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January 16, 1915 RECORD AND GUIDE 121 EAST PLAINFIELD, N. J.—William H. Clum, 152 Park av, Plainfield, has completed plans for a 2-sty frame residence on Terrell rd, for Ernest T. Hand, Westfield. Cost, about $3,000. Other Cities. HALLS AND CLUBS. GREENWICH, CONN.—J. R. Moore, 156 Sth av. Manhattan, engineer, will take bids on elec¬ trical work about February 15 for the 3>^-sty Y. M. C. A. building here, from plans by M. L & H. G. Emery. Bible House, Manhattan. Nathaniel Witherell Estate. 5 East 42d st, Man¬ hattan, donor. Jacob Zimmermann. IS East 41st St. Manhattan, general contractor. Cost, about $200,0t)0. Nii;iiuiM»uminnii»iii>iirjii PERSONAL AND TRADE NOTES. [iMiuiiuiuunuuiuruiuuiiIunn F. L*. ROBINSON, architect, has moved his offices from 331 Madison av to 30 East 42d st. ARNOLD & STERN, architects, will open of¬ fices February 1 at 404 Cutler Building. Roches¬ ter. N. Y. EDWARD J. BYRNE, architect, has moved his offices to the Columbia Bank Building, 14Sth st and 3d av. EUGENE HENRY KLABER, architect, has moved his offices to 101 Park av. Telephone, .5540 Murray Hill. WILLIAM ?. LAI:r1TZEN, architect, form¬ erly at Broadway and 68th st, has moved his offices to 31 East 27th st. W. E. STEPHENS, architect. 469 State st. Schenectady, N. Y.. desires catalogues showing stock designs in galvanized iron cornices. COHEN & FELSON, architects, 331 4th av, have dissolved partnership. J. M. Felson will in future practice his profession at 1133 Broad¬ way. CHARLES A. RICH AND FREDERICK MATHESIUS, JR.. architects, have become as¬ sociated for the joint practice of their profes¬ sion at 320 5th av. MARK A. LEE, architect, formerly with T. Markoe Robertson. 331 Madison av, Manhattan, has opened offices for the practice of his pro¬ fession at Rutherford, N. J. ADOLPH E. NAST. formerly of the firm of Nast & Springsteen, architects, has opened ofiices for the practice of his profession at 546 Sth av. Telephone, Bryant 959. LOUIS BROOKS, architect, has moved his offices from 480 5th av to 449 West 41st st. ^New address was incorrectly reported in our issue of January 2, as 110 West 34th st. JOHN G. SEINER, architect, 70 Thompson St. Buffalo, N. Y., desires information and cata¬ logues on factory construction, methods of fire¬ proofing. metal sash and factory equipment. DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH, sculptor, of New York City, has been selected to model the statute of Abraham Lincoln, which will be placed in the Lincoln Memorial building now under construction at Washington, D. C. HOBOKEN CONSTRUCTION.—According to the report of Joseph Cummings, Inspector of Buildings of Hoboken, sixty new buildings were erected last year, at a cost of $728,530. These included twelve factories and eight storage houses. CAULDWELL-WINGATE €0., as general con¬ tractors, and Levering & Garrigues. as sub¬ contractors for the iron work, are making good progress on the 12-sty addition to the building of the Pictorial Review, opposite the postofflce In .39lh St. SIDNAY DIAMANT, consulting engineer, of 15 East 40th st, has been retained as structural engineer in connection with the new 8-sty fire¬ proof building, for Messrs, Frank Bros., to be erected at 588 5th av. Alfred Freeman, 29 West 34th St. is architect. EUGENE W. STERN, secretary of the Ameri¬ can Institute of Consulting Engineers, was re- centlv appointed chief engineer of the Bureau of Highways. Borough of Manhattan, succeed¬ ing H. W. Durham, whose resignation will be¬ come effective February 1st. JOHN T. TREACY, for more than nine years with the John W. Rapp Oo.. and until recently with the Marble Arch Co.. has hecome asso¬ ciated with the R. G. McCartney Co., 622 St, Nicholas av, Manhattan, contractor for fireproof floor arches, concrete and cement work. MAYOR LENNON. of Yonkers, N. Y.. has appointed a committee consisting of Public Safety Commissioner Fleming. Thomas F. Larkin, James A. Watson, Fred S. Taylor and Alexander Stolz to Investigate housing condi¬ tions in Yonkers, as recommended hy Senator Cullen. I .«^ PILGTIIM HALL, tbe new assembly room of the Broadway Tabernacle, Broadway and 50th St. was dedicated Thursday evening, January 14. The hall, which is directly under the auditorium of the church, will be used as a forum for the discussion of social problems, an entertainment and concert hail and for bannuets. It was made possible by the gift of $25,000 from one family and an equal amount by subscription. FIRE COMMISSIONER ADAMSON has ap¬ pointed Theodore I. Coe chief inspector of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, to succeed John J. Kennedy. TTie place has been vacant since last May. Mr. Coe for tbe last nine years has been superintendent of the architectural firm of Ho- wells & Stokes, of 100 William st. He super¬ intended the construction of the St. Regis Hotel and many other large buildings in the city. He Will receive .?4.000 a year. DOCK COMMISSIONER R. A. C. SMITH received a silver service as an appreciation of his services for Americans stranded in Italy when war broke out. He was chairman of the committee of guarantors who handled the trip of the Principe di Udlne. Thirtv of the pass- •?^^ ^""^^^^ 'n making the gift, which cost j-i.iHj*}. The presentation was made at a lunch- «oB at the Recess Club, 60 Broadway, Thura- day, January 14. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, presided. The large centrepiece of the service was gratefully in¬ scribed. BRIDGE COMMISSIONER KRACKE "has sub¬ mitted a new plan for the Manhattan terminal of the Brooklyn Bridge. The main features of his plan are: To remove the present train shed across Park Row. To erect a new station and terminal G<.)0 feet further back, or upon bridge structure proper, with a western front¬ age on the easterly building line of Park Row. The erection on this station of an ornamental granite facade on the east side of the building to harmonize with the construc¬ tion of the municii»al building. The erection of an ornamental footwalk across Park Row to City Hall park. MRS. HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY is com¬ pleting plans for the exhibition and competition to be held at her studio, 8 West Sth st, Jan¬ uary 16 to 24. inclusive. The proceeds will be devoted to the "Fraternite des Artistes," a fund for the relief of the families of the artists of France made destitute by the war. Prizes are offered for sculpture, for sculpture and archi¬ tecture combined, for decorative painting and for painting and architecture combined. The jury of awards is composed of Paul Claflin. Howard C. Cusbing. William A. Delano, C. Grant La Farge, Paul Manship. J. Alden Weir and James F. E. Fraser. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings of next week, from 6 to 10 o'clock, admission to the exhibition will be free. On the opening day the admission to the public will be $1 ; nn other days 25 cents. COAST SURVEY.—The American Society of Engineers. Architects and Constructors, 35 West 39th st, at its annual meeting passed the fol¬ lowing resolution : "Whereas, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey is the oldest scientific bureau of the government service, but there has long been an unfortunate lack of appreci¬ ation of the public importance of this bureau's work, and for many years it has been obliged to get along with inadequate appropriations and very defective plant. And, whereas. Secretary Redfield, in his annual report, Just issued, and in recent public addresses, has shown the diffi¬ culties under which the officers and men of his bureau are attempting to accomplish their tasks. Resolved, that the American Society of Engineers. Architects and Constructors, endors¬ ing the work done by this bureau in its ac¬ curate mapping, precise levelling and the chart¬ ing of the coasts of the United States as of the greatest service to the Engineering pro¬ fession, urge ample appropriations by Congress for this most important division of the gov¬ ernment engineering work. OBITUARY i MARTIN T. CLAPP, a retired general con¬ tractor, died in the New York Hospital of a fractured skull, sustained Thursday. January 7, at his home 425 West 22d st. He was fifty-eight years old. MICHAEL FOCARILL, a general contractor, and prominent in Italian circles, died of blood poisoning, at his home 801 3d av, Elizabeth. N. J., Saturday, January 2. He was fifty-three years old and is survived by his widow, three sons and three daughters. JAMES A. HUMMER, a retired general con¬ tractor, formerly a resident of East Orange. N. J., died of heart failure at his home in Phillipsburg. N. J., Thursday. January 7. He was sixty-four years old. He was a member of a number of fraternal and social organizations. JOSEPH G. McCOLLUM, superintendent of the construction of the Essex power station of the Public Service Electric Company at Point No Point, in the New Jersey meadows, died in a private hospital in Newark from pneumonia, Thursdav, January 14. He was twenty-nine years old, and formerly lived in Youngstown, N. Y. He was graduated from Cornell Uni¬ versity in 1009. having previously rowed in the freshman eight and played on the 'varsity eleven. CHARLES S. PRICE, for eighteen years gen¬ eral manager of tbe Cambria Steel Company and later its president, died at his home. In Westmont. Pa., of heart disease. Sunday. Janu¬ ary 10. Mr. Price was born in West Chester. Pa., in 1R.52. went to Johnstown in 1876 as a draughtsman, and by degrees he rose to the highest office within the gift of the company. He was a stockholder and director in a large number of corporations of Johnstown, and was one of the incorporators of the Conemaugh Vallev Memorial Hospital Association. He Is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter. ERNST E. W. SCHNEIDER, architect and senior member of the firm of Schneider & Dlef- fenbach. 220 Broadway, died Sunday. January 10, at his home in Grange N. J. He was fiftv- nine years old and was born in Germany. With his partner"^ he dr*^w the nlans for St. Paul's Lutheran Church. West 12.3d st ; Columhus Col¬ lege, in Hawthorne: a svnaerogue in 67th st. several TTnhoken public schools, and remodel lea the City Hall nf Hoboken. ""^^ —-i a pioneer dpsiencr of ni'^dern apartments, and was a mem¬ ber of the Beethoven Society. A widow and two children survive him. J.ACOB MAY. president and founder of the Eagle Iron Works, died suddenly of heart dis¬ ease this morning at his residence. 900 Lafavette av. Mr. May was born in Hausen by Frankfort on Main. Germanv, in 1846. He was educated in Frankfort, in the hieh and grade schools. In 1R0R he came to America, and was employed for several years bv the Singer Sewing Machine Co. He became superintendent of one of the de¬ partments, which position he held up to the time he founded the Eagle Iron Works in '71. in th.^ basement of a small building. After a few years he bought a lot with a small shop on it where the Eagle Iron Works are still located These buildings were enlarged every few years up to the present size, now being the I artiest husiness of its kind in this city. Mr. May's four sons, Captain Charles H. May, Edmund J. May, Jacob G. May and Frederick W. May, were associated with him in business. Mr May was prominent in civic affairs at times, and twice the nomination for Mayor was offered him He was one of the oldest patrons of the Record and Guide, TRADE AND TFCHNICAL SOCIET / EVENTS. THE CORNELL SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGI¬ NEERS will hold its annual meeting in New York City, January 22. EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION of the Chicago Cement Show will be held at the Coli¬ seum February 10-17. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS will hold its an¬ nual meeting January 20-22, 1015. TECHNICAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA.—Regu¬ lar meetings third Friday of each month. Wal¬ ter L. Smyth, secretary, 74 Cortiandt st, N. I. C. NATIONAL BUILDERS' SUPPLY ASSOCIA¬ TION.—The annual convention will be held in Chicago. 111., February 8-9. 1915. Headquarters at Hotel Sherman. BRONX CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will hold its regular meetings in the Walworth Puild- ing. Bergen avenue and 149th street, on the fourth Saturday of each month, ASSOCIATION OF MASTER PLUMB'ERS OF NEW YORK, Manhattan branch, will hold a barn dance at the Lexington Assembly Rooms, Wednesday evening, February 3. ASSOCIATION OF MASTER PLUMBERS of the Borough of Brooklyn will hold its annual entertainment and reception in Prospect Hall. Brooklyn. Tuesday evening, January 19, 1915. NEW YORK CHAPTER. AMERICAN SO¬ CIETY OF HEATING AND VENTILATING EN¬ GINEERS, regular meeting third Monday of each month, Engineering Societies' Building 29 West 39th St. ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK will Eol^its annual exhibition In the Fine Arts Building, 215 West 57th st, February 7 to 27 The annual dinner of the league will be held Friday evening. February 5. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Master House Painters and Decorators of the Unlte4 States and Canada will meet In annual conven¬ tion In Washington, D. C. Feb. 9 to 12, 1915 The headquarters will be at the Hotel Raleigh. A. H. McGhan, Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C., chairman of Convention Committee. LUMBER INTERESTS.—A conference of the lumber industries has been called for February 24 and 25 in Chicago, under the leadership of the National Lumber Manufacturers" Association. The object of the meeting is to establish a permanent advertising bureau to acquaint the public with the uses and advantages over other materials of all forest products. NATIONAL LIME MANUFACTURERS' AS¬ SOCIATION.—The annual meeting will be held in Washington, D. C. Feb. 3-4. at the New Will¬ ard Hotel. One of the objects it Is desired to attain is to convert the Treasury Department to the use of lime in the concrete of public buildings. The Secretary is Frederick K Ir¬ vine, Chicago, III. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS.-The annual meeting of the In¬ stitute will he held on Jan. 10 at the Citv Club New York City, at 8 P. m. Three members of the Council will be elected. Ballots will be canvassed for the adoption of the amended con¬ stitution and bylaws ns prepared by the special committee appointed at the last annual meeting Tlie secretarv is Eugene W. Stern, 101 Park av. New York. NATIONAL BRICK MANUFACTURERS' AS¬ SOCIATION will hold its annual convention at Detroit, February 14 to 20. William B. Wreford of the Detroit Brick Manufacturers' Association! in co-operation with President Eben Rodgers. of Alton. III., and Theodore A. Randall of Indian¬ apolis, constitute the committee of arrangements. The association will also bring to Detroit tbe National Paving Brick Manufacturers' Associa¬ tion, the National Clay Machinery Associa¬ tion, and the American Ceramic Society. MID-WEST CEMENT SHOW.—The ninth an¬ nual Mid-West Cement Show will be held at Omaha. Neb.. March 2 to 6 under the auspices of tbe Mid-West Cement Users* Association. The convention of cement users, for which a program of papers already has been arranged, is scheduled for March 3, 4 and 5. Further information regarding the convention and show may be had from Frank Whipperman. secre¬ tary and treasurer. 28th av and Sahler st, Omaha. THE BROOKLYN LEAGUE will hold the first of a series of meetings at which luncheon will be served at tho Brooklyn City Club, 127 Remsen st. Saturday, January 16 (to-day), at 1 p. m. The meeting will be addressed by the Hon. John Purroy Mitchel. Mayor, and the Hon. Lewis H. Pounds, President of the Borough of Brooklyn. The addresses will be upon topics of interest to every resident of the borough and will be followed by a discussion open to mem¬ bers of the league. AMERICAN SOCIETT OF ENGINEERS ARCHITECTS AND CONSTRUCTORS at its annual meeting held at the Engineering So¬ cieties Building, 20 West 39th st. Wednesday, January 13, elected the following officers and trustees for 1915: Major Samuel P. Hatfield, C. E,. Armv Building, New York, president; Oliver Randolph Parry, Philadelphia, 1st vice- president : Charles N. Green. C. E., 1.54 Nassau St. New York. 2d vice-nresident : T. Hugh Boor- man. C. E.. 35 West 30th st. New York, secre¬ tary ; David E. Sayre. Const.. Newark. N. J., treasurer. Trustees—Oliver Randolph Parry, architect; T. Hugh Boorman, consulting engi¬ neer ; David E. Sayre. constructor: William Philips Comstock, architectural editor : Henry C. Irons, constructor: Manton E. Hibbs, civil engineer; F. J. Kleinke, constructor.