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Starting in four places at once, flames soon swept up to the great square gilded cupola of the Reichstag, as famous through Germany as is the dome of the Capitol in Washington among U. S. citizens. Soon the cupola was a glowing hodge-podge of incandescent girders. Every fire engine in Berlin was called out before the blaze was under control. Whatever the national election result this Sunday, it will be a long time before the Reichstag Deputies have a proper place...
Andrew Jackson was President when the Brothers Cooper, Charles and Elias, went into business at Mt. Vernon, Ohio with a pair of horses as capital. They traded the off horse for equipment to build a small cupola iron foundry, kept the near horse to hoist ore to the top of the cupola. The iron was made into heavy castings for carding machinery, sawmills, farm implements. Last week Cooper-Bessemer Corp., direct descendant of the Coopers' cupola foundry, celebrated its centenary. Nearly submerged in the panic of 1837, the Coopers were prospering in the early 1840's, even built...
...Station opposite Memorial Hall are scheduled to begin Thursday, according to information learned at the City Hall yesterday. This necessitates the wrecking of the Rogers Building which now stands on the site. The new station, designed by the Sturgis Associates, is to be Georgian in style with a large cupola topping it. The structure will be three stories high with a small two-story wing projecting in the direction of the Yard...
...sketch on exhibition in the common room is not a final one. The building in Georgian style, will be of five full stories, and a sixth gabled story containing four large double suites. The sloping roofs will be surmounted by a tower resembling that of Eliot House, with a cupola supported by eight pillars. No bell or clock has been planned for the tower...
...pleasant objects to contemplate. First there are the new houses, a sort of a coat of many colors arrangement, but nevertheless, very attractive from across the river. Then there is the great cavity where once the Power House predominated. Instead of the two inevitable smokestacks one can see the cupola of Smith Halls, slightly tarnished and weather-beaten, perhaps, but still a distinct improvement. But it is high time to call a halt to this contemplation of Cambridge's rapid architectural metamorphosis and settle down to the duties of the coming year. With lectures to begin Wednesday there...