RECORD AND  GXJIDE^





July 8, 1905





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VIEW OF  HECLA





NORTH    IOth,    llth   AND    12th   STS.,   BERRY   ST.





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THE   HEICLA   IRON   n'ORKS   I'LANT   is   C4iiipv>«^d   Avith   tlie   foIlowiDg   Deparliuents,   viz:   Designing;

Fouiidries for dii'i'erciit   metals;  Heavy, Light %nd   Ornamental  Blacksniithinic;; Drop Forging;

Polishing;   Sand   Blasting;   Galvano   Bronze;  Deposition;   Electro-plating and  Finisliiug;

THE    HECLA tSlRON    WORKS    IS    RECOGNIZED    AS    THE   FIRST   AND   FOREMOST
WORLD.      ITS    PLANT    IS    THE    LARGEST   AND    MOST   COMPLETE,    AND   THE





Buchman & Fox, 11 East 59th st, architects, and Goldstein &
Schwartz, owners, 121 St, John's place, Brooklyn, are taking
hids on the general contract for a large apartment house which
they will erect at the northeast corner of Sth av and Garfield pl,
Brooklyn, at an estimated cost of $200,000. The building will be
6 stories, 100x110 ft in size.

39TH ST.^Plana are ready, on which no contracts have been
awarded, for a 5^/^-sty residence; 25x68. which Austin Q. Fox,
45 Wall st, will build at No. 37 East 39th st, at an estimated cost
of $40,000, Hoppln, Koen & Huntington, 244 Fifth av, are the
architects. Brick and limestone exterior, steam heat, tin roof,
etc.

71ST ST,—Hoppln, Koen & Huntington, 244 Sth av, have plana
ready for the 5^/^-sty stone residence. 20xG2, which Dr. Richard
H. Derby, 9 West 35th st, will build at No, 113 East 71st st, at a
cost of $35,000. Plans specify steam heat, brick and limestone
front, bluestone coping, skylights, galvanized iron cornices, etc.
One old bu-ilding will be demolished. No contracts have been
made for the work.





Contracts ATvarded,

80TH ST.—Robert T, Lyons, 31 Union Sq., has awarded to the
Norman Fireproofing and Construction Co., 412 East 12oth st,
the contract for extensive fireproofing, to No. 21 East SOth st,
for Anson W. Hart, on premises.

M. Wasserman & Son, of 26 Stanton st. have obtained the con¬
tract for tearing down the Lord & Taylor building, at the north¬
east corner of 5th av and 21st st. John H. Duncan is the arch¬
itect for the new building which will be erected.

MADISON AV.~The Isidore Pajans Electric Construction
Company, 54 Lexington av, has received the contract for switch¬
board and electric wiring for the new temporary passenger sta-
■-tjon which the New Tork Central Railway Company is erecting
aV Madison av. Vanderhilt  av  and  44th  st.

iOTH ST.—Mortenaen & Co,, 1123 Broadway, have received the
general contract to build a 2-sty stone loft building, 47.4x100.5.
for Ulrs. Emma Lowe, 517 East OOth st, to be situated at the
northwest corner of 70th and Exterior sts, at an estimated cost
of .$20t'X)0.   A, G. Koenig, 333 East GGth st, is the architect.

BOWERY.—The Norman Fireproofing and Construction Co,,
412 East 125th st, has received the contract for fireproofing the
5-sty store and loft building, 123 Bowery, for Robert Hartshorne
and others, jf 7 West 42d st, from the plans of Robert T, Lyons,
31 Union sq.

The Elektron Mfg. Co., 156 Fifth av. New York City, has re¬
cently closed the following contracts for electric elevators: Three
elevators for the ll-sty building southwest corner Greene st and





Waverly p], the "Thirteenth Street Company," owners; seven
elevators for the 15-sty building southweat corner Fifth av and
18th st, the "Fifth Avenue and Eighteenth Street Company,"
owners; seven elevators for the 10-sty building southeast corner
Broadway and 20th at, estate of Ogden Goelet, owner; two auto¬
matic electric linen lifta for the power house of the New Harlem
Hospital; three automatic electric dumbwaiters for the residence
of Payne Whitney, No. 972 Fifth av; one passenger elevator for
:he new building of the Central New York Telephone & Tele¬
graph Co., Syracuse, N. Y,; and also elevators in the building
Nos. 5 and 13 West 39th st.







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BUILDING     NOTES







A. Silverson, builder and general contractor, has removed his
ofiiceB fr^m the Germania Bank building, 192 Bowery, to No.
2534 7th av, near 147th at.

Edward J. LamiUer of Jersey City, N. J., has been engaged as
Architectural Draftsman by the Isthmian Canal Commission for
duty on the Panama Canal.

"Concrete Buildings and Their Architectural Possibilities" is
the title of an interesting booklet compiled by Albert Moyer, of
the Vulcanite Portland Cement Co., Fuller Bldg. A copy of the
booklet can be had free for the asicing..

George H. Pegram M. Am. Soc. C. E., has been appointed
Chief Engineer of the Rapid Transit 'Suibway Construction
Co., and of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., vice Mr. S.
L. F, Deyo, M. Am. Soc. C. E., resigned.

Arthur M. Burtt, of Lowell. Mass., formerly Assistant Engi¬
neer and Chief Draftsman, Isthmian Canal Commission, has
been appointed Supervising Architect, Isthmian Canal Commis¬
sion,   with   headquarters at Ancon,   Canal   Zone.

After a full trial on charges. Superintendent of Buildings
Hopper has dismissed John C. Taylor, one of his building in¬
spectors. Taylor's disiiilssal was due to the collapse of the
Harlem buildings last March. He was a war veteran, and there¬
fore entitled to a formal legal trial. Three other inspectors were
dismissed summarily some time ago.