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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e and the master hand of organization that unites these ele-ments and brings order out of seeming chaos is directed by a master mindindeed. Men may come and men may go, but bulding goes on forever. Ruild-ings, however, do not. They, tO(j, have their span of life and pass out.Not long ago New York Citys first skyscraper was razed, because it tookup too much valuable land for its height. Because it was erroneou^lvthought that the erection of this building marked a new era in the fieldof construction, there was m.!ch lamenting on the part of the sentimentallyinclined, at its demolition. It was not, however, the first skyscrapererected in this country. Even taller buildings, whose span of life should he long, have lived onlvto enjoy the adolescence of a dozen years, when the hand of progress, witheconomic conditions as its accomplice, has forced their removal to makeway for still higher buildings. So will it be always; building and rebuild-insT will £ro on as long as time itself endures.
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A COMMUXITY MAVSOLEUif. CYPRESS LAUS CEMETERYB. J. S. Cahill. Architect 96 The Architect and Engineer Architectural Terra Cotta the Gift of Earth and Fire IN the vast long ago, while the earth was yet a molten mass, preparation forthe manufacture of terra cotta was begun by Nature herself, in the formationof igneous rock. Unnumbered centuries of crumbling under the action ofair, water, and sulphur fumes, reduced crags and ledges of granite to powder,resulting in the production of clay, a peculiar soil, barren and unbeautiful, butdestined to be one of the two earliest elements in the civilization of man. Mans most important discoveries were how to work clay and how to builda fire; and clay working would seem to have been the earlier of the two dis-coveries, inasmuch as his first rude possessions were sun-baked earthenwarevessels. Tlie addition of fire effected a partnership of earth and energy whichbrought forth a material well-nigh indestructible. Of all the relics of antiquity which

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