June 24, 1922





RECORD   AND    GUIDE





789





Building Activity Gains Are Noted in Local Territory

Weekly Statistics of F. W.  Dodge  Company Show General Improvement in
Volume of New Construction Planned and Placed Under Contract





A STATISTICAL report covering local construction activity
for the twenty-fourth week of this year shows continued
progress in practically all branches of the industry, with an
increasing volume of new work being planned and commitments un¬
der contract indicative of exceptionally busy months ahead. These
figures, which were tabulated by the F. W. Dodge Company, cov¬
ering the territory including all of New York State and New Jer¬
sey, north of Trenton, show that in the week of June 10 to 16,
inclusive, 701 new building and engineering operations, at an esti¬
mated total cost of $22,673,100, were reported as projected or being
planned. During the same week the contract commitments num¬
bered 430 and represented a total outlay of $18,427,200.

The figures for the five boroughs of New York City also show
a steady and consistent improvement in the volume of active con¬
struction. Reports for the week show that in this city plans for 295
new construction projects, estimated to cost $9,493,100, were being
prepared    and the contracts actually awarded during that period





numbered 113 and will require a total outlay of about $10,084,000.

New York City building projects planning were grouped as fol¬
lows : 57 business structures, such as stores, offices, lofts, commer¬
cial garages, etc., $1,549,500; 8 educational buildings, $1,068,300;
2 hospitals and institutions, $110,000; 6 factory and industrial
projects, $496,000; 7 public works and public utilities, $375,000; 5
religious and memorial edifices, $155,000; 208 residential operations,
including apartments, flats and tenements and one- and two-family
dwellings, $5,727,300 and 2 social and recreational buildings, $12,000.

Among the 113 projects for which contracts were awarded during
the twenty-fourth week of this year were 25 business buildings of
various types, $3,465,000; 1 educational project, $35,000; 1 hospital,
$19,100; 3 factory and industrial buildings, $265,000; 4 public build-
in.gs, $735,000; 6 public works and public utilities, $116,600; 4
religious and memorial structures, $250,000; 67 residential buildings
such as multi-family and one- and two-family houses, $5,181,300
and  2 social and  recreational  projects, $17,000.





PERSONAL AND TRADE
NOTES.





WUder & WTiite, architects, have moved
their oflices from 50 Church street to 16
East  Forty-flrst street.

International  Time Recording Company

has   moved   its   Brooklyn    offlce   from    32
Court street to 23 Flatbush avenue.

Lee & Hewitt, architects and engineers,
have moved their offices from 25 Broad¬
way to 53  Park Place.

Harold E. Paddon, architect, has moved
his offlce from 2S0 Madison avenue to
Thirty-sixth street and  Broadway.

Frank G. Lippert, architect, formerly at
5 Beekman street. Is now located at 47
West Thirty-fourth street.

Charles DoTrning; Lay, landscape archi¬
tect and town planner, announces the re¬
moval ot his offlees to the Architects'
Building:,   101  Park  avenue.

M. Bernard Adler, architect, has moved
his offlce from 217 Havemeyer street,
Brooklyn, to 236 West Fifty-fifth street,
Manhattan.

W. 1. Shervrood, formerly with William
Vogel & Bros., Inc., manufacturers of
sheet metal products, has opened an office
as a consultingr engineer in metal fabrica¬
tion  at  30 Church  street.

Wyckoff Enginecriniir Corporation has
moved its headquarters from 233 Broad¬
wav to 56 West 45th street In order to
obtain room for the necessary expansion
of   the   activities   of   the   firm.

Dykes Lumber Coinpany announces the
opening of a branch yard at 702 to 708
Clinton street. Hoboken, N. J., which was
formerly conducted as the Farr Lumber
Company. This is the fourth yard of the
Dykes   Lumber   Company.

Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel Corporation, is to receive the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from
Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.,
June 21. Judge Gary has been a trustee
of the university for thirty years.





May .Structural Sales at 8S Per Cent.

Sales of fabricated structural steel dur-
inp May amounted to 82 per cent of fab¬
ricating capacity, according to reports
made to the DepartnU'nt of Commerce by
firms comprisint; 70 per cent of the fabri¬
cating capacity of the United States. The
May business reported by 82 firms, hav¬
ing a capacity of 130.GOO tons, totaled
106.020 tons as against ,\pril sales of
these s.'iino firtiis amounting to 121,211
tons, or at the rate of 93 per cent of
capacity. Total sales throughout the
United  States, based on the reported per¬





centage and a total capacity of 180.000
tons, amounted to 146,900 tons in May,
^vhile revised figures for April give a
total of 165.900 tons. The April figures
are based on reports from S7 firms, hav¬
ing a total capacity of 132.600 tons, whose
sales amounted to 122,198 tons, or at the
rate of 92 per cent of capacity.





were
with
pre-





Preservation of Timber

The increased demand for permanent
timber structures is shown in a recent
report of the Service Bureau of the
.\merican  Wood  Preservers'  Association.

Over 2,400,000,000 board teet of timber
for various purposes were pressure
treated in 1921 by the 122 wood preserv¬
ing plants in operation throughout the
United States, thereby suiT)assing the
1920 record by nearly 17 per cent.
Approximately equal amounts
treated with coal-tar creosote and
zinc chloride, the standard wood
servatives.

To treat this wood 51,375,360 pounds of
zinc chloride, with an absorption of one-
half pound per cubic foot, and 79,384,326
gallons of creosote, with an absorption
of 5 to over 20 pounds per cubic foot,
were requqired.

Ease of handling and the permanence
of well-treated wood at low cost are given
as the reason for the increased demand.
The proper use of a wood preservative
adds a new quality to timber which
enhances its value as a construction
material.

The m.aterial treated consisted mainly
of construction timbers for wharf, bridge,
highway, mining and building purposes,
piling, telephone and power poles, ties,
fence posts, wood blocks for street pav¬
ing and for factory floors, and timber for
miscellaneous  uses.





Simpliflcntion  of   Materials

Simplification of building materials as
a means of eliminating waste In industry
was discussed at a recent conference held
between officials of the Department " of
Commerce and representatives of archi¬
tectural, engineering and building organi¬
zations. The meeting expressed itself as
being in full accord with Secretary
Hoover's program for elimination of
waste as a major means to the stimula¬
tion of American business. In selecting
the items of building materials to be given
attention first, the following were desig¬
nated: Mill work, plumbing, heating, in¬
terior wall construction, hardware, light¬
ing fixtures, clay products, the latter in¬
cluding brick, tile and all kinds of terra
cotta, sewer pipe, and so forth. In giving
these items attention the department will
form sub-committees to bring together
the manufacturers and others having to
do with each particular commodity or
service.





TRADE AND TECHNICAL
SOCIETY EVENTS.





National Board of Jurisdictional Atvards

will hold its annual meeting at Atlantic
City, July 6.

Portland Cement Association will hold
its annii.al convention at the Hotel Tray¬
more. Atlantic City, June 27 and 28 in¬
clusive.

Refractories Mannfactnrers' Association
will hold its annual convention at Atlantic
City, June 28 and 29, inclusive. Head¬
quarters will  be at the Hotel Traymore.

Wall Paper Manufacturers' A.ssocia-
tion of the I nited States will hold its an¬
nual convention at the Hotel Commodore,
New York City, during the week begin¬
ning July 31.

National Council of Ligrhtingr Fixture
Manufacturers will hold its midsummer
convention at Cleveland, June 28 and 29
inclusive. The program for this meeting
is now  being arranged.

Anterlcan Society for Teatingr Haterlala
will hold Its twenty-flfth annual meetlnc
at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel, At¬
lantic City, June 26 to July 1, Incluilve.

National Ornamental Glaus Manafac-
turers' Association will hold its annual
convention at Cincinnati, O., June 26 and
27,  inclusive.

American Institute of Electrical En-
erineers will hold its annual convention
at the Clifton Hotel, Niagara Falls, June
26  to 30,  inclusive.

New York State Retail Hardware As¬
sociation will hold its annual convention
and exposition at Rochester, February 20
to 23, inclusive, next year. Headquarters
will be established at the Powers Hotel.
Sessions and exposition will be held at
Exposition Park.

New York Building Superintendents' As¬
sociation will held its annual picnic and
field day at Karatsonyi's, Glenwood Land¬
ing, L. I., Thursday, June 29. A large
boat has been chartered for the transpor¬
tation of members, their families and their
guests to the park. An excellent dinner
will be served, after which there will be
a baseball game and an interesting pro¬
gram of field sports. Further details of
the program will be announced later.

Illuminating Engineering Society will
hold its annual convention in Boston,
September 25 to 28 inclusive. This will
be the sixteenth annual gathering of the
society, and the convention arrangementB
are in the hands of a committee of which
C. L. Edgar, president of the Edison Elec¬
tric Illuminating Company of Boston. Is
chairman; H. P. Wallace, vice-chairman
and J. Daniels, secretary.