. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . f the profession. He cameto California from New York with thelate A. Page Brown and had lived inSan Francisco ever since. Mr. Oakey had a very thorough train-ing in architecture and his many bril-liant natural gifts led him into variouslines of work, more or less related toarchitecture, such as acoustics, stainedglass, wall paper and landscape garden-ing. In earlier days he worked in theoffices of such men as R. M. Hunt ofNew York and Norman Shaw of London. At one time he was in partnershipwith his brother-in-law, Mr. SullivawJon
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . f the profession. He cameto California from New York with thelate A. Page Brown and had lived inSan Francisco ever since. Mr. Oakey had a very thorough train-ing in architecture and his many bril-liant natural gifts led him into variouslines of work, more or less related toarchitecture, such as acoustics, stainedglass, wall paper and landscape garden-ing. In earlier days he worked in theoffices of such men as R. M. Hunt ofNew York and Norman Shaw of London. At one time he was in partnershipwith his brother-in-law, Mr. SullivawJones, later of the firm of Palmer, Horn-bostel & Jones of New York City. Mr. Oakeys career as an architect wasvaried and picturesque and included suchinteresting commissions as the restora-tion of the Villa Mattel near Rome andthe construction of a mansion in San-tiago. Chile. Mr. Oakey upheld the finest traditionsof his profession with a dignity and adistinction in striking contrast to therough and readv methods so generallyprevalent heretofore in the of Reg. U. S. Pat. Office Veneered Panelsthat ARE good —order today from WYBRO Panels areProven Quality Thousand of particular contractors have tested andPROVEN the quahty of VVYBRO Panels. You take no chances in ordering W^BRO Panelsfor they are of PROVEN QUALITY. They varieties to choose from. White: Brothers 5tK >ranTiax Francisco riting to Advertisers please mention this magazii Do It Electrically Special Articles this Month by Fred G. Dustin, Geo. , J. E. Van Hoosear and Edwin W. Moore. Xexl nwnlh — Indirect Lighting ■•Electricity in the Office Building Electricity in the Home. By FKEL) G. DUSTIN, Minneapolis WITHIN the present generation a re-markable evolution in artificiallighting has taken place. The vsfiter wellremembers, as a child, how his grand-niotlier manufactured her own tallowcandles by the two processes of usingdips and moulds. To attempt an extended account of thevarious f
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