The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-04
Pittsburg's s5,ooo,ooo Present
From Andrew Carnegie
Nearing Completion.

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 4.-Nothwith-
standing the sympathetic strike of the
building trades, which delayed great
ly the concluding touches on the new
Carnegie Institute, Galleries and Lii
brary, the last of the construction
work on the enlarged institute, Andrew
Carnegie's $5,OOO,OOO gift to the people
of Pittsburg, will be completed in six
weeks and the magnificent new build
ing at Schenley park entrance will be
ready to turn over to the institute
board some time in October.
William Miller & Sons, the contrac-
tors, fixed on this date during the
present week after careful survey
of the progress of the work, which is
now going on as rapidly as before the
strike. We're the completion of the
buildings the only thing necessary for
the holding of the dedicatory exercises
on the regular Founders Day date in
the fall, the first Thursday of Novem.
ber, it would not have been necessary
to postpone the elaborate dedication
exercises until April II OF next year.
But the work of furnishing the great
building, and the installation of the
museum, the art galleries and the i'm
portant adjuncts to the institute will
require months. The enlarged art
galleries will be the last of the build
ing to be in shape to be given over to
the board of trustees by Alden & Har-
low, the achitects.
Turning 1t Over Piecemeal.
The rooms of the giant institution
are being turned over to the board of
trustees one by one, as they are COM
pleted. Hence the work of occupation
is proceeding in one part OF the build
ing while the construction an dinterior
decorating forces are still at work in
another. The object is to give the
management of the institute the ad-
vantage of very day possible in the
installation of the valuable contents
of the structure. 1t is not likely the
institute will be ready for the public
in all departments much before the
date set for the formal dedication next
April-when some of the most famous
men and women of two hemispheres
in art, science, literature, politics and
political economy will take part in the
exercises.
The completion of the building has
interferred with more than one sum-
mer vacation. The contractors are
straining every nerve. B. P. Young of
the B. P. Young company, which has
the contract for the entire marble
work for the new building, has been in
ranging for the shipment of the last of
the immense consignment OF marble
necessary for the interior finishing of
the new structure.
Marble Contract Breaks Records.
The marble contract sthe largest
on record in this country. In fact,
for single structure, the new insti-
tute holds the record in America for
both granite and marble-not except
ing the great government buildings at
Washington and the new Washington
university, nor the new Cathedral of
st. John the divine, on MOrningside
Heights, New York. Up until the pres
ent time the largest single contract for
marble ever let in the United States
was that for the Frick building, in this
city, which totaled 1925 900, nearly all
Of it for Carrara stone. The marble
contract for the new institute totals
more than $7O0,OOO, for there are 20,-
900 acres of floor space. with much of
the wainscoting, many of the floors
and stairways of marble. The secur-
ing of some of the rare stone needed
to complete this contract has been a
stupendous task in itself.
The exterior of the building is of
Cleveland sandstone, and entire quar-
To ha mo
terial in the sizes needed to fulfill the
specifications The subsidiary con-
tracts reveal some amazing figures.
The heating contract for instance, is
said by contractors to be the largest
single piece of work ever let-the
total cost aggregating 100000 in
round figures. The electrical work
and the material for the bronze doors,
of which there will be a score. pile up
the cost of finishing to still higher
total.
Acres Of >kyliehts.
The skylights, which extend for
acres and are mostly of wire glass.
will cost $12OOOO; the mahogany and
hardwood finishings have made a
tremendous demand on the stock of
dealers. The entire structure is fire
proof to the smallest detail. Where
the floors are not OF marble they are
cement, finished with noiseless rub
ber tile. There are more than 100000
square feet of rubber tile provided for
in the contract now being filled by the
Pennsylvania Rubber company of
Jeanette.
All told, the rebuilding of the insti
tute will stand Mr.. Carnegie consider
ably more than $4,000. .000-just how
much more the contractors and the
architects are not permitted to say.
Already glimpses of the magnificence
of the interiors are to be had in a
cursory inspection of the structure:
but for the most part the trustees
prefer that the huge scale on which
the plans of the lronmaster of Skibo
are being carried out come as revela-
tion and surprise to Pittsburgers
when the time comes fer the formal
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