No Wood in This Building

1905

Baltimore Architects Seem to Have Evolved Fireproof Structure

Two Baltimore architects have drawn plans for a building entirely without wood. It will be six stories and will have a frontage of 41.5 feet. The entire structure is to be of reinforced concrete and steel. Even the doors, trims, window sashes and door jambs are to be of metal.

The windows will be glazed with wire glass. The frame for the show windows will be of steel, into which the plate glass will be fitted. The side walls, columns and rear walls as well as the supporting columns of the front walls will be of concrete. The floors will also have a top dressing of cement one and a half inches thick. The stairs will be of concrete, with slate treads and wrought iron balustrades. The elevator shaft will be of concrete, as will also the enclosure around the stairway and the elevator hall. The cellar and roof are to be of cement.

In order to eliminate all wood, even the flagstaffs on top will be of steel. — Engineering Mining Journal.


Busts in Butter

Not long ago a dinner was given by a novelist in London, at which all the butter on the great table was in miniature busts of noted authors.