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RECORD  AND  GUIDE





December 7, 1918





Geo. A. FuUer
Company

Fireproof Building
Construction

OFFICES:
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Boston
Philadelphia
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Montreal, Can.
Winnipeg, Can.





Washington

Chicago

Detroit

Milwaukee

Atlanta

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F. J. KLOES

Established 1872

243  Canal  Stre«t

New  York

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John Gallin & Son

Masons—Builders

General  Contractors

Repairs,   Alterations

Concrete  Floors

and Sidewalks

6 GOLD ST.

Established 1886           Phone: •John 2907





RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUEL EFFICIENCY

New York Building Managers' Assoeiation Call Atten-
tion to the  Suggestions of the Fuel Administration





'Tp HE Fue! Administration, under date
-■■ of Nov. 22, forbade tlie delivery of
domestic sizes of anthracite, including
pea and larger, to office buildings, pub-
lic and private garages, retail and de-
partment stores, auto industries and
show rooms, club houses, banks, florists,
candy manufacturers, lofts, storage
warehouses, dyeing establishments, taxi-
cab companies, clothing manufacturers,
or stores.

Later on the authorities rescinded this
so far as pea is concerned. At the
present time pea may be deHvered to
the above buildings. There is at the
present time very little egg, stove and
nut coal available, and it is for this rea-
son that the above order was promul-
gated  by  the  .Vdministration.

Recommendations as to the most effi-
cient use of steam sizes of anthracite
in heating furnaces and also showing
how the steam sizes of anthracite may
be mixed with bituminous coal to good
advantage, as herewith pubHshed. Every
endeavor is now being made to see that
the small house*io!der and the domestic
consumer is supplied with the nut, stove
and egg coal that comes in this mar-
ket; and in order that they may be
supplied, it is most urgent that all who
can, should use the steam sizes of coal.

It will be found that by carrying a
smair amount of ash on grates, and by
not shaking down the fire too thorough-
ly, it will be possible to burn pea and
even No. 1 in the majority of furnaces
that are now burning nut and stove
coal; and then, again, it is to the bene-
fit of all who can do this to take ad-
vantage of it and thereby sáve the dif-
ference between the cost of the steam
sizes of coal and the domestic coal, this
difiference being quite great at the pres-
ent time.

The Fuel Administration stands ready
to send an inspector and an instructor
to any plant at which they think they
will be unable to burn the steam sizes
of coal.

Use  of  Steam  Grades  of  Anthracite  in
Heating   Furnaces.

(l) Xo. 1 buckvvheat, and even smaller
sizes of anthracite coal, can be burned
iii the ordinary furnace vvith shaking
and dumping grates, if a bed of ashes is





allowed  to  accumulate  under  the coal,
providing there is  sufficient draft.

(2)  The average furnace, for at least
60 per cent. of the time, operates below
its capacity, and during such times
steam sizes of coal will supply the nec-
essary amount of heat.

(3)  The smaller sizes of anthracite
can be used at night to bank fires and
on warm days, thus saving the larger
sizes   for   use   in   sever   cold  weather.

(4)  At night, after the fire is shaken
down and some of the parger coal put
on, the fire can be banked for the night
by shoveling on a top dressing of No. 1
buckwheat.

(5)  In the morning the furnace should
be shaken down as usual and fired with
some of the large coal.

(6)  In the mild weather, after the fire
has begun to burn well, it can be
checked or banked by using a quantity
of buckwheat as a top dressing.

(7)  The two sizes of coal should never
be mixed, but kept in separate bins. The
Buckwheat should be used only as a
top dressing.

Use  of   a  Mixture   of  Steam   Grades  of

Anthracite  With Semi-Bituminous

in  Steam Plants.

(1)  If the íurnace equipment is de-
signed for pea coal or larger sizes of
anthracite, steam sies of anthracite may
be used by mixing a small amount of
semi-bituminous coal with No. 1 buck-
vvheat or smaller to act as a binder to
hold the fire on the grates, and also to
increase the caloric value. The amount
necessary to bind the fuel varies from
.ĩ to 10 per cent. This mixture can be
burned without snioke. Smaller sies
of anthracite may require as much as
20  per  cent.  of   semi-bituminous.

(2)  ít is oíten advisable, when un-
trained firemen are handling these mix-
tures, to have a small pile of semi-bitum-
inous on the boiler room floor where the
men can get it to fill holes or thin
spots that may develop in the fire.

(3)   Proper mixing is most essential.
It may be done either by delivering in
wheelbarrow alternate and predeter-
mined portions of the two kinds of coal,
aiid then mixing by not less than two
turn-overs with a shovel before dump-
ing in front of the furnace; or on a
large scale, by a similar delivery of car
load lots to the coal tipple.





PERSONAL AND TRADE
NOTES.





Fabricated Steel Products Co. recent-
ly leased offices in the City Investing
Building, 165 Broadway, for new local
headquarters.

State Architect Lewis F. Pilcher has
been selected on the committee to pre-
part plans for the great victory arch
vvhich Nevv York City' contemplates
erecting to commemorate the successful
closing of the war.

McClintic-Marshall Export Co. has
been lormed to sell, in the foreign field,
the products of the McCIintic-Marshall
Co. and the Riter-Conley Co. with sales
offices at 50 Church street, New York, in
charge of R. W. Knight formerly con-
tracting engineer, Pittsburgh.

American Institute of Architects held
a meeting at the Fine .\rts Building,
Tuesday evening, at vvhich the subject
for discussion was "Reconstruction in
France." Captain Raymond Michel and
Peirre LeBourgeis of the French High
Commission; Jacques Greber, and Abbe
Marcel Souris made addresses.

American Museum of Safety, 18 West
24th street, Nevv York, recently obtained
permission to change its name to the
Safety Institute of America. The offi-
cers for the coming year are Arthur
WiIIiams, president; James Speyer,
treasurer; Dr. William J. Moran, secre-
tary. The vice-presidents are E. H.
Gary, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Dr. William





H.  Nichols,  Charles  E. Hughes, and B,
B. Thayer.

Hugh J. Pritchard was recently elected
president of the National Conduit & Ca-
ble Co. to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of George J. Jackson, G. H. Haw-
ley, vvho has been connected with the
Ansonia Brass & Copper Co., has been
L'Iected a vice-president of the National
Conduit Company in charge of manu-
facture.

H. W. Johns-Manville Company, man-
ufacturers of asbestoo and magnesia
products, will build a new $3,000,000
plant upon 255 acres lying north of and
adjoining Waukegan, III., between the
.Xorthwestern Railroad and the lake,
vvhich it has just acquired. Construc-
tion will be started immediately. The
nevv plant, which will be a duplicate of
the company's plant at ManviIIe, N. J.,
will furnish employment to 2,500 to 3,-
1)00 people. It will have a yearly out-
put of more than 35,000 cars. The com-
pany find the new plant necessary not
only to meet present demands but the
huge  reconstruction  period.

Portland Cement Association an-
nounces the appointment of Wm. M.
Kinney as general manager to succecd
H. E. Hiltz, resigned. Mr. Kinney has
been connected with the cement indus-
try in cement aiid concrete promotion
work for more than eleven years, hav-
ing occupied for the past four years
the positions of engineer, promotion
bureau and inspecting engineer of the
Universal Portland Cement Company.
He is an associate member of the Amer-