Show AfiE OF TilE THE CONCRETE ON IS SHERED IN TO STAY DECLARE Al AR ARCHITECTS HITE TS AND BUILDERS I I II IView 1 i iC C 4 A 4 pt i 4 4 5 p 1 4 3 V p 7 t ie i 44 i ie ic e c 4 w wk k 2 ft r Ic 4 C AL ii vi viX I X 4 r t i 4 View of interior showing steel and wire frames for pillars 4 Sa s 4 7 4 i iS S r rI 3 I t i I IS If S f I S kr MM 4 k V S 1 S 41 5 S y k es I t w g 1 t S Ua S Exterior of building ready for the facing I The age of tile concrete building has been ushered in to stay That is the declaration of architects and builder builders favorably Inclined toward structures of this kind On this page are shown two pictures of the McIntyre building the first all reinforced concrete big office structure to be erected In this city Plans for this building were drawn by byR byR byR R Kletting architect and the tile contract for its erection Is in the hands of or A AJ AJ AJ J McDonald local contractors It Is estimated that the cost of the completed building will be This building will be full eight stories in height but counting the attic story it will b he be in reality nine stories high As Aswill Aswill Aswill will be seen from one of tho tim pictures the structure Is rapidly nearing com corn completion completion se so far tar as the th reinforced con concrete concrete concrete crete superstructure Is concerned With the completion of the McIntyre block that part of Main street In which it is 18 located just north of the McCornick bank building will be Illustrative to toa toa toa a marked degree of concrete construe construction tion work The TM Francis building adjoining the tyre tre block completed s some ome time ago presents a solid concrete face al at although although though the walls are of brick Con Constructed Constructed Contracted with long window openings on each side of the two stories its archi architectural architectural lines are distinctive enough so that both buildings will possess char characteristic characteriStic features Europe Makes Test Mr Ir Kletting states that the era of concrete building did not begin In the United States until about 1890 1800 though it had been boon ushered in some soma years pre previous previous In Europe At the time rein reinforced reinforced reinforced forced concrete was first used in this country It was confined almost ex ox exclusively elusively to the building of floors ceilings and minor structural features Not until the past few years was it used in making columns beams and in hi informing l forming a solid structure Examples I I of pf partial concrete structures are found In the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone building and the Deseret News building In the former consid considerable considerable considerable erable concrete was used though the walls were filled In with brick The floors in the latter building were made of concrete I It is said paid that a build bund building bunding building ing In Cincinnati was the all rein reinforced reinforced reinforced forced concrete structure to be erected In n the United States When the success of concrete co crete In erecting large Iare la e buildings was established this form of building was given great impetus all over the thu country The construction principle principia embodied In the use of steel and concrete is one that takes advantage of the charac characteristic characteristic properties of both In the mak making making makIng ing of ot girders steel is placed on the V bottom and concrete on top By this method it is claimed that great weight supporting power is the result This system of construction could not be used were It not for the fact that steel does not rust nor corrode when Im un Imbedded bedded in concrete or cement work Many tests have been made in proof of this One O of the unique features of the Mc McIntyre Ie Intyre building is the stairs These stairs formed of concrete over steel shel bars are without support from beneath bE and make additional I space apace which is not available in or ordinary ordinary ordinary stair construction It is claimed that stairs can be made from concrete much more easily and much cheapen eh than from any other material How Work Is Done One of the pictures given the beginning of work on the concrete walls and concrete columns of the building The skeleton columns of steel rods with wire netting are to be seen scattered throughout the base basement basement basement ment After wooden forms have been placed around these skeletons the con concrete concrete concrete crete is poured in and the result is a solid reinforced concrete column ca en capable capable pable of sustaining enormous weight we ht The system of concrete filling used on the McIntyre building by the McDon McDonalds aids Is the vecy vez latest At the rear In Inthe inthe Inthe the picture of the practically completed structure is shown an elevator for the hoisting of immense buckets containing the concrete for walls valls floors and col eel columns columns Hoisting power is furnished by bya byn a n donkey engine on the first floor When the filled bucket is hoisted to the floor on which the work Is being done the concrete is dumped Into a long pipe which carries It down an incline to the wooden forms where its flow Is evenly regulated by b waiting cement workers Superiority over the wheelbarrow method of dumping cement Is claimed for the hoist and pipe system 1 Advocates of concrete for building purposes claim that buildings made of i this material are almost as cheap as lumber structures and better batter or at least equally good as any other form of fireproof building The McIntyre block will be faced with white cement cem nt and will present a afine afine afine fine appearance Work on the exton exten extension zion sion of the McCornick block 18 feet wide north of the present structure and between it and the McIntyre block blockis is being rushed This addition will wilt cost about It will be b faced to con conform conform conform form with wita the present structure |