Telegram-herald., 1891-12-06
LIMIT TO TALL BLOCKS
AMERICANS HAVE ASTYLETHEIR Own
IL Drawing PiAas Tor Bsitdtags Beth
fer ks.iasoss ana bssissss-s hieags
BEL sls lts with Nev xssh.
Gessip y of the Hotels.

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tures. Three years ago snlls building
the Auditorium At Chicago. ne fell
froai the second story 10 the basement,
. distance of forty feet. slnce then he
has done no extensive building. but has
devoted hls time 10 oaiIding grani e
mausoleums and designing granite
monuments. IL DO THIS k;ni Of work, :"
ne said yesterday. because IL - easier
Oh me tn In It is 10 take large collracts.
Since the first OF last January. have
butt fourteen mausUl-ums, varying
from $4,000 10 $4,000 in COS. The
Brown ,nsuso!eua wnlch lam building
here will cost about $ii ,0O0."
In speaking OF American archt &C.
ture, Mr.. HIpsdsie SAID; "Asaerscan
architecture 10 distinct in iis style. IL
Is utterly unlike anything else. Every
great architect IN tins country has cer-
tain distinctive forms which Character
ize hls work. For instance, Wnite OF
New York has y CERTAIN styis which 10
displayed in all his work; Burnlam or
Chicago has u style peculiarly his owp.
The Result Is that American architecture
il puri l. conventional and re-
fleets te mind OF tie people.
American architects are not
nanperei 10y any strict adher-
tn ~ 10 CLASSICAL models. OF courss,
ciass.cism Is followed when it will bs of
value; but he is under no obllgat ons to
follow classical models as European
architects are; he is free to develop his
own originality.
Only Two Lines OF Work.
OF course, there are only two lines in
existence with which architects can
work; ti Csc are the straigut aud curve.
ana ever. thing Is modification OF
these. 1t is AS these lines ar. gwen
prominence in combinat o. that sprci :
tic styles Of architecture are developed.
think the architecture Il th.s coun-
try Is of = higher tyne OF beauty from
an American STANDPOINT than European
architecture. New York and Boston
architecture IS a. q nucn higher type
than that OF the west. You can {
build suca buildings in Chicago Us you
can in New York. built Vanderbilt
house IN New York, but / wouidn',
III nix Of ever building anything like
that in Chicago. Still the west Is work.
ing toward higher type, But III New
York and Boston they are paving al
most q, mucn attention to beautiful
architecture In business blocks AS III
resi iences."
''Spsaklng of business blocks, what
are they going to be IN the futureY
asked the reOorier. "Well, in Chicago
at least, ] think they are going 10 stol
8 little nearer TO the earth, hereafter
think they will limit tnem to twelve
stories there. They certainly ought to-
1t 10 not safe to run buildings up to
such height, and It certainly isn't
comfortable. The new building of the
Erust company's here is an essential
type of The modern business block AID
vast It will be for sone time. Such
buildings are practically treproof. ]
think u is possible to build
an absolutely tireproof hotel ol
Office building. In q building
intended for dry goods, drugs. paints
etc, this is impossible b,sa ,se the
quantity of combust,hls gosds IN the
building 10 sufficient to warp the steel
and tear down the whole concern il II
onre became ,gnited; but in an ordi-
nary hotel all the furniture might be
burned out of q room and the stee
gifters not be warmed. Wooden grid
erS with fireproof supports are best oil
q dry govds building. That Is the way
built Msrsnsl Fields big store u
Chicago, and he certainly Mouldu'
have anyth ng that wasn't the best"
Bayiis'. "AttAr OF Roses."
The latest thug in "skin games
made its appearance at the Mortor
house cigar stand yesterday. 1t is 1
very harmless looking little bottl,
iabied "Minnehaha peifumery." tn,
attention of the unsasp.cious travelins
nan is called to 1t: and he fcrthwitt
scizes one Of the bottles and pulls tn
cork Ont with the intention ot abs ,rbins
Of roses. He doesn't smell anything II
particular, but teels stream OF luke
warm water trickle down his sleeve ant
gurgle nerrily as it drips of at IN
elbow. He then leads the way INTO tn,
bsr-room. followed by hsppy throns
of fiisnds, and the profanity OF tn,
next victim is blended with tie Set 'en
up again" OF the first man who toyet
with the deadly machine.
Gossip Of the Hotels
q. p. Chapel, n Sand Lake druggist
vas at the Clarendon yesterday.
w. II. Beverly, . Msn,stee cigal
mauufacturcr, 10 "a guest NJ Sweets.
X. a. Peters, the we'll known lumber
man, was . guest at the Morton ycster
day.
A. 9. English. . prominent lumber.
man Of Engishville, 10 ~ the Bridg
street house.
+. Z. Young. prominent horsemau
of st. John. was ~ the Bridge stree
house yesterday.
l.. Mcknight Sellers. editor Of th,
Cedar Springs Ciipp~r. was at The Nor
ton yesterday, disguised in new sili
hat.
Thomas Copp OF Fruitport 10 .
Sweets. Mr.. Copp is proprietor Of
general store and . sAwmill IN th q
town.
Levi SchcfeId of Grand Haven, job,
Cole. . Frrn,oat iumberman. and J. j
Bales. . Iskeview iumberman. w.
among yesterdays guests ~ the Clar
| endon.
Col. n. c. Duryes, government her
Dor inspector 81 Grand Maven, was q
the Norton yesterday. He repurs tn,
| harbors of the east shore 20 be sa Zoo.
cond,siou. aad was hopeful OF the n-r
congress msting some large appsoprl
| ations for them.
E.P. Barnard of Menominee, pres
dent of the Detroit Lunber company
10 q sueet at sweet's- be ssys tsst
large amount os lun befing WI b. don
! IN the northern peninsula this Writes
There is plenty of snov there nov, an