The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
The HOrOWitz Foundation for
Builders
It Will Supply What the Country Lacks, and Needs VINO
Can Tell What It Will Teach in the Next CenturyG

United States with sixty million dollars worth OF
building now under construction has decided to let his money
after he is dead It will work as HE has worked 10 I'M
prove building in the United States
Mr. Horowitz has established at Union and at Yale Uni
versites scholarships in building construction
The young at Yale and Union will be taught what
building really is theoretically and not merely archltectu
ally but thoroughly practically and mechanically as well as
bottom Of the foundation to the pole
the roof.
Next to agriculture building the greatest most important
Of this counrys enterprises The work Of the farmer comes
first in magnitude that Of the builder second
Yet Mr. Horowtz decided that he would use part OF
his money now Of it later to teach building there
building construction in any university IN the
United States
Hitherto builders have had learn the most important
mechanical the nation by rule Of thumb and by hard
knocks and painful, costly experience.
The good carpenter took little job his own account
Then contractor in small Then he gradually
developed into q builder
But there scholarship competent body Of teachers
able to what Mr. Horowz chief Of the builders believes
be DONE That is to of time by developing IN
colleges army Of weormed young builders ready
after short practical experience to do work that without the
college teaching would have required first perhaps twenty or
years of preparatory work.
Who can tell what work produced in generations
by the graduates Of those Horoz scholarships? They
are to be permanent by ample financial endowments
The first graduates will build what buildings
hundred thousand feet high piers two thousand feet
foundations stories
with all the other marves modern ssCraping construc
ton.
But what other buildings viii these young graduates Of the
Horowtz foundation create in the future?
Mr. Horowitz any other builder architect dreamer
could that question.
day coming when young Of these scholarships
will look upon the building Of modern skyscraper Mr.
HorOwtz would look upon the building Of twenty by thirty
bungalow.
The building will be a world transformed
BY THE FLYING MACHINE.
The first graduate Of the Horowitz foundation will build
build with entrances the street level and elevators
taking people UP to the top.
The future graduates will build different sort Of build
ing with the entrance the roof where the flying machine
will land passengers in the elevators starting from the top
and going down.
The future flying machine enabled by helicopter prn
Cple to rise and down vertically will make of every
great building city terminal Mr. Horowitz has already built
office buildings that busy hours contain thousand human
beings Those that will be taught building by the money he
gives to education will beyond question
buildings that will hold hundred thousand million
An individual building may be CITY. Landings for
flying machines parks for recreation ROOM perhaps
sports will be the roof How high above the ground those
roofs will be would predict thousand feet?
Yes and probably five and ten thousand feet Choose your
climate and attitudes
When Horace Greeley little Tribune building changed
about the time of the Centennial appeared amazing
structure nine stories high with tower it. And the whole
United States wondered
After had been made TWENTY stories high was lone
Of the little inconspicuous buildings"
The Efel Tower is thousand feet high. Graduates of
the Horowz building classes Of the future will build buildings
that might hold thousand Efe ornaments around
the sides as the 1000 statues placed the
Cathedral Of Milan.
generation coming in which workers will fly
homes the hills the mountains building
which will be both building and city, with the streets at
different floors elevators taking the places of
And all that the future will know about city hfe will
be the landing his roof going particular spot to
work then going back to the roof again and flying
That belongs to the future, and it coming Meanwhile
the Horowitz foundations at Yale and will employ
the best available reduce the task teaching build
ing to exact science and produce young graduates that
Will Leave college taking with them building knowledge
will insure avoiding years Of bitter experience and failure
Mr. Horowtz supplies from his pocket the endowment
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