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a controversy has been aroused between the advocates of the two 
materials, in which the concrete people seem now to have slightly the 
advantage. But going beyond this use of a concrete veneer, the more 
advanced have omitted the large iron members and have substituted 
a concrete column with a few round or square steel bars placed ver- 
tically in it and have secured a column that no fire can warp or affect in 
any way. 
Figure 84 shows the latter construction. 
In the Christian Science Temple near Broad Street and Grant 
Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, the architect has saved the expense of stone 
and stone cutter’s wages by making the porch pillars of concrete. Car- 
penters have built forms out of lumber. These were filled with concrete, 
and now symmetrical and inexpensive masonry pillars adorn the front of 
that concrete temple. The walls themselves are constructed of concrete 
blocks made upon the ground. 
Figure 85 shows the unfinished front of this building and figure 86 is 
a more detailed view of the foot of the columns. 
Fig. 85.—Front View of Christian Science Temple, Columbus, Ohio. 
ROOFS. 
Nassau County Court House.—A description of the Nassau County 
Court House, at Mineola, Long Island, will probably illustrate the use of 
steel concrete in many of its forms as well as anything that has been done 
in that line. This county had experienced the loss of its records by 
fire, as many counties have throughout the United States, so that the 
