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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 84, no. 2155: July 3, 1909

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July 3,-1909 RECORD AXD GUIDE 17 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...........