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Broadway, Nos. 632 and 634. running through to Crosby street,
12-story brick and stone mercantile building," plot 50x196; Henry
Corn, No. 170 Sth avenue, owner; Robert Maynicke, No. 725
Broadway, architect.

Walker, southwest corner of Baxter street, 5-story and base¬
ment brick and stone store and loft building, 50x55; coat, $40,000;
Moe Levy & Co.. owners; Herman Meyers, No. 1634 Madison
avenue, architect

ISoth street, south side, 100 feet east of Sth avenue, shed, IS
feet high, 100x100; Everard Brewing Co., No, 12 East lo3d street,
owner;   Jas. W. Cole, No. 401 West Slst street, architect.

Southern Boulevard, south side, east of Lincoln avenue, brick
and iron ice plant, to have a daily capacity of 1,000 tons, 85 feet
high, 150x200; Jacob Ruppert, No. 1639 3d avenue, owner; Julius
Kastner & Sons, No. 1133 Broadway, architects.

APARTMENTS. FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

3d Street, No. 27 East, 6-story brick and stone tenement, plot,
25x80; Hyman & Oppenheira, No. 103 4th avenue, owner;
Schneider Sc Herter, No. 46 Bible House, architects.

llth street, Nos. 516-518 Ea3t,two 6-story brick and stone tene¬
ments, plot 50x94.8; Benj. Schmeidler and Irving Bachrach, No.
31 Nassau street, owners; Geo, P. Pelham, No, 503 Sth avenue,
architect; (plans only),

Wales avenue, west side, S12.7 south of Westchester avenue,
two 4-story brick flats, 25x60; cost, $14,000 each; Mr. Whalen,
owner;   W. C. Dickerson. 149th street and 3d avenue, architect.

SOth street, north side, 72 feet east of Boulevard, 7-story brick
and stone apartment house, 50x92; cost, $70,000; J. J. White, No.
29U Boulevard, owner; G, A. Schellenger, No. 12S Broadway,
architect.

West End avenue, northwest corner of 105th street, 7-story
brick and stone apartment house, 75x100; Janes & Leo, No. 967
Boulevard, architects.

Sd street, Nos. 223 and 225 East, 6-story tenement, with stores,
on plot 46x96; Harry Fischel, No. 215 East Broadway, owner
and builder; Horenburger & Straub, No. 122 Bowery, architects

Amsterdam avenue, southwest corner of 141st street, four 5-
story hricji and stone and terra cotta flats, 27x27.6x82, corner
27.10x95; cost, $110,000; S. J, Egan, owner; H. T. Howell, 748
East ISSth street, architect.

7th avenue, west side, about 50 feet north of 112th street, 7-
story brick and stone apartment house, 50x87; cost, $80 000-
Leith & Glenn, No. 217 West 125th street, owner; Neville &
Bagge, No. 217 West 12Sth street, architects.

3d avenue, east side, 50 feet north of 166th street, three 5-story
brick and stone flats, 27.6x88 and 20x88; total cost, $50,000;
Scbmuck & Montag, No. 2507 3d avenue, owners; Eldward Wenz
No, 1491 Sd avenue, architect.

DWELLINGS.
S6th Street, north side, 200 feet west of West End avenue, four
brick and stone dwellings;  A, B. Kight, No. 102 West Slst street,
owner, architect and builder.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Kingsbridge road, Sedgwick avenue and ISOth street, brick and

stone orphan asylum;   cost. $1,000,000;   Roman Catholic Orphan

Asylum, Most Rev. Michael A. Corrigan, Pres., Sth avenue and

5j.st street;   Schickel & Ditmars, No. Ill 5th avenue, architects.

ALTERATIONS.

2Sd street. No. 22 West, alteration for business purposes; Phil¬
lips Phoenix, No. 28 State street, owner; R. Maynicke, No. 727
Broadway, architect.

ESTIMATES RECEIVABLE.
By the U. S. Life Saving Service, Treasury Department, Wash¬
ington, D. C, until 2 p. m., December 21, for the construction
of a life-saving station on Berkeley Beach, near the present
Tom's River Life Saving Station, New Jersey. Plans, specifica¬
tions, etc., can be obtained upon application to the Superintend¬
ent of Construction, Life Saving Stations, Atlantic and Lake
Coasts, No. 24 State street, N. T. City.

BROOKLYN.

16th avenue, between SSth and SOth streets, 2-story frame
dwelling. 24x40; cost, $3,000; Thos. S. Kelly, 57th street and 14th
avenue, owner; A. White Pierce, No. 1127 Flatbush avenue,
architect,

Atlantic avenue, between Carlton and 6th avenues, alteration
to factory; cost, $8,000; C. Kenyon & Co., owners; Woodruff
Leeming, No, 111 Sth avenue, N. T. City, architect.

84th street, near llth avenue, 3-story frame dwelling, 37x42;
Eugene Boucher, owner; Lord, Hewlett & Hull, No. 16 East 23d
street, architects,

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT,

Flushing, L. L—Seven 2^-story frame dwellings; cost, $5,000
each; Jas. E. Baker and Henry E. Rath, owners; Paul F. Higgs,
No. 36 Union Square, N. T, City, architect.

Montauk Point, L, I.—One 2-story frame dwehing; cost, $4,000;
J. M. Baker, No. 85 Borden avenue, L. I. City, architect.

Mt, Vernon, N. T.—South 10th avenue and 1st street, l-story
brick and stone church. 71x100; cost, $40,000; Rev, Father Bon-
aventura Piscopo. R. C. Church of the Most Precious Blood, No.
115 Baxter street, N. T. City (in charge), owner.

Sea Gate, L.  I.—One 2i^-story frame dwelling;   50x100;  cost.





$10,000; Jacob W, Mack, No. 94 Liberty street, N. T. City, owner;
Herts Sc Tallant, No. 258 Sth avenue, N. T. City, architect.

West New Brighton, S, I—The machine shop, boiler house, car¬
penter house, main offlce and three small repair shops in the ship¬
yards here of John H. Starin, Pier IS (new), between Cortlandt
and Dey streets, North River, recently destroyed by flre, will be
rebuilt shortly, but as yet the matter is in the hands of the In¬
surance companies.

NEW JERSEY.
Bayonne.-One 4-story brick factory, 124x50, wing 50 feet, and
addition to boiler house;  The Underwood Typewriting Co.,  No
220 Broadway, N. T. City, owner; E. A, Sargent, No. 18 Broad¬
way, N, T. City, architect.

Bloomfield.—Broad and Bloomfleld streets, brick and stone bank
building; First National Bank, owner; Charles G. Jones, No. 280
Broadway, N. T. City, architect.

East Orange,—One 2:^-story frame dwelling, 18x58; eost, $2,800;
Robert Ball, owner; A. Heinzleman, No. 73 Burnett street, New¬
ark, N. J., architect.

For other Building News, see page 896.

OF INTEREST TO THE BUriOING TRADES.

Alfred H. Thorp, architect, formerly of No. Iil West 24th street,
is now at No. 1133 Broadway, the St. James' Building.

The Tile, Grate and Mantel Association will meet on Thursday
next in the rooms of the Building Trades' Club, at S p. m.

F. L. Wheaton, civil engineer, formerly of Palisade avenue, Jer¬
sey City, N. J., has removed to No. 13 Williara street N Y City
Room 1109,

Geo, W, Kramer, No, 1 Madison avenue, has been commis¬
sioned to draw plans for a $10,000 brick church, at YaiesviUe,
Conn.

David W. King and Beverly Robinson, formerly of No. Ill otb
avenue, have removed to No, llSS Broadway, St. James Building
Rooms 1102 and 1104.

There will be a meeting of the Master Plumbers, Association
of Greater New Tork on Monday next, at 155 East SSth street,
when matters of importance relating to the different boroughs
will be discussed and acted upon.

There has been no progress during the week in the negotia¬
tions between the employers' association and the Building
Trades Council, and it will probably be some time before the
flnal terms of agreement are arranged.

The fcllowing appointments have been made in the Departmeni
uf Buildings, Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx: Harry
Stafford and Richard H. Pettit, building inspectors; Patrick F.
Foley, inspector to supervise elevators. Thomas J. Kelly and J.
W. C, Harvey, inspectors of plumbing, have been dismissed,

J. ReebeiVs Sons, No. 2589 3d avenue and lu7th street and East
River, have the contract for the demolition of the old Harlem Ca¬
sino, at 124th street and Tth avenue. They are now at work
clearing away the flre ruins of the Union Railroad Company's
power house at West Farms.

The tenth annual vaudeville entertainment and bail of the
Association of Master Plumbers will take place on the evening
of January 12, 1899, at the Central Opera House, 67th street,
near 3d avenue. A splendid programme is being arranged. Tick¬
ets can be had of A. H, Brown, No, 1777 Broadway. The En¬
tertainment Committee Is made up of J. W. Cooney, Chairman;
T. J. Tuomey, B. F. Donohoe, Wm. O'Connell, J, W. O'Brien, t'.
F. Gaynor, A. A. Rhodes, T. J. McCormack, A. H. Brown, H.' G.
Gabay, and Paul Euell.

The number of permits issued in Brooklyn for new buildings
and alterations, during the month ending Nov. 30, 1898. and the
estimated cost of the same were; Brick buildings, 122; frame
buUdings, 289; total buildings, 411; alterations, 153; total number
of permits issued, 564. Estimated cost of brick buildings, $S62,-
400; estimated cost of frame buildings, $803,361; estimated cost
of all buildings, $1,005,701; estimated cost of alterations, $172.-
791; total estimated cost, $1,S3S,5S2; total estimated cost fo'r
November. 1897, $1,442,005;   excess in favor of ISOS, $390,547.

The trustees of Columbia University have adopted plans for the
proposed dormitories on that part of the grounds known as "the
Green," prepared by McKim, Mead & White, and a resolution
was passed declaring the purpose of the trustees to build as soon
as the necessary money is provided by legacy or gift. The plans
provide for four separate buildings, one just north of Havemeyer
Hall, two on the 120th street side, and one north of Schermer¬
horn Hall. The avenue dormitories will be 40x150 feet, and the
120th street ones 40x200 feet. The four will accommodate 460
students in all, and their cost is estimated at $164,000 each for
the smaller buildings, and $210,000 each for the larger,

Edward Kilpatrick, one of the best-known builders of this city,
died this week, at his home 99th street and the Boulevard, from
paralysis. Mr. Kilpatrick was born at Killea, Ireland, about
sixty-nine years ago. Many of the residences in the Murray HiU
and upper west side districts of the city were built by him.
Among the public buildings erected by him are the Edison Build¬
ing, in Broad street; the Cornell Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church, in 7Cth street, and the 37th street Methodist Episcopal
Church. He also established the successful trim plant on West
67th street, which is now being carried on by E. W. Johnson. It
is some years now that Mr. Kilpatrick ceased to be active in
either building or manufacturing.