RECORD AND   GUIDE





April I, 1905





$262,000. For installing heating and ventilating apparatus for
addition to and alterations in puhiic school S3, Manhattan, to E.
Rutzler Co., 127 White st. at $19,595. Other bidders v.-ere:
Rossman Sc Bracken Co., $20,725; Harry L, Philp, $20,217; George
A. Suter, $19,949; Walker & Chambers. $20,9S9; Ralph J, F.
Gerstle Co., $23,323. For installing electric equipment in public
school 64, Manhattan, to W, M, Sheehan & Co,, 136 Liberty st, st
$14,437. Other bidders were: Peet, McAnerney & Powers,
$14,983: Commercial Construction Co., $15,123; Beis & O'Don¬
ovan, $14,980; T. Frederick Jackson, $15,349, For the general
construction of new public school 33, Richmond, to Thomas Cum¬
mings, Jr., at $17,943. Other bidders were: W. H. C. Russell.
$19,875; W^illiam Werner, $21,972; U. W. Osborn, $18,895; Louis
Wechsler, $19,885; Daniel J. Ryan, $18,342; Frank Rinschler,
$19,678.

Alterations.

CORTLANDT ST,—T, B. O'Rourke, carpenter, 533 West 42d
st, has the contract for alterations to 42 and 44 Cortlandt st,
4-sty buildings, for the 'Manhattan Storage Co., of 44 Cortlandt
st, who will occupy the premises.

Alercantile.

20TH ST,—Green & Richman. 37 Maiden lane, will build a 9-
sty loft building on a plot, 56x92, at Nos. 13 and 15 West 20th st,
from plans by L, A, Goldstone, of 110 West 34tb st. The old
4-sty and basement brownstone dwelling at No. 15 has been torn
down and that at 13 has been partly demolished. On March 9th
the city stopped the work because of an alleged defective ad¬
joining wall.    The case will be tried in court on Tuesday.

4TH AV.—Robertson & Potter, IGO Fifth av, are drawing plans
for a large fireproof mercantile building to be erected on the
northeast corner of Fourth av and 12th st, for the Hamilton
Fish estate, of 135 Broadway.

Government WTork.

Estimates will be received at the offlce of the Supervising arch¬
itect, Treasury Department. Washington, D. C, until 3 o'clock.
May 1st, for the construction, complete, of the U. S. Post-Office
at Jacksonville, Ills.; and until May llth for the construction
(except heating apparatus) of the U. S. Post-Ofiice at Laramie,
Wyo., in accordance with drawings and specifications, copies
of which may be had of James Knox Taylor.





BUILDING     NOTES





The cornerstone of the new clubhouse for the Musical Mutual
Protective Union, in course of construction on the south side of
86th st, east of 3d av, was laid with appropriate ceremonies
Thursday, March 30th. Levitan Se Fischer, 20 'West 31st st, are
the architects.

C. Wellesley Smith, architect, formerly consulting architect tor
the New Yorh Central Railroad Co., wishes to announce that he
now has an office at 27 Bast 22a st, New York. Telephone, 6,017
Gramercy.

Arrangements have been made by Julius Harburger, Tammany
leader of the Tenth DiGtrict, to have city cornmissioners address
the members and citizens upon the workings of their depart¬
ments. On Tuesday evening, April 4th, at the clubhouse, 42 2d
av, Thomas C. T. Crain, Tenement House Commissioner, will
speak.

In an address delivered the past week by Bishop David H.
Greer before the Protestant Episcopal Church Club, 578 Fifth
av. he said that he had learned from a very reliable source that
before the end of 1906 $35,000,000 will be invested in homes in
the Bronx.

The Burns Mantel and Tile Co. has removed its showrooms and
factory to No. 9G4 Halsey st, corner of Broadway, and opposite
Halsey st station of the L Road, This company makes a specialty
of Tiling and Structural Slate work for apartment houses and
oflice buildings, in addition to keeping a full line of wood and
slate mantels.

The Passaic Steel Co.. with New York offices in the Hanover
Bank Building, and whose works are at Paterson, N. J,, will ex¬
pend $1,000,000 cash in providing an open-hearth department at
the Passaic plant and for other extensions. Niven McConnell,
for many years superintendent of the Homestead Works of the
Carnegie Steel Co., has been engaged as vice-president and
general manager, and will supervise the improvements.

J. R. Thompson, field secretary for the Y. M. C. A,, has re¬
turned from Panama, where he went at the instance of President
Roosevelt to establish associations. As a result of his visit four
buildings will be erected there. The buildings will be located
at Panama, Colon, Culebra and Empire. Three of these -j-ili
be entirely new. The fourth, at Colon, will be the Delesseps
Palace, the flnest building in the city. According to Mr. Thomp¬
son, Governor Davis proposes lo get every single American jut
of Panama. He plans to build an American city on Ancon hill,
a beautiful hill six hundred feet in height, immediately adjoining
the eity of Panama,

The "Wyoming," a 5-sty apartment house on the southeast
corner of Seventh av and SSth st. a plot SO.SxlOO. is soon to be





The Most Eipensive Building in the United

. States.

Tbe most Expensive Building, per square foot, ever erected
in tbis Country, is said to be tbe St. Regis Hotel.

Tbe Architects of it were practically Uorestricted as to
Cost.    They were enabled to select tbe Best in tbe market.

They adopted " Hecla Fireproofing."

Why?

Because there is Nothing equal fo





» HECLA FIREPROOFINQ "—Palenfcd
The   System   of   Real   Fireproofing





rhe Hecla Iron Works,





Brooklyn,  N. V.





torn down to make way for a new 12-sty modern apart¬
ment house. The new structure, as planned by Messrs. Rouse
Se Sloan, of No. 11 East 43d st, will cover a plot 125.5x140 ft, the
adjoining and abutting plots having been cleared for its use.
The remainder of the block front, a plot 75,5x100, is occupied
by a low brick church, the home of the Grace Reformed Dutch
Church, The Wyoming Apartment Co., 137 Broadway, in which
Potter Se Bro. are interested, will erect the new apartment
building at an estimated cost of $900,000.

Tbe Workingmen's Educational and Home Association has ob¬
tained leave from the Supreme Court to sell its property at 23S
East SSth st to William Drosihn. The proceeds of the sale will
be applied toward a new clubhouse at 239-247 East S4th st.
Plans for this new structure were completed last year by F. A.
Minuth, of 289 4th av, and were approved by the Building De¬
partment, but through lack of funds work was never started.
As it is very hard to obtain mortgage loans upon this class of
property, it is up to some wealthy philanthropist to come to the
rescue and provide the remainder of the necessary funds where¬
with to build the new clubhouse.

The 14th annual of Hendricks' Commercial Register, just
issued, is a complete and thoroughly classifled register of every
branch of the architectural, engineering, mechanical, electrical
and kindred trades and professions of the United States, It con¬
tains 350,000 names and addresses, comprised in over 14,000
classifications. The classiflcations seem to be arranged intel¬
ligently, and an examination of the lists with which we are most
familiar indicates a reasonable degree of accuracy. Only those
who have had experience in compiling directories can appreciate
the difliculty in keeping trade lists even fairly accurate, and we
think the publishers in the present instance are to be congratu¬
lated. It is published by S. E, Hendricks Co,, 70 Elm st, New
York.

The ironworks of Harris H. Uris, at Nos. 525 to 531 West 26th
St. are thoroughly equipped for the manufacture of structural
and ornamental iron work, a specialty being made of designing
and executing iron stairways both for the interior and outside of
buildings. Mr. Uris has secured the ornamental contract for the
work on the new police headquarters at Centre and Grand sts,
of which Gillespie, Walsh & Gillespie are the general contractors.
Also, tbe iron work contract for Ph. Braender's new 12-sty
building, Broadway and Great Jones st, and the structural and
ornamental work on the two new additions to Public School No.
10, on St. Nicholas av, at the corner of 117th st, P. J. Ryan, con-
rractor; aiso the new Lynch Building, northwest corner of 9th
av and 24th st, for Charles A, Johnson, contractor.

Operations In Other  Cities.

WHITEHALL, N, J.—Thomas Cressey, SOO Broad st, Newark, .
bas completed plans for a house, barn and garage for David
Young, to be erected at Whitehall, near Pompton, N. J. Esti¬
mates cost $50,000.

ORANGE,   N.   J,—John   D.   McGlincey.   of  3d   st.   Orange,   has
plans out for three 2-family houses and two 1-family cottages,
costing about $22,000, to be erected on Academy st.   He exepcts
to have them ready for occupancy about July 1.
^ LONG ISLAND CITY, L, I.-nWilliam F, Connor has purchased
from 35 to 40 acres of property, north of and adjoining the pro¬
posed  easterly approach of the new  Blackwell's Island Bridge,
valued   at   from  $150000 to  $175,000     The   entire property  lies
east of Vernon av and extends eastwardly to Sunswick Creek and
Van  Alst  av,   and  northwardly from  Rogers  and  Jayne  sts  to
Noble   and   Payntor   sts.     It   includes   the  land   of   the   Astoria
Homestead Co,, a part of the old Steinway estate, bought up one
time by a syndicate headed  by W. J,  Matheson,  of Manhattan.   J
It   is  said   the   tract  is bought   for   the purpose  of building  im-   I
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