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RECORD  AND  GUIDE





May 21, 1910





in to some of the leading wholesalers
showing that cutters and contractors have
some big contracts in sight which have
not yet come out. Current wholesale
prices follow:

STONE.—Wholeaalo   ratee,   dellvere*   at   New
York.

Bennington   building   marble........$1.40©  ,.,,

Brownstone,    Portland,     C»n.........80   $1.25

Caen.............................. 1.23     1.73

Georgia    building   marble........... 1.40     2,00

Granite,   black    .................... 1.10     1.25

Granite,   grey   ......................70     1,26

Granite  .............................75     1.00

Granite,    Milford.    pink.................     1.25

Granite,   Picton  Islaud,  pink............     1.25

Granite,   Picton   Island,   red.............     1,25

Granite,  Westerly,   blue............. 1.25     3,75

Granite.  Westerly,   red.............. 1.25     3.25

Hudson River bluestoQe, promlscuoua

sizes,   per  cu.   ft...................70      .74

Dressed,  ditto   ........................82    ,86

Kentucky   limestone   ................85       ,95

Lake   Superior  redstone............. 1.05    ....

Limestone,    buff   and   blue...........85     1.03

Longmeadow    freestone    .............85      .90

Obio   freestone   .....................80     1.00

Portage   or   Warsaw   stone...........90     1,00

Scotch   redstone   ...................1.06    ....

South   Dover   building   marble......1,25     1.60

Tennessee   marble    ................2,S3     2.S0

Vermont white  building  marble.....  1,00     1,50

Wyoming   bluestone    ................80       ,90

SLATE,—Prices   are   per   square,   deliverei   li
New York In  car lots.

Bangor,   Genuine.   No,   1............$5.00 56,73

Brownville   &   Monson   Mine......    7.50       9.50

Chapman.   No.   1..................    5.25       6.00

Peach   Bottom   ...................    6.90        7.B0

Red,   No.   1.......................  11.00     13.00

Unfading   Green   .................    6.25       6.40

Ciiished Stone and Gravel.

Crushed stone is in active demand, es¬
pecially for high grades. There is a large
quantity of this material coming down
the Hudson for consumption in thi city
and specially in the Bronx, where a much
larger percentage of reinforced concrete
construction is under w^ay this year than
formerly. There is much work in sight
that will take large quantities of this ma¬
terial, especially in the- <;oii struct ion of
the new subway.

The contract for furnishing the Depart¬
ment of Docks with 15,000 cubic yards
was recently awarded at $1.04 to $1.06.
This has led some interests to believe
that there has been an advance in prices.
-The above quotations include services of
man to load the buckets and empty them
on the dock, tbe city furnishing the
power. Otherwise prices are unchanged.
Sand is in active demand,

SAND,  GRAVEL, GRIT AND BROKEN STONE.
Dock. New York,

Screened Cow Bay sand............$0.35 cu. yd.

Screened   Cow   Bay   gravel...........70 cu, yd.

White Quartz Roofing grit..........  1.60 cu, yd.

Crushed  Granite,  I'A  in.............95 cu. yd.

Crushed   Granite,  2^   in.............60 cu. yd.

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All Educational Cement Exhibit.

The Edison Portland Cement has an ex¬
hibit at Madison Square Garden this week
and up to Wednesday evening of next
week, of its well known "10 per cent,
finest ground" product which is well
worth seeing. It consists of a house
showing the possibilities of cement in
structural, ornamental and stucco con¬
struction work and several pieces of art
work done in cement from designs by W,
H, Miller, the Truscon Art Company and
the Erkins Studios. Another feature of
the exhibit is the demonstration of Edison
Waterprooflng paint by a water and coun¬
terbalancing device that is certainly one
of the most convincing arguments of its
kind that has yet been devised.





Concrete Hollow Tile.

The Concrete Products Company is now
operating a plant at Flushing, L, L, for
making concrete building tile by a pro¬
cess developed by A. A. Pauly, of Youngs-
toivn, Ohio, and known as the Pauly sys¬
tem. The tiles are of the hollow type
resembling the familiar terra cotta
shapes, and are made in various sizes,
according to the purpose for which they
are to be used. The most unusual fea¬
ture is the method of manufacture, the
blocks being made of a "soupy" mixture
in  steam-heated   moulds.

The standard wall tile is made in
widths  of  8  and  10 Ins.,   lengths  of 8  to





16 ins,, and is S ins, high. Walls and
webs are 1 in. thick. They are laid with
their larger faces horizontal. Partition
tiles are 4 ins, thick, 12 ins, high and 12
ins, long, and are set on edge. Floor tiles
are 8 ins, deep, IS ins. wide and 12 ins.
long. They are used in combination with
narrow reinforced concrete beams. These
narrow beams are tied to reinforced wall
girders. Corner tiles are similar to wall
tiles, but are placed on end and the spaces
filled with concrete. Interior columns are
formed with corner tiles filled and rein¬
forced with vertical rods. Lintels are
formed of wall tile, reinforced with rods
and fllled with concrete.

Exterior finish of stucco, ornamented
with colored tiles if desired, is plastered
directly onto the concrete tiles. Interior
plaster is placed on wire lath supported
by furring nailed  to  tbe tiles.





luipoi-tant   Pacts   About   Roof   Tanks.

This is a face-to-face talk about roof
tanks. It should interest every owner,
architect and real estate dealer in the
Metropolitan district. As one of the old¬
est tank manufacturers in the country
puts it, some building owners "do not
think about tanks till they have to put
one in. Then they think some about put¬
ting in the best or the cheapest tank they
can. But after the tank is in, if it doesn't
hold "water, they are likely to think very
hard. Some men have been known to
think and speak profanity about some
tank's."

This concise bit of wisdom is the vin¬
tage of nearly balf a century's practical
and theoretical knowledge of the tank-
building science, for if ever there was a
demand for scientific thought and appli¬
cation in manufacturing an article, that
demand was created when the first tank
was made.     *

It takes only 235^ gallons of water to
weigh as much as a ton of coal, A cer¬
tain manufacturer makes tanks that hold
as much as 1,000,000 gallons. Think of
the tremendous outward and downward
pressure exerted upon tank staves and
hoops! Now. if there are two parts that
do not fit scientifically perfect that tre¬
mendous pressure is sure to find it out.
,So W'ill the arciiitect. owner or real estate
dealer who trusted a tank manufac¬
turer who did not maintain machinery of
the best kind and did not have good ex¬
perience to guide him. One big roof tank
burst causing damage amounting to .^"25,-
000. The enormous water pressure had
found the weak spot. Any tank improp¬
erly made is liable to burst at any mo¬
ment. The only safeguard is to have the
tanks made properly.

Here is 'something that will surprise the
average building owner and possibly some
architects: Plane surfaces do not mean
planed surfaces. A smooth edge looks
pretty and more finished but the tightest
joints in the. manufacture of water tanks
is obtained from contact with rough sawn
edges properly clamped together. The sci¬
entifically made tank is built in this way.
Each fibre of wood is impressed into its
neighboring stave and with an approved
lug system of hooping the tank is prac¬
tically one piece, sides as well as bottom.

No calking, painting or puttying, white
leading, meta! lining or waterproofing
compounds should be permitted in a tank.
Let the tank stand upon its own merits
with nothing to insure perfection but the
well selected wood and the lug bands tbat
hold the staves together. With such a
tank longevity is as'sured with practically
no cost of repairs.

Riveted hoops coopered down never were
and never will be a permanent guaranty
against leakage. Frost and weather con¬
tract and expand these metal hoops and
slowly but surely the tank becomes weak¬
er. The only safe way is to have the
tank staves  held  in  place  by  lug bands





that will take up slack. In the tanks
make by A. J, Corcoran, of 11 John
st, this city, the bands are tightened
by means of lugs on each end through
which a bolt or draw rod is passed.
An anti-friction plate is placed between
the lugs and the tank, enabling the
ends of the bands to slide readily to¬
gether. Anyone who can use a wrench
can tighten a tank of this kind and so
eliminate the expense of hiring a cooper¬
age expert. Bands of this kind are put
where the greatest pressure  is.

The selection of wood is vital, and it is
also necessary to give proper consideration
to the tank supports. Frost proofing is an¬
other essential. You could have a boiler
explosion in a building if your tank should
freeze in winter. Have you ever thought
of that? But above all consult an ex¬
perienced tank maker before you install
this important adjunct to your building
equipment and if you already have a tank
that has not been looked after in some
time  act now, before it is too late.





A Tribute  to   the  Late  Hirani  Snyder.

At a special meeting of the Building
Material Exchange, President Uriah F.
Washburn brought to the attention of
tbe members the fact that one of the
charter, members of the Exchange, Mr.
Hiram Snyder, had passed away. Mr.
William C. Morton, the treasurer, paid a
tribute to the character of the late friend
and associate of the members of that
body. In his remarks, Mr. Morton re¬
ferred to the old Mechanics and Traders'
Exchange and the stormy times that some¬
times characterized its sessions, and re¬
called the memorable occasion in 1882
when 300 members were forced to call an
indignation meeting and later retire from
the exchange,

"Our late associate," continued Mr. Mor¬
ton, "was one of the signers of that call
and was chairman of that meeting, at
which he strongly denounced the injustice
to the associate members and urgently
advocated the forming of a new^ exchange.
There were thirteen charter members, of
which he was one and of that faithful
number only five remain with us  to-day,

"Mr, Snyder was the first president from
1SS2 to 1SS4 and treasurer from ISSS to
1809. He Incorporated the New York
and Rosendale Cement Company in 1873
and was connected with the manufacture
of Rosendale cement for twenty years;
then he went into the Portland cement
industry and it was through his efforts
that the Alpha Portland Cement was in¬
troduced in this market. He also intro¬
duced the Lehigh Portland Cement in this
district and at the present time his firm,
Hiram Snyder & Co., are the distributors
here,

"Those who have had business rela¬
tions or have been associated wrth him
during these many years can testify to
his character and amiable disposition.
Many has he helped when thay first start¬
ed in business and he proved himself to
be the friend in need that was a friend
indeed.

"It was my pleasure to have served un¬
der our friend for eighteen years. Owing
to the facts hereinbefore mentioned, I
think the president should be authorized
lo appoint a committee to draft a set
of resolutions to send to the late family,
expressing our sympathy for them in
their sorrow, also attesting to the high
esteem in which he was held by the mem¬
bers of the exchange."

Mr. Francis A. Howland said he had
known Mr, Snyder for many years and had
had close business relations with him. It
was a great pleasure, he said, to endorse
all that had been said. Jerome A. King.
Albert Morion, J. B. King, William K.
Hammond and Hamilton V. Meeks, were
designated as a committee to prepare
suitable resolutions.





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