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July 22, 1922 RECORD AND GUIDE 117 New Commitments Indicate Continued Building Progress Weekly Statistics of F. W. Dodge Company Show Little Decline in Local Activity Because of Unsettled Material Supply Situation C^ ONSTRUCTION in the Metropolitan district continues at '. mid-season intensity. Although there is a noticeable decline in the number of new housing projects being brought out there is a decided increase in industrial and commercial operations which has more than offset the loss in residential work. Study of the newly projected operations shows that there will undoubtedly be a continuation of the prevailing conditions in the local construc¬ tion field for the remainder of the year and that during the next few years the building trades will average far better business than they have had for several years past. The weekly statistics compiled by the F. W. Dodge Company show that in Xew York State and New Jersey, north of Trenton, plans were announced for 713 new projects at an estimated total cost of $29,170,200 during the twenty-eighth week of this year. The contracts actually awarded in this territory during the week numbered 497 and represented a total outlay of $18,755,300. In Greater New York there were first reports on 276 new build¬ ing and engineering operations during the week of July 8 to 14, inclusive, which will require an expenditure of approxiniateh- $20,068,900, and the records show 130 contracts awarded, which are valued at a total of $8,623,800. The list of 276 contemplated operations is divided into the fol¬ lowing groups: SO business buildings such as stores, offices, lofts, commercial garages, etc., $3,688,000; 9 educational projects, $1,200,- 900; 1 hospital, $1,000,000; 8 factories and industrial plants, $667,000; 3 public buildings, $272,500; 5 public works and public utilities, $2,562,000; 5 religious and memorial buildings, $298,000; 193 residential operations, including apartments, flats and tenements and one and two-family dwellings, $10,175,500, and 2 social and recreational projects, $205,000. Among the 130 projects for which contracts were awarded in Greater Xew York during the twenty-eighth week of this year were 23 commercial buildings of various types, $4,099,000; 3 educational projects, $150,900; 3 industrial buildings such as factories, shops, warehouses, etc., $190,000; 2 public buildings, $85,000; 7 public works and public utilities, $310,900; 2 religious edifices, $25,000, and 90 residential projects, including multi-family dwellings and one and two-family houses, $3,763,000. PERSONAL AND TRADE NOTES. A. J. Silberstein, architect, has moved his office from 829 Broad street to 185 Market street, Newark, N. J. Newton L. Schloss and Joseph Orlando, architects and engineers, announce the opening of offlces in the Tilden Building, 105 West Fortieth street, for the design and construction of steel, concrete, slow burning and non-fireproof buildings. Iron Products Corporation, of New York City, and its subsidiaries, the Central Iron & Coal Company, Central Radiator Com¬ pany and the Molby Boiler Company, an¬ nounce the opening of a district sales office in the Jefferson County Bank Build¬ ing, Birmingham, Ala. BeU Brothers' tumber Company, foot East Ninty-ninth street, has acquired a tract containing thirteen lots in 138th street, near Southern boulevard, the Bronx, upon which a modern office build¬ ing and garage will be erected. The firm proposes to transfer its headquarters upon completion of these buildings. Brigadier-General John J. Carty, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, received the honor¬ ary degree of doctor of engineering from New York University at its graduation exercises held June 6. This is a very unusual degree and is conferred for only unusually meritorious services. DTTlgrht P. Robinson & Co., Inc., en¬ gineers and constructors, have entered Into a contract with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company by which policies are provided without expense for all members of the contracting organization reporting to the general office. Policies are provided under a group insurance plan without cost to the employees. W. D. Cashin & Co., Boston. Mass., an¬ nounce the opening of a New York office, located in the Grand Central Terminal Building, as sales agents for the Ther- mograde Valve Company and for the Bishop & Babcock Company, vacuum heat¬ ing specialties. Thomas M. Kellogg has been installed as the manager of the office. gather more closely in discussions regard¬ ing promotion of their activities and solu¬ tion of their problems. According to Charles H. Hofrichter, secretary of the National Council of Liighting Fixture Manufacturers, the affairs of both organizations will be ad¬ ministered from the same office. Each organization will maintain its own identity, have its own officers, collect and handle its own funds and in every way conduct the detailed work of the organi¬ zation in an individual manner. TRADE AND TECHNICAL SOCIETY EVENTS. Employment Service for Engineers An employment service for engineers of every variety of training and experience is conducted by the four National Engin¬ eering Societies of the United States. This service brings in touch with the various business men the service of 50,000 trained technical men who are members of these societies, and one of the objects of it is to show to the various commercial houses the aid which engineers are ren¬ dering to others in the same lines and to help these firms and corporations secure similar assistance. Men of engineering training are promi¬ nent in all branches of commercial endeavor and their creative ability is recognized as being of great help in the building up of the nation's wealth. This service is under the direction of W. V. Brown and is located in the United Engineering Building, 29 West Thirty- ninth street, and is free to both employer and to employee. manufacturers and Dealers to Co-operate For the purpose of co-operation, ar¬ rangements have been made by the Executive Board of the Lighting Fixture Dealers' Society of America and the officials of the National Council of Light¬ ing Fixture Manufacturers to join to¬ day production Less in 1921 Production of raw clay in New Jersey, the leading clay-producing state, during 1921 decreased both in quantity and value from the high points reached in 1920 and 1919, according to figures compiled by the State Department of Conservation and Development in co-operation with the U. S. Geological Survey. A total of 263,178 short tons valued at $1,049,748 was produced in the State in 1921 while the corresponding figures for 1920 were 354,613 short tons valued at $1,656,867. These figures represent only those clays which are mined and sold as clay, and not those which are mined and used directly by the manufacturer. Ball clay alone shelved an increase. The 1921 tonnage of 8,230 short tons was 65 per cent, greater than that of 1920; the value of the yield for 1921 is placed at $62,638, while that for 1920 was $43,157. Other clays included in the raw clay group, together with the 1921 figures, are: flre clay. 195,572 short tons valued at ?S42.257; stoneware clay, 16,354 short tons valued at $71,919; and miscellaneous clays, 43,022 short tons valued at $72,934. ^Vall Paper ^I^nnfactnr^rs' Associa¬ tion of the United States will hold its an¬ nual convention at the Hotel Coinmodore, Xew York Cit.v. during the wee'lc begin¬ ning July 31. Xew York State Retail Hardware As¬ sociation will hold its annual convention and exposition at Rochester, February 10 to 23, inclusive, next year. Long Island Lumber Dealers' Associa¬ tion will hold its first annual clambake and field day at Valley Grove, Eatons' Neck, near Northport, Wednesday, July 26. .\n interesting program of athletic events is being prepared. American Society for Municipal Im¬ provements will hold its annual meeting at Cleveland, October 2 to 6, inclusive. Headquarters will be located at the Hollenden Hotel. An interesting exhibit will be held in connection with this meet¬ ing. Illuminating Engineering Society will hold its annual convention in Boston, September 25 to 28 inclusive. This will be the sixteenth annual gathering of the society, and the convention arrangements are in the hands of a committee of which C. L. Edgar, president of the Edison Elec¬ tric Illuminating Company of Boston, is chairman; H. F. Wallace, vice-chairman, and J. Daniels, secretary. American Electrochemical Society an¬ nounces the removal of its national head¬ quarters to Columbia University, after having been located for nearly twenty years at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. The change is due to the fact that the society's new secretary. Dr. Colin G. Fink, has recently been appointed lecturer in . electrochemistry at Columbia, and he will have charge of that division of the university's department of chemical en¬ gineering. Xational Safety Council will hold its eleventh annual meeting in Detroit, August 2S to September 1, inclusive. A special program has been arranged for the metals section, of which J. R. Mulli¬ gan, safety inspector for the Bethlehem Steel Company, is chairman. The pro¬ gram for the meeting includes reports of officers and committees and several ad¬ dresses. All meetings will be held in the new Cass Technical High School, which has just been completed. This building has an auditorium with a seating capacity for 3.000 persons.