. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. ller,architect-in-chief of the Dominion of Canada,and its foundation was laid to sustain such a Governor Cornell, in his message to the leg-islature of 1881, referred to the matter of a se-rious defect discovered in the ground archabove the assembly chamber. A large stone inone of the ribs of the arch was found to havebeen fractured and completely separated. Commissioner Perrys recommendation has not yetbeen acted on. It is said that the outer wallunder the assembly chamber facing the innercourt is p
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. ller,architect-in-chief of the Dominion of Canada,and its foundation was laid to sustain such a Governor Cornell, in his message to the leg-islature of 1881, referred to the matter of a se-rious defect discovered in the ground archabove the assembly chamber. A large stone inone of the ribs of the arch was found to havebeen fractured and completely separated. Commissioner Perrys recommendation has not yetbeen acted on. It is said that the outer wallunder the assembly chamber facing the innercourt is perfectly sound, but the lining to it inthe golden corridor has given way in a frightfulmanner. This lining was built;,of Dorchesterstone, which is too soft and of a crumblingnature. It settled from its bearings and brokeaway from the outer wall in many places, forc-ing the windows out of shape and crushing thefanlights. The golden corridor was built too-wide and the material used in the inner wallswas insufficient. These inner walls will haveto be rebuilt and the assembly staircase in many. HOUSE AT UNIONTOWN, PA., structure as he had planned. When/WilliamDorsheimer was lieutenant governor under , he was at the head of a commission ap-pointed to direct the completion of the plans of Architect Fuller were abandonedand Eidlitz, Richardson & Co. were employedto prepare plans and specifications for its com-pletion. William J. McAlpine was then em-ployed as a consulting engineer in lay ing thefoundation, and there is no question that allproper computation was made in it for a build-ing such as was originally designed. Thefoundations beneath the assembly chamber hadbeen constructed in accordance with Mr. Ful-lers plans,and were td sustain a weight of lessthan half of that it had been subjected to, hadMr. Fullers plans been followed, by thesubstitution of a vaulted stone ceiling designedby Eidlitz. Thousands of tons were weightedupon the keystone of the immense a
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