Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-08
OPENING OF THE POLLS
Convention of Architects Bal
Ioting for Officers.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Purchase and Improvement Of the
Octagon House.
CHAPTERS FILE THEIR REPORTS
Reception to Be Given In Honor OF
Sir Aston Webb This
Evening.
CHAPTERS FILE THEIR REPORT

The sessions of the fortieth annual
Architects were continued today at the
New willard Hotel President Frank
Miles Day called the convention to order
| and announced the opening of the polls
| for the election Of officers for the ensu-
/ ing year. 1t was moved to keep the
j polls open until the close Of the after
| noon session.
The nomination of candidate this morn
ing resulted as follows: President, Frank
Miles Day; first vice president. William
| B. Mundie; second vice president r.
Cnpstone Sturgis; secretary and treas
urer, Glenn Brown; directors for three
years. Walter Cook. Edgar v. Sheeler
| and J. L. Mauran, and auditor, Robert
1 Stead. -.
Edward L. Tilton was appointed by the
chair as judge of election, with John
| Hall Rankin and Edward Stotz as tellers.
| The regular order of business then
J followed. and the reports of the various
, committees were read. Most of them
! were brief and statistical. Notable among
! them. however, were the reports of the
| committee on specifications, presented by
Grosvenor Atterbury, chairman of the
| committee. and the report of the COM
mittee metric system. submitted by
| Louis De Coppet Bergh, the chairman
of the committee.
Committee on Standards.
Mr.. Grosvenor said the committee was
appointed in February, 1906. under a
resolution directing it to consider the
subject of standardizing the general con-
ditions and other parts of the specifica-
lions as used throughout the United
States, and If deemed feasible to pre-
pare standard forms therefor. and in
general to advance the subject Of speci-
| fication writing, with the further in
| struction that they should submit their
work from time to time to the board of
directors, the executive committee and
| the several chapters of the institute, and
| finally, after their criticism and revision,
to the fortieth convention Of the insti-
| tute for adoption.
| pursued has been to obtain from twenty
| FIVE of the leading architects throughout
the country, copies of their general clauses
| and contract forms, the committee held
meeting in New York and adopted tenta-
tive arrangement or index covering all the
| subject matter contained in the various
| specifications submitted. and Mr.. Pond of
| Chicago very generously undertook the la
| boriouss task of collecting, copying and ar
1 ranging this material In accordance there
| with This resulted In volume containing
| some hundreds of clauses. and at a subse-
| quent session of the committee, also held In
| New York early last summer, a plan Of
| elimination and a general constructive prin-
ciple was adopted
| In ACCORDANCE WIN tDlS the next step
| in the progress of the committee work was
! taken, and during the summer months a
revised edition was made in his office. in
! which. far possible Implications were
| elimia ted. and the entire text reduced to
| the briefest possible terms, which resulted
| in skeleton digest of all the material
! originally collated by Mr.. Pond.
| Mr.. Bergh expressed the opinion. in view
| of the improbability of Congress taking
| any action at this session on the question
| of adopting the metric system, it would
| be useless for the A. /. A. to prepare a
! memorial or take any action at this time
| This view was signed by ]. Knox Taylor,
| VIM. L. Ellcott and Louis De Coppet
| Bergh but a dissenting opinion was given
| by ]. Pickering Putnam of the committee
| on metric system.
Reports of Chapters.
The reports of the various chapters were
then offered. showing date of organization
and present officers, follows:
| Boston Chapter, 1870; ]. Randolph Cool
idge jr., president; C. H. Blackall, secre-
| tary. Buffalo Chapter. 1890; H. Osgood
Ho.- and. president; John H. Coxhead, secre-
tary. Philadelphia Chapter 1863: James
P. Jameson, president; Arnold H. Moses,
secretary. Cincinnati Chapter, 1870: G. w.
| Drach, president A O. ELMER, secretary.
Michigan Chapter. 1897 Frank c. Baldwin.
president; Alpheus w. Chittenden, secre-
| tary. Connecticut Chapter, 1902; George
Keller. president; Charles o. Whitmore, sec
rotary. New Jersey Chapter. 1900; Hugh
| Roberts, president; Charles P. Baldwin, sec
| rotary. Illinois Chapter, 1869; Arthur VOL
| tersdorf, president; Peter B. Wight, secre-
| tary. Cleveland Chapter, 1890; Albert E.
Skeel president: Abram Garfield secretary.
| Washington State Chapter. 1894; James
Minnesota Chapter, 1903; ]. Walter Stevens.
president; Harry w. Jones, secretary
| Washington Chapter 1897; j. c. Hornblow-
| er, president; F. B. Pyle. secretary. Kansas
4 ifIy ME
| president; Rudolf Margraf secretary. Col
orado Chapter 1892; Robert s. Roeschlaub,
president; William Cove. secretary. Wor-
| cester Chapter 1892; Stephen c. Earle pres
| dent: Lucus w. Briggs, secretary. Brook
| Ign Chapter. 1894; Frank II. Quinby pres
| ident; Henry Clay Carre secretary. ST.
Louis Chapter, 1890; Ernest John Russell.
president; E. c. Klipstein. secretary. Balti-
| more Chapter. 1870; ]. B. Noel Wyatt, pres
ident; Douglas H. Thomas, jr secretary.
San Francisco Chapter, 1881; Henry A.
tary. Dayton Chapter. 1899; Robert E. Dex-
1 ter president; Silas R. Burns secretary
Atlanta Chapter. 1906; T. H. Morgan, pres
ident; Harry Leslie Walker secretary
Rhode Island Chapter, 1870; Prescott O.
Clarke, president; Norman M. Isham, sec
rotary. New York Chapter, 1867; VIM
Rutherford Mead. president; d. Everett
Waid. corresponding secretary; Electus D.
| Litchfield, recording secretary. Pittsburg
Chapter 1891; George s. Ortiz president;
Edward Stotz secretary. Southern Califor-
nfd CHdpteT, loof, MyrOn Hunt, president,
Fernand Parmentier. secretary Central
New York Chapter, 1887: H. H Bickford,
president; Clarence A. Martin secretary
Iowa Chapter, 1903; Frdoin J. Heer, IT,,
president; Eugene H. Taylor. jr.. secretary.
Purchase Of octagon House.
| At yesterday afternoons session of the
convention Cass Gilbert made his ,port as
chairman of the committee for securing
| funds for the purchase of the Octagon
| house, at 18th street and New FORK avenue
northwest, the future national headquarters
of the institute 1t was found that the
amount still due toward the purchase of
the place $500. When this was an
nounced the architects Wed with one an
other in placing subscriptions. In a very
short time the full amount was accounted
| Among the subscribers were Foster War
ner, Rochester, N. Y, $500, and John M
Carriere $500 by subscription
In his report for the plans of improve
ment, Mr.. Gilbert said:
| This can be readily done by placing a
flemicycle on the rear lot, building a dupli-
cate stable of the old stable on one side of
the hemfcycie and connecting this along
the wall with the Octagon by colonnades.
thus surrounding our old garden which
could be treated formally and be Enclosed