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Title: Building and industrial news
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Contractors' and Dealers' Association of California
Subjects: Architecture Building Construction industry Engineering
Publisher: San Francisco : L. A. Larson
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ent is evidently unable todistinguish true Bohemiani.11,11 from thenight life that treiiuents the denilnionde of all large cities. General ContradorsDedicate New Home. ^looslir IOprnhiK Shii afiun lliHKinet ,Mnrk)<rn Qiinrlcrtt in Thein niilltling. The members of the General Con-tractors Association, to the number oflive hundred, assa.nbled at their new(luartcrs, corner of New .Montgomeryand Jessie streets, last Saturday nightto celebrate the formal opening oftheir new home, Tlie celebration was in llie form ofan elaborate banQuet. to whicli all didample justice. The new quarters are by far thelinost and the largest in the United.states, anil would do justice to anybanking institution. The assemblyroom is on the ground floor of theSharon Building, a class A building, inthe very lieart of the business life ofthe city. With mosaic floor, marblewainscoting, and hardwood trim, theassembly hall certainly presents animposing and impressive appearance..\mple room is also provided for pri-
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CHA vate rooms for estimating jmrposes,directors rooms, committee rooms,secretarys offices, etc, etc.. all ofwhich are most handsomely furnished. Following the banquet. PresidentDay. who acted as toastmaster, madea short speech in which he gave thehistory of the organization since itsstart, its objects, etc, A talk of this kind would not becomplete witliout referring to the la-bor situation, said the speaker, Thatwe find satisfactory. For the past twoyears there liave been no strikes, andfew misunderstandings ■ wbicli confer-ences with t!ie Liuilding Trades Coun-cil have soon dissipated. Wages in thebuilding trades -are liigher than anycity in the country, and this associa-tion believes tliey arc high enough andwill oppose any further increase, no111:1 Iter how slight. .\la\ or .him.s Kolpli was llie first of the invited speakers to be called upon,and after referring to the team worknecessary to make San Franciscogreat, he told of the two big problemsconfronting the city, water and

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