May 30, 1908





RECORD  AND  GUIDE





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Brief aud Personal.

Summer   again.     Blessed   be!
Architect  J,   C.  Coclver  has  moveci  his
office to the second floor of No. 2010 fjlli
av,  near 125th  st.

The John A. RoGhling'.'j Sons Co., 117
Liberty st, Manhattan, will replace at
once at Trenton, N. J., buiklings recently
burneci,

Messrs. Thompson & Frohling, archi¬
tects. No. 114 East 2Sth st. Maniiattan,
announce tbat .they have taken into their
flrra Mr.,Harold F. Saxelbye.

■William P. Boardman. builder of the old
New Toflv & Harlem Ry., now operated as
the Fourth Av. Ky,, of Manhattan, died
on May 20, at his home in Deshet,
South Dak.

New    excavations    are    heing    started

every day,  and as the buildings rise the

trades  will  successively  join  in,  till  the

, i-oundeiay   of  good  times   is  In  full  and

merry swing.

The oflices df the American Spiral Pipe
Worlcs have been removed from 39 Cort¬
landt st to larger quarters in the Hudson
Terminal Building, No, 30 Church st. Mr.
F. B. Sanborn is in charge.

Joseph A. McAnerney, E, B., formerly
of the firm of Feet, McAnerney & Powers,
eiectrical contractors, has opened an office
in the Hudson Terminal Building, 30
Church st, as an electrical engineer.

At tlie last meeting of the Brooklyn
Engineers' Club, James YV. Nelson, man¬
ager of the firm of Richard Dudgeon, of
New Tork, read a paper on "Hydraulic
Machinery," which was illustrated by the
stereopticon.

At a recent annual meeting of the In¬
stitution of Civil Engineers of Great Bri¬
tain, Mr. Wm. Barclay Parsons, of Man¬
hattan, M. Am. Soc. C, E., was awarded
a Telford gold medal for a paper contribu¬
ted fo its interests.

The automobile has been a friend to
the suburban house site.__ An uncounted
number of city families are looking as
much for the spot where they can have
a house for the "choo-choo" wagon as a
house to themselves.

Commercial paper of the highest grade
is absorbed as soon as offered, and dis¬
count rates range from 3',<> to 4 per cent,
for sliort maturities, and 4 and 4Vz per
cent, for regular dales. Local institu¬
tions have been eager purchasers of six
months' bills.

Francis H, Kimball, the arclilLect of
tlie Trinity. U, S. Realty and City In¬
vesting buildings, has decided on a coun¬
try home after long residence in tiie city.
Mr. Kimball is drawing plans for a dwell¬
ing he expects to erect for himself on a
half-acre plot at Jamaica Estates, A
number of our skyscraper architects have
houses in-the country.

The Board of "Water Supply decided yes¬
terday to fhrow out all the bids received
for the construction of the Wallkill si¬
phon and to advertise the work again,
or possibly change the plans and do the
wcwk itself. The lowest bidder was the
English firm of S. Pearson & Sons, which
asked $3,304,909; the next was McArthur
Brothers, who bid $4,352,103,

Mr, Eli Benedict, architect, who haa
conducted classes in architectural drarw-
ing and in plan-reading and estimating
at .the night school of the 23d St, Toung
Men's Christian Association during the
past season, will continue the architect¬
ural drawing class during the summer,
beginning June 1, in hia drafting-room
at No. 1047 Broadway, corner GiJth St.
on Monday and Thursday evenings, 7,30
to 9.30 p. m.

Some front briclt figures given out by
the Sayre & Fisher Co., 201 Broadway,
represent prominent buildings recently
erected in part with their front brick. The
German-American Insurance Building.
Maiden lane and Liberty st, 250,000 por¬
celain  white brick;   City Investing Build¬





ing, 650,000 porcelain white brick; Hen¬
drik Hudson apartments, Riverside Drive
and 110th st, 050,000 Roman size gray
brick; Second National Bank, Sth av and
2Sth st, standard size gray briclt;
Academy of Music, Lafayette av and
Ashland pl, Brooklyn, 12D,000 Norman
size white brick, rough finish.

David Cohen, clerk, 1770 'Madison aV,
formerly a builder, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy with liabilities of $380,510,
contracted mostly in 1899, and no assets.
Of the liabilities, $251,306 were secured
by mortgages on real estate situated in
113th st, near 1st av; 107th st, corner 2d
av; 174th st, corner 3d av, and 3d av,
near 171st st, formerly owned by him.
Among the secured creditors are Alex.
P. Ketchum, $59,000; Title Guarantee
& Trust Company, $30,000; estate of Jose¬
phine L. Peyton, $43,500; estate of P,
Kennedy, $22,500; Samuel Green, $1G.500,
and Morris Lornst, $6,000. Among the
unsecured creditors are the State Bank,
Brownsville branch, $25,000; Isaac Block,
$20,000, suit for damages for negligence;
Samuel D. Tomback, $1G,GS3, and Brady
& Hauptman, $11,700,





Metal  Forms  for  Concrete Walls.

A good many inventive minds besides
Edison's seem to be working on the prob¬
lem of how to mold cement buildings
cheaply and quickly. William Deane
Ham, a Southern man, after spending
several years in experimenting has de¬
vised and patented a system of metal
forms for buiiding a ■monolithic concrete
hollow wall which has been employed in
the construction of several buildings.

Mr. Ham's method has been adopted by
the Monolithic Hollow Wall Co., of this
city. Two separate concrete walls, erected
simultaneously, are tied together every
flfteen inches both vertically and horizon¬
tally with iron or copper ties. These ties
are anchored or held in place by nails
driven through holes previously punched.
After the completion of the wall the ends
of the metal ties extending beyond the
exterior and interior surfaces are cut off
by a thin, sharp chisel to a depth of a
half inch or more inside the concrete.
This leaves very little defacement and
can easily be fllled or pointed up. Where
a rubbed finish or pneumatic hammer fin¬
ish is used-no mark is visible.

The forms are made of galvanized steel,
thus ensuring the necessary smooth sur¬
face, and are made in various lengths np
to GO inches and about Vs inch in thick¬
ness. They are perforated with small
holes an inch apart. These holes ac¬
complish several ends. They allow air
bubbles to escape while tamping, although
too small to allow concrete to pass
through them. They are used in tacking
on mortar beads and for attaching tile
and terra cotta ornamentation to be em¬
bedded in the concrete. They can also be
used in securing the forms where it is
found advisable to lap the edges at any
place.

To secure the much admired pebble fin¬
ish for exterior surfaces or a tile finish
for the interior of the building, Mr, Ham
uses a quick setting paste for attaching
the surface material to the steel sheets
(using sheets with large perforations).
After the concrete has set sufficiently
water is applied through the perforations
previously described, with the result that
the paste dissolves and the forms can be
released.

The forms are held accurately in posi¬
tion during the pouring of the concrete
by a saddle spacer. On the removal of
the forms the concrete is smooth with
tho exception of slight points of pin-head
size and a light mark at the joints of the
forms. These are removed by a light
rubbing with carborundum blocks or a
steel brush.





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