ll on the Inchcape rock,
On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung,
And over the waves its warning rung.

"When the rock was hid by the surge's swell,
The mariners heard the warning bell;
And then they knew the perilous rock,
And bless'd the Abbot of Aberbrothwick."

The tradition represents a rover, in the recklessness of prosperity
and sunshine, cutting the bell-rope, and afterwards returning in foul
weather to be shipwrecked on the rock from which he had impiously
removed the warning beacon. No evidence of the existence of the bell
is found in the records of the Abbey; and on the subject of its wanton
removal, the sagacious engineer of the Northern Lights say, "It in no
measure accords with the respect and veneration entertained by seamen
of all classes for landmarks; more especially as there seems to be no
difficulty in accounting for the disappearance of such an apparatus,
unprotected, as it must have been, from the raging element of the
sea."[5]

FOOTNOTES:

[4] Annals, 1178.

[5] Stevenson on the Bell Rock Light-house, 69.

DESIGN FOR A STORE. MESSRS. WAIT & CUTTER, ARCHITECTS, BOSTON, MASS.

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BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS.

Recommendations by the Boston Society of Architects, in regard to
practice in obtaining estimates from contractors:

1. Drawings, when offered for final or competitive estimates, should
be sufficient in number and character to represent the proposed works
clearly; should be at a scale of not less than one-eighth of an inch
to the foot, and be rendered in ink or some permanent process.

2. Proper details should be furnished for work that is not otherwise
sufficiently described for estimate.

3. Specifications should be in ink. They should be definite where not
sufficiently defined and explained by drawings, and every distinctive
class of work to be included in contract should be mentioned and
placed under its appropriate heading.

4. Contractors should be notified, at time of estimate, if they are to
be restricted in the employment of their subcontractors.

5. Sub-bids received by architects should be held as confidential
communications until all the estimates in a given class of work have
been submitted.

The principal contractor should add to his bids all these subestimates
while in the architect's office, and should sign a tender in which the
names of these above-mentioned subcontractors should be enumerated.