May 30, 1914





RECORD  AND  GUIDE





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TILEINE CO., manufacturers of composition
flooring, 101 Park av, has been reincorporated
under the laws ot the State ot New York.

D. EVERETT WAID. supervising architect of
the Metropolitan Insurance Co., sails tor Europe'
to-day.

W. P. BRITTON. consulting and civil en¬
gineer, has opened offlces for the practice of his
profession at 144 Bast State street, Trenton,
N. J.

CHARLES H. GRAHAM, chief engineer of the
Bureau of Sewers, Borough of Manhattan, has
recently been transferred to the Department of
Finance.

VALENTINE Sc KISSAM, A. C. Jackson and
O. B. Smith, architects, have moved their offlces
from 346 4th av to larger and better equipped
offices at 27 Madison av.

THE HELDERBERG CEMENT CO.. ot Al¬
bany, N. Y., recently elected P. W. Kelley to
Iill a vacancy on the executive committee, caused
by the death of T. Henry Dumary.

CONTRACT for the Indiana limestone to be
used in the construction of the new Rogers-
Feet Co." building has been awarded to John
Hutchinson & Son, 2383 1st av, N. Y. C.

ELIJAH SNIFFEN, a civil engineer, employed
in the Department ot Water Supply, Gas and
Electricity, Borough of Richmond, has retired
after  serving the  city  tor  thirty-five years.

GEORGE FELTMAN, architect, has opened
offlces tor the practice ot his profession at 22
5th st. South, St. Petersburg, Fla., and desires
catalogues and samples trom manufacturers.

M. RAMBOW Sc CO., dealers in tile, announce
the removal of their office, sample and stock
rooms to 28-30 West 23th street. Telephone
.Madison  sq.  3651-3652.

THE PARK DEPARTMENT has moved its
offlces trom the old Arsenal in Central Park,
where business has been conducted for nearly
fifty years, to its new quarters in the Municipal
Building.

ALEXANDER THOMPSON, Jr., and Floyd R.
Wooster have formed a partnership to conduct a
general contracting business at "Walden, N. Y.
The new flrm will specialize in the construction
ot water works, sewage disposal plants, etc.

GEORGE A. PULLER CO. at the beginning
ot the fiscal year, May 1, had $17,685,363 of
business in hand. The U. S. Improvement Com¬
pany's surplus, after paying all dividends, was
only $139,024 more in 1913 than in 1914.

THE NEW REINFORCED CONCRETE
PLANT ot the Salamander Grate Bar Co.. 126
Liberty st, being erected in Jersey City, will be
completed and ready for occupancy about June
13, and with the added facilities the company
will be enabled to greatly enlarge its sphere ot
activities.

STEPHENSON, MURRAY CO.. INC.. with
offices at 303 Sth av, has been appointed east¬
ern sales agent for the National Incinerator
Co. The territory to be covered includes New
York, Connecticut. New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, West
Virginia and Ohio.

ARTHUR G. McKEE, consulting engineer and
general contractor, ot Cleveland, Ohio, has
opened a branch office at 52 Broadway, N. Y. C.
The new offlce will be in charge ot P. M. Stew¬
art. Mr. McKee specializes in the construction
of power" plants, coal storage and handling
plants and B'aker suspension bins.

DUSSELDORF, the flourishing city of Ger¬
many, is the subject of a special number ot
large proportions and beautiful printing ot the
Illustrated Zeitung, published at Leipzig, Ber¬
lin, Vienna, Budapest and New York. The New
York edition is in English. A great exposition
will be held at Dusseldorf in 191S.

MAURICE P. MEADE, architect, has opened
offlces for the practice of his protession at 44
Bromfield st, Brookline, Mass., and desires cata¬
logues and samples from manufacturers inter-
.ested in the buiiding trades. Mr. Meade is a
graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬
nology 1908, and has recently returned from an
extended trip abroad. While in Rom§ he studied
at the American Academy ot Architecture.

JAMES O'NEILL, general contractor ot Great
Neck, L. I., was painfully injured Sunday, May
24, when the automobile which he was driving
skidded and turned over. Mr. O'Neill was
pinned under the car and was unconscious wlien
removed. He was attended by an ambulance
surgeon from the Flushing Hospital and re¬
moved to his home where he will have to re¬
main tor some time.

WARREN B'ROS. Contracting Co.. general
construction, 59 Temple place, Boston, has
changed the firm name to Warren Bros. Co.

A. B. SEE, president of the A. B. See Elec¬
tric Elevator Co., will sail Saturday, June 6,
on the Imperator for an extended European trip.
While in England he expects to witness the
professional golf championship matches to be
played at Prestwick.

AMERICAN BITUMASTIC ENAMEL CO., 17
Battery pl, has obtained the contract for fur¬
nishing and applying the enamel for the 46 steel
lock gates on tbe Panama Canal. Mr. Stuart, In
charge of the New York City offlce of the com¬
pany, has estimated that there Is about 3,400,000
square teet of surface to be coated, which will
require 8,856 barrels, approximately 6,199,850
lbs,  of  bitumastic  enamel.

LARGEST   GYPSUM   PLANT.—The   recently
completed   works   of  the   U.   S.   Gypsum   Com¬
pany,   at   Oakfleid,   N.   Y.,   are   the   largest   In
this  line  of  Industry.    The works  are  located
directly   over   the   gypsum   deposit,   which   is
,        mined and drawn up through the shatt into the
'        plant.   The output of the mine, which is worked
up into Sackett plaster board and Pyrobar par¬
tition  tile,   is 350,000 tons  annually.    The ca¬
pacity of the wall plaster plant is 2SO.O0O tons,
while that of the Sackett plaster board plant is
5.000,000 square feet a year.    The capacity of
the Pyrobar tile plant is 10,000,000 square feet
f       a year.

THE UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION   announces   an   open ' competitive





examination tor structural engineer and drafts¬
man on July 8 and 9. From the register of
ellgibles resulting from this examination cer-
tincation wiil be made to All vacancies in this
position in the Offlce of the Supervising Archi¬
tect, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C,
at entrance salaries ranging from $1,600 to $1,-
8tX> per annum; vacancies in tbe position of
first-class structural draftsman in the Panama
Canal Service, at entrance salaries ranging
from $130 to $173 a month. Persons who desire
this examination should at once aliply tor ap¬
plication Form 1312 to the United States Civil
Service  Commission,  Washington,  D.   C.

BRIGHTON B'EACH HOTEL OPENS.-At
10.30 o'clock this (Saturday) evening. May 30,
there will be a double holiday at Brighton
Beach. The fact that it will be Decoration Day
wili be equalled in importance by the fact that
the Brighton Beach Hotel will open its 1914
season with one of the largest and most elab¬
orate balls and entertainments, that have ever
been planned at that exclusive seaside resort.
In addition to the various entertainments, c.
Morton Bellak, the proprietor, has also ar¬
ranged a complimentary supper to be furnished
to holders of tickets without charge. The sup¬
per will be of the finest character, along the
lines of the elaborate New Year's Eve meals
planned in the important New York restau¬
rants. Mr. Bellak, who also owns the Hotel
Oxford and Hotel St. Louis, has instituted a
new and popular note at this famous resort for
the 1014 season—the important idea ot popular
prices. The Brighton Beach Hotel has always
heretofore been an exclusively high-priced re¬
sort. Without changing the quality or char¬
acter ot its management, and in spite of the
addition ot many new features tor the season,
the rates will be lower than ever before in the
history of the Brighton Beach Hotel, promising
a very busy season.





OBITUARY

JAMES BURNETT, landscape architect and
contractor, died of apoplexy at his home, 4482
Boston Post road. North Pelham, N. Y. He was
sixty-one years of age and is survived by his
widow,  one son  anu four daughters.

JOHN J. SHEIL, painting and interior dec¬
orating contractor, died of a complication of
diseases at his home 236 Fourteenth street,
Brooklyn, Sunday, May 24. He was forty-two
years old and is survived by his widow, two
sons  and   one  daughter.

WILLIAM H. POVEY, superintendent of the
Lighting Department of the Newark Board of
Works tor the past seventeen years, died of
apoplexy at his home in Newark Tuesday, May
26. He was fltty-four years old and is sur¬
vived by his widow, two sons and a daughter.

WILLIAM N. CARPENTER, tor thirty years
an inspector ot sewers in Brooklyn, died of a
complication of diseases at his home, 1521 Hatch
avenue, Ozone Park, L. I., Tuesday, May 26. He
was sixty-one years of age and is survived by
h:s widow, one son and three daughters.

HERMAN B. HOMAN, retired lumber com¬
mission merchant, died of a complication of dis¬
eases at his home, 143 Quincy street, Brooklyn,
Sunday, May 24. He was seventy years ot age
and the descendant of an old Long Island fam¬
ily. He is survived by three sons and three
daughters.

THOMAS DALTON, retired carpenter and
general contractor, died ot pneumonia, at his
home. 102 Milton st, Brooklyn, Thursday, May
21. He was born in Ireland seventy years ago
and had been a resident ot the Greenpoint
section ot Brooklyn for over forty-nine years.
He is survived by his son, John Dalton, who
succeeded him in the contracting business.

CHRISTIAN WUTTKE, general contractor
died following an operation for appendicitis in
St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, Monday, May 23
Mr. Wuttke was born in Germany sixty-nine
years ago and was well known as a reliable and
careful builder in the Bast New York section
ot Brooklyn. He lived at 65 Shaw avenue.
Union Course, L. I. He is survived by his
widow, two sons and three daughters.

JAMES SMYTH WARNER, of the firm of
Evans & Warner, architects, Philadelphia, and
a member of the faculty of the University of
Pennsylvania School ot Architecture, died fol¬
lowing an operation for appendicitis in the
University Hospital Friday, May 22. Mr. War¬
ner was thirty-two years of age and a gradu¬
ate in ISOS of the university where he had
been an instructor for the last four years He
was a member of Beta Theta Fi and made his
home in the University dormitories.

EMIL W. GREWBY. retired architect, died
at his home, 31 Ravine av, Yonkers, Saturday
May 23. Mr. Grewey was born In Belgium
seventy-three years ago and had lived in Yon¬
kers for thirty-five yeafs. Some years ago Mr
Grewey retired from the firm of Grewey &
Birmingham and gave up active practice of his
profession, although he was often retained in
a consulting capacity on account of his long
experience and ability. Mr. Grewey formerly
served as Health Commissioner tor the City ot
Yonkers. He is survived by his widow one
son and one daughter.





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TRADE   AND   TECHNICAL
SOCIETY EVENTS.





NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Sheet Metal
Contractors will hold its annual convention at
Cincinnati, Ohio. June 16-19. Headquarters at
the Hotel Gibson.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OP ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS will hold its thirty-flrst annual
convention in Detroit, Michigan, June 22-26.
Convention headquarters will be at the Hotel
Cadillac.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP BUILDING
OWNERS AND MANAGERS will convene at
Duluth, July 14 to IT.

NATIONAL BLECTRICAL CONTRACTORS'
ASSOCIATION will hold its annual convention
at the Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich., June 15-18.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MASTER
PLUMBERS will hold its annual convention at
Atlantic City, N. J., June 16-18. Headquarters
at  Hotel   Rudolf.

NEW JERSEY MASTER PLUMBERS' ASSO¬
CIATION will hold its annual convention at the
Hotel Rudolf,  Atlantic City, N. J.,  June 15.

NATIONAL HARDWARE ASSOCIATION
meets at Hotel Statler, Buffalo, Thursday, June
18. The New York Central wili run a special
train from Chicago on the evening of June IT,
which will carry large delegations from the
South and pick up large contingents en route.
There will be the usual representative attend¬
ance trom the hardwood producing sections of
the Southwest and Nashville lumbermen, who
are on a '"boost" trip, will include the Buffalo
convention in their itinerary.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OP CONSULTING
ENGINEERS will hold a dinner meeting in New
York City June 11. It is proposed to consider
the question ot a memorial to the late Alfred
Noble, and also to take up the consideration ot
changes to the constitution and by-laws of the
Institute.

THE MACHINERY CLUB held its annual
meeting Tuesday evening. May 26, at which the
following were elected to the board ot governors
to serve tour years: J. R. Vandyck, Vandyck
Churchill Company ; W. H. Van Winkle, Watef
Works Equipment Company; Henry Prentiss,
Prentiss Tool Sc Supply Company; J. A Hill
Hill Publishing Company; H. L, Jones, United
States   Steel   Corporation.

NEW YORK CHAPTER OP THE NATIONAL
FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION will hold
its second stated meeting at the City Club, 53
West 44th St. -Monday, June 8. at 8.30 p. m.
The speakers ot the evening will be W. H. Mer¬
rill, manager Underwriters Laboratories. Inc.,
and P. H. Wentworth, secretary National Fire
Protection Association. The subject to be dis¬
cussed at this meeting is "The Methods of Re¬
ducing Fire Waste."

NEW YORK SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS at
the annual meeting in the United Engineering
Societies' Building Tuesday, May 19. discussed
upon the "Consolidation of the Various Build¬
ing Bureaus" ; the "Heights of Buildings." and
the "State Housing Law." The toilowing offlcers
were elected : President, Constantine Schubert;
vice-president, J. Riley Gordon; secretary,
Wm. T. Towner ; treasurer, Louis Berger. Gus¬
tave Erda, Oscar Lowinson, Wm. T. Towner,
Edward Wehrlin and Henry B. Herts were
elected directors for the ensuing three years.
P. M. Lloyd, of Poughkeepsie, was elected a
director to fill the term expiring May, 1915,
and John R. Hinchman elected to fill the term
expiring  May.   1016.





AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERS will hold its spring meeting at
St., Paul, Minn,, June 16-19. Calvin W. Rice
secretary, 29 West :i9th st. New York City.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OP CIVIL BNGI-
.NEERS will hold its annual convention at B'al-
timore. Md.. June 2-5. Secretary, Chas. W
Hunt. 220 West STth street, N. Y. C.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING AND
VENTILATING ENGINBERS will hold Its mid¬
summer meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, .July 9-11,
Headquarters at the Hotel Statler..





New Superintendent of Buildings.

Borough President Marks has ap¬
pointed Alfred Ludwig as Superintend¬
ent of Buildings for the Borough of
Manhattan, to fill the vacancy caused by
Mr. Miller's resignation in order to take
up the work on the Building Code. This
appointment is in no way conflicting
with the statement of Robert D. Kohn
recently published in the Record and
Guide. The appointment of Mr. Lud¬
wig, who has been Chief Inspector and
Acting Superintendent since April IS,
has been made merely to avoid possible
legal difficulties that may arise. It is .
fully expected that Mr. Miller will re¬
turn to the position of Superintendent
of Buildinffs when his work in connec¬
tion with the Building Code is com¬
pleted.         -

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New Dumbwaiter Ordinance.

The Board of Aldermen at its meet¬
ing on Tuesday, May 26, passed the
amendment to Section 97, making the
provisions of that section applicable
merely to_ dumbwaiters hereafter erect¬
ed.. It will be recalled that the Court
of Appeals decided that the provisions
of Section 97 as given in the Building
Code of 1899 were retroactive, which
meant that in all buildings where dumb¬
waiter shafts, though constructed in ac¬
cordance with the law in force at the
time, were not fireproof they would have
to be reconstructed to_ make them fire¬
proof—at an expense in many cases of
from $1,000 to $1,500.

The new ordinance regulating bill¬
boards and" sky signs was passed by the
Board of Aldermen at its meeting on
May 26, and is now awaiting the signa¬
ture of the_ Mayor to become eflfective.
The provisions of this ordinance were
outlined in a recent number of the Rec¬
ord and Guide.