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Show HARD ON MENDELSSOHN. Mr. Spohr Comrt I p I. Ike a Trout and Talks "In response to the Item 'Hard on Spohr,' in Tuesday's Times, I will say that nothing is loo hard for Spohr and that i am never too old to learn," said Mr. George K. Spohr. "I am glad to see that Mr. Mendelssohn Mendel-ssohn has thrown a boomerang. First of all, he forgets that my remark was not intended for tho press, and was merely applicable in a general way to the great rebuilding of Chicago after thn lire, and not to isolated instances. Mr. Mendelssohn said in his article last Saturday that many of Chicago's tine buildings were by New York architect.. There is the Borden residence, costing $75,001) and the Western Indiana rail-1 road depot, costing $11)0,000, two structures struc-tures built in 1SS4 by New York architects. archi-tects. He further 'adds a list of residences, resi-dences, etc., by Boston architects, which question has not been disputed. "George B. l'ost has not a building erected in Chicago to his credit. Mr. Mendelssohn forgets that quite a time has elapsed since 'HU ami 'HI, and that in his opinion, perhaps, buildings like the Auditorium, erected by Addler & Sullivan, the Monadnock, the Rookery and scores of buildings designed by Durham & Root and W. L. B. Jenney, the leading Chicago architects, ranging in height from eight to seventeen stories and costing millions of dollars, have sunk into oblivion (?) in comparison compari-son with the above New York architect's archi-tect's four story depot and residence. Anyone acquainted with the history of modern architecture in Chicago will readily see at a glance that there is no prevarication and no ignorance ig-norance of facts, presented by Mr. Mendelssohn, as having come from me. Comparison is invited." |
