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Re-elected to the City Council from the 5th Ward BUILDERS MEET IN ANNUAL CONFERENCE The fifth annual Builders Confer ence, With delegates coming from Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Nash ville, Atlanta and other southern points, was opened Feb. 14, at Hamp ton Institute by Robert R. Taylor, vice-principal and director of industry at Tuskegee Institute, who led a round table discussion on short-cuts for the builder. Charles E. Coles of Char lottesville, Va., and Calvin McKissack, architect and builder of Nashville, Tenn., who, during the month of Jan uary handled one-half of the city’s building permits, in terms of value, made practical suggestions to the con ference. Professor I. H. Cowdrey, scores of applied mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made tests of common structural ele ments of building on the 100,008 pound testing machine. Members of the con ference nailed together ledger boards and scaffolding such as is customary on the job and the material was tested on this machine. The annual builders banquet was held in the carpenter shop of the Trade * School when Robert R. Taylor, pres ident of the national Negro Builders Association, acted as toastmaster. On the second day a successful builder of Louisville, Ky., Mr. Samuel Plato, discussed out of his expérience the problem of cost accounting for the builder. Mr. Plato’s simplified forms, it was found, worked equally well for the one-ton builder of the firm doing thousands of dollars worth of business a year. Two talks, “The Problem of Labor,” by Mr. B. H. Van Oot, State Director of Vocational Education in Virginia, and “Problems Connected with Voca tional Education Under City Adminis tration,” by Mr. T. G. Rydingsvard, j pointed out that workmen were not making the most of their opportunities for advancement, and that the builders present should do everything in their power to urge the men to join these classes in trade-training which the gov ernment is helping finance under the Smith-Hughes Act. At the annual meeting of the Na tional Builders Association, the fol lowing officers for the coming two years were elected: Mr. Charles E. Coles, Jr., Hampton ex-'06, president; Mr. Samuel Plato, vice-president; Mr. A. L. Manly, Hampton ex-’87, Mr. W. T. Jones, Hampton ex-’07 and Mr. G. L. McKissack, executive committee ‘men from the north, south and west, respectively. The conference closed with a talk on “Architecture of Building,” by Mr. €. Howard Walker, architect, Boston,
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Chicago Broad Ax
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 26, 1927
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