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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 71, no. 1830: April 11, 1903

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yCit RECORD AND GUIDE. April II, 1903. aney alongside our buildings. This flre extended throughout the length of the Chestnut st building, the flames shooting across the alley, and endangering our warehouse, which was saved mainly by the wire-glass windows, which withstood the heat and flames, without damage to the glass except some cracking." While, of course, the wire-glasa is the principal feature In such windows It would be of little value without the metal frames and sashes. Aside from the letter from Messrs. Roberts & Co., we were told by eye-witnesses of the flre that it was very severe and gave the windows a crucial practical test which they withstood without any damage whatever to the frames and sashes, which were manufactured by the Smlth-Warren Company. This company have recently installed some of the heaviest power presses ever built for working sheet metal for use Id manufacturing their windows. They have factoriea at Phila¬ delphia, New York, Buffalo, Worcester, Canton, Detroit, At¬ lanta, Portland, Ore., Seattle and Ottawa. TKE REAL ESTATE. WORLD Gossips NeWs and "Personals The following are the comparative tables of Manhattan and The Bronx of the Conveyances, Mortgages and Projected Build¬ lnes for the corresponding weeks of 1902 and 1903: CONVEYANCES. 1903. 1902. \pril 3 to 0, inc. AprU 4 to 10, inc. Tota.1 No, for Manhattan 322 Total No, for Mauhattan ^.„214 amount involved.......$2,142,224 Amount involved........$1,S42.2'<3 Number nominal ....... 281 Xumber Dominal ....... 107 1903. 1902. Total No Manhattan, Jan. 1 to date.. 4,376 3,855 Totll Ami. Manhattan, Jan. 1 to date. $43,592,761 $45,772,199 1903. 1902. April 3 to 9, inc. April 4 to 10, inc. Total No. for The Bronx 100 Total No. for The Bronx lOlj Amount involved....... $117,375 Amount involved....... $246,17o Number Dominal ....... 80 Xumber nominal ....... 6-^ 1903. 1902. Total No.. The Bronx, Jan. 1 to date. .. 1,157 1,245 Total Amt,, The BroDx. Jan. 1 to date. $2,072,031 $3,433.33. IIM)3. 1903. Total Ko., Manhattan and Tlie __ Uronx, Jan. 1 to date...... j,53