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June ly, 191 r. RECORD AND GUIDE ii6i have been approved by tbe Bureau of Buildings, N. Y.: Less than Per 100 sq. ft,: Carload, Carload, No. 4..................... §1.22 $2,86 No. 24..................... 1.48 1-SO No. 27......................38 1,17 No, 26..................... 1.20 1.45 Paints, Oils and Dressings. LINSEED OIL.-City. Raw, per gal....................$0.90 and ,$0,91 Boiled American, per gal.........91 and .92 WHITE LEAD. American dry, per gal., in oil........ 3'/4 cents 100, 250 and 500 Ib. kegs, per gal____ 7^ cents In 25 and 50 lb. kegs in oil, per gal,. 8 cents VARNISHES, Lucas' Workwell brand, outside...........§4,.iO Lucas' Workwell brand, inside............ 3,00 Lucas' Workwell floor..................... 3,00 Lucas' Workwell wax finish............... 3.00 CONCRETE FLOOR DRESSING, (List,) Lucas' cement filler (Pat.), per gai. In bbl. lots ..................................§1.75 Lucas' cement filler (Pat,), per 5 gal. cans. I.80 Lucas' cement filler (Pat.), per 1 gal, can.. 2.00 Lucas' floor paint, per bbl............... 1.7.1 Lucas' floor paint, per 5 gals.............. 1.83 Lucas' floor paiut, per 1 gal............. 2.00 •'Cement Filler," Patented.....1.75 1.S5 2,00 5 fc 10 one Barrel, gals, gal, "Tocolith," Patented ..........$2,00 §2,10 $2.23 "Liquid Kenerit," Patented____2.00 2.10 2.25 "Pigment Cement Filler," Pat. . 1.75 1.85 2.00 "Cement Floor Paint," Pat____1.73 1.85 2.00 Stone. SAND, Cu. Yd. Screened Cow Bay, sharp, delivered along side deep water docks. N, Y..........$0,23 Same delivered along side shallow water docks, N, Y...........................35 White quartz ............................60 White quartz, grit.............,..........75 GRAVEL,—Washed ....................85 BLUE STONE.—There is a scarcity ol stone in tbe Hudson River quarries, owing to the pur¬ chase by tbe State ot the Harriman Park trad, A month ago the price was a cent a square foot lower than it is at present. Some dealers are getting 19 cents, although it can be bought for 17 and IS cents. Promiscuous shapes of build¬ ing and foundation stone now sell for 65 to 70 cents a lineal foot. Stone 5 x 20 in. by 5 ins, thick sells for 50 cents, GR.\NITE.—Prices are without change at 40 to 45 cents per sq. ft. dock, N. Y.. for promiscu¬ ous run of quarry stock, Milford pink is quoted at -§1 for promiscuous sizes. LIMESTONE.—Prices are unchanged at 85 cents a cu. yd. dock, N. Y, Dressed limestone brings from $l-,25 to $1,50 a cu, yd, INTERIOR STONES. Marble flooring ready to lay.50 to 75 cts, a sq, ft. Italian .....................70 to 90 eta. a sq. ft, Tennessee ................. 65 cts, a sq, ft. Ordinary stair ............ 24 cts, a sq, ft. CRUSHED STONE (Full cargo lots of 300 cu, yds, along side dock, N. Y.) VA in. Hudson trap........ 85 cents per cu. yd. % lu. Hudson trap.......... 90 cts. per cu.yd. Terra Colta and Tile. HOLLOW TILE.—The demaud for this ma¬ terial has increased twenty per cent, within the last two months and prices may not long remain at the following levels; (F. O. B. Perth Amboy.) Size. Per block in cents. 4 X 13 X 12................. 5.23 0 X 12 X 12................. 6.6 8 x 12 X 12................. 8.9 10 s 12 X 12................. 10,5 12 X 12 X 12................. 12.1 FLREPROOFING PARTITION BLOCKS (f, o. b. Perth Amboy),—Small orders. 2 X 12 X 12.................. 4.4 3 X 12 X 1-2.................. 44 4 X 12 X 12.................. ii. 6 X 12 X 12.................. 0 6 8 X 12 X 12.................. 8,8 Note,—For quantities over $1,000 worth con¬ cessions are made. FLUE LINING (f. o. b. mill).—Discounts from lists is S3 per cent. In New York they can be had in small lots at 78 per cent, discount, ROOFING TILE (f, o. b. factory).—Prices are steady, but the demand is increasing. Promenade .....................,$20 a thousand Promenade, selected ............$30 a thousand No. 2, smooth surface, but not suitable for promenade purposes, $12 a thousand. Vitrified tile, unglaaed, French or Spanish type, §8.50 a thousand. Glass tile, 60 cents each. Roofing Slate. (Quotations are "per square" or 100 sq, ft. or roofing surface in carload lots on the sizes ia general use.) Bangor, Genuine No. 1..........4.00 to 6.30 Brownsville Sc Monson Mine......4.50 to 7.50 Chapman, No, 1 ................ 4.50 to 5.50 Peach Botiom .................. 5.00 to 6.30 Red, No. 1 ......................10.50 to 12,00 Unfading Green ................4,00 to 5.50 Waterproofing. ASPHALTUM ...........$25 lo ,'i;27 per net ton ACID PROOF COATING. .$1,25 per gal, in bbla do. in gal. cans.................$1.40 per gal. Portland cement "waterproofing... ,7 cents per lb. nearest R. R, ROOFING CEMENT...............§23 per ton NEW IDEAS IN TRADE LITERATURE. Season's Catalogues Reflect Progress in Printing and Illustrating as Well as in the Manufacture of Building Materials—Fine Examples of the Printers' Art. NEW catalogues now coming from the press are, as a rule, larger and more perfect typographically than last year's issues. Indeed, some of them, lilce those of the Ya'lc & Towne, Russell & Ei-win and otlier large houses, are not less not¬ able as examples of progress in the art of l>ookniaking than as records of me¬ chanical inventions in trades allied to the huilding industry- One has only to glance at a collection of publications of big firms to he convinced of the truth of the statement frequently made by pub¬ lishers that the finest work in printing and illustrating is done now-a-days in catalogues. In the trade publications for the cur¬ rent year the phantom photograph large¬ ly supersedes the drawing. It harmonizes better with photographic cuts and lends itself better to showing exterior views. In sorae catalogues colortype illustrations are used, parSicularly in portraying such lines as rough surfaced front briclt, con¬ crete surface finishes and certain iorms of metal trim finished to simulate woods. Some houses are issuing catalogues in sections, each section being hound in cloth. This meets in an economical way the wants of persons answering adver¬ tisements of class materials. Universities are paying more attention to building and equipment matters in their bulletins. One of these is from the University of Illinois and is a timely and valuable paper on "Spontaneous Combustion of Coal." A notable instance of high-class of bookmalting is "Glimpses of New York," issued by the New York Edison Company. It is well written and contains interesting information about Gotham not generally known. Two tone illustrations are used and the whole is printed on vellum, with an artistic em¬ bossed paper cover. Incidentally, the book reveals some of the applications to which the Edison service is put. Judging by the catalogues at hand, splendid progress was made in 1900-10, not only in the manufacture of building materials and equipment, but in the art of imparting a knowledge of this progress to architects, builders and owners. SPONTANEOUS COAL COMBUSTION IN BUILDINGS. Owners of buildings always realize tlie possibility of the spontaneous combus¬ tion of the vast ciuantities of coal stored in the sub-cellars or bins. Tliis is an ever present danger and one most difficult of solution. Furthermore, it is a matter which is very little understood. Bulletin No, 46, just issued by the University of Illinois, deals with tliis sub¬ ject 'exhaustively in fill'ty-seven pages fully illustrated with diagrams showing temperature, and going, at length, into the causes of spontaneous combustion. The work is hy S, W. Parr and F. W. Kressmann, Some of the chapter titles give comprehensive ideas of the scope of the work. Chapter No, 1 deals with general de¬ scriptions and methods of apparatus used in experimental investigations and the following chapter treats and deals of the experiment. Another chapter presents a discussion and presentation of data ob¬ tained, and the subject of tlie oxidation of sulphur aud the resulting heat incre¬ ment is taken up, in cliapter four. Chap¬ ters five, six, seven and eight have to do with deal of analytical processes for the oxidation of sulphur, additional ex¬ periment on mixed sizes of coal, a study of possible detriments, and additional data, respectively. The remainder of the work is taken up with the conclusions and an appendix with an historical review, including a summary of opinions. For copies of bulletin ad¬ dress the Engineering Experiment Station, Urbana, III, A NEW REVOLVING DOOR. The Van Kannel Revolving Door Com¬ pany, which has recently been taken over by the J, F. Blanchard Company, is pre¬ paring a new catalogue illustrating its au¬ tomatic collapsible panic-proof revolving door. The catalogue will show the door in its normal revolving position, permit¬ ting instantaneous exit and entrance and absolutely preventing the passage of air. Another view will illustrate the same door in its collapsed position caused by a slight pressure against the lateral panels swing¬ ing the entire door into a space six inches wide. Even the curving sides of the en¬ closure collapses under tliis pressure so that automatically the entire space of exit is open to its fullest capacity. eraily mastered even by experienced car¬ penters. The Russell Jennings Manufac¬ turing Company, of Chester, Conn., has just issued a very instructive illustrated booklet on "How to Sharpen Auger Bits aud How to Cave for Them." UNDERGROUND PIPING. The question of protecting pipes against the action of electrolysis in buildings and in streets is an important one to owners of all types of buildings. Pipes are fre¬ quently buried in cement and where this action taltes place it is necessary to have them fully protected, so as to save repair bills. The Portland Stoneware Company, of Portland and Boston, has just publish¬ ed a new catalogue dealing with its sys¬ tem of underground pipe protection known as the Portland Sectional Conduit System. LONG-WEAR DUMBWAITER ROPES. Owners of apartment houses frequently have calls to replenish rope on dumb¬ waiters, owing to the fact that either the rope installed is too large for the pulley, that the pulley surface is rough and wears through the rope or that loads too heavy for the capacity of the lift have been placed upon it. A great deal, however, depends upon the kind of rope used in the first place. There is a high grade rope which is fully described in a new booklet issued by tiie Plymouth Cord¬ age Company, Plymouth, iVTass., entitled "The Rope You Can Trust." The booklet contains some interesting facts for the consumer as well as for the dealer and jobber. FOR USERS OF AUGER BITS. The average user of auger bits thinks that when its points become dull it is time to buy a new one, simply because the art of sharpening old bits is not gen- A NOVELTY IN GARAGE DOORS. The Reliance Ball Bearing Door Hanger Company, of New York, is out with its new 1911 catalogue. This contains twice as many pages as last year's issue. An ingenious device evolved by tlie Re¬ liance Company since last year, is a triple hanger carrier whereby three doors are hung on a single hanger, the center door alone being attached to it, while the other two doors swing on hinges fastened di¬ rectly to the center door. This appears to be an exceptionally appropriate device for garage doors or for closing large open¬ ings in churches and Sunday school rooms, day school rooms or residences as a nine- foot opening can be covered by such doors with only three feet of pocket room, into which to slide the folded doors. Several new styles of elevator door loclis are shown in the new catalogue. One of these is designed to- do away with the noise and rattle so often heard in all kinds of buildings. Another ncw lock can he operated from the left side of the shaft. Although the operator cannot open the door from the car side when it is locked, neither can anyone in the Ioft open it even if unloclted. thus eliminating accidents. The mechanism is operated by a rod in¬ side of a liolloTv tube. This prevents any one reaching through the grill and unlocking the door.