Show WAS FATHER OF THE TEE STEEL ST EL SKY SCRAPER Chicago Tribune The death at the early age of 40 years ears of George A Fuller of this city puts an untimely end to t a remarkable ca career career career reer Five years ago when Air Mr Ful Fuller Fuller Fuller ler was but 44 a stroke of paralysis practically put an end to his activity so that in all less than twenty years of mature and strenuous life were given given given en him Within that time however he Invented and demonstrated the pray practicability practicability of an Mn entirely new method of constructing great buildings His was the imagination inH I which conceived the idea of a towering building run running running running ning up fifteen or twenty stories st ries and supported by b a skeleton of oC steel beams I and girders He was vu the father of the steel skeleton skyscrapers and the first I building of that kind ever eyer built in the world still stands in Chicago as a mon monument to his skill and daring Mod Modern Modern Modem ern em skyscrapers skyscraper sky cr pens are not things of beau beauty beauty beauty ty but most critics will at least leant admit j I that they have a certain cerain impressive Impressiveness i iness ness due to their great size ize S and that they admirably serve the purposes for which they are designed No one can I deny that they mark a radical and and innovation innovation epoch epo h making departure dep tion In architectural and constructive I methods and to that extent they rep represent represent resent the work of a great creative im lm imagination Mr Fuller was more than thana a mere builder He began as an arch architect architect and he had fine taste The pool poet dreams a dream m and tries to realize In words word the artist puts his conceptions on canvas the musician translates translate s lila his imaginings into sounds of linked sweetness But Mr Fuller was the poet poat or romancer of steel beams How daring was wa the flight of fancy which firt Imagined a cobweb structure of thin steel girders towering up 60 50 feet into the air hout the th sup support sUpport support port of heavy stone walK wahl may be real realized realized realized any day by the layman an who watches a skyscraper in process of construction |