The Architect Makes Big Money

THE ARCHITECT MAKES BIG MONEY

On the New First Ward School Building

LOCAL ARCHITECTS KICK

He Gets Over $1,100 and $15 a Day and Expenses--

Here From Chicago

Local architects are disposed to feel hurt by the action of the building committee of the local board of education for employing a Chicago architect to prepare plans for the new First Ward school building, a cut of which appeared in a recent issue of the Argus. Mr. W. A. Otis is the architect of the new building and it is claimed he was employed without giving others an opportunity to compete for the work. The new school is to cost something over $32,000 and the architect is to receive three and a half per cent of the contract price for his plans. It is also provided that whenever he comes to Ann Arbor on business connected with the erection of the building he is to be paid $15 and his expenses. Our local architects seem to regard the percentage paid for the plans as excessive. 

The building will be modern and up-to-date in all respects, and a credit to this city of schools.