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mencing again at the beginning of the calculation. The ma¬
chine is especially adapted for multiplication and division, and is,
of course, absolutely accurate. It is made in three sizes, having
IS m and 9 flgures respectively for the products. The larger
-sizes are fitted with a hell which rings when the calculation is
bevond the capacity of the machine. The machines are sold in
the United States by Felix Hamburger. 00 William sl. New York-
Here is what some users say ot the Brunsviga:

American  Locomotive   Co,,   New   York,   N,   Y,

"July 26, 1905.
"Have been using the machine in our office for the past three
years and it has given entire satisfaction."

J. B. & J. M. Cornell Co., Iron Works, New York, N. Y.

"July 26, 1905.
"Used it to a considerable extent and invariably tound it most
convanient and satisfactory."
Extract from an article by A. W. Buel, C. E., on "Cost Keeping





in General Construction and Contract Work," In the August,
1005, number of the "Engineering Magazine," New York and
London:

"For the purpose of carrying out and distributing general ex¬
pense, and all similar accounts, I have found a Brunsviga cal¬
culating machine a very great relief and time saver. It wiil
multiply and divide, pro-rate and compute interest, quickly and
accurately. It is simple, and can be operated with less liability
to error than any other machine wilh which I have worked, on
account of the facility it affords for checking the work and cor-
rcctiiig an error without going back over the entire computation.
It will carry a long series of computations and give both the
partial £;nd final results.

"An up-to-date accounting deparlment of a large company
should be supplied with the best facilities if it is expected to
turn out good work economically. Th.is machine both saves lime
of valuable men, and to some extent permits certain parts of the
work to be performed by cheaper labor."





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THE   REALM   OF   BUILDING





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Building Operations.





New- Uniou Square Bauk.

UNION SQUARE.—The tinion Square Savings Bank will erect
in the spring a new banking house, at No. 20 Union Square,
from plans by Henry Bacon, of 100 5th av. The general contract
has been .^warded to Marc Eidlitz & Son, of 4S9 oth av. Ths
new structure will be one or two stories in height, with a facade
of marble, 25x100 ft in size, and cost about $150,000. It will
be for the sole use of the bank, of which F. H, Hurlbut is presi¬
dent.

No Architect Vet for Park Place BauK.

PARK PL.^The Broadway Savings Institution, 23 Park pl,
of which H, S. Hutchinson is president, informs the Record and
Guide that no plans or architect have yet been selected for tbe
new bank building, which they will erect on a plot S7yox75 feet,
at Nos. 5-7 Park Place, The new building will be a handsome
structure, and will be occupied entirely by fhe banking firm.
Just what style of architecture and materials to be used is also
at this time undecided, and of course no awards have been made
for its construction. Further particulars will be given in a
few weeks.

S43*,000 W«rtli of Apartments for 141st St.

141ST ST.—Messrs, Schwartz & Gross, and B. M. Marcus, asso¬
ciate architects, 35 West 2lEt st, have been commissioned to
furnish plans for the erection of three 6-sty h'.gh-class elevator
apartment houses. 50x86-11, 70x,S9,ll, and 100x90.11, with apart¬
ments for S7 families, for the Interborough Building Conipany,
200 Broadway, to be situated on the south side of 141st st. 70 feet
east of Broadway, and the southeast and northeast corners of
141st st, and Broadway, at an esthnated cost of $430,000, Light
brick terra cotta and limestone fronts, galvanized iron sky¬
lights and cornices, tile, marble, mcsaic, hard wood trim, steam
heat electric lights, best nickle plumbing, dumb waiters, iron
balustrades, terra cotta flreproofing, etc. No sub contracts have
yet been awarded.





Scribner's Sons in 43rd st, west of llth av, and the Tribune
Buiiding in Frankfort st. No contracts have yet been made
for the Sieiner.





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Particulars of St. 'Hiomas's tburcli.

STH AV.—The Record and Guide is informed that nothing
definite has yet been delermined who the successful architect
will be for new St. Thomas's edifice to be erected at Fifth av, the
northwest corner of 53d st, for Sl, Thomas's Episcopal Church,
except that the selection will be made in competition among
well-known invited architects, and the award made through a
committee of the board of trustees, of which the Rev. Ernest M.
Stires, rector, is the head. Brownstone will bs used, the archi¬
tecture being high-Gothic, and the estimated cost about half a
million dollars. The contract for tbe $25,000 temporary struc-
lura of brick, is being advanced by the Andrew J. Robinson Co,,
123 East 23d st, from plans by Carpenter & Blair, of 509 Sth av.
Preliminary sketches have been in course of preparation in the
oflice of -R, W, Gibson. 76 William st, for the new parish house
and rectory, which it is proposed to build in the rear of the
church in 53d sl. at a reported expenditure of $200,000, It has
now been decided that this project will be carried out and con¬
structed when the church is built, although the new rectory
was contemplated before the church disaster. De Witt L, Pelton,-
110 East 7Ist, and William H. Owen,- Jr., 54 West 54th st, are
Curates.





joku Dowuey  «ets Contract for S3,000,000 Hotel.

BROADWAY.—John Downey, 410 West 34th st, has just re¬
ceived the general contract to build the new 20-sty elevator
apartment hotel, which William Waldorf Astor will erect on a
plot 200x250 ft. on the block bounded by Broadway, West End
av 7iMh and 79th sts, from plans by Messrs. Clinton & Russell,
32'Nassau st, at an estimated cost of $3,000,000. Inasmuch as
this will be a 20-sty building, occupying a whole block, it will
constitute both the largest and the tallest apartment house in
New York or for that matter in the world. It should be re¬
marked also that this building will be a combination both of
apartment house and hotel. There will be a main enirance on
Broadway and one almost as pretentious in West End av. Can¬
avan Bros., of 51S West 56th st, are doing the excavating. Full
descriptions have already been given in these columns.    _

Architect Selected «or Broux Printiug H-use.

PARK AV.—Cbaries B. Myers, 1 Union Sq.. has been selected
to prepare plans for the new Eronx printing house, to be built
on a plot 250x100 on the southeast corner of Park av. and
lOCth st, Bronx, for William Steiner & Co., lithographers and
printers, of 116 East 14th st. Manhattan. This will add one
■ more to the already large list of printing and lithographing
establishments, either in course of construction or upon which
work is soon to begin. There is tha McCall Euilding in 37th st,
the Iron Age Building on Eleventh av, the Styles & Cash Build¬
ing in Wth st, the Street & Smith Building on Seventh av, the
Black Building in William sl, the Evening Post Building in
Vesey st, the 12-sty printing and publishing building for Charles





Apartments, Flats and Tenements.

114TH ST.—Barnett Osk, 135 Broadway, will build on the north
side of 114th st, 93 feet west of Pleasant av, a G-sty 39 family
flat, 50xS7,ll, to cost $4S,000. Bernstein & Bernstein, 24 East
23d   st,   will  be the   architects.

12STH ST.—Bernstein & Bernstein will prepare plans for a,
6-sty, 36 family flat, 50.3x86.11, for Joseph Bornatein, SIS Eastr
75th st, to be erected at Nos. 04-GS East 12Sth st, and to cost
¥60,000.

117TH ST,—The David Marks Realty Co., 224 East 21st st,
will build on the st^uth side of 117th sl, 123 feel west of Pleas¬
ant av, a G-sty, 2S family flat, 41.11x87,11, to cost $40,000.
Bernstein & Bernstein will  make  the pians.

IOOTH ST.—Henri Fouchaux, Broadway and lG2d st, is prepar¬
ing plans for a 6-sty, 17-family flat, S0.8y^x4S.ll, for Ellen
Ryan. ISG 2d av, lo be erecled at the southwest corner of IGGth
st and Audubon av, and to cost $90.CM)0.

27TH ST,—Eernstein & Bernstein, 24 East 23d st, will prepare
pians for two G-sty flats, for 61 families, 3TxS5.0, to be erected
at Nj3S. 300-312 East 27th st, to cost $87,000, J. Wimpie, 204
EaiSt 72d st.   is   the  owner.

BRADHURST AV.-The McKinley Realty and Construction
Co.. 590 Lenox av, wiil build two 5-sty flats, 59.11x67.6 and
60x03 on the northwest corner of Bradhurst av, and 14Gtb st,
to cost .^120,000. Jobn Hauser, 36) West 125th st, is the archi¬
tect. Also one 5-sty fiat, 37.6x87,11, on the north side of 146th
st, 75 feet wesl of Eradliurst av, to cost $42,000. Also three
G-sty buildings on the entire block of West 151st st, McComb's
av and Sth av, to ccst $200,000, Two G-sty flats on the north¬
east corner of 135th st, and Lenox av. Cost $110,000. One
6-sty flat, north side of ISGth st, 73 feet east of Lenox av.
37x87.    Cost §4G,000.





Dwellings.

George Nichols, 43 Exchange pl, Manhattan, formerly of Bos¬
ton, Mass., is making plans for a 3-sty dwelling, 30x70. for Ed¬
ward  K.   Cone,  to   be  erected   at  Colonia,   New  Jersey.

CLINTON AV.—Figures are being received on revised plans at
the oflice of Guy Lowell, 42 East 23d st, for the 5-sty residence
22x100, to be erected on the west side of Clinton av, about 100
feet south of Lafayette av, Brooklyn, for Lowell M. Palmer of
Brooklyn.