. Armour engineer. Side-wa/fc^ Fig. 27. Typical Section of aStation Building Wall. 54 THE ARMOUR ENGINEER I Vol. 2, No. 1 ental, and a medium shade of Oriental is used for theprojecting quoins at the corners and offsets. This differencein color is to give contrast. The bricks are laid up in darkred mortar; the joints are deeply recessed and ^4-inch inthickness. A white enameled brick was decided upon for theinterior face after a number of kinds of light colored pressedbrick had been considered. The great need for utilizing allthe reflected light possible in these small buildings and thedesirab
. Armour engineer. Side-wa/fc^ Fig. 27. Typical Section of aStation Building Wall. 54 THE ARMOUR ENGINEER I Vol. 2, No. 1 ental, and a medium shade of Oriental is used for theprojecting quoins at the corners and offsets. This differencein color is to give contrast. The bricks are laid up in darkred mortar; the joints are deeply recessed and ^4-inch inthickness. A white enameled brick was decided upon for theinterior face after a number of kinds of light colored pressedbrick had been considered. The great need for utilizing allthe reflected light possible in these small buildings and thedesirability of simplifying the maintenance, makes this brickthe most economical in spite of its rather high first cost. Theinterior brick is laid up with %-inch joints. The walls arefilled with common brick and Portland cement grout, andwire bonds tie them together. There are two types of roof used for the buildings. First,. Fig. 28. View of Calvary Station During Construction. in the case of Davis Street and Calvary stations, and the rearportion of Dempster Street, the roof consists of a flat rein-forced concrete slab supported by the concrete piers which arebuilt into the station walls; the cornices in these stations areof concrete cast with the top girders of the piers. Second,in the case of Main Street station and the front part of theDempster Street station, the roofs are of regular hip construc-tion with a 3-foot projecting cornice. The stations with flatroofs have a concrete cornice of modified classical outline,above which is a brick parapet with a concrete coping. This Jan. 1910] GREIFFNIIAGEN: EVANSTON TRACK ELEVATION 55 cornice is oast against the top girder of the piers which areincorporated in the side walls of the buildings at these sta-tions. A reinforced concrete roof slab spans between the con-crete piers. At the Davis Street station the span of the roofis 18 feet, and in order to reduce
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