November iS, 1911.





RECORD   AND   GUIDE





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FINGERBOARD RD, s s, 100 w Cleveland pl.
Fort Wadsworlh, change partitions lo dwelling;
cost, $250; owner, Chas- Saacke, Rosebank;
builder, W- S. Lee. Rosebauk.    Plan No. 492.

JEFFERSON AV. n s, 350 e Richmond rd,
Dongan Hills, clothes press to residence; cost,
$25 ; owner, Chas. C. Babbitt, Jefferson av,
Dongan  Hills.    Plau No. 4T9-    Owner builds.

MILL RD (Coles av), s w cor Surf av. New
Dorp, extension to dining room; cost, ,$400;
owners, Taibbi St Genovese, 25 Mouroe st, N- Y-
C.     Plan  No- 40S,     Owner builds-

MADISON AV, No. 119. Arochar. foundation
to dwelling; cost, $350; owner. Viti Castronova,
no Madisou av, Arochar; builder. Sabato Mes¬
sina,   Ceutral  av.     Plan  No.  501.

RICHMOND AV. e s, 215 s Richmond Terrace,
store front lo store; cost, -$-jtKI; owner, Harry
Hooke, Port Ricbmond ; builders, Norman &
Young,  New  Brighton.     Plan  No.  485-

THOMPKINS AV. w s, 150 u Chestnut av.
Clifton, concrete retaining wall to destructor;
cosl, $3,500; owner. City of New York. Bureau
of Sireet Cleaniilg, Borough Hall- Plan No,
476.

TOWNSEND AV, n s. 300 e Centre, Staplelon,
cellar aud concrete floor to dwelling; cost. ,$190;
owner. Mrs, Kate M- G- Loos. 115 Townsend av ;
builder, Jos- P. Torapson, 28 Cedar st. Plan No.
403.





Government Work.

BOSTON. MASS,—Sealed proposals will be re¬
ceived until December 28, for the construc¬
tion of the extension, remodeling, etc., of the
United Slates custom house at Boston, Mass.
Peabody Sc Stearns, 53 State st, Boston, Mass.,
are  the  architects-

WBSTCHESTER CREEK. N. Y,—Sealed pro¬
posals for dredging aud rock removal in West¬
chester Creek. N- Y., will be received until De¬
cember 15. Information ou application. W- M.
Black,   Colonel,   Engineers.

ELLIS ISLAND, N- Y.—Sealed proposals will
be received at the office- of the undersigned,
Ellis Island, N. Y- H., until 2.30 p. ni., November
22, for rewiring part of first floor of main
building at Ellis Island. For specifications ap¬
ply to Wiiiiam Williams. Commissioner of Im¬
migration.

DELAWARE BAY. N- J.—Bids are now being
requested by the inspector of the Ith lighthouse
district, Philadelphia, Pa-, for furnishing nec¬
essary labor and material to complete the con¬
crete filiing of the foundation and erect the
superstructure, etc., of lhe lighthouse at the
Miah Maul Shoal Station, Delaware Bay, N, J,
The superstructure consists of a 3-sty iron
structure surmounted by a watch room and
lantern. The Miah Maul Shoal lightstation
is located about 12 miles southwest of Maurice
River. N- J., and about IS miles northwest of
Cape May,   N.  J-,   in   Delaware  Bay.

HOT SPRINGS', ARK.—All bids received by
the Department of the Interior, Washington, D,
C-, on Sept- 15 for the completion of a brick
dwelling. Hot Springs. Ark., have been re¬
jected, the lowest bid heing in excess o! the
amount  available.







M, A. Cantor. Architect,
B'AUMAN BUILDING.
A T-sty business building, in course of erec¬
tion at 61 East 4th street, east of the Bowery,
for J. Sl H. Bauman. The building has fire¬
proof stair halls, wbich serve the purpose of
mill construction, the first tier of beams and
fire-escapes, and the upper floors are ot heavy
girders  being of steel,  with concrete  arches.





Personal and Trade Notes.

SAMUEL CARLISLE, a director of the Singer
Sewing Machine Co. and a large owner of real
estate in this city, especially in Brooklyn, died
at his home al Newburgh last Friday.

C- D. HOGUE has been" appointed vice-presi¬
dent and treasurer ot the Goulds Manufacturing
Co., of Illinois, the local office of which is at
16  Murray  st.

THE SCHAKTZ CO., 50 Church st, N. Y. C,
has been organized to take over the business of





the Weguer Machine Co., of Buffalo, N, Y-. and
Ihe Refrigerating Engineering Co. The address
of the new company wiil remain al 50 Church
, st- Officials are K- W. Schantz, president, and
Karl Wegenian, vice-president and general
manager.

FISKE & COMPANY, face-brick manufactur¬
ers, have uow arranged tbeir new offices in the
Arena Buiiding, in West 32d st. They have
divided off a large lioor space into a suite of
a dozen offices aud salesrooms by means of brick
and mortar partition walls. The brick has been
selected and laid in the most artistic fashion.
Each room has a different color tone, and each
contains  a  beautiful  fireplace,   all   iu   frick.

WILLIAM CHARLES SCHICKEL, son of the
late Wiiiiam Schickel, architect and junior
member of the firm of Hanson Sc Schickel,
plumbers, was married. Wednesday morning.
November 15, al the Church of Saint Ignatius
Loyola, al Park avenue and S4th street. New
York (a worthy monument designed by his
father), by its pastor, the Rev. David W. Hearn,
to Josephine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustin
Walsh. A number of those prominent in the
building trade witnessed the union, and many
other  friends.





DEPARTMENTAL RULINGS.





[This department of news, devoted to the decis¬
ions of the Bureau o£ Buildings. Tenement
House Department, Board of Examiners, De¬
partment of Labor, Department of Public
Works, etc.. is published lor and under (he
auspices of the New York Chapter of the
American Inslitute of Architects and the
Building Trades Employers' Association. The
rulings affect the operations ot Architects,
Owners,    Contractors    and    Others.]

Department o( Buildings.

MOVING-PICTURE   BOOTH   CO.XSTRUCTION.

Bulletin No. 33-—Any partition that has been
tested and approved as a fireproof partition by
the Bureau of Buildings will be accepted as the
equivalent of the construction called for iu
Chapter T56 of the Laws of 1011 tor enclosing
apparatus   for   projecting   moving   pictures.

Any other material, such as asbestos board,
used as a covering for the angle-iron frame-
'work in the aforesaid law must be at least 'A
inch thick, and must comply with the following
tests and requirements for transverse strength
and  fire-resisting  qualities.

The transverse test is to be conducted as fol¬
lows : Five samples 4 inches wide are to be
placed flatwise on two rounded knife-edge bear¬
ings set parallel 7 inches apart. A central load
is to be applied through a similar rounded edge
until Ihe sample is ruptured. The modulus ot
rupture is then to be computed, and must aver¬
age 4,000 pounds per square inch, and must not
fall below 3,500 pounds per square inch in any
saniple-

The fire test is lo be the regulation test for
fireproof materials, and is to be conducted as
follows : Two samples of the material about 12
inches square are to be placed over a G-inch
gas crucible furnace for thirty minutes, the
temperatures being raised trom that of the air
to l.TOO degrees Fahrenheit within twenty min¬
utes, and maintained at that temperature for
the balance ot tbe lime. A pyrometer is to be
placed immediately under the test pieces to de¬
termine and record the temperature. At lhe
end of the heat test, tlie material is to be sub¬
jected to a stream of water, with pressure of
sixty pounds per square inch, for one minute.
Under this test the material must not burn,
wash away, or disintegrate to more thau half
of its depth,

RUDOLPH  P.  MILLER.
Superintendent of Buildings.

November  10,  1911-





FIREPROOF  ENCLOSURES  FOR  STAIRS  AND
ELEVATORS.

Bulletin No. 34,—Hereafter the enclosure walls
tor elevators or stairs shall be of brick, at least
8 inches thick, or terra-cotta blocks, at least 0
inches thick in an angle-iron frame, unless
supported independently on fireproof construc¬
tion at each story, reiuforced stone concrele at
least 3 inches thick, or reinforced cinder con¬
crete at least 4 inches thick- Where conditions
require it. these thicknesses must be increased
to meet the circumstances.

RUDOLPH  P.  MILLER,
Superintendent  of  Buildings.

November 8, 1911.





Tunnel for Cooper Union Buildings.
The trustees of Cooper Union have re¬
ceived permission from the Board of Es¬
timate to construct and use a tunnel
under and across the intersection of
Third avenue and East Tth street, in the
Borough of Manhattan, for the purpose
o£ conveying steam and electric current
from the plant in Cooper Union Building:
to the Hewitt addition to Cooper Union
to be erected on the southeasterly corner
of Tth street and Third avenue. The
proposed tunnel is designed to run from a
vault of the existing- Cooper Union Build¬
ing situated under the roadway of Tth
street to the He'witt addition- The tun¬
nel will secure to Cooper Union the ad¬
vantage of greater economy in heating
and lighting the two buildings. The pro¬
posed tunnel is circular and flve feet in
exterior diameter. The new building will
be two stories high at first, but ulti¬
mately six, Clinton & Russell are the
architects-





BUILDING MATERIAL MARKET

Cement Production Report for the United
States Shows Big Output.

Common Brick on Sieady Call—Covering Charges
Soon to Become Effective—Structural Steel in
Clearing Condilion.—Lumber in Moderate Call.

^luch has been written regarding the
Portland cement industry during the last
year. Since the middle of 1910 there has
been a sharp decline in the price of Port¬
land cement in this market, but authori¬
ties seem to differ regarding the fluctu¬
ation, if any, in demand. It has been
slated that the mill price of Portland
cement during the last few months has
gone lower than at any other time in the
history of the industry, owing to relent¬
less competition on the part of manufac¬
turers selling in the East. At this time
there is no uniform price level and the
output at the mills is very much restrict-
ecj. In view of these facts, the report of
the United States Geological Survey on
the cement production of the United
Stales for IDltl is of interest.

"Ten years ago the production of Port¬
land cement for the first time passed the
10,000,000'barrel mark, showing an in¬
crease of li,600 per cent, over the pro¬
duction of ten years previous, and the
giant strides that had been made in the
industry were widely remarked. Even
this production was small compared with
that of the present day.

"In 1910, according to the report on ce¬
ment by Ernest F. Burchard, of the
United States Geological Survey, the pro¬
duction of Porlland cement reached the
enormous total of T6,a49,'-).ol barrels, with
a value of .¥GS,20o,800. This is equivalent
to 12,986,152 long tons, valued at $5.25 a
ton. It is an increase over the output
for 1909 of 11,558,520 barrels, or nearly
3^_per_cent-, and an increase in value of
$lo,34T,446, or more than 29 per cent.
This increase alone is greater than the
total output of Portland cement in 1900.
In addition to Portland cement there was
also produced last year 1,1.S9,239 harrels
of natural cemant and 95,951 barrels of
puzzolan cement, a total of TT,TS5,141
barrels.

Steiiily  Deerease  iu  Prioe.

"The price of Portland cement in 1910
was as low as T8 cents a barrel in some
places, the average for the United States
being S9-1 cents a barrel- In 1890 the
average price was over S^2 a barrel, and
as late as 1903 it was !|;1.24 a barrel.  '

"Mr. Burchard remarks that measured
by the capital invested the cement in¬
dustry is one of the world's three great
extractive industries- In capital employ¬
ed it apparently far outranks the gold-
mining industry of the United States, in¬
cluding Alaska, as well as the copper in¬
dustry. Only coal and iron stand ahead
of it.

"The principal constituent of Portland
cement is limestone, and Mr. Burchard's
report summarizes the most important
limestone formation in all the States. The
greatest of these are found in the eastern
half of the Uniled States, where there
are enormous limestone deposits. The
report is accompanied by a map showing
the distribution of these limestones- The
areas they cover comprise many thou¬
sands of sciuare miles- The map also
shows the location of the operating ce¬
ment plants in the Linited States-

Kxport-s   Suiatl;   ImporLs   Xejjlisible.

■"That the manufacture of cement is an
American industry is shown by the fact
that vi^Iiile our production last year was
over To,000,000 barrels our imports were
only_ 3116,86-'} barrels. Our exports were
2,47o,95T  barrels-

"The following table shows the healthy
growth of the American Portland ce¬
ment industry and also the decrease in
prices;

PRODUCTION   OF  PORTLAND   CEMENT   IN
THE  UNITED   STATES.   lSSO-1910,

Average
price per
Barrels.              barrel.

ISSO   .............          42,o;)0            .$3-00

1890   .............        :i:i3,mii             2.09

1895   .............        900.324              ]-(iO

1900   .............      ,S,4S2,020              1.09

1905   .............    35,240,812               .04

1009   .............    04.9'n,431                .SI

1910   .............    10,540,951               .89

"A copy of the report on the cement in¬
dustry in 1910 may be obtained on an-
plication to the Director of the'Geological
Survey,  Washington,  D.  C-"

ConiniuD   Hrick.

Common brick manufacturers decided
to improve the ciuality of common iirick
at about  the right time,  as a number of