. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. being examined by counsel, who wasusing every effort in his power to depreciate thewitness opinion. You are a builder, I believe? No, sir; I am not a builder; I am an archi-tect. Ah, well, builder or architect, architect orbuilder—they are pretty much the same, I suppose? I beg your pardon; they are totally differ-ent. Oh, indeed. Perhaps you would state where-in this great difference consists. An architect, sir, conceives the design, pre-pares the plan, draws out the specifications—inshort, supplies
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. being examined by counsel, who wasusing every effort in his power to depreciate thewitness opinion. You are a builder, I believe? No, sir; I am not a builder; I am an archi-tect. Ah, well, builder or architect, architect orbuilder—they are pretty much the same, I suppose? I beg your pardon; they are totally differ-ent. Oh, indeed. Perhaps you would state where-in this great difference consists. An architect, sir, conceives the design, pre-pares the plan, draws out the specifications—inshort, supplies the mind. The builder is merelythe machine; the architect, the power that putsthe machine together and sets it going. Oh, very will, Mr. Architect; that will very ingenious distinction, without a differ-ence. Do you happen to know who was thearchitect of the Tower of Babel? There was no architect, sir—hence the con-fusion. OLD LONDON PLUMBERS WORK. The illustration shows another ancient leadhopper-head from All Hallows Barking, Towerstreet, London. The coping and outlet open- 1. ing are shown above. The hopper-head ismolded but bears no date. The step flashing isundercut, and the ears are folded back. Thedownspout is round and about four inches indiameter. STAIRCASE AND supplementary illustration with this issueis a representation of a staircase and hall recent-ly carried out in a residence on Broad street,Philadelphia, by Hazelhurst and Huckel, archi-tects, 508 Walnut street. The woodwork is ofmahogany, oak and butternut. A conservatoryopens into the hall. NOTES AND NEWS. Small-pox is reported in Ottawa, Ont. Pontiac, Mich., has voted down the water-works project. A natural gas company has been started atLafayette, Ind. Columbus, Neb., will soon advertise for bidsfor water-works. The penitentiary at Columbus, ()., manufac-tures its own gas. The annual death-rate in this city for theweek ending March 20, was The seventh artesian well in the Jim valle
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