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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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hat it is legitimate to make upfor a narrow margin of profit by paddinghis bills and get his profit in some otherway; but we believe in laying all ourcards on the table and stating at the be-ginning just what the charge is- going tobe, above the cost of labor and material.■ Taking it all in all and in view of theexperience of leading concerns like theone cited in this article, it seems that thepercentage system is making good andhas come to stay. New Yorker Likes This Magazine New York City. N. Y., June 1.^, 1917.InblisluTs The Arcliilect and Engineer. Pear Sirs:—I am deeply interested in vour pub-lication. The .Architect and Engineer, and wouldlike to have it mailed to me for one year, com-mencing with the June number. You will tlnd$1..tO postal money order enclosed.\*ery truly yours, TIIOM.VS T. OXO. STERLINGMOTORTRUCKS - A complete linein stock for im-mediate deliv- 1 ^ry- EDWARD R. BACON C O M PA N Y, Pacific Co«.t Agents51-53 Minna Street, San Francisco Telephone Sutter 1675
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riting to Advertisers please THE ARCHITECT A\D EXCIXEER 119 Superstition There are men who will not start ajob on Friday. There are others whowill not rent a house numbered 13 or1313, or will not begin an importantpiece of work on the 13th of the month,or will not rent offices on the 13th doorof a building. Happily the number of those who areunder the sway of superstitiorrs of thissort is lessening. .Vrchitects occasionallyencounter clients, however, who have un-accountable prejudices of some sort, andit is, of course, necessary to respect thesepersonal whims, and to avoid any con-junction of dates or numbers, or anyother thing that the client may considerunlucky. Very often the client is un-willing to acknowledge his pet super-stition, because his better judgment re-jects it as nonsensical, but notwithstand-ing the fact that his reason rejects itthere is at the bottom of his conscious-ness a feeling that he will not be quiteat ease if his pet superstition is ruthless-ly trampled unde

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