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Vol. 111. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST, 1892. No. 10.
PUBLISHER’S ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE publisher takes
great pleasure in announcing that
the services of Major Chas. W. Hubnir, of this city
have been secured as office editor of The Southern
Architect. His duties will begin with %e next
numj
ber. Mr. Hubner is an accomplished ionrnlHtaj, of marffv
years’ experience and perfectly equipped for the respon-
sible duties which will devolve upon him. As editor,
author and writer on Art and
Literature, he has done dis-
tinguished service and his name is a familiar one
throughout the South. He will devote his talents and
his time to the columns of The Southern Architect
and make it in every particular a publication of the
highest order of merit, one that the South will be proud
of and which shall stand second to none in the United
States.
Many improvements in The Southern Architect
are contemplated and neither labor nor expense will be
spared by the management to make this
journal all it
should be as the representative of Southern Architecture
and of the marvellous progress of the South. The equip-
ments of the office are first-class and the publication fa-
cilities unexcelled, the Franklin Publishing House be-
ing the finest and most extensive in the South, and
equaled by few in the North. We bespeak for The
Southern Architect the continued favors and
patronage of the public and the earnest interest of archi-
tects throughout the
country
in its
success,
and we re-
spectfully solicit their active co-operation. We desire
communications touching upon architecture in its
prac-
tical and esthetical departments, and especially applica-
ble to the South.
Contributions and suggestions will be thankfully re-
ceived and shall have personal attention.
The Southern Architect Pub. Co.,
Geo. W. Harrison, Manager.
A
CASE of outrageous professional treatment recently
occurred in Chicago which calls for the severest con-
demnation on the
part of all fair-minded men.
Several weeks ago a large seven story building, in
course of construction, collapsed, killing and injuring
several people. Immediately, two or three architects
tendered their services for the purpose of proving their
professional brother in charge of the building guilty of
gross carelessness in the methods of construction, claim'-
ing before the coroner’s jury that the timbers were not
properly anchored and that the work was poorly exe-
cuted from cellar to roof. On expert testimony of this
Character, it is not surprising that Architect Mills was
field to the grand jury for manslaughter and that finally
selen indictments were found against him.
J| scarcely seems possible, in this age of equal rights,
thaftsuch acts of injustice can be
perpetrated, especially
in view of the fact that several reliable witnesses testified
thiJpthe wind and lightning.destroyecl the building, and
th|l the methods of construction employed were perfect,
the work good.
r The editor of the National Builder personally inspected
the buildings, ader the accident, for the purposed deter-
mining how far the testimony of these expert architects
was based on the facts, and was surprised to find that
there was no reason,
from a mechanical point of
view,
for condemning either the architect or the work.
While it is well, on the score of public safety, to closely
inspect large and high buildings during their construc-
tion, and carefully scrutinize plans and drawings pre-
pared by architects of doubtful reputation or limited ex-
perience, yet we must remember that certain restrictions
are put upon architects by owners themselves, which
govern considerably the character and cost of buildings,
and as a consequence,
the blame for
poor work is not
always placed where it belongs.
We doubt not but in the experience of every architect
of extended
practice, there have been cases where the
ultimatum
was, to either meet a certain
expenditure of
money,
of give way to some one who
could, and while*
architects of reputation may be able to refuse work
when offered to them under these conditions, there are
members of the profession who, from a financial stand-
point, cannot afford to lose a client, hence the problem
of designing a building which shall not only meet the
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Editorial 235
Outrageous Professional Treatment 235-236
Cyrus W. Field’s Death 236
Decorations 237-237-238-239
Illuminating Building Interiors 239-240
Future Electrical Advancement. 240
Illustrations.... 241
The Decorative Features of Sculpture.... 941 _
c
>49_94. >
Disposal of Sewage from Isolated Dwellings 243-244
Value of Sleep. 245
The Parthenon Frieze....
nmm.wij
°45
Burdette on the Life of ....
!*!?!S^45-246
Blue Paper Printing .3t246
...
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Building, Construc^i#P:And Engineering....
247-^
Domestic Sanity 249-251
Trades 251-252-253
Trade JSEi>,#s 253
Building Notes. 254-255--256-257-258-259-260

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