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and Ohio Architect Builder The . ; J)ubltabel) ~onl bl}2 b}2 ttlJe ~bio Brcbitect anl) :1Sutll)er Uompan}2. at 180 St. cilair5t., <!le\?elanl), "bio, in tbe int.~reata of tbe Brcbitecta anl) 1Sutll)era of "bio aIll) tbe ~il)l)Ie Wleat. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE, TEN CENTS A COPY. TETJEPHONES, MAIN 7. CUYAHOGA C 2174. BUSINESS AND EDITORIAL ROOMS, No. 180 ST. CLAIR STREET,> CLEVELAND,a. . THOMAS A. KNIGHT, Editor. July "-.. "ts. EUGENE MARTINEAU, ~.us. Manager • I' .. L."J\.. OSBORN THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND ·BUILDER ------------~- EDITORIAL CONGRATULATIONS are in order over the unexpected settlement of the' brickmakers' strike. All the builders in the state seemed to be deeply interested in this . contest. Outside of Clevela~d it 'merely meant a possible raise .in the price of brick. InClevel-and it meant a great deaJ more. It meant that every building trade in Cleveland would be tied up if the strike wa s prolonged any length of time. The 'bri'ckmakers had just delivered their 'steenth ultimatum and the ,brick manufacturers had given their answer. Leaders 0 n both si&s looked ,forward to a long struggle. Onlookers sat down to watch. a Ion g drawn-out contest. And then the unexpected happened. The brickmakers gave up the fight and returnerl to· work. The whol~ building world gave ~ sigh 0.£ relief. The' brickmakers are working overtime to make up the wages lost while the struggle was in progress, and the manu,facturers are operating their plants to the limit in the effort to catch Ul). with orders. Without betraying any confidences, \i t might be truthfully stated that to W. H. Hunt, president of the Cleveland· Builder s' Exchange, is due most of the ·credit for the victory. Had it not been for his tact and diplomacy in handling the strikers there . would have been a most serious tie-up of' a II the building industries of :Cleveland. A Rather Good Proposition A branch of the NationalCivic Feder ation is to be organized in 'Cleveland, so the daily papers tell us. And following that, th ere is to be a branch organized in Cincinnati. On ·t)1e. to·p of a threatened tie-up of a II the building industries' o'f Cleveland this conH~s as gO'bd hews. It would seem to us th at a commission made up of labor leaders: 'OIl the' ori~, ha.nd, representative business m en on the other, with a third board chosen Joi~tly,-by. capitai and labor, to act as arbit ers, is one which ought to a'ccomplish someething in.th'e. ·prevention of strikes. H the Federation were the means of preventing' one strike a year it would be extremel)f valuab Ie to' etnployer and employe alike, But those who believe in the work o·f the -Civic Feder ation tell us that it will accomplish much more than this, and that there is no reaso n why all strikes should not Ibe prevented.. This seems almost too good to be true. . When one considers the vast interest s involved, the irrepara1ble loss sustained by capital an.d labor alike through the medium 0 f the strike, it 1S .hardly to be wondered'. ,th;t'the experiment of setting afloat branch es of the Civic Federation should be watched ~,6"anxiously, Labor's Liberty Means License A French patriot, sa'c·rifl'ced by the very people he. had, unselfishly· benefited, exclaimed, ClJS he went to the scaff'old, "0 Lib erty, hOlw many ·crimes are ,committed .in thy name!" That phrase wiH soon be a tTU isni in the Uni:tedStates, if the present dangerous tendencies and the inciting to bad deeds un'der high-sounding nC!-mes by unprincipled 'leaders be not curbed. Three dangerous fo·rces are un onsdoll-sly wIlying to make the ,foreign dement, with its already lawleiSs slpl'rit, still more dangerous to the hest intelfest,s o·f the coun'try. These are the va.lb o-t agitatOif, the sens:altionai' pres's and the Ull·s;crupulous .po1iticiaris. ' . The typical 'lwbor' agitator mold,s this C'lass 0'£ men, like ·wax in his hands; 'indtes them to ,strik'es, violence, and in'timicLation against theiremplo-yers, .and to w.age whaJt is. reaH-y industrial war. He leads them' to t!hink' that by vio'lence .and numbers and the r'alse idea 0'£ liberty they ha~e, they can adOpt any lawles's method' whatever to gain the· unreasonaMe and whimsicaoJ ends to whkh he a1rous,es t!hem. . The 'sensational daily papers,' the yeHo'w journa1s o'f the day, ate guilty 0.£ a crime ag.ai11'st the Ameri'can people in t!heir truckling to this mi,sguidedsentiment among the THE -OHIO ARCHITECT AND BVILD.ER 3 ma"sses, trained ,by the lalbor agitator. The y drstort and color the news of the day with false headlines and sensationa'l and unfa1r co mment; to the supposed satis.factiol1 of the ma1s'ses, who are regarded by them rni,staken'ly as' the common people, ,fo'r whom they profes's an especial care and sOllci'tude. The y inflame the people against the operations of capital because it .i.s sensationQl t,o do so. ':r.hey Il"efrain from condemning the arbitrary 'injustice of most ·strikes and boycotts because they imagine they want to cater to labor union s·entiment and the common ,peop Ie. Alert to get moM 0.£ the news, they generally make the least rather than the most of any' violence o'r crime committed by strikers against capital, or workmen whC? have ta ken their places. Yet, if violence is oppo'sed and human life defended in these troubles, if riotous ,strikers\ or "sY1lllpathizer·s" are injured by res,istance of an lattack, a great hu e and cry go'e·s up frorn these paper'S abolit capitalists shooting 'down workmen. It has lately been more than hitllted·that the ,11mit of unscrupulous depravity has beenlrea:ched by certain yetlow journals. It can s'ca'rcely be believed, and yet loer1ain'things go far to indicarte tihat certain papers have even sent agents out to slti,r up slt,rikes and breed agitation in order to make sens'atio11lal news. Treason again.st our ,counbry could go. no farther than such a course of inciting the greatest danger to our pea'ce and prosperity from 'Witihin that now exi,sts. Brickmakers' Strike Over Founded in unreason, carried on in bl indness, coOntinuing in damage and disaster to wider circles entireiy innocent of any ori gina'! causes, and finally succumbing to logical failure, the ibrickmake-rs' strike is a thing' of the past. This u11lfortunate and disastrous folly hcus gained the cause o,f o'rganized lab-or nothing but the los,s of its wages for a prolonged time, the dis'affection and di sgu'st o,f other bo·dies o't 'laboring men wholm its operations threw out o·f work unwittingly. the damage oif 'contraotors and builder,s, the re'!.inquis'hing of contracts, less ening the amount o,f work presetllt ·and prospective for the very ,cra'ft which struck, an d moreover it has cau,s,ed an abenatlOn of public sympathy wi·th the strikers which is be coming genera·l in regard to ~any f.oolish strikes that are final'Iy discernea by a patie nt pu:J;>lic to have no just foundation. BuilcIing operations may now be resumed, and th e air i-s aleared by the fad thatt the aIibitrary 'Course o:f labor in its insatiable aplpetite fo r higher wages than the business Win 'stand, and f,or absurd and chilocJ.ish conditions whi ch would reve'rse the 10gicaJ positi,ons o,f employer and emp'loyed, is che·cked. The ar,resting of the high-handed tendency 'c~mes none too so'on. lit is a,ccompJI1,shed with gre at los.s on both sides, but the gain promises to be heahhful It is well ,that no considera tions of ex'pediency prevented the emp'!oayers from taking the firm shand 'that justice perm itted. Concession and conciliation, repeated giving in to labor demands, seems to do no g oold with the pre,sent craze o,f organized labor. 'Dhe more it gets the more it wants. Employers must take a ,stand ,at some point, and they did so in this instance. It was a hard thing to do with the pressure from all sources, and the spectacle co.nfront ing t'he manufacturers that their cessatio~ was tyling up buHding operations ·everywher e. How workingmen. with no griev.ances of their own like to have t!hei-r rightlful oacupation held up by the quarrels olf another trade is a question likely to soon answer itse If. The result of this strike shows what steps are 'coming ·in the la:bo,r' que,stion. First, e mpl,oyers are going to band to'2'ether to resist unreasonable labor demands, whatever the cost. Then public sentriment is going to withdraw itself from the malc,onte,J.lts.·. Then their hro'tlher workmen are not going to be made pawns on the chess hOlard. Then the· f.omenter o'f lalbo! strife is going to lo,se his po'sition. Come, Come, "Teddy," Step Lively "Teddy" Roberts, the genial secretary of the Ohio Association of Builders' ,Exchanges, informs us that the plan o'f grouping Cleveland's public buildIngs is not dead and that there will be doings in this directi on shortly. 'Well, it may :be so, but the Group Plan Supe'rvisors will have to hus tIe unless they' want to ,be 'placed in the same class with the Cleveland art· museum trustees, who admit they haven't held a meeting. since last summer. 4 THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND. BUILDER Limit ,City Hall Competition Cleveland huiJ,dings ·should be designed by Qeve'1and ;architects and built by Cleveland ·builderis. Thi,s is .a proposition which has l·itt:le room 'for argumenit, ,even though there be a pos·siIble exception 0'1' so !properly to be made. It is the principd'e that. is no,w ani1mating 'buildin.g i11Jterests in Ireg,ard to the 'competition on the new city hall. T:he local chapter, American Institute of Architects, has' dedared itself to this effect, and ,the Builder·s' Exchange, at a recent ::;ession of the board of directotts, adopted a reso:lutio'n to thi.s effect, putting these two bo'dies on record. Cleveland men. J shoU'l'u prV!uute Cleveland enterprises, in a -city where there is no re·ason why all the .requirement.s should not be·at hand. The city hall commission now has the sent~ment of representative interests defini£eiy bdore it, an? it 'Will be a strange disregarding o'f the fitnes,s of ,things 'iL.it does not limit its competition accordingly. .There is no need of being hide-hound and provil1Jcial and of recognizin.g no good fhing from ,elsewhere, but the trouble with Cleveland has always been the lack ,of local p.r·iel e and' a sense 00£ recognition of the taleilit within it and the deserts o,f its own inJte'rests. It is good business for a city to give <out work to be done by city firin,s, and po'or busines's f~'r it tro send money outside. and to import unnecessary <talent. There are some times exceptions, but the record of the past few years wi,tJh Clevel1.a\J1'd a1"c'hitects and 'builde.lls .is su,ch fhat there is not the sEghte'st sense in thinking any out's'ide firms can or will do better. The gr'oup plan wiLl not be endangered by 10'cal work. There is no fav oritism, no undue coddling of an ·infant industry, to have the .city hall a Clevel.and ·bu'ilding. It is so plainly a matter ,o·f o.rdinary civic welfare that it -should hardly' need ,to be sltated or urged by two .SUCI1 'I"epr·e·sentative qodies as tho'se whose .action will douhtle<ss preva'il ,on .t'he -city haH commi'ssion, even if ~,u·ch action might not already have been JogicalJy determined upon. Our ·archite·cts need just such a st1imulus a's the erection ()If a public 'building olf this kind will give memo They will do beuer than ever before. The mist.ake O'f t'he Chamber of Oommel"ce should not be repeated. Breeders of Trouble Arrested Turn ahout is fair play. We have beensurfe,ited with the nO~dhaJlanrt way' in whi:ch striker·s and labor agitabors take the la,w into t'heir own hands, as'sault non-union men, persuade tholse' with no .griev.ance to .st.rike, intimidate t'hose who want to work, use violence on tho'sewho do not obey their mandate and generalolydisturb the peace. The employer generally submits because he cannot seem to ,invoke the O'fficers of the law without 'having a hue and cry raised against ·him. But the worm will turn, and two wa;lking delegates learned a richly deserved ·les.son in Oanton. t'he o'tJher ·day. J. M. Stark and J. E: McGorray of the Structural Bridge and Iron Workers' Union, went there to induce a general strike 0.£ all trade,s provided non-unio.n men were not '4ken off the job of bui-l'ding a large bridge under construction t:her·e, Thecontracto'r"S1wore out warrant- s for their arrest and ha·d t:hem 'Put in j'a iiI fo,r dis,orderly Icon-dud, as they pers-isted rin iruterrupting men at wo-rk when they were denied admi'ttance to private property. They had to telegra"ph' to Cleveland for baiL Their cases were !heard Saturday morning, and t'hey were advised to return to Cleveland at the ea'rliest 0PiP'otrtunity and not disturb Canton industr.ies. Thus did the wo-r-ds O'f the old play come true in Canton; "T1here'll be no 'Strike today." Awaiting Group Plan News The group plan is in stat'll quo so far a's any lpcal advance is concerned, awaiting ,the re:port of the hoard olf 'su:pervi:sing architects in New York. A definite statement is awaiteld ,from them, e:JIJped'ed tocove,r the re'sults o-f bheir sWdy of the situation ~o'r a year. T1he1ocaltion 0.£ 'the court house, city -hal'l, pulbli'c library and the vexed Umcm depot question are all to !be defined in :this report. The cHy hall commission is a,wa·itin1g this report before giving out the competition and arranging the method of it. Elaborate drawings a·re 'prepared ·in New York under the direction oi ·Me'ssrs. Oa'rriereand Brunner for this f1e·p.or,t, and Mr. D. H. Burnham, of 'Ohrcago, who has ,made. several trips here, has met with them in New York rather than in .Cleveland as 'a matter of convenien·ce. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER Sudden Death of Architect F. C. Bate 5 It is with regret that we announce the death of one o·f Cleveland's most foremost architects, Fenimore C. Bate. At forty-six, an age when most men are in the prime of life, Mr. Bate, through overwork, was ap hysical. wreck and when attacked last week by apoplexy was unable .to withstand the assault, and expired. Mr. Bate was one of the pio'neer arch itects in. the field of apartment houses and designed, many of those built in the Fores t City in recent' years. He was architect of the Cleveland Grays' Arrriory. Differce is ·.Slight, After All In these coh,lmns last month we sound ed a note of warning with regard to the prices of bu'ilding material and labor. we sa id that it would be well for builders to' go more slowly and be more conservative.. Th ere 'was no desire on our part to give the impression that we considered the present high prices an actual menace to building operations. We merely advised builders to remember that it would pay them to make haste slowly. So far as prices are concerned it is an otO'rious fact that there is less building going on when prices. have reached rO.ck bottom than when prices are away up high. Take for instance the panic of 1893. There were esta tes all over the country which had plenty of cash. One would naturally suppo'se that they would take advantage of the low prices and build on a large scale. Not so. Inste ad, there was scarcely any building going on and it was not until prices advanced to ·exorbitant figures that the ready cash was drawn from the "stockings" and savings banks an d put into buildings. These people-doubt~ I less there were many 0jhers-failed to remember that panics are invariably followed by periods of great business activity. . Here's A Record Breaker For You. Work for the builders; s'chool 'builc~ings for the children; taxes for the property owner. Here is an endless' chain which th e Cleveland Board 0 Education is working very hard just now. No one is going to find fault with them, either. Even the old curmudgeon who squeezes his dollars so ha rd that the eagles scream WII! 'pay 'his taxes more willingly when he knows they go ·for school 'buildings than he would were they to be used for any other purpose. Certainly th e architect and builder will not register a kick. . According to one of the daily papers something like$500,0{)O will be expended o'n new school buildings during the nextiew months. That is a record of which' any city might well be proud. The improvements to be made will be equivalent to the erection of fifteen new school buildings of ten rooms each. Stone Structures Travel Readily T1his is undeni,atbly an age ot u'ntest, of moving aibout. The tendency to 'shif.t about and travel in individua..l,s ha:s extended to' inanimate olbje,cts and h01.1'se·s. B,ri-ck, stone and steel edifices trave·j a:bout no.wadays whenever they ha've a mind Ito, just as easiJly as piano,s a'nd sa,fe·s. W,hi'le fhe society columns of a Bo,ston paper were re.cent·ly chronic. ling t'he arri'val of Mr. J olhn M. Longyear to Brookline, the fashion.able sufbur'b there, from Ma'rqu'ette, Michigan; another pa,rt o:f the p.aper niigh't properly have had the following: "Mr. John Longyear's house has decided to set itself up in Brookline in compliance with the wishes of its owner. It will be a distinct acquisition to the fashionable residences of that district and will surely find itself in congenial architectural company. It will conie by easy stages, as it is nl.ostly of s tone, a car load at a time being sent.' The work of transportation and rebuilding will occupy two years." It is a fact that Mr. Longyear's $500,000 mansion is to be rebuilded in Brookline, stone for stone. He was formerly mayor of Marquette. A church 'inPittsburg is a similar instance. St. Peter's Episcopal church did not like t.o ,tay down town, and so had Itself' carted stone by stone to a fashionable district on the heights in Oakland, where it was ·rebuilt. 6 THE' OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER A Plea For Political Tolerance The politics of this country must affo rd considerable amusement to the more intelligent foreigners who visit this country. In the countries 0.£ the 10Id World' one is apt to 'be a Liberal today, a .t<.adical tomor row, or any-old-thing next weel<.. There is no certainty as to a man's political 'complex ion. Simply because he is supporting a particular party at ·one~lection can not be t3. ken as an indka,tion that he will be in the same political column next time. In America it is different. It goes by families. The son ,is liable to entertain political prejudices borrowed ,from his sire, and where the "old man" isa Democrat I the "youngster'1, is lia!ble also to be ;vdtSc..ip Ie of Andrew Jackson or Thomas Jefferson. Of course there. are exceptions. So-metim es a man is, disappointed in his political aspirations, and, failing of election or fail ing to obtain a c.oveted appointment, he suddenly discovers that. his party is rotten an d flops. Such movements are ,comparatively rare, however, and, it is a pretty safe propo sition that all one must do to find out a man's politics is to find out- what he was twenty years ago. It's always, the same. The Democrat believes that no matter how reli gious 'or charitable his Republican neighbor I ' may be, or how good and benevolent he is in private affairs, politically 'he is the deepest kind of a villain. The' Republican in the meantime is saying: "So,-and-so is a mighty fine fellow in most things, but he is a 'croo k when it comes to politics. Now, if he were only a Republican-" .And so it goes. It is not the intent 0'£ the writer to· counsel floppings. Nor does he admire the .turncoat. ,He is merely letting loose a little .ink in the way oi a plea for political tolerance. He is sincere in his 'belief that there is as much' intolerahceand bigotry in Ohio as can be found in any state in the Un ion. Why not change just a little? If yo u happ·en to be a Republican stop and remember that Tom Johnson is not all bad.. Remember that he does good things once in a while; that he has advocated many ref orryt'5" which would amount to something if they were only put in operation; give him the ~(edit of being sincere and be ready to acknowledge that, even though he is a Democrat, he may be a pretty good sort of a fellow after all. ' On the other hand, if you are a Demo crat,keep in mind the' fact that Unde Mark . Hanna gives away a great deal more mOrley every year on subjects of chartty than he spends for personal expenses. Remember that he is apretty big man (away !from home), and as a statesman has" the respect 00£ peo pie across the water.. R(emember that he has accomplished things, and, like Tom J 6h1150n, is typical of the progressive, go-ahead American. This is one place where the American people have not moved .forward in the last 100 years, and there is hardly any question but' what narrowness and intolerance rule, now, just as they did a century ago. Happily, political bitterness is generally ,confined to periods of the year when great political battles are being fought' and rarely goes so far as to interfere' with a man's busi'ness, Let's hope that the time will' come wh en the newspapers will blaze th~ way, to political tolerance by praising a politician when he is worthy of prai'se ana oamning him when he deserves condemnation. State Your Belief in Yourself' There is no wisdom .fo·r tthe contJraJotor andbuiilder, nor for t'he' arch~te'ct and materilal man to set up a worn-out. and antiquated co de of ebhios cak'l11a.t~d to suppre's,s Ihhnse'M and 'hi-de his light under a busheL Business men in' other lines> do not ,fai'l t,o press their cLaims f.pt recognit~on to those who may possfub-iy' be .interested. The nlan who Ihas a ~ood thing and who'se liv~lihood ,and incre'ase' Q;f sUiccess is ;bas1ed upon. having mor,e p~'O'Ple re1cognize i~ d~oes nOit hide. h~m~eH in a' corner n01wadays. J,f h,e :does not ,assert hlm-seM, someone WI,th. 'les's:rnertt wilil. The 5'ulccesSiful man adopts ,modern method's to make 'his da-ims know~, seeks the be,st measure to make Ii'he best he has count. l1he'$e are not t'he methods of the pe;tS't, and ,there'fo r,e the unprogressive aQ.<1 j og~trot TIleas of THE OHIO ARC.HITECT AND BUILDER . 7 the past are short-sighted and ridiculous principles for a man' who w.an~s to advance in the, building trades to avo,w. Success{u:l men in these lines are notked to be, the ones who combine merit in what they have with a ttractiiVe and clever methods Off making, it known. They are at least llho'se who are aid,a ptable enougih to the age to Ico-operate with t;heageneies fhat ~re ready to ,suggest to him ,how bes,t to push 'whatever is of meri:t and rea'l inter'e:st. The 'pro'fessional architect is expected to be of the las.t class in tHe building trade, to fully see t'he value and undel1stand the methods 0'£ modern pubHdty. He inherits a notion oJ ,proJessional e'tJhi:cs of doing no advertising, as he puts it with a sneering inflec"' tion; t:hatwiH take Iprettty neat1ly ,a generation to readjust in many cas~s. There is so much tha.t is dignified., proper and genuine fo r an ar'dhitect 'to give out 'that it is incon' Ceivab-Ie how tJhey will stand in their own light ,and negl,e'Ct to take a,dvantage, \ for in-sltan'C~" of, such op'por-tunities as ar'e. afforded by tJhis journal!. ' To the ,buHding tr,ades men let us speak plainly, with no false modesty o'f our own, that it is wo'rth tlheir en'cou·raging the' news and information we wre equip'ped and rea,dy to 'Publish for the irtten1ded good of our readers and the 'inciden1talindividual ben:efit sure to come to the interests d~scussed thereby. It is worth while for the business and professional man to take every opp,o'rtunity of placing himself in a favorablelight before his possible clientele. It is worth while for him to think well of himself, have confi'de11lce' in what he is 'doing, and to say so in the pro'Per,time and pla-ee without regard to what anyone else ,says or d o'es, without jewlousy for othe,rs, but only with regard to jusit~fying ,rumseH. Human nature is sUlch 'that the world is inclined to a'ccept a man at nearer his own v,aluation o'f himself than we t'hink. Peo'ple will K~1t belie,ve in the man who does not belie, ve in himseJd'. In this busy' age ho,w are we going to believe in a man who does' not make h,is :belief in himsdf known? On the wis,dom with whi'ch. he does this. latter thing almost as much as on inherent ability depends greatly his pla'ce in the wor.ld. He can largely make his own quota'tions on the ma'rket. If ,he does not quote himse1f well people are not going to inv~st in him. If he -ehwlks himself down boldly in favorable figures he gains attention and: his chance i~ better. If he talks himself up 100 per cent. he is more likely to be' taken for 75 per cenlt. than if he is really wort,h IDO per cent. and doesn't quote hilffiseU ,at all. To carry out vheparallel, hewiU proib,a;bly be hken in the latter case for about 50 per cent. We have to admit t:hat what we knolw as "bluff" o'Dten goes, and tempor,a:rily wins. 'f.hcit bein g so; it is assured ,that seLf-confidence ba-eked up by ability shouI'd sureuy win. Furthermore, ~onfidant talk and a ,little boast stimulates men a'11'd nations to live wp to their profes·s',ions. They ,are .spurred 'onto 'make th·eir talk good., They set their goal ahead in their talk and then orymore stren~ uOllsly to rea,c'h it. Painters' and Decorators' Convention The Master House Painters and Decorat ors wiLl hold their state convent/ion In Cleve' land on }uly 14, 15 and 16. 'Hea'dquader~ w'i'll be at the Colonial Hote.l and sessions will be he,ld 'both mornings and aJfternoons. a n the evening o.fthe first day the l'o'cal assoc, iation wi:1l entertain the delega.tes. The sec,ond evenling the manufacturers ,will provide the e11'tertainlffie~t. WiHiam Flood is presi deljll o'f the local a'sso'Ciati,on. Over ,two hundred visitors are expected. WHAT TH'E ARCHITECTS ARE D'OING We will be glad to p1'inf in this depa1'lment any live new.~ 0/ the day 1'ega1'ding a1·c.hitects, and Tequest OU1' /1'iends to /onva1'd news item.~ at any and all times. Among Cleveland Architects & Co" firepro~finlg, $300.00; and The Erner Plans are now being prepared in the office Electric 'Company, e,lectric wiring, $992.91. Architect . Edward 1. Schneider prepared o·f the supe-rintendent of buildings for an an- plans for a par.ochial school and ch~pel to nex fo'1" South High scho-ol ,and the school be erected on Lo-rain street near Dennison directo-r has advertised to receive bids for . avenue. This building will be 'of brick and this building until noon July 13th. It is esti-stone and will cost -abbut $20,000. The conmated that this building will cost about tracts have been let to Carey & Terwoord, $65,000. The School Council has decided to mason and cut stone contractors; John J. ere'ct a handsome annex' at Central High Forschner, carpenter contractor, and W. A. school and. has instructed the director of Stevens & Co., iron and steel wor~. schools to advertise for pro,posals for this Architect William Warren Sabin has pre-work in accordance with 'plans prepared by p·ared plans for two new buildings for W. H. Ar.chitect F. S. Barnum: Other scho·ol work Warner, to be erected on Euclid avenue and for which sealed pro'posals will be received Euclid alley. One will be a thr'ee-story -brick during this month include the carpenter and stone' store building fronting ,on Euclid work,plumbing and gas fitting and electric avenue, 'and the other will be a fo,ur-story wl'rl'ng necessary to complete the gymnasium brick factory building in the rear, fronting and retiring rooms at East High school; on Euclid alley. These buildings will be and schoo·l furniture for Do'an School, steel frame and fire pro'of construction. The Mound School, Harv'ard School, Fruitland following contracts, have been awarded for School, Wo'oldridge Scho'nl, and the addi- the work: Mason work to Francis Camp- Hons to Brandon and Sackett Schools. ,bell; carpenter work to Younger & Farmer; Sealed pr,o'po,~als for this wo·rk· will be r·e.- plastering to F. C. Marthey; metal wo'rk to ceived by the Clerk of the Board of Educa- E. H. Towson, and gravel roofing to' Not-tion until noon July 20th. ton Bros. The new High Schooo] builiding fo; Gle~~ Ar~hitects Ballinger, Parrot & Watts. ville will now probably proceed without fur~ Schofield Bldg., h'ave let the co-ntr,act fot a ther delay. Sealed proposals for. this build- facto'ry building to be erected at Greenwich, ing were received for the second time O'n the 0., for the United Cereal Company.' The 29th of June, which will make the total co'stbuilding will be of brick and will cost about o,f the building somewhat und"er the $5(},000 $15,000. The con'tract has been let to William appr,opriation.. The list of low bids as re- J. F. Reynolds & Co. . . . . corded by the Clerk of the Board of Educa- Hubbell & Benes are the architects for tion is as {oHows: F. & D. Lindhorst, the warehouse fO'r the National Lead Co. ·at mason work, $19,100; O. P. Spregner& Co., the Coorner of Champlain and Canal ·streets. cut stone, $2,596; Henry J. RO'chford, car- The building will be 150 feet long and vary penter work, $10,726; ,Michael Heintz, lath- in width from 50 to 100 feet. The co-ntract ing and plastering (metal lath), $3,175; 'The has been let to Carey & Terwoord. American Scho'o,l Furniture Company, Architects Searles & Hirsh have 'awarded blackboards,. $393.00; Mann'en & Esterly, the contracts for the new building .for' the sheet metal work, $867.00; The F. G. Hog.en Forest City Savings Bank Company to· be Company, roofing, $860.00; W. A. Stevens & located at I the corner of Detroit and Pearl Co., strpctural and ornamental ,iron ,and streets. This will be a handsorne structure, steel, $3,125.00; Saylor & Berkholtz, painting,' . buff pressed brick, red stone trimmings and $708.00,; .The Diamond Glass Company, glass . granite columns in,the front. The conttr~ct and glazing, $850.00; W·orden & Leese, fQr the mason work has been let to C. N. plumbing and sewer, $3,628.00; Michael Griffin & Co., and the ~arpenter work has Heintz. cement flo'ors, $715.00; W. A. Stevens been let to Theo. Mercier. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 9 A Costly Affair The strike and shutdown that is recent history in the building trades 'o·f New Yo·rk City is said to be the most costly land to hav·e thrown more men out ·0-£ employment than any other affair o·f the kind in the record of the city. The following figures 'are furnished by a competent authority: Skilh~d men who are idIe, 110,000; lo,sses of all cla'sses bec-a.use of' the strike, $25,000,000. Losses 'o·f the different trades thrown .into idleness: Carpenters, . 10,000 men, at $4.50 laJ day, fo·r thirtytwo days, $1,440,000; bricklay'ers, 7,5% men, at $5.25, $1,324,000; plasterers, 4,000 men at $5 a day, $640,000; plasterers' helpers, 4,000 at $3.50 a day, $448,000; iron-workers, 8,000' at $4.50 a dct.y, $1,152,000; labo·rers, 25,000 'alt' $2, $1,600,000; el·ectrical workers, 2,000 at $4, $286,000; st,onecutters, 1,000, at $5, $1,600,000; plumpers, 2,500, at $4.25, $339,900; bo,ilermakers, machinists, marble wO'rkers, tiJe layers, cement masons, marble polishers, wo.od lathers, stair builders, gl'miers and others, $3,800,000; unskilled trades, other tha11l plasterers' laborers~ 50,000, $2,000,000. Changing Architectural . Conditions Architect F. C. Bate, just dechsed, stood for the peculiar cond~tions in apa;rtment house' co-nstruction in Cleveland whereby the city has'never passed through the stage o·f the block or tenement, but has leaped from the wooden hous·e to' the high grade, spacious apartment designed for occupancy mainly by those of more income than the laboring c1ass-es. Mr. Bate's best known work is the Grays' Armory, he being. one of the oldest members of the Grays. Mr. Bate has had to face the position of seeing a' build:ing well adapted to the purpo·se for whicb it was expressly designed converted into the one available larg·e public hall of the city, even into a temp·orary theater at times, and to hear cavil at conditions never put upo-n the architect originaIly. That the Armory isa good .an.dsightly ,one is unqu'estioned, and for its size it is C'onsidered one of the mqdel . buildings o,f its 'kind in the country, its primary use being kept definitely in mind. Mr. Bate investe'd in flats orr his. own acoo'Unt, and one on Collins Place bears his name. He died on Saturday, June 27, at his apartments in the New Amsterdam, of apoplexy, at the age of forty-six, .after a protracted period of failing he'alth.· He.leav-es a widow and Orne daughter. The· funeral was held at La,ke View cemetery, Monday, June 29. Architect Fra'~k D. Skeel h,.s n.vised the an.s for the building for the Produc~ Exange Bank to be erected on Broadway, and invite'd bids from contractors for the aarsious trades. The building WI'11 be SI.X ,tories high and about 30 feet by· 130 feet. he exterior will. be brkk; heavy mill contruction. .It will be arrang¢.d for stores. Ar.chitects Searl.~5 & Hirsch have awarded he contract for the new freIght clepot for the lectric Package Company to Skeel Bros. his building will be erected on Eagl·e street nd will extend through to Bolivar street. Architect F. W. Streibin gel' has awarded he general contract for a. two-story brick nd stone store and apaTtment building to arl Anders. The buj,Jdl11g will be about Ox60 feet and will be located at the corner f St. Clair an.d Kirtland streets. Architect· Wilham R. Vv'attl rs'on has preared plans for two additions to th.e Osborn uilding at the corner of Huron and Prosect streets. It is proposed to erect a two-tory addition in the rear of the present uilding, extending back to the "Hough," nd also to put two additional stories on, the resent building, making a handsome seven-tory block. The rl~ar adolti0n will proba1bly e raised to the height of the frunt sectIOn atera,n. Architects E. Miller & Co. have 'let the ontract for a two-story' brir.k building at he corner o,f Ea s:: Madis.)n avenue and uperior street to Rorthenbecker Bros. The uilding will be arranged fot; stores arid partments. Architect ]. Milton Dyer has taken bids or the residence for Loftus Cuddy to be r'2cted or.. Overlook road. Eu_ lid Heights. Architect Ge·o·. F. I-Iamm()nd has awarded ontracts for stables and warehouse building o be erect'ed for fhe ?\01 Jy Cornpany..The ason work has been let to .Tohn F. Aring; carpenter work, Oscar Alexan del'; plumb-ng, Schneider Br·os.; cement work, J. H. ibby; electrical work, to The Erner Elec-ric Company. This wjl~ h~ " three-story rick and' frame builtding. Walter 1. Thompson hel,) be~'1 awarded the contract for the new Jewish synagogue to be erected on Forest street for the Anshe Emeth Congregation. The bui,lding will cost abo'ut $40,000. Architect A. E. Janowitz prepared the plans; Gick &: Fry arc engage(: ell a remodeling job at the residence of G. ]. Sea·broo.k, foO't which W. R. Patter3011 IS the architect. WITH THE BUILDERSt .EXCHANGES Cleveland During the month ,of June a large amount o·f school work. has received the ,attention of the Scho,01 Board and the contract-o'rs. The Mill street scholol was figured for the second time an'd the bids were very satis- factory to the School Board, .although they were about $7,000 in excess of the original appropriation. This was' considered in °a large measure due to the' increase in prices. :and the uncertainty of the labor market. The c'ontracts for this building hav~ been awarded as follows: Michael Heintz, mason work, cut stone, carpenter wOTk, lathing and plastering, fireproofing and cement floors, $43,500; The D. S. Ho-over Company, iroti and steel and 'ornamental iron, $8,635; Van Sickle & Warren Company, heating and ventilating (the Paul system to be installed), $7,376; The Dewstoe & Brainard Company, plumbing, gas fitting and sewers, $3,395; The J. A. Saunders Company, glass and glazing, $550; Arend Bros., painting, $660. ProposalS' were also· taken by the Board of Education for alterations at South High school. The low bidders for this wo-rk were: Micha'el Heintz, mason, carpenter, lath and plastering; painting, glass and glazing, $3,499;' Bartlett Bros. Company, heating . and ventilating (Webster system), $8,949; T. J. Smith, plumbing, gas and sewer~, $180. These bi.ds were referred to the. scho-ol direct0-r and the architect for r-ecommendations. The corntracts for the Willson. Avenue Branch Library have been' awarded by the library board as follows:' Mason . work, Hamilton &. Leghorn; . carpenter work, Frank Van Hofen; roofing and sheet metal work, The Rudolph, & Son ·Co.; plum,bing, Schneider ,Bros.; iron and steel, T. H;.Brooks & Co.; ekctric work, Wingate & Brooks; painting, R. R. WilIs ; heating and ventilating,\ Van Si.ckle & Warren; glass and glazing, The Diamond Glass Co.; marble and tile work, The A. Teacho-ut Co.; terra cotta, The Clevelan'a Hydraulic Press-Brick Co., fireproofing, W.\ A. Stevens & Co. The board. readvertised to receiv·e bids for _the· hardware and plastering until July 1st. .. M. L. Trimble, of AlIegheny, Pa., has the contract for erecting the n~w h t1ght depot on Davenport street for the Pennsylvania Company. This bu;ldin~ will be about 60(} "feet long and 150 fpet wide and will cost over $100,000. Architect G. A. Tenbush has taken bids for a residence for John Stuber, to be erect- · ed ,on East Madison avenue, north of Euclid avrnue. The building will c 1St alDut $7,000. PERSONAL . "Joe" Norton, of Norton Bros., .gravel ro·oiers, - is enj oying a vacation, which he is spending in Canada. Joe is. sure to have a · good t'ime. . G. W. F. Alexander, the mover of all kinds o,f buildings, recently purchased an automobile fo'r use in his business. C. A. Carson 'and William' Dunbar have also- joined the ranks of the automobilists and are becoming very much devoted to the machine. Theo. Poplowsky, ·of Poplowsky Bros., plumbers, spent Sunday in Detroit last week. He was accompanied by Mrs. Poplowsky and several friends. Walter J. Warden, of the firm of Warden & Leese, spent several days in Canada iast month on btisiness. C. B. Lewis, the engin~er, has charge of the construction and inspection of the steel buildings which Me being erected . by the Cleveland City Fo·rge Company. William Dunbar has returned from a week ·spent at the popular summer' resorts in Up-per Canada. I ',. EdWIn Selfe has about completed a handsome residence for himself in Glenville. J .. W. V,alll Derwerf is doing the work at the May Company's building on Euclid avenue. The flo,ors are being strengthened. - George C. Duschel, general sales agent for the Garry Iron and Steel Company, ha$ returned from a seven-weeks' trip through Michigan, Wisconsin andb'ther northwestern states. W. E. No,rthey has charge of the wO'rk at University School. Two new. buildings are being erected, a fra-p1-~ stru~tu!e . cost~n.g ,about $3,000 and a br1ck bUlld111g. cost111g dbout- $6,000. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER II Builders' Exchange Annual Outing All <inter'est among the members ,of the uilders' Exchange at prlesent centers 'in the nnual summer outing ,of ·that bo·dy, arrangeents for which ar,e now in progres's,. The nim-al outings hav'ec,ome to 'be regarded as tar features of the Ex~hange's yearly proram. The enterttl.'inment committee ·is plan-ing this year to conduct. an excursion to etroit, ,arriving in that city' on the morning f August 7th, taking the steamer Tashmoo up the river through St. Cla'ir Hats ·to one of the summer nes,ort hotels, where dinnF ill be had, after which the afternoon will be ccupied with a program of sports, bo,ating and other pleasurable features, the return to be made in the evening, in time to take the boat back to Oeveland, allowing (1)11 members who desire to pr·olong their stay, however, the privilege of doing so. It is anticipated that this outing will be one 'of the best the Exchang'e has ever had; as the. time will be devoted entirely to pleasure ~nstea.d of mixing with 'business as has belen the case at the two "last outings at Put-in-Bay. Ohio State"'Association of Builders' Exchanges It has been decided by the executive committee of the Ohio St~te Association of Builders' Exchanges to hold the next annual convention of that body at Zanesville August 1 26th and 27th. The convention, as on previous years, will he nude the occasion f.or . the assem1?ling 'of the builder& of the state for the cons'ideration of ma'tters .affecting their own welfare, although pr,oper attention wi),] be paid to the social el,ement, the pr,ogrC!- m being interspersed with many pleasurable events. .In choosing ZanesviHe for the convention, the' committe!e was influenc·ec;1 Jargely by the summer attractions of the city on the Musking~l1n, its beautiful surrounding country and the opportunity of excursions on the river, as well· as its splendid hotel faciHties ·arguing in ·its favor. The Ex,change in Zan'esviHe is now <in a, fl.ourishing co.ndi~ tion, although one of the l'atest institutions of its kind established. It is intended .t'o open the"'convention Wednesday morning, Augus,t. 26th, ,and to hoJd two sess~ons ·on that day, to be. followed by the association dinner at 7 o'clock' ,ahd ass'oaiation dance at 9 '0'clock. . A third s,ession wiH be held. the following morning, ,the afterno.on of that day being devoted to a boat ride on the Muskingum. At the meetings papers of interest to builders wjll be read, and these will be' discUss,ed,. but it is possible that one o·r two noted speakers will be invited to addr,ess the meetmg.. Youngstown Building Impressions. Youngstowp has a number of 'busy architects and ·builders who are very' properly among the first to feel the stimulus ,0'£ the prosperity that has come to that city as a result of the growth of its iron and steel industries. It has had its proportion o£ the industrial boom that has been so notable in the Pittsburg district, wherein the whole country has paid tribute to King Iron and Steel. Youngstown is therefore full of money and prosperity. Its growing industries have added to its population, and have increased its business and residential needs. It must leap into its proper place as a city of broader ideals. A general era of rebuilding is therefore under way, based on the solid future assured, the pressing present needs and the public spirit prosperity develops. In· a city where the average wage of the workingmen is the highest in the coun': try, and where millionaires have been newly made by scores from the ranks of the managers and stockholders in the leading industries, there must needs be building. The recent completion of the Dotllar bank building gave this city its first pretentious new business block, and others will follow. Messrs. Owsley & Bouchelle, a firm known throughout the state, designed it. The ter-' ritory seeking them is shown by the dedication th.is month 0-£ Trinity Episcopal Church in Newcastle, Pa.,a $40.000 structure plan~ ned by them, elevations of which ,were noticed in' their office. They have much work on hand. Architect E. R. Thompson has just let the contracts fo'r a new fire station there, which will be' one of the model ones of the state. It will be worth $20,000 and is of masonry, steel and iron.. The sted and iron is from Willian & Langdon. The lath and 'plastering by Wm. Wilson; the glass and glazing by F. Harbison, the galvanized iron and slate work by Haczell Bros., the carpenter and joiner wo·rk by O. D. Williams. The School & Semp1e Co. have the plumbing and sewer.age, W. H. Burnett the steam heat and ventilation. Cleveland blue 12 THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER stone' and buff press·ed brick is used. The building is to be done the 15th of' November and is corner Madisol1 avenue and Ellen street, in the ,fashionable residential di~trict. Mr. Thompson has just planned a $32,000 school house for Warr·en, Pa.. Dennison & Miller, in the Dollar building, are progressive archit"ects, who have several contracts enumerated elsewhere in this issue. A. F. Judd is just desrgning a block of stone flats for Max Schagrin, to cost $25,000,. and has s·everal residences under way. George Vaughan, besides designing a Children's Hom'e, has plans under way for sev·eral large~ nd expensive residences which will mark the new era ·of prosperity fo·r some of Youngstown'~ leadin~ business men. Bids on Federal Building Tlhe resullt o,f the opening of the bids, on rune 8, at W'als'hington,' for' the superstructure on the new government building in Cleveland develo'ped many points not favorable tp CleveJ1and 'contractors, and 'Various p/has'es of' the competition as re:velaJl€d then and thereafter discourage t'he prospect QJf this work being held by local firms. There were el'glrt proposals, olf whic'h three were' sU1bmittted by Clevdand oontractors. The bids were fo,r gr.anite,sanldstone, limestone and marble. The lowest proposal for sandstone was by W,iUi.a:m Bradley & Sons, oi New Y.ork, the. amount being $1,049,222.. AncLnew DaH, 0'£ Cleveland, Ibid ,on sandstone $.1,178,000, time to compllete thirty monlths. The Charles McOaul Co:, of Philadelphia, mad.e the lowest bid un granite, namely, . $1,357,292. J o'hn Gill & Sons', of Clevdand, bid on granite amounlts from $1,475,000 to $1,675,000 on different quarryings~ Hunkin Bros., of Cleveland, bid on granite $'1,450,583. The lowest limestone bid was by W'i11iam Bradley & Sons for $1,690.224. Hunkin Bros. bid on Indiana Emestone $1,436,729. J,ohn Gil.! & Sons' propo'sal for marlble, $1,690,224 was the Lowest. Other firms submitting bids were Doyle & Doak, PhiJa.ddplhia; WiUiam Mille·r & ~ons, Pi'ttsburg, and Amibion B. Sta,nnard, New y.ork. On t'he fla'ce of the h~ds the cllances· for Clev,dand contractors look dUbious. The proposals ha:ve been ta.bulate-d and sent to Architect Brunner in New York, othe arrchi':' te'ct o,f the felderal bU'il~ing. A re'p'ol1t from him is dai'1y expected to go· to the ,supervi's:" ing arrc'hite-ct .and then to the Secre'tary 0'£ the Tr.easuri Tlhi,s win r'e-commend whriC'h Ima'- terial should be adopted, sandstone, granite or marble. The judglment of the a.r·chitect will be quesotiori,ed by the Seq:etary' of t!h~ Treasury on this important point, though it may be dOone, and on~r,at hinges the' outcome on the face olf fh~ lbids. It is e~pect;ed that muoc'h w,ire-pulling wiU be ,done ,at ,this p,oinl to indulce the detpa,rtment to ·~eject uhere1cominendation olf the ardhite:ctin favor o;f bidders beat~n in the ori,gi·nal. competition, a pro'cedure done many times be~ fore. CI,eve'1and contractors have n,ot learne'd the art o'f being . pp,Lltidans in nClltiontIJl affair's, and. therefo:re the,se ,arts will probab, ly be beyond them, whate'ver may be done by .the out,si'de bidders. About two millioon dolilars is now availabloe for t'he compoloetion I of the hu'i:lding. Whatever is left af,ter 'the superstruoture is pa.id for wiM be devo;ted to t'he interior finish. If this balance is It'oo 'strnaJI to oomp:lete t:he bui'1ding pro'perly an extra a,ppro'priation will be asked ffom Congress. A phia'se of the bi,dd'ing .tJhat trnu:dh surprised Cleveland contrCllctors was t'he fa'c't that ClIflter de.polsJtingcertified .checks, ,for 2 ,per. oent. of the amount of their bids, and tying up a good deal of capital thereby,. the s:tatement was made by Supervising Architect TaY'lor' fhlat the arti'6:ed che,ck wa.s a mere formality whiCh couI'd !be waived by the Secretary o·f tihe Treasury. Severa'l o,f the outside firms submitted ched<;s le5's t1han2 per cent o'f their figures.TheClevdaI1Jd bidders aill sent checks in eX/cess of that percentag, e. The Cle'velanderrs' filed a prote.st and were met with the albolve r-ej,oinod'er. This is highly dispil,easing to Clevda'nod' build": ers, who feel like making common ca't1!se in general with the thre,e ,contrarctors who, are in competiticm witlh' ,outsilde firm~, andwlho seem to ihaye had their painstaking . care ligh'tJly· regarded by the power,s' th~t be: while outside. informality is. accepted as nothing '00 qui-bible over. They were also told that their bids did not fulfil'l tihe ~pe'ci-: ficatiot1,s. That this is. the.lfa:ct has· 11'0t been proven to their sati'sfaction, and ,on . tIhe other hand has greatly' s'l1l1priosed them.· Senft'1ment .at ·theBuilders' EX/change is also greatlly a'ro,used- agains't sUc'h a belal~,d revelat,ion. that s,petifrtations' and Iproperly drawn checks amount to nothing. It ·is learned that this 2 per .cent. 'Prov~s.jop d!e~ barred sev'eral Clevelah,d c.o.ntract~'rs'who would .like to have surbmitJted bids. 'Ther were kept back by the c'hel;k .requi1'lement THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 13 ec~use ·it tied up mo·re money than they ared to, .with the chances. 'Had they known hat any amount would have done as a mer,e or.mal,ity and evidence 0:£ good lalith they ou'Jod have bid. Secretary R,oberts olf tihe x'C:hange appe~Ts to voke the thought of any when he says "if this particular speci-cation plays a very little part, isn't there oom fo·r suslpicion that, other specifications ill also play little part in the matter?" rch'itect Brunner is expected here to look over the sandstone quarries near ,here tlo dletermine its practicaibiHty. Master House Painters The Annual Convention Will Be Held at Cleveland The Ohio State Assodation of Master House Painters and Decorators will. convene at Cleveland' July 14th. 15th and 16th, I with headquartelfs at fhe Co,I'o'nial Hotel. The arrangements for the convention and Il:he entertainment 0.£ the vi,sitors are in the hands of a committee of the lo,cal IClssociation. William Flood, preside·nt of the CliSSOciation, is taking an active part in these arrangements. Sess,ions wiH be hdd both in the morning and ,afternoon, and on the evening of the fir'st day the guests wi];) be entertained by the local association, and on the second evening the manufacturer,s wiH rov,ide fhe ente:rtainment. It is expeded that Mayor Johnson wi'll deliver the address of wel,come.. Pre.sident George Lang 0.£ the State Association has completed a tour of the la,rgC'r cities of the state :fo·r tlhe purpose of hooming the convention and making it a grand success. He visited Akron, Youngstown. Canton. ZanesviJ.1e. Columbu's. Srteuhell\ ·ille and Cin/Cinnati, in alii of which cities active associations are in existence. Mr. Lang was very much pleased with the outlook for a la'rge attendance. and expects that there will be over <two hundred de1egates ,present. Cleveland Master Plumbers Their Trip to the Pacific Coast National Convention at ~an Francisco The Cleveland Master Plumbers. who crossed the continent in May to attend the. National Convention ,at San Francisco, May 1t1th to the 22nd, returned intact about the middle of June, being absent from CleveI~ nd just one month. The delegation conSisted of Damas Desnoyers, president o·f the local associati'on; H. Ward Daykin; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Poplowsky, Mr. and Mrs. Walter ]. Warden ,and Mr. and .Mrs. Theodore Poplowsky, and several friends. The delegates from Akron and Youngstown and other neighboring points, joined th'e' Cleveland party. The journey t,o St. Louis was made without 'incident, where a short stop was !TIade, giving the excursionists all' opportunIty to take a glimpse of the Exposition City. The next l'ay-over was made at Kansas City, where the Cleveland body was j.oined by the _delegates from Pittsburg, Indiana and other points, and was· escorted from there ,to Denver by the Kansas City Frisco Club. This part of the journey was a very lively one, and good entertainment was' furnished by members of the various delegations. Wa·shouts on the road and a breakdown on the engine caused a delay of nine hours in reaching Denver, which was a great disappointment to the. Denver Association, as well as to the excursionists.. Elabor'ate preparations had been made by the Denver plumbers to e.i1.tertain the visitors and show them a good tune, .and the delay greatly interf.erred with these plans. But notwithstanding this, fact, a large reception was given in honor of the ladies of the party, and the men were entertained at the E')k's Hall, where several wrestling matches were arranged for, and a vaudeville enter'tainment was given. At Denver. the Cleveland party broke away from the other delegations. remaining over to take several side trips. They were treated in a most hospitable manner by the Denver !--ssociation, and their stay was a very enJoyable on·e. They visited Colorado Springs, Pike's Peak and many other places of interest. Another day was spent at Salt Lake City, from which .place an uninterrupted ride was made to San Francisco. The convention was one of tlhe besot ever held by the Association. AI,though the attendance was not als ,large as has been held at other citi'es more centra'lly located. yet the 320 delegates were greatl'Y in excess of the anticipated attendance. A'fter the convention, all roads ·led to Los Angeles, and several days' of uninterrupted pleasure were enjoyed. Vi's'its were made to the Catalina I'slands and several of the beautiful cities of the Pacific coast. The Los Angeles Association was lavish in the ente'rtainrrrent 0.£ the visitors. and the days .spent there were very happy ones. The return tr.ip was made by the way of the Northern Pa·cific stop's being made at Portland, Tacoma, 'Seattle and Shasta Springs, w,here the palfty refreshed thems'elves with that famous water. The party reac'hed Cleveland in a happy frame of -mind, full of sto,rie·s and the wonders of the trip. Da:mas Desno'Y·er,s a'cted as secretary of the Oeveland delegation, and provided himself with very complete notes of eve'ry detail of the -tri,p, which he expects to use in writing a book 0'11 the subje'c-t. At ~he Itneeting of the Master Plumiber,s' Asso,ciation fonQowing the ,convention r'eporb!' were received from the delegates. LOtHS Poplowsky gave a very inte.res,ting a·ccount of the trip. The annual pi'cnic of the Master Plumlbers willi he held ·some time in July or eady in August. It is proposed t.o make this affair one of the large-stand most succe,ss,fuleverr held, and a. proposition has been re:ceived very favorably,. -tocom'bine with tfhe Jour~ neymen Plumbe·rs and make thJi;s event a most notable occasion.' The M,aster PlumibeTs' ASlsociation has ,placed the matter in the hands o'f the ,entertainment committee of whi,ch Eb Ellen is chairman. ' WORK FOR THE BUIL'DE'RS Unde1' this heading we will be glad to p1'int notices 1'ega1'ding bids, (!tc. Cleveland, O. The 'Corlett Engineering Company is preparing plans for a large manufactunng building for the Baker Motor Car Company, to be erected in connection with, the plant of the American' Ba.l1 Bearing Company. Building: will be three 'stories high, 260 x135 feet. The Corlett Engineering' Company ha~ taken bids for a large plant for the American Ball Be~ring Company to be erected along the Lake Shore' R. R. This company recently purchased a large tract ,of land' for this' purpose. Several buildings will be erected, also a power house. 'Cos1:,$15,000. J. W. Doleman, Society for Savings, has plans for a residence for 'Mrs. J. 0, Mason, to be erected on the lake shore at Noble; O. The general contract for the new freight depot on Davenport street ha,s been let' to M. L. Trimble, of Allegheny, Pa. Building will be' one story high, 600x150 feet. Cost, $100,000. Architects Hubbell and Benes -have let contract for a large factory building for the National Lead Company. Contraetors Carey & Terwood. The Librar:r Board have let the following contracts for the Woodland avenue branch library: ,Marble and tile work to the Talamini Mos-aic ,and Marble Company; hardware, Geo. Worthington Co.; plasterin'g, C. W, Lease; painting, Herron Bro~. Contract for the Wilson and St. Clair str'eet library have been awarded: Mason work, Hamilton & Leghorn; carpenter wor:k, F. V'an Hofen; roofing and metal work, Rudolph & Sons Company; plumbing, Schneider Bros.;' iron and steel, T. H. Brooks & Co.; electrical work, Wingate and Brooks; painting, R. R. Wills; heating, Van Sickle' and Warren; ,glass, Diamond Glass Co.; fireproofing, W. A. Stevens & Co. T-ne contract, for the Webster system of heating for building on H,uron' street for Str.auss-Miller Company has been let to P. R. Crawford Heating and Mfg. Co. Architect Tenbush has let contracts for M. H. Fros't's residence on Euclid avenue: Mason work, Stemple Bros.; carpenter work, Geo. W. Thomas; slate roo,fing, Hogan Company; tin work, Cleveland Sheet Metal Works; plastering, F. D. W,atts; painting, E. V. Hopkins. Gick & Fry have been awarded contract for carpenter work for an addition to ' the Cleveland Builders' Supply Co. Architect Chas. Pennington' h'as prepared plans for a' five-suite terrace for Anschutz & Hodges. " Architect J. Milton Dyer 'has completed, plans for a handsome stone and brick residence for Loftus Cuddy. Also brick and stone barn. Cost $125,000. Bids are being received. ' Architect G. A. Tenbush has prepared plans for a frame residence for John Stuber. Cost about $7,ODO. Architect M. M. Gleichman has taken bids for the Ma}estic theater to be erected in Erie, Pa. Sealed proposals will be received by Asst. Engineer E. Moser or E. H. Ruffner, 415 Custom House, Cincinnati, 0., until July 15th for 340 barrels of Portland cement to be deliver'ed at Zanesville, O. Bids for Mill street school were opened by the Board of Education Monday evening, and were referred to the building cpmmitte'e. The report is awaited wi.th some uncertainty, as the bids were again in excess of the estimate. Bids submitted by' Michael Heintz included mason work, cut stone work, carpenter work, fireproo,fing, lathing and plastering and c,ement work; :$43,000. Architects Searles & Hirsh have awarded the contracts for the mason work and carpenter work for the Forest City Banking Company. C. M. Griffin, mason work'; Theo. M,ercier, carpenter work. Proposals are being received by Henry Bickle, of this plate, for a three-story b'rick and stone building, 40x65 f~et, preGed bri~k front. Plans were prepared by' Archite<;:~s: Thayer &' Wilson, of Ashtabula. O. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 15 The Cleveland Steam Fitting and Supply Company, are installing the Webster system of heating in the office building 'of the Forest City Machine Works on Gordon avenue, corner of Alger stre'et. They also have the contract for hot water heating at the residences of A. S. Ingalls ang Chas,. Ricks, in Gl('1Jvilk 'ar.d the rf;siltcncl~ oj Harvey A.' Higgins on Bellflo~er avenue. Michael Heintz, has the contract for a residence on Euclid ave ue, cotner of Strathmor, e street, for N; S. Keller. The building will cO,st about $15,000. ' Cleveland, a.-Architect Frank D. Skeel, Cuya:hoga building, has revised plans fO'r the building for the Produce Exchange Bank, to . he erected at the corner ,of Central and Broadway. Building will be mill construction. Bids will be received until July 2rtd. , Cleveland, a. - Architect John Eiseman has awawded the contract fo'r a residence f.or James Pardee, to be erected on the Boulevard, to C. A. Cook. Cleveland, a.-Architect F. W. Striebinger has let the ' contract, fo,r a store building, corner St. Clair and Kirtland streets, to Carl Andres. Building will be brick, two-story, 40x60 feet. Cleveland, a.-Architect W. W. Sabin has let contracts for the store building and fact- o,ry on Euclid avenue and Euclid alley, to W.' H. Warner. Mason work was let to Francis Campbell; carpenter wo,rk.to Younger & Foarmer; plastering to F. C. Martheny; roofing, Nbrton Brothers; sheet metal work, E. H. Towson. Cleveland, a.-Architects. Searles & Hirsh have let the contr,a:ct for the ne-w freight depot for the Electric Package Co'., to Skeel Br,others. Building will be located on Eagle street, near Erie, and extend to' Bolivar street. Cleveland, a.-Sea~ed propo,sals will be rec. eiv~d by the ~l~rkof t~,e Boa'r.d of Education, R'ose, bl11ldmg, ,until noon, July 26'th, for the school furniture for the ,addition to Brandon schoo'ol, Sack,ett, Fruitland, Harvard, Mound and Doan; plumbIng and gas fitting and electric wiring fo'r th.~ gymnasium and retiring rooms at East High school. Clevela,nd, a.-':-'Sealed proposals will bereceived, until July 13th, fO'f the annex to South High schoo,I, by~he Clerk of the Board o,f Educati,on. The buildin'g will co'st about $65,000. Sealed proposals will be received by the oard of Education,. Rose building, for furishing all material and doing all wo,rk necssary to complete the gyrrtnasiumand re' ring r.ooms in the school building ,of East igh. Bids will be received until July 20th. H, W. Kir:tg, of the King Bridge Co., has 'ought all interests in the Pliny Martmerale arm in Kirtland. ;Mr. King will erect a andsome ,residence' and establish a. game , , reserve. . The Thomas Aquinas Catholic congrega, ion will ~rect a $65,000 church on Superior treet, corner Ansel avenue.. ·H. J. Harks, rchitect. , The Anshe J e~ish congregation has aplied for a permit to erect a new synagogue n For,est street. Building will be presse.d rick. Cost $45,0,00. F. Janowitz, architect. Sealed proposals will be received 8Y, the oard of Education, Rose building., _.until uly 20th, for furnishing the school desks nei seats, both stationary and adJastable, ables, settees, teachers' desks and othe~ fur-, iture needed to completely furnish the adition to Sackett and Wdoldridge school , uildings. A large shelter house' will. be erected on he Public Square for the suburban car lines. Architect. Schweinfurth' has prepared plans ,or the Union Club house to be erected on uclid avenue, cornet Muirson street. uilding will cost $'310,000. G. A. Cook has the contract for a fine resdenc, e to be erected on the Boulevard for ames Pardee. The l.uilding will be of rame construction. The pI-ans were preared by Architect J 01111 Eisenmann. Cleveland contrad ·)[s hil ve b'~,~n invited to ubmit proposals for a store and lodge uilding to be' erectc~ci at Chat'dr:n, a., for cnry Bickle. The ~Ialls {r,r ~his building ere prepared by Thayer & \\':~son, archiects, Ashtabula. O. 'The Bankers' Ajdill~ .Machine Company re erecting a new factory on Barrett street lear Detroit street. 'It fill be three stories q ..h and 34x92 feet. ' The Cleveland City Forge Company will, rect two new steel buildings:n addition to he present plant. The contract for, the steel ork has been let to the Garry Iron and teel Company.· ane building' will, be 70"" eet by 200 feet 'and l}-H~' other building will e 70 feet by 120 feet. 16 THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER Akron, o. Akron, O.-Contracts as .fonows have been awarded for the erection of the Kenmore school: J. H. Snyder, of ~berton, secured the co,ntract for all work except that of brick and stone work and heating and ventilating apparatus. Hunt & Wigley were the successful bidders on brick and stone work. Heating and ventilating will be done' by Rohrbacher & Allen. Hunt & Wigley began work on excavating • for the new market house in North Main street. Building will be pushed to compl~tion. The Goodyear Tire and' Rubber Company will add an addition to its mail1 building, to accommodate' more boilers. Salem, o. Salem, a.-The contract for the new Citizens' 'Bank and Trust Company's building vias awarded to ]. C: Divine, of Alli'ance, O. Architect Finley Hutton has prepared plans for the Woodruff foundry. Work will be started at once. Mansfield, O. Mansfield, O.-Architect Reddington is preparing plans for the ere'ction of a kindergarten, Sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Managers of the ahio State Reformatory, Mansfield, a., until July 21st for furnishing all material a'nd labor necessary to construct the east cell and lateral. wing of the building. The contract for the brick and stone work on the new opera 'house was awarded to Mohler & Co. Springfield, o. Springfield, O.-A home for aged Methodists will be erected at tbis place. Cost $40,000. J. S. Lafferty & Sons will erect a fourstory pressed brick business block on East Main street. Cost $15,00-0. Work will be started on the Y. M. C. A. building at once. Elyria, O. Elyria, O.-=-The Sheffield Land Improvement Company will erect several frame buildings to accommodate their men. Buildings will be of cheap c'onstruction. The Reddington Company ,will erect a fine apartment house. Building will, tbe brick, three stories high. The buildit:g' fO,r the Republican Printin~ Company, to be built by' Dr. J,. V; Sa'nipsell, is to be' s'tarted at once.' Building wilf be two stories high, '78x&2. East ~iverpool, o. East Liverpoot a. F. W. Pool will ere,ct two brick, buildings on Carolina' avenue The Electric ~~rcelail~ 'Cotpan~ will add one or two addItIOnal' kilns to theIr plant. Ironton, O. Ironton, O.~Architect Murray IS preparing plans to erect two residences for W. G. Ward on South Fifth avenue. John Dolan will erect a modern r'esidence on South Sixth street. Marion, o. Marion, O.-A brick parsonage WIll' be, erected on the site of the present M. E. parsonage. Building will cost $5,500. Architect ]. ]. Sluan has prepar·ed plans for addition to school building,' sPecial district, Morrell, O. Building will be brick and limestone trimmed, slate roof, slate black board, 'hard plaster, hot air heat. Bids w;ill be re,ceived until July 1st. S. O. Southand, clerk. Barberton, o. Barberton, a.-Provision to bond Barberton . for 40,000 has been carried. Pro,.. vision includes remodeling of high school to accommodate double the number of pupils. Sam Weisberger has purchased the Spral1kl ·e frame block on Tusc>arawas avenue; same will be torn down to make room for a fine four-story block. Lancaster, O. Lancaster, a.-The contract for the Martins block to .be erected at the corner 0.£ Main and Cherry streets wa.s awarded to ]. P. Van Gundy.' Building will be pressed brick, and three stories high. James York, Jr., has purchased a tract of land on Madison avenue, on which he will erect twenty dwellings. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILfJER 17 Lima, O. Lima, a.-Worthen & Son have let conact .r new briCk bloc~ with brown stone ,ont on Tuscarawas avenu-e. Architect G. T. Mills, of Toledo, and C. . Dawson, of Lima, have prepared plans r the new Thompson block, which will be ected at once.' Structure will be modern' every respect. Ashtabula, o. Ashtabula, a.-Architects Thayer & 'Wiln 'are preparing plans for th~ new I>ost-ffice to be erected in, Chardon. ' . The' building-committee is ready to, teeive bids for the proposed building of the hrist Church, 58 Division, street. Cincinnati, O. S. M. & :N. Y. Cooper will erect chree 'wellings. Estimated cost $17,000. Sealed proposals will be received by the oard of Education until July 3d for furishing the necessary labor and materials r engine connections and IIt:W system of nderground returns for the city 'hall, acording to plans and specifications on "file at e said office. Geo., F. 'Holmes,' clerk. The Third German Protestant Church win ect a parsonage. Cost $7,000. Dr. C. R: Holmes will erect an addition to is residence, including, wine, vegetable, ilk, ,kindling, coke and hard coal cellars a , ' ,ew dining room, a, study and playroom, tc. The building will be brick, terra cotta immed. Cost $18,000. Architects Boll & Taylor are preparing lans for a new building for the Guarantee , eposit Company. Work will be started in ugust and finished in January. The Dean, Watterman & Company have urchased the Covington Foundry plant. arne will be greatly enlarged.' A business block will be erected by' E. M. ucklo for a millinery concern on State ave-ue. Cost ,$6,000. Geo. Shorr will erect a three and one-half tory residence on Wade street. Cost .7,m, Columbus, o. Architect J. S. Wooleott is preparing plans or a hotel to be erected by Dr. H. U. Barlour on East Broad' street. Cost about 1120,000. Architect Frank L. Packard is prepadng. .lans for a resi-dence .for J. F.' Kooke Cam- ,ridge, a~ . , Architect W. T. Mills has prepar·ed plans for a 12-room dwelling for R. H. Kellogg, Delaware, a. Cost $6,500. Architects Hanford & Son have completed plans for a residence for Ex-Governor Bushnell, Springfield, a. Structure will 'be five stories high. Architects Richards, ,McCarty' & Bulford are preparing plans for a modern fireproof auditorium and office. building to be erected ·at New .Bremen, ,'0., for H. M. Shelhoner. Brick. Architect Lord, and Scuiptor Neal are preparing plans for the McKinley arch. Denton Bros. will' erect eight· brick flats . on . cWest Mound street. Each will, cost $2,5~. .' Architect Wilbur T. Mills is preparing plans for a handsome residence for W. F. Brown, of the Columbus ·Millo, and, :¥ining Supply Company. Building will ,be light brick, trimmed with Bedford limestone. Ti.!'e roof and lighted 'with electricity. 'An auditorium capable of seating 5,000 people will be built in Columbus in connection with the Franklin county memorial building. Will advertise for bid~ shQrtly. Se,aled proposals will be' received by the Bo·ard of Public Service until July 17th for performing of labor and' furnishing the nec~ ssary materiai, to erect a connecting buildmg between the cell block and the present ~ain building, with the necessary connectmg walls, etc., andSltch additions' and alterations in the present building of the Columbus workhouse, and heating and ventilating of the cell block,' according to plans and specifications on file at the ·office of Architect F. L. Packard: Chas. H. Frank, Secretary. The Sun Manufacturing Company will erect a factory building. Struc;ture will cost $30,000. Youngstown, o. . Youngstown, a.-A. F. Judd architect has prepared plans for a r~siden'ce f~r Ma~ Schagvin; cement ,stone, plate glass,steam heat. Cost $25,000. Bids will be received until July 15th. ' .Architect A.. F. Judd has prepared' plans for remodeling a block for, Max S~hagYin; blue stone, st'eel beams, plate glass steam heat. Cost $3,000. ' , Architect A. F. Judd has prepar.ed plans for two residences for J. F. ,Cemtwell; frame slate roof, art glass, hot air heat. Cos~ $5,500. 1-8 THE. OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDBR Architect A. F. Judd has prepared plans for a residence for C. J. Ewing; frame, slate roof, art glass, briCk and wood mantel, hot w.ater heat.. Bids will be received until July 15th. Cost $14,000. Architect E. R. Thompson has: prepared plans for a school building at Waynesburg, Pa.; pressed brick, local stone, slate roof, floor tiling,' plate glass, hot air heat. Bids will be received until July 18th. Cost $3{),000. The Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company will erect a brick office on Division street. Mrs. Gene Hadley Kerr will erect a dwell-ing on Cleveland street. Cost $14,000. .' Jos. Wess, of Avon Park, has awarded the contract for a large dancing pavilion. Work will be started at once. Toledo, O. 1'01000, a.-s. W. Cook will erect a new block on Front' st~eet. Building will be three .stories high. Architect Diebold is preparing plans for a modern two-story residence for J. Hoover. Cost$4,Q09. ' The ENngelical Lutheran Church will have a ri,ew building. Plans have been pre-pared by a Ft. Wayne architect. , -04 Architects Tschumy & Co. have completed plans for a modern two-story residence for Mr. Kachenmeister, to be built on Langdon street. Contract has been awarded to atto Ruch. Cost $3,000. Architect Matz has preparea plans for a warehouse for the United States Pump & Supply Co. Dan J. Crowley has purchased the Greer farm, on which he will erect a club house. Cost $5,000. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R. R. depot will be replaced with a fine' modern building. John Mitchell will erect a building on Summit street. Cost $15,000. Architect Louis W~lker has completed plans for three re~i'dences for E. Umbstaetter to 'be erected ,on Parkwoodavenue: Estimated cost '$18;000. Portsmoutb, '0., Portsmouth, a.-Dr. H. Schirmann will erect an office building on . West . Eighth street. Sam Johnson ,will erect a two-story bdck " residence on West Second street. Miscellaneous. Norwalk, a.-Architect Frank L. P.ackard of Columbus has prepared plans fo'r the new li1:>rary. Work wilt' be started $hortiY. Ludlow, a.---.Plans have been prepared for St. James church. Structure will be brick, stone trimm'ed. Estimated, cost $30,000. Ch,ardon, a.--:-Ground has been broken for the, new postoffice. Building will be ,40x50 feet, and three stories high. . Milford, a.-The' Miami ,Township Board of Education has decided to erect a new schoolhouse on Pleasant Hill. Work will be started at once. Greenwich, a.-Architects Ballinger,' Parrot & Watts, of Cleveland, ,have prepared plans for a large factory for the United Cer,eal Co. Estimates are being received for the work. Cost $15,{)OO. B,ellevue, a.-The Ries homestead on ~ast Main street has been purchased; same will be torn down and a library erected. New Albany, a.---:Sealed proposals will: be received by the clerk of Plain township, Frankfin county,' 0., .at, the clerk's' of.fice, New Albany; until July 15th, for furnishing material and labor for erecting a three-room 'school building. H. L. Souder, clerk. ' Kent, a.-Architect Ginther, of Aklon, is preparing plans for a large addition to ,St. Patrick's churc'h, Dayton, a.-:-Contract for the erection of the $50,000 barracks has been awatded to H. Turvene. Work will be started at once. Granger, a.-Bids will be received for the erection of a <school house until July 11th. E. B.' Underwood, Pres.; P. A. Averill, Clerk. . Paulding, a.-The Paulding Luther·an .Church will h;fve a new home, to be erected on Jackson street. Cost $8,000. London, a.-Mrs. Lucy Beach will erect a new residence on, the site of her present one. A Columbus' architect is preparing the . plans. Sandusky, a.-The Cleveland-Sandusky Brewing Company will erect two buildings at,the 'Stang plant. Jackson, a.-Architects Richards, Mc.- , \ Cart:r & Bulford, of, Columbus, have pre-pared plans for a warehouse for Eldridge & . Higgins Co. 'Bowling Green, a.-Geo.. W. MQs~rwill erect another business 'block on Main street. THE OHIU AKcrllTECT AND BUILDER Greenville, a.-Contract for building Ansonia's new school building has been awarded to a. ]. Hager, of Muncie, Ind. The structure will be pressed brick, and work will be started at once.' Lorain, a.-The Lorain & Elyria Ice Co, will erect anew building at this place. Building will be red brick with white trimmings.. Bids for this building have been submitted, Bucyrus, a.-The Shunk Plow Co. ~ill build a new factory in South Bucyrus, a. Columbus, a.-Architect H. Chas. Jones has prepared a revised set ,of plans' for a two'story factory building, for the Harp, 0., Chord' Co. Building wi11 be comJllon stone, composition roof, washstands, water closets and elevator. Xenia, a.-The trustees of the Cedarville College have decided to erect a dormit-Qry for women, which will be e'rected this fall. CO'st~ $10,000. ' Ea'st ,Liverpool, a.-Dr. M. W. Taylor and J. M. Buckle are having three new dwellings ere-ctedon 'Maple street. J,B. Martin, contract- or. ,E!~)hart, Ind.-F,iJty thousand dollars will be ~ent in improving the court house. 'Cleveland, a.-Archit,ect Levi T. Scofield has been engaged to plan the propos,ed Y. W. C. A. building, on 'the s'outheast corner of Huntington and Prospect' streets. Cincinnati, a.-Architect' Kunz, Jr., has 'prepared plans for a modern, $50,000 fla't building, on Woodburn avenue. Building will bepress,ed brick and cut s~tone, with marble stair-case, mosaic tile floors and red tile roof. Will contain' 97 rooms. Niles, a,-Plans are' being prepared by the architect of the V er~ad> Amusement Company for the new opera house, to be erected in this city. Ashtabula, a,-Ground has been broke'n for the new bank building, to be erected on Main street. East Palestine, a.-Contract for the First National bank building, of Columbiana, has been awarded to J. c. Devine, of Alliance, a. Salem, a.-E. c. Votaw and W. A. Tetlow will build a slaughter-house, on the site of the one recently destroyed byfire.. Dayton, a.-A,lI bids for new bllilding at State Hospital were rejected. Will readvertise soon. Steubenville, a.-Barney McCann has rchased the Wannead'ier property, on hich he will erect a building with flats. New Lexington, a.-The contrad for the ew bank building in Crooksville has been warded to W. A. Showers & Co. Cost 13,780., , Lorain, a.-Extensive additions and im-. fovements will be made to £t. Joseph's ospital in this city. Lorain; a.-Architect H., a., Wurrr.t.ser has repared plans for a residence for Wm. acobs; slate roof, door hangers" tiling for antel, hard plaster, gas and electric ,fix-ures, D. S.and ornamental glass, porch colmns, bath tub, washstand, water closet, hot ater heat. Cost $4,500. . Toledo, a.-s~ V..,r. Co'ok will etect a new 'lock on Front street. Building will ·be three tories high. Detroit, Mich.-Bids will be r,eceived by he Board ,o,f ,Trustees of the Upper Peninula Hospital fo'r the Insane, untiJ July' 15th, or theerectlon and cqmpletion of three ,uildings, also heating of same. New Castle, Pa.-Work will be started ithin thirty days 0'11 the L. E. & W: R. It tation. Hamilton, a.-:-The cont'ract for 'erecting an ddition to the Mercy Hospital was ,awarded ,0 H. Harig & Co., of Cincinnati. Cost, !J7,300. Toledo, a.-Harry J. Spieker & Co. have ecured the contract for the erection (If the ercantile building, for J. A. Thompson Co., ,f Lima. Cost, $50,000. Bucyrus, a.-Dr. H. H. Smith will erect n addition to the building ,occupi.ed by urtemburger & Co. Contract will be le~ n a few days. Columbus, a.-The Sun Manufacturing Co. illerect a brick facto,ry. Building will cost 30,000. Barberton, a.-A $40;000 'school building iJ! be erected at this place. Youngstown, a.-Miss Kate Arms will uild a fine residence, costing $20,000. Archi-ect, Herman 'F. Kling. ' Youngstown, a. - Architect Herman F. ling is preparing plans for a' haI1dsome resience for W. J. Sampson'. Cleveland, a.-c. B. Lewis, engine,er for ~wo steel buildings for the Clevdand City Forge Co. Contract f.or steel work was let ' to The GaJrry Ir,on" & Steel .co'., Building will be 7Ox200 ft., ,and 70x120 ft., 20 THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER Cementing Gallery Floor-Total Thickness of Floor 5 inches-Breaking Load 3,000 Lbs. per Square Foot Uniformly Distributed- Floor BeaDls 5 feet c to' c. Ferroinclave Its Origin, Purpose and Where it is Made "Necessity is the mother of invention." Misfortune and calamity ,often bring fo'rth the latent energies, resulting in greater achi'evement than uninterrupted pro,sperity begets. The primary reason why the new fireproof construction named ferroinc1ave has been invented and placed upon the market by ,The Brown Ho,isting Machinery Co.. is to be found in the phrase above asserted. The necessity caused by the disastr.ous fire that nearly wiped out this great plant three yeaTs ago arous~ the inventiveness of Mr. Alexander Brown, who went tal work to originate a cheap and light fireproiof building material to be used a,S walls, roofs, floors, etc., oJ the new buildings. A .steel reinforced concrete construction he considered to. be the best adapted for this purpose. All the systems upon the market had faults which rendered them undesirable. A machine wa's then designed for the manufacture ,of a stiff reinfo,rcing material, which has s·ince been named Ferroinc1a,ve. Ferroinc1ave is made o,f No. 24 sheet metal, bent in .alternating Z angles forming do·vetails. E'ach she'et is so made that ·it will shingle into the sheet above it and down over the sheet below it, and also lap sidewise, so that when laid upon the purlins of a building to form the roof, it has at a distance the appearanc'e of ordina:ry co,rrugated iron coated with black paint. Po'rtland cement mixed with sand is then applied t.o both the upper and lower sides, making a total thickness of 1 1-4 inches. The weight of this co,tnpleted roof o,r wall is then 15 pounds per sqaaire fnot, and it is suffiCIently strong to sustain five or six times the greatest snow lo,ad tha,t would ever be put upon it. It is safe to' say that ,the low c,ost\ and ease of handling this material will make it of the widest usefulness. The standard sheets are ma:de 20 inche·s wide and 10 inches long. They are readily bent into any shape desired for ridges, saddles, gutt'ers, cornices' and other ornamental work, a·s is demon- THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 21 'Laying Ferroinclave Upon North End of Main Shop. coils of pipe, through which is passed the exhaust steam from the engines at the power house, A blower by the side of each one of these heaters forces the air thus heated through great pipes which run the length o,f the buildinJ:!. and from which branches pass to each of the steel co,lumns which suppo-rot the roof. This distributes the heat evenly through the building and makes a perfect ven'tilating system. The typical interior feature which governs the height of the central se.ction of the building are the immens-e traveling cranes made by the company. Steel columns in rows, 71 feet on centers in o-ne direction by 38 feet 6 inches centers in the other, form seven bays, in each of which runs a- traveling crane, spaJl1ning abo,ut 70 feet. There are f.our 20ton cranes and three 30-ton cranes, each 'with thre-e hooks, so- that they may pick up three loads at once. The entire plarit is run by electricity generated at the power house near by. The power. house is 42 f.eet by 231 feet. Not a foot of w90d is found anywhere in this building. The steel window sash and ail I other portions of the building are made out of ordinary commercial section~. The doors are all of steel. IIi addition t,o the Ferro-inclave walls and" ro-of, -a, very noticeable application of this malt'erial is the elevated coal bin. This is suppo-rted by a number of steel straps spaced about 5 trated on the new shop buildings. It is sed almost exclusively for roofing and ooring over galleries, pits, tunnels, etc., hroughout the plant. These are the first 1,aJ!1ufacturing buildings' in the country to o demomtrate the new construction of conrete steel, which in various forms of aplication is destined to eventually revolu-ionize building. The main building is an imposing s,rucure 312x500 feet. The central span and ofty arch is 90 feet 'in height. It greatly esembles Machinery Hall at the World's air, -and seems more like a grand exhibit han a practical plant, until its systematic ,orkings are noticed. This building, with ,ts interior entirely of cement, relieved by n enormous area of skylight and an im1ens- e number .of fireproof windows made ith steel sash, presents an unusual ,arppearnce. , A noticeable test of the Ferroinclave Co-,ltructi- on in th1s vast interior is the gallery O,or at one end. This floor is made of Feroinclave coa'ted with 4 inches of concrete, upported by 15-inch I beams, spaced 5 feet part. This Hoor hals a strength o-f 5,000 pounds per square foot. Noticeable features of this building are' the heating arrangements. At the further end -of the building are four circular pits about 30 feet in diameter. In each of the~~ is a heater contJalining 22 THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER Ferroinclave Stair Treads and Part;ition i~ Pattern Shop-Ferroiuclave is Being Laid. feet 0-11' centers and bent into the shape of a parabola. Upon these straps -are placed the sheets of Ferroinclave, which are then co-ated with concrete all' both sides, making the total thickness about 5 inches at the bot-tom. It is about 18 feet deep and will hold about 1,000 tons of coal. From the boHom of this, six chutes with sliding steel doors ca,rry the coal automatically to each boiler. The coal is loaded into the bin by a grab bucket, which takes the coal from the cars and distributes it at any desired point in the 1M-feet length. This dr,opping of the co-al into the bin is the supreme test of the strength of the Ferroinclave material. After the coal has been burned to, an ash upon the chain grate stokers it falls into- buckets setting in a tunnel underneath. When these buckets are full they are run upon a small car, which takes them through a main tunnel to the end o-f the power house near the railroad tracks. Here the bucket is hoisted by an electric crane and the ashes are dumped into a storage bin, where they remain until there are sufficient on hand to make a car load. A car is then pushed underneath this bin a1nd a door in the bottom is opened, permitting the ashes to fall into the car. The construction of the ash binis very similar to the co,al bin. The tunnels are made with concrete walls and Ferroinclave roof. . In the whole system of 11andling coal and ashes no shoveling is required. All the operations, save the rolling of the ash-car from the boilers to the main tunnel track, are electrical and mechanical. The tunnel its'elf is a splendid piece of underground concrete construction, even the stairway down to it being of the Ferroinclave and cement. Leaving the power house ·one comes to- the temporary building where the Feno-incI.alVe is made. Immense quantities of sheet steel are stored not far from th·e machines. so there may be no delay in the manufacture. The crimping of the sheet steel is done in two operations. In the first a number of immense steel dies come down ,o,ne by. '0one and press the sheet into a canopy-shaped section. In the second mad1ine one single heavy die pushes down the peak of the canopy and thus- pro-duces the final shape. The output of one set of machines will produce upwards of 100 squares of roofing per day. Other machines cut the she'ets and bend them to fit differ,ent portions of the buildings upon which they are to be used. Each s~eet is numbered, and an erection dra1wing is sent' to the customer, so that he may know upon which portion o-f his building each s'heet is to be placed. This part of the plailt at present occupies a temporary building, as it is a new depa.rtment of the business which has . grown more rapidly thClin was anticipated. It is expected that in the near future a new THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER South-East Corner of Main Shop. Shows Cementing. Scaffolds , Which Run on Wheels. ~3 building will be constructed for this department. Of co,urse it will be constructed of Ferroinclave, anditf all probability, like the' problem achieved all through the new pJant. and stili evident in a pictures,que way both in' the main building :a:nd in the power hous,e, the new building will be ,erecte'd over the, old one without disturbing the running of the machines inside at any tim'e. Inquiries and o.rders f:r Ferro,inc1ave are coming in from all over the country, thus far without promotion on the part of the company, Its use in' the plant has been the only publicity and argument, and that this is conclusive is shown by the proportions its maJDufacture is already assuming and the orders that are already piling up. While the Ferroinclave was being applied to these buildings, visiting 'engineers, and practical men from other manufa!Cturing establishments were so impressed by it that they determined to adopt it for their Own building projects as SOon as it showed successful application In this plant. They were early in the field to o.rder the material fo,r their own use as soon as the Br,own plant could produce it faster than needed for the immense area on its Own buildings. It is thus now fairly launched commercially, yet without any gen-eral exploitation whatever, a natural growth, one of the most vaiuable kind. '. Continuing through the plant, an instClince is next shown of a ,s'e~i~firepro.of· construction. This is the pattern shop.' In this bi1ilding it is necessary that the workmen have wo·o,den flo,ors to which they may nail their wo,od templ'ets and patte'rns. Thus, as it was inevitable that the floor should be of inflammable material, the only precautions that c~uld be ad:opted against fire were to, so arrange the building that one floor should be isolat'ed from another by a fireproo.f ceiling between', The fle,olrs are supported by I beams, across the lower flanges o,f which the Ferroinc1aye sheets a!r,e laid and cement' ed. On the' top ,of the I beams are placed wooden nailing strips carrying a matched wo,oden Hoo·ring. The stairways' are made of Ferroinc1ave bent to ,the pr,oper shape and coated 'with 1 1-4 inches of conc~ete on the upper side, making a surprisingly light, economical stair and one sufficiently str.ong to support the grea,test load which might be applied. This kind 0'£ stair tread can be con- . strLJcted without ;;;-y wooden false work or mould whatever, as the stair is shaped like the finished stair. 'Other ste'el and concrete stairs de:nand steel )rods for reinforc,ements' and the use of temp-o,rary wooden moulds. North End of Main Shop-Ferr ly Cemented,.But Not Yet Painted. _11 South ·End of.Main Shop Building. Shows Ferroinclave Walls Cemented, but not Painted. Also Shows structural Work Being Erected Over Old Shop Buildings. THE OHIO ARCHITECT' AND BUILDER Eaves of Main Roof. Shows Ferroinclave Roof and Gutter Sheets Before Cementing. The pattern storage vaults are a decided innovation. A brick building 60 ft. by 180 ft. and 42 ft. in height is divided into six rooms, by five 19-inch brick walls, 'which support a Ferroinclave r'oo·f. The problem is to house the thousands o,f valuable patterns in a way to take up as little grol;lnd area as possible, and to have the maximum safety against fire. Hence, the' immense height of the rack and the division into separate fire-proof ro,oms. The racks are reached by a special crane, electrically operated by the man in search of the paHerns. This system is considered cheaper and betieT than a system 'of· stair-cases with. galleries. The large capacity in each division will thus be seen, and it is also appa,rent that if the patterns in one divisio·n should catch fire, from {ny cause, only those in that ro,om could b\.~n, the other division being safe; Ferroinclave doors are here a feature. No theoretical reas'on exists why this building could net have been malde of the Ferroinclave ccnstruction fer its walls, save that the Camp.any had the bricks left over from te·aring. down old buildings and had to use them somewhere. The whole impression of the rebuilt BrowI') plant is that no finer example of a new in-dust rial a'rchitecture has yet' appeared. 'The advanced system of power transmission shown in the useo,f the ho'ists and tr,aveling. cranes typical of the industry, and in the application of electric po,wer to everything is almost balanced in importance and rank) in the novelty of the applicatio1n of Ferroinclave. There is every evidence that the plant is a model ol1'e in every way. The evidence of a large-minded conception of industrial problems is every~here apparent. The thirteen hundred e,mployees appear to be a superior, contented and capable force of men, working as they do under the best industrial and sanitary conditions.. The office building, a fOuf-story brick structure, with its staff of one hundred and seventy-five, including the immense drafting force, reveals part of the system, making fo'r the contentment and betterment of the employees. The third flo'or is devoted to ,a library and lunch room, where the office force and heads of depa-rtments meet at 11'00'11. Pleasant entertainments· are given in these two ro·oms from time to time, and the·re is every evidence of endeavoring to maKe of the operatives and officers as united a body as possible. Cementing Upper Side of Ferroinclave Roof. N 00 ...., ~ t1'1 a:r: ........ a ~ ~ \) ::r: ........ t;i \) """l :i. ~ t:x:l c:: t::: tl .tl;':1;;, THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDFJ? Coal Bin in Power House Showing Supporting Straps and Ferroinclave Partly Laid, But Not Yet Cemented. Coal Bin at Power House. View of Chute Underneath, Used to Convey Coal from Bin to Hopper in Front of Boiler. THE OHIO ARCHIT1ICT AND BUILDER Standard Ferroinclave Sheet Bent .to go over a Ridge. Ferroinclave Roof with Load of 60 Lbs. Per Square Foot Before Fire Test. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 31 \ -------------------- Section of Ferroinclave Gutter. Ferroinclave Roof During Fire Test of Three-Quarters of an Houf'. No Injury to Roof, Although Brick Were, Burned by Flames Which Curled Around the Edges.' 32 THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER Solvay Process Co.- Bulk Soda Store House-Completing the Caying of the Ferroinclave. Solvay Process Co. - Bulk Soda Store House-Under Side of Roof Before Cementing. AMONG THE CEMENTER-S Geo. Rackle The Artificial Stone Pioneer Ow that the' age of artificial stone and cement products has fairly come and seems almost destined to attain such supremacy as to revolutionize building practice, it is well" worth noting the one who is the pioneer in Cleveland, and doubtless in all Ohio in introducing this material. The first ~1an in any field has to be more or. less of a martyr to his beliefs. Because he" is ahead of his time, he ha,s to wait and work patiently unti,] the world catches up with him. By the time it is ready to appreciate and to reward him it is frequently too late, or his deserts have" ?een lost sight of in favor of later comers mto the field, who reap the harvest where they have not sawn the seed. George Rackle, WflO began making artificial stone in Cleveland thirty years ago, and who has clearly proven to be the first man in this field by many years, is going to get his reward and recognition late enough, but not too ... late. The opening of the spacious tvyo-story brick building, corner of Superior and Rossiter streets, within the next few days, will signalize the wider field and more solid prosperity which the firm of Geo. Rackle & Son bflve logically won for" themselves. This building is ninety feet front on Superior street and one hundred and seventyfive feet deep on Rossiter street. One of Mr. Rackle's typical products is imitation brown stone, which is used for the trimmings. The entire building, curiously 34 THE QHIO -ARCHITECT AND BVfLDEN enough, would have been made of artificial. stone, had not the need for the larger plant caused the adoption of· brick, which it was thought could be quicker built; as Mr. RackIe's contracts were calling. for more. artificial stone than he could supply, with the area of his pr~sent works, at No. 85 Davenport stre~t. In the end it proved that -the brick, because of labor troubles of the brickmakers, was the slo'west construcHon -of alL Hence, the firm's delay in occupying their new building, which they have needed greatly. Here all the casting will be done ·on the. lower floor, and the lighter work, su~h as modeling and pattern-making, will be don~ up stairs, where also the o,ffites will be situ-ated. ' It is an enviable test, which, Mr. Rackle peculiarly enj oys, that the enduring qual~ties of his artificial stone are shown, by reason of the age of the samples of his work, to. be found in many Cleveland buildings. Mr. Rackle came from GermilI1y thirty-five years ago, bringing wi.th him a knowledge 'of sculpture and craftsmanship in, stdne 'and in cement. Something had been done .in Germany, . in a quiet way, wi,th artificial stone, and with that process Mr. Rackle was acquainted. Coming to this country,' he. worked in marble and stone in various cities in Ohio, and finaHy came to Cleveland. His artistic work in stone-cutting was naturally, his most substantial liveliho,O'<i,as his experiments in trying to persuade architects to use the artificial stone he made then, met with little success. '. It took' him years to persuade them to- a point where their prejudice and' conservatism and the lack ,of general knowledge 'of the new materil;ll enabled him to get much -business. During his career" Mr. Rackle has patiently permitted himself to resume his artistic work in marble and stone whep the artificial stone demand could I not be stifriu;lated. The disappointments .he has hid in placing his product,when ready to supply it at half the cost of natural· stone; are the lot of the piopeer. At one time, with an En:glish. gromoter, he ende'avored to'organize ,a large company and tohave architects;. and' builders take stock, in it, to put the business ,op a proper footing. ,After a month's' negotiations. Mr.. Rackle asserts that the quarry interests sufficiently coincid,ed with those of' architects and contractors, so that those who had promised - did not appear to form the company. Mr. Rackle. continued· in' his own way to let his work speak for itself. Artificial stone was first placed by· him in Cleveland, in the capitals for the porches of the W'oods' residence, on Euclid avenue near Perry, which still stands. The Schiele block, . at the ~orn'er of St. Clair '-andeanfield streets, .shows' artificial stone of this period made by him.. The ornamental wo'rk, consisting of spandrels, eagles ah1d friezes, on the Bond street front o~' the Masonic T.~mpie s~o~s how' Mr. Rackle has been placmg artlfi.clal . stone w.ith natur~l s,tone,'a'nd imitating it in color and texture so that ~he difference is never suspected. This prob~em has resulted in his attaining. proficiency in coloring artificial stone' to fit any natural· stone near which it is placed, and to imitate anything for which it may be' substituted. His greatest artistic triumph perhaps in this line are the artificial stone lions, fftur in number, holding shields, on the JewiJn Orphan Asylum.' This work, done fifteen years ago, has s,ingularly escaped 'attention, and it has' generally p~ssed for stone carving.- The freize on th~ Ellington apartment house, and ,the. trimmings of. the Sheriff Street Market House ate from Mr. Rackle's works. About five years ago architects awoke to the importance and economy of this pr,oduct, and since then Mr. Rackle has had all, that he can' do. .He receive,,d one large order, about five years ago, from an 'architect to whom the stone-cutters were charging prohibitive prices for personal reasons, and that was the turning point of prosperity with him. The Hough A'venue Reformed church' and the DeKlyn apartment house, at Euclid and Dorchester, Were large contracts for h~mat this time. He has had an especial run of his brown stone imitation for apartment house work since then. When seen at his factory he was busy with the artistic details of a mO'l1'Id,ing, to be used for a door-way; for' these qit,s' of art are still reserved for his .p.ersonal touch. Mr. Rackle has methods of his own 'whicij he has persistently maintained in. making his -pro'duct; a modification of the German sysfern he learnt. Wanted-A .second~hand. chaser, about four feet in diameter, in first-class ,~o·ndition. State price." ,Address, '(OHIASER,'" ,care care Rock P~oducts. In the language of Ezra Kendall, Now what do you' think of that? THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER, 35 Have Been Unfairly. Treated Referring to your mention of our rouble with bricklayers, will say that when 'e first began the manufacture of our . rtificiat stone we propos~d 'to the 'brickayers that they lay it, which. they at first efused to do, but finally agreed to. They hen .reconsidered, refused to have anything ~o do with it, and tried to interest all other UI~ions in the city to boy·cott us. This move failed. No ·other union would join' them. They are now standing alone, and we have decided to ignore them entirely. If (as experience has proven) artificial building stone is a success, no union on the face, of the earth can stop its ·progress. While if it is a failure' it will fall of itself, hence no union need worry over the problem. We had rather our home men should work our product, but their stand has' ·forced us to bring in masons from other towns. We do not propose to have any union say whether or not we shall do business.-Spayd & Bennett, manufacturers of artificial building stone, Owensboro, Ky., to Rock Products. There is one point in the matter of this cry for increased wages all along the line of rock' products from the Quarry to the finished structure, that does not seem to have come in for the consideratIOn It should 'by either side, but which \yill' likely make itself felt before the season is over, and that is the increase in cost to ·the man who builds. When lumber of all kinds went up it caused a turning to the harder and more durable building , material in excess of what would have been had there been nothing but a .desire for more lasting structures as an inducement, which, added' to the natural desire to build better, made last year an exceptionally good one in v61ume of consumption of' rock products. The year, however, while it brought fair returns to the trade in general, was one in which the profit margin .wa's small in many lines, so·-that producers in these lines naturally felt 'called on to muve prices up a notch this' year and get a pro,fit return' in keeping with, the busine'ss activity of the building world. Then, no sooner did signs of prosperity show themselves, than the men who help 'produce the material felt that they, too, ought to have part of the pie, and that an additional sum should be tacked on the selling price of the material to give them a fair share of prosperity in the way -of increased wages. Meantime, the men who put the material into t~e buildings began to clamor for a larger slice of prosperity in the same way, with the result that before the building season is even fairly opened up the increased cost of building with rock products has wiped out any prestige gained on account of the increased cost of building with lumberand still the clamor for more wages ,goes on. Nor does the effect of this' increased cost of building end with the wiping ont of the advantage gained by the' higher cost, of lumber; in fact, that is only the beginning- the end means less builaing, less work aU along the line, and a smaller consumption of mate¥,ial than we might expect under mor~ fav9~able circumstances. This fact is already making itself felt in various ,w.ays and at m~1J-b p.oints, and if it is, not gIVen due conslderatlOn by both workmen and employers the result may be a smothering of promised prosperity to such a degree as to pra-ctically wipe out all promised gain. -Rock Products. Uses of Slag Cement That there is nothing new under the sun is well shown .in the recent use of cement fOT construction, made' from blast furnace slag, the former refuse in iron working. This is all' adoption of the lesson ,learnt from examination 0.£ the natural lava produced in volcanic action, as b~st shown m the buried cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. That lava is the prototype of the artificial product of molten iron refuse 0.£ today. While molten it is combined with water, aud thus suddenly solidified in fine grains into slag cement. Varied and widening usefulness of . this product is the result. A pioneer ,in this- field ·is the Brier Hill , Ir.on & Coal Co., whose wo'rks are situated at Youngstown, O. A visit to their plant shows the process 'of making their peculiar cement; the extensive application of it in their works, and. being well wO'rth the investigation of building men. This company began -the- manufacture of cement fr'om blast furnace slag in: 1898. In four full seasons their records and correspondence attests -that it ·is now entitled to a recognized pos.ition am<:mg American -or imported cements for certain work. Using the term Portland cement, at first, in 1900, the United States Government reported tha,t it was not str.ictly entitled to that name. It gave, on -the ,other hand, a recognized stand- Application of Puzzolan or Slag Cement to Tunnel for Brook on Jamestown & Chautauqua Ry. Furnished by Brier Hill Coal & Iron Co., Youngstown. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 37 ng to it under the name of Puzzolan, and he company now call their product, Brier ill puzzolan cement. The United States oa~d of Engineers, in this report, said: "puzzolan cement never becomes ex'treme-y hard, like P.ortland; but puzzo'lan mortars nd concrete are tougher or less br,ittle than ortland. .The cement is well adapted '. for Ise in s'ea water and generarIy in all posiions where constantly exposed to moisture, such as in foundatio'ns. of buildings, sewers and dr,ains and undergr'ound work generally, nd the interior of heavy m'asse's 6f masonry or concrete." , The origin 6f this term is, interesting. The name is that ·of 'a town in Italy, where /the old Roman cement, famous fur its enduring qualities, was especially investigated. Its composition of lava and lime, from the materials the volcanic action· had supplied, has led to the designation for the slag cement of today. The slag is released from the bottom of the furnaces and runs down in sand fissures into a pit of water over .a spr~y, where, as it descends, ·it is cool:ed and mixed with the drops of water. Thus disintegrated and cooled suddenly, it is given hydraulic properties and It,;oks ltke fine sand. Oldtime lava was hard when run into water. The artificial type With the spray ,accomptishes the practical. results nature hinted at,.Lnd the Romans somewhat attained in a' different way. Great quantities can .be made in this way, and the process is so inexpensive and simple as to cause surpris,e. The simple devices regulate the water and draw off the cement, when precipitated in sufficient quantity. Throughout the works this .cement has been made into concrete c·onstruct.ioll for foundations for machines and engines, and has been fouD-d to stand ,the vibrations incident to this duty.. It has been used for retaining :vaJls and archways, and' two' .factory build, ngs are being <:onstructed of the artificial stone blocks, into which it is pressed. It .is no,t recommended for sidewalk work' wearing, surfaces of pavements o·r for work requiring a quick setting c.em:nt, but is. endorsed for concrete, masonry, or br,ick work purposes, such as retail1'ing walls, has'e for pavements, sewers and underground works. Extensive scientific· tests for the new sewer system in New Orleans were highly favor~ble ~o this Puzzolan cement. Out of fifty brands Its tensile strength showed 'above the average; its sand tests' s'howed especia:Ily well. Bridges and sewers, pav.ing base, foundations, such as the Dollar Savings. Bank build.: ing, show this product in Youngstown, and it is forming an increasing part of the output of this company. The accompany.ing 'cut is from the catalogue of the company, '~hich shows many other useS in which it is being applied. Organizedlahor is amole~ule.A<:cording to its views it is ~ncapable of segregati~n. Unlike other organIsms of the same species, it is not susceptible to comparative values. This' strong point in unionisin is .its weakest. This is due to a mistaken. 'conception of the basic principle of value. From a union view point the wage-earner admits no distinction between competence and incompetence. A carpenter, a bricklayer.or a plasterer, who is capable of doing more work and better than a less capable craftsman is, according to the uni011 principle, of no more value than his inferior workl~an. This theory, which other labor unions seek to have admitted to practice, is the stumbling block between employing capital and wage-earning labor. A horse is a horse, but no one of ordinary common sense woufd advance the argument that one horse is as good as another. The distinction might be carried through an infinity of comparisons. The workman of brains, ambition and a' proper conception of relative values underrates himself and does himself an Injustice whe~ he tries to elevate 'his inferior in skill and capacity for work to his own level. The sooner workmen of every trade come to a realization of this, the sooner will the friction between employer and employe be· removed. Unionism and its principles are all right when properly construed and practiced, but all the principles in creation cannot equalize values where no equalization exists. From The· Ar,chitects' and ,Builders' Journal, Baltimore. Cleveland, O.-Architects E. Miller & Lo. have let contra'Cts for stoTe and apartment building, corner, E. M.adison and Superio·r, for Miss Anna Pickel. Mason work to Rotherbecker . Brothers; carpent,er wo·rk to KrugBrothers. Cleveland, O.-The following low bids fOr alterations at South High scho'ol were submitted to the Bo'ard of Education: Mas,on work, carp·enter. plastering, painting g'lass ~nd glazing, ~ichael Heintz, $3,499; 'plumbmg, T. J. Smith. $l80.0D; heatin.g, B.a:rtlett Brothers, Webster system, $8,949. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER Glass Faced Brick Another industry is being started in Cleveland in the way of glass cement brick. (Notice I call them cement brick, not mortar br:ick). These are to take the place of enameled clay brick. The face of the brick are of glass; of any color desired, while the body is of sand and Portland cement. These brick show up well and are claimed to be equal if not better than the genuine enameled. brick, as no crazing can take plac·e in the solid glass. . They have a problem to solve, however, in making these brick. However, with proper machinery, these brick could be put in the market at ,Very low figures, the pro-' moters claim. 'Some. serious difficulties -have. to be overcome befo,re these can be made with speed and correctness. . Cement adheres firmly to 'glass and can be used in different consistencies as to moisture. It can' be as dryas the clay for so, called dry~press brick machines and compressed with a machine and make good brick. Alas! unless the glass face is perfectly straight, the pressure cracks it, even with a cushion of felt beneath. When moulded with a soft mixture, this danger is not encountered and the brickar'e strong and round. The drawback, howeve'r, is that they have to be left in the moulds to" set and harden for nearly one, day. Then again, the moulds have to be s,ectional, so that each part can be lifted away from the brick, as pushing them out of the moulds is out of the question. This would make a large outlay for expensive moulds, which would have to be of brass. T'hey will find that a middle course as to moistur,e will have to be adopted, with specially designed machinery.-Observer in The Clay Worker. July I.-Sealed proposals will be r,eceived at this.. office until 3 o'clock p. m. on the 12-th day of August, 1903, and then op,ened, 'for the construction (induding plumbing, heatin'g app.ar.atus, electric ,wiring 'and conduits) of the United States po'stoffice at lGrksviHe, M'issourt, in accordance with the drawings and sp,ecifications, cop'ies -of which may be had at this office or at the 'office of the post:mast'er at Kirksvil)e, Missouri, ,at the discretion of the supervising architect. Two Popular Ilardware .Specialties Cleveland has a hardware plant in the Columbia Hardware Company that is oneo£ the model ones of thecoumry, .and one 0-£ the very largest. While it has many special lines of output, which range from dOlo'r fittings; springs in'd ho'oks to blacksmiths' vises and anvils; builders and architects are becoming especia.lly in terested in this company through two'0f its speci.alties:, the CI'eveland joisf hanger and the Gem spring hinge, which are winning much popularity and assuming a larger place in the re)ative importance in the departments of this comp, any. The jooist and wall hanger was added two years ago to this company's cata19.gue, and it is now being sold extensively all over the United States. Inasmuch as this compaJny has offices in New York, Chicago, Baltimore and San Francisco·, the widespread distribution of its specialties may be inferred, These joist hangers have now become a hardware staple fo,r mill and. factory construction. They are a modification 0:£ t.he stirrup iron, a straight long bend being substituted fO'r the stirrup' iron twist. The Clevela11lc' hanger has two long diagonaL bends, form- \ ing' a web member in the direct line of strain from the seat .of the joist, the point of suppo,rt, and with· the face-web agaihst the joist it presents a unifo·rm section, thus insuring a con'stant resistance. The two arms at the top' extend back two inches and engage tha'tof first joist, where timbers are built up. They are ·made of wrought steel, the· bend being made while hot. Of the many claims made for them, bO'rne out as they are by the increased sale, it is especially .,a;sserted that their use sav'es delay in eonstruction, does not weaken the timber, no boring of holes being required; that they are of uniform strength,easily ca1culateci, having an ample factor of safety pr,ovided, and a maximum efficiency. .That they ';lire easily applied, even by unskilled mechanic:;, with a. few blows from. a mallet, and that they can' be removed without difficulty or injury to timber is evident upon examination. All. this company's. hangen; are coated with an asphaltum dip, the best preventive of rust. ' They are made in various sizes and shapes, single and' double,' fitted -to all conditions fo-r the kiud of construction . for which they are designed. THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 39 The Gem spring hinge, also, made by this company, is becoming mo,re and more naltlled in building specific'ations. The company puts its claim for this device concisely as follows: ;' The Gem spring hinge is thoroughly milled and fitted, th~ spring well protected from dirt alid storms, the' surface polished and finished in genuine black enamel, or to match hardware. A carpenter's gauge has been a9d,ed, which enables it to be easily fitted to' the dO'Qr and casing. The Columbian Hardware Company is the successor to. the Van Wagoner & Williams Co. It hals an extensiv,e factory at the corner of Coe and Hamilto'n streets, ,of model installation and conduct. Its officers are: L. A. Cobb, president; Ludlow S. ·Sherwood, vice-president, and Wm. M. Powell, treasurer, who is actively in charge at the works. The]. M. & L. A. Osborn Co. Believing that architects and builders should know the personalities of those with whom they deal, in such wayS as the printed page can properly accomplish, the portrait is presented in this issue of one of the energetic young business men oJ Clevehnd, Lewis A. Osborn, who heads tM firm of the J. M. & L. A. Osborn Co., dealers in tinners', roofers' and furnace-men's supplies. Mr. Osborn has pushe'd to the front in a way that has greatly broadened and strengthened a corpO'ration that already had an established and enviable reputation. A member of the Chamber of Commerce and th'e B.uilders' Exchange, prominent in charitable activ-ities, 1\1 r. Osborn is acquiring a rating as a broadminded man, even outside the circles in which his business is confined. In 1888, the firm. of J. M. & L. A. Osborn succeeded the old Myers-Osborn Co., 'and located itself on Court Place. In J1Jly, 1901, the present admirable location, occupying four stories 'of' a large warehouse on theSu~ erior street viaduct, just west o,f and adjoinIng the Big F, our and Erie railr"oad tracks was taken, This location solves the question ~or thi.s firm of.'obtainin~ a ,place for delivery f their supphes and shipment of (heir products, at the low track 'level, which is a topographical difficulty of Cleveland's business section.' It d.ispenses with cartage up al,ld down steep hills, and at the same time, _ gIves them in the building a street frontage on the top floor level on a main thoroughfare. The elevato'rs in the building make all the. hauling necessa,ry from track to street, and vice versa. The advantage ot such a location is 'most apparent, and the spaciousness of their quarters is another factor which they could have obtained nowhere else so centrally in the wholesale and shipping dis-trict. . The comp,any's specialty is high grade oldsty, le roofing plates, and its brands are specified very largely by architects all through the central west. . Their brand, Osborn's Charcoal Iron OldStyle, has been gott-en out to meet the demand for a roofipg plate made of charcoal iron sheets, instead of steel sheets. Many old roofers believe that the body of .a ro'ofing plate, made from charcoal iron bars, will outlast the more modern production~the steel sheet. The sheets in these plates are guaranteed to be made of genuine knobbled charcoal iron blooms, the same as were manufactured twenty-five years a'go. The coating on the sheets is,guaranteed to be as heavy and as evenly distributed over the entire sheet as on Osborn's Guaranteed Old-Style Plate. Their Osborn's, Guaranteed. Old-Style Plate has been made in this country since the installation 0: the industry here, and is favorably known by tinners and, roofers everywhere. It is guaranteed to be ,a' strictly hand-dipped plate, coated entirely by the palm-oil process, the sheets being evenly and heavily coated over the entire surface. This brand' is coated bn sheets made from best American soft steel bars, soft and pliable, each sheet being resquared and carefully inspected. ' The Osborn Company are also handling a line of bright charcoal tin plate, solder, sheet zinc and copper; also a complete lin'e of galvanized .iron eaves-trough, gutters, conductor pipes, ventilators, furnace pipes, registers, and a full stock of all kinds of tinners', roofers' and furnace-men's supplies. A year ago the firm was enlarged tQ include Mr. C. H. Curtis, who died since, and E. J. Strong. Later C.H. Orchard was added, and the present officers 'are: L. A. Osborn, president; C. J. Stro'ng, vice-pres·ident; C. H. Orchard, secretary and treasurer. Cleveland, a.-The, May Company wtll rebuild its Public Square. front. Cost, $3,500. 40 THE OHIO ARCHITECT AND BUILDJiR A Notable Labor Compact Considerable interest has been manifested the past week in an agreement reached between the 'Chicago Metal Trades Association and the district lodge of mac'hinists. The machinists figure so largely in the economy of every large manufaCturing establishment that the maintenance of harmonious relations with them is of the greatest importance. The agreement referred to is considered quite a model document, and in its wording and spirit differs from the average compact of the kind. It breathes harmony throughout, prese,rves the rights of both the interested p,arties,' and contains pothing in contravention ,of law. One important point is 'hat freedom in the employment of men is (uaranteed to the employers, while recogni' ion of the union is pledged. The de,finiLions are apparently clear and comprehensive. Distinct prohibition of abridgment of output is made, but the workers are assured a fair day's pay for a fair day's work in a statement approved and signed by their own 11 representatives. The full text of the agreement follows: '\.greement by and between Chicago Metal Trades Association and International A.ssociation of Machinists, District No. 8Article 1. The purpOse and intention in Crafting this agreement by the parties hereto is to bring about a harmonious -fee1in~ between the workmen employed by the Chicago Metal Trades Association and the members of said association, thereby assuring the manufacturers that they will receive a fair day's work ,from the machinists in their employ and that the members of the International Association of Machinists will receive a fair wage for their service while in the employ of the members of the ,Chicago Metal Trades Associat'ion. Freedom in the employment of labor and the right of organization shall be recognized by both par-ties hereto. ' Art. 2. Hours~Nine hours shall be th~ standard work day. All time over nine hours in' anyone day shall be considered overtime, except on night shifts, when not more than fifty-four hours shall be worked in the five nights, viz., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday anclFriday. If overtime is worked there shall be at least thirty minutes intermission before overtime takes Art. 3. Overtime-I. Day shift. Time and one-half to be paid for all time worked over the regular day's schedule up to 12 0' clock midnight. After 12 o'clock midnighf,' Sundays and legal 'holidays-viz., New"Year's day, Memorial day,' Fourth of July, Labor day, Thanksgiving day and Christmas dayto be paid at the rate of double time, except on company's own repairs ,to its machinery so that the factory may be in running order the following day, when time and one-half is to be paid. 2. Night shift. All overtime worked over the regular night shift schedule shall be paid for at the rate of time and one-half. In 'case of night shift entering holidays single time is to be paid; time worked on the nights of holidays, double time. Art. 4. Wage Scale. Men who are hereinafter judged machinists shall be advanced, from and after ,May 1, by an average of 5 per cent in their wage rates; such advan'ce on machinists receiving less than 30 cents per hour to be sufficient to -equal 30 ,cents per hour, and on die and tool makers to equal 35 cents per hour, an,d further that the advance for men receiving 30 cents per hour or above shall be at least one and one-half cents per -hour. The basing rates on which advance will be figured are those of J arl. 1, 1903. Thereafter during the life of this agreement the minimum rate for machinists shall be 30 cents per hour and 35 cents for tool and die makers. Where machinists in the employ of members of the Chicago Metal Trades Association on repair work or erecting machinery outs,ide the shops of such members and within the limits of Cook county come in contact with craftsmen of the Chicago Building Trades Council, their pay shall be 5D cents per hour, eight. hours to constitute a day's work. Art. 5. Machinists-Unqer WIS agreement the term machinist includes general, erecting, floor and vise hands, as well as any man, commonly classed as a machinist, who can with the aid of drawings prose-cute the work of construction 'and erection of special types of ma-chines, carrying same to a successful completion within a reasonable time. Machinists shall also include machine hands o,perating planers, standard plain or universal milling machines, unive'rsal gear cutters, shapers, slotters, boring mills, universal tool grinders, engine lathes, J on,es and Lamson lathes. Gisholt or American turr~t lathes, THE OHIO 'ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 41 vhenever such men are required to do a general variety of work either for repairs' or from'drawings and can so undertake, prosecute and complete such work to the finish required satisfactorily and within reasonable time on any of said machines. Men operating the abov,e machin,es in any standard or special patte~ns who are ~equired.~o produce duplicate and repeat pieces of Jig work shaJl not be classed as machinists. Die sinkers, die and tool makers shall be competent hands in their class and able to prosecute such work to a successful completion within a reasonable time. I I , .' Art. 6. Apprentices-Apprentices shaJl be no~ less than 16 years of age nor over 211 years at the beginning of their apprenticeship term, and shall be employed on the day force only, if under 21 years of age. They shaJl be advanced in wages from time to time and at the expiration of four years' apprenticeship shall receive at least the minimum journeymen's wa'ges. In shops where the present number of apprentices does not exceed Cone for the shop, regardless of the number of machinists em'ployed, and one to every five machinists thereafter, this proportion shaJl be not exceeded; where the number of apprentices is now in excess of such rate a reduction shall be effected as far' as practical during the life of this agreement, provided the continued employment of ap'" prentices now in service shall not be affected, To be recognized as an apprentice under this clause the person must be in course of training on machinist's work and must have either a regular apprenticeship contract or a definite verbal agreement as' to his apprenticeship condition with his employer. Art. 7. No Further Demands-There shall be no further demands made upon the members of the Chicago Metal Trades Association by the International Association of Machinists, District Lodge No.8, during the life of this agreen~ent. Under this agreement the working conditions in the shops of the members of' the Chicago Metal Trades Association shall continue as they exist at the date of this agreement to the effect that no abridgement of output shall result. Art. 8. Arbitration-Should any differ~ ences arise between th~ parties hereto in the in,terpretation of this agreement, or from any other Cause, which cannot be adjusted between them, it shall be re,ferred to, a committee to consist of, four members, two selected by each party, and if this dommiftee J cannot agree a fifth disinterested party shall be selected by the first four, who shall constitute a board of arbitration to adjust said differences, and while said differences are pending before' the board of arbitration there shaJl be no lockout or strike, and the , deCision of the board of arbitration shall be final and binding on tpe parties hereto. Jn the eyent of any differences arising the party aggrieved shall submit its difference in writing to th
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Ohio Architect
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J)ubltabel) ~onl bl}2 b}2 ttlJe ~bio Brcbitect anl) :1Sutll)er Uompan}2. at 180 St. cilair5t.,
CLEVELAND,a. .
THOMAS A. KNIGHT, Editor. July
EUGENE MARTINEAU, ~.us. Manager
CONGRATULATIONS are in order over the unexpected settlement of the' brickmakers'
strike. All the builders in the state seemed to be deeply interested in this
. contest. Outside of Clevela~d it 'merely meant a possible raise .in the price of brick.
InClevel-and it meant a great deaJ more. It meant that every building trade in
Cleveland would be tied up if the strike wa s prolonged any length of time.
The 'bri'ckmakers had just delivered their 'steenth ultimatum and the ,brick manufacturers
had given their answer. Leaders 0 n both si&s looked ,forward to a long struggle.
Onlookers sat down to watch. a Ion g drawn-out contest.
And then the unexpected happened. The brickmakers gave up the fight and returnerl
to· work. The whol~ building world gave ~ sigh 0.£ relief. The' brickmakers
are working overtime to make up the wages lost while the struggle was in progress,
and the manu,facturers are operating their plants to the limit in the effort to catch Ul).
with orders.
Without betraying any confidences, \i t might be truthfully stated that to W. H.
Hunt, president of the Cleveland· Builder s' Exchange, is due most of the ·credit for
the victory. Had it not been for his tact and diplomacy in handling the strikers there
. would have been a most serious tie-up of' a II the building industries of :Cleveland.
A Rather Good Proposition
A branch of the NationalCivic Feder ation is to be organized in 'Cleveland, so the
daily papers tell us. And following that, th ere is to be a branch organized in Cincinnati.
On ·t)1e. to·p of a threatened tie-up of a II the building industries' o'f Cleveland this
conH~s as gO'bd hews. It would seem to us th at a commission made up of labor leaders:
'OIl the' ori~, ha.nd, representative business m en on the other, with a third board chosen
Joi~tly,-by. capitai and labor, to act as arbit ers, is one which ought to a'ccomplish someething
in.th'e. ·prevention of strikes. H the Federation were the means of preventing' one
strike a year it would be extremel)f valuab Ie to' etnployer and employe alike, But those
who believe in the work o·f the -Civic Feder ation tell us that it will accomplish much
more than this, and that there is no reaso n why all strikes should not Ibe prevented..
This seems almost too good to be true. .
When one considers the vast interest s involved, the irrepara1ble loss sustained by
capital an.d labor alike through the medium 0 f the strike, it 1S .hardly to be wondered'.
,th;t'the experiment of setting afloat branch es of the Civic Federation should be watched
Labor's Liberty Means License
A French patriot, sa'c·rifl'ced by the very people he. had, unselfishly· benefited, exclaimed,
ClJS he went to the scaff'old, "0 Lib erty, hOlw many ·crimes are ,committed .in
thy name!" That phrase wiH soon be a tTU isni in the Uni:tedStates, if the present dangerous
tendencies and the inciting to bad deeds un'der high-sounding nC!-mes by unprincipled
'leaders be not curbed. Three dangerous fo·rces are un onsdoll-sly wIlying to
make the ,foreign dement, with its already lawleiSs slpl'rit, still more dangerous to the hest
intelfest,s o·f the coun'try. These are the va.lb o-t agitatOif, the sens:altionai' pres's and the
Ull·s;crupulous .po1iticiaris. ' .
The typical 'lwbor' agitator mold,s this C'lass 0'£ men, like ·wax in his hands; 'indtes
them to ,strik'es, violence, and in'timicLation against theiremplo-yers, .and to w.age whaJt is.
reaH-y industrial war. He leads them' to t!hink' that by vio'lence .and numbers and the
r'alse idea 0'£ liberty they ha~e, they can adOpt any lawles's method' whatever to gain the·
unreasonaMe and whimsicaoJ ends to whkh he a1rous,es t!hem. .
The 'sensational daily papers,' the yeHo'w journa1s o'f the day, ate guilty 0.£ a crime
ag.ai11'st the Ameri'can people in t!heir truckling to this mi,sguidedsentiment among the
ma"sses, trained ,by the lalbor agitator. The y drstort and color the news of the day with
false headlines and sensationa'l and unfa1r co mment; to the supposed satis.factiol1 of the
ma1s'ses, who are regarded by them rni,staken'ly as' the common people, ,fo'r whom they
profes's an especial care and sOllci'tude. The y inflame the people against the operations
of capital because it .i.s sensationQl t,o do so. ':r.hey Il"efrain from condemning the arbitrary
'injustice of most ·strikes and boycotts because they imagine they want to cater to
labor union s·entiment and the common ,peop Ie. Alert to get moM 0.£ the news, they generally
make the least rather than the most of any' violence o'r crime committed by strikers
against capital, or workmen whC? have ta ken their places. Yet, if violence is oppo'sed
and human life defended in these troubles, if riotous ,strikers\ or "sY1lllpathizer·s" are injured
by res,istance of an lattack, a great hu e and cry go'e·s up frorn these paper'S abolit
capitalists shooting 'down workmen. It has lately been more than hitllted·that the ,11mit
of unscrupulous depravity has beenlrea:ched by certain yetlow journals. It can s'ca'rcely
be believed, and yet loer1ain'things go far to indicarte tihat certain papers have even sent
agents out to slti,r up slt,rikes and breed agitation in order to make sens'atio11lal news.
Treason again.st our ,counbry could go. no farther than such a course of inciting the
greatest danger to our pea'ce and prosperity from 'Witihin that now exi,sts.
Brickmakers' Strike Over
Founded in unreason, carried on in bl indness, coOntinuing in damage and disaster
to wider circles entireiy innocent of any ori gina'! causes, and finally succumbing to logical
failure, the ibrickmake-rs' strike is a thing' of the past. This u11lfortunate and disastrous
folly hcus gained the cause o,f o'rganized lab-or nothing but the los,s of its wages
for a prolonged time, the dis'affection and di sgu'st o,f other bo·dies o't 'laboring men
wholm its operations threw out o·f work unwittingly. the damage oif 'contraotors and
builder,s, the re'!.inquis'hing of contracts, less ening the amount o,f work presetllt ·and prospective
for the very ,cra'ft which struck, an d moreover it has cau,s,ed an abenatlOn of
public sympathy wi·th the strikers which is be coming genera·l in regard to ~any f.oolish
strikes that are final'Iy discernea by a patie nt pu:J;>lic to have no just foundation. BuilcIing
operations may now be resumed, and th e air i-s aleared by the fad thatt the aIibitrary
'Course o:f labor in its insatiable aplpetite fo r higher wages than the business Win 'stand,
and f,or absurd and chilocJ.ish conditions whi ch would reve'rse the 10gicaJ positi,ons o,f employer
and emp'loyed, is che·cked. The ar,resting of the high-handed tendency 'c~mes
none too so'on. lit is a,ccompJI1,shed with gre at los.s on both sides, but the gain promises
to be heahhful It is well ,that no considera tions of ex'pediency prevented the emp'!oayers
from taking the firm shand 'that justice perm itted. Concession and conciliation, repeated
giving in to labor demands, seems to do no g oold with the pre,sent craze o,f organized
labor. 'Dhe more it gets the more it wants. Employers must take a ,stand ,at some
point, and they did so in this instance. It was a hard thing to do with the pressure
from all sources, and the spectacle co.nfront ing t'he manufacturers that their cessatio~
was tyling up buHding operations ·everywher e. How workingmen. with no griev.ances
of their own like to have t!hei-r rightlful oacupation held up by the quarrels olf another
trade is a question likely to soon answer itse If. The result of this strike shows what steps
are 'coming ·in the la:bo,r' que,stion. First, e mpl,oyers are going to band to'2'ether to resist
unreasonable labor demands, whatever the cost. Then public sentriment is going to
withdraw itself from the malc,onte,J.lts.·. Then their hro'tlher workmen are not going to
be made pawns on the chess hOlard. Then the· f.omenter o'f lalbo! strife is going to lo,se
his po'sition.
Come, Come, "Teddy," Step Lively
"Teddy" Roberts, the genial secretary of the Ohio Association of Builders' ,Exchanges,
informs us that the plan o'f grouping Cleveland's public buildIngs is not dead
and that there will be doings in this directi on shortly. 'Well, it may :be so, but the
Group Plan Supe'rvisors will have to hus tIe unless they' want to ,be 'placed in the same
class with the Cleveland art· museum trustees, who admit they haven't held a meeting.
since last summer.
Limit ,City Hall Competition
Cleveland huiJ,dings ·should be designed by Qeve'1and ;architects and built by Cleveland
·builderis. Thi,s is .a proposition which has l·itt:le room 'for argumenit, ,even though
there be a pos·siIble exception 0'1' so !properly to be made. It is the principd'e that. is
no,w ani1mating 'buildin.g i11Jterests in Ireg,ard to the 'competition on the new city hall. T:he
local chapter, American Institute of Architects, has' dedared itself to this effect, and ,the
Builder·s' Exchange, at a recent ::;ession of the board of directotts, adopted a reso:lutio'n
to thi.s effect, putting these two bo'dies on record. Cleveland men. J shoU'l'u prV!uute
Cleveland enterprises, in a -city where there is no re·ason why all the .requirement.s should
not be·at hand. The city hall commission now has the sent~ment of representative interests
defini£eiy bdore it, an? it 'Will be a strange disregarding o'f the fitnes,s of ,things 'iL.it
does not limit its competition accordingly. .There is no need of being hide-hound and
provil1Jcial and of recognizin.g no good fhing from ,elsewhere, but the trouble with Cleveland
has always been the lack ,of local p.r·iel e and' a sense 00£ recognition of the taleilit
within it and the deserts o,f its own inJte'rests. It is good business for a city to give
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