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February 14, 1903. RECORD AND GUIDE 305 CONTRACTS AWARDED. The Foundation Construction Co. has been awarded the con¬ tract for the foundations for the new Royal Baking Powder Co.'s building, corner William and Fulton sts, Bruce Price is the ar¬ chitect, and the Remington Construciion Co.. No. 137 Broadway, are the general contractors. The building will be carried on spread foundations, the loads supported on cantilever girders. The Board of Education has awarded the contract for supplying glass in the various Manhattan schools lo Joseph EUas, at $2,849; for installing electric light wiring in No. 145, Bronx, to C, E, Hewitt & Co., at $7,424. AMSTERDAM AV.—Contracts for work on the College of the City of New York, to be located on the four blocks bounded by Amslerdam and St. Nicholas avs and ISSth and 140th sts, have been awarded as follows: Terra cotta work, consisting of orna¬ mentation on the different buildings, to the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Co., No. IGO 5th av, for $240,300; excavation and foundation work. V. J. Heddon & Sons Co., No. 1 Madison av, for $141,424. George B. Post, No. 33 East 17th st, is the architect. BROADWAY.-William Henderson, builder. No. 1123 Broad¬ way, is making the 3-sty addition and extensive alterations to the courts and interiors of the apartment houses on Broadway, oc¬ cupying the block from lOSlh to 109th sts. Janes & Leo, No. 124 West 45th st. are the architects. BROADWAT.—The Warner Elevator Manufacturing Company, Park Row Building, has been awarded the coniract for passenger and freight elevators for the 6-sly fireproof building at No. 51 Broadway, lo be occupied by the Wells-Fargo Express Co. Ben¬ jamin W. Morris. Jr., No. 24 Easl 23d sl, is the architect. 45TH ST.—Horgan & Slattery, No. 1 Madison av, will receive estimates during the coming week for the extensive alterations and additions to be made at No. 211 East 45th st for the Mohican Club, of the 22d Assembly District. A gymnasium will be in¬ cluded in the improvements. BROOKLYN. The large 4-sty and basement building on Flatbush av that is occupied by the firm of Journeay & Burnham was to-day sold by Jesse C. Woodhull. the owner and builder, to a New York capi¬ talist, for $450,000 cash. Mr. Woodhull bought the property in ISOl and built the present structure upon il for the use of the present tenants. The building has a frontage on Flatbush av of 175 feet and extends through to Livingston st. The Title Insurance Company of New Tork has bought the 4- sty brownstone building it occupies at 203 Montague st, and the 3-sty brick building in the rear, at 162 Pierrepont st, from the Long Island Loan and Trust Co. John F. James & Sons, brokers, negotiated the transaction. The price is in the neighborhood of $125,000. Each building is on a lot 25x100. The new owners will remodel the building and occupy most of it; the rest will be made into offices and rented. There is an open space of about 20 feel between the two buildings which will be built upon, thereby joining them into one structure, MISCELLANEOUS. AVE. A.—The Rockefeller Medical Institute will erect a new laboratory on that portion of the old Schermerhorn farm, bounded by G4ih and OSth sts. and Ave. A and the East River, It is to he the gift of John D. Rockefeller. Dr. L. Emmett Holt, No. 14 West 55th sl, is the secretary of the Institute. Title to the property has not yet been acquired. TRENTON. N. J.—J. B. McElfatrick & Son. No. 1402 Broad¬ way, are preparing plans for a brick and slone theatre to be built on a plot, 65.11x104.9, on North Warren st, Trenton. N, J., for the Taylor Opera Co. The new building will be called the Tren¬ ton Theatre, and will contain stores and offices. OOTH ST.—McKim, Mead & White, No. 160 5th av, have been selected as the architects for the new building to be erected by the Harmonie Club, on the soulh side of 60th st, 125 feet east of Slh av. The new building will cosl about $400,000; it will be seven stories high, three floors being devoted to apartments. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Plans have been drawn for a babies' hospital and laboratory to be built in connection wilh the pro¬ posed new Harvard Medical School, for Harvard University. The estimated cost is $136,000. It is the gift of the class of 1901, and will be the most complete of its kind in this country. PRINCETON, N. J.—Benjamin W. Morris, Jr., No. 24 East 23d st, is preparing plans for alterations and additions lo Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J. PRINCETON, N. J.—Benjamin W. Morris, Jr., No. 24 East 23d St. is preparing plans for a new 4-sty stone dormitory for Prince¬ ton University, It is the gift of the class of '79. BROADWAY.-Shanley Eros., No. 1212 Broadway, will make extensive alterations to No, 1S23 Broadway, a 4-sty building, 28.11x141.6x25x120.11, adjoining the Circle Theatre, at the south¬ west corner of GOth sl and Broadway. The building will be used as a restaurant. 40TH ST.—The Engineers' Club, No. 374 Sth av, will erect a new clubhouse at Nos. 32-34 West 40th st, a plot 50x98.9, facing Bryant Park and the new Public Library site. The club's lease of its present quarters has yet four years to run. John C. Kafer, No. 247 Sth av, is president of the club, and the secretary. Charlea W. Baker, No. 220 Broadway. MANHATTAN.—The Technology Club of New Tork City will erect a clubhouse, the site of which will be located between 23d and 42d sts, and between Madison and Oth avs. Among the mem¬ bers are Alexander Rice McKim, of McKim, Mead & White. No. IGU Sth av; Waiter La Farge. No. 5 Beekman sl; and Henry D. Hibbard, No. 253 Broadway. 14GTH ST.—The Brownson Catholic Club, No. 545 East 142d st, will erect a new clubhouse on the south side of 146lh st, 175 feel wesl of 3d av. Pending the completion of the building, the club will occupy No. 278 Alexander av. The building committee con¬ sists of John H. Bergen, chairman, No, 607 East 14:;d st; George A. O'Rourke, secretary. No. 35 Nassau sl; James Joyce, John M. Haffen, William T. Powers and Peter J. Cooney. EAST RIVER BRIDGE.—The Pennsylvania Co. will build a bridge and viaduct two miles long, from Port Morris. N, T. City, to Long Island. It wilt stretch to Randall's Island from Port Morris, then to Ward's Island, and across Hell Gate to Long Isl¬ and at Astoria. The span across Hell Gate will be 840 feet, and the bridge will be 135 feet above tide water. It will be double- tracked. The steel will be provided through the United Slates Steel Corporation at a cost of $3,250,000. Col. Joseph U. Craw¬ ford, Chief Engineer of the branch lines of the Pennsylvania Co., is authority for the statement that details for the work have practically been completed. WASHINGTON, D. C—The Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers' Home will erect a new building at a cost of .HS.OUO, and an extension to the present hospital building to cost $220,000, and a mess hall and barracks to cost $350,000. This home haa no connection wilh the National Soldiers' Home. It is located near Washington, and its several hundred acres of ground around its buildings form an attractive park open lo the public. Of Interest to tbe tiuildin^ Trades. J. Frank Fields, representing New Tork parties, is figuring on erecting a cement plant near Hancock, Md. Michael J. Bove, a contractor, of No, 83 Mulberry st, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities .$8,339 and no assets, Jchn E. Kerby and Halsey C, De Baud, associate architects. No. 1432 Broadway, will move to their new offices in the Knox Building, No. 452 Sth av, during the coming week. A call has heen issued for a meeting of plaster manufacturers, at Cleveland, February 17. to form a national plaster manufac¬ turers' association. James J. Hill is said lo have purchased 12,000 tons of Belgium cement for constructing a tunnel which the Great Northern Rail¬ way is building at Seattle, Wash. Patrick K. Lantry, a carpenter, of No. 707 Lexington av, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities $17,460 and no as¬ sets. The debts were contracted from 1898 lo 1902. The plans for the Bronx Carnegie Library, at the northeast corner of Alexander av and 140th st, show a building 30 feet wide, 80 feet deep, three stories in height, and with facades of brick and limestone. The plans for the library were flled by the frchitects, Babb, Cook & Willard, No. 3 West 29th st. The cosl will be $75,000. Mr. Charles D. Seeberger, the originator of the Escalator sys¬ tem, sailed for Europe on the "Oceanic" on February lllh, Mr. Seeberger went abroad to complete arrangements for installing Escalators in the stations of the new London Underground Rail¬ road, the preliminary negotiations having been conducted by the Waygood-Otis Company of that cily. H. Raabe & Son, with offices and plant al Nos. 319 to 323 West G4th st, make a speciaity of metal-covered woodwork for build¬ ings, including flreproof doors and dumb-waiters; these goods are made in the most substantial manner, and have won favor with many architects and builders. Further information and estimates will be cheerfully furnished on application. The building trades have suffered a loss by the death, on Tues¬ day, of William H. Mundell, at his home, 36S Carleton av, Brook¬ lyn. Born in the year 1844, in the borough where he died, Mr. Mundell began business as an architect in 1865. Among the buildings he designed are the Hall of Records, Kings County Almshouse, and the armories of the Fourteenth, Twenty-third and Forty-seventh Regiments. He also designed the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington. An interest in the Kirby Lumber Co., the greatest lumber con¬ cern in the country, has been sold by John H. Kirby lo B. P. Toakum, James Campbell and H. C. Pierce, who 'control the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, which is now expected to ex¬ tend its system from Paris, Tex., lo the Gulf at Sabir.e Pass. At present the St. Louis & San Francisco has no outlet to the Gulf, but has a trafflc arrangement wilh the Santa Fe. The lumber company has IS of the biggest mills in the Southwest, and its annual output represents 800,000 tons in freight. The deal was engineered here in, New York. In the list of contractors for the Blair Building, corner of Broad sl and Exchange place, illustrated In our last issue, mention was inadvertently omitted of the name of the O'Rourke Engineering Con-struction Co., of 13 Park row, contractors for the caissons and water-tight cellar wall, very important parts of the work. The caissons, the largest ever put down in New York, are 19 in num¬ ber, 11 being square and S round. The wall is a model of sol-