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Record  and  Guide.





COSTLY   DWELLINGS.

No. 490 5th av, near 4lst st.

No. *557 Sth av, near 4')\ih st.

No. 748 Sth av, near 57tb sfc, to Eiisha H, Goodwin.

No. B45 ,')th av, near 6Gth st, to Wra, Demuth.

No. 1!SI Madison av, n e cor 'ittth st.

No. 4;i West 57th st.





$127,000

95,000

150,000

112„500

85,500

93,600





♦Nearly 80 per cent., or $75,000, was borroTi'ed on tliia property at 5 per ceut,
APARTMENT HOUSES AND FLATS.
Nos. 20 and 88 West 59th st, 75x100.5.    Meyer L. Sire to Fifth

Avenue Real Estate Co.                                                                         S;;J!H,000

The Holland Trust Co. are now offermg bonds aggregating 3235,000 i'or
sale, secured by mortgage on the ahove property.
8th av, w s, from 136th to 139th st, block frout, ten flats and six

dweU'gs.                                                                                                     $435,000

LITTLE CASH PAID DOWN,
G. G. Kip sold seven lots on  the northeast corner ot Lexington
avenue and 47th street for $108,200, aud took back a mortgage for
$100,000 at 5 per cent.

Executors of Mary P. Higgins sold a plot on the weat side of 10th
avenue, 95th and 96th streets, for !J120,000, and took back a mort¬
gage for $110,000. Subsequently the lots were resold at $150,000
and again at $166,500, and are now mortgaged for $140,000.

The Centm-y Association bought four lots ou 43d street, west of
5th avenue, for $149,000, and the sellers have allowed $120,000 to
remain at i^ per cent.





New   Buildings,

The plans filed for new bui'dingsfrom January to May, inclusive,
make au excellent showing. They number 986 plans, embracing
lj790 buildiugs to cost $33,290,105, as compared with 793 plans for
1,365 buildings to cost §20,673,560, projected dm-ing the same mouths
last year—an increase of 425 in huildings and $12,616,545 in cost.
A comparison with the figures for 1887 makes a different showing,
as during the first five months of that year 2,517 buildings were
planned, and the cost given as $40,493,115, an excess in buildingsof
727 and in cost of $7,203,010 over this year's fllmgs. Tbese figures,
however, are made clear by stating that in the early jiart of 1887
there was a great rush iu the way of plans to anticipate the passage
of the Tenement House and New Building laws then pending at
Albany, aud dm-ing March and April alone 1,531 buildiugs were
projected atan estimated costof $24,610,845, against 831 buildings
calling for an expenditure of $15,742,765 during thesame months
this year. Thus it will be seen that the filings in those two mouths,
when a larger percentage of plans failed to be carried out than is
usual, amount to more than the difference between the total
figures to May 31 for 1887 and 1859. To make it still plainer we will
say 1867 is now ahead of 1889 hy 727 buildmgs and $7,203,010 in
the cost, while the excess of plans duriug March aud April, 1887, over
the same months this year is 700 iu buildings and $8,868,080 in
amount. So that in the other three months this year's figures are
up to the phenomenal record of the boom year in building—1887. It
seems proper to here state that there is always a certain percentage
of plans which are not carried out, and this has been estimated by
good judges to bo about 15 per cent, of the filings. In view of the
heavy filings dm-ing March and April, 1887, under pressure to avoid
restrictions in the depth of the lot to be built uppn, etc., it was esti¬
mated that fully 30 per cent, did not go auy farther thau the filing
of plans.

AU the disti-icts ahow an increase over last year's flgures, except
those between 14th and 59ch streets, between 110th and I25tli
streets, Sth and 8th avenues, and the 23d aud 24th Wards. The
west side outsti-ips all others in the way of increase, the figures
being 161 and $3,355,395 last year against 405 and $9,134,500 this
year. North of 125th street also shows a large increase. The num¬
ber of buildings projected north of the Harlem during the last five
months represent 22 per cent, of the total filings against 29 per
cent, last year, and 18 per cent, the year before. During the month
of May this year, there were more buildings planned than in the
same month last year, and nearly as many as were planned the
year before.

BUILDINGS  PROJECTED.

1887.                   ies3.                 jeeo.

Jan, to                Jan. to            Jan. to

May, iuc.            Mav, iuc.        May, inc.

Total No. of plans filed................               1,1W                      733                    OBB

Total No, of buildiugs projected........              2,517                  1,3G5                 1,790

Estimated cost...........................    $40,493,116         820,673,51)0       833,390,105

Kumber soutii of I4th st.................                 33S                     184                    y44

Cost..................................      $7,224,400          S5,43MSG         £8,283,245

No, bet 14th aud 5Bth sts.................                 2U                     303                    JGT

Cost..................................      S4,778,a00          $3,553,540         $4,1113,275

No. bet 59tb and 12.itU sts, east of 5th av.                533                     243                   393

Cost................................      89,507,875          $4,405,506         $4,4!l5,.^3u

No. bet 59th and 135th ate, west of Sth av.                491                     llil                    405

Cost.................................      $n,071,(iOO           $3,355,395         $0,181,500

No.het IJOtb and lasth sts, 5th and Sth avs                131                       58                     41

Cost..................................      83,363,500          $1,081,850         $1,308,050

No. north of 135th Bt.....................                 311                     103                   350

Cost..................................      85,035,305          £1,001,875         $3,500,355

No. 33d and 24th Wards..................                459                     409                   386

Cost..................................      $2,553,33,'.          $1,8M,8U8         $3,330,,S45

BUILDINQS  PROJECTED.

1887.                   1888                 18S9.

May,                  May,               May,

TotalNo. of buildinga projected........                4dfi                     361                    411

Estimated cost...........................      $0,905,550          $5,971,185         $8,039,475

Number south of 14th st.................                  40                       54                     74

Cost.................................    ■   $816,800          $1,615,900         $3,328,735

Ho. bet Mth and 59th sts................                  40                      56                     34





Cost...............................

No. bet 5gtb aud 135th sts, east of 5th av

Coat..................................

No. het 59th and 125th sts, west oE 6th av

Cost..................................

No. bet 110th and 125th sts, 5th andSth ava

Cost.................................

No. nortli of llith st.....................

Cost...........^.....................

No. 33d and 34Ui Wards..................

Cost................................

,------------1887,------------, .—

No, bnd'gs.     Cost.      No.

January.......      168         S2,(ji0,100

February......       393           li,3GR,530

March........       887          13.538,450

Api'il..........       644          11,083,395

May..........      -laH'          6,905,550





$710,050

87

$1,614,373

97

$1,771,500

32

$549,000

50

$939,605

80

$503,330





$741,476

86

$1,770,410

44

$1,111,650

10

$01,000

33

$309,550

78

$331,300





b'ld'gs.

117

203

311

373

361





Cost.
81,945,385
2,316,095
5,238,919
.5.311.976
5,971,185





No. b'ld
260
2U8
397
434
411





$713,000
46





$3,186,900

7

$418,000

80

$1,097,000

83

$492,165

-1889.------------,

'gs. Cost,
$4,040,390
6.477,475
6,753,975
8,988,790
8,029,475





Total......    2,517     , £40,493,115       1,365        $20,073,560       1,790       $33,390,106

The classification of the buildings for May, 1889, is as follows:

Hotels, Stores, Miscellane-
Cburohes, Offlce ous,Stables





Flats and
—Tenem'ts
No,      Cost.   No,
" 053,000
303,500





Soutb of Uth st............ 44

Bet Mth and 59tli sts....... 18

Bet 59tli uud I35t)i sts, east

of 5tli av................ 32       600,000

Bet 59tli and 125th sts, west

of 8th av................ 35

Eet 110th aud 135th sts, 5th

ana 8th avs............    0       308,000

Nortb of 135th st..........20       482,600

aSd aud Sltli Wards........13       261,000





Private
■Dweirgs—
Cost.





125,000
185,000





-Bldgs.,&c-
No.      Cost.
13 $1,-159,000*
233,500





Shojjs, &c.
No.   Cost.
13 $128,725
13     77,400





70,000     12      15,685





1,201,500   46       733,000     3       IlO.SOOt     3     33,100





477,400
165,160





30,000
J00,000t
18,600t





6,000
37,415





Total...................167 $4,294,500 144 $1,681,550   ai $3,016,800*   65 8297,305





* One building foi' World uewspaper; cost,
t Chm'Ches.





3,000,000.





The foregoing tables are so complete and exhaustive that it
seems like au act of supererogation to say more about them, but
Ihe following additional facts will no doubt be appreciated by our
readers, aud ai'e therefore given.

Of the 167 fiats aud tenement projected, 115 will be put up by
owuers who are builders, architects, or dealers in buildiag material.
The entire 46 dwellings to be built between 59th and 125th streets
west of 8f;li avenue, will also be erected by the same class, and 40 of
the 52 buildings to go up north of 135tli street must be included
under the same heading. In the 23d and 24th Wards 35 of the
44 dwelhngs planned will be built of wood and only 8 of brick.
The district south of 14th street can boast of the costliest building
planned, viz., the World building, ."51,000,000. Only one dwelling
was iDrojected during tbe month for the section between 59th and
125th streets east of Sth avenue, against 46 between the same
streets on the west side. North of 125th street 52 dwellings
were projected, of which F. G. Butcher will put up 34 and Wm.
Astor 6.





Tbe ground taken by Lord Salisbury, recently, in respect to
bi-metallism, is very satisfactory to the hi-metallists. The bm-den
of his remarks was that, as a matter of principle, it did not make so
very much difference whether there was a double or a single standard.
The essential thing to be considered in relation to the matter was
the wishes of the greater part of the mercantile community. This
meant practically that tiie government would support any measure
which was very vigorously demanded by the bi-metallists. It is
said that the latter have behind them now the support, not only of
the most influential cabinet ofiicers, but two-thirds of the memhers
of the House of Commons. As for Lord Salisbury's speech, it
betrayed more political astuteness than economic sagacity. There
is more in the theoretical aspect of the question than he seemed to
imagine; but, after making allowance for this, there is a degree of
truth in what he said. Aside, for instance, from any advance in
prices, which our coinage of silver may bring about, it is desirable
for us because of our silver mines to have that metal reinstated to
its former monetary position. Wp have an interest in silver, not
only as a money, but as a commodity. An increase in the demand
for it means an increase in the prosperity of one of our industries.
Thus we are interested in a pohcy of bi-metallism hoth for special
and general reasons.

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The Evening Post gives some interesting facts as to the extent to
which pools and syndicates have flourished in Germany. The fol¬
lowing is an authentic list of the combiuations at preseut existing in
that country:

(1.) International combinations: International steel-rail pool (of long
standing but temporarily broken up) ; Anstro-Germau h-on syndicate,
intei-national mining conventions for the sale of lead, tin, and zinc ; inter¬
national conference of glassworks, international dynamite trust, tin-ead
manufacturers' combination, Anglo-Gei'man strontiaoite syndicate, herring
fisheries agreement, and copper syndicatei

(3.) German trade combmations : Fom- separate coal and coke combina/'
tions for different districts, cast-iron combination of tho Rhenish West-
phalian district, Germau rolling-mills union witb four distinct subdivisions,
irou ties combination, uuion of wire manufacturers, four combinations of
tin workers, uuion of steel wheel makers, union of fork manufactm-ers,
brass rolling mills union, zinc assoeiatiou, lead syndicate, lime combina¬
tion, cement union, glass manufacturers' union, brick makers' uuion, soda
syndicate, bromide combination, potash combination, white lead syndicate,
" sulphonal" syndicate, oil manufacturers'union, three distinct syndicates
of salt works, bank of alcohol producers (which has I'eceutly failed), Bava¬
rian society for the sale of alcohol, preliminary cotton thread union,