses the extension will enable them to the idea of improving and modern- DO YOU KNOW secure more representative partici- izing the entire residential block that HAWS ANGLE pation from foreign nations, will give rather than isolated houses. An effort STREAM DRINKING architects an opporlunity to devote will be made to interest home own- FOUNTAINS meet with to the requirements ot the more time to the design of buildings, ers and renters in entire blocks American Public Health and enable the company to "sell improve their dooryards and gar- Association? more exhibit and concessions space, dens. In some localities demonstra- Catalog P details these of poten- stimu- requirements and illus- with a consequent increase tion houses will be used to trates our complete line. tial revenue." late new ideas, better homes and to Copy on request. show localities examples of modern the BETTER HOMES GUIDEBOOK trend in small dwellings. As in contests, With the printing of the 1936 past, there will be essay sermons HAWS Campaign Guidebook for Better local tours, special Sunday DRINKING FAUCET CO. in churches, lectures before women's Homes in America, Miss Isabel business organiza- 1808 Harmon Street, Berkeley, Calif. Hodgkins, assistant administrator in clubs, schools and charge of the campaign, states that tions.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGUIECR Contractors' License Bureau prob- wjuteBranictsr ably takes punitive action against more licentiates than any other simi- Bu^Jv^oodHeadtuartecr lar body in the State of California. Our reversals to date can be num- LUMBER bered upon the fingers of one hand, FLOORING with space left over. I believe this VENEERS case and our general record prove PANELS conclusively that our method of procedure in complaint cases is soundly PACIFIC conceived and carried out by a well

5TH AND BRANNAN SAN FRANCISCO qualified personnel. In view of the Gas Heating Karz decision, the Department feels 500 HIGH STREET OAKLAND Applianr< very confident that it may expect splendid support from the higher ® Circulator Heaters courts as long as we continue to pro- ® Radiant Wall Heater^ ceed in our established manner." ORNAMENTAL IRON H'Gas Steam Radiator- WORK ® Floor Furnaees PITTSBURG THEATER i' Gravity Fiiriiaces CONFERENCE ON LOW COST i' Blower Furnace.s HOUSING ® Unit Heaters ® Forced Air Units ACE IROI\ The lively interest manifested dur- ® Water Heaters WORKS ing recent months in cheap and effective housing for urban and rural Write lor Catalog .\o. AE J communities has encouraged the 159 SOUTH PARK PACIFIC GAS Pennsylvania State College to ar- SAN FRANCISCO RADIATOR CO. range a sutler 4575 conference on low cost ngton Pari,. California, TSsSa housing April 16th and 17th. The preliminary report of the Pennsyl- CONTRACTOR'S LICENSE LAW vania State Planning Board, issued UPHELD last year, pointed out that in the last fifteen years relatively few dwell- Another victory for the Contract- Make the old ings have been constructed in the stucco color- ors' License Law in California is re- Commonwealth within the price ful and water tight by ap- ported by State Registrar William range of the majority of the people. plying one or more coats G. Bonelli, who states that the Ap- of The possibility of expansion in this pellate Division of the State Supreme hitherto neglected field is one which Court has upheld a departmental BAY is being vigorously explored by archi- STATE decision handed down over two tects, engineers, planning boards, Brick and Cement years ago, suspending the license of realtors, bankers, industrialists. State Coating' Philip Karz of Los Angeles. and Federal Agencies. The time Manufactured by a The decision of the Registrar seems ripe for the College to pro- was products have been set aside in the Superior Court of vide in Pennsylvania an opportunity for over half a Los Angeles County by Judge Em- for the consideration of various ele- met H. Wilson in February of 1934. ments from which a practical pro- The reversal was carried to the high- gram of low cost housing would er court with Eugene M. Elson, Dep- evolve. Attractive costs are essen- uty Attorney General, representing tial, taking into consideration mate- the Department. After more than rials, labor and financing. two years the Appellate Court has Papers will be presented by H. S. reversed the judgment of the Super- Buttenheim, editor American City. ior Court in a decision which is a Dislribiitors on the subject of "Taxation as a complete victory for the State De- Factor in Housing for Low Income CALIFORI^riA SALES partment. Groups"; H. H. Engle, Assistant Di- COMP.AIVY, live. "I am highly gratified," states rector Department of Commerce 444 MARKET STREET Registrar Bonelli. "Our record as to Washington, on "Interrelation of In- SAN FRANCISCO reversals is, in my opinion, rather dustrial Decentralization and Hous- remarkable, due to the fact that the ing "; Arthur C. Holden, Consulting

MARCH. 1936 EVERY BATHROOM IN AMERICA Architect and Housing Expert, New WILL WANT THIS COMPLETELY York City, "An Analysis of the Hous- P. F. REILLY AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC HEATER ing Problem for Low Income Groups", Every bathroo Edith E. Woodi author of needs heet that i and Dr. Building independent o any other room o 'Recent Trends in American Hous- WESIX ^ Contractor The ent ing," a paper on "Cooperative Hous- ed th BATH -A-MATIC and Manager of wlsw" portabi ing for Workers." ELECTRIC Construction . HEATER / Other papers will be presented by fort. Now WESIX Ernest M. Fisher, Director Division AUTOMATIC "^^^^ elcclric heater (or the bathroom— of Economics and Statistics, Federal 730 ELLIS STREET bu.lt-in and out oF the way— and with (ullv AUTOMATIC temperature con. Housing Administration, on "The San Francisco trol —two features that very definitely result in utmost safety and comfort. Role of Government in Housing," This new WESIX 8ATH.A-MATIC UN DERHILL 5829 produces lieallhful warmth without and by H. N. Peaslee, Chief Eco- smudge or odors—quictcly and eco- nomically quicker than any furnace — Analyst in the Housing Divi- or other auxiliary equipment- nomic proven double-action orinciple used in Employs same A., on "The Economics famous WESIX portable heater—circulates the heat and sion, P. W. radiates a cozy glow ,ust like sunshine' NO MOVING drafts— nothing lo of Low Cost Housing." Pope Barney, PARTS—No fans to create bree;e and GoodBuildingsDeserve order Standard finish: beautiful rust-proof get out of Philadelphia, will be chromium Standard size 1500 watts. Uses regul no architect of for heat- Good Hardw^are volt current. Also made m other finish this ife. healthful, of the sessions. The . Enioy chairman of one dependable and leater, easily in s 29-50 College is arranging a Housing Ex- Confer- WESIX ELECTRIC HEATER CO. hibition to coincide with the ence.

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WESIX 390 First St San rancisco SI 36 Please send me your booklet on AUTOMATIC HEATING —for BATHROOM ARCHITECTS NEED ADVICE —for OTHER ROOMS --(or ENTIRE HOUSE

structures con- Address INSECT damage to products is taining wood and its 581 Market Street to be recognized as a build- coming SUtter 6063 ing problem of major importance. In designing wood frame buildings, it is the architect Melrose Lumber just as important that should have expert advice as to the ANDERSON & Supply Co. prevention of damage by wood-destroying insects, as it is that the & architect should require the services of a structural engineer, an electrical RINGROSE LUMBER AND engineer, or a heating and ventilat- MILL WORK ing engineer. • General Contractors A case In point is that of a fra- and E. 12th St. 46th Ave. ternity house in the Bay Region. Oakland Some five or six years ago this build- 320 Market Street, San Francisco FRuitvale 0240 — 0251 Phones: reconstructed at a cost of ing was Phone GArfield 2245. about $40,000, and, while the exter-

ior of the structure presents a very pleasing appearance and is generally considered to be an architectural JOSEPH MUSTO gem, the understructure has already SONS-KEENAN been seriously damaged by termites, MURALS and is in urgent need of repairs. COMPANY for Hotel Cocktail Rooms, By the expenditure of a very small Theaters, etc. MARBLE sum of money at the time the reconstruction was undertaken, advice and H EINSBERGEN could have been had and the present

is such ex- ONYX difficulties avoided. There DECORATI NG CO. j pert advice available to architects. Angeles 535 NORTH POINT STREET 7415 Beyerly Boulevard, Los editor would urgently recom- SAN FRANCISCO This Francisco 1801 S. SOTO STREET mend that architects avail themselves 401 Russ Building, San LOS ANGELES of it to avoid future embarrassment.

THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER STEEL FOR AQUEDUCT Pacific Over 1,000,000 pounds of steel Manufacturing per month is being consumed on the Aluinilite Metropolitan Water District Aque- Company duct from the Colorado River. by At present the principal use of High Class Interior Finish steel on the aqueduct is for reinforce- K a w n e e r Quality MilKvork ment of concrete canal and siphon

sections. Other important uses in- • 454 Montgomco- St. 641 Merrill Are. San Francisco Los Angeles clude steel for supporting tunnel sec- GArfield 7735 AXridgc SOU Store Fronts - \^'in(lows tions and for the construction of towers on the 1315 Serenth Street. Oakland Water District's 237- and GLencourt 7850 mile long power transmission line from Boulder Dam. Architectural Castings In the near future, large quanti- in ties of plate steel will be used for delivery pipes to the aqueduct Polished Satin Smitlh pumping stations and for steel pipe Lnmber Conipan;i sections of the aqueduct distribution or WHOLESALE - JOBBING - RETAIL system. FACTORY AND BUILDING LUMBER Anodic Fini.

San Francisco 1 Oakland —or enough cars to form a 170- • 19th Ave. & >%, mlle freight train — according to a C O M P A N N Y

4th & Channel I Estuary carloading report made by General OF CALIFORNIA MArket 0103 FRuitvale3 174 Manager F. E. Weymouth. BERKELEY YOUR INQUIRIES SOLICITED The report showed that the manufacture of the 3,052,260 tons of materials represented by the car- PEELI_\G? loading figures Is giving employment BROW.XSKEV to approximately 30,000 men in RESILIENT WATERPROOF Then Southern California and throughout on vour next joh *pecifv BUILDING PAPER the nation, in addition to the 8,000 men directly employed on aqueduct H&D CEMENT PAINT construction. THE BUILDING PAPER WITH for Stucco A FACTOR OF SAFETY It Is estimated that by the time Look Tln'si' Over! the aqueduct project is completed Highland Hospital Its construction will have consumed Angicr Corporation Lake Merritt Hotel Framingham, Berkeley Fire Stations sufficient materials, supplies and Mass. equipment to form a solid train of P.\CIFIC COAST DIVISION 5M HOWARD STREET FRANK W. Dl \NE CO. freight cars somewhat longer than SAN FRANCISCO 41st & Linden Oakland DOuglas 44li the 390-mIlc aqueduct itself.

TERMITE CONTROL A total of 42 termite control op- TRANSIT-MIX erators qualified at the first examina- LUXOR tion for state license held by the CONCRETE Structural Pest Control Board, bring- VC'INDOW SHADES ing the total number of licensed op- Perfect-Blend Translucent Shading A erators up to 231. The state law Material of highest count provided that licenses would be Is- cambric sued without examination to all op- Golden Gate Atlas erators who were engaged in business at the time the law went into Materials Co. William Volker & Co. Sixteenth and Harrison Streets effect. Glen V. Slater, deputy reg- San Francisco 631 Howard Street istrar of contractors, is registrar of Phone HEmlocl<7020 San Francisco termite control operators.

MARCH, 1936 LOCAL PLANNING IN THE FORDERER PACIFIC NORTHWEST Cornice Works Manufacturers of

IF OCAL planning In the Pacific Hollow Metal Products Interior Metal Trim Northwest might be said to be Elevator Fronts and Cabs about half constructive and half pre- Metal Wall Plugs, Anchors, Etc. Sheet Metal Products ventive, and only in small measure Sanitary Metal Base corrective. It contrasts with the Commercial Refrigerators Building Paper Atlantic Northeast, for a example, Metal and Wire Accessories Pump G Oil Heaters for Concrete Safety Pump Relief Valves region more than two centuries old- 269 Oil-Burner er, where the corrective proportion POTRERO AVENUE Automatic Gas Reg- Governors San Francisco. Calif. ulating Valves Little Giant has become very high. In this re- HEmlock 4100 ved Oil CONSULT OUR ENGINEERING Burners Gas Burning gion, a rather virgin field for plan- DEPARTMENT Equipment Oil Pumping Sets ning as indicated by the following Vacuum Pump Oil Valves Oil Strainers brief summary, we should profit by Vacuum Regulating Valves Steam Oil Strainer; the experience of the older regions Continuous Flow Duplex Oil Pumps Steam and avoid the necessity for much Traps Rotary Oil Pumps MacDonaid & Kahn of the corrective type of planning Thermostats Boiler Feed Pumps Reducing Valves Water Heaters effort. Boiler Feed-Water General Regulators Oil Meters City Planning. Up to two years ago city planning was the major Contractors VAUGHN-G.LWITTCo. objective. There was at least a foun- ENGINEERS dation for such activity. Oregon W. Vaughn, President and Manager C. had a state enabling act—Washing- MANUFACTURERS AND Financial Center Bldg. ton had home-rule authority. DISTRIBUTORS 405 Montgomery St. Although the majority of the pres- 4224-28 Hollis St. Phone Olympic 6084 Emeryville, Oakland. Calif. ent city planning commissions was San Francisco organized during the closing days

of CWA in 1934, a number of cities at that time secured suitable help and began the preparation of a Robert W. Hunt Company municipal inventory along the lines ENGINEERS THE TORMEY adopted by the Portland Planning Inspection • Tests • Consultation Commission. COMPANY Schools and Other Structures Are Built as Designed It was found that in the smaller GENERAL PAINTERS When Construction Materials are cities a suitable base map for plan- Inspected at point of Manujacture AND DECORATORS and during Erection by ning work was the first requirement. ROBERT W. HUNT COMPANY A number of cities began such a Phone UNderhill 1913 Cement, Concrete, Chemical, Metallurgical, map, showing surface conditions, as X-Ray and Physical Laboratories well as the location, type and condi-

Chicago - New York - Pittsburgh tion of underground utilities. 563 FULTON STREET Los Angeles - All Large Cities San Francisco Although only a start toward plan- San Francisco. 251 Kearny Street ning had been made, the value of

even that little was reflected in the type and character of work relief

projects selected in those cities G. P. W. where planning had been considered. CRAN E JENSEN & SON The interest In city planning dur- High Class Plumbing brought about the enact- ing 1934 Fixtures ment of enabling acts In Idaho and Washington during the 1935 legis- Building Construction lative meetings, putting city plan-

ning on a firm basis in those states

also. under 320 Market Street, San Francisco White-collar projects WPA are reviving city planning interest. Phone 2444 Some cities are continuing work, with All Principal Coast Cities such help, on municipal inventories

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and base maps. Several are under- Bethlehem Steel taking street, park, and recreational plans. San Francisco Company County Planning. A number of county planning boards was organ- Bay Bridge General Office- Belhleheni. Pa. ized in 1934 on an interim basis, STEEL pending legislative enactment for of- BRIDGES Contracts Completed and BUILDINGS ficial boards. In such counties, although little basic planning was un- U. S. Marine Hospital San Fr Los Anseles dertaken, considerable useful work Ford Assembly Plants. :oi)7 and Illinois Sis. Slauson Ave. Seattle Salt Lake City was done In the study of immediate Seattle. Long Beach and ir. .indover Slreel Kearns BIdg. needs and the selection of suitable Richmond Portland Honolulu, T. H. works projects for Sm.rican Bank Bids. >c*i/"ij.j BIdg. Immediate devel- Oakland Approach to opment. Bav Bridge

In 1935, legislative enactment en-

abled counties in Idaho and Wash- Contracts Aicarded S. Mint. San Francisco ington to legally establish planning L. Administration Building and MULLEN MFG. boards and allocate funds for their Tc!! Plaza. Bay Bridge. COMPANY use. Oakland County planning, although a new-

BANK. STORE AND OFFICE er endeavor than city planning, Is FIXTURES— Clinton CABINET WORK making rapid progress. In the Pacific OF GUARANTEED QUALITY Northwest, an area of great dis- Construction Co. CHURCH SEATING tances, with some counties larger of California

than eastern states, the county ap- 923 Folsom Street Office and Factory: pears to be a logical unit for plan- San Francisco tO-80 RAUSCH ST.. Bet. 7th and 8th Sts. San Francisco ning. Some counties have within sutler 3440 Telephone UNderhill S8I5 their area entire drainage basins others have large special interests such as mining, lumbering, farming or stock raising. The coastal coun- Specify COMMON ties have important problems of lumbering, commercial fishing, and rec- DICKEY BRICK reaction. In all counties there are ClAY the problems of transportation and If you like .ijood brick and good PRODUCTS use and conservation of water and service, phone us for informa- land. Such problems are being stud- Dickey Mastertile Face Bricl< tion, you will find that it always Partition Tile Fire Brick pays to be our patron. ied on a local basis, on a joint basis Drain Tile Paving Brick Fireproofinc Tile Wall Coping by neighboring counties in many Floor Tile Plue Lining Con Br Dickey Flashing Blocks Remillurd-Daiidiui Co. cases, by the state planning boards, W. S. Phone TEmplebar 8133 and finally, on a regional basis, by DICKEY CLAY MFG. Offiee, 569 - 3rd Street, Oakland the Regional Planning Commission. COMPANY Plants 116 New MontBomerr St., San Jose Plea.^anton Greenbrac San Francisco. Calif. 105 Jackwn St.. Oakland. Calif. SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTS MEET DIXWIDDIE The regular meeting of Northern California Chapter, A.I.A., was held REPUBLIC STEEL COXSTRLCTIOIN at the St. Germain Restaurant, San c o R P O R A T 1 O N COxlIPANY Francisco, Tuesday evening, Febru- ary 25. Will G. Corlett presiding. Utnujacturers of • The following were present: ENDURO Stainless Steel; TON- CAN Copper Molybdenum Iron BUILDERS OF Harris C. Allen, Clement Ambrose. Sheets and Pipe; and Steel Pipe, John Knox Ballantine, Jr., Morris M. GOOD BUILDINGS Sheets and Reinforcing Bar for | Bruce, Will G. Corlett, John J. Don- every building purpose. ovan, Albert J. Evers, Albert Farr, Write Icr ittlorwiitkm

CROCKER BUILDING Edward L. Frick, Wm. I. Garren, Rialta Buildinc, San Frandico, Calif. EdUon Building, Lei Ancelct. CaUf. Wayne S. Hertzka, Henry T. How- SAN FRANCISCO Whit«-Henr>-Staarl Bld(.. Seattle Wash. ard, Samuel LIghtner Hyman, Ray-

MARCH, 1936 rmond W. Jeans, Ellsworth E. John- Comments by others included TRICOSAL son, Thomas J. Kent, Charles F. Mas- statements that architects by accept- ten, hiarry M. Michelsen, Leffler B. FORMAL ing small commissions, have brought Miller, James H. Mitchell, Gwynn about a condition making it difficult The Pittsburg Theater is just an- Officer, Wilbur D. Peugh, Roland I. to obtain regular fees; that the only other example of high grade Stringham, John Davis Young, Stan- answer to the problem is public in- concrete made possible ton Willard, Ralph Wyckoff. formation; that the architect should by using The minutes of the January meet- look upon small house planning as a Tricosal Normal ing were approved as published. community betterment and a public The discussion of the evening cen- service from which adequate finan- THE TRICOSAL COMPANY tered upon small housing. cial return should not be expected. Rialto Building hiarris Allen, Chapter representa- San Francisco —J.H.M. tive on the A. I. A. Committee on Housing, presented bulletins issued on the subject by the Institute. He urged that the Chapter cooperate Independent with the movement to provide bet- SKALKRAH ter planning and supervision of con- REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. Iron W^orks struction of small houses. House bureaus in Buffalo and Balti- "More than a Structural Steel more were mentioned and it was in- Ornamental Iron building paper" structed that the Chapters in these Steel Service Stations cities be asked for information on Steel Tanks their operation. Standard Steel Mill Buildings THE SISALKRAFT CO. The Architects Home Service Bu- Bridges 205 West Wacker Drive reau in San Francisco was referred (Canal Station) Ctiicago, III. 55 New Montgomery .Street to as an organization which brings San Francisco. Calif. 821 Pine Street OakUn the benefit of full Architectural Serv-

ices to those who wish to build a

small home. P. J. McGuIre who heads the bureau was present and M O 1\ E L JOHN spoke briefly on the problems con- CASSARETTO fronted In bringing the public to an METAL —Since 1886—And Still Active- understanding of the value of an For the Modern Kitchen architect's guidance. Building Materials Heaters, boilers, storage tanks, READY MIX CONCRETE Mr. Evers approached the subject water softeners, cabinet tops. "Straitllne" ROCK - SAND - GRAVEL - LIME from the viewpoint of the F.H.A., "Streamline" or CEMENT - PLASTER - MORTAR whose granting of Certificates of Kitchen Sinks METAL LATH - WOOD LATH STUCCO - VvIRE NETTING Quality on executed work coming See our display rooms, arranged for your convenience Service Unexcelled under its jurisdiction, he stated, is MODERN METAL Bunkers recognition that the quality standard Sixth and Channel, San Francisco APPLIANCE CO. which it requires has been met. Oth- 4238 Broadway Oakland, Calif. Phones: GArfleld 3176, GArfleld 3177 ers felt that the Certificates of Qual-

ity should be restricted to houses having Class A rating. Mr. Garren told of studies on Specify CarlT.DoellCo. housing made by the State Associa- tion, PAYNE Plumbing A Federal Building and Loan Com- pany now operates in San Francisco Heating For Heating or Winter and is directed by a Board compris- Air Conditioning Many Types of Equipment ed, mainly, of architects. This Inter- Plumbing Contractor available. A heating system Building Veterans Memorial esting fact was brought out by Mr. for every type building. Oakland Masten who stated that better 467 21ST STREET knowledge of the structural and es- PAYNE FURNACE OAKLAND thetic values of the property to be & SUPPLY COMPANY Telephone GLencourt 8246 financed Is afforded because of this Beverlv Hills California architect directorshlo.

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Classified Advertising Announcements

All Firms are Listed by Pases^ besides

being grouped according to Craft or Trade.

Star (*) indicates alternate months.

AIR CONDITIONING NEW THIS MONTH The Union Ice Company, 354 Pine Street, San Francsco ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA N, Clark & Sons. 116 Natoma Street, San Francsco 5 • Gladding McBean & Co., 660 Market Streei, San Francisco; 2901 Los FeiizBoulevara Los Angeles: 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor St.. Portland; 22nd and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street. Spokane; Vancouver,' B. C. c Aetna Construction Co. 67 BATHROOM HEATERS Wesix Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 631 San Julian Street Los Angeles; 2008 Third Avenue, Seattle, Wash 72 Ace Iron Works 7! BRICK—FACE, COMMON. ETC. N. Clark Sons, & 116 Natoma Street, San Francsco 5 Gladding McBean & Co.. 660 Market Streer, San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard Pacific Gas Radiator Co. 7! Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor St., Portland; 22nd and Market Streets, Oakland: 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane: Vancouver's C 6 S Dfcltey Tile Clay Mfg. Co.. 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco; factory, Pomona Mfg. Co. 70 Niles. Calif.; yards, 7th and Hooper Streets, San Francisco, and 105 Jackson Street. Oakland; Factory in LIvermore 75 Remillard-Dardln J. H. Fitzmaurice 70 iCo., 569 Third Street, Oakland 1S'Z'''ZZZZZZZ''''''''. 75 BUILDERS HARDWARE "Corbin" hardware, sold by Palace Hardware Company, 581 Market Street, San Herrick Iron Works 70 Francisco -,2 The Stanley VVorks. New Britain, Conn.; Mona'dnock "BTdg!rSan''Francisco';" Los'Angeb^ and Seattle White Bros. 7 „ ,^ BUILDING MATERIALS Building Material Exhibit, Architects Building Los Angeles BUILDING PAPERS Horace J. & Sal E. Siino 67 The Sisalkraft Company, 205 W. Wacker Drive. Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco y, "Brownskin," Angier Corporation, !! Redwood Mfg. Co. 66 370 Second Street. San Francisco J 73 CEMENT Portland Cement Association. 564 Market Street. San Francisco; 816 West Fifth Street. Los Angeles: Libbey, Owens, Ford 2 146 West Fifth Street. Portland; 518 Exchange Building Seattle d 1 /-- •< Hack cover ••r-feoldeni_i foatei andI ti^'i'V Old Mission." manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co Heinsbergen Decorating Co. 4 I I I Sutter Street. San Francisco: Portland. Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover CEMENT TESTS—CHEMICAL ENGINEERS Robert W. Hunt Co., 251 Kearny Street, San Francisco 74 CEMENT—COLOR "Golden Gate Tan Cement," manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co III SuHer Street, San/^ancisco: Portland Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover W. b. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 75 CEMENT PAINT General Paint Corporation, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland. Portland and Seattle 63 Cahtornia Sales Company, 444 Market Street, San Francsco 7I CONCRETE AGGREGATES Golden Gate Atlas Materials Company, Sixteenth and Harrison Streets, San Francisco 73 John Cassaretto. Sixth and Channel Streets, San Francisco _ 75 CONCRETE CURING & PROTECTION The Sisalkraft Company. 205 W. Wacker Drive. Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 7A CONTRACTORS—GENERAL MacDonald Kahn. & Financial Center BIdg., San Francisco 74 Lindgren .""~". & Swinerton. Inc.. Standard Oil Building. San Francisco ab Dinwiddle Construction Co.. Crocker BIdg., San Francisco ...... "...". 75 Clinton Construction Company, 923 Folsom Street, San Francisco 75 Anderson & Ringrose, 320 Market Street, 1'"..." San Francisco 72

MARCH, 1936 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ANNOUNCEMENTS [PAGE INDEXED!

CONTRACTORS—GENERAL Page S. P. W. Jensen, 320 Market Street, San Francisco 74 Phone GArfield 1164 Monson Bros., 475 Sixth Street, San Francisco 78 P. F. Reilly, 730 Ellis Street, San Francisco Tl Wm. Martin & Son - 79 Hunter & Hudson DAMP-PROOFINS & WATERPROOFING Consulting Engineers "Golden Sate Tan Plastic Waterproof Cement," manufactured by Pacific Portland

Cennent Co., I I I Sutter Street, San Francisco; Portland, Los Angeles and San DESIGNERS OF HEATING Diego Second page of cover AIR CONDITIONING The Sisalkraft Company, 205 W. Waclcer Drive, Chicago, III., and 55 New Montgomery VENTILATING AND WIRING Street, San Francisco 74 Bay State Brick & Cement Coating, sold by California Sales Company, 444 Market SYSTEMS, MECHANICAL Street, San Francsco --- 71 AND ELECTRICAL EQUIP- DOORS—HOLLOW METAL MENT OF BUILDINGS Forderer Cornice Works. Potrero Avenue, San Francisco 74 Kawneer Mfg. Co., Eighth and Dwight Streets, Berkeley 73 41 SUTTER STREET DRAIN PIPE AND FITTINGS ROOM 710 "Corrosion" Acid Proof, manufactured by Pacific Foundry Co., 3100 Nineteenth Street, San Francisco California

San Francisco, and 470 E. Third Street, Los Angeles -- - - 64 DRINKING FOUNTAINS Haws Drinking Faucet Co., 1808 Harmon Street, Berkeley: American Seating Co.,

San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. __ _ _ _._ 70 ENGINEERS—MECHANICAL ELEVATORS Hunter & Hudson, 41 Sutter Street, San Francisco 78 ELECTRIC AIR AND WATER HEATERS Sandoval Sales Company, 557 Market Street, San Francisco 71 Wesix Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 631 San Julion Street. Los Angeles; 2008 Third Avenue, Seattle, Wash 72 ELECTRICAL ADVICE Pacific Coast Electrical Bureau, 447 Sutter Street, San Francisco, and 601 W. Fifth

Street Los Angeles - - 63 Pacific Elevator and ELEVATORS Equipment Company Paclfc Elevator and Equipment Company, 45 Rausch Street, San Francisco 78 HOLLOW TILE AND BRICK FENCES 45 Rausch Street, San Francisco W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 75 HXTURES—BANK, OFFICE, STORE HEmlock 4476 Mullen Manufacturing Co., 64 Rausch Street, San Francisco 75 Pacific Manufacturing Company, 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oakland, Los Angeles and Santa Clara 73 GAS FUEL Pacific Gas Association, 447 Street, Sutter San Francisco ._ Third Cover BROS. GAS BURNERS MONSON Vaughn-G. E. Witt Company, 4224-28 Hollis Street, Emeryville, Oakland 74 GAS VENTS •

Payne Furnace & Supply Co., Beverly Hills, California _ _ 76 GLASS General W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San Francisco. Branches and dealers through-

out the ._ • West _ Contractors Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio; 633 RIalto BIdg., San Francisco; 1212 Architects BIdg., Los Angeles; Mr. C. W. Holland, P. O. Box 3142, Seattle 2 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Grant Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. W. P. Fuller & Co.,

Pacific Coast Distributors _ • HARDWARE 475 SIXTH STREET Palace Hardware Company, 581 Market Street. San Francisco 72 San Francisco The Stanley Works, Monadnock Building, San Francisco; American Bank Building, Los DOuglas 1101 Angeles ._ _ .______' HARDWOOD LUMBER White Bros., Fifth and Brannan Streets, San Francisco; 500 High Street, Oakland 71 HEATING— ELECTRIC Apex Air and Water Electric Heaters, Sandoval Sales Company, 557 Market Street,

San Francisco _ _ 68 WesIx Electric Heater Company, 390 First Street, San Francisco; 631 San Julian Street, Los Angeles; 2008 Third Avenue, Seattle, Wash 72 HEATING EQUIPMENT

Payne Furnace & Supply Co., Beverly Hills, California .- 76 Pacific Gas Radiator Co., 7615 Roseberry Ave.. Huntington Park; Sales Office, H. C.

Stoeckel, 557 Market Street, San Francisco - _ _ .._ 71 HEAT REGULATION Johnson Service Company, Milwaukee, represented on the Pacific Coast by the following branch offices: 814 RIalto BIdg., San Francisco; 153 West Avenue, 34, DALMO Los Angeles; 1312- N.W. Raleigh St., Portland, and 473 Coleman BIdg., Seattle... 3 HOLLOW BUILDING TILE (Burned Clay) WINDOW N. Clark & Sons, 116 Natoma Street, San Francsco 5 Gladding, McBean & Co., 660 Market Street, San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard. Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor Street, Portland: PRODUCTS Twenty-second and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane; DALMO SALES CORPOKATION Vancouver, B. C 6 Sll Harriion St., San Franciico

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W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco: factory, William Martin Nlles, Calif.; yards, 7th and Hooper Streets, San Francisco, and 105 Jackson Street, Oakland & Son 75 INSPECTION AND TESTS Robert W. Hunt Co.. 251 Kearny St., San Francisco „ 74 Builders LACQUERS General Paint Corp., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tulsa 63 W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street, San Francisco. Branches and dealers throughout the West ^ . _ _ 666 Mission Street San Francisco LINOLEUM Sloan-Blabon linoleum, sold by California Shade Cloth Co.. 210 Bayshore Boulevard. Telephone SUtter 6700 San Francisco jq Evenings: GArfield 9456 LUMBER Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- land; Los Angeles and Santa Clara 73 Smith Lumber Company, Nineteenth Avenue and Estuary, Oakland 73 Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Forty-sixth Avenue and E. Twelfth Street, Oakland 72 E. K. Wood Lumber Company, 4701 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles; I Drumm Street, San Francisco; Frederick and King Streets, Oakland 66 MARBLE Joseph Musto Sons-Keenan Co., 535 N. Point Street, San Francisco 72

We Print MILLWORK

E. K. Wood Lumber I The ARCHITECT and Company, No. Drumm Street, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles _ _ (,b ENGINEER Melrose Lumber & Supply Company, ForTy-sixth Avenue and E. Twelfth Street, Oakland 72 Pacific Mfg. Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- "A Thing Beauty- of land; Los Angeles and Santa Clara 73 Is a Joy Forever" Smith Lumber Company, Nineteenth Avenue and Estuary, Oakland 73 942 HOWARD STREET MONEL METAL SAN FRANCISCO "Inco" brand, distributed on the Pacific Coast by the Pacific Foundry Company, Harrison and Eighteenth Streets, San Francisco, and Eagle Brass Foundry, Seattle 64 Kitchen sinks, heaters, storage tanks—Modern Metal Appliance Company, 4238 Broad- way, Oakland _ 76 MURALS A. KNOWLES Helnsbergen Decorating Co., Los Angeles and 401 Russ Building, San Francisco 72 OIL BURNERS S. T. Johnson Co., 585 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco; 940 Arlington Street, Oakland; Contracting 1729 Front Street, Sacramento, and 230 N. Sutter Street, Stockton 69 Vaughn-G. E. Witt Co., 4224-28 Hollis Street, Emeryville, Oakland 74 Plasterer ONYX Joseph Musto Sons-Keenan Co., 535 No. Point Street, San Francisco 72 982 Bryant Street ORNAMENTAL IRON Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Street, Oakland 76

San Francisco PAINTS, OIL, LEAD W. P. Fuller & Co., 301 Mission Street. San Francisco. Branches and dealers through- UNderhill 4048 out the West • Frank W. Dunne Co., 41st and Linden Streets, Oakland 73 General Paint Corp., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tulsa 63

PAINTING, DECORATING, ETC. "The Only Pacific Coast Factory" The Tormey Co., 563 Fulton Street. San Francisco • • • 74 Helnsbergen Decorating Co., 401 Russ Building, San Francisco 72

THE HERMAIVX PARTITIONS—MOVABLE OFFICE Pacific Mfg. SAFE COMPAIVY Co., 454 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; 1315 Seventh Street, Oak- land; factory at Santa Clara 73 Manufacturers and Dealers W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco 75 FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF PILES—CREOSOTED SAFES, VAULTS, SAFE WOOD J. H. Baxter & Co., 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco and 60IW Fifth Street, DEPOSIT BOXES Los Angeles lq • • • PLASTER Howard "Empire" and & Main Sts. "Reno Hardware Plaster," manufactured by Pacific Portland Cement Co.. I 1 Sutter Street, San Francisco; San Francisco 1 Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego Second cover Telephone GArfield 3041 PLASTERING A. Knowles. 982 Bryant Street, San Francisco 70

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ANNOUNCEMENTS [PAGE INDEXED!

TEXAS ARCHITECT SCORES PLATE GLASS MODERN STYLE Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.. Toledo, Ohio: 633 Rial+o BIdg., San Francisco: 1212 Seattle Architects BIdg.. Los Angeles; Mr. C. W. Holland, P. O. Box 3142, (Concluded from Page 7) PLUMBING CONTRACTORS AND MATERIALS duce good 4 inch average round rafters 9 Carl T. Doell Co., 467 Twenty-first Street, Oakland feet long, would you send off for other Crane Co., all principal Coast cities rafters to make rooms wider than 17 feet? PRESSURE REGULATORS "When summer [90 degrees tempera- Vaughn-G. E. Witt Co., 4224-28 Mollis Street, Emeryville, Oakland ture) begins in April and ends in Novem- ROOF= MATERIALS ber, with a steady cool breeze blowing Gladding. McBean & Co., 660 Market Street, San Francisco; 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard, from the south east, would you plan a Los Angeles; 1500 First Avenue South, Seattle; 79 S. E. Taylor Street, Portland: house In any other manner than to expose Twenty-second and Market Streets, Oakland; 1102 N. Monroe Street, Spokane: as many rooms as possible to that afore- Vancouver. B. C - N. Clark & Sons. 112-116 Natoma Street, San Francisco; works, West Alameda said breeze? Or without consideration of SAND. ROCK AND GRAVEL the breeze? It being understood that If you owned less than 3000 acres of ranch John Cassaretto, Sixth and Channel Streets. San Francisco - you would be considered as having too

SHADE CLOTH little space to have any to work with. California Shade Cloth Co., 210 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco.. "If the brush was full of coyotes and SHEET METAL WORK there were plenty of bandits, both home Forderer Cornice Works, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco grown and in transit, to where experience

STANDARD STEEL BUILDINGS had taught you that It is cheaper to cover Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Street, Oakland...- the openings with iron bars than contribute STEEL—STAINLESS to the opium dreams of thieves, would you, Republic Steel Corporation, Rialto BIdg., San Francisco; Edison BIdg., Los Angeles; for the sake of one of these modern glass

White-Henry-Stuart BIdg., Seattle ^ walls you show here In this December number, omit the iron bars? STEEL, STRUCTURAL Street. Independent Iron Works, 821 Pine Oakland "If half barrel clay roofng tile was Judson Pacific Company, C. F. Weber Bidg., Mission and Second Streets, San Fran- cheaper over a ten year period than any cisco shops, San Francisco and Oakland other roofing available would you build a Pacific Coast Steel Corp.—See Bethlehem Steel Company, Twentieth and Illinois Streets, San Francisco: Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles; American Bank Building, flat roof if you were not building to sell to

Portland, Ore.; West Andover Street, Seattle, Wash -- suckers? "If whitewash lasts longer, looks STORE FIXTURES better and costs one-tenth as much as any- Mullen Mfg. Co., 60 Rausch Street, San Francisco thing else, would you undertake any other STORE FRONTS exterior painting? Kawneer Mfg. Co., Eighth and Dwight Streets, Berkeley "If your answers to the above questions

TEMPERATURE REGULATION are yes, and I fear they will be for things Johnson Service Company, Milwaukee, represented on the Pacific Coast by the follow- have been going too good for me lately ing branch offices: 814 Rialto BIdg., San Francisco: 153 West Avenue, 34, Los I knew there was something wrong and Los Angeles; 1312 N.W. Raleigh St., Portland, and 473 Coleman BIdg., Seattle... before I got to be the wide open space TERMITE CONTROL—WOOD PRESERVATIVE Kingflsh some darn thing would throw me

E. K. Wood Lumber Company, No. I Drumm Street, San Fiancisco; 4701 Santa Fe sir — I am prepared. 1 am all prepared, Ave., Los Angeles; Frederick and King Streets, Oakland modern, to do the modern thing in the J. H. Baxter & Co., 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, and 601 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles modern way If It Is the thing to do down American Lumber Treating Rialto BIdg., Francisco: 1031 & Company, San S. Broadway I here. I am letting you be the judge.

Los Angeles -. don't want people driving through here on

TREE SURGERY their way to Mexico from New York or Davey Tree Surgery Co., Ltd., Russ Building, San Francisco: Story Building, Los Angeles Hollywood to say 'this architect aroind TILE—DECORATIVE, ETC. here must be nuts, look at that.' One of Pomona Tile Mfg. Co., plant, Pomona, Cal.: Sales Rooms, 135 Tenth St., San Fran- Invested lot of money cisco: 217 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles: 6106 Roosevelt Way, Seattle my friends who has a

Gladding McBean & Co., 660 Market St., San Francisco: 2901 Los Feliz Boulevard, in what we thought was all very modern

Los Angeles _ _ _.._ right up until now might hear of it and any- VALVES get to feel mighty bad. 1 don't want Sloan Valve Co., manufacturers of Sloan flush valves, 4300 West Lake St., Chicago, III. thing like that to happen. If I have been

it so VAULT DOORS wrong in my thinking I want to know hlermann Safe Co., Howard and Main St-eets, San Francisco somehow with my cli- i can square myself

WATERPROOFING ents and go on working. Bay State Brick & Cement Coating, California Sales Co.. 444 Market Street, San as you can Francisco _ _ "Please let me know as soon of additional work to do WINDOWS as I have plenty Kawneer Mfg. Co., Eighth and Dwight Streets, Berkeley.. here on this ranch." Ualmo Sales Co., San Francisco answer If you, dear reader, would like to WINDOW SHADES Mr. Sanderson's many questions let us heal California Shade Cloth Co., 210 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco.. from you—this fellow Is sincere! Wm. Volker & Co., 631 Htw/ard Street, San Francisco

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