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PASSAIC—Philip Sobel, 177 Sth st. 3-sty
brick, $6,000.

NEWARK.—Ella A. Walters, 281 North Sth
av. 3-sty frame, $8,000; Abraham Levy, s e cor
Hillside av and Runyon st. 3-sty frame. $10.-
000; Charles Mertz, 324-326 Hawthorne av, 3-
sty frame, $6,000; Augusta Wagner, 62 Nor¬
wood av, 3-sty frame, $5,000.

EAST ORANGE.—Morris Tarnofsky. 200
Rhode  Island  av, 3-sty frame, $10,000.

BAYONNE.—Simon Susser, 168 Av E, 3-sty
frame, $5,000.

WEST NEW Y'ORK.—John Vitale and George
Weiss, s w cor 14th st and Palisade av, two 4-
sty   brick,   $33,000.

MONTCLAIR.—James Reid, 20 Pine st, 3-sty
brick.  $9,000.    ^

WEST HOBOKEN.—John Wagner, n side
Hague st, 100 ft. w of Clinton av, 3-sty brick,
$8,ono.

APARTMENTS,    FLATS    AND   TENEMENTS,

NEWARK, N. J.—Del Guercio & Gonnelli. 222
Washington st, are preparing plans for a 4-sty
tenement, 36x42 ft. at 73 High st. for Luigi
Signorini, 79 High st.    Cost, about $11,000.

NEWARK, N. J.—Chas. L. Steinbrenner, Es¬
sex Building, is preparing plans for a 3-sty
flat, 40x40 ft., at the corner of South Orange
av and I7th st, for Mrs. A. Kimmerle, 488
South   Orange  av.     Cost,   about   S12,000.

NEWARK, N. J.—Hyman Rosensohn, 800
Broad st, is preparing plans for three 3-sty
brick, frame and stucco flats, 26x70 ft. each,
at the corner of Lincoln av and May st, for
Louis Goldfarb, 800 Broad st. Cost, about $9,-
000 each.

DWELLINGS.

JERSEY CITY, N. J.—Nathan Welitoff. 222
Washington st, Newark, has completed plans for
eight 2-sty frame residences, 22x48 ft. each, in
Fleet st for Levin & Uslan, 46 Rutgers av,
owners  and  builders.     Co«t,   about  $4,500  each.

PERTH AMBOY. N. J,—Goldbergcr & Creisen.
149 New Brunswick av, are preparing plans for
a 2i/H-sty hollow tile residence, in Prospect st,
for Benjamin Flenberg, Prospect st. Cost, about
$5,000.

MORRIS PLAINS, N. J.—George S. Drew,
State House, Trenton. N. J., is preparing plans
for three lV>-sty frame and stucco cottages, 65x
35 ft., for the State of New Jersey, Department
of Charities and Corrections. Cost, about $20,-
000.

HALLS AND CLUBS.

CARTERET, N. J.—Oakley & Son, 280 North
Broad st, Elizabeth, have nearly completed plans
for a 2-sty brick lodge building. 40x80 ft., for
the Knights of Columbus of Carteret, Her¬
man Mayor, Roosevelt, N. J., chairman of
building committee. Cost, about $20,000.
HOTELS.

BALMAR, N. J.—Watson & Huckel. 1211
Walnut st, Philadelphia, Pa., are preparing
plans for a 5-sty hotel, 85x100 ft,, on Ocean
Front for Paul Zizina, B'elmar. Cost, about
$250,000,

PUBLIC   BUILDINGS.

EAST ORANGE, N. J.—Hobart A. Walker,
137 Sth av, Manhattan, has been commissioned
to prepare plans for a brick and limestone
addition to the library building at Main st and
Munn av for the East Orange Public Library,
Board of Trustees, Ed. O. Stanley, president.
Cost,  about $40,000.

SCHOOLS   AND   COLLEGES.

BLOOMFIELD, N. J.—W. W. Rasmussen,
1133 Broadway. Manhattan, has been commis¬
sioned to prepare plans for a school in Grove
st. near Bloomfield av. for the Board of Educa¬
tion of the Town of Bloomfield. Charles W. Mar¬
tin.     Cost,  about $45,000.

FLEMINGTOX. X. J.—J. N. Pierson & Son,
95 Smith st, Perth Amboy. have about com¬
pleted plans for a 2-sty brick public school at
Hunterdon County, for the B'oard of Education,
Gudua Higgins, clerk. Cost, about $45,000. Bids
will be advertised  for at once.

STORES, OFFICES AND LOFTS.

PASSAIC. N. J.—H. Preiskel, Hobart Trust
H'uilding. is preparing plans for two stores, of¬
fices and flats at 62 2d st, for Jaffe Dunivitch &
Kaplan, this place, owner.    Cost, about $25,000.

RAHWAY, N. J.—David M. Ach, 1 Madison
av, Manhattan, has completed revised plans for
alterations to the 3-sty brick store building for
Gries Bros., this place, owners.

NEWARK, N. J.—David M. Ach. 1 Madison
av, Manhattan, has completed plans for a 2 or
3-sty brick and terra cotta taxpayer. 64x150 ft.,
at the northeast corner of Park p! and East
Park st, for J. B. Meyer. 224 Washington st,
Hoboken. Cost, about $25,000.
THEATRES.

UNION    HILL.    N.    J.—Frank    G.    Hall,    95
River St.  Hoboken.  contemplates the erection of
a  brick  and  stone  theatre  from plans by  Percy
A. Vivarttes.  110 4th st.  Union  Hill.
MISCELLANEOUS.

SOUTH ORANGE. N. J.—Work has not yet
been started on the new Mountain station 1-stv
brick, steel and tile, 100x30 ft., for the Dela¬
ware. Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co. L. R.
Simpson, care of owner, architect. F. H. Hyde,
90   West  st,   Manhattan,   general   contractor.

Other   Cities.

CHURCHES.
CUBA.—Ludlow & Peabody. 101 Park av, have
been commissioned to prepare plans for a Pres-
bvterian Church and School by the Board of
Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church,
Cienfuegos, Cuba. Also for a church and school
for the same owners at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
Buildings will be built of brick, timber and
tile,   of   Spanish   Mission   style.





OBITUARY

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JOHN MCDOWELL, an inventor, for a num¬
ber of years connected with the Derby Desk Co.,
died of general debility at his home. ^G Garfield
pl, Brooklyn, Saturday, July 11. He was seyenty
years  old.





KURT W. PEUCKERT, architect, senior mem¬
ber of the firm of Peuckert & Wunder, Phila¬
delphia, died at his home in Sharon Hill, Pa.,
Saturday, July 11, He was born in Germany
sixty-six years ago and came to America when
a young man. Mr. Peuckert was a member of
many German social and fraternal orders. He
is survived by  his widow and a daughter.

JOSEPH SMYTH, general contractor who has
been prominent for many years as a builder in
the Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights sections of
Brooklyn, died at the home of his daughter, 460
Macon st, Thursday, July 9. He was born in
Dublin, Ireland, eighty-three years ago and has
been a resident of Brooklyn for forty years.
He was formerly active in Democratic politics
in Brooklyn, and is survived by a son and a
daughter.

WILLIAM BLEECKER POTTER. founder
and manager of the St. Louis Sampling and
Testing Works and one of the best known min¬
ing engineers and metallurgists in the United
States, died of peritonitis at his home
in St. Louis. Tuesday, July 14. He was
sixty-eight years old and was a son of
the late Bishop Horatio Potter, of the diocese
of New York City of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He was graduated from Columbia in
1806 and received the honorary degree of doc¬
tor of science from Columbia University in 1904
in recognition of his services in the field of
mining and metallurgy. He also was the first
professor of mining and metallurgy in Wash¬
ington University when the chair was founded
in 1871.

JAMES M. KENNEY, for twelve years con¬
struction inspector in the Board of Education,
and a recognized authority on building construc¬
tion, died at his home, 320 Columbia st, B'rook¬
lyn, Sunday. July 12, after a long illness. Mr.
Kenney, who was an architect and engineer, was
born in Middletown, N. Y., fifty-four year.s ago.
When a young man he came to Brooklyn and
learned the various branches of the building
trade with M. Gibbons & Sons, by whom he was
long employed, and worked on many of the
large buildings constructed by that firm
throughout the country. He supervised the
erection of Erasmus Hall High School, the
Gates Avenue Court, the first Bush Terminal
building and the Graves Wall Paper Company
factory. Mr. Kenney was a member of the
Ninth Assembly District Democratic Association
and several fraternal orders. He is survived by
his widow and one daughter.





TRADE   AND   TECHNICAL         j

SOCIETY EVENTS.                 I

CONVENTION OF CITY MANAGERS.—City
Manager C. E. Ashburner of Springfield, Ohio,
is sendiug out invitations to city managers
throughout the country to meet In Cv^nventlon
at Springfield, August 4, 5 ahd 6, next.

EXECUTIVE BOARD of the International
Association of Master House Painters and Deco¬
rators of the United States and Canada, will
hold its midsummer meeting at the Hotel
Brunswick, Asbury Park, N. J., Thursday, July
30- The principal business of the meeting is
to arrange the details and programme for tha
1915 convention  of the association.

BROOKLYN HARDWARE DEALERS' ASSO¬
CIATION will hold its annual outing at Pleas¬
ure Bay, N. J., on the Shrewsbury River, Wed¬
nesday. July 22. There will be a fine shore
dinner served at the Bridgewater Inn, Pleasure
Bay. The trip will be made from the foot of
Cedar st. North River, by the Sandy Hook
steamer to Atlantic Highlands, thence by special
train to Pleasure Bay. The tickets are four dol¬
lars each, application for which may be made
to H. A.  Cornell.  121   Court st,  Brooklyn. N.  Y.

SOCIETY FOR ELECTRICAL DEVELOP¬
MENT, INCORPORATED, announces eight
prizes for the best stories, articles or reports
on any subject pertaining to commercial elec¬
tricity. The competition is open to employees
of members of the Society. There will be one
prize of $250, one of $150, one of $50 and five
of $10 each. The competition closes on Sep¬
tember 1, 1914. Full particulars may be ob¬
tained by writing to the Competition Editor,
Society for Electrical Development, Incorpor¬
ated, 29 West 39th st. New York City,

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A. C. WEIX, architect, has moved his offices
from 160 West OOth st to 188 West 101st st.

DULA & PATTERSON, architects, have
onened offices in the Anderson Building, 15 East
40th St.

SAMUEL GIBSON, general contractor, has
opened an office in the Proctor B'uilding. Mt.
Vernon, N. Y.

MITCHELL CONSTRUCTION CO.. general
contracting. 4 Court square, Brooklyn, has
changed the firm name to Mitchell, Farreil &
Adrian.

MAXIMILIAN ZIPKES. architect, has moved
his offices from 220 Sth av to more commodious
quarters in the Long Beach Building, 405 Lex¬
ington av, corner of 42d st.

JAMES PERRY, architect, has discontinupd
his office at 3 South Third av. Mt. Vernon, N.
Y. He will in future conduct his practice at
his   home,   349   South   Fourth   av.

JONES & TABOR, architects. Improvement
Loan & Trust Co. Building. Galveston, Texas,
desire catalogues and samples from manufac¬
turers  interested   in  the building  trades.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY WALKER of the
Public Service Commission is in the far West
on his annual vacation, and his assistant, Mr.
Clark,  is temporarily fllling his  chair.

NEWTON L. SCHLOSS, mechanical and elec¬
trical engineer in design and supervision of
heating, ventilating, lighting, power and re¬
frigerating systems, has recently moved his
offices to 25 West 32d ?t.













ALEXANDER JOHNSON, chief engineer of
the Department of Bridges, and who has been
connected with the department since February
1, 1896, has resigned. Austin Lord Bowman
has been appointed chief engineer by Commis¬
sioner Kracke to succeed  Mr.  Johnson.

WOODBURY GRANITE CO., Hardwick. Ver¬
mont, has elected William C. Clifford as gen¬
eral manager and George James as treasurer
of the company. Both of these offices were
left vacant by the recent death of George H.
Bickford. The Now York office of the Wood¬
bury  Granite  Co.  is at 101 Park av.

HARRY STERNFELD, a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded
the eleventh Paris prize of the Society of Beaux
Arts Architects. There were 125 entrants in
the competition, students from eighteen cities.
The award to Mr. Sternfeld marks >the fourth
time that the prize has been won by a student
Irom the University of Pennsylvania. The
prize, intended for students in the United States
under twenty-seven years old, entitles the win¬
ner to a residence of two and one-half years
abroad for study and travel. A fund of $2..500
is provided yearly for the purpose. The sub¬
ject of the competition was "A City Hall De¬
signed to Meet the Needs of a Commission Form
of Government."    The second prize was won by

B.   Hoyt, of New York, and the third prize by J.
Moscowitz, of Xew York. The jury was William
Emerson. Wendell P. Blagden. F. H. B'osworth,
Jr.. E. S. Hewitt. G". S. Chappell, William Lamb.
Arthur C. Nash and J. C. Levi. The exhibition
of the drawings will be at 16 East 33d st until
July 24.

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MADEIRA REALTY CORPN. has been incor¬
porated with $10,000 to do a realty and con¬
struction business with offices in Manhattan.
The directors are Kathryn, A. Murphy. Edward
Gates and Leo Koenig. 1 Madison av. Wood¬
ford,  Bovee & Butcher, 1 Madison av, attorneys.

THE LIEBOWITZ REALTY CO. has been
chartered to do a realty and construction busi¬
ness with $15,000 capital stock with offices in
Manhattan. Isidor Liebowitz, Isaac Liebowitz
and Ethel Liebowitz, all of 150 Nassau st, are
the directors. Schleider & Schleider, 150 Nas¬
sau  st,  attornevs.

OLD DOMINION REALTY CORPN. is a S25,-
OifO company chartered with offices in Manhat¬
tan to do a realty, construction, brokerage and
insurance business with Cecilia G. Allen, Rich¬
ard B. Allen and George W. Power. 29 West
34th St. as directors. Henry Best, 60 Wall st,
attorney.

CATHCART AND MEAGHER have filed in¬
corporation papers to do a plastering, lathing,
furring and repairing building business with a
capitalization of $10,000. Offices in Manhattan.
The directors are Jos. M. Cathcart and Thomas
J. Meagher, both of 5 East 42d st, and Jacob
Aronson, 70 East 4Sth st, who is also the at¬
torney.

JOHN A. McCarthy & co. have been char¬
tered with .$25,000 capital stock to deal in build¬
ing materials, general contracting and construc¬
tion with offices in Manhattan. The directors
are John A. McCarthy. Frank J. Higgins and
Wm. J. Allen, all of 357 Rivington st. The at¬
torneys are Griggs, Baldwin & Baldwin, 27 Pine

St.

THE GORDON ENGINEERING CORPN. is a
$12,000 company chartered to do engineering
and contracting with offices in Manhattan. The
papers were filed by John H. Knox. 103 West
7Sth st, Wm. M. Card, 4;30 West SSth st, Wm. M.

C.   Marsh, 2.38 West 73d st, and one other, as
directors. Thos. F. Carroty, 286 President st,
Brooklyn, attorney.





Cheaper  Electricity for  New York.

There has been constructed a gen¬
erating station at Haute, Pa., for the
purpose of utilizing refuse coal from the
breakers and washers where commercial
sizes of anthracite coal are prepared. The
project of electric-energy supply from
waste fuel has been carried out intelli¬
gently and on a scale large enough to
reap the substantial advantages of the
plan, says the Electrical World. The
plant is located in the anthracite terri¬
tory of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company, to which the Lehigh Naviga¬
tion Electric Company is allied, and is
skillfully laid out for the production of
energy  at  a  low  cost.

The fuel is conveyed to the furnaces
in a simple manner, for a trestle carries
a track of standard gauge equipment
directly over the bunkers in the upper
part of the boiler house, so that the
fuel can be run in on cars and dumped
directly into the bunkers, whence it is
fed by gravity to the fire room. There
is no need for any considerable coal
storage, inasmuch as the mine is nearby
and can be reached at any time. Every
ton of coal burned in this plant repre¬
sents a genuine saving, a reduction in
the drain on the world's supply of coal,
to say nothing of abolition of an eco¬
nomic waste in carrying fuel when such
transportation  is  really  unnecessary.

When one realizes that New York
City is less than a hundred miles from
this plant, the possibilities of disposing
of the output are obvious. The Hauto
plant represents a serious and well-
planned effort to realize a dream of
conservation which has troubled the
sleep of engineers for &t least twenty
years past.