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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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by them beforefire insurance policies will be written on the building. Why not the sameprovision as to every chimney built? The question then naturally arises,why not a national chimney code? To design and build chimneys according to the provisions of such acode would be perfectly feasible. To inspect all flues and when foundtight to issue a certificate to that effect and to make all insurance con-tingent upon such certificates is surely also but common sense. Thechimney ordinance of the National Board of Fire Underwriters couldserve as a basis on which a national chimney code could be drawn up andonce it was prepared and recognized as authoritative, it could be put intoforce just as the electrical code now is. With the backing of fire under-writers, fire prevention organizations, architects, contractors, workmenand owners, it would not be long before the fire losses due to defectivechimneys and flues would be practically eliminated with respect to newconstruction. /■ ^# L \ -H ^^ik
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*^»m^Mm PEN-AND-INK SKETCH. LOOKING DOWN POWELL STREET.CHINATOWN. SAN FRANCISCO JANUARY, 1927 95 Architect WE ancj ^/,e laV COWT DLQSIOKS o/IMTIEEST /b/^. PROfKSlo/ SOME new phase of the old question involved in the right of thearchitect to recover his fee, where the work exceeds in cost theamount originally contemplated, comes up quite regularly. Oneof the most recent cases along this line, with which I have had to deal,involves some rather interesting points, writes Clinton H. Blake, Jr., ofthe New York Bar in the American Architect. An architect entered into a written agreement to prepare plans andsupervise the con.struction of a church building substantially in the usualway. It was agreed that he should be paid a commission of six per centof the total cost of the work, which includes the cost of the building,immovable fixtures, such as fixed pews or chairs and lighting fixtures.The contract further provided that he should be paid one per cent of$150,000, the proposed cost of the

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