July 3,-1909





RECORD   AXD   GUIDE





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ANNAPOLIS, MD.—Proposals will be
received at the Bureau of Yards" and
Docks, "Washington. D. C, July 24, for
constructing four officers' and nurses'
quarters and one stable at the naval hos¬
pital, Annapolis, Md. R. C. Hollyday,
chief of bureau.

HUDSON, N. Y.—Sealed proposals will
be received until the 2Sth day of July
for the construction (including plumbing,
gas piping, heating apparatus, electric
conduits and wiring), of the U. S. Post
Office at Hudson, N. Y. Address, James
Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect,
Washington, D. C.

Office of the Supervising Architect,
Washington. D. C. Sealed proposals will
be received July 29lh, for the construction
(including plumbing, gas piping, heating
apparatus, electric conduits and .wiring),
of the U. S. post-office at Belleville, Illi¬
nois. James Knox Taylor, Supervising
Architect, Washington,  D.  C.

Sealed proposals will be received the
. 27t!i- of July, 1909, for the construction
(including plumbing, gas-piping, heating
apparatus, electric conduits and wiring.,
and a standard clock system) of the U. S.
Post Office and Court House at Owens-
boro. Ky. James Knox Taylor, Super¬
vising Architect, Washington. D, C.

BROOKLYN.—Proposals will be re¬
ceived at the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Washington, D. C, July 24. for medical
supply depot at the naval hospital,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Plans and speciflca¬
tions can be obtained on application to
the bureau or to the commandant of the
navy yard named. R. C. Hollyday, chief
01! bureau.





Brief and Personal.

Great changes in a year at Fort Wash¬
ington.

The Manhattan Building Department
will close at 3 P. M. during the months
of July and August.

The office of the Engineering Record
has been changed from 277 Pearl st to
239 West 39th st. New York,

Herman Petri has moved his office
and showroom of tiles, mantels and fire¬
place goods to 124 East 41st st.

More building construction is going on
in Hudson River cities than in years past.

More endurable temperatures have re¬
vived drooping ambitions among the
builders.

Herbert DuPuy. of Pittsijurgh, who re¬
cently entered the local sand and gravel
market, has moved his offices to those of
the Coodwin Sand and Gravel Co., 71
Broadway.

Harvey Farrington. manufacturer of
expansion bolts, 45 Broadway, is spend¬
ing his vacation with his family at Rac¬
quet Lake, N..Y. He will return to the
city on July 9.

J. B. King, of the J. B. King Company,
which recently moved its offices from No.
■1 Broadway to 17 State st, has been in
Europe since June 1, and will not return
to his desk until about September 1.

M. 6. Baldwin, advertising manager of
the Otis Elevator Co., 17 Battery pl, is
spending the major portion of the sum¬
mer in Europe. He is expected to return
to his office on or about August first.

W. P. Corbett, general sales manager
of Alsen's American and German Port¬
land cement, wltii offices at 45 Broadway,
has gone on a fishing trip of two w-eeks'
duration in Canada. He expected to re¬
turn to his office on or about July 6.

J. C. Ewing, one of the managers of the
Goodwin Sand and Gravel Co., is moving
bis family to this city from Pittsburgh,
where he was formerly associated with
Herbert DuPuy. -—r. Ewing will here¬
after  make   New  York   his   headquarters-

In the bankruptcy proceedings against
Milliken Brothers, Inc., structural iron
and steel contractors, of Milliken, S. I.,
formerly   of   11   Broadway,   July  15   was





set this week as the,time to file an an¬
swer to the petition filed against the cor¬
poration on June 10, 1907.

A. H. Bragg, of Eggleston Brothers,
iron and steel dealers. South st, is on his
vacation. He will return to his desk on
August 1. He will devote considerable of
his time to motoring. F. Coolv, of the
same firm, has returned from -his vaca¬
tion camping sojourn at Snnthtown, L. I.
"W. F. Proctor takes his vacation in
-August.

A. Gardiner Cooper, a member of the
firm of Bruce & Cook, iron and steel deal-
ei-s, 190 Water st, is spending his vaca¬
tion in the Maine woods. He wrote the
heads of the various departments this
week that he had caught 350 bass, the
major portion of which weighed 3^,4
pounds. He will be back at his desk on
Tuesday.

Edmund A. Fisher, president of the
Sayre & Fisher Co., brick manufacturers,
with yards at Sayreville, N. J., and offices
in the Smith & Gray building. 261 Broad¬
way, sailed for Europe on June 8. He
arrived safely in Bremen with his family
and Started almost immediately upon a
prolonged trip through G^-many and'
France. He expects to be back in this
city  by August 1.

The Standard Concrete-Steel Company,
engineers and contractore in reinforced
concrete construction and of the Guy B.
Waite systems of fireproofing, has ob¬
tained the contract for the reinforced
concrete work, according to its "System
M.*'i for the storage warehouse to be
erected on 150th st. east of Amsterdam
av. for Thomas F. McAvoy. F. E. Glas-
ser is the architect.

With the carpenters, as well as the
iron-workers, outside of the arbitration
breastw'ork. the peacemakers had better
keep alert. Another big body of crafts¬
men, the bricklayers, never subscribed
to the General Arbitration Plan,^but
they never strike, they claim. At any
rate, it is well to understand that the
General Arbitration Board's ability to
preserve  peace has  limitations.

John P. Kane, Jr.. of the firm of John
P. Kane Co., masons' building material,
nearly had his finger cut off by an electric
fan on Tuesday. He was sitting at his
desk writing when the fan fell. He tried
to catch it and. the second finger of his
right hand went between the brass guard.
A blade of the fan cut so deep into the
member that it severed the bone, leaving
the digit hanging by a few tendons. He
received surgical attention at once, and
fears of blood poisoning developing have
practically been allayed. He is still at¬
tending  to business as usual, however.





Sunburst Prism Light Co. Incor¬
porates.

The Sunburst Prism Light Co. was in¬
corporated last week with $250,000 capi¬
tal, all of which is in common stock, to
succeed the Universal Iron Foundry Co.,
which has been doing a large business
at Seholes and Waterbury sts, Williams-
burgh, for many years. The officers will
be elected within the week. The newly
incorporated company will purchase the
Universal Iron Foundry's plant and prop¬
erty, consisting of a plot 75x100 ft., on
which stand three wooden and one brick
factories and will devote the whole to the
manufacture of a new vault light in¬
vented and perfected by Philip Schwick-
ert, one of the incorporators of the new
company.

This is a system of vault lights with
mirror reflectors. The company also
makes skylights which are burglar proof.
Tests of the new system enabled a pho¬
tograph to be taken of a printed placard
placed 40 ft. from a skylight 15x45 ins.,
on   an   exposure   of   1   to   8,   daylighted





street. .In other words the exposure in
the attic was only eight times the time
of exposure allowed for the same work
on a sun lighted avenue. In the de¬
veloped picture the 24-point type was
clearly readable without the use of
magnifying glass. In the cellar, where
one of the vault lights have been in¬
stalled,, a nonpariel or newspaper typb
could be read at a distance of 50 ft. with
no other light penetrating l,he otherwise
dark cellar. I'he company already re¬
ports several large orders from its Boston
office.





Good Roofs  Add  to  Life of Buildings.

An expert on building construction, writ¬
ing in a recent number of a technical
magazine, made the statement that one
of the essentials in a building, the im¬
portance of which very frequently is
passed over in a more or less perfunc¬
tory manner, is the roof. He said that a
good roof adds to the life of a building.
When a builder puts a roof on a struc¬
ture he guarantees it for periods ranging
from one to ten years, providing the
house is not sold in the meantime. If
the building is disposed of, the responsi¬
bility of the roofer usually ends. At 114
East 130th st, the Roof Maintainance Co.
makes a specialty of taking up the main¬
tainance of roofs where the builder leaves
off. This company, of which L, C. Ander¬
son is president and treasurer and S. P.
Fields, is secretary, has been in business
for nine years, and during that time has
had charge of the maintainance of roofs
of some, of the most important b.uildings
ill this city. It also puts on new roofs
and- keeps them in repair not only 'during
th^period of its guarantee but on a year¬
ly contract looks after them for an in-
deflnite period.

All kinds of roofs are maintained by
this company; it even puts a plastic slate
covering over worn out shingles. The
contracts held by this company do not
terminate with a sale of property, ■ but
hold good with assigns, thus Insuring
constant attention and absolutely water¬
tight roofs at all times. Among the coh-
traets now held by this company is one
for remodeling and maintaining the roofs
of the estate of Conrad Steirl at Red
Bank,  N. J.





Asbestos Fnrnitme.

The Bureau of Construction and Repair
of the United States Navy Department
has taken up the subject of asbestos
furniture in connection with a periodical
investigation whicli is conducted into
the question of flttings and furniture for
naval ships in .the protection from flre:
Real estate and building interests are
also awaiting the result of the investi¬
gation, because it is likely to ^e far-
reaching.

It has been observed that this asbestos
furniture is used on the Austrian
cruiser St. George, where it . has given
much satisfaction. This had led to a
pi-actical test of various kinds of fur¬
niture of that type at the navy yard at
Brooklyn. , When the tests are com¬
pleted a report will be filed with th«
Navy Department, and upon the conclu¬
sions will depend the extent of the adop¬
tion of this type of furniture on board
our vessels of war.

From time to time the department has
taken up the question of furniture made
of wood, metal, asbestos and material
which is specially treated against con¬
flagration. It is desired, of course, to
obtain furniture which reduces the dan¬
ger from splinters in time of attack us
well. Careful attention will'be given to
the question in an effort to .improve the
existing situation-and -increase the, £a_c-
tor of protection...........