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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 9, 1917. 3-D OMAHA ENGINEER INVENTMRAPER First High Building Planned by . P. W. Fitzpatrick, Chief Architect of Bankers Eealty Company. Omaha will have an especial inter est to delegates who will be here this week Jo attend the convention of the National Building Owners and Man agers' association. This interest ' arises from the fact that the engineer who invented the skyscraper is an Omaha man. F. W. Kitzpatrick, chief architect of the Bankers Realty In vestment company, is credited with being the inventor of the skyscraper. For years he was consulting archi tect for the government at Washing ton, and only last January came to the Bankers Realty Investment com pany. He is also credited with being responsible for the invention of the submerged tube for crossing rivers, and also for the mine-sweeping device used now by the English government. In a recent issue of the "Architect and Engineer of California" the early history of the skyscraper construction is'summarizcd thus: "It seems to be generally conceded that it was a necessity of sthe times, a natural and obvious step in the prog-, ress of building, and that no doubt many thought of the same solution of the problem at the same time. The patent office is full of coincident ap plications. "It is a fact that the first real sky scraper was built in Chicago by Colo nel Janney, the leading architect of that time 1889. How much before that actual construction did he or any one else conceive the scheme, history saith not. But we do know that as far back as 1864 F. W. Fitzpatrick (for merly of Washington, now of Omaha, always an original and resourceful thinker) was ahief draftsman in Buf Isgton's office in Minneapolis, and, with the assistance of a Swedish en gineer named Strcm, of the same of fice, designed an office building six- i teen stories high, with cast iron col umns and iron beams as a structural frame, with brick curtain walls sup ' ported at every floor essentially sky scraper construction. They startled the craft by writing about the thing and averring that they could build so up to twenty-five and even more stories. That particular building was not built that way. Neither the own ers nor Mr. Buffington were quite sure enough of themselves or of Fitz patrick to venture beyond the limits of masonry wall construction. "Some time latet Harvey Ellis, who succeeded Fitzpatrick at Buffington's, made a most beautiful water colo,r of a twenty-five-story structure. People marveled at it, wagged their heads and chortled that it couldn't be done. "Still, many years later, Buffington Omaha Man is First to Design One Of the Modern Steel Skyscrapers startled the profession by suing archi tects and owners right and left for infringement of a patent he held on such steel frame construction 1 His tory saith not how he got it. But there were scores of tall buildings up and it seemed much as if he would gather in many simoleons. Law suits were started, great excitement was aroused, then things quieted down and soon nothing more was heard 'of Buf fington or his alleged patents. "The point I want to get clear is that our friend Fitzpatrick, young as he was (21 in 1883) was among the very first to think of the scheme and certainly was the very first to write about it and exploit it and be laughed at for being a dreamer. 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This gives intending buyers, and those who have just been 'putting it off,' only six more days in which to place their or der at the old prices. Shortage of Material. "The uncertainty of the market for steel, copper, brass, aluminum and all other metals, for leather, rubber and cotton, by reason of the government's demands for these materials in the successful prosecution of the war, not only means another rise in prices, but may produce a shortage of most and a scarcity of many raw materials for motor car construction. U is only natural, too, that the rise in prices will have a tendency to still further decrease buying and thus add to the production cost of each car. "Automobiles are not going to be cheaper at any time soon. , I doubt very much if there will ever come a time again when cars can be bought at such low prices as right now. You probably will never have another op portunity to purchase an automobile of such power, size and quality as either the Studebaker Four or Six for so little money." Noted Musician to Make Omaha His Future Home W. A. Haberstro, basso cantante. of New York City, is a newcomer to Omaha and is opening a studio for voice culture, technique, and coaching in the Securities building, with Ver non C. Bennett, pianist. Mr. Haberstro has been a student of music and voice since early youth and, although trained for law and ad mitted to the bar of New York state, he prefers singing and music as a vocation. He has studied with prominent teachers, among them being Baugert of Buffalo, N. Y.; Humphrey, Victor Capoul's first assistant, New -York; Henry Lantz of Darmstadt, Germany, and William Shakespeare of Lon don, England. """ j Wherever you may find them, Paige owners are always enthusiastic always contented aiwaya completely satufitd. 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