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RECORD AND  GUIDE





July 29, 1905





Building in the Bronx.

Comparative statement of plans and specifications for new
buildings, filed and acted upon during the years 1902, 1903 and
1904 and the first half of 1905. (Bureau organized January 1,
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The foregoing table shows not only the wonderful mcrease in
building this year over any preceding period, hut it also indicates
the nature and individual cost of the buildings.

Five hundred frame dwellings have been planned, and the
average cost of constructing them is $4,400. This is equiv¬
alent to saying that they will be for the most part pretty little
dwellings, such as would have cost about three thousand
dollars to build ten years ago In any placo outside of New Tork—
exclusive of the cost of the land. Five hundred dollars is the
usual cost of a site in other towns, and twenty dollars or per¬
haps twenty-five in an exceptionally good location, is what such
a house rents for. Ur;;5er metropolitan conditions these dwel¬
lings will command much higher rentals. An unprecedented
number will be built in the Bronx this year.

Of brick flats costing less   than  $15,000,  plans  were  filed for
only nineteen buildings, with a total cost of .'(i210,000.      Going a
step lower in the scale it may be noted that the total estimated
cost of the forty-two frame flats projected is $259,125.
TWO-FAMILT HOUSES,

A very notable operation in the Bronx is that of the American
Real Estate Company on the line of the elevated division of the
Subway, near West Farms, The company has 89 acres, or six:
miles of street front. The property is being improved hy grad¬
ing, curbing, sagging, flagging and piping the streets and erect¬
ing houses. It is planned to do two million of dollars' worth
of work each year.    The first contracts were let six weeks ago.

On Faille street the company is erecting from plans of W. D.
Johnson twenty three-story two-family brick houses, each 20x
53 ft.,   intended  for  the occupation   of  the  owner in   the lower





part of the house, and for one renting family in the upper part.
The upper parts, or fiats, will rent for twenty-five or thirty
dollars a month. The plans provide for what is essentially a
separate entrance for each family. The company is also build¬
ing twenty flve-story houses.





Convention of Home Builders.

The delegates at the annual convention of the United States
and New York State leagues of co-operating savings and-build¬
ing loan associations, this week, at the Murray Hill Hotel,
represented about flve thousand different organizations, showing
how the system has spread. The total assets of the local build¬
ing associations in the United States, the secretary said in his,
address, is now $600,342,568, w^hich is a net increase for the year
of $20,780,474,    The total membership is 1,631,048.

Superintendent of Banks Kilburn addressed the league. He
took the ground that with but few exceptions the so-called
"National Building Associations" were a decided detriment.
'■I am happy to say," said he, "that in my official capacity I
have gained their enmity."

At the last session the principal topic discussed was "The
Tariff Tax on Homes." The author of the leading paper that
was read declared that the national tariff on building materials
seriously interfered with a wage-earner's efforts to get a
house of his own. He said he thought that the man who should
he paying $8 or $10 a month for his home was paying $2 or $3
more. Pennsylvania delegates held, on the contrary, that the
protective tariff was, in reality, a benefit to the home builder.
The subject was referred to a committee to investigate.

Other papers were, "Building and Loan Growth; Its Benefits,
How Obtained," by L. L. Rankin, of Columbus, "The General
Management," by Benjamin H. Jones, of Boston; "Fighting a
Boss-Ridden Legislature," by Addison B, Burk, of Philadelphia,

The convention will meet next year at Cincinnati The follow¬
ing officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: Frank D.
Kingsbury, Corning, N. Y., President; Charles F. Bentley, Grand
Island, Neb,, First Vice-President; J. N. C. Shumway, Taylors-
ville, II!., Second Vice-President; W. G. Weeks, New Iberia, La,,
Third Vice-President; Joseph K. Gamble, Philadelphia, Pa,,
Treasurer; Herman F. Cellarius, Cincinnati, Ohio, Secretary; J.
W. Sutton, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,, Assistant Secretary.





Obituary   Notes.

Harry Winchester Bailey died suddenly last Tuesday, the 25th
inst., at Sound Beach, Conn. He was an officer and director of
The Tuttle & Bailey Manufacturing Company, S3 Beekman street,
New York City, succeeding in part to the interest of his father,
Frank T, Bailey, who died in 1899, and of his grandfather, John
D, Bailey, who died in 1895, and who was one of the founders of
that company in 1S48 and its president for many years.

Mr. Harry W. Bailey was a young man of great industry and
business ability, and had been of signal aid in building up the
already enormous business ,pf his concern, which is the manu¬
facture of hot air registers and ventilators.

He was not only an excellent man of affairs, but a good citizen,
and his untimely death is greatly deplored. He leaves, of his
immediate family, a wife and two children.





Birdsall Cornell, for many years connected with the J. B, & J.
M. Cornell Iron Works, in New York,, died July 22, aged 75
years, at his home in Morristown, For the last ten years he
lived retired.    Mr.  Cornell was born and educated in  this city.

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Tax Rate Fixed.

The Board of Aldermen finally determined and officially promul¬
gated this week what the tax rate will be for the fiscal year 1905.
The rates for the boroughs, compared with those of the year be¬
fore, follow:

Boroufihs,                                         1905,     ,        1904.         Red e'.ijn.

^!anha:tQn and Eronx.........    1,49051          1.51342          .02291

Prooklyn   ..................    1,50264          1.5T296          ,010:i2

Qurens   ....................    1,55523          1,57228          .01705

Richmond..................    1.55S21          1.59281          .03460

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—An interesting job in steel sheet piling is being done for the
Tribune Building addition, on the Frankfort st side, as close as
possible to the old wall. The piles are of the standard pattern
with webs % in, thick, weigh 35 lbs. per square foot and cover 12
lin. in. each. They are received in lengths of 13 ft. 4 in., and
"are driven until their tops are 1 ft, above the bottoms of the old
footings. This carries the lower ends about S ft. below the lowest
point of the new excavations and is considered far enough to
prevent any danger of lateral movement. of the sand beneath
them. The soil is a mixture of sand and gravel. A steam
hammer is used on the driving, which has not been a difficult
matter, though close to the old walls. The foundations are being
built by D, C, Weeks & Son, general contractors, and the piling
by Miller, Daybill & Co., Inc, shorers and contractors, Brooklyn.