than outside. He didn't know how it was done, or what stuff it was made vf, but even the ceiling kept up. In his room there was not a crack. He reckoned there was only one man who could now come to Japan and get big contracts for quake-proof duildings, and that was Mr. Wright, the long-haired architect of that hotel.
Others have remarked that they would be glad to have shares in that company.
As to reinforced concrete buildings, one hears all sorts of opinions. In Tokio one such building, which was declared by its architect to be about the best-constructed in the city, is now an unsightly wreck, and not far from it there is an ordinary brick building that has stood. The high telephone building under construction in Yokohama, on the other hand, is a fine example of reinforced construction that. has stood: the fest.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.