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RECORD   AND   GUIDE





.May 5, 1917





Geo. A. Fuller
Coinpany

Fireproof Building
Construction

OFFICES:





New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chattanooga
Kansas City
Montreal,Can.
Winnipeg,Can.





Baltimore

Washington

Chicago

Detroit

Milwaukee

Atlanta

Toronto, Can.





Ritch-HughesCo

EXPERT ADVICE AND SERVICE

INSURANCE

AND

BONDS

FOR

BUILDING OPERATIONS





Architects' Bldg





101 PARK AVE





Edward Corning,       Charles F. Berger, C.E.,
President.                   Vice-President.





Edward Corning Company
'Builders

52 VANDERBILT AVENUE
NEW YORK





Edward P. Corning,        Clinton L. Frobisher,

Treasurer.                          Secretary.





Telephone,   Farragut   3024

The Goodman Co.

CARPENTERS
BUILDERS

AND

GENERAL   CONTRACTORS





JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
MODERN   STORE  FRONTS   A  SPECIALTY





References   Furnished   on   Application





1151 Broadway
New   York





CHARLES E. KNOX

Consulting   Engineer

For   Electrical   Equipment.
Elevators,   Industrial   Plants

101 Park Avenue,       New York





»r« correct In tlieir assumption that th«
order of placing it responsible for th«
rxceptlon«lly dense concrete which they
achieve, but to others it seems that th«
tilectiYentii of the method is due not
• o much to the order of placing of th«
tnateriali •> to the length of time taken
between placing of the separate com-
poncnti, which added together make th«
total length of time of mixing somewhat
longer than in the normal mixing ol
concrete.





Building   Statistics.

Comparative statistics of building
and engineering operations in New
York, New England, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland. Delaware,
District of Columbia, Virginia, Ohio,
West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Wisconsin. Michigan, Minnesota, North
and Soutli Dakota and portions of
Missouri and eastern Kansas, as com¬
piled  by the  F.  W.  Dodge  Company:

Contracts awarded January 1 to May
1, 1917, $-167,298,000: contracts awarded
January 1 to May 1, 1916, $324,665,500;
contracts awarded January 1 to May 1,
1915, $344,095,100; contracts awarded
January 1 to May 1, 1914, $228,710,000;
contracts awarded January 1 to May 1,
1913, $285,388,000; contracts awarded
January 1 to May 1, 1912, $232,249,500;
contracts awarded Januarv 1 to May 1,
1911, $254,275,813; contracts awarded
January 1 to May 1, 1910, $256,838,804.

Comparative statistics of building and
engineering operations in New York
State and nortiiern New Jersey, as
compiled by the F. W. Dodge Com¬
pany:

Contracts awarded January 1 to May
1, 1917, $95,475,000; contracts awarded
January 1 to May 1, 1916, $37,911,500;
contracts awarded January 1 to May 1,
1915, $47,202,500; contracts awarded
January 1 to May 1, 1914, $40,474,000;
contracts awarded Tanuary 1 to May 1,
1913. $101,521,000; contracts awarded
January 1 to May 1, 1912, $66,627,500;
contracts awarded January 1 to May 1,
1911, $68,870,500; contracts awarded
January   1   to   May   1,   1910,  $81,238,000.





Grade Crossing.

The Public Service Commission has
approved a report of its Acting Chief
Engineer, together with an opinion by
Commissioner Henry W. Hodge, and
has adopted a resolution authorizing a
certificate of completion of the work on
the alterations of the former dangerous
grade crossin,g on the Long Island Rail¬
road at Fresh Pond road and Metropoli¬
tan avenue, Bushwick Junction. The
report of the Acting Chief Engineer
shows that partial pavments have been
made for the work, but that $40,080.72
is due the railroad company from the
State, and $34,048.96 is due the company
from the city. Under the grade cross¬
ing law the city and the State each bear
one-quarter and the railroad company
bears one-half the cost. While the total
expenditures by the Long Island Rail¬
road for the work are $596,692.87, only
$482,345.93 was found to be a proper
char.ge necessitated by the elimination.
The city and the State each pay one-
quarter of the last named sum, the re¬
mainder being borne by the railroad.





Canarsie  Dwelling  Project.

Schenck & Mead, _ 105 West 40th
street, have plans in progress for
twenty, two and two and one-half story
brick dwellings, to measure 16 x 23 and
18 .X 50 feet each, to house respectively
one and two families in the Canarsie
section of the Mill Basin for the At¬
lantic Gulf and Pacific Company,
Mill Island, Brooklyn, owner. The
houses will cost about $2,000 eacli. The
operation will probably go ahead soon,
since it is understood that bids on the
general contract will be taken by the
owner about  Maj'  12.





Approve Armory Alteration.

The Municipal .\rt Commission has
approved the plans for remodeling the
big armory of the Eighth Coast Ar¬
tillery, which covers the block bounded
by Madison and Park avenues, and 94th
and 95th streets, from plans by Pilcher





& Tachau, 109 Lexington avenue, at an
estimated cost of $280,000. The build¬
ing will be used by the men of Squad¬
ron A of the New York National
Guard, who had been occupying the
Madison end of the property before
they were sent to perform patrol duty
at the Mexican border. The plans call
for an increase in the area of the drill
floor, additional stores, the remodeling
of officers' quarters, besides the build¬
in.g  of  a   new  gallery.





Obtain Hospital Contract.

Tlic George A. Fuller Company, 949
Broadway, has the general contract for
the hospital to be built on the property
known as Columbia Oval, at Bainbridge
avenue and East Gun Hill Road, The
Bronx, for the Columbia University,
N. M. Butler, president, Morningside
Heights, Manhattan, owner, from plans
by Charles Butler, 15 East 23rd street,
architect.







PERSONAL AND TRADE
NOTES.





L. E. Tucker, engineer, has moved
from  141  Broadway to 29 Broadway.

Ame Delhi, architect, formerly at 257
Broadway, has moved to 154 Nassau
street.

Sims Construction Company, S. Weis-
enber.g, president, has opened offices at
1170  Broadway.

F. T. Ley Company, general con¬
tractor, has moved to new offices at 18
West 45th street.

Trowbridge & Ackerman, architects,
liave moved from 62 West 45th street to
18  W'est  45th  street.

Fred F. French Company has moved
its offices from 529 Courtlandt avenue
to 299  Madison  avenue.

Staridard Lumber Company has moved
its offices from 30 Church street to the
Fifth   avenue   Building.

Tracey & Swartwout, architects, have
moved their oflices from 244 Fifth av¬
enue to  18 West 34th street.

Isaac A. Hopper's Sons, general con¬
tractors, have moved their offices from
1451  Broadway to 15 East 40th street.

O. C. Gonnelli, architect, formerly of
800 Broad street, Newark has moved
his ofifice to 189 Market street, in that
city.

Isko Corporation, distributor of Isko,
the electric refrigerating unit, has moved
its offices and salesroom to 9 Central
Park West.

Charles S. Vought has been appointed
assistant .general manager of sales of the
.American Steel Export Company, Wool-
worth Building.

H. A. Howard has been appointed
manager of the New England olfice of
the C. & C. Electric Manufacturing Com¬
pany,   Garwood,   N.  J.

M. B. Feinson has assumed super¬
vision of the service department of the
New York E.xterminating Company, 360
Fifth avenue. He has severed his con¬
nection with all other concerns in this
line of business.

Charles E. Knox has been appointed
consulting engineer for the elevators
and electrical equipment in the Commo¬
dore Hotel. Mr. Knox is acting in a
similar capacity for the new Pennsyl¬
vania Hotel project.

A. L. Libman, engaged in the realty
and construction line for twenty years,
has rented the entire second floor of
112 West 46th street as the location of
his new offices, owing to the need for
larger space and greater facilities.

The firm of Austin & Kanter, con¬
tracting electrical engineers of 87 Fifth
street. Long Island City, has been dis¬
solved, and Mr. Austin has taken R. E.
Moore into partnership. The business
will be continued under the name of
Austin  & Moore at the same address.

Cruikshank & Fraser, building con¬
struction, 103 Park avenue, dissolved
their co-partnership on May 1, by mu¬
tual consent. .^11 unfinished contracts
will be completed by the firm. Clinton
M. Cruikshank and Charles S. Fraser,
of the old partnership, are continuing in