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...Justinian, Road Builder and Law Maker...
...contract for the construction of the Widener Memorial Library has been awarded to a Philadelphia builder, whose name is not yet announced, calling for an expenditure of $1,400,000. As was planned the building is to be of brick and marble, three stories in height, 210 by 275 feet and containing a specially fire-proofed section to house the Widener collection...
...important feature is the operation of the swell shutters by a form of electro-pneumatic engine perfected by Mr. Ernest M. Skinner, the builder. It affords an extraordinary command of the swell shades, giving no trace of sudden or erratic movement when the folds are opened. This swell engine is regarded by its inventor as the greatest single advance in the mechanism of the modern organ...
...Ewell, master-builder of the new laboratory, and former master-builder of the Agassix and Peabody Museums, Matthews Hall, Memorial Hall, and Robinson Hall, states that the new building will be the best constructed edifice belonging to the University. Special care must be taken in construction to have the building fully meet the requirements of a high grade chemical research laboratory. One of the features of the laboratory is the four concrete piers which are entirely apart from the foundations, so that no vibrations can disturb the delicate instruments used in research work...
...guaranteed speed is 16 miles an hour but his was exceeded in the official trial in the Basin last week, when the boat covered a measured mile at the rate of 18.6 miles per hour with four people aboard, and at the builder's trial at Bath, Maine, when the boat reached 20.6 miles per hour with two people aboard. Running at this speed the launch can be handled easily. The launch draws very little water, and the design is unique in that the boat does not leave a wake, sufficient to disturb an eight-oared crew, even when...