268 THE BUILDING NEWS. Marcu 29, 1872.
Academy Exhibition will be opened as usual on the | the accident was the rottenness of a wall that had
first Monday in May, in accordance with the custom
which has prevailed for the last 103 years.
Birsaneuam Scuoor or Desten.—On Wednes-
day week the students attending the designing class
at the Birmingham School of Design testified their
appreciation of the zealous and able manner in which
Mr. Jackson has directed their studies ever since
his appearance amongst them, by presenting him
with a valuable work on art, entitled ‘“Polychrome.”
‘The presentation was made by one of the senior
students, who spoke a few congratulatory remarks
on behalf of the students and himself.
More Workmen’s Dwevtincs ror Lonpoy.—
Applications have been made to the Metropolitan
Board of Works for permission to carry out works as
follows: By Mr. Fred. Chancellor, on behalf of the
Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwel-
ings of the Industrial Classes, for the formation and
names of footways (22ft. to 33ft. wide) out of the
Farringdon-road, Clerkenwell, and for the erection
of industrial dwellings therein. (Granted.) By
Mr. Matthew Allen, for the erection and construc-
tion of industrial dwellings in Leonard-street,
Finsbury. (Consent deferred.)
American y. Forercn Buitpixne Pracrice.—
Tt is asserted that the Hotel Dieu, the new half-
finished hospital in Paris, in the construction of
which the late Empress was warmly interested, and
upon which millions of francs have been expended,
is built without regard for, and in opposition to,
hygienic principles; and, in consequence, several
wings of the structure must be pulled down. How
absurd! If wein the United States make such a
blunder as this, do we think it necessary to alter
the position of one single brick? Not at all, The
architect publishes a card, all the attending doctors
prepare elaborate statements, all the trustees send
communications to the newspapers; and thus it is
proved that the aspersed building is one of the best
constructed in the world.—New York Tribune.
A Goop Way or Raising Waces.—On Thurs-
day week a meeting of the men in the employment of
Messrs. Norton & Marrian, brassfounders, of Bir-
mingham, was held at their offices, Lionel-street,
when it was stated that the men having asked for an
advance of wages of 15 per cent., it had been decided
to give them sharesin the new company into which
tho firm was to be converted. The orders for the
shares were delivered to the workmen at the rate of
one fully paid-up share for eyery two years that a
man had worked for the firm. Nearly 200 shares
were thus disposed of, the man who received the
highest number being presented with twenty-two
shares, and the lowest with one share.
Buripine Orrratrves iy Cuicaco.—The Secre-
tary of the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and
Carpenters finding that large numbers of building
operatives are at the present time leaving this country
for Chicago under the impression that there is a
great demand for labour in that city, and that skilled
artisans are receiving from five to seven dollars per
day, writes that he has received a letter from the
secretary of the Chicago Branch of his association
stating that trade in that city is very dull, that the
supply of carpenters and joiners is more than equal
to the demand, andthat the rate of wages at present
is from two to three dollars per day.
LAND IN THE Crry.—A move is at length about
to be taken, it is stated, for covering some of the un-
sightly piecesof groundon and about the Holborn
Viaduct. Mr. Richard Tress, an architect, has taken
a lease for eighty years of all that angle at the north-
east end of the viaduct having a frontage to the
viaduct itself, a round frontage towards S.
Sepulchre’s Church, and is about 200ft. frontage on
Snow Hill, for which he is to pay £1,725 per
annum. How Mr. Tress intendsto appropriate this
site is yet to be seen,
Fatt or Houses ar Cuetsea.—On Friday last
Dr. Diplock resumed at the Chelsea Workhouse an
inquiry touching the death of Charles Freer, aged 16
years, who lost his life through the falling of two
houses in the Marlborough-road, Chelsea. Mr. George
Lewis appeared for Mr. Hill, a contractor, carrying
on business in the New-cut, Lambeth. It appeared
from the evidence that at 3 o’clock on last Thursday
week, two houses, Nos. 163 and 165, Marlborough-
road, Chelsea, suddenly fell, and in consequence of
their giving way, the deceased, who was an appren-
tice to Mr. Jones, linen-draper, occupying the pre-
mises, was killed by the simultaneous falling in of
both houses, which crushed him to death. A number
of witnesses proved a Mr. Bradden and a Mr. Salter
were the foremen who had charge of the works, and
both Messrs. Salter and Bradden deposed that they
had properly attended to their duties. In their evi-
dence they stated that, in their opinion, the cause of
formed part of the fallen houses. After a great deal
of further evidence, the following verdict was re-
turned :—‘‘ That the deceased expired from the
effects of injuries received during the fall of certain
houses in the Marlborough-road, Chelsea, and that
Mr. Hillis deserving of censure for taking work of
this description without employing a competent sur-
veyor, and that Messrs. Bradden and Salter, the
foremen of Mr. Hill, who were employed superin-
tending the work connected with the fallen houses,
are deserving of censure, they being too inexperienced
men for taking work of that description.”
DEFACEMENT OF WaAtts.—Mr. Peek asked tlie
Home Secretary on Friday last whether his attention
had been called to the disfigurement, and in many
cases permanent injury, inflicted on houses and walls
(both public and private property) by sentences
stencilled upon them; whether the information
furnished to him showed that such disfigurement
was generally effected in the;night by men using
light carts, who were altogether too quick for the
police; and whether the Home Secretary was pre-
pared to act on the same plan as the Government
Inspector of Telegraphs, who was reported to have
threatened proceedings against the chairman of the
Republican Association at Ipswich if the bills of the
society were found affixed, no matter by whom, to
any of the post office poles in the neighbourhood.—
Mr. Bruce could not say that any complaints such as
those referred to in the question had reached him,
but he was informed by the Chief Commissioner of
Police that the offence was frequently committed, and
that instructions had been given to the police, under
2 and3 Victoria, to arrest any person committing
such an offence within his view. These persons,
however, travelled in light carts, as the hon.member
had said, and frequently eluded apprehension. As
to the latter part of the question, he had referred to
his right hon. friend the Postmaster-General, who
stated that he could not understand that any such
proceedings as those referred to had been taken or
threatened. If the department had done so, it was as
owners of the telegraph posts, and in the same way
it was the duty of other owners of property defaced
to put the law in motion.
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CHIPS.
The Cambridge County Lunatic Asylum, having
. beenrecently greatly damaged by fire, Mr. R. R. Rowe,
of Cambridge, architect and surveyor, has been
called in to report on the injury done, and it appears
that the chapel and its roof have been almost totally
destroyed. The cost of reinstating the building is
estimated at £655. Plans by Mr. Pritchett, archi-
tect, for enlarging the asylum, have been submitted
to the Commissioners in Lunacy.
It is announced that the tunnel under the city of
Genoa, connecting the otherrailways with that going
to Nice, will be opened on April 1.
The new Workmen’s Hall, Lewes, was opened on
Monday last, Mr. Alexander Payne, of 4, Storey’s-
gate, Westminster, being the architect.
A sum of £10,000, in £10 shares, has been sub-
scribed on behalf of the projected Exchange at
West Hartlepool.
The office of York Herald, vacant by the death
of Mr. Thomas W. King, has been conferred upon
Mr. John yon Sonnentag de Hayillard, Rouge
Croix Pursuivant of Arms.
The Corporation of Sheffield haye purchased a
plot of land for £9,210, whereon to erect a public
museum and free library extension.
A prospectus has been issued of the West Kent
Gault Brick and Portland Cement Company, witha
capital of £30,000, in shares of £5, to purchase for
£10,000 the Gault clay fields, near Aylesford and
Maidstone.
£20,000 have been already subscribed for the
erection of a monument in Calcutta to the late
Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India.
The corner stones of a new school-chapel for Moor
Bnd, Oswaldtwistle, were laid on Saturday week.
The building will provide sittings for 400 persons,
ata cost of £1,200. Mr. Waddington, of Burnley,
is the architect.
New National Schools for the village of Kilburne,
Derbyshire, were opened on the 18th inst. Accom-
modationis provided for 300 children. ‘The build-
ing was designed by Mr. Knight, architect, of Not-
tingham, and was built by Messrs. Beresford &
Knifton, of Kilburne.
In accordance with custom, the Institution of
Civil Engineers will not meet in Easter week, are-
solution to that effect having been moved, seconded,
and agreed to at the ordinary meeting on Tuesday,
the 26th inst.
The Sheffield School Board asks authority to
borrow £89,000 for additional school buildings in
that town.
A moyement is on foot to illuminate the clock in
the Limehouse Church tower. The dial is one of
the highest in the metropolis, being 188ft. from the
ground, and 12ft. in diameter, and it is visible on the
river from London-bridge to Woolwich. The illu-
mination of the clock will prove a most material
service to those who haye business on the water.
Grade Aetvs.
WAGES MOVEMENT.
THE HARTLEPOOLS.—The operative joiners of the
Hartlepools turned out on Monday for a concession of
2s, per week on their present wages of 28s.
CAMBRIDGE.—For several weeks past much agita-
tion has been going on with the carpenters, bricklayers,
and labourers, who are now united in one association
for the purpose of demanding from their employers a
reduction in the hours of labour and an increase of
wages. These bodies have had meetings, at which the
carpenters and bricklayers resolved upon asking for a
reduction of hours to 54 in the week (with half-holiday
on Saturdays), and Gd. per hour as the rate of wage.
The labourers seek for a similar reduction of time, and
4d. per hour, or 18s. per week. The master builders
were appealed to by committees from each class, and at
ameeting passed the following resolution:—“That in
justice to our employers it is undesirable to disturb
the present arrangements as to time and wages existing
between the masters and the workmen.” On Thursday
week the operatives, 500 strong, met at the Guildhall
for the purpose of considering this reply of the masters,
when it was resolved that the men should persist in
their demands, and that a deputation of six from the
united body should be appointed to confer with an
equal number of members of the Master Builders’
Association,
Tue Dispure IN THE PoTTeRY TRADE.—On
Monday Mr. Davis, the Stipendiary Magistrate, again
sat in the Grand Jury Room of the Sheffield Town Hall
to hear evidence on the part of the masters and of the
men on the subject of the disputes which have arisen
in the pottery trade, It will be remembered that the
men are desirous of obtaining the ‘ good from hand”
system in all the pottery establishments of the district,
and Mr. Davis had been requested to act as arbitrator
from the fact that during his residence in the Potteries
he had become acquainted with the practice of the trade
in that district. Evidence was given on behalf of several
firms, and by a great number of workmen, and after
hearing the evidence on both sides, Mr. Davis consented
to go to Mr. Barker’s works (Don Pottery, Swinton), to
see the ‘good from oven” system, and afterwards to
go to Mr. Twigg’s (Kilnhurst), to observe the “good
from hand” system. Mr. Davis will publish his de-
cision on Saturday week, such decision to be binding
for twelve months on both masters and men. After
this decision, the masters and men will meet together
to discuss the question of prices, and if they cannot
agree, this question will likewise have to go before Mr.
Davis for arbitration.
LivEerroou.—Since Saturday last, fupwards of 100
men employed in constructing the new tunnel in
Great George-street, Liverpool, for the Cheshire Lines
Railway, which will connect the line from Brunswick
station with the new station now in course of erection
in Ranelagh-street, have been on strike for a reduction
of the hours of labour, and the works are almost at @
standstill. The men haye been accustomed to work
from six a.m. to six p.m., two hours of the time being
allowed for meals; but they now contend for eight
hours per day, including halfan hour fordinner. They
base their demands upon what they designate ‘ the
rule of the trade,” and they say that inasmuch as all the
stone through which the tunnel has to be formed is
cut (blasting not being allowed), so many hours under-
ground is highly prejudicial to health, and, therefore,
that the exceptional nature of the labour justifies them
in what may at first sight appear an excessive
demand.
BROMSGROVE.—The masters engaged in the build-
ing trades at Bromsgrove haye taken no notice of the
request of the men, preferred at a meeting held on
Wednesday fortnight, for an alteration in the mode of
work, a slight increase in pay, and a limitation of the
hours on Saturday. The men were much dissatisfied
at this course, as the masters who attended their meet-
ing as delegates promised that the masters would meet
to discuss the subject in the course of a week.
Dupiey.—The mill and hand sawyers and timber
yard labourers of Dudley, Tipton, West Bromwich, Dar-
laston, Wednesbury, and Bilston districts are on strike
for an advance of 3d. per 100 English hardwoods and
6d. per 100 foreign hardwoods for piece hands, and the
nine hours’ moyement for the day men.
Hinckiey.—the bricklayers’ labourers in this town,
after a strike of two days’ duration, have obtained an
increase of 2s, per weck on their wages, and to work
half an hour less time than formerly.
West YORKSHIRE.—The strike of quarrymen in
West Yorkshire, which has prevailed for several weeks,
shows signs of coming to an end. At Morley the
masters haye advanced the wages of “strappers”’ and
best workmen from 25s, to 28s. per week, the hours of
labour being fifty and a half,
GLASGOoW.—The packing-box makers of Glasgow re
solyed, at a meeting held on Thursday week, to adhere
to the terms of the circular for a reduction of the hours
of labour, A vote of thanks was passed to those trades
in the city who had aided them during the present
strike.
JEDBURGH.—The master joiners in Jedburgh have
agreed that those in their employment shall work only
nine hours a-day instead of ten. In one of the work-
shops the new arrangement has been in force for some
time, and in the others it will take effect after 15th prox,
Irswicu.—A large meeting of building operatives
was held in the Lecture Hall, Ipswich, on Wednesday
