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308 RECORD AND GUIDE March 3, 1917 The "Silent Watchman." On February 8 a fire loss occurred at the Hotel Endicott, Columbus avenue and Slst to SJd streets, a building erected twenty-eight years ago. Recently John F. Garrety, general hotel manager, in¬ stalled an up-to-date sprinkler system of the highest efficiency, bringing this old hotel up to the present day methods of fireproof buildings. The fire occurred about 10.30 o'clock in the evening when many of the guests were at the theatre, and no one in the hotel knew that there was a fire until two or three hours later, when they noticed water dripping down through from the ceilings. Upon investigation, the hotel people discovered that a large fire had occurred within tliose rooms and that the "Silent Watchman," to wit: the sprinkler, had put out the fire without the knowledge or assistance of any outsider. The above was approved by the New York Fire Insurance Exchange through the office of William T. Ritch, Inc. Insurance Specialists, Builders Ex¬ change, 34 W. 33d St., N. Y. City. --------------♦-------------• Manufacturers Aided. At the meeting of the Queens Cham¬ ber of Commerce to be held on Thurs¬ day afternoon, March 8, Dr. Edward Ew¬ ing Pratt, Chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States Department of Commerce, will speak on the subject of "How Uncle Sam Helps the Business Man." Dr. Pratt will come from Washington to tell the business men of Queens Borough how the Government aids the manufacturer and producer in the extension of both their foreign and domestic trade. --------------♦------------- To Alter Harlem Hotel. Extensive improvements are to be made in the near future to the thirteen story Hotel Theresa, which occupies the entire block front on the west side of Seventh avenue from 124th to 12Sth street. This hotel was built four years ago by the estate of Gustave Sidenberg, as a monuir.ent to his wife, Theresa Sidenberg. from plans by George and Edward Blum, architects. On account of the demand for accommodations, the Estate has decided to devote the entire second floor to suites of rooms and to transfer the hotel office, lobbies a.uu lounging rooms to the ground floor, where stores are at present. They also contemplate building an e.xtensive mez¬ zanine to be used for a barber shop, manicure and haberdasher. The archi¬ tects, George and Edward Blum, ap¬ proximate the cost of the alteration at $25,000. Downtown Projects. Improved conditions downtown are re¬ flected by the alteration of properties managed by the Charles F. Noyes Com¬ pany for incoming tenants. The Charles F. Noyes Company announces that ex¬ tensive improvements are to be made at 28 to 30 Burling slip and at 175 Front street by Joseph F. Cullman from plans by .\ymar Embury, 2nd; the "Scott Building" at 35 to 37 Frankfort street, also owned by Mr. Cullman, is to be altered from plans by Frederick Putnam Piatt, and it is understood that negotia¬ tions are pending for the leasing of this entire building containing 40.000 square feet of space. No. 166 Front street is being altered from plans by Frederick Putnam Piatt for Miranda & Company, who have taken a ten years' lease; 207 Pearl street is to be reconstructed from plans by Frederick Putnam Piatt, and extensive alterations are to be made fro']! plans by James S. Maher at 14 Cliff street. Mr. Maher is also making addi¬ tional changes including installation of electric elevator at 50 Lispenard street, owned by the Parmelee Realty Corpora¬ tion. erty is 25.x200 feet 10 inches. The en¬ tire building will be fireproof in every respect and will contain all the most improved appliances. The residence on the 69th street end will be six stories high, and the garage on the 70th street end will be two stories high. The roof of the garage will be constructed in the form of a roof garden, with a pergola. The material of tlie facades on both streets will be of red brick and marble trimmings. Contracts have been award¬ ed for the construction and the site is now being excavated. File Plans for Costly Dwelling. C. P. H. Gilbert, architect, has filed plans in the Department of Buildings for the new residence and garage to be erected for A. G. Paine. Jr., extending through from 31 East 69th street to 40 East 70th street. Tlie size of the prop- Edison Co. to Build. The New York Edison Company is having plans prepared by William Weissenberger, Jr., 32 Union square, architect, for a six-story brick and rein¬ forced concrete store and office building, to measure about 50x130, at 177th street and Monterey avenue, Bronx. The pro¬ posed structure will cost about $100,000. Designing Brooklyn Theatre. R. Thomas Short, 370 Macon street, Brooklyn, architect, will draw plans for the proposed two story brick and stone moving picture theatre to be erected on a plot 120x172, at the corner of Bedford avenue and Brevoort place, Brooklyn, at an estiir.ated cost of about $225,000, by a company now being formed, of which D. Herman, 2941 Broadway, Manhattan, is president. The theatre will have a seating capacity of between 2,500 and 3,000. Costly Bronx Apartments. The Frederick F. French Company, Courtlandt avenue and 148th street, builder, plans the erection of three five- story brick apartment houses at the northeast corner of Tinton avenue and 147th street, from privately prepared plans. The houses will measure respec¬ tively 50x100, 75x100 and 75x100, and will involve an outlay of approximately $260,000. New West End Avenue Project. George F. Pelham. Inc., 30 East 42nd street, is preparing sketches for a twelve-story brick, stone and terra cotta apartment house, to be erected at the southeast corner of West End avenue and 73rd street, by Jacob .'Axelrod, 200 West 72d street, owner and builder. The building will measure 78x90 feet. (PERSONAL AND TRADE NOTES. J. B. Wallach, architect, has opened an oflice in the Foster Building, Madi¬ son avenue and 40th street. Wright and Kremers, architects, have moved their offices from 311 Falls street to the Gluck Building, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Alva O. Greist has opened offices at 51 East 4Jd street, as consulting engi¬ neer, specializing in public utility prop¬ erties. Joseph L. Burke & Co., general con¬ tractors, have opened offices in the Fos¬ ter Building, Aladison avenue and 40th street. International Engineering Company, 307 Sun Building. Detroit, Mich., wishes to receive copies of manufacturers' cata¬ logues. Thompson & Binger (Inc.), general contractors, with main offices in Syra¬ cuse. N. Y., have opened an office at 280 Madison avenue, room 1204. New York Blue Print Company, manu¬ facturer and importer of sensitized pa¬ pers and drawing materials, has moved its offices to 102 Reade street. Amsterdam Building Company, Iniilder and general contractor, has taken addi¬ tional space at 140 West 42d street and will now occupy an entire fioor. Paul Gillespie, Earl W. Porter and Er¬ nest F. Schreiber announce the opening of offices for the practice of architecture under the firm name of Gillespie, Porter & Schreiber, in the Brandeis Theatre Building, Omaha, Nebraska. A. Pearson Hoover, formerly con¬ tracting engineer, John W. Ferguson Company, Paterson, N. J., and construc¬ tion engineer for C. T. Main of Boston, Mass., is now an associate of E. P. (ioodrich, consulting engineer, of 35 Nassau street. Dwight D. Miller has joined the staff of the Society for Electrical Develop¬ ment, New York City. He is a graduate of Harvard University. He was for over ten years with the Westinghouse Elec¬ tric and Manufacturing Company, as sales engineer. Eric T. King has been appointed as¬ sistant secretary of the General Con¬ tractors' Association, New York City. Mr. King, who is a graduate of Union College, class of 1905, was for ten years assistant engineer on the Catskill w'ater system for New York City. James McCreery Realty Corporation purchased the Halter Building, 112-114 West 42d street, some years ago. Ex¬ tensive improvements are contemplated to this property from plans by Alfred C. Bossom, after which the structure will be known as tlie McCreery Building. John C. Jay, Jr., formerly vice-presi¬ dent of the Pennsylvania Steel Co., and chairman of the board of the Maxwell Motor Co., has joined the firm of Jamie- son, Houston & Graham, consulting en¬ gineers, 40 Wall street. The firm will hereafter be known as Jamieson, Hous¬ ton, Graham & Jay. Frank Yardley, formerly vice-presi¬ dent of Jenkins Brothers, manufacturers of valves, packing, etc., 80 White street. New York, was recently elected presi¬ dent of the company to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alfred B. Jenkins. Frank T. Swain, general manager, was elected vice-president. Samuel Laird, manager of the Philadelphia business, has been elected a director to fill the vacancy in the board. With these ex¬ ceptions, the officers and directors were re-elected. National Brick Manufacturers' Asso¬ ciation will hold its annual convention at the Hotel McAlpin, March 5-11. This convention will be in connection with the National Complete Building Exposi¬ tion and will include a number of inter¬ esting and instructive features. The so- C'al events of the convention will in¬ clude a smokcrette, Wednesday evening, at which ladies will have the privilege of attending, and the annual banquet of the association, which will take place Thurs¬ day evening. Roscoe C. Briggs, of the Briggs Lum¬ ber Co.. Oneonta. was elected president of the Lumber Dealers' Association of the State of New York at the recent convention in Syracuse. Other officers elected were: First- vice-president, C. C. Harper, Traders' Box & Lumber Co., Rochester; second vice-president, T. H. Bennett. Post & Henderson Co., Os¬ wego; third vice-president. H. D. Gould, Middletown; fourth yice-president, A. G. Veeder, Veeder & Brown, Inc., Schenectady: directors for three years, R. G. Pratt, Binghamton; John A. Wil¬ lard, Northville; William Hendricks. BufTalo, and William A. Serven, Pearl River. The McGraw Publishing Company and the Hill Publishing Company, New York, have been consolidated as the Mc¬ Graw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc. The new company acquires all the prop¬ erties and interests of the "two constitu¬ ents, including the following technical journals: Electrical World. Electrical Railwav Journal, Electrical Medchandis- ing. Engineering Record, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, The Con¬ tractor, American Machinist, Power, Engineering News. Engineering and Mining Journal, and Coal. Age. Two of these papers. Engineering News and Engineering Record, will be consoli¬ dated under the name. Engineering News-Record, with Charles Whiting Baker, now editor of Engineering News, as editor-in-chief. James H. McGraw will be president of the new company, .Arthur T. Baldwin, now president of the Hill Publishing Company, vice-president and treasurer, and E. J. Mehren, vice- , president and general manager.