WILLIAM W. TURNER,

PRESIDENT

ROBERT E. LAMB,
ENGINEER

HORACE B. FORMAN, JR.,

SEC. AND TREAS.

Turner-Forman Concrete Steel Co.

COMMONWEALTH BUILDING

12th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia

Engineers and Contractors

FOR ALL CLASSES OF CONCRETE BUILDINGS Schools, Hospitals and Institutional Buildings, Factories and Warehouses

SOME ADVANTAGES OF REINFORCED
CONCRETE IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

1. Offers greatest resistance to fire with most economical cost.

II. Secures lowest insurance rates issued.

III. Cost of maintenance and repairs a mere trifle.

IV. Rapid construction possible on account of absence of delays

due to milled materials.

V. Plans may be changed during progress of construction

VI.

work, without involving delays.

Maximum window areas obtained.

VII. Floors permanent and sanitary.

With this material of construction available, all buildings should be fireproof.

Our system of construction and supervision secures

best possible results.

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Sales agents for reinforcing steel and mauufacturers

of reinforcing frames.

Estimates cheerfully furnished.

Write for Catalogue "C".

The Advent of the Underwood Standard Type-
writer with its Tabulator marked a new era in the
Typewriter World. The Underwood Revolving Dupli-
cator with its Flexible Stencil Paper, non-corroding
Inks, and scientifically constructed Equilibrator Pres-
sure Bar represents a step forward in the art of
duplicating.

Write for particulars.

Underwood Typewriter Co.

Branches the

MANUFACTURERS

W. E. DOTTS & COMPANY

CONTRACTORS
and

BUILDERS

148 North Second Street

PHILADELPHIA

NEW BUILDING OF OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY. PITTSBURGH

Erected by Thomas Reilly, Contractor and Builder, of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh

This illustration of the new building of the Academy is made from a drawing direct.

The building was planned by Edward Stotz of Pittsburgh, under the direct supervision of Sister Sebastian, Mother Superior of the Pittsburgh diocese, and built by
Thomas Reilly, contractor, with offices and yards 1616 Thompson Street, Philadelphia, and 5156-72 Ellsworth Avenue, E. E., Pittsburgh, at an approximate cost of $500,000.
It has three stories and a finished basement and contains 350 rooms. The exterior is of plain red pressed brick, with a roof of Red Spanish tile. In general construction
the establishment is one of conspicuous simplicity quite contrary to its sister building the academy, which was built twenty years ago by the Ursuline order, and used
as a convent for many years.

Thomas Reilly has erected numerous large structures throughout the country. He is fully equipped with
every modern facility for the rapid execution of all kinds of building construction, however great its size

St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Francis' Hospital, Third Presbyterian Church, and the Willis McCook residence, Pittsburg, Brooklyn College, New York, Church of the Sacred Heart, Baltimore, Md., and St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, Pa., are buildings erected by Mr. Reilly, that have given him much prestige in this line

L. H. FOCHT & SON

General Contractors

and Builders

BUILDINGS ERECTED

Philadelphia Protectory for Boys House of Good Shepherd, Reading, Pa. Sisters of St. Bernardine Convent, Reading, Pa.

401 BEAR BUILDING

READING, PA.