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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 75, no. 1942: June 3, 1905

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June 3, igo5 RECORD AND (;TTTDE T22I FRONT BRICK V\'e can give immediate delivery of front brick in light grey, rose, pink and buff colors. PEERLESS BRICK CO, 541 to 559 East 118th Street, Manhattan 'Phone, 1327 Harlem Brooklyn, to E. Rutzler Co., at $23,SGo. For the general con¬ struction, etc., of new Public School No, 92, Brooklyn, to Charles H. Peckworth, al $192,365. For sanitary work and gas filling of additions to and alterations in Public School No, 103, Brook¬ lyn, to James Harley, at $12,551. For alterations, repairs, etc, al Public School No. 136. Brooklyn, to William Home Co., at $7,873. Bids Opened. The Aqueduct Commission on Thursday completed the tabula¬ tion of bids for the proposed Cross River dam in Westchester County, as a pari of the city water system. The lowest bid was that of tbe Barton Dunn Co,, al $1,080,319, and it will be granted the contract when its securities have been proved and the engi¬ neer's report accepted. The next lowest bid was that of Norton & Co al $1,145,975-50, and the highest bid was that of Coleman, Bruchard & Coleman, al $1,334,030. Mercantile. ISth ST.—Adolf Schoeller, 31 Union sq, is drawing plans for an S-sty and basement factory building, 66x122, lo be built al Nos. 154-15G-1SS Wesl ISth st, for Charles Hellmuth, manufac¬ turer of lithographic inks. The building will cost about $225,000. Plans will be completed in about two weeks. Miscellaneous. BOWERY,-The New York Easl Conference of the Methodist Episcopal churoh, whose headquarters are at No, 150 Fifth av, (Dr. North, chairman of the Board of church exlension) has bought the Germania Assembly Rooms at 291 and 293 Bowery and will convert the structure into a mission house. Factories. 45TH ST.—Buchman & Fox, 11 Bast 59th st, state that they are ready for figures for the erection of the 6-sty tar-grave! roof factory, 50x100, for Messrs. Stern & Saalberg Co,, 311 West 4fl'th st, which they are about lo build at Nos. 416-418 West 45lh st, at an estimated cost of $40,000. Alterations. 5TH AV,—John J. Downey, 410 West 34th st, has obtained the contract for $16,000 worth of alterations to the 5-sty store and loft building 414 Fifth av, for the estate of John P. Duncan, 492 Canal st, from plans by Clarence L. Sefert. 410 Wesl 34th st. GREEN ST,—Freeman Bloodgood, Jr., S York st, has received the general contract for extensive alterations to the 2-sty stor¬ age building. 139-141 Green st, for the estate of Charles A. , Cheseborough, 33 Howard st, and John Lynn, 4S Bond st, Louis Giller, 416 Broadway, is the architect. Sanitary Compressed Air-Vacuum Company, FULLER BUILDING. NEW YORK. N. Y. TAKE NOTICE. We have brought suit In the United States Circuit Court against the Vacuum Cleaner Company for damages and injunc¬ tion for infringement. Users, Makers, and Sellers of infringing apparatus are equally liable and will be vigorously prosecuted by our attorneys, Messrs. Boardman, Piatt Se Soiey, 35 Wall Street, New Tork. SANITARY DUST REMOVING. To those who have knowledge of the subject, it is obvious that Compressel Air must be employed to remove dust collected upon Grille Work, Wood, Stone or Marble Carved Ornament, Capitals of Columns, and other points that vacuum cannot reach. For example, It would be futile to use vacuum to clean Car "Window Heads." II is likewise obvious that vacuum Is the enormously superior force to employ for cleaning carpets, rugs, and upholstered fur¬ niture. The vacuum process, however, is comparatively slow, un¬ less, accelerated by combining compressed air with It. Such combination not only removes the tenacious dirt from carpets and rugs, that vacuum alone is unable to budge, but also works more thoroughly and in far less lime. The superiority of a system using compressed air and vacuum, interchangeably, or in combination over all systems employing only one force. Is manifest. To such superiority must be added the known superior application, mechanically, of the vacuum process, embodied in the Lotz patents. All our appliances are fully covered by a long list of United States Letters Patents. Issued and pending, giving us an abso¬ lute monopoly of their use, PROTECTION TO OUR PATRONS. Repeated threats, addressed to our Patrons, during the past year have been made, based upon a suggested Infringement of the old and nearly expired patent of the Vacuum Cleaner Com¬ pany, which infringement we have always emphatically denied. These threats having failed of their purpose, failed also to ma¬ terialize in a suil against us, until after our action had been commenced. Assured as we are by able Patent Law authority that our ac¬ tion against the Vacuum Cleaner Company is warranted and that any suit for infringement against us is wholly without foundation, we will fully protect and Indemnify our customers again.^t any claims or suits arising from the use of our sweeping system. SANITARY COMPRESSED AIR-VACUUM COMPANY. John D, Elwell, General Manager, BUILDING NOTES —On June 15th work will be resumed on the Knickerbocker Hotel on the southeast comer of Broadway and 42d st, owned by John Jacob Astor. For a year and a half all work has been suspended, but now it is expected to rush the work to completion and open the building October 1st, 1906, J. E. & A. L. Pennock. the general contractors, will complete the work. Messrs. Trow¬ bridge Se Livingston having been commissioned as architects. It has been decided to increase the original estimate of cost from $2,250,000 lo $3,350,000. James B. Regan, a member of the Knickerbocker Hotel Co., who held the original lease, has now become sole lessee and will be manager of the hotel. The Josephus Plenty Skylight 'Co., 215 Randolph av, Jersey City, N. J,, has issued a booklet that ought to interest anybody who wants to learn something about the different varieties of skylights. This concern has been in business for more than 20 years, and the practical experience pf tbis period is boiled down and contained in the booklet. Figures were submitted on Monday for the general contract for building the Automobile Club's new building In West 54th st, Ernest Flagg, 3S Wall st, architect, but the contract was not awarded. Mr. Fred S. Schlesinger, architect, who has recently opened an office at 1623 Madison av, is a graduate of the Academy of Building and University of Berlin. Recently connected with the Board of Education and Tenement House Department, he is in a position to render the very best services to his clients. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment, at its meeting yes¬ terday, gave final approval by unanimous vote to its appropri¬ ation of $850,000 for the consiruction of the first section (Pavilions A and B) of the new Bellevue Hospital according to the revised plans of the architects, McKim, Mead & While, of IGO Fifth av. According to the original plans the estimated cost approximated $10,000,000. The plans were modified, some ornamental features eliminated, and the estimate reduced to $8,500,000. The amended plans were approved yesterday. The board also appropriated $50,000 for building a memorial to the late Andrew H. Green. The memorial will take the form of a monumental gateway to Cenlral Park al Seventh av and 110th St. plans for which have been prepared by Alberl Randolph Ross, nf S42 Fifth av. The appropriation is not to be available until the Memorial Committee raises another $50,000. Tlie Foundation Co., 35 Nassau st. has recently closed con¬ tracts for the following work; Foundations for a mill for the Farr-Alpaca Co., Holyoke, Mass,; foundations for the U. S, Bar¬ racks, Fort Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa; foundations for engine roundhouse of the C. St, P,, M, & O. Railroad Co,, Sioux City. Iowa; foundations for the piers of a new viaduct over the Kaw Valley Kansas City, Mo. (This contract is for the instal¬ lation of between three and four thousand concrete piles.) Foun¬ dations for a bridge over tbe New Basin Canal, at New Orleans, La. Important work which the company has under way, or is closing up, consists of the following: Piers and abutments for bridge over the Wabash River, at Terre Haute, Ind., for the "Big Four" railroad. Foundations for an extension of the power house of the Union Electric Light & Power Co., St. Louis, Mo. And concrete dock and sea wall for the terminals of tbe St- L, & Frisco systemv at New OrleaJ^Sj ,L^.,