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construction ; electric and gas fixtures; elec- tric elevators, etc.; an arcade 15x15 feet in clear to run through center of building; cost of building, $100,000. Architects of ex- perience in planning reinforced-concrete construction are invited to communicate with George L. Drew, secretary, to obtain the necessary data upon which to base plans and specifications.

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Aprian, Micu.—Bids are asked by Wil- lard Stearns, Secretary Board of Educa- tion, until noon, February 13, for the con- struction of a new school building, for which an appropriation of $50,000 has been made. R. A. Bradley, Elektron Bldg., Fort Wayne, Ind., is architect.

ALLEGHENEY, Pa.—George P. Luther, Ir- win Avenue, it is stated, proposes to build a three-story brick and stone building, 50x220 feet, for a banquet hall and catering estab- lishment. Cost, $50,000. No architect an- nounced.

Atva, O. phe ~aapenes Lee, of Okla- 1oma City, O. T., has contract to erect sci-

ence hall for Pring Northwestern University. the Grand Lodge of F. & A. M., State of Cost, $50,000.

AMBLER, Pa.—Stearns & Castor, Stephen

Girard Block, Philadelphia, have been com-

nissioned by Mayer & England, 1020 Filbert

AtHens, Ga—Miles & Bradt will super- intend the construction of office building for the Southern Mutual Insurance Com- pany; to be seven stories, constructed throughout of ferro-concrete.

ATLanTic City, N. J.—Plans have been prepared by Architect S. H. Vaughn, Bart- lett Building, for a four-story hall and lodge building, for the local Order of Elks. Cost, $100,000.

Aurora, Itt.—The erection of a Y. M. C. A. building, to cost probably $150,000. is reported under consideration.

Battrmore, Mp.—Archer & Allen, Cen- tral Savings Bank Building, it is reported, have asked bids for erecting two dormi- tories at the Maryland School for the Blind. The buildings are each to be three stories high, of brick, 64x45 feet.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital Trust Es- tate, Calvert Building, will erect ware- house at 301, 303, 305 and 307 Exchange Place; Archer & Allen, architects, Central

Savings Bank Building, 3 East Lexington Street.

It is reported that the City Council has passed ordinances appropriating $96,000 for the erection of a three-story brick and stone school building, at Waverly, and $58,000 for a three-story brick and stone school building at Lakewood Avenue and Orleans Street. The Council is also considering or- dinances appropriating $1,000,000 for new school buildings.

BatrLte Creek, Micu.—The Board of Ed- ucation, it is stated, has decided to build a $150,000 high school on three lots on Van Buren Street.

Bayonne, N. J.—The trustees of the St. Joseph R. C. Church on East Twenty-sec- ond Street., it is stated, have decided to erect an edifice costing $40,000 at Avenue E and East Twenty-fifth Street.

Berwick, Pa.—Seymour and Paul A. Davis, 3d, of Philadelphia, it is stated, have been commissioned by the Building Com- mittee to prepare plans for a building for the Y. M. C. A.

Brttrncs, Mont.—The Masonic Temple Association is to erect a three-story Masonic Temple on North Twenty-eighth Street at a cost of about $100,000.

BrncHamTon, N. Y.—The Masonic lodges in this city, it is stated, are planning to erect a Masonic Temple to cost $200,000.

BrrMINGHAM, ALA.—The erection of a court-house at a cost of about $450,000, is reported under consideration.

Carcary, Atta—The City Council has decided to make arrangements at once for the building of a new city hall, to cost

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W. H. Stone, architect, Winnipeg, it 1s stated, is preparing plans for the $200,000 Canadian Pacific Railway depot, to be erected here. The building will be of red sandstone. R. R. Jamieson is superinten- ert,

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—It is reported that a library costing about $75,000 is to be erected at Radcliffe College and also a dormitory.

Canton, S. D.—Sealed proposals will be received by J. L. Millie, Canton, S. D.; also at the office of the Eisentraut-Colby-Pot- tenger Co., architects, Sioux City, Iowa, until 7:30 Pp. M., Wednesday, February 20, 1907, for the construction of a church building at Canton, S. D.; also for heating and plumbing for the same. Plans and specifications will be on file with J. L. Millie, Canton, S. D., Builders’ Exchange, Minneapolis, and Eisentraut-Colby-Potten- ger Co.

Care Henry, Va.—Reports state that the Cape Henry Beach Company will erect a $50,000 hotel, to be known as the John Smith Inn. Plans for the building have been prepared by John K. Peebles, Nor- folk, Va. W. M. Rettew, of Norfolk, Va., is chairman of the Building Committee.

CartHacE, Mo.—Plans are being con- sidered, it is stated, by the County Board for a court-house, jail and county home, to cost $200,000.

Cepar Rapips, Ta.—Council has under consideration un issue of $125,000 in bonds for erecting 1 city hall.

Cuarieston, W. Va.—It is reported that A. C. Calderwood has contract to erect a

building for Coyle & Richardson; to be constructed of reinforced-concrete and cost $100,000.

Cuicaco, Itu.—The L. C. Paine Freer Estate, it is stated, will build an addition

to the Occidental Building, Washington and Market Streets. It will be eight stories, 40xI80 feet, and cost $140,000.

Fritz Foltz, 140 Dearborn Street, is prepar- ing the plans.

It is reported that Joseph Joyce will build an apartment house at Sheridan Road and Edgecomb Place. It will be 113x150 feet, having three stories and costing $100,000.

Reports state that Holabird & Roche, Monadnock Building, are preparing plans for a twelve-story office building, to be erected at Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street, for the Vendome Company. Esti- mated cost, $800,000.

CINCINNATI, O.—A $60,000 parish house, it is stated, ‘s to be erected for Christ Church (Rev. H. Nelson, Rector), as a memorial to the late Thomas Emery.

Nicholas J. Wolf & Sons, it is reported, intend erecting a six-story building.

It is reported that plans are being pre- pared for the erection of contagious wards and auxiliary buildings of the new hospital on Burnet Avenue. Cost, $214,000.

Elzner & Anderson, architects, Fourth and Vine Streets, have completed plans for a residence for Senator J. B. Foraker, Trac- tion Building, to cost $200,000. Figures are to be taken in the spring.

Bids are asked by the Clerk of the Board of Education, City Hall, until noon, February 18, for the construction of a six- story office and wareroom building, on the

south side of Court Street, in accordance with the plans and specifications on file in the office of Superintendent of Buildings, g10 Main Street, Cincinnati. Bids are also asked for the installation of a heating and ventilating system in the Lincoln School Building, corner of Delta and Golden Avenues,

DAVENPORT, IA.—It is reported that the Davenport Packing & Paper Company will erect a five-story fireproof warehouse at Second and Rock Island Streets.

Clausen & Clausen, architects, have plans

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It is stated that plans have been prepared for a four-story warehouse at Fourth and Towa Streets, for the John F. Kelly Whole- sale Grocery Company, at a cost of about $50,000.

DEERFIELD, O.—Reports state that plans are being prepared for a 120-room hotel to be erected at Deerfield, O., for the Deerfield Springs Hote! Company. A novel feature of the hotel will be the location of the springs in the lobby

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It is reported that the Trustees of the St. Mary’s R. C. Academy are preparing to erect a building at Fourteenth and Penn- sylvania Avenues which will cost, including equipment, about $200,000.

The officers of the American Mining Congress, it is stated, are contemplating the erection of a building on Colfax Avenue, to cost about $250,000.

It is reported that a central exchange building is to pe constructed in Denver. The plans for this structure call for a building not less than six stories high. It probably will be located in the neighborhood of Sev- enteenth and Welton Streets, and will cost about $500,000. It will be provided with an assembly room, a banquet hall, a buffet dining hall, and will house the Real Estate Exchange, the Chamber of Commerce, the American Mining Congress, the Colorado State Commercial Association, the Traffic Club, the Manufacturers’ Association, the Denver Convention League, and possibly the National Live Stock Association and State Federation of Labor.

Albert R. Ross, 542 Fifth Avenue, New York, it is stated, has prepared plans for a library to he erected at Denver, Col., for the municipality of that city. The structure will be three stories, 320x200 feet, having a massive stone front, to cost $275,000.

Des Mornes, IA.—E. C. Finkbine and others will establish a colony and erect homes, at a cost of $1,000,000. There will be a central heating plant, lighting plant and other facilities.

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E. K. Butler, of Chicago, has bought the K. P. block and proposes erecting a ten- story building.

East CieveLtanp, O.—Searles, Hirsh & Gavin, Schofield Building, Cleveland, are reported to have prepared plans for a city hall and jail.

Eau Crare, W1s.—It is stated that Christ Episcopal Church has appointed a commit- tee to select plans for a $50,000 church.

Evanston, ]itu.—George W. Maher, of Chicago, Ill., is preparing plans for a theatre to be built at Evanston for the Evanston Theatre Company; three stories, steel construction. Estimated cost, $125,000.

Famview, Pa.—It is announced that plans are being prepared by J. C. M. Shirk, 421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, for the State Hospital for Criminal Insane, consist- ing of a group of buildings. Cost, $1,500,000.

FitzGErALp, Ga.—George Thompson, At- lanta, Ga., it 1s said, has been commissioned to prepare plans for a five-story building for Garbutt & Donovan Realty Company.

Fonp pu Lac, Wis.—Reports state that the Holy Cross Catholic Society is consider- ing the erection of a parochial school.

Fort Doncr, Ia.—The First National Bank, it is stated, will erect a six-story building, 60x140, on plans by Liebbe, Nourse & Rasmussen, architects, of Des Moines.

Fort Hamirton, N. Y.—Bids are asked by Captain P. C. Hains, Jr., Constructing Q. M., until noon, February 28, for con- struction at this place of three brick buiJd-

ings, one eight-set bachelor officers’ quar- ters, one double-set coast artillery barracks, and one post exchange and gymnasium.

Fort Situ, ArK.—It is stated that plans are being prepared for a hospital by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Cost, $250,000.

FrencuH Lick, Inp.—Reports state that plans have been ordered for construction of an annex to the French Lick Hotel, to con- tain 350 rooms. J. M. Floyd, of Terre Haute, is architect.

Gate City, Ata—It is reported that Joseph H. Hoadley, 72-74 Broadway, New York, will erect a $250,000 residence in this city.

It is reported that the International Power Company, 74 Broadway, New York, N. Y., will establish locomotive works at Gate City, to cost about $3,000,000. J. H. Hoadley is President.

GLeNwoop, IA.—The Board of Control, it is stated, has asked for an appropriation of $118,000 for the Institute of the Feeble- Minded at Glenwood.

Granpv Forks, N. D.—The regents of the State University will receive bids until March 12 for the erection of the $60,000 Carnegie Library building.

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} SUMMARY: ; ; ; . 05-66 The Growing Tendency to Appoint Official Architects A State Architect for Pennsylvania Proposed—The New York State Architect in a Deadlock Over One of His Designs—Restrictions that Should Govern the Statutory Regulation of Designs for Public Buildings Cost and Radius of Practice Determining Factors The Fee of the Expert-adviser—The Actual Archi- tect of the New York Appellate Court-house, Two Ruope IsLtanp ‘ARCHITECTS: 67 George Waterman Cady Edmund Russell Willson

COMMUNICATION : ; 72 The Last of the Replevined Drawings ILLUSTRATIONS: } 72 St. Paul’s Chapel: Columbia University, New York, N..Y.: Seven Plates—Gratwick Research Laboratory, Buffalo, N. Y

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os our present consideration of the “competition evil,” a

discussion in which we are trying to emphasize, but not unfairly, the public’s rights in the premises, we have reached a matter which deserves the most serious consid- eration and, we’ believe, the promptest action, if the body of the profession cares to preserve its present rights and opportunities. The statutory regulation of the procure- ment of designs for public buiidings is a matter that de- serves attention and general consideration as a matter of

practical far more than as an academical matter of con-

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country, and we feel that a considerable portion of our readers will share our conviction that this tendency is de-

plorable, so far as good, practical results are desired, while

itis vicious and mistaken so far as regards the welfare of the profession and the progress of architecture. Even if such officials were always and only to be drawn from the ranks of the exceptionally able members of the profes- sion, we hardly feel as if we could approve the practice; but it is not needful to consider such an ideal possibility, for the busybodies and politicians who are active in creating official public architects are influenced mainly bv the idea that an economy can be effected, and so attach to the office a salary that by its meagerness excludes the able architect and at the same time deprives the public of the service of its most competent members.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1907.

No. 1624.

T this moment a bill is before the Pennsylvania Leg- islature which provides for the appointment of a State Architect, who shall design and build all State build- ings, shall have a term of office of four years and shall be paid $5,000 a year. Considering that Pennsylvania has just had an object-lesson in the shape of bills for architec- tural service on its new Capitol at the rate of about $130,- 000 per annum, it is not unreasonable that the taxpayers in that State should seek a means of effecting some econo- mies in the cost of designing and superintending its public buildings. Although an appointment under the proposed law would certainly fall into the class of direct selection, we question whether the champions of that method will feel like citing it as exemplifying the working of the course they advocate. If legislatures feel obliged to make a place for some architect of indifferent ability, it should be enough to entrust him with the oversight and repair of existing buildings. It ought not to be difficult for the Philadelphia Chapter, A. I. A., to prove to the members of the Legislature that the designing of the State’s pub- lic buildings deserve the attention of men having a higher monetary value than the man who can be content with a short term of service and $5,000 a year.

VIEN in States where, owing to conditions and th

payment of larger salaries, the service has been se- cured of men of a higher grade than seems to be aimed at in Pennsylvania, the State Architect is of doubtful utility to the public, if we may draw an inference from the com- plaints about the New York State Architect which we have noted occurring in the daily papers from time to time. As Mr. Heins, whose acceptance of the office was a mat- ter of surprise, is without doubt a man of ability and hon- esty, it is probable that some or all of these complainings were not justifiable, but their making none the less shows that some portion of the public feels that the architectural work of the State cannot be done efficiently, promptly and economically by a single public official, no matter how able or how adequately paid. At the present moment a very singular condition of affairs has developed in New York, if the details given in the New York Times are as stated, which at once illustrates an inherent weakness in the official architect method and proves that there is no preponderating value in the method of direct selection of an architect. it being naturally the dutv of the New York State Architect to design the State’s buildings, he has been for some time engaged with drawings for the State Normal College at Albany, but unfortunately has not been able to produce a design satisfactory to the Commissioner of Education, the law making the appropriation for the building vesting the approval of the design in the hands of the latter functionary, Mr. A. S. Draper, an intelligent and conscientious official, who has had a large experience in the building of educational buildings. Finding, after months of ineffective effort, that the public work was being wastefully delayed, the State Architect and the Com- missioner at length agreed with satisfactory amicabiliiy that another architect should be asked to design the ex- terior treatment of the building. Mr. A. R. Ross of New

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York was agreed on as the deus ex machina and he shortly produced a design which the Commissioner’s committee “admires very much,” but which the State Architect abso- lutely declines to accept. The deadlock has not been lifted, but has been so reinforced that the Commissioner is now seeking legislation which will authorize him to em- ploy absolutely a private architect to design and superin- tend what seems to be an important building. If permis- sion to employ private talent when official talent is found weak-kneed is to be sought and obtained, the character of public architecture may be kept at a satisfactory level ; but of what real value is the official architect? The incident clearly shows, too, that the bringing into immediate con- tact at the outset of client and architect does not always produce the superlatively satisfactory result that is as- serted by the champions of direct selection.

F the statutory regulation of the designing of public buildings were to take the form of a general creation of official architects, we should withdraw our advocacy of such regulation ; but as we think it far more likely to take the form of some competitive method, it seems worth while to consider the form, character and amount of re- striction that should then be imposed. In the first place the courts would probably hold that the freedom of contract guaranteed by the Constitution would not be impaired by the most rigorous conditions that could be imposed by the public in dealing with its own property; so it would be proper to limit the competitors to those who could prove they possessed certain fixed qualifications, should be “li- censed” even. And here it should be noted that the term of actual practice demanded as one qualification should be a minimum term. It might also be admissible to inflict a solid fine upon any unqualified person who should have the pre- sumption to send in a design for a public building. This would save the “dignity” of those who do not like to com- pete with office-boys and would tend to minimize the work of the examining expert-adviser. The London County Council, following what it alleges to be an accepted cus- tom, proposes to charge intending competitors £3 each for the programmes, letters of instruction, site diagranis, etc., in the new County Hall competition. Adopting and modifying this precedent, it might be desirable to exact a fee from each competitor for a public building, the fees going to meet the payment made to the expert adviser and the secondary prizes, and this, again, would tend to lighten the task of examination and selection.

HE statutes should declare, first, what buildings shall be built after competitive designs, and, sec-

ond, what architects and from whence shall be allowed to compete for them. The first matter would have to be determined very largely on the basis of comparative cost, public buildings of insignificant cost being left still in the open field of private practice, where they can be made the subject of competition or not, as circumstances sug- gest. The second matter cannot arrange itself so auto- matically. Probably every one’s first impulse would be to say, in the case of a given building, that, of course, the “local talent” must have its chance. But this by no means follows. The very genesis of the competitive method is found in the feeling the public has that, possibly, there

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is greater talent outside than there is at home. For this reason restriction of competition to the local talent of a city, a county or a State would be very unwise, as it would, for instance, leave Hoboken unable to profit by al! the talent that practises in Manhattan. A better method would be to allow all properly qualified architects within a given radius from the selected site to compete, the ra- dius being extended according as the magnitude, character and cost of the proposed building increases, cities on the seaboard being allowed to extend the radius on the landward side by as much as :s lost to seaward.

RATHER obvicus matter is generally forgotten and left unprovided for. While architects make it plain that they want a certain percentage of the cost of the building paid to each of them for his competitive plans, no proper provision is made for the payment of their fellow-professional, the expert-adviser, and, although the promoter is told he must employ and pay such a person, no intimation is given to him as to the fee the expert-adviser is likely to require. The omis- sion is unfortunate, and a line of conduct should be established clearly. A recent occurrence in England, where there is a rule which is more or less observed, shows the need of a stated and generally known line of procedure that should be followed in employing an expert-adviser: A certain school-board desiring to hold a limited competition for a small school-house cost- ing only $4,500, the architects invited replied that they could compete only if an expert-adviser were employed, and intimated that the President of the R. I. B. A. would gladly nominate a proper person. The school-board will- ingly fell in with the suggestion, and the nomination was accordingly made, the name being sent in with the in- formation that the expert’s fee would be fifty guineas. Thereupon the school-board, who could not afford to pay the expert two-thirds as much as they expected to pay the successful architect, abandoned this competition alto- gether. It would seem that the laws of logic demand that, seeing that an expert-adviser is employed at the insistence of the competitors, his fee should be charged in some part against the prize-winners or the appointed architect, and not go in its entirety to magnifv the outlay of the promoter.

Ferg architects used to be particularly fond of informing those connected with architectural periodicals that they “never read,” that they only pre- served a few plates and cast the balance of the publication into the waste-basket. Manners and customs in this re- spect have been sensibly modified, but even in former days we noticed that if by chance we happened to say anything that wounded a subscriber’s amour propre we were sure to hear of it by return mail, being thus af- forded proof that he, at least, was a reader. We feel very sure, therefore, that it is only due to the unfortunate fact that both Mr. A. Page Brown and Mr. James Brown Lord have passed over to the majority that we were not at once brought to book for assigning the authorship of the Appellate Court House in this city to Mr. Brown instead of to its real author, Mr, Lord, as we did in a list published a fortnight ago.

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TWO RHODE ISLAND ARCHITECTS.

HE December meeting of the Rhode Island Chapter, A. I. A.,

was devoted to two memorial addresses dealing with the

life work of two of its members recently deceased, and as these records bring the old and the new into such close contact, we feel that our readers may be glad to have them presented in extenso,.

GEORGE WATERMAN CADY,' F. A. IL. A.

WE are here to devote an evening to the memory of two of our professional brethren who, this last summer, left the works forever.

And, although they whom we commemorate were quite dif- ferent, as men will differ, in all but their devotion to their pro- fession, it is a happy circumstance which joins them thus in the minds of their fellow architects. For these two men represented, as none others in the Chapter did or could, the two opposite poles of the profession, the past and the future, the old traditional building of Rhode Island, based on construction and lonely tech- nical study by candle-light, and the new American architecture, based on the finest academic training, on foreign travel, and on the largest observation.

Mr. Cady was the last of our self-trained architects. In doing honor to him, as we do on this evening, we do honor to a long line of men whom he, as the last, as one fallen on late times, still represented,—to William Carpenter, John Smith, the mason, Eliezer Whipple, the housewright, Caleb Ormsbee, John H. Greene, and James C. Bucklin.

It was a long and honorable career which closed on the ninth of August, 1906, when George Waterman Cady died at his home in Longmeadow. Born in Providence, August 27, 1825, he was the son of the Rev. Jonathan Cady and his wife, Eliza Pettey. His father was a prominent man in the town of that day,—pastor of the old Fountain Street Methodist Church, and of several other churches of that denomination.

Mr. Cady’s education was begun in a private school in Provi- dence—whose I cannot say—and was completed at the Lowell Seminary, in Massachusetts. We find him, after the close of his school days, as a clerk in a wholesale ship-chandlery. This sort of work was not to his taste, however. He had a mind and he meant to use it. He was naturally more of a maker or a doer of things than a trader. He turned to medicine and began study- ing, as the custom then was, with an established physician, a Dr. Waterman, This career was closed, however, by the tem- pest of the Dorr Rebellion which caused Mr. Cady’s patron and instructor to flee to another State.

Left thus, without any occupation, Mr. Cady seems not to have sought any further instruction in medicine, though he never lost his interest in it. He at once apprenticed himself to Alex- ander Williams, a builder of Providence, who appears in the Directory of 1841, with a shop at 104 Broad Street. Plain car- penter work, however, he did not follow very long. When first “out of his time” with Williams—he bought the last six months from his master—he was called upon to build a hotel at Scio, New York, but when this was done he went to work for the Sweet brothers, stair-builders. Stair-building, under the impetus of the fashionable circular flights, had come to require more knowledge of drawing and of descriptive geometry than any other branch of the building craft. It led Mr. Cady, then, in the direction in which he naturally would go, and that the training was not lost, the designing and building, in 1860, of the Joseph Fletcher house, now the Lying-in Hospital, give evidence.

Mr. Cady, however, was not ready to give up the actual con- struction of buildings. He was still in the path of John Greene and of Bucklin in his earlier years. He purchased the shop and machinery of C. Young, on the corner of Charles and Smith Streets, about 1861, and when, a year or so later, this was burned, he built a shop on the present State House ground, on Gaspee Street. In 1860, he handed this shop over to his brother and son and launched out upon the future work of his life, the prac- tice of architecture, not as a craft, but as a profession.

Mr. Cady began his new work with an office in a building next to the Universalist Church, on Westminster Street, where the Boston Store now stands. Here he designed and carried out the Burgess Building, just opposite, now 230 Westminster Street, a granite front characteristic of those days. Into this he moved his atelier and here he remained till, in 1882, he found

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quarters in the Barstow Building, on Weybosset Street, next to the building he had erected for Wm. H. Hall,

After the Barnaby fire, Mr. Cady was called in for the re- building, as the architect of the original structures. At this time he also built the Gaspee Building, in the place of the brown- stone store so long associated with Henry T. Root. Into this Gaspee Building he moved his office, and here it remained till his death.

In his long life, and amid all his professional work, Mr. Cady found time for many other useful activities. He was much in- terested in military affairs, saw something of politics, and did excellent service as a fireman in the old days of the volunteers. But on that side of his life, however interesting and important, we have scarce time to dwell. It is as an architect that we do now honor him, and in his profession the amount of his achieve- ment was great. The roll of his buildings is a long one, Be- side those I have already named, he built the Fletcher Building, the Aldrich House, the High Street Bank, the building lately vacated by Bosworth & Aspinwall, the Infantry Armory, the State Armory at Woonsocket, the old Low’s Opera House, the old station of The Three Ones, on Exchange Place, several churches in near-by towns, the Asbury Methodist Church, on North Main Street, his own church, and many school-houses and dwellings. He was, when he died, at almost 81, at work upon a building on Eddy Street.

Mr. Cady’s career as an architect was marked and condi- tioned by the time in which he lived. He found himself in a day of transition. Beginning late in life—for he was forty-four when he finally launched upon the professional stream—with no preliminary office-training, to say nothing of the academic equip- ment now possible, with as a technical education solely that which he gained by practical work, and by his own hard study, with lithographs and engravings—often inaccurate to a degree we can hardly imagine—instead of photographs, he responded well to thé demands made upon him. He came too late for the Colonial art tradition, nor did the Greek revival affect him. He was too early for the “great awakening” which began in the eighties He had to take architecture as he found it, and that he did so well with the nondescript style, or negation of style, which was given into his hands to work with, speaks very much for his ability.

3ut an architect has other sides than the artistic. He is more or less of a craftsman. He must be, even in these days of the young ‘Beaux-Arts men and the specialists, of the architectural engineer and the great contractor. In this field Mr. Cady’s car- penter training stood him in good stead. For those days it was the best training, because the carpenters of that time dominated the whole building domain in Providence as surely as the maestri di legname did in Florence. -It is otherwise now, but there is no one here who cannot remember something of that day.

The carpenter ancestry of Mr. Cady, which extended back for several generations, was also of no small help to him. It gave him a natural aptitude which could use what his own ex- perience had placed at his command. It made him resourceful It gave him the invaluable power of meeting promptly and effectively any occasion that might arise. No problem or emer gency found him unprepared.

Again, the architect has to be a professional adviser—and no mean ability will serve his turn. And in this domain also Mr Cady was not found wanting. No time has changed this re- quirement of the profession. None can, except to add to the burden thereof. It was essential to the man who built the pyramids, it was to the medieval magister operum, it is to-day In many ways it is the severest test that we can apply. Mr Cady stood it.

Of this Chapter, Mr. Cady had been a member since January 5, 1876. In it he took a deep interest, serving on its committees and attending almost every meeting for years after his infirmity kept him from hearing what was going on. The Chapter may well speak of him as a stanch supporter and a pleasant com- rade; it may well honor him as one who for forty years, in this community, had practised with skill, fidelity and honor the ex acting art which is so dear to us.

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trick, of the “Concord Fight”), was born April 21, 1856, at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and died on the night of the oth of September, 1906, at Petersham, Massachusetts, his father’s native place.

Descended from the founders of New England, he inherited the instincts and the characteristics of the early settlers, and de- rived his love of good reading and fine literary taste from a cul- tured ancestry. His grandfather, as well as his father, was a minister and was settled not far from Providence, over the First Congregational Church, in Brooklyn, Connecticut, in 1813.

His own father entered Yale in 1834, but because of sickness was obliged to leave college in ’35, and completed his studies in the Cambridge Divinity School, graduating in ’43. He was or- dained over the First Congregational Society of Grafton, Mas- sachusetts, in ’44; became pastor of the First Society in West Roxbury in ’52, occupying the pulpit where Theodore Parker had preached, and was installed minister of the North Society in Salem in 1859, occupying that pulpit until the day of his death— June 13, 1895.

It will thus be seen that Mr. Edmund R. Willson was taken to Salem, the baby of the family, when he was but three years of age, so that that portion of his life within his memory, up to the time when, at fifteen, he entered Harvard University, was passed in Salem, where he imbibed the flavor, and was infused with the inspiration which still lingered in the old sea-port, although its Oriental commerce had almost completely gone to other and larger ports, and one could only see its richly-freighted ships through other eyes, and know of its adventures only from the tales of those who no longer trod the deck—survivors of the host of navigators who had sailed into all, or nearly all the ports in the world. Many in his father’s parish were of the number— merchants, sea-captains, supercargoes, mates and sailors—and the wonderful collection at the East India Museum made by them and their predecessors, with no such purpose originally in view, supplied the material which now constitutes a unique and unparalleled ethnological and historic collection, and enables one to fill out and make real the word pictures with which, in those days, the youthful imagination was stimulated. This collection, open freely to all, was the constant resort of the youth in Salem.

Then, too, he was in daily contact with, and had the social entrée to the best of residences built in Colonial days, dating back to the very earliest settlement, and continuing well into the nineteenth century, covering a period of just about 200 years, thirty of which were after our separation from the Mother Country,

The silent influence of the traditions referred to, of these old houses and homes, and of the atmosphere of the quaint old town, can be distinctly traced in the chosen field of his activities.

As I have stated, he entered college a mere boy, at the age of fifteen, I have a photograph of him when he graduated from the High School the year he entered college, in short jacket, having the appearance of one about to enter the High School rather than college. It was to him, in some respects, a source of regret that he entered college so young, as in after years he felt that he was not old enough to have reaped that advantage which would have come to him had he been more mature. Perhaps he was right, but those of us who knew him best felt that it might have dulled the edge of that childlike simplicity and serenity, that buoyant and happy disposition, which was the charm of his life, and which instinctively drew everyone to him.

Of his boyhood life and the years which followed, down to the 13th of July, 1903, he has himself given a slight sketch in a sort of round-robin-letter, written by all the members of his High School class—that of 1871—in which each sets down for the edi- fication of all the rest an outline of his own life.

I shall take the liberty to quote verbatim nearly all of what Mr. Willson wrote about himself:

For myself, after graduating and having our exercises in the hall at the top of the school-house on Flint Street (I know the street, but am in Salem so little that I'll not guarantee the name), and getting three volumes of Thackeray’s “Miscellanies,” and being mottoed ‘‘We live in deeds, not years’’—which I doubt if I have lived up to, as I begin to feel more the weight of the years than pride in the deeds—I passed four years at Cambridge, graduat- ing in '75, rooming for two years with Bert Flint [a high-school classmate], and neither distinguishing nor disgracing myself— never either being ‘‘on the rank-list’’ nor getting a “condition,” simply pursuing that middle course which is said to be safest. Through with college I might, perhaps, have gone to teaching, if my college course had been more brilliant, and if I had looked older and more imposing. But as the schools, colleges, and seminaries did not jump for me, and having no bent, the inclina-

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tion to a certain kind of drawing, which “Skiddy’ Ropes always remembers with such a kind and exaggerated appreciation when- ever we meet, suggested my going into the profession of archi- tecture.

So for a year I was in the office of Peabody & Stearns, eminent architects in Boston; for nine months I took a special course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; then a year and a half with Sturgis & Brigham, in Boston; some four or five months with McKim, Mead & Bigelow in New York, and then in May, 1879—with a man who has been my dearest friend ever since—I went abroad, and stayed until December, 1881, study- ing architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and travelling in France and Italy in the pursuit of my profession.

Coming home in the beginning of the year 1882, I went into the office of Stone & Carpenter and became a member of that firm the following year, and have been so since, and been occupied in placing on the soil of Providence and the rest of Rhode Island; some parts of the neighboring States of Massachusetts and Con- necticut; Chicago and Buffalo in their Fair years, and possibly else- where, deeds, some of which I am glad are there and some of which I wish were not; the bother of it being that things built are there “for keeps,’’ and can’t be forgotten and wiped up as easily as some other things, except by fires and earthquakes, which fall impar- tially and imperturbably on the just and unjust. My good father gave me an excellent education for my profession, so that with ordinary go-as-you-please abilities I have been able to keep my head above water so far, and keep my wife and children from the poor-house, which I built for the State of Rhode Island some years ago, and the St, Elizabeth's Home and the St. Mary’s Orphanage, to which I have also built additions in the past with an eye to the future.

December 14, 1882, I was married to Anne L. Frost, whom I had known in Salem, daughter of Mr. George W. Frost, of New Market, New Hampshire, and with our two children we live happily and modestly in a small house on the hill looking over the center of Providence, with an old-fashioned apple orchard as a buffer be- tween us and our neighbors. * * *

I am forty-seven years, two months and twenty-two days old; five feet, four and a half inches high, and weigh one hundred and ninety-two pounds, though not unpleasantly fat, and feel (except occasionally) as if 1 was twenty-two or twenty-three years old, as I suppose all the rest of you do, or younger.

He questions why he selected architecture: perhaps his min- isterial ancestry may account for it, for I have noticed that what seemed a disproportionally large number of architects are sons of ministers. 1 recall the two Wares—the professor and the editor, Robert S. Peabody, Robert D. Andrews, Thomas Hastings, John A. Fox, G, T. Tilden, A. J. Bloor, Lyman Sils- bee, Wallis Howe, D. C. E. Loeb, and George W. Cady.

Mr. Willson’s father I had known intimately for many years from seeing him in my own home, as he was an intimate friend of my father’s, and between them there were many bonds of sympathy and harmonious views in matters of theology, religion and life, and from personal intimacy with him after he moved to Salem; and perhaps not unnaturally he wrote to me about the time of Edmund’s return from abroad, expressing a desire that he should come to Providence and enter my office. I welcomed and encouraged his coming, and it did not take long to detect his ability and learn his worth. I was glad to know that he would like to be associated with Mr. Carpenter and myself, and very soon thereafter we entered into an agreement by which he became a partner, which partnership, like that of the marriage. covenant, was not broken ‘until death did us part.

His quickness of perception, his readiness with his pencil, his fertility in design, his infinite patience, his cheerful disposition, his almost utter inability to take offense, his readiness to abandon a design over which he had spent days of hard work in an en- deavor to meet a client’s whims or solve his difficulties, his entire freedom from counting the cost of his labor, he sometimes spending in design more than the cost of making the article— reckoning his time at a very moderate figure—were all charac teristics of the high artistic standard which ruled his life,

His desire to solve every problem in the best possible manner, so far as lay in his power, sometimes led to delays in finishing drawings which were not always appreciated by clients who did not understand the value to them of deliberate study, of slow in .ubation, of consideration and reconsideration, of the necessity of uninterrupted cogitation, and the value of that unconscious cere bration which so frequently yet mysteriously follows prolonged contemplation.

No better illustration occurs to me of the value of delibera- tion in an artistic creation than St. Gandens’s immortal master- piece, the Shaw Monument; and yet the people who had intrusted its creation to him would, in their impatience, if it had not been for a few men of cooler judgment and better appreciation, have

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taken the commission from him and put it into other hands; so little do some understand that, notwithstanding what the Book of Genesis says, science has demonstrated the world was not made in seven days.

His method of work was not exactly unique, but it was unusual, except perhaps among those whose training is in accordance with Beaux-Arts’ methods.

He was wonderfully quick and clever with his pencil, and would, through the medium of paper and pencil, express that which was passing through his mind while the design was in progress of development, as thought would follow thought and ideas step on each other’s heels, as it were, as they sought ex- pression in the sketches which he made, with an accompaniment of whistling or humming—almost singing. These sketches were turned out in rapid succession on tracing-paper with a soft, coarse pencil, folding fresh paper over a sketch which he had already made, making a new sketch on the fresh portion of the paper, and repeating the operation many times until he had satis- fied himself, or until he had given full expression to the many phases which the problem assumed in its development. He would thus have before him many tentative solutions of the problem from which to work up his finished design.

While thoroughly versed in Classical architecture, and using it as the basis of much of his work, he was not a slavish adherent to the letter of its tenets. He was too exuberant, too much of a free-lance, had too subtile a sense of proportion and of adapting means to ends, and of designing so as to get the best possible expression of the material of which the structure was to be built, to confine himself too rigidly to precedent. He took just such liberties with the recognized rules of architecture as a poet takes with the rules of grammar. He did not violate them but en- riched them, as his skill gave him the right.

It is not always easy to wholly disassociate his individual work from those working with him, but the design—meaning by that the architectural expression as distinct from pure construction and arrangement—of many buildings from the office was dis- tinctly and unreservedly his.

Among the notable examples—the designs of which are dis- tinctly his—are the Providence Public Library, the Scoville Library in Salisbury, Connecticut; the Petersham Public Library, and—though not so distinctly his as the others—the Whitney Memorial—Bolton Public Library.

The first—the Providence Public Library\—ranks as one of the best of modern library buildings of its size and cost in the coun- try; correct in its proportions, dignified in its aspect, of equal in terest and artistic expression on all four of its sides—a building, in which I venture to say, the stack is as worthy as the front, notwithstanding the dictum of authority as Russell Sturgis—that no one had ever successfully designed a_stack- building.

The Scoville Library is built of a very light bluish gray—almost white—native limestone, rock-face ashlar of irregular sizes, no single stone of large size, and all laid with level beds and vertical joints. Its entrance is marked by a low tower with square top, the library and its stack occupying that portion of the building on the left of the entrance and in the rear, and a large public hall the wing on the right of the tower—a most attractive building, a reminder of old England, as it sits in quiet dignity on the green lawn among leafy trees, and it carries on the mantel over the fire-place a breast-plate in the shape of a piece of carved stone- work from the cathedral in the town after which the Connecti- cut town—Salisbury—is named.

The Petersham Library is but a portion of a memorial build- ing, built of field stone of a more irregular and rounder charac- ter. It contains a memorial-hall and library; is more picturesque in its design and irregular in its outline than that at Salisbury, and it has done much to give a distinctive character to the small town on the hill, as the Barrington Town Hall, Library and High School? have given distinction to that town.

The Whitney Memorial Building® contains only the Bolton Pub- lic Library and an antiquarian room. It, too, is built of natural- face stone, but is unlike either of the other buildings in that the stones have a smoother face than those in the Barrington and Petersham buildings, are in larger pieces than in either building and are of granite formation. They are laid up irregularly but with an approximation to as nearly level beds as the stone will permit and with an effort to avoid the unrest and disturbance of the distressful so-called “pitch and dive” joints affected by some

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in laying-up natural-face work. The building has low walls and a red tile roof. The windows are large and set high, breaking in large dormers through the cornice into the roof on the sides and occupying a large space in two gables.

The entrance is. through an open porch surmounted by a gable, the tympanum of which is plastered, with the seal of the town— a pine tree on a hillside beside an old brick powder-house modelled in low relief and with artistic skill in situ by our own fellow-citizen and clever artist, Mr. Sidney R. Burleigh, who im- proved on the rendering of the official seal by sketching his sub- ject from the powder-house itself which still perches on the hill top overlooking the village.

These library buildings are each of them of more than usual merit, and in their adaptation to their respective sites, their en- vironment and the peculiar requirements of each community show how successfully Mr. Willson solved each problem.

Not the least of their merit to my mind is that the four country libraries are each distinctly library buildings, yet are not of what may be called the Carnegie type—which, though well suited for large and important buildings, is not, I submit, so well adapted

to small country libraries with rural surroundings which demand less formal and more picturesque treatment.

Of successful and original treatment of country estates, the group of buildings at Chapinville, Connecticut, for the Scoville family; those on Warwick Neck, R. L, for Senator Aldrich, and those for Mrs. Nevins at Methuen, Massachusetts, are examples which show careful study and successful solution of very unlike and complex problems.

The Warwick Neck group—comprising the “boat-house” its central hall, its “great room” open on two sides to the water and so close to it that you feel, as you sit in it, that you are afloat on the deep; the “tea-house” with its one great room and huge fire-place, and minor rooms for the convenience of guests; the two stone “lodges”; the group of buildings around the “water- tower” — stable, automobile-garage, laundry, pump-house and office; the various farm buildings which have been so oitered and brought into harmony with their surroundings that they would not be recoginzed as the buildings which were bought with the estate; and the great stone walls, enclosing the estate from the highways and the garden from the lawns, with their stately gate- ways, make, with their beautiful setting of broad undulating lawns, thick groves and single. specimens of magnificent trees, a series of pictures and picturesque effects that can hardly be

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His untimely death prevented the completion of the work which was to have had its culmination in a residence, tentative sketches for which had been prepared, on a scale commensurate with and in keeping with the work already finished.

Whatever may be done hereafter, that which has been completed is a monument to his rare skill and felicitous treatment in deal- ing with a gentleman's estate, full of playful fancy, as befits the purposes of some of the buildings, yet stately and dignified as is proper for such a pretentious and regal estate.

The Scoville Estate on the southerly slope of the Berkshire Hills is less pretentious than that of Senator Aldrich, but like it is of large dimensions, and upon it a fine stone house has been built; an electric water-power plant; an automobile-garage; a boat-house of modest dimensions as compared with that of Sena- tor Aldrich’s; a round, brick with a roof, of a decided Norman flavor; and a country all located in more or less picturesque spots or on all indicative

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The work at Methuen was far less in volume than that at Warwick Neck or at Chapinville but no less successful and in teresting, and of a kind in which Mr, Willson especially excciled, namely—the alteration and extension of an old farm house of the Colonial Period, making of it a spacious summer house, preserv- ing its simplicity, making the new harmonize with the old, and at the same time adapting it to the modern ways of living of those leisure and wealth and demand comforts and This demand was met in part by building a most har-

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reasonably-well-to-do people there are many examples in Provi- dence and elsewhere. I will only mention a few that we may recall some of the evidence of his handiwork. It is not my inten- tion to describe them nor to characterize them, either to praise or criticise them, leaving that to each of you as you may have your own views of their intent and of their worth. My partial cata- logue includes houses built for Miss Esther C. Baker; Mr. Geo. M. Smith; Mr. Robert W. Taft, on Hope Street; Mr. F. M. Sackett, on George Street; Mr. Rathbone Gardner; Mr. W. W. Dunnell, on Angell Street ; Frederick Grinnell (now C. D. Owen's house), on Bowen Street; Edwin Burgess, on Prospect Street; and the Metcalf Mansion—containing the Pendleton Collection— on Benefit Street. This latter he designed con amore and spent upon it an inconceivable amount of time, study, discussion and thought, and he succeeded in producing as nearly as possible a perfect expression of the best domestic architecture of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. It may not be necessary for me to state to those who hear me that the house is not copied from any single example, but it has so often been stated that its interior finish is copied from the house occupied by Mr. Pendle- ton at the time of his decease and from which the furniture was taken to the house on Benefit Street that it seems worth while to correct the false impression. That house was built by Edward Dexter just at the close of the 18th century, on George Street, and was moved to its present location in 1859, I think, and is a good example of the best work of that day, but not, in all respects, as good as in some other houses of about the same date. It was, therefore, decided not to copy literally all of the interior of the Dexter house, but to reproduce the best work from many houses, making it a typical house of the period rather than a copy of any one house.

The Mansion is reversed in plan from the Dexter house. The rooms on the left of the hall in the Metcalf Mansion are on the right of the hall in the Dexter house, and the large room on the first floor in the N. W. corner—called the museum—occupies a corresponding place—but reversed—to that of the kitchen in the Dexter house.

The staircase, the doorways and the finish and mantels in the library and dining-room are copied from the Dexter house with slight changes only—principally in form of mouldings and details of ornamentation. The mantel in the drawing-room is a close copy of that in the Dexter house; that in the Museum is a copy of one from the Gov. Arnold House, No. 14 John Street, now occupied by the children of the late Arnold Green; that in the chamber over the Museum was the property of the School of Design and was, I think, taken from the John N. Mason house which formerly stood on Weybosset Street and was torn down in 1879 to make room for a two-story block, which latter building was torn down to make room for the six-story John H. Mason Building occupied by the O’Gorman Company.

The mantels in the dining-room chamber and library chamber were compositions made up from the study of a number of old examples. The object being, as before stated, to make a typical building fit to house consistently the beautiful furniture collected by Mr. Pendleton and left by him to the School of Design on condition that a substantially fireproof building be erected in which to keep it, the general design of which and the arrangement of the furniture having been agreed upon between him and Mr. Stephen O. Metcalf but a short time before Mr. Pendleton’s decease.

It is to the generosity of Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Stephen C. Metcalf that the public and the city of Providence are indebted for this valuable collection and its fine depository and for the free opportunity to visit and examine them.

In the “Fleur de Lis,” the joint production of Mr. Sidney R. Burleigh and Mr, Willson, we have a fine bit of medizvalism both in design and execution, and it has the rare distinction that its decorations in plaster, wood and iron were designed and exe- cuted by the artist himself and with such skill of execution that in sharpness and color it is almost as perfect as on the day it was executed.

The playful conversion of an old stable, a cheap tenement and a store-house on Garnet Street into an old German Hof Brau Haus was happily done, and the brick building two doors away from the Hof Brau Haus at the corner of Weybosset Street is a skilful adaptation of plan to an irregular and very meagre lot, with well designed and interesting exterior.

The group of City Buildings on Fountain Street has always seemed to me to be not only very attractive but the buildings are,

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while dignified and of unmistakably a public and municipal char- acter, neither extravagant nor pretentious; the Lyman Gymna- sium,’ Pembroke Hall, and the Gymnasium for Women’s College for Brown University, the latter in process of building when he died, are notable additions to the college groups.

Of business blocks, | will mention only a few, omitting those in which his individual work did not dominate the design :—on Westminster Street—the Lauderdale’? and Francis Buildings, the Burrill Buildings, and the Wm. Wilkinson; and the Providence Telephone Company's Building® on Union Street. The changes in what was the “What Cheer” Building, originally designed by the father of Clifton Hall, virtually makes the front of the Providence Washington Building one of his designs; and the Providence In- stitution for Savings, also designed by Mr. Hall, is in its present form Mr. Willson’s design. The changes in the old Union Bank Building and in the Butler Mansion make these fronts notable examples of preserving the flavor of the old architecture while adapting them to the requirements of the modern storekeeper. The Y. M. C. A. Building* in Providence; the addition to and alterations of the Old East India Museum, now the Peabody Academy, in Salem, Mass., may be added to the list which might be enlarged, but I will not take your time to enumerate more.

A member of his own family says of him :—

“That he was not a very distinguished scholar—not from want of ability or industry—but because he preferred to spend his time in browsing in the library and in other literary pursuits that seemed desultory, but which gave him a rather unusual knowledge of English Classics and a cultivated taste for literature in general. As to his interest in politics and the daily life of the whole country, his habitual reading of the New York Sun, his knowl- edge of the relationship of royal families, etc., your long ac- quaintance with him makes you more fit than I to speak.”

I can add that his knowledge of families was not confined to royalty, but he took a keen delight in ferreting out relationships, not in the dry-as-dust manner of genealogists who lay the entire emphasis of their valuable research on the most minute detail. He traced in a broad way the lines of descent, the intermarriage of families, the effect of heredity, the complications of relation- ship, and the discovery of family ties often unknown and unsus- pected by those possessing them. If, incidentally, I happened to mention a family and speak of their descent or connection with others, | became the recipient of a succession of questions till he had acquired all and more than all that I knew, because of the store of knowledge which he himself possessed. In this way he had acquired more knowledge of Rhode Island people and their family relationship than most Rhode Islanders. He also took great interest in heraldry and was an authority on heraldic devices, their meaning and their proper use.

Mr. Willson was an omnivorous reader, was thoroughly versed in the history of architecture, had a tenacious memory of the noted buildings of the world, and could quickly cite an example and turn to the book containing an illustration of that which he had in his mind.

An intimate friend, of literary tastes and a professional writer, with whom he played golf nearly every week, said of him to me that he knew more about more subjects than any man he ever met, a statement that I can fully endorse.

Before coming to Providence he began to make a collection of illustrations of such buildings as interested him or served to show how others had solved problems similar to those which every architect may possibly be called upon to solve in his own practice, and for that purpose he relied very much on the large number of architectural journals—American and _ foreign—for which he subscribed, and he took most of those published.

It was his habit to run rapidly through the reading matter, saving only such as seemed to him of especial interest and im- portance, tearing out carefully such illustrations as I have re- ferred to, making himself so thoroughly familiar with them that he could remember that he had secured them, classifying them for his scrap-books into which he put them, and with his tena- cious memory not forgetting what there was in each which he had selected for preservation and future reference.

These scrap-books were of his own design and unlike any I have ever seen. The leaves to which the illustrations were at- tached were put in so that they could be readily removed for use at the draughting-table or elsewhere, or for removal from one book to another should he wish to re-classify their contents,

See “American Architect” for January 23, 1892, *See ‘“‘American Architect’ for June 30, 1894.

*See “‘American Architect” for September 16, 1893. ‘See “American Architect’? for March 3, 1888.

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both of which, with the growth of material, were of frequent recurrence. He had in this way collected one hundred and fifty- nine volumes, each holding about two hundred illustrations, and many in addition which were slipped between the leaves. Find- ing that his collection had outgrown his original system, he be- gan to put the illustrations in stiff upright envelopes in drawers of the right size, properly and alphabetically arranged.

This collection was of great value to him in the study of his designs and was of service as a handy method of readily and graphically illustrating to his clients an idea which he wished to convey, or a suggestion of treatment which occurred to him. He scarcely ever used them to copy from, but they served to stimu- late thought and afford inspiration, as good reading stimulates thought in the mind of a writer.

They ought to find their final abiding place in the School of Design, where they would be of invaluable service to the student of art and architecture in that institution; or in the Providence Atheneum or the Public Library, for reference and consultation in the art library of one or the other.

You will recall that Mr. Willson, in the sketch of his own life, says:—“In May, 1879, with a man who has been my dearest friend ever since, I went abroad and stayed till December, 1881; studying architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and traveling in France and Italy in the pursuit of my profession.” That friend—Mr. William FE. Chamberlin, of Cambridge—though through physical infirmity confined to his own home, being un- able to walk, is recognized as one of the most accomplished mem- bers of the profession; one who has under most discouraging circumstances achieved a large amount of work of distinguished merit, and has rendered invaluable service as adviser, counsellor and judge on matters architectural; an authority from whom none would think of taking an appeal. Mr. Chamberlin writes :—

“Edmund R. Willson was graduated from Harvard College in 1875, one of the youngest of his class, and began at once to study architecture. Those who knew him then will remember his ex- treme modesty, amounting almost to self-distrust, in the expression of his opinions. They will remember that before long they dis- covered that this self-effacing student's views were nearly always sound, and that he could adduce convincing facts to support them. His reading was wide and discriminating, and his mind was a storehouse of information which he knew how to use.

“After a course of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, and service in architects’ offices in Boston and New York, he went to Paris in June, 1879, and after six weeks of preparatory study he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in July of that year Here he spent two years and a half, doing the regular work of the school and interspersing his projects with many journeys in provincial France. By dint of constant reading he soon acquired an acquaintance, such as few possess, of the history of the archi- tecture of France through all centuries and through all styles. Nothing escaped him; nothing failed to arouse his interest. As a student of architecture he found nothing unworthy of attention, and he approached everything in a broad and catholic spirit, though as an architect he had his likes and his preferences. He considered every architectural product of the past an_ historical record and, as such, sacred. This attitude of mind, especially rare among young men, who are prone to extreme views and strong prejudices, stamped him as a discriminating man, and won for him the confidence of his fellows, who always looked to him for cool judgment. In planning their travels his friends found him always informed, better than they, of what was worth doing. He was a good observer, but at first he was distrustful of his ability to make sketch-book record of what he saw—but he rapidly developed a facile pencil, and when he had finished his European sojourn he had a collection of notes and sketches—not simply pretty pictures—which formed an invaluable basis for his life’s work. These diligent years bore fruit, as the fertile fancy of his subsequent work attests. Each problem of his professional life he met with scholarliness and lively imagination.

“He returned from Paris in December, 1881, and became the associate of Messrs. Stone & Carpenter, of Providence, just when we were awakening to the study of our own so-called Colonial architecture, and to this he brought his keen penetrative mind, seizing at once the essence of the various phases of the style, and reproducing its spirit as a faithful interpreter, not as an unthink- ing copyist. His professional life was a steady upward progress— a crescendo to the end.

“But all these professional attainments, high as they are, are small compared with the monument he built for himself in the hearts of his friends. Not only was his spirit gentle and generous, but there could be no ill-nature in his company. Strong in argu- ment, though not eloquent, but skilled in a sort of fence peculiar to himself, his thrusts never hurt nor left a scar.

“To know him was to love him, and those who knew him longest loved him most,

“One of his French atelier-friends on hearing of his death writes:

‘Ah! les bons souvenirs que j'ai de lui... May we all leave so sweet a memory!”’

Another of his fellow-students at the Beaux-Arts—Mr. A. W. Longfellow—writes :—

“IT can only add a few words of affectionate remembrance of the wonderful cheerfulness and earnestness of our friend which accomplished so much,

“By his joy in living and sincere purpose, mingled with a rare sense of humor, he made work more interesting and play more fun for us all, though he never lost sight of others or of our purpose to make ourselves better architects. Indeed, he had the New England conscience, well developed, but well in hand. In the Institute and in Paris at the School he added to the ‘gayety of nations’ with his rare humor and quaint ways, but never forgot that for which we were striving.

“Everything he did was individual, but showed a deep sense of what was serious and beautiful in design, so that he gained not only the respect and admiration and love of all his comrades, but was as thoroughly appreciated by the Frenchman as by his compatriots. They had amusing stories about him and his little accidents, and he has ever been the joy of all our reunions since those happy days, and we have all rejoiced in the strong, beauti- ful work which he did, and the happy home life; the rewards of his sympathetic nature and well developed taste.

“His loss to us and to the profession is irreparable, but he has left behind the impress of a strong, joyous soul, earnestly striving for the happiness of others, and for the interest of his profession, which he accomplished. To such an extent has he impressed him- self upon us that we shall ever feel his influence and help, and recall at every turn how he lightened the burden and set the pace.

“His generous criticism of others will always be a lesson to those who have worked with him, and we shall always feel that we still go on hand and hand with him, enjoying more and ac- complishing more because we have known him and loved him.”

His knowledge of architectural history was acquired in much the same way as his knowledge of men—by wide reading and personal enquiry. All of us will recall the quaint manner in which he would “quiz,” debate and throw doubt upon the state- ments of another for the purpose of drawing from him his knowledge of the subject, and often for the purpose of testing the accuracy of his own information and to correct it when he himself was misinformed or was in doubt. It was this trait, I think, that Mr. Chamberlin had in mind when he speaks of “his skill in a sort of fence peculiar to himself, though his thrusts never hurt or left a scar.”

This same spirit led him to enjoy testing his skill in solving problems and was a large factor in making him willing to enter competitions. The propriety and desirability of so doing has provoked much heated and often acrimonious discussion, has led to prolonged disputes, jealousies, bitter feeling, charges of un- professional conduct, and attempts to overthrow awards because of their being unfair and partial. The question of competition has been the subject of much concern to the A. I. A. as well as to its several Chapters; attempts have been made to formulate into codes the principles which should govern their conduct, some contending that it should be declared to be unprofessional to enter any competition which was not limited and in which every com- petitor was not paid something—preferably enough to con- pensate each for the actual outlay for the office expenses, while others, by their practice, at least, have shown that they were ready to enter every competition which promised the slightest chance of success.

Mr. Willson -did not take sides with either extreme, but he enjoyed the study of interesting and intricate problems in plan- ning. He felt that there was much to gain in their study, that it was good for the office-force to have the practice, and he seemed to enjoy the challenge to measure his strength in contests w°th his fellows.

This led to his entering a number of competitions, the result being a percentage of success much above the average. The Y M. C. A. Building; Lyman Gymnasium, Gymnasium for Women’s College, Brown University; Providence Public Library, and Barrington Town-hall were won by competition, and in not one of these competitions, so far as I know, was there a complaint as to their conduct or a kick over the award. He never entered a competition where he had a pull, and no one could accuse him of entering one which was fixed to go his way. If not successful, he accepted defeat, not without disap- pointment, but never with resentment, and he could not be in- duced to join with other unsuccessful aspirants in an attempt to overthrow the decision unless convinced that there was collusion and unfair treatment. In fact, I do not recall a single instance where he joined in an attempt to overthrow a competition, except

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A good illustration of his attitude in such matters is shown in an extract from a letter which has been sent me by a friend, who was very anxious that Mr. Willson’s plan should be selected in a competition. The plan which Mr. Willson submitted was commended and given a high rank, and though not placed first by the expert, was voted for by several on the Committee. An un- successful competitor who felt sure that he had such a pull that the job would surely come to him began in person, as soon as the expert made his report, and by the aid of the local newspaper and the help of correspondents of the Boston papers, to attempt to overthrow the decision of the expert and the Committee. This friend, who was not on the Committee, had written to Mr. Will- son in regard to his plan, the travail of the competition, and of the attempts to overthrow the expert's award; to which Mr. Willson, as all of you would know he would, replied :—

“I am very much obliged to you for telling me some of the doings of the reporters, and what of the other competitors had been regard to bringing their sets of plans before the your suggestions thereto, but in all squareness there but to accept the judgment of the commission's

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opinion of ‘nine out of ten’ goes as to which is the doubt that competitor group of his friends who would pass favorable judgment on his plan.

have no any could select a

“In our case, it was certainly because we had the promise of Mr. Chandler or some equally able expert as a judge of the plans, and the payment of something for our time and labor, which in-

duced us to go into the competition, as it was this condition which

seemed to guarantee the competition, as far as could be, from the influence of pull—either political or friendly. And I think that any competitor who has gone into this competition on the basis of the prospectus as first sent forth, and which so far has been lived ip to, has no right to make any sort of kick at the award, and I was rather sorry to see at the end of Prof, Chandler's report itself a generalization which seemed to imply that the commission might select any one of the first half-dozen or so. Of course, the

whole thing is in the hands of the Committee, and the competitors

so understood it, but the promise that the plans should be judged

by a competent expert was made, and this had been done, and in all

honor should be lived up to by all concerned. It could only be extraordinary reasons which would warrant the Commission in recommending any other plan than the one recommended by the expert Such reasons, of course, there might be, but there are none apparent in this case, and I hope that you will not take it that anything which I have written (to you) in explanation of points of our scheme was with any idea of over-riding the recom- mendations of Mr. Chandler's report, and I hope that you will use your influence to prevent any tampering with the decision

based upon it.”

He was scrupulously assiduous to observe the ethics of the profession and to elevate the standard of professional conduct relations to client, contractor, material-men fellow making the Golden Rule his guide and generously lending a helping hand to any of his professional fellows.

COMMUNICATION

THE LAST OF THE REPLEVINED NEGATIVES. To THE Epiroks OF THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT:

Dear Sirs:—Since you have given so much publicity to the re cent unpleasant affair between one of my draughtsmen and myself, | think, considering the last-comment you made, I should, in jus- tice to myself, reply to same. What the draughtsman says in regard to being employed by me, and that one of the designs he worked on was accepted in a competition, is correct, and that he wished to have copies and photographs of the work is, no doubt,

in its and

practitioners,

correct; but that he made these copies and photographs by my knowledge and consent and on his own time is not true, for he took the drawings from my office during working hours, and while I was out of the city, had them photographed, and imme- diately proceeded to show them to his friends and to the public, and it was only two or three days before he left that I was informed of this fact. Under ordinary circumstances, I should not object to any or all of my draughtsmen having photographs of the work in my office, and should hope to have them sufficiently

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interested in the work to want them, But, when they abuse their privileges, and take advantage of their employer in every possible way, it becomes, to say the least, not agreeable. I should prob- ably not have objected 40 Mr. keeping the photo- graphs if some of them fad not been of plans in a competition which had not been decided, and had I not thought it best to have all records in-my possession and kept from the public until the decision was made, I demanded that Mr. ——— return the photographs and other drawings, which he refused to do in terms more forcible than elegant, and the only recourse I had was to fight, run or lay down. I decided not to do the last two, but am very sorry that I was compelled to take the course I did, though I think, under the circumstances, I did right, and should not hesitate to do so again, should I be so unfortunate as to be compelled to. Several drawings and sketches had disappeared from the office, but I was assured by Mr. ——— that he did not possess them, but had given them away to some of the other draughtsmen who had been in my employ, he assuming that, although he had been paid for the time consumed in making them, I had no right to them!

Hoping that this explanation will put the matter in a light that will not be misunderstood, I remain

Yours very truly, J. W. Stevens.

ILLUSTRATIONS

ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL: HOWELLS &

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, N. Y: STOKES, ARCHITECTS, NEW YORK, N. Y.: SEVEN

MESSRS PLATES.

It is in some slight degree unfortunate that this building, dedi- cated to service last Sunday, so successfully handled as a com- position and so satisfactorily treated on the interior so far as color and sensuous pleasurable effects go, comes so near to being an element detrimental to the general effect of the great group of collegiate buildings on Bloomingdale Heights; its scale and its proximity to the Library are no help to that building, while the relatively smaller amount of limestone finish used therein is rather out of color harmony with the other brick buildings of the group. But these things said, there is little else about the building that calls for anything but commendation.

Up to the time of dedication it was not generally known to whose generosity the University was indebted for the building, but it at that time was made known that the building is the gift of Miss Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes and Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, as a memorial to their father and mother, James Stokes and Caroline Phelps, and by the terms of the deed of gift is to be known as “St. Paul’s Chapel of Columbia University, forever to be and remain a house set apart and dedicated to the service of Almighty God and of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior.”

Exterior views of the building were published in our issues for June 30 and July 7 last.

The furnishings and fittings of the chapel are characterized by simplicity. The carving and tarsia work of the pulpit, reading desks, choir-stalls, and organ-cases are the work of Coppede of Florence, one of the best-known wood-carvers of Italy, as the result of a competition organized by the architects in Italy, in which the three leading wood-carvers of that country, respectively active in Siena, Rome and Florence, took part. The style of the detail represents the best period of Italian wood-carving, about

1500. The chandeliers and openwork rail of the galleries are bronze, and the pavement’s large and simple patterns are defined by inlaid bands of mosaic, consisting of fragments of old porphyry and serpentine brought from Italy.

The exterior materials are of brick and Indian limestone. The interior length is 120 feet, and the greatest width is 76 feet. The interior diameter of the dome is 48 feet, its interior height is 91

feet, and it supports a simple terra-cotta lantern of some eight tons weight. The cost of the structure complete has been about $260,000, exclusive of the stained glass, choir wood-carvings, and organ. The seating capacity is 1,050.

The chancel windows are executed by John La Farge. The present transept windows are temporary, but will be replaced by memorial windows.

The windows in the dome are memorials to well-known alumni of the institution, beginning with Philip Van Cortlandt, class of 1758, donor, to Robert B. Van Cortlandt, ‘82.

THE GRATWICK RESEARCH LABORATORY, BUFFALO, N. Y. CARY, ARCHITECT, BUFFALO, N. Y.

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Las Vecas, N. M.—The Wells Fargo Company is reported to have accepted plans for a three-story building as prepared by Holt & Hart, of Las Vegas.

LittLe Rocx, ArK.—The contract for the superstructure of the union station was let to the Murch Brothers Construction Com- pany, of St. Louis, Mo. Estimated cost, $300,000. Theo. C. Link, Carleton Build- ing, St. Louis, Mo., is the architect.

LovuisviL_e, Ky.—Press reports state that the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Honor will erect a lodge building at a cost of about $75,000.

LyncupsurGc, Va.—The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company, of St. Louis, it is stated, is planning to erect a large cold storage warehouse at a cost of about $200,000.

Lynn, Mass.—The Board of Aldermen, it is stated, has voted to borrow $150,000 for the erection of a classical high school,

Mapison, Wis.—Bids are asked until noon, February 26, by the Wisconsin Capi- tol Commission, for furnishing stone for exterior facing of the Capitol, now building. Lew F. Porter, Madison, is secretary of the commission.

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MempuHis, TenN.—Chighizola, Hanker & Cairns, it 1s stated are receiving bids on an apartment house to cost $90,000 ; three stories; brick and terra-cotta; gravel roof and concrete foundations; to be erected by Carruthers Ewing, Russell Martin and Brinkley Snowden.

L. C. De Van, 6 Randolph Building, is said to be preparing plans for a residence to be erected for R. J. Darnell, on Union Avenue, at a cost of $60,000.

Reports state that Shaw & Pfeil and L. M. Weathers & Co. are preparing plans for bank and office building to be erected by the North Memphis Savings Bank; seven stories; stone, brick and terra-cotta; two electric stee] elevators; stairways and entire first floor will be built of marble tile; building to be of steel-skeleton con- struction, and the entire structure will be anchored to heavy stone piers.

MicuHicaNn City, INp.—John Wolf, of this city, it is said, will receive bids for the erection of a hotel here. Estimated cost is $100,000.

MitwavkeE, Wis.—The Milwaukee Sani- tarium Company, it is reported, has pur- chased a site on the Blue Mound Road, west of Milwaukee, and will erect a large $100,000 sanitarium during the year.

Superintendent Carroll G. Pearse, of the Milwaukee Public Schools, and a library and museum commissioner, is in charge of plans for erecting a $250,000 addition to the noted Milwaukee public library and mu- seum.,

Archbishop Sebastian Messmer has of- fered the State of Wisconsin the bishop’s residence, Chestnut Street and Cold Spring Avenue, for the new Milwaukee Normal School to be erected as soon as a site is secured and the architects have submitted plans. The building will cost $75,000.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—It is reported that Kees & Colburn, architects, have begun the preparation of plans for a store and office- building to be erected at Seventh Street and Nicollet Avenue by L. S. Donaldson. It will be ten-story, 44x127, of brick and terra cotta, fireproof construction, marble finish, plate-glass front, plumbing, gas and electric lights, freight and passenger elevators, ven- tilating system, steam heat, modern equip- ment throughout. Cost, $200,000.

The vestrymen of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church have decided to accept an offer of $250,000 for the site of the church. The offer is made by an out-of-town dry goods concern, which will erect a modern store- building there. The church has already pur- chased a piece of property at Hawthorn Avenue and Twelfth Street, and will erect a church there to cost upward of $200.000.

Reports state that a new college build- ing at St. Anthony Park will be erected by the Swedish Baptists of the Northwest. Cost, $50,000. Address Dr. Arvid Jordh, principal of the Bethel Academy, Minne- apolis, Minn.

Architects Kees & Colburn, 603 Kasota Block, it is said, have plans for a ten-story store and office building, 44x127 feet, to be

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No contracts have yet been issued for the six-story sanitarium, 38xg0.5 feet, which Howard W. Pierce, 524 West One Hundred and Twenty-third ‘Street, will erect at 116- 118 East Fifty-eighth Street at a cost of $110,000. Plans by William Strom, 39 Cort- landt Street, specify brick, stone and In- diana limestone exterior, stone coping, cop- per cornices, steam heat, tile and tin roof, and two old buildings will be demolished.

Messrs. Radcliffe & Kelley, 3 West Twen- ty-ninth Street, are about ready for figures for the four-story brick, stone and _ steel fireproof stable building, 122x98 feet, which the New York Cab Company, 13 West lhirty-second Street, will erect at 254-202 West Fortieth Street, to cost in the neigh- borhood of $300,000. James Heffernan 1s the company’s manager and has charge of the work.

The Emanuel Lehman estate will erect a four-story building at 155-157 Henry Street for the Crippled Children’s East Side Free School. Estimated cost, $150,000 Mrs. Henry Goldman is president.

Architect C. P. H. Gilbert, 1123 Broad- way, has prepared plans and specifications for a handsome new residence which is to be erected on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Ninety-second Street for Perry Belmont. It will be a five-story building of brick, stone and iron, to be handsomely finished and decorated and to have the latest improvements and appliances in all lines.

Reports state that work will soon be started on a new business building to be erected at 7 and 9 East Twentieth Street for P. Braender from plans and specifications prepared by W. C. Frohne, 26 East Twenty first Street. Plans provide for a twelve-

tory building, measuring 50x83 feet. It will be built of brick, stone and iron, fire proof, with steam heating, electric lighting, elevators, etc. Approximate cost, $350,000. Plans have been prepared by Architects

Rossiter & Wright, 110 East Twenty-third Street, for a residence at Lexington Avenue and Sixty-seventh Street for the East Sixty- seventh Street Apartment Company, 27 William Street. Cost, $520,000.

Plans have been prepared by Architects Moore & Landsiedel, 148th Street and Third Avenue, for a residence at Riverside Drive and 143d Street, for the Hawthorne Building Company, 63 Park Row. Cost, $100,000,

Architects Buchanan & Fox, 11 East Fifty-ninth Street, it is stated, are preparing plans for an eleven-story mercantile build- ing, 37x80 feet, on the corner of Sixteenth Street and Fifth Avenue. Cost, $800,000.

Reports state that plans have been pre- pared by Architects Buchanan & Fox, 11 East Fifty-ninth Street, for a residence at Sixteenth Street and Fifth Avenue, for the Hudson Realty Company, care Maximillan Morgenthau, president, 135 Broadway. Cost, $125,000.

The George A, Fisher Company, New Rochelle, N. Y., it is said, will soon begin the erection at the northwest corner of Broadway and 144th Street a high-class six-story apartment house, 99.11x90 feet. There will be apartments for thirty-four families, the exterior will be in light brick, limestone and terra-cotta. The interior will contain electric lights, steam heat, marble, tile, mosaic and hardwood finish. George Fred Pelham, 503 Fifth Avenue, 1s preparing the plans. The project, he esti- mates, will cost about $200,000.

Plans have been filed for a three-story public bath and gymnasium at 5 and 7 Rutgers Place. It is to be 53 feet front and 124 feet deep, with a facade of brick, trimmed with granite and terra-cotta, and it will have a roof garden. The building is to cost $160,000.

V. J. Hedden & Sons Company, 1 Madi- son Avenue, have been awarded the con- tract for constructing an office building, 44x 63 feet, at 70 and 72 Broad Street for the American Banknote Company, 76 Trinity Place. Cost, $250,000. Kirby, Petit & Green. architects, 37 West Thirty-first Street.

Plans have been prepared by Architects Rouse & Sloan, 11 East Forty-third Street, for a new business building to be erected at

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NorFo_kK, Va.—The directors of the First National Bank, it is stated, have secured a site at Main and Tenth Streets, and propose having plans prepared for a modern bank- ing house.

NortTHAMPTON, Mass.—Smith College is reported to have raised $75,000 toward the erection of the new college library.

OAKLAND, CaL.—Press reports state that plans are on foot looking towards the erec- tion of a $1,000,000 club house for the miners of the world. Sam Davis, of Carson City, Nevada, is reported as interested in the project.

The Oakland Y. M. C. A,, it is stated, is preparing to sell its property at the corner of Fourteenth and Clay Streets, and to erect a $300,000 building on another site.

Omaua, Nes—The Union Pacific Rail- road Company will erect a ten-story head- quarters building at Dodge and Fifteenth Streets. Estimated cost, $1,000,000,

Efforts will be made to secure an addi- tional appropriation from Congress of $200,000 for further improvements at Fort Omaha.

It is reported that the County Board is considering the erection of a new court- house. A structure to cost $1,200,000 is sug- gested.

A six-story building, 99x120 feet; near the Tenth Street viaduct, will be erected, according to reports, by the Rock Island Plow Company, Rock Island, Ill. Cost, $75,000.

Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of Chicago, have purchased the property at the northwest corner of Ninth and Harney Streets, Omaha, and contemplate the erection of a warehouse thereon. The proposed building is to be six-story, 66x132 feet, probably of concrete construction, and is estimated to cost about $80,000. W. F, Norman, 1102 and 1104 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb., is the manager of the company’s Omaha branch, and will have charge of the work.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Evers, Dodge & Day, Drexel Building, are preparing plans for an addition to the plant of S. L. Allen & Co., Fifth Street amd Glenwood Avenue. Cost, $100,000,

The Parish Association of the Church of the Immaculate Conception is reported to be contemplating the erection of a hall, stores to be on the ground floor and the upper stories to be used for hall purposes.

William Steele & Sons, Sixteenth and Arch Streets, will receive sub-bids for a six-story warehouse at Fourth and Noble Streets for the Acme Tea Company. Con- struction will be of brick and concrete, with slag roof, open plumbing, electric light fix- tures, etc. Estimated cost, $225,000.

Reports state that plans will be prepared by Wilson, Harris & Richards, architects, Drexel Building, for a store and office building, to be built at Seventeenth and Chestnut Streets for the American Baptist Publication Society. It will be a seven- story structure, measuring 44x126 feet, and will cost approximately $300,000.

Work is about to be started by the Charles McCaul Company, builders, on the erection of the large new packing plant which is to be built at the southwest cor-

ner of Thirtieth and Market Streets for the D. B. Martin Company from plans by Ar- chitect C. B. Comstock, Pittsburgh, Pa., as previously noted. Designs show a five-story building, covering 152x200 feet, to be thor- oughly modern in structure and have mod- ern machinery and appliances. Cost, $200,- 000.

Architect John T, Windrim, Common- wealth Building, it is stated, has plans for an eight-story building at Eleventh and Market Streets for the Maison estate. Cost, $300,000.

The Standard Roller Bearing Company, it is said, will add two buildings, one 50x233 feet, the other 50x60 feet, to its plant. The entire power plant will have a capacity of 2,000 horsepower, Estimated cost, $200,- 000.

Reports state that the Hires Turner Glass Company have had plans prepared by Bal- linger & Perrott, 1200 Chestnut Street, for a plant 132x275 feet. Cost, $100,000.

Pine Beacu, Va.—It is proposed to erect a 150-room addition to the Pine Beach Hotel. E. E. Dowell is manager.

PittspurGH, Pa.—Plans have been pre- pared by J. T. Comes, Washington Bank Building, for a parochial school for the St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic congre- gation. Cost, $80,000.

Plans are being prepared by the managers of the Braddock General Hospital for the erection of a new building to cost $70,000.

Thomas K. Smith, care of Mortgage Banking Company, Fourth Avenue and Cherry Alley, proposes to erect a four- story brick apartment house in North Highland Avenue. Cost, $80,000.

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Alfred Hicks, Walnut and Baum Streets, East End, it is stated will build a residence in Fifth Avenue, near Woodland Road. Cost, $100,000. No architect announced.

According to reports, Bennie Neiman, Fifth Avenue and Stevenson Street, will erect a four-story brick store building, 60x 90 feet. Cost, $75,000.

Architect Edward Stotz, Monongahela Bank Building, has prepared plans for a three-story brick and _ reinforced-concrete home on Gross Street for the Athalia Daly Home of Work for Women, 336 Fourth Avenue. Estimated cost, $75,000.

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Po_k, Pa.—It is reported that the Board of State Charities, Harrisburg, has recom- mended an appropriation of $195,000 for a custodial building for the Western Pennsyl- vania Institution for the Feeble-Minded, at Polk.

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St. JosepH, Mo.—The issuing of $200,000 bonds for the erection of a city hall is re- ported under consideration.

St. Louts, Mo.—Press reports state that C. F. Bonsack, Tobin Building, is preparing plans for an addition to the City Hospital, to cost about $800,000

Plans are being prepared by Architect William B. Ittner, Ninth and Locust Streets, for a three-story school building for the Board of Education. Cost, $180,000.

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Bids were received and the contract let for erection of an office building on the corner of Grand Avenue and Olive Street. The building will go up under the super vision of Storm & Farish, 112 North Eighth Street, who are the promoters of the struc- ture. It is to be called the Metropolitan Building, and will be eight stories high, with deep basement. Steel-frame construction will be used throughout and the structure will be fireproof. The exterior will be of glazed white brick and terra cotta, with trimmings in light cream-colored brick. The height will be 100 feet, and it will stand on a lot having a frontage of 100 feet on Olive Street by a depth of 125 feet on Grand Ave- nue. The main entrance will be from Grand Avenue. The building is being erect- ed by the Lauran Realty Company, and the contract was awarded to the Westlake Con- struction Company, Mercantile Building, St. Louis.

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E. S. Hall, of Chicago, IIl., is reported to be preparing plans for a theatre which, it is said, is to be erected at Ninth and Robert Streets, at a cost of about $100,000, by the Shubert Syndicate.

SACRAMENTO, CAL.—The Buffalo Brew- ing Company, Sacramento, will enlarge its plant, and will have a capacity producing 100 tons of ice daily. Cost, $125,000

Satem, Mass.—E. B. George, Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, writes that it is proposed to erect a court house at a cost of $800,000. Only $380,000 of this amount has yet been authorized. Architect

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San Dreco, Cat.—It was announced re- cently that the San Diego and Arizona Rail- road Company had purchased two blocks of land, bounded by H and I Streets ana Union and Columbia Avenues, upon which will be erected one of the largest railway depots in California. The building will be constructed of reinforced-concrete, and will cost several hundred thousand dollars, It will have a frontage of 300 feet on H Street, and will be 200 feet deep. An ar- cade for the trains to run under will be con- structed.

Hebbard & Gill, Grant Building, will pre- pare plans for a theatre at Third and Ash Streets for F. Lanier, of Atlanta, Ga. Es- timated cost, $100,000.

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Dp. we Reed and M. Hall, it is stated, are about to apply for a permit to erect a five- story building on Sixth and E Streets, ac- cording to plans prepared by Harrison Al- bright, of Los Angeles. Probable cost, $90,000.

It is stated that Hebbard & Gill, local architects, have been ordered to prepare plans for the theatre and apartment house to be erected by F. Lanier, of Atlanta, Ga., at Third and Ash Streets.

SAN Francisco, Cat.—The Heyman- Weil Company will erect a five-story brick business building on the site of the old Grand Opera House, on Mission Street, near Third Street. Estimated cost, $400,- 000. Albert Pissis, 307 Sansome Street, is architect.

It is reported that the Sheldon estate will erect an eight-story reinforced-concrete building on the corner of Market and First Streets. Estimated cost, $140,000.

Application has been made to the Board of Public Works by E. McLaughlin for a permit to erect a seven-story reinforced- concrete office building on the south side of Mission Street, near New Montgomery, at an estimated cost of $110,000,

It is stated that plans are being prepared by the Fourth Street Improvement Com- pany for a hotel building, 5ox160 feet, to be called the Royal House and to be erected at Fourth and Howard Streets. Cost, $135,000.

SHREVEPORT, LA.—Plans and specifications by L. S. Green, of Houston, Texas, have been adopted for the erection of a City Hall, for which a $75,000 bond issue was reported recently as voted.

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Tacoma, WasH.—The Savings Realty Company, it is stated, will erect an apart- ment building, to cost $150,000. Plans are being prepared.

University, N. D.—Bids are asked by Trustees State University, J. W. Wilker- son, secretary, until 10 A. M., March 12, for a library building at the State University of North Dakota, according to plans and speci- fications on file at the office-of the under- signed, also at the office of Patton & Miller, architects, Chicago, III.

VALLEJO, CaL.—The citizens are said to have voted in favor of issuing $60,000 bonds to erect a high school.

WALLA WALLA, WAsSH.—It is stated that the Council has accepted plans for the new City Hall building, as drawn by Architect Osterman. There will also be a fire station, the two buildings costing about $75,000.

Warm Sprincs, Va.—Board of Super- visors of Bath County will receive bids un- til February 20 for the erection of a court- house and jail building in accordance with plans and specifications on file with the County Clerk, Warm Springs, Va., and at the office of Frank P. Milburn & Co., archi- tects, Home Life Building, Washington, D. C. Certified check in the sum of $500 on some well-known bank, payable to the County Supervisors, must accompany each bid; usual rights reserved; F. L. LaRue, clerk to Board of Supervisors.

WarreN, INpv.—The trustees of the First Methodist Church are preparing to ask for bids for the erection and equipment of a home building for aged Methodists. The estimated cost is $75,000.

Wasuincton, D. C.—The Lincoln Hall Association, W. H. Rapley, manager, 1325 E Street, N. W., will rebuild the Academy of Music at Ninth and D Streets N. W., re- ported as having been burned. J. B. Mc- Elfatrick & Sen, architects, 1402 Broadway, New York, will prepare the plans and speci- fications.

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West Point, N. Y.—It is stated that sev- eral new buildings for the Military Acad- emy at West Point have been authorized in the Military Appropriation Bill, includ- ing about $1,200,000 for dormitories for the students and for a chapel.

West Union, Minn.—It is rumored that a bank and hotel building will be erected.

Wuite Prains, N. Y.—Messrs. Delano & Aldrich, 4 East 39th street, Manhattan, are ready for bids for the erection of a three- story addition to the New York Orthopedic Dispensary and Hospital building at White Plains, N. Y. The estimated cost is $100,000.

Witmincton, Det.—F. B. Tibbitts, Gen- eral Secretary Y. M. C. A., writes that plans for the new building will be submitted February 15; the following architects have entered the competition: Horace Trum- bauer, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Harding & Upton, of Washington, D. C.; Frank Miles, Day & Bros., of Philadelphia, Pa., and Parish & Schroeder, of New York, N. Y. In all probability bids for construction will be received about March 15.

Woopmerg, L. I., N. Y.—Arthur N. Peck, it is stated, has secured a site here and in- tends erecting a $40,000 residence.

Worcester, Mass.—Plans have been pre- pared for a union station at Worcester by Watson & Huckel, 1211 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa., to be used by the Boston & Maine, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Albany rail- roads. The building will cost about $400, 000, and concrete will be the chief material used in its construction.

It is stated that plans for the proposed Slater Building, to be erected on Main street, have been filed with George C. Hal- cott, Superintendent Public Buildings, by Frost, Briggs & Chamberlain, architects, 518 Main street, Worcester. The building will be eleven stories high, and will cost

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New York Blower Co., Chicago. . ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENTS.

Emmel, Charles, Boston... .

Plastic Relief Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ti. ARTIFICIAL MARBLE.

Mycenian Marble Co., New York.... ASPHALT.

Barber Asphalt puns Co., Phila-

delphia, Pa

Neuchatel As; phalt Co., “New York.

ASPHALT ROOFING.

Barber ~etpey Pontes Co., Phila- del phia. .

Bird, F. W., & Son, East’ Walpole, | Mass.

BRONZEWORK (Ornamental). ackson, Wm. H., Co., New York. Winslow Bros. Co., The, Chicago, Ill

CAPITALS AND COLUMNS.

Hartmann Bros. ined Co., LEE, Mwanshas ss e0

CARPETS, RUGS.

W. & J. Sloane, New York..........

CEMENT.

Alsen’s Cement Works, New York.

Atlas Cement Co., New York.

Universal Portland Cement Co., PE scneusetabe d's oe o00

COAL CHUTES.

Chappell Furnace Co., Morenci, Mich.

COLUMNS (Lock Joint).

Hartmann Bros. Mfg. Co., Mount Vernon, N. Y..

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION.

Gilbreth, Frank B., New York..... Underwriters’ Engineering and ‘Con-| struction Co., New York.

CONCRETE PILING.

Alling Construction Co., Chicago. Corrugated Concrete Pile Co., New Piienke« Engineering-Contracting ‘Co, ‘Balti- Miller, William L. , Boston. . wonen Concrete Pile Co., Chicago,

Mount

CONTRACTORS "AND ‘BUILDERS. Frank B. Gilbreth, New York. Underwriters’ Engineering | and Con-

struction Co., New York.

CORDAGE.

Samson Cordage Works, Boston....

CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS. American School of RAPID,

Chicago.. vp ebees

DETAIL PAPER.

Mittineague Paper Co., Mass.

DOORS (Fire aprest Metal-covered).

Fire Proof Door Co., | Minn... . Sine mat

DRAUGHTSMEN’S ‘SUPPLIES.

Favor, Ruh! & Co., New York...... Soltmann, E. G., New"York........

Mittineague,

"| Yale

Prometheus Electric Co., New York.

ELECTRIC SIGNALS.

Elevator ey & evanaad Co., New

York:. ELEVATORS, ETC. Otis Elevator Co., New York........

ENGINES (Hot Air). Rider-Ericsson pcopeanel om New

The Berger Mfg. Co., Canton, Ohio. . W. H. Mullins Co., Salem, Ohio.... See also Fireproofing. .............

. | METAL LATHING.

American Rolling Mill deood one Ohio. Hayes, New York

Truce Metal Lath Co., New York.

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Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.. Massachusetts Institute’ of Tech- nology, Boston. ee

Ohio State University, “Columbus, Ohio..

Society of Beaux- Arts” ‘Architects, The, New York.

University of Michigan, ‘Ann Arbor.

University of Pennsylvania, Phila-

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York. MINERAL WOOL. delphia, Pa FILTERS. U. S. Mineral Wool Co., New York. . Washington University School | of Lopate Messing Filter Co., Phila-/ MORTAR COLORS. Engineering - an, &. delphia, Pa. - Jenene Saml. H. French & Co., » Pidiadsighia, Louis, Mo. . FIREPROOFING. Pa.. ; * | SHEET-METAL WORK. Associated Expanded Metal Co.,| PAINT. ad Mfg. Co., “om. oO. New York. Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., jeseny H. Mullins Co., Salem, O. Clinton Wire Cloth Co., Clinton, Mass. City, N. J Hi S. Thorn Co., Philadelphie, ‘Pa...

Expanded Metal and Corrugated aor Co., St. Louis. .

Gilbreth, Frank B., “New York.

Imperial Expanded Metal Co., ” Chi- cago.

National = Co.. New York.

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J. W. — Chicago, Ill. PLASTER ORNAMENTS.

‘| SKYLIGHTS, ETC. Burt Mfg. Co., Akron, Ohio........ George Hayes, New York.......... H. Mullins Co., Salem, O......

National Fireproofing Co., Pittsburgh, Saanael "eae a Con ., Phila- Vaile & Young, Baltimore, Md..... Pa.. : delphia, Pa. ....| STAIR TREAD. Trussed Concrete Steel Co., Detroit., American Mason Safety Tread | Co., Underwriters’ Engineering and Con-| PLUMBING GOODS Boston. . . struction Co., New York... Wolff, L., Mfg. Co., Chicago. .

FIREPROOF LATHING.

ayes, Geo., New York..........|

Standard. Sanitary = Co., ’ Pitts-| TAPES AND RULES.

burg, Pa.

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Lufkin Rule Co., Saginaw, Mich....

FLOOR POLISH. \PNEUMATIC TANKS. ~ | Tia Nor ? Butcher Polish Co., Boston........| Kewanee Water r Supply Co. Wek, T ee * Terra-Cotta Co.,

|GLASS GLOBES. Holophane Glass Co., New York... | GRATES, MANTELS, ETC.

| Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn. & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford | GMMR, «000 . | HEATING ‘APPARATUS | (Hot Water) Gurney Heater Mfg. Co., aon. H. B. Smith Co., New York.

. | HEATING ~y (Steam).

.| Smith Co., B., New York.

INSULATED La. The Okonite Co. (Ltd.), N. Y.

| INTERLOCKING RUBBER TILING.

See Tiles (Interlocking Rubber)... . |

MAIL CHUTES.

| Wm. H. Jackson Co., New York... | .| HARDWARE.

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Cutler Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y....|

MARBLE-WORKERS. Batterson & Eisele, New York. .. The Robert C. Fisher Co., New York.

nee, Ill.

| PRISM LIGHTING.

American Luxfer Prism Co., pbicage. Holophane Glass Co., New York. PUMPS. Rider-Ericsson EngineCo., New York. REFLECTORS. I. P. Frink, New Yor Holophane Glass Co... _ York. | REINFORCED CONCRETE. Clinton Wire Cloth Co., Clinton, Mass. Expanded Metal and Corrugated Bar Co., St. Louis. Gabriel Concrete Steel Co., ; ‘Detroit,

Mich.. Gilbreth, Frank 2. “New York.

Keasbey "& Mattison ‘Co.,

See also ‘Asphalt Roofing. . SASH-CORD. Samson Cordage Works, Boston. ...

Ambier,

TILES. Jackson, Wm. H., Co., New York...

S he Cptetiodiing Rubber). Y. Belting and Packing Co., Ltd., we York.. Pennsylvania ‘Rubber’ Co., * Jeannette,

. "| TIN AND TERNE PLATES.

American Sheet & Tin Lcd Co., Pittsburg. . ‘

VALVES AND PACKING.

Jenkins Bros., New York..........

VENTILATING APPARATUS.

New York Blower Co., Chicago......

Thomas & Smith, Chicago..........

Trussed ‘Concrete Steel Co., Detroit. | VENTILATORS. _, |TRONWORK (Orgemented. Turner Construction Co., New York.| Burt Mfg. Co., Akron, Ohio........ | oon ts Wm ,Ca, Xa York. Underwriters’ Engineering and Con-} Globe Ventilator Co., Troy, N. Y.... | H. Malis € Co., Salem, Ohio. : struction Co., New York........ WATERPROOFING. Winslow Bros. hy The, Chicaée, W. N. Wight & Co., New York......| Bird, F. W., & Son, East Walpole, LAUNDeY MACHIRERY. "Americas Ghost & ia ‘Plate C —- merican eet in ate Co., ‘| Troy pouatey ey on Bescon Pittsburg WATER SUPPLY § Sl ce. Co., Kewa- 5 # a Asphalt Paving Co., Phila- nee, Ill..... ;

LIGHTNING "RODS. phia.

WEATHER VANES.

T. 'W. Jones, New York. ...........| me. | F. W. & Son, East Walpole, T. W. Jones, New York............

WINDOW LINE. Samson Cordage Works, Boston...

-..+.|WIRE GLASS WINDOWS. George Hayes, New York, N. Y.. James A. Miller & Bro., Chicago, Ti.