s lately returned from six months' travel, mostly
in Italy, has made a careful study of the brick and terra-cotta
architecture of Northern Italy. He has just entered the office of
Messrs. Wyatt and Noelting, Baltimore.

Each year since the University of Pennsylvania Traveling Scholarship was
founded, a prominent member of the T Square Club has been the winner;
and that Mr. Percy Ash, ex-president of this club, should carry off the
prize this year is particularly gratifying.

Mr. Ash has twice before competed, and each time came out a close
second; but his old luck did not entirely forsake him, for in his
venture for the Roman Scholarship Prize he was very near to the front,
winning honorable mention.

H.L. Duhring, Jr., was a close second for the U. of P. Scholarship.

At the last regular T Square Club meeting, but two sets of drawings were
submitted. The program called for a "Garden for a Palatial Country
House," and required a plan of the house and terrace at 1/8" scale,
and a plan and section of the entire garden at a scale of 1/32 of an
inch.

The problem was modeled after the _projet_ given at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts, and required so vast an amount of graded wash work in color,
as to intimidate many of the regular competitors. A.C. Munoz, who won
first mention, submitted three drawings, two of them nearly three by
four feet, while Albert Kelsey was disqualified for not having fulfilled
the requirements by omiting the 1/8" scale plan.

Some discussion advocating the postponement of the competition took
place, but Kelsey seemed to prefer being disqualified rather than
further exert himself; and possibly the knowledge that three draughtsmen
in Day's office and two in Cope & Stewardson's office had two unfinished
designs to complete, may have influenced him. In spite of the result of
this competition the eleven points previously won by Mr. Kelsey give him
the highest average for the past year's work.

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Notes.

Of the many minor or industrial arts which enter into a complete
architectural production, that of the smith is one of the most
fascinating, and strangely enough, it is one which at the present time
has the fewest workers who can be worthily compared with those of the
past. In the estimation of many of the most prominent and exacting
architects of the country there is but one maker of ornamental wrought
iron in America who can be trusted to intelligently