The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-18
BOARD ACCEPTS
BUILDING PLANS
Of LOCAL FIRM
Commercial! Club Award to
Ware & Treganza Stirs Up
"a Lively Row.
QUIGLEY SAYS IVES COBB
WAS GIVEN RAW DEAL
ALSO ASSERTS TREGANZA CAME
TO HIM ATTACKING COBB'S
CHARACTER.


:: After a stormy meeting yeSter- -
- day afternoon. the board of gov -
I: ernors of the Commercial club =
:: gave the work of preparing the -
:: plans for the new club building 10 :.
: Ware & Treganza. the Salt Lake =
e architects. Charles A. Quigley, -
:: chairman of the building commit -
:: tee. protested. -
:. Il am for home talent first. last :.
= and all the time" he said. But =
- we invited outside architects to en- :.
= ter the competition, and il is our =
- duty TO treat these outside archi- =
= tects honestly. For my part, l =
:. cannot favor anything which is !:
= ethically involved. and in my opin- =
- ion Henry Ives Cobb. the New =
= York architect, is not being treat =
- ed honestly We asked the archi- -
- tects to submit plans for a six =
- story fireproof building which was =
= to cost $4,000. Plans were sub -
= mitted by Ware z. Treganza and -
= Henry Ives Cobb. Both sets of e
- plans would have called for the :.
- expenditure of more than $4,000. =
:. Architect Cobb said that he could =
- prepare plans for a five-story fire. :.
:. proof building that would cost :.
- $4,000. Ware & TreganZa said =
- that they would prepare plans for Il
:: the five-stOry building for S175.000. -
= not fireproof. or $225,OO0 fireproof" ::
:: = ::.::'-::..:..:..:.-..-s--:.
Declaring that there was Machiavel-
lianism on the part of A. Owen Tregan-
"a of the firm of Ware & Treganza.
architects. Charles A. Quigley Of the
building committee of the Commercial
Pi In LOTT
meeting of the board of governors of
the club yesterday afternoon. just be-
fore the work of preparing the plans
for the new Commercial club building
at Exchange place and Cactus avenue
was awarded to Mr.. Treganza's firm.
An uHsuceessful-eff was made 10
hush up the stormy incidents of the de-
alterations of the board of governors.
Mr.. Quigley informed the governors
that he had been in favor of Ware e.
Treganza, but that on the day before
the meeting Mr.. Treganza had called To
see him to urge that his firm be ia
vOred. This visit of the architect was
looked upon by Mr.. Quigley as a breach
of professional etiquette and unfair TO
the other architect in the competition.
particularly because of the things
which Mr.. TreganZa said. Mr.. Quigley
told the governors that Mr.. Treganza
had informed him that the bond of
Ware e TreganZa was worthless. be-
cause the architects knew tricks by
which they could compel the board of
governors TO order changes in the plans
and this would afford A loophole
through which 10 escape responsibility
if such loophole is required by them.
Treganza Sees QuigIey.
Later, Mr.. Quigley made an addition
al statement concerning the visit paid
him by Mr.. Treganza.
Mr.. TreganZa's visit was unexpected,
unlimited and undesired'' said Mr..
Quigley. He told me a number OF
things which he ought not TO have said.
He found fault with the work OF his
competitor. and then assailed Mr.. Cobb
personally. saying that Mr.. Cobb had
been forced out OF the international as
ISOLATION of architects. and speaking OF
other matters which were damaging TO
Mr.. Cobbs reputation Mr.. Cobb was
not present to reply. For that reason,
| II for no other, II was wrong for Mr..
TreganZa to make such statements
Even though his charges were true.
and I know nothing about the truth or
falsity of what he said, he stopped TO
an unfair method in coming with such
stories to a member OF a committee
which had under consideration the
plans submitted in the competition.
| Il informed Mr.. Treganza that al
though / had been heartily in favor of
his firm before his call, his conduct had
changed my attitude.
I'm all things / believe in fair play.
In any contest of skill the men who
are 10 act as judges are expected to
consider only the merits of what is ac-
complished by the contestants, and no
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