The record-union., 1893-12-11

arches are brick-and forming masonry
substructures 10 every floor, while there
is not wood partition in the building.
The roof is of slate supported throughout
by steel trusses, as more explicitly de-
scribed further on in this article. The
pillars supporting the second floor above
the great workroonl, are also of iron,
finished in white plaster.
THE INCLOSURE.
The whole inclosure of the building
came under the contract of Harvie Il
Kreuzberger, the well-known masonry
and building contractors of Sacramento,
whose work is found in the best struct-
ures of the city and vicinity into which
masonry enters. Their contract called
for ali the walls, from the monolithic
slab that forms the footing thirteen feet
below the basement To the last stone of
the handsome tower Us feet above; all
the piping and iron work, the slate roof
ing, etc.
Their contract called for Sl65, 200, and
they sublet to Carlaw Bros. for granite
and stone work; to j. w. Guthrie for the
piping; to II. X. Wallace d Co. for stating
and Palm Bros. for the iron work. The
brick work and masonry they retained TO
themselves. All the brick was burned
by them in Sacramento and especially
with a view TO securing special hardness.
brick, laid in cement and tied to the
stone every yard with heavy galvanized
iron anchors.
These walls are in the tower from four
feet thick to two and a half at the top,
and in the main building they are two
feet from the basement throughout their
hight.
The walls inside are lined through
out with hollow terra Gotta firing, SO
tI oir
along all the walls from basement to
roof. The stating in the roof is California
production and as good as any in the
world, and was selected with special
painstaking. 1t is laid upon sheeting on
steel beams and i'll the best manner
known to the roofing trade.
HARvIE d KREUZBERGER,
In addition to the wall construction, had
the placing of all the floor masonry,
which is, on the first floor of brick
arches springing between steel beams,
and in the other floors terra Gotta arches
between steel beams, so that except
| through openings, fire could not pass
| from one floor to another. They placed
under their contract, also, all the steel
| beams throughout the building.
| Experts who have examined their
work, and work done under them, from
! time to time, during its progress, declare
to us that finer job has not been done
| anywhere in the United States Of which
! they have any account. Every possible
| care that skill and wisdom and trained
| experience could suggest was taken tC
make every detail perfect, and thus raise
| a monument to the credit OF the firm that
will remain TO it capital in trade so long
as the copartners 1--we.
| CARLE CONTRACT FOR INTERIOR WORK.
Silas Carle of Sacramento, than whom
no contractor and builder is better known
| in interior California, had the contract
! for all the interior work, except the
| lighting, heating and closet plumbing.
! Mr.. Carrie, for the magnitude of his con-
tracing, his push, energy and vigor,
| stands foremost among California con-
! tractors. In this case under his contract
! the concrete work in the basement was
done by John McGillivray; plastering by
/ ID. j. ManniX; iron work, Palm Bros.
and Charles A. Palm; mantelS, A
Aitken; copper work, IL. X. Wallace d
Co., all of Sacramento; glazing, Whittier
| Fuller IL Co., San Francisco: painting
and polishing, b. Y. Hobson, Berkeley;
tile and marble, Inyo Marble Company
San Francisco, with placing of same by
j. H. Deyine and Robert Farley, Sacra-
mento.
Entering the mail work-room, the
visitor is struck at once by the workman
ship in the wood finish OF the doors, win
! dows and siX-foot wainscoting. The
wood is all selected white oak, finished
in natural grain, and almost to a piano
surface. The joinery is not less perfect
not joint being defective, and none being
easily discernible. In the tower floor;
and in the basement the wood is al
larch; on the three other floors white oak
The flooring is one and quarter selected
white maple, dressed down, scraped
polished and oiled, producing beautiful
effect.
EXCELLENCE OF WORK.
In no piece of work of such magnitude
have we anywhere seen such excellence
all around in a public structure. Here
| and there a cabinet or q counter may
equal it. but no work in quantity tha
! surpasses it. The window frames are O.
n style resembling the Eastlake, heavy
and rich with block finish, hand-caryeC
rosettes, and heavy panels.
The doors are very beautiful, and fin
ished in the best style known to suci
work, having first had wood filler o
shellac, then three coats of hard oil, anC
then being rubbed down to fiat or deaC
polish, giving a hnish chaste, rich, en-
during.
All the painting in the building is OF
iron work, and this is ali frst-claSs. Th
hardware for the doors, windows ant