July 22, 1922





RECORD   AND   GUIDE





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New Commitments Indicate Continued Building Progress

Weekly Statistics of F. W. Dodge Company Show Little Decline in Local Activity
Because of Unsettled Material Supply Situation





C^ ONSTRUCTION in the Metropolitan district continues at
'. mid-season intensity. Although there is a noticeable decline
in the number of new housing projects being brought out
there is a decided increase in industrial and commercial operations
which has more than offset the loss in residential work. Study of
the newly projected operations shows that there will undoubtedly
be a continuation of the prevailing conditions in the local construc¬
tion field for the remainder of the year and that during the next
few years the building trades will average far better business than
they have had for several years past.

The weekly statistics compiled by the F. W. Dodge Company
show that in Xew York State and New Jersey, north of Trenton,
plans were announced for 713 new projects at an estimated total
cost of $29,170,200 during the twenty-eighth week of this year.
The contracts actually awarded in this territory during the week
numbered 497 and represented a total outlay of $18,755,300.

In Greater New York there were first reports on 276 new build¬
ing and engineering operations during the week of July 8 to 14,
inclusive,   which   will   require   an   expenditure   of   approxiniateh-





$20,068,900, and the records show 130 contracts awarded, which are
valued at a total of $8,623,800.

The list of 276 contemplated operations is divided into the fol¬
lowing groups: SO business buildings such as stores, offices, lofts,
commercial garages, etc., $3,688,000; 9 educational projects, $1,200,-
900; 1 hospital, $1,000,000; 8 factories and industrial plants,
$667,000; 3 public buildings, $272,500; 5 public works and public
utilities, $2,562,000; 5 religious and memorial buildings, $298,000;
193 residential operations, including apartments, flats and tenements
and one and two-family dwellings, $10,175,500, and 2 social and
recreational projects, $205,000.

Among the 130 projects for which contracts were awarded in
Greater Xew York during the twenty-eighth week of this year were
23 commercial buildings of various types, $4,099,000; 3 educational
projects, $150,900; 3 industrial buildings such as factories, shops,
warehouses, etc., $190,000; 2 public buildings, $85,000; 7 public
works and public utilities, $310,900; 2 religious edifices, $25,000, and
90 residential projects, including multi-family dwellings and one
and two-family houses, $3,763,000.





PERSONAL AND TRADE
NOTES.





A. J. Silberstein, architect, has moved
his office from 829 Broad street to 185
Market street,  Newark, N.  J.

Newton L. Schloss and  Joseph Orlando,

architects and engineers, announce the
opening of offlces in the Tilden Building,
105 West Fortieth street, for the design
and construction of steel, concrete, slow
burning and non-fireproof buildings.

Iron Products Corporation, of New York
City, and its subsidiaries, the Central Iron
& Coal Company, Central Radiator Com¬
pany and the Molby Boiler Company, an¬
nounce the opening of a district sales
office in the Jefferson County Bank Build¬
ing, Birmingham, Ala.

BeU Brothers' tumber Company, foot
East Ninty-ninth street, has acquired a
tract containing thirteen lots in 138th
street, near Southern boulevard, the
Bronx, upon which a modern office build¬
ing and garage will be erected. The firm
proposes to transfer its headquarters upon
completion of these buildings.

Brigadier-General John J. Carty, vice
president of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Company, received the honor¬
ary degree of doctor of engineering from
New York University at its graduation
exercises held June 6. This is a very
unusual degree and is conferred for only
unusually meritorious services.

DTTlgrht P. Robinson & Co., Inc., en¬
gineers and constructors, have entered
Into a contract with the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company by which policies
are provided without expense for all
members of the contracting organization
reporting to the general office. Policies
are provided under a group insurance plan
without cost  to  the employees.

W. D. Cashin & Co., Boston. Mass., an¬
nounce the opening of a New York office,
located in the Grand Central Terminal
Building, as sales agents for the Ther-
mograde Valve Company and for the
Bishop & Babcock Company, vacuum heat¬
ing specialties. Thomas M. Kellogg has
been installed as the manager of the
office.





gather more closely in discussions regard¬
ing promotion of their activities and solu¬
tion of their problems.

According to Charles H. Hofrichter,
secretary of the National Council of
Liighting Fixture Manufacturers, the
affairs of both organizations will be ad¬
ministered from the same office. Each
organization will maintain its own
identity, have its own officers, collect and
handle its own funds and in every way
conduct the detailed work of the organi¬
zation  in   an  individual  manner.





TRADE AND TECHNICAL
SOCIETY EVENTS.





Employment  Service  for Engineers

An employment service for engineers of
every variety of training and experience
is conducted by the four National Engin¬
eering Societies of the United States.
This service brings in touch with the
various business men the service of 50,000
trained technical men who are members
of these societies, and one of the objects
of it is to show to the various commercial
houses the aid which engineers are ren¬
dering to others in the same lines and to
help these firms and corporations secure
similar assistance.

Men of engineering training are promi¬
nent in all branches of commercial
endeavor and their creative ability is
recognized as being of great help in the
building up of the nation's wealth.

This service is under the direction of
W. V. Brown and is located in the United
Engineering Building, 29 West Thirty-
ninth street, and is free to both employer
and to employee.





manufacturers  and  Dealers to  Co-operate

For the purpose of co-operation, ar¬
rangements have been made by the
Executive Board of the Lighting Fixture
Dealers' Society of America and the
officials of the National Council of Light¬
ing   Fixture   Manufacturers   to   join   to¬





day production  Less  in 1921

Production of raw clay in New Jersey,
the leading clay-producing state, during
1921 decreased both in quantity and value
from the high points reached in 1920 and
1919, according to figures compiled by the
State Department of Conservation and
Development in co-operation with the
U. S. Geological  Survey.

A total of 263,178 short tons valued at
$1,049,748 was produced in the State in
1921 while the corresponding figures for
1920 were 354,613 short tons valued at
$1,656,867. These figures represent only
those clays which are mined and sold as
clay, and not those which are mined and
used directly by the manufacturer.

Ball clay alone shelved an increase.
The 1921 tonnage of 8,230 short tons was
65 per cent, greater than that of 1920; the
value of the yield for 1921 is placed at
$62,638,  while that for 1920 was $43,157.

Other clays included in the raw clay
group, together with the 1921 figures, are:
flre clay. 195,572 short tons valued at
?S42.257; stoneware clay, 16,354 short tons
valued at $71,919; and miscellaneous clays,
43,022  short   tons  valued   at   $72,934.





^Vall Paper ^I^nnfactnr^rs' Associa¬
tion of the United States will hold its an¬
nual convention at the Hotel Coinmodore,
Xew York Cit.v. during the wee'lc begin¬
ning July 31.

Xew York State Retail Hardware As¬
sociation will hold its annual convention
and exposition at Rochester, February 10
to 23,  inclusive, next year.

Long Island Lumber Dealers' Associa¬
tion will hold its first annual clambake
and field day at Valley Grove, Eatons'
Neck, near Northport, Wednesday, July
26. .\n interesting program of athletic
events is being prepared.

American Society for Municipal Im¬
provements will hold its annual meeting
at Cleveland, October 2 to 6, inclusive.
Headquarters will be located at the
Hollenden Hotel. An interesting exhibit
will be held in connection with this meet¬
ing.

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 arrangements
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. F. Wallace, vice-chairman,
and J. Daniels, secretary.

American Electrochemical Society an¬
nounces the removal of its national head¬
quarters to Columbia University, after
having been located for nearly twenty
years at Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Pa. The change is due to the fact that
the society's new secretary. Dr. Colin G.
Fink, has recently been appointed lecturer
in . electrochemistry at Columbia, and he
will have charge of that division of the
university's department of chemical en¬
gineering.

Xational Safety Council will hold its
eleventh annual meeting in Detroit,
August 2S to September 1, inclusive. A
special program has been arranged for
the metals section, of which J. R. Mulli¬
gan, safety inspector for the Bethlehem
Steel Company, is chairman. The pro¬
gram for the meeting includes reports of
officers and committees and several ad¬
dresses. All meetings will be held in the
new Cass Technical High School, which
has just been completed. This building
has an auditorium with a seating capacity
for 3.000 persons.