irected, and untiring, and
no one of the succeeding scholars has labored to better advantage or
accomplished more than he, although each in turn has had the example
and experience of his predecessors as a guide and stimulus to
increased endeavor. Mr. Blackall's time was devoted largely to travel,
together with the sketching and measuring of important work.

Since his return he has built up a successful and varied practice.

As an active member of the Boston Society of Architects and the
first president of the Boston Architectural Club, he has done much to
advance the best interests of the profession, both within its ranks
and in its relations to the public. To nothing so much as to his
faithful labors can the success of the Architectural Club be laid. He
has made it the largest and most effective organization of its kind
in the country, and the draughtsmen of Boston have every reason to be
thankful to him for his unselfish devotion to their interests.

He has, for several years, been the permanent chairman of the
Committee of the Boston Society of Architects, appointed to administer
the Rotch Scholarship, and through his earnest work the opportunities
open to its holders are being constantly increased.

(_To be continued_.)

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Club Notes.

The youngest of the architectural societies of the country is the
Cleveland Architectural Club. It was organized in November last with a
membership of fifteen, which number has been rapidly growing and bids
fair to grow much further. In this instance, as has been the case in
all the other large cities where similar clubs have been formed, it
is the better class of draughtsmen who have felt the need of an
organization that would bring them together socially, and give an
opportunity for organized study and mutual improvement; and it is a
most encouraging symptom of the generally diseased condition of the
public mind in relation to architecture that these clubs have become
so numerous in the last few years. Aside from the direct influence
upon its own membership, the manifestation of a progressive and
aggressive spirit cannot help provoking curiosity and discussion
outside, if it accomplishes nothing further. It is somewhat surprising
that with the unusually active interest which Cleveland has always
evinced in matters relating to art, such a movement has not been
started before. We shall have occasion before long to refer more in
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