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

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April IT, igo^. RECORD AND GUIDE 709 national body, and are making their peace at the week's end with the American Bridge Company and negotiating for the fu¬ ture with their employers. Fiequent conferences are being held. The union voted not to sustain Buchanan in his efforts to cause a general strike among the ironworkers here. As the matter stands, the strike at the subway power house and extension shed ■will continue until a settlement is reached, but the subway is not to be otherwise affected, nor are buiidings on which strikes are not now in progress. It will be perceived that matters of high importance hang unon negotiations that are now in progress. Arbitration is the order of the day. Although some contractors apprehend a general cessation of building on May Day, hope has by no means fled. As is well known, the employers in all trades are in a position to resist successfully unjust demands, and if the men be wisely led they will tread softly. The highest level of wages even re¬ ported before the present high-water mark was in 1S92. In 1893 some industries suspended and others reduced wages. The gen¬ eral impression prevails that all wages went down. That was not the case. The wages paid in most industries kept right on at the same rate. A few years ago the industries that had cut wages restored them. During the last two or three years wages in some industries have been increased over the rates of 1892. so the general level is higher than ever before. The cost of con¬ struction cannot be increased without soon shutting off a large amount of work, because the public cannot afford to pay in rents sums which the owners must annually count on to reimburse them for the outlay. Others besides rich corporations must be permitted to build if the buiiding trades are to be fully employed. Building Operations. LEADING ENTERPRISES OP THE WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY AND STATE. NEW JERSEY AND CONNECTICUT—HINTS FOR BUILDERS. CONTRACTORS AND DEALERS IN MATERIALS. Dormitory Building for Columhia Men. BROADWAT,—A building partly constructed on the northeast corner of Broadway and 124th st, orlginaliy designed for an apartment house, will he completed and utilized as a dormitory for the students of Columbia University, For the last few yeara the faculty has been making efforts to establish some kind of a dormitory system, and on Thursday the final arrangements ■w(re completed for housing two hundred students. The new buiiding will be known as Knowlton Hall, after Major- General Knowlton, an ofRcer in the Continental Army, who fought In the battle of Harlem Heights, on the site of the future elormltory. The enterprise is under the direction of the Knowl¬ ton HaU Co.. recently incorporated for $250,000 by Chas. P. Northrop, Geo. Maurer and Fred'k A, Goetz. superintendent of ■the University buildings and grounds. The building is four blocks from the college campus and will he completed at an ex¬ penditure of $250,000. It is 7 stories high, with exterior walls, of limestone with terra cotta trim, completed, and covers a plot 75x100. The base¬ ment will contain a rathskeller, a squash court, which Is lacking in the university gymnasium, a barber shop, and boiler room. On the ground floor will be located the library and reading room, general dining hall, grill room and billiard room. The remaining 6 stories will be devoted to the students' apartments which will be arranged in suites of two or three rooms, a study and one or two bedrooms. Every sleeping room wili be furnished with hot and cold water, and there will be tub and shower baths on each floor. All the apartments will be furnished with the heavy mission oak furniture. Special attention wili be paid to the furnishing of the grill room, in which all of the furniture will be ornamented with the college monogram. It is expected that the grill room and rathskeller will be to Columbia what Prince¬ ton Inn is to Princeton and Mory's in New Haven is to Yale. None but Columbia men will he admitted to these rooms, which ■will be in the nature of a students' club. Tiffany & Company to Bnild. STH AV.—Tiffany t& Co., No. IS Union square, will erect a business building for their own use on the east side of 5th av, from 37th st, south nearly to 36th st, which site they have just purchased. All rents of the present buildings will expire shortly, when steps will be taken for the Immediate erection of the new structure. Charles T Cook, president of the company, informs the Record and Guide that no deflnite plans have been made as yet, and that an architect will not be chosen till possession of the prop¬ erty is acquired. Probably an S-sty building will be erected. It will be recalled that Gorham & Co. have plans In prepara¬ tion by McKim, Mead & White, for an 8 or 10-sty building to occupy the southwest corner of Sth av and 3Gth st. Two big houses in allied lines will thus he close neighbors. dealers in flowers have been endeavoring to secure the erection by the City of a flower market, and have selected this site as the most available for their purpose, by reason of its proximity to the principal ferry systems from the State of New Jersey. In the Board of Aldermen is a resolution authorizing President Cantor to prepare plans for a suitable building on the above men¬ tioned site, to be occupied as a public market, flower market and as a public bath house. Tot Bond Street and Broadn^ay. BROADWAY.—The Rossiter Trust will erect a 12-sty store, loft and office building at the southeast corner of Broadway and Bond st, a plot 58x130; Rossiter & Wright, 95 Liberty st, are the architects. They have already started to build on the corner, but they have just purchased 656, adjoining, and the plans are now being revised to cover that lot also. Purdy & Henderson are the engineers and Edward Corning has the general con¬ tract. Mercantile. 32D ST.—John H. Friend, 148 Alexander av,, is drawing plana for a 5-sty stable, 50x172.6, cost ^55,000, to be erected at 157 and 159 Bast S2d st, for Joseph M. Adrian, attorney for the owner. FERRY ST.—William K. Benedict, architect, 11 East 42d st, is preparing preliminary sketches for a 9 or 10-sty flreproof building, to be erected on a plot 49x74.10 at Nos. 35 and 37 Ferry st, northeast corner of Cliff st. Frederick Vogel, Jr., is the owner and the new structure will be occupied by the Pfister and Vogel Leather Co., now at No. 37 Spruce st. S3D ST.—Horgan & Slattery, 1 Madison av, are drawing sketches for a stable to be erected at 154 East 53d st, for James Naughton's Sons. 13TH ST.—William A. Boring, 32 Broadway, is drawing plans for an S-sty addition, 40x100, to the Collier Building, at 414 and 416 West 13th st; the John Jacob Astor estate is the owner. 24TH ST.—Schickel & Ditmars, No. Ill Sth av, are making preliminary sketches for an 8 or 10-sty mercantile building to be built for Frederick Constable at Nos. 14, 16, 18 West 24th st, a plot 57x98.9, now occupied by three old 3-sty and basement bricfe dwellings. It adjoins a mercantile building owned by Arnold, Constable & Co. ISTH ST.—Bernstein & Bernstein. Ill Broadway, will draw the plans for two loft buildings, 90x92, at 144 and 150 West 18th st, for David Perelman, 256 Henry et. 'New Clinton Market. The building known as Clinton Market, bounded by Spring, West, Washington and Canal sts, erected by the city of New York in 1828 as a public market, has become rather dilapidated. The City ^vants to keep a public market here, and the wholesale New Apartments. Flats and Tenements. 104TH ST.—Schwartz & Gross, 160 Sth av, are drawing the plans for a 6-sty elevator apartment house which John Paterno's Sons, 507 West 112th st, will erect on the south side of IWth st, 185 feet east of Amaterdam av, on a plot 87.6x100.11; 155TH ST.—D'Oench & Yost, No. 289 4th av, are making plans for twenty 5-sty brick 4-family flats to be built on the property owned by Mrs. Harriet G. Coogan at ISSth st and Sth av, a plot 780x100. 7TH AV.—Matthew R. Damora, architect, 787 Eaat 171et Bt, has the plans nearly completed for a 6-sty elevator apartment house to be erected on the west side of 7th av, 40 feet north of 14l3t st, on a plot 75x75. The front will be of brick and stons, and a feature will be made of copper hay windows, M. Pia- zutiello, owner, of 783 East 171st et, awards all contracts. 2D AV.—G. F. Pelham, 503 Sth av, is drawing plans for the erection of a 9-sty elevator apartment house, 48x85, at 57 and S9 2d av, for J. Witner, 302 Broadway; cost, $100,000. BLEECKER ST.—G. F. Pelham, 503 Sth av, is finishing 'he plans for a 6-sty apartment house with stores, to be erected at northwest corner of Bleecker and Morton sts, for Polstein Bros., 9 Bible House; cost, $60,000. MULBERRY ST.—G. F. Pelham, 503 Sth av, has completed plans for the erection of a 6-sty tenement with stores, at 219 and 221 Mulberry st, 44x63, cost $35,000, for Polstein Bros., 9 Bible House. HOUSTON ST.—G. F. Pelham, 503 Sth av, is about to finish the plans for the erection of a 6-sty tenement with stores, 50x75, at southwest corner of Houston and Eldridge sts, to cost $60,000, for Nathan Silverson, owner and builder. CLINTON ST.—G. F, Pelham, 503 Sth av. is finishing plans for a O-sty tenement house with stores, 37x70, irregular, at south¬ east corner of Clinton and Houston sts, for A. Silverson, owner and builder, to cost $60,000. The larger of the two stores will be occupied by the Jefferson Bank. MOTT ST.—Bernstein & Bernstein, 111 Broadway, have fln¬ ished plans for two 6-sty tenements, 02.9x100, at northwest cor¬ ner of Mott and Hester sts, for Saul & Wallenstein, 1197 Lex¬ ington av. CLINTON ST.—Sass & Smallheiser, 23 Park Row, are com¬ pleting plans for the erection of a 6-sty flat, 25x94, at 230 Clin¬ ton St. for Packman & Levine. Sth ST.—Bernstein & Bernstein, 111 Broadway, are drawing plans for the erection of a 6-sty tenement, 44.6x96.6, three fam¬ ilies on a floor, for Lewis Lippman, at 380 and 382 East Sth st. PRINCE ST.—Bernstein & Bernstein, 111 Broadway, have com¬ pleted plans for the erection at the southwest corner of Prince an* Thompson sts, 6-sty tenement, 33x75, six families on a floor, for Chas. and Henry Friedman, 123 Bast 112th st. For plans filed see pages 732 and 751