New-York daily tribune., 1858-06-30
p.n.ion. ard cou.n s.iou. that weul. speedily

pansiDns a. q c0uithcuOLs I3N ~eui- sPoS"y w
fatal. Then came the remenstraLces of peghbors,
who complsifed TO tie authorities against tie dan
Ger Of the lew building falling down aud erushIng
them. Sane of them actually abatdontd their
prenists from this cause These complaints occa-
SO. I'd tie work 70 stop--tbe public thought the
tItsrpIie had beer given up. But the auihorit eS
r. ported thai there vas 20 dao2er ard the @Ork
vert ID to completion. Such are on'y a ie" oi
the fficu,iea agcin,t which the inventor OF IRON
hou3es eoLt nd.j.
Bot succe.s was rapidly followed By general
appreciation of the once despisad material. Ii Was
row seen I'll 1t iron bulldogs combine uneq1,ed
advantages of Crnsnent, strength, durability aud
economy, While they ale 81 the same time aoso
lnteIy secure sgsinst danger frou FIRE, ff0m lgot'
uirg and the elements. This estimate OF tself
value tas Continued 10 tie present tune. The
happy adaptation OF lion 10 purposes OF oEna-
nt bt AID decoration has II Us been made available
in hrirg our great therousLlare' with monumenfs
of archise ctural ergaLce. Flutsd columns AID
Corinihiaa capitals, tie most elaborate cNTiogs,
apd the Iirbs,t desigus wb'ch tie architect may
have dieaIned Of bu. did rot dare 10 Represent 10
bis tl1tt, nay noT be reproduced for Little more
than the cost Of Ordinary castings. The marble
capital upon every column OF the Girsrd College
cost 81 900 fcr the labor Of the chsel expended
upon it. 1t could be reproduced in iron icr
tenth Of that sun, mste,isi included. Ornamental
architecture ttus becomes practicable everywhere
Tie great practical problem which our townsman
l,.cs ,taj in vip ahe sk-pnuth N
soldi.y ~ al iron structure many stories high. Ii
is on this point that bis great merit 40 an Inventor
depends. His iron lls are made Of equL thick
Bess BY tie pauipg mschiuc, and fastered together
with bolts. On the joints OF the sllls stand TIE
columns or psstsrs, aIl exactly equal in hight aud
bayirg both their eds faced in lathe so as to
make them true and parallel, while each column
10 bolted 10 the ends Of the tTO adjscent sllls on
which il rests. These columns support another
series of ss or cornices. ia sections of the same
psth as the former, but of greater hight accord
ng to tie design Of the architect. The PAnlng
machine brings everything together firm and true;
and so the structure boted together, continually
for auy number OF stories. The spaces between
the columns are filed with windows, doors and
panels either plain or highly ornamented. The
.eparste portions of the structure are thus united
Ito one compact whole, equivalent in strength to
sirgle casting. A mechanical advantage is that
such building may be erected with extraordinary
facility aid at any season Of the year. 1t needs no
plumb, DO square, no level. AS quickly as the
pieces can be handled they may be adjusted and
secured by woibmen Ct ordiaary capacity, and the
bui ding cannot fail to be perpendicular aad firm
Wedges, mortises and chains are all unknown as
parts Of Mr. Boearduss invention. Such build
ing may be taken TO pieces with surprising ease
ard dispatch, without ifjnry to any of it's parts,
aud then retrected elsewhere with the same per-
fectOn as at frat.
Ten years have worked total revolution in pub
lie opinion touching the pTactcability Of iron
houses. TheD, cast iron was but little used for
building purposes. But the example of using it
for entire dwellings has become contagious ESeTy-
where we see it introduced, and every year adds
many new objects to which it has been applied.
Iron is fast becoming king. The magnitude OF its
consumption has long been held to be the test of
national civilization. Yet, while this new aad al
most buundess field for its employ has just
bren opened by the persistent Ingenuity Of single
mind, the Government steps in and blasts the hopes
and ant:cipatOns Of both producer and consumer.
improvement is paray zed, building stands still, the
furnace is blown out, the foundery fire is extin-
euishsd, labor is robbed of its reward, and the
extraordinary spectacle is presented of nation OF
idle workers standing in the market-place, no man
having employed them. Whole cities might be
built up of iroD, if a policy prevailed in which
grain of c. mmon sense existed as the leaven. If
tie past ten years has done so much to revolution
ise the architecture of our cities, in face too Of
policy hostile to all honest labor, how complete
change the next ten would witness, if that labor
which now begs the privilege to toll, could only
secure 1.-THE of the encouragement which ought
to be extended to ii.