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October 22, 1910. RECORD AND GUIDE 659 hygienic and produces a vastly superior surface. Then, too, it can be washed and scrubbed without the slightest injury, something irapossible with calcimine and cold water paints. It is not affected by w-ater or moisture in any form and will not peel, crack, scale or blister. But above all, its colors are permanent. "Lu-Co-Plat" Is applicable on any in¬ terior surface^wood, metal, plaster, ce¬ ment, stone, paper, or fabrics. Two coats produces as opaque a surface as three coats of most other raaterials. It creates a covering that can be enriched by sten¬ cil and fresco decorations, thus giving ample opportunity for tbe highest artistic results, "Lu-Co-Flat" can be used In the horae, hospitals, schools, churches, theatres, ho¬ tels, large halls and public buildings. Literature further descriptive of this modern finish can be had by addressing John Lucas & Company, 521 Washington st. New York City. BLOOMINGDALE CHANGES. A Significant Alteration to the *' Man- hasset"—A New Night Center. A year has made a great difference in that quarter of the city where Broadway intersects 110th st (Cathedral Parkway). This is particuuarly noticeable at night, when the sidewalks are thronged with people, and Broadway is ablaze with lights from long lines of smart store win¬ dows that have taken the place of the high board fences of old. Thousands of farailies, attracted by the many high class apartment houses newly huilt, have moved into the district, and the shopkeepers report a large increase in business. An old concert hall at the cor¬ ners has been made over into a very pretty theatre for vaudeville and pictures. The latest improveraent consists of altering the ground floor of the big Man- basset apartraent house on the west side of Broadway into stores. The house is twelve stories high and has two entrances, one in lOSth st and one on the 109th st side, as the building extends from street fo street and covers the full block front¬ age on Broadway. There will be seven stores, each with a depth of 95 feet. When their electric lights are turned on, both sides of Broadway will be illurainated without a break from Bloomingdale square all the way up to the University buildings. The Realty Assets Company, of which Mr. Edward B. Boynton is president, bought the "Manhasset" frora Mrs. Jacob Butler in January of this year. Mrs. Butler acquired it under foreclosure pro¬ ceedings in August, 1908, paying $1,300,- 000. Mark Rafalsky & Co. are the agents of the building. A S'jggestion In This. If anyone has an old dwelling near Madison Square East tbat he does not want to live in himself and which he feels ought to be bringing in a larger income, there is possibly a good sugestion for him contained in the alterations of a d-svelling in Bast 25th st. :The house stands next to the Court of Appeals building, and originally was a 5-sty an dbaseraent house of the usual order of those erected in the previous gen¬ eration, but now coraprises six stories of choice white marble, almost ready for the bachelors who are to occupy it. The charm which old private houses have, comparedto the uninteresting uni¬ formities of much modern speculaitve work, can be perceived in this house still, as in the high ceilings and large spaces in all the principal rooms, A suite consists of t-n'o-rooms and bath, and the decora¬ tions are to be in the Colonial style, with mahogany doors and white trim. The walls are covered with book cloth, the same material that books are bound with, and which is to be glazed and then decorated. This will make a wall covering that will be impervious to hard knocks and most of those things that deface wall surfaces. Already there are assurances of a very fine income on the investment. It is cer¬ tainly a beautiful house and a creditable iraprovement, Edward Corning was the general contractor, and the W, B, Nisbet Company of Piftli avenue is doing the decorating, F. & G, Pfiorara are the agents. How Growth of Population Interests the Furnace Trade. W. H. Cook, advertising manager for the Thatcher Furnace Corapany, never lets an opportunity get away from him for driving home a good selling argument. The other day he read in his paper fhe census returns. Now the percentage of municipal growth is a far cry from steam and- hot water heaters, one might think. But the trained, wideawake ad¬ vertising man, like the artist, not only sees, but he also observes, and observing, acts. This is where advertising borders upon the realm of art, and Mr. Cook, in this instance, was the artist. Mr, Cook remembered reading that New¬ ark, N. J., increased in population 41.2 per cent.; Jersey City 29.7 per cent.; the Bor¬ ough of the Bronx, 114.9 per cent., and that Pittsburgh and other Western cities had also shown surprising growth, "That means growth," though the pub¬ licity man, who keeps his brain clear by breathing the pure mountain air of Glen Ridge, N. J., when he is not at bis office at 110 Beekman st, and those people must be proud of their respective city's prog¬ ress. So he produced this circular letter and sent it broadcast, as a follow-up to his advertising campaigns: "The census man has surprised us with reported growth of your beautiful city during the past decade. "We congratulate you on your progress, of w-hich you may be justly proud. "We know how you feel, as we are als'o proud of our 'progress,' which we claim to be the leader in low-pressure boilers," That kind of enterprise makes advertis¬ ing pay. two giant pneumatic caissons thirty-eight feet to bedrock. That feat in itself would be a simple one if It were not for the fact that the element of quicksand, such as was encountered in sinking the caissons for the annex and for the West Street Building, has to be reckoned with besides providing supports for the enormous weight of the building above and making sure that shifting quick sands will not weaken supports of the original structure. The method of solution decided upon by the George A, Fuller Construction Com¬ pany's engineers was that of installing four Otis passenger elevators in the half finished building. These will operate from power supplied by new Erie water tube boilers recently installed in the new build¬ ing, the equipment being extended as the building progresses imtil the entire bat¬ tery of twenty-nine Otis electric traction elevators are in working order. When the new hollers are put in the six cars in the original building will be replaced by six now ones and the well will be changed to a long corridor on" either side of which will be ten Otis 1:1 electric traction machines with nine additional elevators at the northern end of the annex. After next week access to all the tenants in the old building will be through the uncom¬ pleted annex. This is said to be one of the most diffi¬ cult problems of its kind ever undertaken in this city, and it will be in charge of Mr, Norris, the supervising engineer for the George A, Puller Construction Corapany a', the building. A New Engineering Problem and Its Solu¬ tion. The George A, Puller Construction Com¬ pany began the execution this week of an interesting and in some respects new problem in building construction. It con¬ sisted in transferring the entire 10-car elevator equipment of tbe original White¬ hall Building at Battery pl and West st into the partly completed annex adjoining it without halting the service or in any way interfering with the comfort or con¬ venience of tbe hundreds of tenants in the big building. To do this, it became neces¬ sary to break through the walls sepa¬ rating the old and the new buildings at each floor and erect between the two buildings twenty housed-in temporary bridges, one for each fioor. Those who have had occasion to go to the Whitehall Building will recall tbat there are six elevators in a semi-circular well at the rear of the main entrance. There are four other lifts in other parts of the building, making the total equip¬ ment ten in aU. The hydraulic motive power for these vehicles is supplied from a central point directly beneath the clus¬ tered elevator wells which forraed a sort of bay at the rear of the skyscraper. Under this hay, directly under the spot where the boilers supplying power for these elevators are located, the, George ^A- Puller Construction Company mu?t .sink DEPARTMENTAL RULINGS Affecting the Operalions of Architects, Owners, Contractors and Others TJiis department of neivs, demoted to the derisions of the Bureau of Buitdin/js, Tene¬ ment House Department, Board of Exam¬ iners, Department of Labor, Department of Piil/lic If-'orks, etc., is published for and under tbe auspices of tbe NEIV YORK CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTI¬ TUTE OF ARCHITECTS and tbe BUILD¬ ING TRADES EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIA¬ TION. TENEMENT HOUSE DE¬ PARTMENT. A Daily Public Recoi-d of Violations. New York, October 17, 1910. Upon the public tables of the Tene¬ ment House Department hereafter will be found the dally record of violations issued against tenement property. BOARD OF EXAMINERS. APPEAL No. 159 of 1910; New Build¬ ing No. 615 of 1910; 1 Bast 48th st, Manhattan, H. Craige Severance, appel¬ lant. Plans specify a 5-sty store build¬ ing, 20x100 ft, to cost $125,000, Objec¬ tions made by the Bureau of Buildings were that fireproof shutters should be provided, columns should be protected on the inside by 4 inches of brickwork; also that fire-escapes are required. The Board of Exarainers approved on condi¬ tion that the columns be encased in solid brick piers sixteen inches on the inside face, and projecting four inches frora the inside line of the wall. APPEAL No. 160 of 1910; New Build¬ ing No. 637 of 1910, Nos. 339 to 349 Bast 32d st, Manhattan, Howells and Stokes, appellants. Plans call for two 6-sty tenement houses, 50xS6.9 ft, to cost to¬ gether, $95,000. The Bureau of Build¬ ings raade the following objections on the ground that tie rods should be pro¬ vided, interior girders and columns sup¬ porting wall should be fireproofed, arid that the walls are of unlawful thickness^, as distance between the main bearing walls exceeds 33 ft. The iBoard. -pfi Examiners disapproved the appellfihta' plan Oct, 11,