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RECORD  AND  GUTOE





January 30, 1915





Ruttman  and  Cornelius  F.  Sheehan,  re¬
spectively.

Contracts of purchase were signed
with all of these owners previous to the
filing of the plans and title will be taken
soon under the name of the 461 Eighth
Avenue Realty Company, which will be
made up of Thomas A. and Edward L.
Larkin  and  other  interests.





DIVIDING UP THE WORK.





Resolutions   Adopted   by   the   Building
Trades Employers* Association,

I hope that tho bis industries will look out for
their workingmen. remembering that the chief
need now is not for charity, but for work, and
incidentally 1 hope that instead of cutting the
rate of wages they will cut hours and empTtfy
as many men as possible on half time, rather
than half that number on full time—Theodore
Roosevelt.

At a general meeting of the Building
Trades Employers' Association on Tues¬
day afternoon, President Crawford in
the chair, addresses were delivered by
City Chamberlain Bruere and members
of the Mayor's Committee on Unem¬
ployment in advocacy of measures for
the relief of the unemployed in the build¬
ing trades. The Ioilowing resolutions
were then offered by Otto N. Eidlitz, of
Marc Eidliz & Son:

"The Building Trades Employers' As¬
sociation in mass meeting assembled this
day, January 26, 1915, recommends and
urges that every firm and corporation
carry out to the fullest extent the fol¬
lowing resolutions, to the end that the
unemployment now existing in the build¬
ing industry shall be ameliorated as far
as possible:

"1, That the building industry should
patronize to the greatest extent prac¬
ticable the local manufactories and shops
for the purchase of building materials at
this time.

"2. That the work now available on
buildings be distributed among the larg¬
est number of individuals practicable by
working part of the eight-hour work day
in shifts, or one shift the one week and
one shift the next week alternately as far
as is possible, consistent with the nature
of the work.

"3. That when it becomes necessary to
lay off men, preference of employment
shall be given to the married men."





SUBWAY  AWARDS.





Commissioners   Announce   Damages   on

Sixty-one  Parcels  in Joralemon

Street.

The commissioners of appraisal ap¬
pointed to assess the damages to prop¬
erty in Joralemon street, Fulton street
and Flatbush avenue, caused by the con¬
struction of the Interborough subway
from the Battery to Brooklyn, have dis¬
posed of the last claim for damages
from property owners along Joralemon
street, and are now ready to consider
claims of the property owners along
Fulton street and Flatbush avenue.

The commissioners, Hermanns B.
Hubbard, T. J. Raymond and T. Eilett
Hodgskin, have completed their "seventh
separate report," disposing of the claims
of the owners of sixty-one parcels of
land along Joralemon street.

The Packer Collegiate Institute, at
160 to 182 Joralemon street, is awarded
$15,000. For the Temple Bar Building,
at 44 Court street, $5,000.

The total amount of damages award¬
ed on the sixty-one parcels amounts to
$188,032, not including the $1 that is
awarded to each property holder as re¬
muneration for the land in the street
to which the city took title to enable it
to construct the subway. The taxpa)-"-
ers have been paying interest at the rate
of 6 per cent, a year on this sum for
a period of twelve and a half years.

The highest award is $37,050, to Wins¬
ton H. Hagen, owner of the property at
103 Joralemon street. William Augustus
White receives $20,000 for damages to
the Riverside apartment property in
Joralemon street, between Furman street
and Willow place. The estate of Daniel
Fitzgibbons. is awarded $8,000 for the
damages to the property at 1 Willow
place, and the damage to the house of
the late Bishop Littlejohn, at 179 Jora¬
lemon street, is appraised at $1,775.





ACTIVITY AT POUGHKEEPSIE.





Building  Operations  Are in  a  Satisfac¬
tory State at Poughkeepsie.        *

During the year 1913. the building
permits issued represented $1,204,175,
while those for 1914 total up $863,108,
leaving a difference of $341,067 in favor
of 1913. The difference is nearly offset
by the cost nf the new buildings erected
by the Moline Plow Company and the
Colien Theatre, these two operations
having cost approximately $318,000.
During the year a total of 164 permits
were granted, as against 208 of 1913.
Provision was made for 298 families,
while in 1913 provision was made for
266 families. More stores and business
properties were erected in 1914 than in
any previous year. The prospect for 1915
is  reported  to  be  bright.





Plans for Hanover Square Building.

Alexander Baylies, 33 Bible House, is
completing plans for the twenty-story
mercantile building to be erected in the
south side of Hanover Square, between
Stone and Pearl street, for George Ehret,
235 East 92nd street. The site meas¬
ures 71.7 feet in the square, 123.1 feet
in Pearl street and 114.5 feet in Stone
street. The cost of the operation is
placed at $1,100,000. No engineer has
yet been selected nor any contracts is¬
sued.





For a New Borough Hall at Queens.

Tlie Board of Directors of the Cham¬
ber of Commerce of the Borough of
Queens adopted a resolution at its meet¬
ing on Thursday, urging the corporate
stock committee of the Board of Esti¬
mate to take favorable action on the
request of Borough President Connolly
for an appropriation of $200,000 for the
purchase of a site for the erection of a
new borough hall for the Borough ol
Queens.





Competitive   Sketches   Wanted.

The Board of F.ducalion of Highland
Park, Middlesex County, Postoffke ad¬
dress New Brunswick. New Jersey, will
receive competitive sketches at once for
two four-room school houses, to be so
designed that they may at a future date
be enlarged or converted into eight-
room schools. The cost not to exceed
$20,000 each.





Loft   Building   for   Eldridge   Street.

iMorris Kulok, tailor, 39 Eldridge
street, contemplates the erection of a
six-story business building at 39-41 Eld¬
ridge street, covering a plot 50.3x100
feet. Max Muller. of 115 Nassau street,
will probably prepare the plans. Work
will  be started  this spring.





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announced during the week to be
constructed in the midtown section is
the twelve-story store and loft building
which the Realty Holding Company, of
907 Broadway (Nathaniel J. Hess presi¬
dent, Edwin H. Hess secretary) will
erect at 206 to 222 West 40th street.
Plans are being rapidly completed by
the architects', Neville & Bagge, of 105
West 40lh street, who will take full
charge of construction. The building
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loads, such as printing and lithograph¬
ing establishments require to carry a
live load of 250 pounds per square foot.
It will be equipped with two passenger
and three freight elevators, in addition
to three interior staircases, and will be
absolutely fireproof; that is, without any
exposed w^ood being used in the con¬
struction, with cement floors and fire¬
proof doors and windows. The front
will be faced with granite, terra cotta
and pressed front brick. The cost is
specified at $600,000. No contracts have
yet been placed.