Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been decided to erect permanent fire escapes on Sanders Theatre. they will be made of wrought iron and will be built into the walls in the same positions as the wooden steps which were erected for the performance of Hamlet. Owing to the unsatisfactory plans which were at first submitted, the fire escapes have not yet been put in position. The contract, however, calls for their completion by Friday...
...patients, nurses and visitors must enter by an outside staircase open to the air. Each ward will have its own system of ventilation and heating, with a large open fire-place in the centre, and adjoining the colonnade there will be a laundry and a sun-room of iron and glass. An attempt will be made to complete the building by next winter...
...York political organization during the campaigns of 1892. While holding the office of assistant attorney-general during Cleveland's last administration, he conducted a number of constitutional cases, such as the Income Tax case, and also took a prominent part in defending the new interstate commerce laws. In the Iron-Pipe Trust case, he obtained the first judicial decision condemning a manufacturing trust under the federal anti-trust law. Mr. Whitney also drew up the New York tenement house law of 1901 as counsel for the State Tenement House Committee. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Whitney is lecturer...
...iron piping, together with the brass pump-box, for the artesian well at Memorial Hall, has arrived and is now rapidly being placed in position. A wooden tripod has been erected over the well, by means of which the jointed sections of pipe are lowered. As soon as the electric pump, which is now under construction, is installed, the well will be ready for immediate use. It is 321 feet in depth and through the eight-inch pipe water will be supplied at the rate of 50 gallons per minute. When completed, the whole structure will be entirely underground...
...gate and section of fence back of Sever Hall are almost completed. The mason work is entirely finished, and the iron grating is now being put in place. By next Saturday this work will be over, and only the painting of the bars will remain to be done. The grating will extend between all the eight posts except the two on the south end, between which a tree stands directly in the line. The space will be left open as an additional gate-way. McKim, Mead and White are the architects and Conroy and Wentworth the contractors for the gate...