Texas State Association of Architects

Acme Brick Co., San Antonio, Texas. Vandever Building Products Co., Houston, Texas. C. H. Ruebeck Brick Co., Waco, Texas In completing the floor of a quay wall at Balboa, a squad of five West Indian masons laid 96,000 bricks in ten hours. The Alamo Iron Works of San Antonio is well known to the architects of Texas and their Mr. Holmgren has always taken a personal interest in handling business entrusted to them. His acquaintance with the trade extends over a period of many years and his attendance at our state conventions keeps alive the personal good feelingwe have for him. The Editor supposes that is the reason he neglected to send in copy for the year book.

Wisconsin Architects to Be Registered An architects’ registration law has been passed by the Wisconsin Legislature providing that after Jan. 1, 1918, no person doing business in Wisconsin shall make use of the title architect, or so represent himself without a certificate of registration. A board of five ex- aminers will have full power to prescribe rules and regulations for the examination and registering of architects. Candidates will be re- quired to submit satisfactory evidence as to their thorough knowledge of building construction, building hygiene, architectural history and mathematics. Five years’ experience is also required. In lieu of examination, the board may accept a diploma of graduation from a recognized architectural school supplemented by at least three years’ experience. Examination may also be waived in cases where an architect is registered in another state or county having satisfactory standards. Any person already engaged in the practice of architecture at the time of the passage of the bill may receive a certificate without examination.

Another one of our contributors, who failed to get in copy for the Year Book, is the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. However, as they state that they will have several representatives in attendance at the convention, we will probably know all there is to know about them and their products, particularly as they intend to have an extensive exhibit. Of course we all know in a general way what they sell and who they are, but as Mr. Jackson has promised to attend the convention in person, he will no doubt explain in detail anything we might want to know. Anything that is standing still is getting ready to move backward. One valuable forest tree at least is withstanding the inroads of axe and fire. This is the white birch, sometimes called the paper birch or canoe birch, since it furnished the Indians the material for their famous canoes. The opinion has been ventured by the Forest Service that more white birch is now growing in the United States than was the case two hundred years ago. It spreads rapidly over spaces left bare by forest fires, but it is a short lived tree and does not prosper where it has to compete with other trees for light and soil. No other wood as hard as birch can be worked with so little dulling of

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