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September lo, 1904





with scnffolding throu.ghout its full height. The actual work of
altering the building is finished, however, the scaffolding remain¬
ing merely for clearing down the front and for some painting.
The building covering six lots In 42d st, between Park and Madi¬
son avs, was originally 7 and 8 stories high, and 9 stories in 41st
st where It aleo covers six lots. The entire structure, which is
used as a storage warehouse, has been raised to the height of 11
stories, and elevators, stairways and partitions have been ex¬
tended to this level. The plans were drawn by William B. Tubby
& Bro.. architects, of Sl-83 Fulton st, and the masonry work was
done by John Thatcher & Son, 45 East 41st st, the Iron work by
the Cooper-Wigand-Cooke Co.. of 152-1.54 West S4th st.

McKim, Mead & White. 160 Sth av, will plan and design a new
casino for Saratoga Springs, to be built at Consi-ess Park and
to be completed for the summer racing season of 1905. Prelim¬
inary sketches have not.been started, though the architect's
surveyors have already made a careful map of the property. Thus
far $160,000 have been subscribed toward the project. Among
the prominent men interested are Clarence H. Mackey. James R.
Keene, Jnhn W. Gates. Charles G. Gates. Wm, S. Fanshawe,
Spencer Trask. Harry Payne Whitney, and August Belmont.

Tbe plans of Messrs, Whitfield & King, of 100 Sth av. for the
Engineers' Club to be erected in West 40th st. are expected to
reach completion in about a month's time. The old brick dwell¬
ings on the site. Nos. 32-34, are being demolished by the F. M.
Hausling Co., of 620 East 14th st. and the plot wi'! soon be clear.
The plot has a frontage of 50 feet and a depth of 98,9, The build¬
ing will cover the entire space with the exception of a court on
the west side. It will be 12 stories with a basement and sub-
basement. The Engineering building, plans for which are being
prepared by Herbert D, Hale, of Boston and New Tork. is to
occupy the plot at Nos, 25 to 33 West SOth st. in the rear of the
Engineers' Club, and the work of removing the old dwellings Is
almost completed. Both structures are expected to be finished
early In 1906.

Government "Worb.

Bids will be received by Lieut-Col. C. E, Powell. Corps Engrs.,
U, S, A„ New London, on Sept. 17, for dredging at Milford
Harbor, Conn.

Bids will be received Sept. 27 at the Bureau Supplies and Ac¬
counts. Navy Department, for furnishing at the navy yards. Nor¬
folk. Va,, New Orleans, La., and Mare Island. Cal.. about 218 tons
wrought iron: flat, round and -=quare; and 1.435 tons steel, com¬
prising bars, shapes, plain and galvanized plates, etc. H. T. B.
Harris. Paymaster-Gen,. U. S, N.

By Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. until October 12
at 3 p, m,, for the construction (including plumbing, heating ap¬
paratus, electric wiring and conduits) of the U. S. post office at
Found du Lac, Wis,; until Nov. 7. at 3 p. m., for a mechanical
ventilating apparatus and changes in connection therewith for
the U. S. Treasury building, Washington, D. C„ in accordance
v.'ith the plans and specification therefor, copies of which may
be had of James Knox Taylor, supervising Architect,

Bids were opened at Ihe Navy Department at Washington,
Sept, 3. for the construction of a new dry dock at the New Tork
Navy Yard, for which an appropriation of $1,000,000 was made
last winter by Congre-^s. The lowest bidder was George B.
Spearin. New Tork, at $liT3,292. Thenext lowest bid was that
of John Peirce. of the same city, at $S3S,000, and the others
ranged from that figure to $996,400. This is the second time
bids have been advertised for, as only one bid was received the
first time, and that exceeded the appropriation. In r;rder to secure
offers below the million mark, the proposed length of the dock
was reduced by one hundred feet, and bids were again adver¬
tised, to be opened Aug. 27. Several would-be bidders failed to
get their figures in in time, and they requested an extension.
The time was accordingly extended one week. The work will
be done under the general supervision of the Department of
Yards and Docks.

Suburban.

CLIFTON. S. I.—H. A. Ilasenstein. 28 and 32 WTiltehall st.
New York. Is preparing plans for a 2-sty brick and stone office
building. 2Sxl50, for the Bachmann Brewing Co.. of Clifton,
S. I., to be erected here. There will be steam heat, electric light,
mosaic floors, parquet and cabinet work. The buildlne will
ccst about $15,000.





Of Interest to the Building Trades.

The Bureaus of Supplies for the Public Schools, for ali bor¬
oughs, have been consolidated Into one, which is In OSth st, be¬
tween Avenue A and First avenue, Manhattan,

The building tendency in the Bronx is altogether for flats, and
not for two-family houses. Evidently the Bronx is destined to
be   another   Manhattan,   and   not   another   Queens   or  Brooklyn.

Erisman Sz Meyer are a new firm of architects, at 42T
Woolworth Buiiding, Lancaster. Pa., and they would be pleased
to receive catalogues and samples from material manufacturers
and deplers.

A civil service examination to secure eliglbles for a position as
elf-rtricinn in the United States court house and oost offlce at
Brooklvn. N. Y., will be held in that city on Sept. 2L The posi¬
tion pays $1,000 a year.





The New York Contracting Co. has got on to Its job, having
three steam shovels and a few men at work excavating for the
Pennsylvania railroad station. Thus far the soil is being carried
to the river in wagons.

The St. Regis, the latest thing in Astor hotels, opened Its
doors this week to the public. A detailed description, with many
illustrations, of this elegant house will be found in the "Archi¬
tectural Becord Magazine" for June,

The total !ns.= in the Baltimore conflagration of I'eb. 7 Is now
set at $30,500,000. The general loss committee organized by
tlK underwriters has adjusted 3,7S8 separate claims, on which
the total insurance paid was .$29,074,358.

The Northern Electrical Manufacturing Co., Madison. Wis.,
has Issued a little booklet describing its exhibit at the World's
Pair, St. Louis. This company is exhibiting there a large line of
dynamos and motors adapted to different purposes, its exhibit of
electrically driven   machine tools beine  particularly  inferestinj

Over on West 23d st. north side. 125 feet east of llth av, a two
and three-story office and storage building has been started for
the United States Express Co., from plans by Ernf-bt Flagg, of 35
Wall st. The site is being excavated and foundation walls are
being laid. It adjoins the new Dominick & "Hoft building re¬
cently completed.

The Carnegie Branch Library Committee report that the Brook¬
lyn Library trustees and the Board of Estimate and Apportion¬
ment have approved as a site for the new Prospect Branch Li¬
brary, the plot on the east side of Gth av, running from Sth to
Oth sts, South Brooklyn. R. F. Almirall. of 51 Chambers St. New
York, is the architect, and Engineer Frank Sutton, of 82 Wall
St, will have charge of heating and ventilating.

It will be impossible now to open Public School No. 165,
Manhattan, In September. This school will accommodate 810
pupils when it Is finished. The other schools of the city that are
now suffering from the strike are Nos. 24, 57, 106 and 110. In'
Manhattan; No. 112 and the Commercial High School, in Brook-'
lyn; Nos, .S9 and 65, in The Bronx, and No. 26, in Richmond.

The subway power house, at the foot of West 59th st. Is near
enough done to furnish all the power needed for fhe opening of
the road, which will be about the ISth of October. The tunnel
under the Harlem was finished last week, and tracks are now
being laid through it. Dvncan McBean was the builder, and
the tubes extend from 144th st. Manhattan, to near Girard av
on the Bronx bank. The wonderful road is almost done; the
hopes of generations are about to be realized.

Or fhe northonst corner of 7th .av and 15th st work Is ijnder
way on the 7-stv publishing house for Street & Smith, of 21S
William st. to be erected fro_m the plans of Henry Kilbum. 15(J
Sth av. The excavation has been dug, ntank retaining walls havt,
been placed as the soil is sandy, foundation wr.Ils and pier foot¬
ings art- being laid, and seme steel columns are in nlace. The
cost of fhe structure Is estimated at $225,000. It la an Inno¬
vation for this neighborhood.

Voigtmann & Co. have removed from 8-12 Jones st to 430 West
14th and 427 West 13th sts. The removal to larger quarters 1
important as showing their need of increased facilities for manu¬
facturing their several specialties in hollow metal windows for
carrjing wire glass. These windows are being very generally
adopted in building operations, attributable in a large degree
to the preferences over the commonly used window in combina¬
tion with the iron shutter, as expressed and demonstrated by fire
insurance underwriters in their rating.

Work has begun toward repairing fhe damage done to the
Germania Life Insurance Co.'s building on the srutheast corner
of Cedar and Nassau sts by the settling of the foundation along
the easterly line. It is probably due to defectivr' underpinning
during the construction of the adjoining structure, that of Har¬
vey Fisk & Son, recently completed. The settling is quite ap¬
parent, and ugly cracks in the wall" are visible, but it is stated
that no serious damage was done to the main body of the
building.





In  Otber  Citien.

NEW HAVEN. Conn.—The entire contract for the building
to be erected on Chtpel st. by the Knights of Columbus, has"
been awarded to the Connor Brothers' Construction Co. of
Lowell, Mass. It will be a 4-sty building of fireproof construc¬
tion. The heating will be by steam. The two passenger ele¬
vators are to be let by separate contract. Faxon & Wright, of
Boston, are the architects.

BALTIMORE, Md.—Mr. Henry Walters. Mt. Vernon pl, Bal¬
timore, has commissioned Architects Delano & Aldrich, 9 East
Gist st. New York city, to prepare plans for his large new art
gallery to be located at the northwest corner of Charles and
Centre sts.

ITHACA. N. Y.—The Board of Supervisors have adopted the
recommendations of the building committee that a new county
buiiding be erected in this city, at a cost not fo exceed $200,000.
Members of tho building committee are Eugene Terry, chair- '
man: R. N, Mount. W, H. Baker. H. C. Fairbanks and J. H. Hine.

COLUJIBUS, O,—The Baltimore & Ohio R. B. Co,, Baltimore,
Md,, will soon have plans ready for fitrures for a new freight de¬
pot, to be erected at Columbus: $300,000.

BINGHAMTON. N. Y,—The Erie R, R. has m^de plans for a
freight depot. In this city. Two stories, 50x100 feet, brick; $15,000,

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