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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 81, no. 2098: May 30, 1908

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May 30, 1908 RECORD AND GUIDE 1015 Brief aud Personal. Summer again. Blessed be! Architect J, C. Coclver has moveci his office to the second floor of No. 2010 fjlli av, near 125th st. The John A. RoGhling'.'j Sons Co., 117 Liberty st, Manhattan, will replace at once at Trenton, N. J., buiklings recently burneci, Messrs. Thompson & Frohling, archi¬ tects. No. 114 East 2Sth st. Maniiattan, announce tbat .they have taken into their flrra Mr.,Harold F. Saxelbye. ■William P. Boardman. builder of the old New Toflv & Harlem Ry., now operated as the Fourth Av. Ky,, of Manhattan, died on May 20, at his home in Deshet, South Dak. New excavations are heing started every day, and as the buildings rise the trades will successively join in, till the , i-oundeiay of good times is In full and merry swing. The oflices df the American Spiral Pipe Worlcs have been removed from 39 Cort¬ landt st to larger quarters in the Hudson Terminal Building, No, 30 Church st. Mr. F. B. Sanborn is in charge. Joseph A. McAnerney, E, B., formerly of the firm of Feet, McAnerney & Powers, eiectrical contractors, has opened an office in the Hudson Terminal Building, 30 Church st, as an electrical engineer. At tlie last meeting of the Brooklyn Engineers' Club, James YV. Nelson, man¬ ager of the firm of Richard Dudgeon, of New Tork, read a paper on "Hydraulic Machinery," which was illustrated by the stereopticon. At a recent annual meeting of the In¬ stitution of Civil Engineers of Great Bri¬ tain, Mr. Wm. Barclay Parsons, of Man¬ hattan, M. Am. Soc. C, E., was awarded a Telford gold medal for a paper contribu¬ ted fo its interests. The automobile has been a friend to the suburban house site.__ An uncounted number of city families are looking as much for the spot where they can have a house for the "choo-choo" wagon as a house to themselves. Commercial paper of the highest grade is absorbed as soon as offered, and dis¬ count rates range from 3',<> to 4 per cent, for sliort maturities, and 4 and 4Vz per cent, for regular dales. Local institu¬ tions have been eager purchasers of six months' bills. Francis H, Kimball, the arclilLect of tlie Trinity. U, S. Realty and City In¬ vesting buildings, has decided on a coun¬ try home after long residence in tiie city. Mr. Kimball is drawing plans for a dwell¬ ing he expects to erect for himself on a half-acre plot at Jamaica Estates, A number of our skyscraper architects have houses in-the country. The Board of "Water Supply decided yes¬ terday to fhrow out all the bids received for the construction of the Wallkill si¬ phon and to advertise the work again, or possibly change the plans and do the wcwk itself. The lowest bidder was the English firm of S. Pearson & Sons, which asked $3,304,909; the next was McArthur Brothers, who bid $4,352,103, Mr, Eli Benedict, architect, who haa conducted classes in architectural drarw- ing and in plan-reading and estimating at .the night school of the 23d St, Toung Men's Christian Association during the past season, will continue the architect¬ ural drawing class during the summer, beginning June 1, in hia drafting-room at No. 1047 Broadway, corner GiJth St. on Monday and Thursday evenings, 7,30 to 9.30 p. m. Some front briclt figures given out by the Sayre & Fisher Co., 201 Broadway, represent prominent buildings recently erected in part with their front brick. The German-American Insurance Building. Maiden lane and Liberty st, 250,000 por¬ celain white brick; City Investing Build¬ ing, 650,000 porcelain white brick; Hen¬ drik Hudson apartments, Riverside Drive and 110th st, 050,000 Roman size gray brick; Second National Bank, Sth av and 2Sth st, standard size gray briclt; Academy of Music, Lafayette av and Ashland pl, Brooklyn, 12D,000 Norman size white brick, rough finish. David Cohen, clerk, 1770 'Madison aV, formerly a builder, has filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities of $380,510, contracted mostly in 1899, and no assets. Of the liabilities, $251,306 were secured by mortgages on real estate situated in 113th st, near 1st av; 107th st, corner 2d av; 174th st, corner 3d av, and 3d av, near 171st st, formerly owned by him. Among the secured creditors are Alex. P. Ketchum, $59,000; Title Guarantee & Trust Company, $30,000; estate of Jose¬ phine L. Peyton, $43,500; estate of P, Kennedy, $22,500; Samuel Green, $1G.500, and Morris Lornst, $6,000. Among the unsecured creditors are the State Bank, Brownsville branch, $25,000; Isaac Block, $20,000, suit for damages for negligence; Samuel D. Tomback, $1G,GS3, and Brady & Hauptman, $11,700, Metal Forms for Concrete Walls. A good many inventive minds besides Edison's seem to be working on the prob¬ lem of how to mold cement buildings cheaply and quickly. William Deane Ham, a Southern man, after spending several years in experimenting has de¬ vised and patented a system of metal forms for buiiding a ■monolithic concrete hollow wall which has been employed in the construction of several buildings. Mr. Ham's method has been adopted by the Monolithic Hollow Wall Co., of this city. Two separate concrete walls, erected simultaneously, are tied together every flfteen inches both vertically and horizon¬ tally with iron or copper ties. These ties are anchored or held in place by nails driven through holes previously punched. After the completion of the wall the ends of the metal ties extending beyond the exterior and interior surfaces are cut off by a thin, sharp chisel to a depth of a half inch or more inside the concrete. This leaves very little defacement and can easily be fllled or pointed up. Where a rubbed finish or pneumatic hammer fin¬ ish is used-no mark is visible. The forms are made of galvanized steel, thus ensuring the necessary smooth sur¬ face, and are made in various lengths np to GO inches and about Vs inch in thick¬ ness. They are perforated with small holes an inch apart. These holes ac¬ complish several ends. They allow air bubbles to escape while tamping, although too small to allow concrete to pass through them. They are used in tacking on mortar beads and for attaching tile and terra cotta ornamentation to be em¬ bedded in the concrete. They can also be used in securing the forms where it is found advisable to lap the edges at any place. To secure the much admired pebble fin¬ ish for exterior surfaces or a tile finish for the interior of the building, Mr, Ham uses a quick setting paste for attaching the surface material to the steel sheets (using sheets with large perforations). After the concrete has set sufficiently water is applied through the perforations previously described, with the result that the paste dissolves and the forms can be released. The forms are held accurately in posi¬ tion during the pouring of the concrete by a saddle spacer. On the removal of the forms the concrete is smooth with tho exception of slight points of pin-head size and a light mark at the joints of the forms. These are removed by a light rubbing with carborundum blocks or a steel brush. 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