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factories, it became important to find an architect who could design those factories. He made industrial architecture a specialty of the profession. Up until that time a factory had been designed just like any other buildings. You built the floor strong enough to hold up the weight; you spent as much money on ornamentation as your employer wanted; and that was that.

Efficiency was beginning to be talked about. Frederick Winslow Taylor had invented a new way of laying bricks. People were thinking about efficiency arising out of exterior conditions as well as out of the hard work of individuals. Kohn had had the brilliant idea of making a specialty out of industrial architecture and had designed a number of factories in various parts of the country. I remember I went to see some of them. He was a very well educated man, very alert. I don't know where he was trained, but probably at Columbia. He was a great friend of Woolson's. He had sat under him. Woolson was a fine old man then and Kohn was a young man.

Kohn was thoroughly imbued with the principles of fire prevention and life protection. He had designed some very interesting buildings. All of the revelations that we had made him more convinced than ever that he had not done enough on this; that the designs were not sufficient. He