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September 27, 1902.





direct or to old plastered ceilings. The furring strips must be so
placed that they will come above all the joints of the metal.
The strips first put on are those which run crossways of the
beams, and when these are in place and leveled, cross-furring
is fitted In by toe-nailing with six-penny wire nails.

Some of the deep paneled ceilings give an elegant effect to a
large room. The ceiling of the Astor House dining-room, which
is paneled with heavy beam mouldings, has been much admired.
Cornices, coves and borders, which often lend great beauty to a
ceiling, are offered in many patterns. A style recently intro¬
duced is a combination of metal and stucco, with the main panels
of stucco-work, and the fleld, border and cornice of metal. An¬
other pretty design is a large stucco oval (about 10x14 feet)
encircled by a heavy moulding, the oval forming a frame for
beautiful heraldic ornaments.

Sidewalls and wainscotings are also made in metal. It is diffi¬
cult to quote prices where such infinite variety is involved, but
for the purposes of this article it can be said that prices for good
work range from six to ten cents a square foot, and that eight
cents is a fair average price for commercial work. This includes
both furnishing and erecting the metal.





Building News

MERCANTILE.

42D ST.—Andrew H. and Davison H, Smith are having plans
drawn for a 12 or IS-sty office building, to be erected at Nos.
IS to 24 East 42d st, and extending to Nos. 19 and 21 Bast 41st
St. The plot fronts 92 feet on 42d st and 44 feet on 41st st. with
a depth of 197.6.

r20TU ST.—Schinasi Bros., No. 48 Broad st, will erect a 5-sty
factory, on lot 50x100,11, on the north side of 120th st, 130 feet
east of Manhattan av. No architect has been selected, but John
Donnelly,   No.   177  Broadway,  will  have  full  charge.

APARTMENTS,   FLATS   AND   TENEMENTS,

BROADWAY.—H. B, Mulliken and E. J. Moeller, associated
architects. No, 7 East 42d st, are drawing the plans for the 12-
sty apartment hotel which the Construction Realty Co. will erect
at the southwest corner of Broadway and 54th st, on a plot 75.10
xlOl.Sx irregular, and for which Mary E. Celeman makes them
a building loan of ?350,000. The old buildings now on the site are
being demolished.

MADISON AV.—The Forty-Ninth Street and Madison Avenue
Co., No. 100 Broadway, will erect a 12i^-sty hotel at the north¬
east corner of Madison av and 49th st, a plot fronting 79.6 on
Madison av and 125 feet on 49th st. The General Building &
Construction Co., No. 100 Broadway, are the general contractors,
tractors.

LUDLOW ST.—Geo. Fred. Pelham, 503 5th av, is drawing plans
for a 6-sty brick, stone and terra cotta tenement and stores, to
be erected for A. Silverson at Nos, 141 and 143 Ludlow st. The
cost will be about $35,000, and the dimensions, 37.6x75.

117TH ST.—Charles Adams, who has just purchased the plot,
40.3x100,11, on the ncrth side of 117th st, 173 feet west of Sth
av, will erect thereon a 6-sty flat, for which Janpole & Werner
make him a building loan.

CONTRACTS AWARDED.

Borough President Swanstrom on Thursday opened bids for the
construction of the addition to the Hall of Records, in Brooklyn,
There were only five bidders for the contract, and Thomas Dwyer
was the lowest at $39S.G00; he was awarded the contract. The
Board of Estimate has appropriated $400,000 for the work. Tbe
other bidders were as follows: W. & T. Lamb. $427,650; P. J,
Carlin & Co., $415,000; L. E. Seaman, Jr., 9^412,000; and John
Kennedy & Son,  $413,000.

The Her.ry A. Boyd Co. have been awarded the contract for
metal ceilings in the new O-sty loft building, northeast corner of
Bleecker and Mercer sts, Richard Berger, architect. About 40,-
000 square feet will be used.

Contract for the electrical equipment of the two residences,
Nos. 153-154 Riverside Drive, has been awarded by Noble &
Gauss to A. L. Goldschmidt. Electrical Engineer and Contractor.
1135 Broadway; Welch, Smith & Provot are the architects.

The complete electrical equipment of the 12-sty, 100x100 ft,
hotel building at 31st st and 5th av, has been awarded by Wm.
C. Dewey, the owner, to A. L. Goldschmidt, Electrical Engineer
and Contractor, 1135 Broadway; John H, Duncan. 21 West 24th
st, is the architect.

SOME NEARBY BUILDING.
PLAINFIELD. N. J.—E. V. French. No. 143 North av, has
drawn plans for a 5-sty brick offlce building for the Babcock
estate, to cost $75,000. J. H, Goetchius, No, 539 Hudson st, has
just been awarded the general contract. Park av.—W. H. Crum
& Son have drawn plans for a 2-sty and attic frame dwelling, to
cost $10,000; Charles L. Moffet is the owner; estimates are being
taken. East Front st.—A. L. C Marsh, No. 99 Nassau st, New
Tork. has drawn plans for a 3-sty brfck store and office build¬
ing to cost $60,000. Woodhull & Martin are the owners; car¬
pentry, plumbing and heating contracts have not been let.

For plans filed see pages 454 and 468.





Of Interest to the Building Trades.

Bryan L. Kennelly will sell for the city at auction at 12 o'clock
on Thursday on the premises the old buildings Nos 347 and
349 West 41st st.

W. G. A. Miller, formerly Manager of the Ornamental De¬
partment of the American Bridge Company, has been appointed
Purchasing Agent of that company, with offices at No. 259 South
4th st, Philadelphia, Pa.

Statistics of building in Washington, D. C, In August came
too late to be published last week. They show that during the
month plans for 125 buildings were filed, 56 frame, estimated to
cost $29,953, and 09 brick and stone, to cost $860,375,

John Pirkl, Nos. 240 to 246 North 10th st, Brooklyn, is one of
the oldest architectural iron-workers in the trade, having been
established over 30 years. He enjoys a reputation for prompt
and satisfactory work. Mr. Pirkl's present contracts include the
structural iron for eight public schools in the several boroughs,
ornamental iron enclosures for the two new elevators in the Mills
Building, and the structural iron on the new Auchincloss resi¬
dence, on 07th St.  R,  H.  Robertson, architect.

A report from Fishkill states that George A. Bontecon. of that
neighborhood, is endeavoring to organize a corporation, with a
capital of $100,ti00, to manufacture brick by a new process, the
invention of Mr. Cole, which he says will revolutionize the brick
business. If the means are obtained, a plant may be operated
experimentally in New Jersey to demonstrate the feasibility of
the new process. Later information identifies Mr. Bontecon
as the railroad station agent at Dutchess Junction, but nothing
is known of the enterprise here, and manufacturers are skep¬
tical.

Frequently it is found that the ordinary plaster of Paris or
calcium-sulphate cements are not tough enough for the pur¬
poses for which thty are intended, and the operator is put to
considerable trouble to flnd a suitable substitute. "Die Faeber
and Zeugdrucker Zeitung," in a recent article on the subject,
states that a mass resembling rich clay, and which will set in
about an hour, becoming sufliciently hard to bore, cut or file,
may be obtained by mixing six parts of gypsum (sulphate of
lime) with one part of freshly-washed lime. To this, 8 per cent.
finely powdered marshmallow root must be added, and the whole
mixed with a concentrated solution of sulphate of magnesia (com¬
monly known as Epsom salts) in sufficient quantity to form a
stiff paste. In place of the marshmallow root, dextrin, gum or
glue may be substituted, or shellac if the objects to be joined are
to be  subjected  to  high  temperatures,

FEDERAL BUILDING,
Congress at the last session authorized the erection of 185
public buildings, at a cost of $52,000,000. Of these buildings 125
will be erected after competitive designs; the competition being
open to all architects of the country, but the sixty smaller
buildings will be designed in the Supervising Architect's offlce.
becarse there is not enough In them to justify a competitive test.
The architect's office, under the direction of Assistant Secretary
Taylor, has already commenced to acquire the necessary lands
for the erection of the new buildings, the first plot bought being
at Greenville. Tenn. In addition to these, the government will
erect at Washington a new agricultural building, at a cost of
$2,500,000, the plans for which have already been adopted by
competition; a new building for the national museum, of fireproof
stiel and brick, to cost $1,500,000; a municipal building for the
District of Columbia, which will cost $1,500,000; a building for
the new war college, to be erected on the arsenal grounds by
McKim, Mead & White, to cost $250,000; and several other build¬
ings of lesser importance in the district.





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The   October   Number   of   the   Architectural    Record

The October number of the "Architectural Record" is on the
point of publication, and Its list of contents is such as to appeal
to everybody interested in good architecture, past and present.
Among the timely articles it contains may be mentioned a lively
and careful criticism of the "Flatiron" Building, illustrations of
the Riverside residence of Charles Schwab, an account of the
old New Tork hotels, a description of some of the better modern
French sculptors, and the reproductions of some of the most
careful and beautiful photographs of the Erechtheum that have
ever been taken.