Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-03-08
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 Choass aa Architect.
 Building committees arc too often ct the mercy of tricky schemers and ''fakirs. There are So called arrhi- tects who lay themselves out to de- Jude this class oi clients, The writer well remembers an instance of this. kind. In the coure of A visit to a friend living in city that may be called Boardville. his host happened Go mention that he was member of . church buildiug committee, and one evening he begged to be excused in order to attend a committee meet ing. 4 great New York architect was coming to submit plans for the new church. My host returned home de lighted with the New Yorker
 Hes a fine fellow. said my host. You should hear him talk. He has the building at bis finger ends and speaks of the smallest detail as though he loved it Such nndoubsed ability Such mastery He has planned a church that win be tho gem of the city. and after looking at his drawings one can understand one very striking remark he made.
 What was thatf"
 ''Oh. be said it had been the dream of his life to build R church like that - the dream of his life. like to see a man 90 earnest and enthusiastic. l am going to vote for him. and so are more than half of the rest Of the committed
 So the enthusiastic architect was chosen. It was only when it was found that the lowest builders esti- mate that could be obtained for the building of the church was 90 per cent more than the architects esti- mate. and also that after the work had been begun very important changes in construction had to be re sorted to in order to make the build- ing safe that this genius begun to be worshipe,l with less adoring hom- age. Moreover. the church was found tO look very much less impos- ing tn reality than it had in the drawings. in which advantage had been taken of every trick of drafts manship and shading to produce ef- fective tout ensemble.
 Two years later the writer was in vited tO pay visit to a relative at, we will say. Grandejou. Strangely enough. his host upon this occasion was also member of a church build ing committee He. too. was absent one evening at committee meeting, and on his return the writer was sur. prised to find that the identical New York architect before mentioned had been interviewing the committee.
 Well. does the architect meet your viewsf~ said the visitor.
 Exactly He isA very fine fellow. Really 8 remarkable man. said the host impressively.
 "Indeedl"
 "Yea. Such mastery of his sub feet. You should hear himi He is a thorough genius He says it has been the dream of his life to build church like the one he proposes. but he has never had the opportunity until now.
 He had quite taken the committee captive by his pretty drawings and his eloquent talk He was, in fact. a clever drummer who could draw.
 He understood next to nothing of scientific construction. rarely made a calculation as tO strains and stresses, put in deep shadows in his drawings where there was no varied outline in the profile of the building itself to justify tt, and drew attractive figures in the foreground which, by their ridiculousiy small comparative size, elevated the fictitious edifice on pa per into grand proportions When he got hold of a building committee, he conquered them by his clever readiness and fiattered them in a way that his exquisite perception of char Acter rendered possible. Engineer tng Magazine