June 7, 1919





RECORD    AND    GUIDE





771





Steady Gain in Volume of Construction Around New York

Dodge Company Figures Indicate a Marked Increase in Contracts Let with All Phases

Showing Improvement





DURING the past three or four weeks the statistics
showing the amount of building and engineering con¬
struction in New York State and New Jersey, north
of Trenton, and which are designed to give the number
and valuations of various classes of construction figuring and
contracted for in this territory, have run with great con¬
sistency and confirm earlier predictions that a building move¬
ment of large proportions will mark the summer of 1919.

Figures for the week of May 23 to 29 inclusive show that
there were 299 new operations, valued at approximately $11,-
290,500, announced as being planned by architects and en¬
gineers in this section. The totals for prospective construc¬
tion show a slight falling off when compared with those of
the previous week, but in the group of structural projects
out for estimates and that for contracts actually awarded a
gain is noted last week when compared to the week before.
Last week there were 143 operations, representing an out¬
lay of $6,081,500 out for figures as against 175 jobs, costing
approximately $4,768,700 being estimated the week previous.
There were 211 contracts for new construction valued at $7,-
203,400 placed last week as compared with 210 operations,
scheduled to cost about $6,581,874 the week previous.

The group of operations being planned during the week
of May 23 to 29 included 1 bridge, $250,000; 7 hotels, clubs
and institutions, $84,500; 5 Federal, State and municipal
projects,  $111,500;   24   stables   and  garages,  $671,500;   24   fac¬





tory and industrial buildings, $2,166,500; 10 public improve¬
ments, $1,668,500; 183 residential operations involving apart¬
ments and tenements and one and two-family dwellings,
$4,948,500; 11 churches, schools and theatres, $630,500; 30
store, office and banking buildings, $694,000; and 4 miscel¬
laneous operations, not otherwise classified, $65,000.

The 143 projects in the hands of contractors for estimates
during the week of May 23 to 29 included the following gen¬
eral classes of work: 3 bridges and culverts, $210,000; 6 clubs,
hotels and institutions, $153,000; 22 Federal, State and munic¬
ipal projects, $2,654,500; 8 stables and garages, $206,000; 11 fac¬
tory and industrial buildings, $803,000; 34 public improve¬
ments, $664,500; 34 residential operations such as apartments
and private dwellings, $389,500; 17 churches, schools and thea¬
tres, $780,000; and 12 store, office and banking buildings,
$221,000.

Among the list of projects for which general contracts
were placed were included 3 bridges and culverts, $87,698; 5
hotels, clubs and institutions, $115,500; 4 Federal, State and
municipal building operations, $22,000; 11 stables and garages,
$186,000; 27 factory and industrial projects, $1,422,884; 28 pub¬
lic improvements involving street openings, road construction
and the installation of sewers, water and lighting mains, $2,-
226,850; 98 residential operations, $1,301,500; 9 churches, schools
and theatres, $351,468; 25 store, office and banking buildings,
$1,480,000 and 1 miscellaneous, $3,500.





PERSONAL AND TRADE
NOTES.





Company, S. Trimmer & Sons, Inc.; O. H.
Perry & Son, Pattison & Bowns. Scranton
&  Wyoming Coal Company,  and  othei's.





Kandel-Roth Co., Inc., has opened of¬
fices at 162 East 23d street, where a gen¬
eral contracting business will be con¬
ducted.

G. OKgootl Andrews, special representa¬
tive of the Plate Glass Manufacturers of
America, recently moved his office from
393  Canal street to  11S2  Broadway,

Otto H. Temple, Paterson, was recently
elected president of the New Jersey
Building Trades Council. He succeeds R.
A. Fitzgerald, of Jersey City, who served
three terms and declined to run again,

Jnd^e Elliert H. Gary, chairman United
States Steel Corporation, has bought Ivy
Hall, in the Wheatley Hills section of
Long Island, the handsome estate of
James B. Taylor. The property comprises
110 acres, with a fine brick residence and
a private golf course.

Societe I<Va^eaise D'Action Economlqne,
1 rue des Italians. Paris, France, which
Is represented in this country by Daniel
T, Pierce. 149 Broadway. New York, re¬
ports that it has inquiries from French
firms which desire agencies in France for
building hardware, portable wooden
dwellings, automatic machinery, electri¬
cal supplies, oil and lubricants for indus¬
trial purposes.

Sargent & Company, hardware manu¬
facturers, at the recent annual meeting
re-elected the following as directors of
the company: H. B. Sargent. G. L. Sar¬
gent, G. F. Wiepert, Wilfred Lewis, John
Sargent, J. D. Sargent, Bruce Fenn, E. R.
Sargent, Ziegler Sargent, Subsequently
at a meeting of the board of directors the
following officers were elected: H. B. Sar¬
gent, president; G. L. Sargent, vice-presi¬
dent; Ziegler Sargent, treasurer; Murray
Sargent, secretary; James J. Markham,
auditor.

William Pnrrell & Son, coal dealers,
have been incorporated, bringing about
a combination nf the following dealers in
Greater New York: William Farrell &
Son. Robert Gordon & Son, Inc.; Hencken
&   Willenbrock    Co.,    Thedford-Eltz    Coal





E:ngineers Appointed for Vehicular Tunnel

Clifford M. Holland has been appointed
chief engineer for the New York-New
Jersey vehicular tunnel project at $10,000
a year. The announcement was made
Wednesday in a joint statement from the
New York Bridge and Tunnel Commission
and the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and
Tunnel Commission. One of Mr. Holland's
duties will be to decide on the type of
tunnel to be driven under the Hudson and
to prepart plans and data which will en¬
able contractors to bid. His appointment
takes effect June 15. his tenture of office
to be during the pleasure of the two
boards. He will proceed at once to or-
-ganize field and office staffs to carry on
the preliminary work. General George R,
Dyer, head of the New York commission,
and W. H. Noyes, chairman of the New
Jersey body, also announced the appoint¬
ment of the following board of consulting
engineers: J. Vipond Davies, Colonel
Henry W. Hodge. Colonel William J. Wil¬
gus, Major John A. Bensel and Professor
William H. Burr. These engineers are to
be paid at the rate of $10,000 a year each
for the time of actual employment. Ed¬
ward A. Byrne, chief engineer of the De¬
partment of Plants and Structures, also
was named a consultant without compen¬
sation.





TRADE AND TECHNICAL
SOCIETY EVENTS.





Million  Dollar Flushing  Housing  Project.

The Operators' Associates, Inc., have
started the erection of seventy-five high
class residences in the exclusive Parsons
avenue section of Flushing. The houses
are being built to sell for prices ranging
from $9,000 to $15,000 each, and will be
completed and ready for occupancy by
October 1. The property office of the
company is at Parsons and Forest ave¬
nues. The president, Henry Leibowitz, is
the head of the American Cooperage
Company; the vice-president is Wallace
J. Hardgrove. formerly brokerage man¬
ager for the Queensboro Corporation; the
treasurer is George P. Martin, a well-
known builder, who has erected a number
of  high  class  apartments  in  Queens.





Te:chnJcal League of America holds its
regular meeting the second Friday of each
month. Oscar S. Teale, secretary, 35 Broad¬
way.

National Association of Plate and Win¬
dow Glass Manufacturers will hold its an¬
nual meeting at the Hotel Dennis, Atlan¬
tic City,  N.  J.,  June  25-27,   inclusive.

American Society of Mechanical Engl*
neers—Monthly meeting the second Tues¬
day of each month. Calvin W. Rice, sec¬
retary, 29 West 39th street.

American Society for Testing Materiala
will hold its twenty-second annual meet¬
ing at Atlantic City, N. J., June 24 to 27.
Headquarters will be at the Hotel Tray¬
more. The society is participating with
other engineering organizations in the
work of the American Engineering Stan¬
dards Committee, which was organized in
October, 1918, Two A. S. T, M. standards
—namely, those for Portland cement and
those covering fire tests of materials and
construction—have already been adopted
by the standards committee as "tentative
standards," with a view finally to their
adoption as official American standards.

American Society of Heating and VentI*
lating E:nglneer8 will hold its semi-annual
meeting at Pittsburgh, Pa., on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, June 10, 11 and
12. This ia to be a meeting in co-opera¬
tion with the annual convention of the
National District Heating Association, and
will embrace a joint session, a joint ban¬
quet, and a joint excursion of the Mc¬
Keesport Works of the National Tube Co.,
involving a trip to the works and back on
an excursion steamboat on the Mononga¬
hela River. Certain sessions of the meet¬
ing of the society will be held at the audi¬
torium in the Bureau of Mines Labora¬
tories, at which the Research Bureau of
the society is located. The headquarters
of the meeting will probably be located
at the William Penn Hotel, which has been
selected by the National District Heating
Association for both its headquarters and ■
the exhibit hall.