Engineering Review Volume 22 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...hotel: Double rooms without bath, $1.00 and $1.50 per person. Single rooms without bath, $2.00 per day and upward. Double rooms with bath, $1.50 per person and upward. Single rooms with bath, $2.00 per day and upward. Table d'hote meals at the following prices: Breakfast, 75c.; luncheon, 60c. and dinner $1.00. A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HIOHCLASSTIN ROOFING WORK. This photograph of the grandstand on the private race course of the E H. Har riman. Estate, near Goshen, N. Y., during a race meet, illustrates the use of good roofing tin on this type of building, and is taken from the January issue of Roofing Tin. The neat, handsome appearance of the standing-seam tin roofing gives a ribbed effect to the visible parts. Durability is the paramount consideration on private structures of this kind. The architect must specify and the roofer use material that will never give cause for complaint. "Target and Arrow" tin was used because long experience, more than fifty years of actual use, has shown that roofs of this tin are proof against fire, lightning, and all attacks of the weather, generally outlasting the building they cover. FEDERAL FURNACE LEAGUE The annual meeting of the Federal Furnace League will be held at the Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit, May 6, 1912. There will be two sessions. The morning session opens at 10 a. m., and will be devoted to routine business of the league. The afternoon session will open at 1 130 p. m., and will be open to all furnace manufacturers and all manufacturers of furnace supplies and fittings. The afternoon session will be opened with one or two papers by gentlemen outside the furnace industry. Following these papers the Secretary of the League will for the first time announce the complete plan for improvement...