February 14, 1903.





RECORD AND   GUIDE





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CONTRACTS  AWARDED.

The Foundation Construction Co. has been awarded the con¬
tract for the foundations for the new Royal Baking Powder Co.'s
building, corner William and Fulton sts, Bruce Price is the ar¬
chitect, and the Remington Construciion Co.. No. 137 Broadway,
are the general contractors. The building will be carried on
spread   foundations,   the   loads   supported   on   cantilever  girders.

The Board of Education has awarded the contract for supplying
glass in the various Manhattan schools lo Joseph EUas, at $2,849;
for installing electric light wiring in No. 145, Bronx, to C, E,
Hewitt & Co., at $7,424.

AMSTERDAM AV.—Contracts for work on the College of the
City of New York, to be located on the four blocks bounded by
Amslerdam and St. Nicholas avs and ISSth and 140th sts, have
been awarded as follows: Terra cotta work, consisting of orna¬
mentation on the different buildings, to the Perth Amboy Terra
Cotta Co., No. IGO 5th av, for $240,300; excavation and foundation
work. V. J. Heddon & Sons Co., No. 1 Madison av, for $141,424.
George B. Post, No. 33 East 17th st, is the architect.

BROADWAY.-William Henderson, builder. No. 1123 Broad¬
way, is making the 3-sty addition and extensive alterations to the
courts and interiors of the apartment houses on Broadway, oc¬
cupying the block from lOSlh to 109th sts. Janes & Leo, No.
124 West 45th st. are the architects.

BROADWAT.—The Warner Elevator Manufacturing Company,
Park Row Building, has been awarded the coniract for passenger
and freight elevators for the 6-sly fireproof building at No. 51
Broadway, lo be occupied by the Wells-Fargo Express Co. Ben¬
jamin W. Morris. Jr., No. 24 Easl 23d sl, is the architect.

45TH ST.—Horgan & Slattery, No. 1 Madison av, will receive
estimates during the coming week for the extensive alterations
and additions to be made at No. 211 East 45th st for the Mohican
Club, of the 22d Assembly District. A gymnasium will be in¬
cluded in the improvements.

BROOKLYN.

The large 4-sty and basement building on Flatbush av that is
occupied by the firm of Journeay & Burnham was to-day sold by
Jesse C. Woodhull. the owner and builder, to a New York capi¬
talist, for $450,000 cash. Mr. Woodhull bought the property in
ISOl and built the present structure upon il for the use of the
present tenants. The building has a frontage on Flatbush av of
175 feet and extends through to Livingston st.

The Title Insurance Company of New Tork has bought the 4-
sty brownstone building it occupies at 203 Montague st, and the
3-sty brick building in the rear, at 162 Pierrepont st, from the
Long Island Loan and Trust Co. John F. James & Sons, brokers,
negotiated the transaction. The price is in the neighborhood of
$125,000. Each building is on a lot 25x100. The new owners will
remodel the building and occupy most of it; the rest will be made
into offices and rented. There is an open space of about 20 feel
between the two buildings which will be built upon, thereby
joining them into one structure,

MISCELLANEOUS.

AVE. A.—The Rockefeller Medical Institute will erect a new
laboratory on that portion of the old Schermerhorn farm, bounded
by G4ih and OSth sts. and Ave. A and the East River, It is to he
the gift of John D. Rockefeller. Dr. L. Emmett Holt, No. 14 West
55th sl, is the secretary of the Institute. Title to the property
has not yet been acquired.

TRENTON. N. J.—J. B. McElfatrick & Son. No. 1402 Broad¬
way, are preparing plans for a brick and slone theatre to be built
on a plot, 65.11x104.9, on North Warren st, Trenton. N, J., for
the Taylor Opera Co. The new building will be called the Tren¬
ton Theatre, and will contain stores and offices.

OOTH ST.—McKim, Mead & White, No. 160 5th av, have been
selected as the architects for the new building to be erected by
the Harmonie Club, on the soulh side of 60th st, 125 feet east of
Slh av. The new building will cosl about $400,000; it will be
seven stories high, three floors being devoted to apartments.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Plans have been drawn for a babies'
hospital and laboratory to be built in connection wilh the pro¬
posed new Harvard Medical School, for Harvard University. The
estimated cost is $136,000. It is the gift of the class of 1901, and
will be the most complete of its kind in this country.

PRINCETON, N. J.—Benjamin W. Morris, Jr., No. 24 East 23d
st, is preparing plans for alterations and additions lo Trinity
Church, Princeton, N. J.

PRINCETON, N. J.—Benjamin W. Morris, Jr., No. 24 East 23d
St. is preparing plans for a new 4-sty stone dormitory for Prince¬
ton University,    It is the gift of the class of '79.

BROADWAY.-Shanley Eros., No. 1212 Broadway, will make
extensive alterations to No, 1S23 Broadway, a 4-sty building,
28.11x141.6x25x120.11, adjoining the Circle Theatre, at the south¬
west corner of GOth sl and Broadway. The building will be used
as a restaurant.

40TH ST.—The Engineers' Club, No. 374 Sth av, will erect a
new clubhouse at Nos. 32-34 West 40th st, a plot 50x98.9, facing
Bryant Park and the new Public Library site. The club's lease
of its present quarters has yet four years to run. John C. Kafer,
No. 247 Sth av, is president of the club, and the secretary. Charlea
W. Baker, No. 220 Broadway.





MANHATTAN.—The Technology Club of New Tork City will
erect a clubhouse, the site of which will be located between 23d
and 42d sts, and between Madison and Oth avs. Among the mem¬
bers are Alexander Rice McKim, of McKim, Mead & White. No.
IGU Sth av; Waiter La Farge. No. 5 Beekman sl; and Henry D.
Hibbard, No. 253 Broadway.

14GTH ST.—The Brownson Catholic Club, No. 545 East 142d st,
will erect a new clubhouse on the south side of 146lh st, 175 feel
wesl of 3d av. Pending the completion of the building, the club
will occupy No. 278 Alexander av. The building committee con¬
sists of John H. Bergen, chairman, No, 607 East 14:;d st; George
A. O'Rourke, secretary. No. 35 Nassau sl; James Joyce, John M.
Haffen, William  T.  Powers and Peter J.  Cooney.

EAST RIVER BRIDGE.—The Pennsylvania Co. will build a
bridge and viaduct two miles long, from Port Morris. N, T. City,
to Long Island. It wilt stretch to Randall's Island from Port
Morris, then to Ward's Island, and across Hell Gate to Long Isl¬
and at Astoria. The span across Hell Gate will be 840 feet, and
the bridge will be 135 feet above tide water. It will be double-
tracked. The steel will be provided through the United Slates
Steel Corporation at a cost of $3,250,000. Col. Joseph U. Craw¬
ford, Chief Engineer of the branch lines of the Pennsylvania Co.,
is authority for the statement that details for the work have
practically been completed.

WASHINGTON, D. C—The Board of Commissioners of the
Soldiers' Home will erect a new building at a cost of .HS.OUO, and
an extension to the present hospital building to cost $220,000,
and a mess hall and barracks to cost $350,000. This home haa
no connection wilh the National Soldiers' Home. It is located
near Washington, and its several hundred acres of ground around
its buildings form an attractive park open lo the public.





Of Interest to tbe tiuildin^ Trades.

J. Frank Fields, representing New Tork parties, is figuring on
erecting a cement  plant near Hancock, Md.

Michael J. Bove, a contractor, of No, 83 Mulberry st, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities .$8,339 and no assets,

Jchn E. Kerby and Halsey C, De Baud, associate architects.
No. 1432 Broadway, will move to their new offices in the Knox
Building, No. 452 Sth av, during the coming week.

A call has heen issued for a meeting of plaster manufacturers,
at Cleveland, February 17. to form a national plaster manufac¬
turers' association.

James J. Hill is said lo have purchased 12,000 tons of Belgium
cement for constructing a tunnel which the Great Northern Rail¬
way is building at Seattle, Wash.

Patrick K. Lantry, a carpenter, of No. 707 Lexington av, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities $17,460 and no as¬
sets.    The debts were contracted from 1898 lo 1902.

The plans for the Bronx Carnegie Library, at the northeast
corner of Alexander av and 140th st, show a building 30 feet
wide, 80 feet deep, three stories in height, and with facades of
brick and limestone. The plans for the library were flled by the
frchitects, Babb, Cook & Willard, No. 3 West 29th st. The cosl
will be $75,000.

Mr. Charles D. Seeberger, the originator of the Escalator sys¬
tem, sailed for Europe on the "Oceanic" on February lllh, Mr.
Seeberger went abroad to complete arrangements for installing
Escalators in the stations of the new London Underground Rail¬
road, the preliminary negotiations having been conducted by the
Waygood-Otis Company of that cily.

H. Raabe & Son, with offices and plant al Nos. 319 to 323 West
G4th st, make a speciaity of metal-covered woodwork for build¬
ings, including flreproof doors and dumb-waiters; these goods are
made in the most substantial manner, and have won favor with
many architects and builders. Further information and estimates
will be cheerfully furnished on application.

The building trades have suffered a loss by the death, on Tues¬
day, of William H. Mundell, at his home, 36S Carleton av, Brook¬
lyn. Born in the year 1844, in the borough where he died, Mr.
Mundell began business as an architect in 1865. Among the
buildings he designed are the Hall of Records, Kings County
Almshouse, and the armories of the Fourteenth, Twenty-third
and Forty-seventh Regiments. He also designed the Metropolitan
Memorial  Methodist  Episcopal   Church  in   Washington.

An interest in the Kirby Lumber Co., the greatest lumber con¬
cern in the country, has been sold by John H. Kirby lo B. P.
Toakum, James Campbell and H. C. Pierce, who 'control the St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad, which is now expected to ex¬
tend its system from Paris, Tex., lo the Gulf at Sabir.e Pass. At
present the St. Louis & San Francisco has no outlet to the Gulf,
but has a trafflc arrangement wilh the Santa Fe. The lumber
company has IS of the biggest mills in the Southwest, and its
annual output represents 800,000 tons in freight. The deal was
engineered here in, New York.

In the list of contractors for the Blair Building, corner of Broad
sl and Exchange place, illustrated In our last issue, mention was
inadvertently omitted of the name of the O'Rourke Engineering
Con-struction Co., of 13 Park row, contractors for the caissons and
water-tight cellar wall, very important parts of the work. The
caissons, the largest ever put down in New York, are 19 in num¬
ber,  11 being square and S round.    The wall is a model of sol-