Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — Buildings Put Up Quickly. [ARTICLE]

Buildings Put Up Quickly.

“What -do I think of the rapidity with which buildings are run up now, as compared with twenty years ago, you ask? Why, there is no comparison as far as the time consumed is concerned.” Such was the remark of a member of one of the largest building firms in New York to a News reporter the other day. “To what is the change due?” “Well, there are several causes. To commence with, the hod-carrier at which you newspaper men were always making jokes, has, for practical purposes, become a back number. Bricks and all classes of building material are now hoisted by derricks and steamlifts and there is no longer any climbup long ladders. Then again no time is lost now, and every man that can be utilized is put to work on a building, while the material is much easier to handle, being better shaped. “I might say that the era of rapid and high building came in with the craze lor fire proof structures. Hollow' bricks, steel andiron castings have enabled architects to accomplish wonders, •and rapidly as buildings spring up to-day they are fully as strong as those which twentv-five years ago took three times as much time to erect.”