October 13, 1906





RECORD   AND   GUIDE





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--■. ^■- --                     Contracts Awarded.

The Standard Bitulithic Co., 253 Broadway, Manhattan, lias
received the contract for IS,300 sq. yds. of paving al New
Brunswick, N,  J,

92D ST.—William Crawford, 5-7 East 42d st, has the contract
for improvements to the 4-sty residence of Austin D, Middleton,
127 West 92d st.    William J. Fryer, 26 Cortlandt st. Is architect,

164TH ST.^S. Elfin, 189 East 76th st, has received the con¬
tract for alterations to 500 West 164lh st, for Levy & Simmons,
129 East 84th  st, from plans by Fred. Ebeling, 420 East Oth st,

AV B,—Joseph Schwartz, 201 East 40th st, lias the plumbing
contract for improvemenls to No, 7 Av B for Mrs. Rachel
Strauss, 1452 Lexington av. Henry J, Feiser, 150 Nassau st,
prepared the plans,

75TH ST.—Hoggson, 7 East 44th st, have received the con¬
tract from plans by C. W. Romeyn, 55 Broadway, for
$10,000 worth of improvements to the 4-sty residence of Dr,
E,  L.  Keyes, 28 East TSth st.

106TH ST.^Charles James & Co,, 2440 Broadway, have re¬
ceived the contract for alterations to No. 68 West 106th st for
Emily W. Scott, care E. K. Van Winkle, 471 Central Park West.
Alfred H. Lee, 2496 Sth av, architect.

The United States Steel Products & Export Co., 21 State st,
Manhattan, has received contract from the Isthmian Canal
Commission for furnishing 40,000 steel splice bars, 350,000 tie-
plates and 180,000 lbs of track spikes.

The general contract has been given to Richard Deeves & Son,
305 Eroadway, Manhattan, for the boiler house to be erected
at Tompkinsville, S. I,, for the American Dock Co,, 68 Broad
st, from pians by S. H, Kissam, 156 5tli av.

92D ST.—John K, Turton, 1133 Broadway, has received the
contract for extensive interior changes lo the 3-sty residence
of H. Augusla Coleman, 114 Madison av, at No, 50 East 92d st,
Pickering & Walker, 7 East'42d st, arcliitects,

ST. NICHOLAS TERRACE,—Isaac A. Hopper & Son, 1170
Broadway, have obtained the general contract to erect for the
Academy of tbe Sacred Heart, on the grounds bounded by St.
.Nicholas Terrace, Convent Av, 130th and 135th sts, a 3-sty
sctiool building 102x33 ft, to cost $40,000. Brick exterior, stone
coping, cement roof, steam heat, etc. Ellen Mahoney, on prem¬
ises, is mother superior, and F, L. Robinson, 555 Mount Hope
Place,  is  architect.





Bids Opened.

Bids were opened at the Navy Department, Wasliington, D. C,
Oct, 3, for construction of steel bridges, timber trestle and cable
railway track at the U, S, Naval Coal Depot, Narragansett
Bay, Bradford. R. I., as follows: Augustus Smith, 140 Broad¬
way, New York. $15,'52S; Monongahela Mfg. Co., 120 Liberty
st. New York, $10,970; New Jei-sey Foundry & Machine Co.,
9 Murray st. New York, $16,964 (conditional), $17,064 (uncon¬
ditional).





BUILDING     NOTES





Edward S. Murphy, Superintendent of Buildings of flie Bor¬
ough of Manhattan, who has been III for four weeks, is rapidly
improving and Is expected at his desk in a few days.

The Board of Aldermen on Tuesday autiiorized the appropria¬
tion of $3,S00 in corporate stock for fees, for the advisory archi¬
tects who are to compete for designs.for the new penitentiary
on Riker's Island, to talce the place of that on Blackwell's
Island.

Frederick B. Irvine, formerly witli the City & County Con¬
tract Co., and Robert T. Hill, of the U. S, Geological Survey,
have formed a partnership under the name of Hili & Irvine,
No. 25 Broad st, and v/ill engage in mining and civil en¬
gineering.

The U. S, Civil Service Commission will hold examinations on
Oct. 30-31 in all large-cities of the country of candidates for
a number of positions as civil engineer and superintendent of
construction in the Quartermaster's Department, U. S, A. These
positions pay $1,500 a year.

The National White Lead Co, has received from the press
of Rogers & Co, a trade pamphlet, entitled "A Talk on Paint,"
which will win more than ordinary attention, inasmuch as it is
very handsomely printed and illustrated. The full-page illus¬
trations are by Henry Hutt, and all are in colors. A white
enameled cover, with an embossed tille and embossed and col¬
ored illustration, is in keeping with the general elegance of the
production. The text tells what paint It, what it does, what it
costs, and how to paint.

The stockholders of the Soeita Co-operative Degl' Itallani di
America have received a notice from Giambattista Clapa, sec-
i-etary, tliat a dividend of $7.91 per share on the capital stock
of the corporation has been declared to stockholders of record
on Sept, 24. The stockholders are mostly Italian investors on
the East Side, who are great holders of real estate. Messrs.
Tuoti  & Co,  were prominent  in  organizing  the  company that





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Announcement is made that the building business, established
by L. N. Crow, in 1S40, and carried on in later years under
the name of W. L. Crow, at 287 4th av, has now been changed
to the 'William L. Crow Construction Co., incorporated undei
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st, W^hitfield & King, architects: Eroadway Savings Institution,
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architect; the Herbert L. Pratt residence at Clinton, WilioughbJ
and Waverly avs, Brooklyn, James Brile, arciiitect; the Wins--
low S, Pierce residence, Bayville, L, I,, Babb, Cook & Willard,
architects: the American Sugar Refining Co.'s plant. Long
Island City; A, B. See Electric Elevator Co.'s plant at Jersey
City, John T. Rowland, Jr,, architect; tlie Eciultable Life As¬
surance Society's Building at Greenwicli, Albany and Carlisle
sts, Jardine, Kent & Jardine, architects; the Presbyterian
Church at Slith st and Amsterdam av, Henry P. Kilburn, archi¬
tect; tlie De La Vergne Machine Co.'s plant, l'38th st and East
River; American Society Civil Engineers' Club House, 220 West
57th st, Eidlitz & McKenzie, architects; the Lorillard Estate
Office Building, Gold st and Maiden lane, Louis Giller, archi¬
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Last Quarter's Building-A Comparison.

More buildings were planned In the Borough of Brooklyn for
the quarter ending Sept, 30. 190G, than In all the other boroughs
combined. In Manhattan, Bronx, Queens and Richmond plans
for 2,007 buildings w^ere flled, while in Brooklyn the number of
buildings projected was 2,320,

New
Buildings,           Cost,

Richmond   ..................................    211            $1,32^,33.5

Manhattan   .................................   302            2'5,6fi8,S10

Bronx   ......................................    51S              6,G8G.250

Queens   .....................................   070             4,192,229

Brooklyn   ..................................2,320            19,919,666





—Negotiations are pending for the sale of the Lotus clubhouse
at OoG-55S Fifth av, on a plot fJOxlCO, an offer of $750,000 hav¬
ing been received. The question will be decided at a special
meeting of the club next Thursday night.