August 22, 1914





RECORD  AND  GUIDE





335,





OZOXE PARK.—Hatch av. e s, 100 s Jerome
av. plumbing to dwelling ; cost, $75 : owner. Dr.
Casselbury,   premises.     Plan   Xo.   1832.

RICHMOND HILL.—Brandon av, s 9, 23 w
Herald av, plumbing to dwelling; cost, $100;
owner.  Mr. Stachan, premises.    Plan No. 1819.

RICHMOND HILL.—Jerome av, n s, 60 w
Thadford av, plumbing in dwelling; cost, $120;
owner, Mrs. L. Gordon, premises. Plan No.
1S61.

RIDGEWOOD.—Wyckoff av, w s, SO n Cor¬
nelia st, plumbing in dwelling; cost, $90; own¬
er, G.   B.  Goodknow,   premises.     Plan  No. 1862.

RICHMOND HILL.—Ridgewood av, n w cor
Walnut st, plumbing in dwelling: cost._ $100;
owner. G. Solms, premises.    Plan Xo,  1854.

RICHMOND HILL.—Johnson av, 110, plumb¬
ing In dwelling; cost. $75; owner, F. J. Kuss,
premises.    Plan   No.  1848.

RICHMOXD HILL.—Johnson av, e s, 600 n
Stewart av, plumbing in dwelling; cost, $75;
owner, F. J. (Tilchrlst premises. Plan No.
1849.

RICHMOXD HILL.—Waterbury av, s e cor
Brandon av, plumbing in dwelling; cost, $75;
owner. Chas. Tipling, premises.    Plan No. 1850.

RIDGEWOOD.—Covert av. Center av and
George st, open air auditorium on roof of
school; cost, $900: owner. City of New York,
500 Park av, Manhattan.    Plan No. 1835.

RIDGEWOOD.—Wyckoff av, 1055, interior al¬
terations to dwelling; cost, $500; owner, Mary
Keller,  premises.     Plan  Xo.  1843.

RIDGEWOOD.—Wyckoff av. 1053, interior al¬
terations to dwelling; cost, $500; owner, Mary
Keller,   premises.     Plan  No.  1844.

RIDGEWOOD.—Woodward av, 659, 1-sty
frame extension, 25x37. rear dwelling, tin roof,
general interior alterations ; cost, $3,000 ; owner,
Benjamin Croner, 62 Montague st Brooklyn;
architects, L. Berger & Co., Myrtle and Cypress
avs,   Ridgewood.    Plan  No.  1846.

ROCKAWAY BEACH.—So. Chase av. e s, 202
n B'oulevard. 3-sty frame extension, 16x25. side
dwelling, tin roof, interior alterations; cost,
$1,600; owner. Pauline Haetung. 18 So. Chase
av, Rockaway Beach ; architect, P. Hartung,
same address.    Plan X'o. 1847.

WOODHAVEX.—McCormack av, e s. 136_^n
Jerome av. plumbing to dwelling; cost, $75;
owner. L. Moscowitz, premises.    Plan No. 1818.

WOODHAVEX.—Freedom av. e s, 150 s Je¬
rome av. plumbing to dwelling ; cost, $75 ; own¬
er, C. Eckstein, premises.    Plan No. 1816.

WOODHAVEX.—McCormack av. w s. 270 n
Jerome av. plumbing to dwelling; cost. .$75;
owner.  B.  Sandman,  premises.    Plan No.  1817.

WOODSIDE.—4th st. e s, 125 n Woodside av,
plumbing to dwelling; cost. $200; owner, St.
Sebastian Corporation, premises. Plan No. 1823.

Richmond.

JERSEY ST, 299-.301, cor Oth av. general re¬
pairs to frame stable and storage house; cost,
$100; owner. Fannie Schimansky. 331 2d st. N.
B. ; architect, none; builder, C. G. Norman, 84
Sand  st   Stapleton.    Plan  No.   334,

5TH ST, 143. New Dorp, extension to frame
store and dwelling; cost. $300; owner. Jos.
Fiorello. 143 Sth st. New Dorp: architect,
none: builder, J. Jenewize, New Dorp. Plan
No.  333.

AMB'OY RD. e s, 300 n Prince Bay rd. porch
to frame dwelling: cost. $3-'0; owner. W. Benz ;
architect, none; builder. C. H. Chamberlain,
Port  Richmond.    Plan No,  332.

G4RIB.\LDT AV. s s, 377 e Roma av, ex¬
tension to frame dwelling; cost. $1,400; owner,
Jos. Bottone, 24 West 25tb st. Manhattan ; archi¬
tect none; builder, Aug. Nathon. Grant City,
N. Y.    Plan No. 331.

HARRISON AV and Southfield blvd. n e cor,
partitions, roof to frame dwelling; cost. $600;
owner. Jns. Kuhn. Great Kills ; architect and
builder. Wm. S. Boyd. 203 West 14th st, Man¬
hattan.      Plan    No.    330.

OCE.\N AV. e s. 1.500 Mill rd. extension to
frame dwelling: cost. $1.50; owner, Emil R.
Fuchs. 20,T East Oth st. Manhattan: architect,
none; buildpr, Emil R. Fuchs, 205 East Oth st.
Plan  No.  336.

SAW MILL RD. e s. 400 n Richmond rd. ad¬
dition to brick dwelling; cost. S.^00; owner
Michael Stromolvea, New Dorp; architect, none;
builder. P. Vurchio. New Dorp.   Plan No. 335.

FORT WADSWORTH.—198 Fingerboard rd,
change of stairway to frame dwelling; cost,
$135; owner. Mrs. E. Hanich, Fineerhoard rd;
architect, none; builder. J. M, Stelletson, 78
Fingerbnard  rd.    Plan  No.  329,

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NEW JERSEY  NEWS.











Middlesex, Union, Hudson, Essex, Ber¬
gen and  Passaic  Counties.

The pla7is of Apartments, Flats and
Teneiyie7its published herein have been
approved by thc Board of Tenement
House Supervision of the main office,
Ncicark, N. J.^ to be erected in these
cou7ities for the week ending Aug, 15.
The location is given, but not the
oicner's address:

NEWARK.—Alfonso Rea. 205-207 Oliver st.
4-sty brick, $9,000; Madeline B. Heath, 265-267
South 19th st two 3-sty frame, $10,000 ; Joseph
F. Pelletier, southwest corner Mt. Prospect and
Verona avs. 3-sty brick, $18,000; Joseph B.
Turtletaub, 996 South Oranee av, 3-sty frame
alteration, $.100; Louise Kofran, 33 Magnolia
st, 3-stv frame, alteration, .$500; Israel Kauf¬
man,  77  West st,  3-sty  frame alteration,  $500.

LINDEN.—Isaac Mehrman. south side Eliza¬
beth av, 125 ft. west of Roselle st, 3-sty frame
$4,000,

PLAINFIELD.—Nathan Bloom, 605-607 West
4th  st,  two 2-sty  frame,  $9,000.

GUTTEXBERG.—August Baudendietel. east
side Boulevard, near 24th. st 2-sty brick, $S,-
000.





ELIZABETH.—Theresa Shlmpanl, 226 Niles
st,   2-sty   brick,  $5,000.

JERSEY CITY.—Salvatore Cassaro, 32 Emer¬
son av, 2-sty brick, $6,000 ; Realty Exchange Co.
of Hudson County, 132 Booraem av, 3-sty brick,
$10,000; Martin Aquadro, 3702 Boulevard, 3-
sty frame alteration, $1,000.

PASSAIC—Vincenzo Russo, 19 Tulip st, 3-
sty brick. $7,000; The Realty Development Co.
of New Jersey, 109-111 3d st, two 3-sty brick
alteration,  $1,600.

TOWX OF UXION.—Thomas McClelland,
southeast corner Bergenline av and Golden lane,
two 4-sty brick, $40,000; Harry Scherling, 123
Lewis st, one 5-sty frame alteration, $1,000.

PATERSOX.—Max Goldenberg, 416 Main st, 3-
sty  frame  alteration,  .$600.

XEW BRUNSWICK.—Julia Bancoy, southeast
corner Somerset and Harvey sts, 2-sty brick,
$7,000.

ORAXCE.-Marcas Construction & Realty Co.,
south side Chapman st, 300 ft west of Hickory
st 3-sty  brick, $T,000.





APARTMEXTS. FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

EAST ORAXGE, N. J,—E. V. Warren, 31 Clin¬
ton st, Newark, is preparing plans for a 3-sty
apartment, 50xT0 ft., at the northwest corner of
William st and Munn av for Dr. S. L. Good,
corner Grove st and Burnett pl, to cost about
$25,000.

DWELLINGS.

WEST NEW YORK, N. J.—Edwin Manahan,
954 Bergenline av, Woodcliffe, N. J., has com¬
pleted plans and is ready for estimates for a
hollow tile and stucco residence, 24x35 ft., for
Henry Auf Der Heide, 634 Palisade av, West
Xew York. N. J., owner and builder. Cost,
about $5,000.

WEEHAWKEN, N. J.—Edward McDermott
582 Spring st, is preparing plans for a 2i,^-sty
brick residence, 29x.35 ft., at the southwest cor¬
ner of Hudson Boulevard and Fulton st for
Christian Gafafer, care of architect. Cost, about
$8,000.

ELIZABETH, N. J.—Robert Smith, 469 Jack¬
son av, Jersey City. N. J., has been commis¬
sioned to prepare plans for a frame and stucco
residence to be erected here. Owner's name
for the present withheld.







HERBERT MEAD. JR., wholesale dealer,
specializing in hardwoods, has moved his office
to 40-3 Lexington av. corner of 42d st

ASSISTANT FIRE MARSHAL S. B. WILLIS,
of New York, has invented a turret pipe to
fight fires which was tested officially on July 30
at the  Fire  Department  repair shops.

MORTIMER C. ROSENBAUM & mtO.. form¬
erly connected with the Keystone Construction
Co., are now doing business under the firm name
of Mortimer C. Rosenbaum & Bro., 28 East 85th

St.

_THE EASTERX DISTRICT TRON WORKS.
177 Lorimer st. Brooklyn, have taken over the
business formerly conductpd under the name of
the Williamsbursh Iron Works. This concern
is a contractor for structural steel, ornamental
iron and fire escapes.

HERBERT G. KRAPP. architect, for the
last few years connected with the office of
Henrv B. Herts, has opened offices for the
practice of his profession at 116 East 16th st.
He desires catalogues and samples from manu¬
facturers   interested   in   the  building  trades.

H. F. J. PORTER AXD A. L. HIMMEL-
WRIGHT. consulting engineers in fire preven¬
tion, have completed a commission for tbe Xa¬
tional Electric Lamp Company at their 45th st
works in Cleveland, by installing fire walls,
horizontal exits and signal systems.

THE JOHX SIMMOXS CO.. 110 Centre st
has taken ov^r the business of the Klein Cir¬
culator Co.. 30 Church st. which the Simmons
Companv will handle as a _senarate department.
Paul Klein will continue iif the business as de¬
partment  manager.

E. C. MOLBY. formerly New York manager
of the Pierce. Butler & Pierce Mfe. Co.. Syra¬
cuse, N. Y., has taken over the selling rights of
the output of the Surrell Down Draft Boiler
Co., with offices at 39 Cortlandt st. This boiler
will in future be known to the trade as the
Molhv Heater.

FRAXK B. HAVILAND, wholesaler of yellow
pine, whose office is located at 29 Broadway, has
been appointed Eastern aeent for the Van
B'enthuysen Lumber S: Tie Co. Tbi'; companv's
main office is located at New Orleans, La,,
where they maintain larce docks and stocks
of  yellow   pine  and   oak  ties.

FRAX^K E. BROWN, electrical engineer, form¬
erlv connected with the Department of' Water
Supply, Gas and Electricity, has bpcome asso¬
ciated with the H. W. Johns-Manville Co. He
will act as a special representative and will de¬
vote his attention to the development of sales
of "Noark" service meter protective devices.

R. W. CREUZEAUR. consulting engineer.
Woolworth Building. X. Y. C. has been appoint¬
ed consulting eneine^r to the city of Elizabeth.
N. .T.. to act with reference to the Pennsylvania
Railroad and X^'ew Jersey Central Railroad im¬
provements. Mr. Creuzbaur was for many years
connected with municipal works in X'ew York.
bpE-inning with the New Croton Aqueduct in
1884. In 1911 he terminated a five-year en¬
gagement as consulting engineer of public
works. Borough of Brooklyn, to enter private
practice.

G. EUG*EXE VILLA RET has recentlv been aP-
nointed by the H. W. Jobns-Manville Co., N.
Y. C. to assume charge of the designing of
liehting fixtures. Mr. Villaret has had a wide
experience in this line, and has been directly
in charge of manv imnortant and beautiful in¬
stallations. He studied at the Ecole dps Beaux
Arts in Paris, after which he was connected
with   the   Thackara   Manufactoring   Co.,   PlUia-r





delphia, for fourteen years. During the last
ten years he has been connected with Cassidy
&  Sons,  manufacturers of lighting fixtures.

VERUS T. RITTER. architect, of Hunting¬
ton, W. Va., has associated with Richard M.
Bates, Jr,, New York City, for the purpose of
forming a partnership for the practice of ar¬
chitecture in Portsmouth, Ohio. The new firm
which will conduct the business under the name
of Ritter & Bates, have opened offices in the
First National Bank Building, Portsmouth.
Mr. Ritter will continue his residence and
practice in Huntington, and the ofiice in Ports¬
mouth will be In charge of Mr. Bates, who will
make that city his permanent home. The firm
desires samples and catalogues from manufac¬
turers interested in the building trades to he
sent  to  the  new  office   in   Portsmouth.

EDWARD L. COX has recently been appoint¬
ed manager of the lighting division of the H.
W. Johns-Manville electrical department. The
lighting division has been organized to handle
the company's business in lighting fixtures
which has grown with great rapidity. Mr. Cox
is thoroughly familiar with the lighting-fixture
business, having been for eighteen years with
the Enos & Watkins Company (formerly the
Enos Company). Through bis experience In de¬
signing, manufacturing and selling, Mr. Cox is
especially qualified to assume the direction of
the new division.





OBITUARY

PATRICK GORMAN, member of the firm of
Xorton & Gorman, contractors. 303 Douglas st
Brooklyn, died yesterday at his home, 907 Clas¬
son av, of kidney trouble. He was sixty-four
years old, and is survived by two sons and a
daughter.

FRAXKLIX CROSBY BUTLER, architect 120
East 34th st. died in the New York Hospital of
a complication of diseases Thursday, August 20,
He was born in Westchester County in 1864
and received his education at St. Paul's School
Concord. N. H. After graduating Mr. Butler
settled in  New York  City.    He was unmarried.

JACOB LAXGELOTH, chairman of the board
of directors of the American Metal Co., 61
Broadway. N. Y. C.. died of heart disease at his
summer residence at Riverside. Conn., Friday,
August 14. It is said that his death was caused
by overwork and worry, caused primarily by
the present conditions in Europe. Mr. Lange-
loth was born in Mannheim, Germany, sixty-
two years ago. and had been a resident of the
Lnited States for thirty years. He was widely
known in the metal industry, and in addition
to his connection with the American Metal Com¬
pany was vice-president and director of the
Balbach Smelting & Refining Company, director
of the Metallurgical Company, the Corn Ex¬
change B'ank. the General Development Co
and the Miami Copper Company, Mr. Langeloth
made his home in New Yory City at 6;^6 oth
av. and was a member of the Xew York Cham¬
ber of Commerce, Downtown Association Xew
York Yacht Club. Xew York Zoological Society
Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Insti¬
tute of Mechanical Engineers and the Deutscher
Verein.    He  is survived by his widow.







TRADE   AND   TECHNICAL
SOCIETY EVENTS.





X\\TIOX^L PAVING BRICK MAXUF.ACTUR-
ERS' ASSOCIATION will hold its annual con¬
vention in Buffalo. N. Y.. September 9 to 11.
Headquarters  at Hotel   Statler.

THE MASTER PLUMBERS' ASSOCIATION
OF XEWARK will hold its annual outing at
Witzel's Grove, College Point, L. I.. Thurs¬
day, August 27. The Outing Committee is com¬
posed of .John J. Turbett, chairman; Elmer
Lutz. secretary ; F. J. Sturn. treasurer; Robert
Berla,  M.   J.  Brady and  Louis  Maier.

THE AMERICAN ROAD BUILDERS' ASSO-
CIATIOX is making plans to hold a joint meet¬
ing with the American Highway Association at
some time during the Panama'-Pacific Exposi¬
tion. The meeting will be held either in San
Francisco or Oakland. Committees have been
formed who are working out the details.

AMERICAN FOTLER MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION will hold its twenty-sixth an¬
nual convention in Xew York Citv September
1-4. with headquarters at tbe Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel. The subject of uniform boiler specifica¬
tions will be given special attention. The sec¬
retary is F. B. Slocum, West and Calyer streets.
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.

THE MAXHATTAX BRAXCH of the New
York City Association of Master Plumbers will
hold its annual outing at Boehm's Picnic
Grounds, New Dorp. S. T., Thursday, September
10. The arrangements and programme are in
charge of the following committee: F. B.
Lasette. chairman; B. F. Donohoe. secretary;
J. R. Hopkin, treasurer ; and T. P. McLoughlin,
H.  Hemlin,  J. J.  Hannegan,  ex-offlcio.

XEW ROCHELLE MASTER PLUMBERS'
ASSOCIATION will hold its annual outing at
Rye Beach. N. Y., Wednesday, August 26. A
programme of athletic events has been pre¬
pared which will include a five-inning baseball
game between a team representing the supply
and manufacturers' representatives and a nine
composed of members of the association. The
game will be followed by a shore dinner served
at   Edward*s   Beach   Hotel.

SOCIETY FOR ELECTRICAL DEVELOP-
MEXT, I.VCORPO RATED, announces eight
prizes for the best stories, articles or reports
on any subject pertaining to commercial elec¬
tricity. The competition is onen to employees
of members of tbe Society. There will be one
prize of $2.50. one of $1.50. one of .$.">0 and five
of $10 each. The cnrnpetltion closes on Spo-
tember 1. 1914. Full particulars mav be ob¬
tained by writing to the Competition Editor,
Societv for Electrical Development. Incorpor¬
ated. 29 West 39tli st, f^ew York City.