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Show t r ' f W T3J ' VOL I. Herer, Wautcii. Counts, Utah, Monday, J'ui.y THE SIX "WIED-OPE- PRO- N FESSIONS. taken from iiarters young people. ' ' might inention also. tliegreat-warehousof .Marshall Field in Chicago, - and the symmetyical and almost daintily perfect railway stations, designed by Richardson which line the Albany Rail' road suburbs of Boston. Architecture and its kindred arts of engineering, bridgebuilding, and. the construction of ships are eminently professions for men, not for women, involving as they do a vast, amount of outdoor work, and hardship, a practical aquaintance with the use of heavy materials, and, nut least, a faith in the strength of tested materials which must be based upon experiment acquired in the same was. A novice can hardly credit the strength of a gossamer-lik- d structure suchas th6 Klnzua viaduct on the Erie Railroad in .New York city at the northwest corner of Central Park. And yet they were built with implicit faith in their. safety by the great engineers Clark, Reeves, &Co. from a series of experiments made mainly on paper, which went to shoy that the limi; of strength in the structure would bp four and a half times as great. as would sustain a 'continuous train of engines and load- I e , -' , . . . . r - ed cars. ' The boys-o- America may be sure that the increasing wealth, taste, and opportunities of their country are going to make the architect's profession one in which triumphs may be gained far superior laurels that can be won on the field of hattip.Time was When every fnaster- f t 28, 1890. N06. carpenterfelt himself competent to plan the house he was adeed to build, hut the future- - is going to demand an architect of profound education, marked original-ily- ; cofrectner o f judgment;' ami.brilP- iancy of imagination.' The representative of this new era musfnot' 'only he a thorough schojor in the forms ok an cient construction, of the progress and growth of the Middle Ages,5 in comparison with whose grandeur this branch has hitherto, seemed a lost art, but he must have 'an expert knowledge of the strength of materials and the processes of testing them the adaptation of wood brick and stone and of stone to to iron that marvellous new factor which has already made a revolution in the art of building.,-- And I am fain to prophesy that the new race of architects' do the coming century, by their wise improvements in the maner of constructine-'-housetheir intelligent discoveries as to the methods of heating and ventilation will eventully add years" to the average life of civilized mankind. THE END. ; While in Heber city last Saturday, TrfE.Hi:RALi)Vcorrspondent vistied, the office of the HereiI Herald. This paper is a bright little sheet' of four pages, published weekly by- Abram Hatch, son of Mr Joe Hatch, a boy only eleven years of age. He is manager edifuf, compositor and pressman and gets out. a paper that would be a . - credit . mutch person. . If proderly. encouraged, Abe willsomtime make a great newspaperjman. Salt to-a- Lake Herald ' . . . s, . |