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March 2, 1912 RECORD AND GTTIDE 441 paints as by-products the operations of which would be disclosed. The total quantity cannot b6 shown for white lead in oil, as the operations of individual es¬ tablishments making it as a by-product would be disclojcd. There were reported by establishments making it as a chief product 246,oG7,570 pounds in 1900 and 210,400,450 in 1004, an increase of 14 per cent. The total quantity of paste in oil reported was 165,03■'^,•3,53 pounds in 1901' and 134,2S0,0U0 in 1904, an increase of 23 per cent. Of paint already mixed for use a total of .34.2-S0,4l7 gallons was reported in 1909 and 22.7.jo,01.S in 1!H)4, an increase of 51 per cent. The total quantity of varnishes made in 190!) was 34,009,O.S3 gallons and 19.943,52G in 1004, an increase of 71 per cent. The quantity of this total consumed by es¬ tablishments where manufactured was 4,4117,312 gallons in 19.09 and 013,684 in l!)l)4. Of the articles which are reported to have gained in consumption in 1011 may be mentioned zincs, blacks in the dry color list, and of the miscellaneous list such articles as barytes, chalk, whiting and lithopone, although these miscellaneous articles do not owe all their activity to demand from the paint trade. Varnish gums made a fine record in the closing months of the year." but could not over¬ come the handicap of the slower seasons earlier in the year. China wood oil occu¬ pied a peculiar position late in the year, as the revolution in China cut off ship;nents and available supplies became very meager, which had the effect of raising prices to record figures. White lead is reported as showing a slight decline, al¬ though lower prices in the latter part of the year brought forth a number of large- orders, and some large dealers say the business was about on a par with that of 1910. The lead oxides were in accord with tbe genei-al market and showed no gain over tbe preceding year, although prices were lowered to a point where the manufacturer is said to drive little profit. Stoue. The entire stone market is dull. Whole¬ salers who stacked heavily on supple- mentals during November are trying to clear off their winter stocks and prices are therefore somewhat weaker than usual. There is littJe demand for gran¬ ite, limestone or bluestone. but there is some encouragement reported in the in¬ terior marble fleld. Slate flooring 1 in. thick can be bought for 20 cents a sq. foot for ribbon grades. Clear black now sells at 35c to 40c. at which price Ver¬ mont slate holds._ Marble flooring re-ady to lay is -jOc to 7oc a sq. foot and Italian marble tarings 70c to 90c just now. Crushed stone suffers with other com¬ modities that require sand in their use. One and a half in. sizes bring SO to 85 tent^ a cu. yd; three-quarter in. brings 90 cents to a dollar, at which price screen¬ ings are sold. These prices are for full cargo lots alongside dock, N. Y. Queens Borough Public Offices. The present housing of the administra¬ tive offl'ces of the President of the Bor¬ ough of Queens is very poor. President Connolly says the accommodations are ridiculous, and has asked for an appro¬ priation of .$500,000 of corporate stock for the erection of a suitable borough hall. —Manor Hall at Yonkers has been reno¬ vated and opened as a State museum. ■—With removal sa)es going on at two of the leading stores in West 23d street, Horner's and Dutton"s, that famous re¬ tail thoroughfare seems to be somewhat out of sorts. —Tugboats under charter to the State Superintendent of Public Works are at this writing breaking a channel through the ice on the Hudson River from 'New York to Albany, and thus prevent the yearly overflow of water in the Hudson. —The amount of coal mined in tlie United States in 1910, according to flgures of the United States Geological Survey, was greatei- by 10,000,000 tons than the total tonnage which had been rained up to the close of the year 1871. —The Public Service Commission has ordered the Nassau Electric Railroad Com¬ pany to install, prior to March 1. a tem¬ porary waiting-room or waiting car _for the protection of passengers at Bay 3..)th Street station on the "W^est End Line. The Commission also issued an order extend¬ ing the time of the Brooklyn Union Ele¬ vated Railroad Company to complete its station at Cypress Hills from Febraury 15 to August 15, 1913, CuENEY Electric Elev^^ors THE NKW GURNEY BUILDING 62-64 WEST 45th .STREET REMOVAL ANNOUNCEMENT Following the tendency on the part of Architects and Builders to locate their offices within the dis¬ trict between Twenty-third and Fifty-ninth Streets along the line of Fifth Avenue, we have removed our offices to the new Gurney Building, 62 and 64 West 45th Street. Our new building also affords the larger office space required for our rapidl}' increasing business. GOENEY ElLI^ORGoMMNY CuRNEY Building 62 (^ 64. Wbst 45ih Stre,e.t, Ne-w York 1*^ 7S.2064 Are You Inierested id AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER EQUIPMENT? IF SO Let us submit to you a figure for THE BEST. The "GARRETT" is the Lattbt Approved Auto¬ matic Sprinkler Head. No projecting parts to become accidentally disarranged. FORSTER FIRE EQUIPMENT CO. 140 LIBERTY ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. Telephone 7655 Cortlandt JAMES F. EGAN Builder and General Contractor 5 and 7 E. 42d STREET Tel. 6859 Bryant Residential and Business Property Improved C. 0. MAILLOUX - C. E. KNOX CONSULTING lEUCTRICAL ENGINEERS 90 WEST STREET, NEW YORK Tl Telephone, SOiii Cortlandt FRED DANA RHODES CONSULTING ENGINEER 140 CEDAR STREET foundations. Steel Structures EXPERT EXAMINATIONS AND BEPORTS