The American Architect and Building News Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...less serious and more contemptible every day. Viie are glad to see that the Citizens' Protective Union has turned its energies to carrying the election of this week, with, it seems, a successful result. Tnr: antics of the sand-lot leaders continue, although with more caution. Some of them calling upon their followers to take up arm's much in the same fashion as Kearney, who used to bring upon the platform the rope with which he proposed to hang the bond-holders, would, no doubt, be as much astonished as he to find that any one thought they were in earnest. The San Francisco and New York troubles are curiously connected by a proposition which was made to the piano-manufacturers, to furnish Chinese workmen at fifty cents per diam, who, it is alleged, will become expert hands in a month. The operatives scout this idea; but however it may be with Chinese, it is unquestionable that the Japanese cabinet-makers and workers in wood not only equal but far surpass the Caucasians. It will be remembered that the interior of the steamship Gallia was almost entirely finished by Japanese workmen, brought to England for the purpose; and perhaps the competition of Asiatics may yet be formidable to_our citizens on the Atlantic as well as the Pacific slope. ' v New 101:1: people as a class have at least one good trait; that, while they are prone to live unheeding in the midst of frightful abuses, so long as they are not immediately concerned, when their attention has once been effectually called to a particular one they set about reforming it with a single-hearted zeal and energy equal to that which they at ordinary times bestow exclusively on their own business. The improved-tcnement-house fever, which began none too soon, spreads apace, and we hear from all sides rumo...