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...dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided to pound the marble staircase to pieces and dump the blocks into Long Island swamps. Two Tudor ceilings, a green lacquer and crystal tea room, marble and hardwood floors, will be similarly served. Three years went into the making of the Gary mansion. Thirty-six union working days will see its obliteration. The heavy bronze doors, however, will be saved-in the Metropolitan Museum...
...Rays. Several speeches set forth the new usefulness of X-rays in studying the crystal structures of pearls, limes, asbestos, butter, wax, etc. The X-ray studies of C. Norman Kemp in England on coal and coke cited, praised. X-raying of the structure of rubber, which is amorphous (noncrystalline) when unstretched and develops fibre-crystals when stretched at various tensions, was noted as a likely road to the discovery of how to make synthetic rubber...
...Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens, workers in actinic glass houses would get a maximum of insurance against rickets, pneumonia, tuberculosis. . . . Other exhibits prepared for the Exposition, to which engineers and architects are coming from...