Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy (1911)
Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920, Wacker, Charles Henry, 1856-, Chicago Plan Commission · [Chicago, Printed by H. C. Sherman & co. · leaf 78
hinery and explosives, and carry the prod-uct away on steam railways. We are evenable to manufacture stone itself from ce-ment, gravel and water, and to mold it as weplease as our buildings are being erected.From all these things, it is plain that wehave duties to fulfill in permanent buildingthat… … ancient cities. How mnch more magnificentwould ancient Eome have been if its build-ers could have commanded the use of mod-e r n buildingimp lements!How muchhigher, howmuch better,would havebeen the Pyra-mids of Egypt,built stone bystone fromma-terial said tohave been car-ried hundredsof miles…
Art, Municipal · Public works
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