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RECORD  AND   GUIDE





January i8, igoS





number of garbage and rubbish disposal plants for the city of
Pittsburgh.

The Senate at Washington, D, C, this week passed a bill
appropriating $3,000,000 for a site on the south side of Penn¬
sylvania av, opposite the grounds of the White House, for a
building for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce
and Labor.

The State Arsenal and Armory Comn, and the Library Comn.,
Hartford, Conn., is considering plans for a central heating
plant for the Capitol, Armory and State Library Building, and
have appointed as a committee Benj. W. Morris. 5 West 31st
st, Manhattan, architect of the armory, and Donn Barber, 24
East 23d st, Manhattan, architect of the library, to look into
the matter and report. They are to choose as a third member
of the committee some eminent engineer.





Estimates Receivable.

Bids will be received by the Department of Public Charities,
Wednesday, Jan, 22, to repair the roofs and paint the exterior
walls, of the New Tork City Home for the Aged and Infirm,
Brooklyn.

Bids are asked until Jan. 27 for furnishing material and con¬
structing 360 ft. timber bulkhead at Port Terry, N. T. Ad¬
dress Captain William E. Horton, Q, M., U. S, A., New Lon-
■don, Ct.

BROADWAY.—No contracts have yet been awarded for ex¬
tensive alterations costing $15,000, to the 5-sty store and loft
building. 441 Broadway, owned by the Edgar Estate. 31 Liberty
St.    P. F. Brogan, 119 East 23d st, prepared the plans.

By the Police Commissioner of the Police Department, Tues¬
day, Jan. 21: (No, 1) For furnishing and delivering plumbing,
roofing, paints, glass, oils, hardware and boat supplies. (No. 2)
For furnishing and delivering station house supplies, equip¬
ment, etc.

Bids are asked until 3 p. m., Jan. 29, for a Strauss bascule lift
bridge, 25 ft. wide by 60 ft. span, in clear, over the Elizabeth
River at South First st, Elizabeth. The Board of Chosen Free¬
holders of Union County will open the bids. Jacob L. Bauer Is
County   Engineer.

NORTHERN AV.—No Contracts have yet been placed for the
2-sty garage and dwelling, 22x35 ft., which Chas. V. Paterno,
G20 West 116th st, will erect on the west side of Northern av,
510 ft, north of ISlst st, to cost $12,000. John C. Watson, 217
West 125th st, is architect,

IISTH ST.—No contracts have yet been awarded for extensive
changes to be made to the 3-sty building. No. 159 East llSth st,
to be used as a synagogue by the Congregation Sana Israel
Salant, Joseph Smolmsky, president, ISll Lexington av. Ed.
A.  Meyers, 1 Union sq, is architect.

By the President of the Borough of Richmond, Tuesday, Jan,
28: (No. 1) For furnishing and delivering 300 barrels of Port¬
land cement, at such points within the Borough of Richmond,
and in such quantities, from time to time, as the Superintendent
Of the Bureau of Highways direct.

By the President of the Borough of Manhattan, at the City
Hall, Room No. 16, Monday, Jan. 20, for furnishing all the
labor, material, tools, etc., during the year 190S, necessary to
clean all the glass in all the windows and doors of various
public buildings, courts and offices under the care of the Presi¬
dent of the Borough of Manhattan.

By the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity,
Wednesday, Jan. 22: (No. 1) For furnishing, delivering and
laying the salt water intake and suction mains for the high
pressure fire service station at Furman and Joralemon sts,
Brooklyn. (No. 2) For installing hand traveling cranes at the
high pressure fire service stations, Brooklyn, (No. 3) For fur¬
nishing and delivering lumber. (No. 4) For furnishing and
delivering brass composition castings, (No. 5) For furnishing
and delivering North River brick, Portland cement, fire brick
and fire clay. (No. 6) For furnishing and delivering cotton
waste, (No, 7) For furnishing and delivering bar iron, ma¬
chinery steel, tool steel and Tobin bronze.





Contracts Awarded.

5TH AV.—Roth & Co., 1st av and 23d st, southeast corner,
have the contract for improvements to the 4-sty store building
southeast corner of Sth av and ICth st for Rudolph Gernshelmer,
444 Broome st.

MADISON AV.—The Andrew J. Robinson Co., 123 East 23d st,
has received the contract for improvements to the 4-sty residence
of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, 89 Madison av, from plans by
Stockton B. Colt, 2S7 4th av.

23d ST.—John C, Gabler Co., 339 West ISth st, has obtained
the contract for alterations to the 6-sty store and loft building,
154 West 23d st, for the estate of Ann Yard, 66 Broadway, from
plans by G. A. Schellenger, 27 East 21st st.

Commercial Construction Co., 114 East 2Sth st, Manhattan, has
obtained the contract for construction, heating, plumbing and
electric work, in connection with the tuberculosis pavilion at the
Central Isllp State Hospital, Islip, Long Island.

The Grand Trunk Pacific has awarded to Foley Bros. & Larson.
Of Winnipeg, a $5,000,000 contract for building 126 miles of the
system from a point six miles east of Edmonton to Wolf Creek,





120 miles west of Alberta's capital.    The work is more expensive
than any part of the main line yet under contract.

AV A.—John McKiernan, SOth st and Broadway, has obtained
the contract for installing an electric elevator, fireproof shaft,
and fire escapes to the 3-sty factory building nortlrwest corner of
Av A and 22d st, for Henry Erkins, 21S7 Broadway, to cost about
$1G,000.     John  Wise,  21  East 21st  st,  prepared  the  plan's.





Plans Wanted.

The Latrobe Hospital, Latrobe, Pa., will commission an
architect in the spring to prepare plans for a brick hospital
building to  be  greeted  in that city.

Plans are wanted by Jesse T, Bonney, who is to build a home
for young girls at the corner of Bossevain and Colby av, Norfolk,
Va, This will be in the nature of a memorial, and will probably
cost about $30,000.

The city of Saginaw, Mich., will build an auditorium, to cost
$100,000. Money has been partly donated by W. R. Burt and
T. E. Dorr, of that city. The Board of Trustees are now looking
for plans.    W. S. Linton is chairman.

Drawing of plans for the new buildings of the Western Univer¬
sity of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa., will probably be reserved
by the trustees for competition by the most prominent architec¬
tural firms of Pittsburgh. It is said that local flrms will be
selected, and only a limited number will be asked to submit
plans.





BUILDING     NOTES





A man who makes no pretensions has an impregnable posi¬
tion.    It is he that claims a title who must defend it.

The New York Civil Service Commission will hold examina¬
tions Feb, 1 of candidates for positions as bridge designer and
civil  engineering draughtsman.

A real big fire makes as much of a sensation in New York
as in any other town—even though metropolitan horses don't
take fright at passing fire-engines.

The annual entertainment and reception of the Associated Em¬
ployers of the Bureaus of Buildings will be held on Tuesday
evening, January 21, at the Lexington av Opera House.

At the annual meeting of the Municipal Art Commission
Robert W. De forest was re-elected president for the fourth
time; Frank D, Millet was elected vice-president and Howard
Mansfield  secretary.

The quick business recovery prophesied is coming true. Be¬
cause men's minds are better poised than they were in 1893.
"The thing that I feared came upon me," said an ancient
philosopher.    The modern philosopher doesn't think about it.

Adam Happel, the well-known iron manufacturer whose fac¬
tory at 93d st and 1st av was recently damaged by fire, informs
us that he has opened a temporary office at 40S East 93d st,
and that all orders on his books will be filled according to con¬
tract and on time.

The Wheeling Corrugating Company recently erected for the
Realty Associates, 502-56S Fulton st, Brooklyn, over 11,000 sq.
ft. of Tnetal ceiling complete in 4^^ successive days. We believe
such speed in erecting steel ceilings makes a record in this line,
as a job of this size usually takes from ten days to two weeks.

Mr. F. K, Bhines, engineer, has become assistant to the
treasurer and genera! manager of the General Fireproofing Co.,
assuming the new position Jan, 1. Mr, Rhines formerly was
engineer with the East Iron & Machine Co., bridge builders, at
Lima, Ohio, and more recently has been chief engineer and gen¬
eral manager of the Dixon Engineering and Construction Co.,
of Toledo,  Ohio.

The chairman of the entertainment committee at the recent'
banquet of the Employing Plasterers was F. C. Lamont, "whose
career since coming to this country from Italy, in 1S90, is an
illustration of how well some of our adopted citizens get on.
During the years 1905 and 1906 Mr. Lamont carried out over
three hundred thousand dollars' worth of plastering contracts.
He Is one of the most helpful members of the Employing
Plasterers' Association.

A black-bordered engraved note from Messrs, Warren and A.
Spencer Webster, of the Warren-Webster Company, of Camden,
N, J,, advises us formally of the death in a crash of railroad
trains at Camden, N. J., of Mr. Theodore L, Webster, their
brother, and secretary of the company, on Friday, Dee. 27,
1907. Mr. Theodore Webster had been connected with this
company since its establishment in the heating trade, twenty
years ago, and his personality had peculiarly endeared him to
all  his business associates.

Weisberg-Mark Co., manufacturers of ■window frames, doors
and trim for apartment houses, etc., are now installed in their
model plant at the corner of the Boulevard and Orchard st,
Astoria, a short distance from the 92d st ferry. Occupying a
plot lOOxGOO, with water frontage and with the erection of all
the buildings requisite to carry on business on a large scale,
they are prepared to furnish estimates on all classes of work,
and are offering special inducements to those who will place
tlieir  orders  with   them  now.