Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-18
GREAT CATHEDRAL
! FOR WASHINGTON
LONDON ARCHITECT TO DE
SIGN EDIFlCE
His Work Is SO Well Known That NJ
One Can Take offense at the
choice-Amerleans After
British Iron Mines
nv W. HAMILTON RHODES
able to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE decision of
the Protestant Episcopal church in the
United states to intrust to G. F.
Bodley, r. A., the preparation of the
designs for great cathedral at Wash
ington has not been received with dis
favor here.
A New York architect. now in Lon
don, in an interview, said that Mr..
Bodley's ecclesiastical work was so
well known and appreciated in the
States that no American could possibly
take offense at the selection.
ut is to be hoped that a really fine
cathedral will be built in Washington -
he said "In the building of offices and
town and country mansions and the
like, American architects, who have as
a rule all studied in Europe, have
nothing to learn, but in ecclesiastical
work they are distinctly unlearned.
"The Gothic art, too, is almost lg.
nored In America, the prevailing craze
being for the italian school. No bet
ter selection could have been made
than that of Mr.. Bodley.
Mr.. Bodleys manager said that lit
tie was known of the site selected be-
yond the fact that it was on very high
ground.
"Mr. Bodley received a personal visit
this summer from the bishop of Wash
ington," he said, land the final arrange
ments were made recently by cable.
''Mr. Bodley leaves next week for
Washington, and will remain a month.
Harry Vaughn, with whom he
will work on the designs, is a promi-
nent Boston architect"
The North Mail sees in inquiries
for iron in the Tees-side district the
possibility of a coming American at
tempt to corner the commodity.
Some good judges think the for
eign demand may take the whole avail
able English supplies. If they do, then
the price of Cleveland pigiron will in
crease materially.
Pigiron is certainly in the throes
of a "boom," which will, it is fondly
believed, carry prices higher than for
years. 1t comes about from the busy
trade proceeding abroad-in Germany
aespecially-but American doings are
now receiving a share of attention to
which they have long been stranger.
Certain it is that today there is alb
solutely not enough pigiron and steel
in Germany to give consumers what
they want.
Has None to Sell
Six months or so ago the inability
Eof Germany to sell to many British
gusers would have been almost a mat
Kter of Indifference, for America was
then a seller. Today America, like
Germany, has not an ounce of stuff to
sspare. On the contrary, she has bought
items of thousands of tons of pigiron
there.
Eugene e. Schmitz, the mayor
eof San Francisco, who has been in
sLondon, is authority for the statement
sthat the new city which is now being
built will be the finest in the world
Eand that skyscrapers will be forbid
eden.
= However deplorable the earthquake
Sand fire may have been,' he said, at
Iserved good purpose. San francisco
e was not fit home for the people who
rhad to make it such. Founded sixty
years ago as a sort of makeshift resi-
dence for a mere HANDFUL of people,
it grew to be an immense city on in
sufficient foundations. 1t fell hesi-
tate to say providentially-and in its
place is rising the finest modern city
in the world.
$50 rapid has been the transforma-
tion that calculations show that for
every forty-five minutes that have
elapsed since that dreadful April Is
a new building has been erected
'The towering buildings known as
skyscrapers are to be forbidden, ex-
cept in the case of those which remain
SLeiilhliiSs
"In the States we assess our sites
and not our buildings, so that in or
der to achieve the best results land
lords build as high as possible on
their assessed sites. There is, how
ever, a greater consideration than this
I refer to the health of the community.
I'm England you will build your
houses and offices so as to allow the
sun to get into the streets. In the
future we are going to follow your
example, and we shall not permit any
building to be erected in the new San
Francisco which exceeds in height
one and half times the width of the
street"
Bogus Shares
BY means of bogus shares in a COM
pany called the American Mining, Mill
ing and Smelling company, Mark An
thony Young, aged Sc, an engineer, and
Henry Jonas, aged SO, a surveyor, sue
ceeded in obtaining from the public
all over the country many thousands