April 9, 1904.





RECORD AND   GUIDE





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from $4 a day for decorative painting to $4.50. Tbe Employers'
Association in the trade has thus far refused the demand as a
whole, but yesterday's Indications favored a satisfactory settle¬
ment without resorting to a strike.

\n appeal having been taken to tbe General Arbitration Board,
of wbich Mr. Samuel B. Donnelly is secretary, in the case of the
elevator men who are on strike for higher wages, the Board,
after bearing representatives on Tuesday, ordered the men back
to work pending arbitration for a full settlement of the case.
On Friday at a meeting of the Elevator Constructors and Mill¬
wrights' Union a report from the representatives was heard, and
the men voted to go back to work this Saturday morning, pend¬
ing arbitration with tbe manufacturers only. The union de¬
mands an increase in wages from $4,25 to $5.25 a day, as well as
otber changes in the present condition. The strike affected about
700 men. Among the employers whose men went out on the
strike are the Marine Engine and Machine Company, tbe Na¬
tional Elevator Company, and tbe Otis Elevator Company, all
members of the Building Trades Employers' Association.





Questions and Answers.

COMMISSION.
To the Editor of The Record and Guide:

I have seen the statement in your paper several times recently
tbat a broker who negotiates a lease, with in privilege of renewal,
is entitled to a commission for tbe renewed term in case tbe op¬
tion for the renewal is taken by the tenant. Will you kindly
inform rae If you have any cases deciding this point. I am in¬
terested in a case in point.                    ALEX. R. THOMPSON.

Answer.—No.
To the Editor of The Record and Guide:

Broker No. 1 is authorized to offer for sale a cer¬
tain piece of property. He allows broker No. 2, who has
no such authorization from owner, to offer the property with the
agreement tbat commission is to be divided between them if
broker No. 2 sbould effect a sale. Broker No. 2 sells tbe property
and closes the raatter with the owner direct, who allows bim full
commission, without the knowledge of Broker No. 1. Has Broker
No.  1  a legal  claim  against Broker No. 2 for one-half of the





SUBSCRIBER.





ANSWER.—Yes.





WHEN   GLASS   IS   BROKEN.
To the Editor of The Record and Guide:

A rented a store to B for five years. Nothing was said about
repairs. A glass worth $50 and a glass worth $2 are broken.
Does A or B pay damage? Also answer: Does A or B havelo
repair water closet and paint store inside when ordered by
Board   of   Health.                                                              D-   D-   "W-

Answer.-The tenant should replace broken glass as being ten-
antable repairs. (See dictum in Suydara v. Johnson. 54 N, Y.. at
pages 453 and 454.) The requireraents of the Board of Health
should be complied witb by the landlord at bis own expense, un¬
less tbe landlord is ready to question in the higher courts the
extreme range of police power assumed by tbe Health Board,

THE   NEW   ORDER   ABOUT   STEAM  ASHES.
To the Editor of The Record and  Guide;

We wish to ask your journal to enlighten us on an
order frora the Department of Street Cleaning, recently
promulgated in the downtown office building district, and in fur¬
therance of same tbe ashmen have refused to remove ashes as
heretofore. Are we to infer that hereafter we must engage a
private contractor for that purpose?

Very respectfully yours,

P.  R.   CHARLES  &  OO.

The order is as follows:
Department of Street Cleaning,   New   York,   'March   19,   1904.
General Order No. 6.

The provisions of General Order No. 14 of November 17th, 1902,
are modified to read as follows:

On and after Monday, the 21st of March, 1904, tbe only re¬
strictions in the matter of collection placed upon large business
houses, office buildings, department stores, and bouses devoted
exclusively to business purposes will be that steam ashes will not
be hauled by this department, neither will any kind of trade
waste, and hy trade waste is meant waste that results frora tbe
manufacture of any kind of articles or goods.

Stove ashes and ordinary fioor sweepings will be taken. The
light refuse accumulation frora large business places, such as
paper, rags, etc., and everything that is classified as light refuse
will not be taken.

Should there be an accumulation of garbage in any of these
places, such waste will be removed by the department carts.

By order of Commissioner Woodbury.

F.  M.  GIBSON.
Deputy Commissioner.

Answering inquiries from the Record and Guide, the Depart¬
ment says the action indicated in tbe foregoing notice was not a
matter of choice; it became simply an impossibility for the 'De¬
partment witb its available facilities to continue to collect steam
ashes and refuse from business places. Tbe amount offered sim¬
ply outgrew the ability to handle it.   Such accumulations will be





received at the city dumps; but tbe hauling must be done by the
owners or lessees. Permits for using tbe dumps can be obtained
at the offlce of the Department in the Park Row building.





riaterial   Market.

LUMBER

Tbe annual meetings of the Hudson River Boom Company, the
Sacandaga and the Schroon River Drive associations and the
lesser associations operating on the Indian, Boreas and Cedar
Rivers and tbeir tributaries were held at Glens Falls, March 16.
The reports of tbe year's business showed tbat in 1903 there
were put into the Hudson and its tributaries 248,750 markets,
equal to 49,500,000 feet of luraber, board measure. The reports
from year to year sbow tbat the Adirondack lumber Industry Is
steadily declining. The highest point was reached some yeara
ago, when a million markets were put in the river.

Mr. J. C. Turner, of this city and Irvington-on-Hudson, return¬
ing from a Southern trip, says he is surprised to find so pro¬
nounced a scarcity of cypress stocks at tbe Southern raiils for this
season of the year. In explanation he stated tbat the shortage
was in the main due to tbe enormous increased use of cypresa
throughout tbe country, which is becoming heavier every year.

In the metropolitan wholesale market buying is reported in
fair amount. Yellow pine, if small stuff. Is easily placed. The
big stuff does not go out so easily. Hemlock is holding its own
on the present basis of $17, and a fair volume of lumber is mov¬
ing, but deraand is not what can be terraed active. The new
price list of the North Carolina Pine Association, as adopted
March 1, is obtaining firmly in all sales of that commodity.
The lower grades are the raost active, although a fair amount of
good iuraber is being absorbed. Flooring has shown renewed
vigor during the past fortnight, and the North Carolina pine
market generally is reported in a satisfactory condition.

Gumwood shows increasing activity. It is being utilized in
various lines of manufacture as a substitute for other lum'ber,
and prices are particularly firm. Tbe piano manufacturers are
absorbing considerable l'^ inch I's anl 2's for veneering pur¬
poses, tbe casket manufacturers taking I's and 2's sap, while
considerable common is going to the trim people. The yards are
also buying quite freely of common as a substitute for white pine
shelving. Prevailing prices are as follows: One inch I's and 2'3
sap, $36 to $38; common, $28 to $30, and all red $40 to $41.
j n    ■ 1                                        BRICK.

Tbe Brick Burning Furnace Company has been organized to
employ a new method for burning brick. The incorporators are
Everett Fowler of Haverstraw, A. E. Aldridge of Fisbkill-:on-
Hudson, J. D. Cite of Fisbkill-on-Hudson and Jobn B. Rose of
Newburg. The process is patented, and is the discovery of Mr.
Cite. It involves the beating of the brick by forced draught, and
the fires do not come in contact with tbe brick at all. It Is
stated tbat tbe expense of changing from the old method to the
new will not be great. A public demonstration will be given at
tbe yards of Mr. Aldridge at Pishkill-on-Hudson soon after the
opening of tbe season. Those interested in the company do not
intend to try to keep a monopoly on the plan, but will let other
manufacturers have It on a royalty basis.

The labor situation in its relation to brick has been further
complicated by a strike for higher wages by tbe boatmen at
Haverstraw, the principal raanufacturing centre for common
brick. The men belong to the Boatmen's Union, and in sub¬
stance their demands are tbat all men employed on boats, other
than the captains, engaged in the brick-carrying trade, be paid
$35 per month, and that tbeir time of employment begin with
the comraencing of the loading of the boats, and that they
be constantly employed from that time until their connection
with the particular vessel ceases, which means until they are dis¬
charged or the boat has been put out of commission. It is also
insisted that each boat shall have a crew of five men. Men
employed on the boats are permitted by the rules of the organiza¬
tion to work only one-half of each day upon the yards.

In answer to their demands, the boatmen were informed by
tbe manufacturers tbat they would be paid so much per thousand
for loading and stowing the boat, but as brick had declined very
considerably in price, it was intended to hold the boats
after they were loaded at Haverstraw until tbe condition of
tbe market warranted a shipment at profitable prices. In a word,
the demands were denied, and tbe men suspended work.

The wholesale market during the week was marked by uncer¬
tainty, due to tbe bricklayei-s' strike, and prices spread farther
apart than they bad been since last Summer, falling as low as
$6 per M. The strike among the boatmen, referred to above, has
been practically settled. No shipments have been received from
north of Rondout. A special meeting of tbe Manufacturers'
Association was in session yesterday at Haverstraw. One of tbe
subjects discussed regarded possible trouble from truck drivers
and material handlers on the first of May. Among tbe material
dealers it is feared that labor troubles are not yet all ended.
ANNUAL   MEETING   AT   THB   EXCHAJJGE.

The annual meeting and election for officers and trustees of the
Building Material Exchange of the City of New York will be held
at the rooms of the Exchange, No. 11 Broadway, Bowling Green
building, on Monday, April llth. Polls open from 2 until 3.30
o'clock p. m.