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April 11, 1914 RECORD AND GUIDE 673 THE SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON CITY PLANNING will be held at Toronto on May 25-27. The conference is divided into seven sessions, and speeches will be made by Fred¬ erick L. Olmsted, Andrew Wright Crawford, J. V. Davies, John A. McCollum, Lawrence Veiller, R. S. Gourlay and Henry V. Hubbard. Regis¬ tration will be held at the conference headquar¬ ters. Hotel King Bdward. noon. May 25, follow¬ ing which will be made a tour of inspection ot the city and harbor. OBITUARY PATRICK E. M'CORMICK, general contractor, died suddenly at his home in South Orange, N. J., Tuesday, April 7. He was born in Ireland sixty years ago. DAVID FORCE REED, retired general con¬ tractor, died at the Home for Aged Men and Couples, 745 Classon av, Brooklyn, Friday. April 3, at the age ot seventy-seven years. DAVID R. LOSEY. landscape engineer and contractor,Tiled Tuesday, March 31, at his home, 38 Morris street, Morristown, N. j. Mr. Losey was seventy-two years of age and a veteran of the Civil War. AS a landscape contractor, he laid out a number of large estates in the vicin¬ ity of Morristown. JAMES J. LYONS, general contractor, 482 Van Buren street Brooklyn, died Thursday, April 2, in St. Catherine's Hospital. Mr. Lyons was fifty-five years of age and prior to entering the contracting fleld on his own account, spent fif¬ teen years as foreman for the P. J. Carlin Con¬ struction Co. He is survived by his widow, three sons and three daughtera. JOHN D. BALDWIN, president of the B'aldwin Lumber Co., Jersey City, died at his home In Hackensack, N. J.. Wednesday, April 8. He was sixty-three years ot age and had been en¬ gaged in the lumber business tor many years. Mr. Baldwin was an active member of the Ori- tani Field Club and the Hackensack Lodge of Elks. He is survived by his widow, one son and one daughter. JOHN McNAMBE, formerly a member of the firm of Crawford & McNamee, general contrac¬ tors, who built sections ot the subways of the city, died at his home, 237 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, Tuesday, April 7. He was born in Brooklyn in 1842 and had been a member of the Board of Education in Brooklyn for twenty-one years. Mr. McNamee retired from the contract¬ ing business in 1909, but continued his interests in otber lines, being president ot the Eagle Warehouse & Storage Co., a trustee ot the Kings County Trust Co., and a director in the Brevoort Savings Bank, National Water Meter Co. and other corporations. He is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter. GEORGE W. ROGERS, a general contractor, died at his home 518 North Broad street, Eliza¬ beth, N. J., Friday. April 3. Mr. Rogers was born in New York City and was the senior mem¬ ber ot the firm of George W. Rogers & Co., 20 Broadway, Manhattan. The flrm do a general con¬ tracting business, particularly heavy foundation. dock and terminal .construction. The flrm erect¬ ed the Lehigh Valley R. R. terminal in Jersey City and docks for the New York Central, Erie and other railroad companies. Mr. Rogers was a member of Union League, Engineers and Whitehall Clubs, the Museum of Natural His¬ tory and the Navy League of Washington. He is survived by his widow. BHnaMBnmiinBiinuniu I TR TRADE AND TECHNICAL SOCIETY EVENTS. IIIIIII iMiiiiiMiioiiiiiiimiiaiminmM NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP BUILDING OWNERS AND MANAGERS will convene at Duluth, July 14 ;o 17. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEER DRAFTSMEN.—Regular meeting third Thurs¬ day of each month. Walter L. Smyth, secre¬ tary, 74 Cortlandt st. New York City. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS.—Secretary, J. R, Wemlinger, 11 Broadway, New York. Meets lecond Thurs¬ day, In New York, except July and August. NATIONAL PIPE & SUPPLIES ASSOCIA¬ TION will hold its annual convention April 20- 21 at the Hotel Biltmore, N. Y. C. The sessions will be held in the music room on the second floor of the hotel. INSTITUTE OP OPERATING ENGINEERS. —Regular meeting lecond Thursday ot each month. Engineering Societies Building, New York City. H. B. Collins, secretary, 29 West 39th »t. New York City. MASTER BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION of New Jersey will hold Its annual convention In Or¬ ange, N. J„ April 23, 1914. V. P. Chrlstofter- son, Perth Amboy, N. J., secretary. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MA¬ TERIALS.—Atlantic City has been chosen for thf seventeenth annual meeting ot the Ameri¬ can Society for Testing Materials on June 30- July 4. Headquarters will be at the Hotel Traymore. THE MONTHLY MEETINGS of the American Society of Engineering Contractors (Inc.) for¬ merly held in the United Engineers' Building, are now held at the rooms of this society, 11 Broadway, on the^ second Thursday of each month, except In July and August, at 2 o'clock p. m. BROOKLYN ENGINEERS' CLUB will hold its fourth annual exhibition ot engineering ma¬ terials and processes at the club house, 117 Remsen st, B'rooklyn, April 15-22. Many of the latest inventions applying directly to the engi¬ neering profession will be displayed. The ex¬ hibition is open to the public without charge. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL Engineers will hold its thirty-first annual con¬ vention in Detroit, Michigan, June 22-26. Cnn- vention headquarters will be at the Hotel Uadll- 1»C. THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL DINNER of the Erooklyn League will be held at Masonic Tem¬ nle, Brooklyn, Friday evening. May 15. Hon. William Jennings Bryan will be the principal speaker of the evening. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS will hold its midsummer con¬ vention July 3 and July 4 at Brighton Beach. Brooklyn . July 3 will be devoted to papers and discussions of general engineering construction and Saturday, July 4, will he devotfed to papers and discussions on "Best Roads." ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY (Chicago section) held a meeting in the Western Society of Engineers auditorium, Chicago, Wed¬ nesday, April 7. Papers were read by Thomas S. Stevens, of Santa Fe; Dr. Nelson M. Black, ot Milwaukee, and Dr. H. P. Gage, ot Corning, N, Y. llriillllllullllllllilllllUUIIIUIIIUUIlllllUUUIIIIilUIIIIIINllllllllll RECENT INCORPORATIONS. CHELSEA CRESIT CO. is a $100,000 cor¬ poration chartered, with offlces in Manhattan, to do a realty and construction business. The di¬ rectors are Isidor and Ida Blumenkrohn, both of 790 Riverside Drive, and Abraham L. Taylor. 7."i."> Jennings st. The attorney is Lewis S. Marx, 128 Broadway. THE FORD PULLEY & HARDWARE CO. has been incorporated with a capitalization of $10,- 000, with offlces in Manhattan, to manufac¬ ture and deal iu pulleys, apparatus, hardware, etc., and construction material. 'The papers were flled by L. D. Ford, Albert Cole, B. P. Rowland, all of 2-11 West 20th st, and three others, as directors. J. Walz, 271 West 125th st, is the company's attorney. ...............I TRADE LITERATURE :irliiMJiri;i'iirtiiiiiii:Miiiii:iiil Mechanical Pioneer Specialists. Though specialization in manufactur¬ ing is generally believed to be of recent origin, it found application with the pioneers in the mechanical field in the United States. It is found.recorded in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History that in 1643, two hundred and seventy years ago, General Robert Sedg¬ wick with John Winthrop, Jr., estab¬ lished the first furnace and ironworks in America, at Lynn, Mass. For ten generations, except when called to the defense of their country in the Colonial and Revolutionary wars, the Sedgwicks have continued -in the* vcraft, manufacturing from metal and wood machines and mechanical devices which have contributed largely to the wonderful progress of the United States, handing down from father to son the skill and experience accumulated during more than two and a half centuries of specialized effort. In 1844, Charles Henry Sedgwick, the seventh direct descendent of General Robert Sedgwick, brought the business to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., its present lo¬ cation. Some years later, Alonzo Sedg¬ wick, son of Charles Henry Sedgwick, associated with Justus IngersoU Wake- lee, erected a new plant and concentra¬ ted their united energies on the manu¬ facture of hand power elevators and dumbwaiters with which they have been nationally identified ever, since. An attractive catalogue of absorbing interest has just been published by the Sedgwick Machine Works. It is inter¬ esting because of its historic value, and shows the wonderful progress made in the mechanical field, and particularly the development in hand power elevator and dtimbwaited manufacture and, adapta¬ bility. This booklet will be sent upon request. To Rehabilitate Metal Products Co. President Turner of the United Metal Products Company, in his annual report to stockholders, gives assurances that it will be only a short time when advances may be resumed on the preferred stock. The company is said to be making sat¬ isfactory progress in the rehabilitation of its credit and business and further progress is indicated in a plan which the president has in mind for scaling down the capiitalization of the company by a reduction in the $5,000,000 common stock. Speaking of this plan Mr. Turner says that he suggests that when the proper time comes the common stock will be reduced to such an extent that the good will account may in a large measure be eliminated. The capital account of the company shows that "good will" has been capitalized at $3,813,365. The com¬ mon stock outstanding is $5,000,000, which is owned to a great extent by in¬ terests identified with the Assets Realiza¬ tion Company. The entire amount charged to the good will account, in¬ cluding organization expenses and pat¬ ents, totals $4,543,274. The income ac¬ count for the year shows net profits of only $33,659, before considering losses on contracts aggregating $63,000. Boycotts and the Labor Struggle. In view of the recent decision of the courts in the Danbury Hatters' case, and the consequent concerted action which is being taken to amend the Sherman Anti-Trust act so as to exempt trade unions from liability from dam¬ ages in boycotting cases, the volume on "Boycotts and the Labor Struggle", written by Harry W. Laidler, a member of the New York bar, and published by John Lane Company, New York, is just now of special interest to all em¬ ployers of labor. The author deals ex¬ haustively with both the economic and legal aspects. The book contains an in¬ troduction by Prof. Henry R. Seager, professor of the trust problem and the labor problem at Columbia Universty. Mr. Laidler traces the interesting origin of boycotting; describes its em¬ ployment in America, both by traders, employers and working men; examines the present status of the common and statute laws, both on trade and labor boycotts; sets forth with impartiality arguments for and against the legality of boycotting; presents a cross-section of the labor struggle, showing what weapons are used in labor disputes, both by workingmen and employers, and de¬ scribes all of the trade and labor boy¬ cott cases and other conspiracy cases decided by the federal courts and higher state courts. New Ceresit Booklet. The Ceresit Waterproofing Company, of Chicago, 111., has issued an interesting booklet entitled "Waterproofing for Concrete Houses." The use of cement stucco and the necessity for safeguard¬ ing against dampness has been dwelt upon exhaustively. The Building Height Problem. Electus D. Litchfield, architect, who was named eight years ago by the Board of Aldermen as a member of a commis¬ sion of experts to revise the Building Code, and who was chairman of the spe¬ cial committee 'having in charge the particular work of the limiting of height and area, believes the solution of the heights of buildings problem is a mat¬ ter of trial and error and slow growth. "Many of the earlier structures were designed by men who were not masters of their profession," he told the members of the Erooklyn Municipal (Illub, "and even the leaders in architecture found the successful treatment of these tower¬ ing structures for the time beyond them. Moreover, to the man in the street, these trerrvendous loonstructions seemed un¬ safe in the extreme, and so many of the American cities passed restrictive ordi¬ nances prohibiting the erection of any buildings beyond a comparatively mod¬ erate limit of height. Boston, Wash^- ington, Indianapolis and other cities were among the number. "Fortunately no such law was passed by the City of New York. Of itself, there is nothing evil in the high build¬ ing. It is only when it is improperly designed that it is bad, esthetically, structurally or from other points of view. "Take away the towers of New York, from the now modest firalda of Madison Square to the towering shapes of the Metropolitan and Singer towers, and the splendid bulks of the Candler Building, the Liberty Tower, and the Bankers Trust, and much of the outward evi¬ dence of the glory of New York would disappear." Mr. Litchfield, however, commended the work of the members of the Heights of Building Commission, saying that the legislation they have recommended is frauo-ht with great good to the people of the city.