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July 26, 1902. RECORD AND GUIDE. 129 PAINT. There is a good demand for zinc oxides from the home mar¬ ket, but not much from abroad. Heavy orders continue In dry colors. There is a fairly large volume of business in all the more important lines, A new paint factory will be started by local capitalists at New Castle, Pa, ATLANTIC AV.—The Columbia Machine ^Vorks, No. 18 FiU- ton st, Brooklyn, has purchased property, 200x150 ft, comer Chestnut st and Atlantic av, and will erect thereon brick and stone factory buildings. John C. Buehler, the President, will draw the plans. Building News APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS. 55TH ST.—E. Gabrilowitz, No. 274 Henry st, will erect a 6-sty tenement, 40x87.5. to cost $35,000, at Nos. 149 and 151 East 55th st; Bernstein & Bernstein. No. Ill Broadway, are the architects. 116TH ST.—Neville & Bagge, No. 217 West 125th st, have drawn plans for a 6-sty brick and stone apartment house, 5(>x 87.11, to be erected on the north side of 116th st, 175 feet east of Lenox av, by the Astoria Land & Construction Co., No. 347 Jamaica av, Astoria. IITH AV.—The New Tork Dressed Meat Co., a company in¬ corporated at Albany last week, will erect on a plot with a 200 ft. frontage on Ilth av, between 39th and 40th sts, a $1,000,000 plant. The company was organized with the purpose of pro¬ tecting its members from the effect of actions of the Beef com¬ bine. Mr. Mayer Meyers. 44th st and 1st av, secretary of the company, says that no architect has been selected. LEWIS ST.—Plans are being prepared by Bernstein & Bern¬ stein, No. Ill Broadway, for a 6-sty brick, stone and terra cotta tenement, at Nos. S5-89 Lewis st. Klein & Roth. No. 21 West Houston st, are the owners. Cost to be about $60,000. CONTRACTS AWARDED. 62D ST.-^ohn K. Turton. No. 1135 Broadway, has received the general contract for alterations to the residence, No. 135 East 62d st. Mason work, plastering, painting, carpentering, plumbing, heating, etc., will be required; the cost will be $15,000. Foster, Gade & Graham. No, 281 4th av, are the architects. Philip J. Sand is the owner. 64TH ST.^—The general contract for exterior and interior alter¬ ations to the brick and stone residence. No. 163 East G4th st, has been awarded to John K, Turton, No. 1135 Broadway. Mason work, plumbing, plastering, heating, carpentering, etc.. will be required. Foster, Gade & Graham, No. 281 4th av, are the archi¬ tects. Mrs. R. G. Graham is the owner. Cost to be $12,000. SIST ST,—John K. Turton, No. 1135 Broadway, has received the general contract for alterations on the brick and stone resi¬ dence. No. 62 West Slst st. Mason work, plumbing, carpen¬ tering, plastering, etc., will be required. Pickering & Walker, No. 1135 Broadway, are the architects, Mrs. Julia G. Walker is the owner. Cost will be about $20,000. Patrick Gallagher was the lowest bidder at $87,000 for an ad¬ dition to public school No. 92, Manhattan; other bidders were Thomas Dwyer. $107,150; Patrick Sullivan, $112,323; Thomas B, Leahy, $106,743; John H. Goetschius, $111,600; Luke A. Burke, $92,770; John R. Sheehan & Co., $109,000, For public school No. 51, Queens, William P. McGarry was the lowest bidder, the other bidders were George Hildebrand, $59,187; John R. Sheehan & Co,, $68,400; Murdo Tolmie &. James Kerr, $61,800. Contracts for both will be awarded on Monday to the lowest bidders. SPRING ST.—The George A. Fuller Co., No. 135 Broadway, the second lowest bidders on the Butterick Publishing Company's 16-sty flreproof factory, have received the general contract in¬ stead of Wells Bros. Co., as reported, the latter having with¬ drawn. The site is the northwest corner of Spring and Mac¬ dougai sts. etxending to Vandam st. Cost to be $1,000,000. Hor¬ gan & Slattery. No. 1 Madison av, are the architects. The But¬ terick Publishing Co,, No. 17 East 13th st, are the owners. MISCELLANEOUS. LEXINGTON AV.—For the 69th Regiment Armory, at Lex¬ ington av, 25th and 26th sts, plans will be submitted in com¬ petition by R. W. Gibson, No. 76 William st; Hunt & Hunt, No, 26 East 21st st; Grosvenor Atterbury, No, IS West 34th st; How- ells & Stokes, No, 100 William st; and Stoughton & Stoughton, No, 96 5th av. The building fund is $550,000. The designs must be submitted on or before Sept. 15th. Post & Harden¬ bergh prepared the plans of competition. BROOKLYN. FULTON ST.—The block containing 10 acres, bounded by Ful¬ ton st. Elm and Vandeveer pl, and Woodhaven av, has been purchased by the Brooklyn Catholic Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, A home will be erected thereon at a cost of about ip-00.000. No architect has been selected as yet. LORIMER ST.—Plans are about completed by Frank Straub, No. 335 Broadway, for an alteration to the frame and brick resi¬ dence and shop building, No, 349 Lorimer st. New foundations, plumbing, plastering, carpentering, painting, etc, will be re¬ quired. Abraham Newman, No. 103 Ralph st, Brooklyn, is the owner. The cost will be $1,500. HALSET ST.—Plans are being prepared for a brick and atone automobile stable to be erected at No. 534 Halsey st for The Moser Palace Carriage Co., No, 536 Halsey st. Wm. J, Moser is the owner. For plans flled see pages 244 and X. COUNTRY WORK OF XEW YORK ARCHITECTS. PARK HILL, N. T.—Plans are being prepared by Adolf F, A, Leicht. No. 21 State st, for a 2-sty stone and frame residence, 60x35, to be erected at Park Hill, near Yonkers, N. T., at a cost of about $10,000, for the American Real Eatate Co., No. 290 Broadway. SOME NEARBY BUILDING. SOUTHAMPTON, L. I.—At Captain's Neck Point, near thia place, a commodious hotel is to be erected by a stock company recently formed here. An architect has not as yet been selected, but property has been purchased. CHATHAM. N. J.—The Presbyterian Church of Chatham is to have a new edifice through, the generosity of Joseph W. Ogden, Morristown, N. J., who will be the donor of the building, and terior finish and decorations. William C. Wallace, of the same place, who will present the in- POINTERS. LOCK HAVEN, PA.—The Congregation of St. John's Reformed Church are to erect an edifice from plans by Robert Cole, of Bellefonte, Pa. Harry T. Howell of 138th st and 3d av, N. T., is the architect for the new Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran church and par¬ sonage, to be erected on the southwest corner Brown pl and 137th st. Borough of Bronx, covering a plot 50x95 feet. Its style is to be of the modern Gothic architecture, and it will be con¬ structed entirely of Tuckahoe marble with steel truss roof and spire framing. Cost $70,000, The Rev, A. Arthur King is the pastor, residence 143d st and St, Ann's av. JACKSON, MISS.—The University of Mississippi, Robert B. Fulton. Chancellor, are to erect brick and stone University buildings at that place from plans by Theodore C. Link, St. Louis, Mo. The cost will be $50,000. EL PASO, TEXAS.—The Guarantee Trust Co,, of El Paso, are to erect a steel frame, brick and stone offlce building from plans by Isaac F. Taylor & Co., of St. Louis, Mo. The cost will be $100,000. SHAMOKIN. PA.—A 4-sty brick plant is to be erected at this place by William P. Taubel, of Riverside, N. J, The site has been purchased, and plans will be drawn at once. Cost will be about $25,000. FREDERICK, MD,—The congregation of St. John's Catholic Church have decided to erect a brick and stone parish house on East 2d St. The plans are to be drawn at once. No architect has been selected as yet. RICHMOND. Plans were filed for new buildings in this Borough as follows: New Brighton—Hamilton av, n s, 100 w St, Marks pi, 2-sty frame dwelling, 24x44, cost $5,500, John M. Fraser owner, Totten- ville^Hoppiing av, n e cor Patten av, 2-sty frame dwelling, 28x 33, cost $2,600, George F. Scull owner, Rosebank—Vermont av, e s, 100 n Pennsylvania av, 2-sty brick dwelling, 24x33, cost $2,500. G. Marinillo owner. West New Brighton—Caroline st, e s, 125 s Castleton av, 2-sty frame dwelling. 19x43, cost $2,000, John J. Donovan owner, Chelsea—Math'son Manufacturing Co. factory building (brick and frame) smelting works, cost $2,600. Of Interc-jt to the Building Trades. Henry A. Boyd Co., dealers in metal ceilings and sidewalls, have opened an office and showroom at No. 171 West 26th st, near 7th av. Telephone 2173a Madison sq. Hugh Lamb, the well-known architect, has moved from No. 40 Broadway to the Gill Building, Nos, 9, 11 and 13 Maiden Lane. Mr. Lamb's new telephone number is 7314 Courtlandt. Thomas Edison, it is reported, has begun the manufacture of cement by his new process, which it is said he will be able to supply at figures much below those quoted for cements already in the market. Justice Hall, in the Supreme Court, Thursday, denied the ap¬ plication of Richard S. Newcombe, a taxpayer, for writ of man¬ damus to compel Perez M. Stewart, Superintedent of Buildings, to carry out the provisions of the Building Code. The complaint was that Mr. Stewart was not insisting upon the use of properly fireproofed wood in certain buildings over 12 stories and 150 feet high. THE NEW SIGN' ORDINANCE, Mayor Low, July 14th, approved the ordinance of the Board of Aldermen, passed July 1st, amending section 144 of the Build¬ ing Code, so far as it relates to fences and signs, and the ordi¬ nance ia of force and effect from date of approval. The re¬ quirements regarding erection of signs and fences are now the following: Fences, signs or bill boards shall not be at any point over ten feet above the adjoining ground: except that when any fence, sign or bill hoard shall be constructed entirely of metal or of wood covered on alt sides with sheet metal, including the uprights, supports and braces