November 22, 1902.





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51ST ST.—Chas. Brendon, No. 109 West 42d st, has let the fol¬
lowing contracts for the SVo-sty brick and stone dwelling to be
built on Slst st, near Park av, for Dr. John L. Adams: Masonry,
McEntee & O'Brien; cut stone, Geo. Brown & Son; Ironwork,
Hawkins Construction Co.; steam heating. Baker,  Smith & Co.

MISCELLANEOUS.

DRYDEN,  N.   Y.—E.   G.  W.   Dietrich,  No. 320 Broadway,   has

been selected as architect for the "Dryden Arms" by the Dry¬
den Hotel Co., of Dryden. N. Y. Mr. Dietrich was chosen in
competition with twelve other architects. E. & 1. Chandler and
R. Blair, of Philadelphia, are interested. The new hotel will be
a 5-sty frame building, 225x70, with a dining-room and kitchen
wing, 60x110. It will contain 130 rooms for guests, 50 private
and 12 public bath rooms,

DOBBS FERRY.—York & Sawyer. No. 156 Sth av, are prepar¬
ing plans for the new buildings for the New York Juvenile Asy¬
lum to be located near Dobb's Ferry, N. Y. The present location
of the institution is at 176th st and 10th av. Mr. Hilles, the super¬
intendent, has the work in charge.

WASHINGTON, D. C—McKim, Mead & White, 100 Sth av,
are drawing plans for the new War College, on the Arsenal
Grounds,  at Washington,  D,  C.

RICHMOND,

The following plans have been filed for new buildings in the
Borough of Richmond:

New Brighton.—St. Mark's place and Hamilton av, amended
plans for new high school, additional cost $02,000 (making the
total cost $202,000); original plans were filed July 27, 1902.

Eltingville,—Southwest corner Boulevard and Eltingvilie lane,
2-sty frame dwelling; size 28x25; cost, $2,000. Society of The
Fathers Blessed Sacrament, owners.





The Steinebach Marble Company, incorporated, capital $25,000,
has purchased the right, title and interest of Steinebach Com¬
pany, and will continue business at Nos. 422-426 W. loth st.





Of Interest to the  Building'   Trades.

John P. Leo, President of the Builders' League, has written to
Fire Commissioner Sturgis supporting the "no parlor match"
rule of the Municipal Explosives Committee, and praying on be¬
half of the League that the rule be continued despite the oppo¬
sition of match-makers.

Commissioner Lederle, of the Board of Health, believes that
there IS enough anthracite coal coming into the city to supply
contractors, who are erecting high buildings in which stationary
engines are used. Dr. Lederle instructed the inspectors of his
department to notify the contractors who are using such engines
to stop at once using soft coal.

The New York Lumber Trade Association are to hold their
next annual banquet, as usual, at the Waldorf-Astoria, probably
on the evening of January 28. The committee having the mat¬
ter In charge promises the trade something entirely different
from anything they have ever had before, the details of which
will be given later. It is expected that every member of the As¬
sociation and their friends will participate in this function.

The Bureau of Buildings issued an order on Wednesday di¬
recting that the ashlar, or facing-stone, that has been put on
the large brick apartment house that is being built by Gundlach
& Koch at the northeast corner of 49th st and Lexington av be
removed. The order for its removal was issued as the result of a
survey ordered by Perez M. Stewart, Superintendent of Build-
mgs. The order also directed that some of the cellar piers should
be rebuilt, and some floor beams reinforced.

Estimates will be received at Dover. N. J., until 12 noon
Nov. 28, for constructing four l-sty brick and steel buildings as
follows: Magazine for high explosives, 50 ft. by 150 ft ■ store¬
house for fused projectiles, 50 by 20O ft.; house for fusing high
explosive shell, 30 by 75 ft.; detonating fuse house, 30 by 42 ft
Bids will be received for all or part of foregoing. Information
can be had on application to Capt. O. B. Mitcham, ordnance
department.

One of the busy firms in the building material line is the
Leonard Sheet Metal Works, with plant at Nos. 330 to 336 West
13th st, and Nos. 1 to 7 Gansevoort st. They manufacture cop¬
per and galvanized iron cornices and skylights, bay windows for
apartments and dwellings, and contract for tile, slate, tin and
corrugated iron for roofs. This flrm, established only a little
over two years have already a large and growing business
Their present contracts include the residence of Senator Walsh,
Washington. D. C, Henry Anderson, architect, Newman & Smith,
contractors; Yale College, New Haven, Carrere & Hastings, ar¬
chitects, Norcross Bros., contractors; Hotel Belleclaire, Stein,
Cohn & Roth, architects, Albert Saxe, owner; Hotel St. George,
Hicks and Clark sts, Brooklyn, Capt. Wm. Tumbridge, owner;
Hotel Aberdeen, 29th st and Madison av, M. E. Graves, owner;
also for the new Knickerbocker Hotel, Broadway and 42d st,
Bruce Price, architect, J. E. & A. L. Pennock, contractors; and
the new building for the National Biscuit Co., on 15th st, near
Dth av, for the Louis Weber Building Co.





PROTECTION FOR PROPERTY.
The recent disastrous fires in apartment houses, hotels and
public buildings have caused the subject of fire protection to be
one of special interest to owners of property, as well as officials
having such equipment in charge. Among the many efficient ex-
tinguishers-whlch are presented to the trade, is the line shown by
the Harris Safety Company, at their Demonstration Parlers, St.
James Building, city. Some of the "twenty-seven varieties" are
illustrated on another page of this issue. They are worth in¬
spection.

HOTELS   OUTSIDE    PIRE   LIMITS.

Corporation Counsel Rives has rendered an opinion In which
he says: "Hotels built outside the flre limits and where streets
have not been legally established are not limited to three stories,
or 40 feet, in height, as required by Section 140; but they are
subject to all the general requirements, regulations, and re¬
strictions of the Building Code, except that they may be built
of wood. Buildings other than hotels, tenement houses, and
places of public assemblage outside of flre limits, and where
streets have not been legally established, may be built to any
height, and in any manner and of any material that the Building
Superintendent may think proper to permit as not imperiling
public safety or health."

WATTS STREET AWARDS CONFIRMED.

Justice Dugro handed down the following opinion in the mat¬
ter of widening and extending of Watts st on Tuesday, The
Lerscher award referred to was for $73,000 f'r 5,?:'3 sq. ft., out
of a plot of 6,726 ft., of land, and three S-s:v brici. tenementa
comprising Nos. 39. 41 and 43 Thompson st. The city took ex¬
ception to this award on the ground that it was excessive, and,
as wili be seen, were sustained by the court;

The report will be confirmed as to all awards except as to the
award to the claimant, Lerscher, and as to this award tbe report
will be returned to the commissioners for revisal and correction.
One of tbe commissioners, at page S67, says, in substance, that there
is no testimony showing that the Lerscher property was worth more
than l?71,000 (prior to the recall of Mr. De Walltearss), aud that
upon Mr. De Walltearss' recall he proved the value of the prop¬
erty taken to be at least $75,000—in this latter statement the com¬
missioner was in error, as it is clear that the evidence referred to,
to the effect that the triangular plot of 1,503 square feet was of
the value of $6,435 should not have been credited. If the plot ol
7,026 square feet was ot the value of $57,600, the 1,.S03 were
clearly, worth more than .$6,435. The afRdavit of another commis¬
sioner shows that he, too, relied upon the evidence referred to.
Under all the circumstances it seems that the commissioners should
again consider the award as to the plot in question. If it did not
appear that the commissioners were led to their conclusion by
what appears to me to be a palpably erroneous opinion upon the
part of the expert called by the claimant, I should not declln&
confirmation, allboueh the award seems somewhat high. It seems
that there is expert evidence which, if credited, will sustain a find¬
ing within $73,730; that is to say. if Mr. De Walltearss' opinion
of $46,480 as to land damage and Mr. Smith's as to damage to
buildings, $27,250, be accepted as correct. But the commissioners
are not bound to take the figures of an expert, nor are they bound
to flnd solely from the opinion of experts. They should form their
own opinions, based upon all tbe information they >.ave; that, if
any, arising from a view, as well as that from expert and other
sources and  fix  the sum  awarded accordingly.





The November Architectural Record.

The November number of the Architectural Record is notice¬
able for its varied contents. Among other things, It contains a
description of the several large hotels now under construction
in New York, together with reproductions of drawings, illus¬
trating their fagades, and a discussion of the experiment which
the architects of the New Public Library are making in erecting
a specimen bay of their faQade in cheap material. It also con¬
tains articles about the Turin Exhibition of Industrial Art by a
member of the governing board of that exhibition, some repro¬
ductions of the work of a French sculptor, M, Denys Puech, a
continuation of Prof. Goodyear's valuable papers on refinements
in Italian architecture, and some illustrations derived from
Paris, of the proper way to plan and beautify a city. This num¬
ber is now on sale at all the important news-stands in this and
other cities.





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