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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 95, no. 2446: Articles]: January 30, 1915

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188 RECORD AND GUTOE January 30, 1915 Ruttman and Cornelius F. Sheehan, re¬ spectively. Contracts of purchase were signed with all of these owners previous to the filing of the plans and title will be taken soon under the name of the 461 Eighth Avenue Realty Company, which will be made up of Thomas A. and Edward L. Larkin and other interests. DIVIDING UP THE WORK. Resolutions Adopted by the Building Trades Employers* Association, I hope that tho bis industries will look out for their workingmen. remembering that the chief need now is not for charity, but for work, and incidentally 1 hope that instead of cutting the rate of wages they will cut hours and empTtfy as many men as possible on half time, rather than half that number on full time—Theodore Roosevelt. At a general meeting of the Building Trades Employers' Association on Tues¬ day afternoon, President Crawford in the chair, addresses were delivered by City Chamberlain Bruere and members of the Mayor's Committee on Unem¬ ployment in advocacy of measures for the relief of the unemployed in the build¬ ing trades. The Ioilowing resolutions were then offered by Otto N. Eidlitz, of Marc Eidliz & Son: "The Building Trades Employers' As¬ sociation in mass meeting assembled this day, January 26, 1915, recommends and urges that every firm and corporation carry out to the fullest extent the fol¬ lowing resolutions, to the end that the unemployment now existing in the build¬ ing industry shall be ameliorated as far as possible: "1, That the building industry should patronize to the greatest extent prac¬ ticable the local manufactories and shops for the purchase of building materials at this time. "2. That the work now available on buildings be distributed among the larg¬ est number of individuals practicable by working part of the eight-hour work day in shifts, or one shift the one week and one shift the next week alternately as far as is possible, consistent with the nature of the work. "3. That when it becomes necessary to lay off men, preference of employment shall be given to the married men." SUBWAY AWARDS. Commissioners Announce Damages on Sixty-one Parcels in Joralemon Street. The commissioners of appraisal ap¬ pointed to assess the damages to prop¬ erty in Joralemon street, Fulton street and Flatbush avenue, caused by the con¬ struction of the Interborough subway from the Battery to Brooklyn, have dis¬ posed of the last claim for damages from property owners along Joralemon street, and are now ready to consider claims of the property owners along Fulton street and Flatbush avenue. The commissioners, Hermanns B. Hubbard, T. J. Raymond and T. Eilett Hodgskin, have completed their "seventh separate report," disposing of the claims of the owners of sixty-one parcels of land along Joralemon street. The Packer Collegiate Institute, at 160 to 182 Joralemon street, is awarded $15,000. For the Temple Bar Building, at 44 Court street, $5,000. The total amount of damages award¬ ed on the sixty-one parcels amounts to $188,032, not including the $1 that is awarded to each property holder as re¬ muneration for the land in the street to which the city took title to enable it to construct the subway. The taxpa)-"- ers have been paying interest at the rate of 6 per cent, a year on this sum for a period of twelve and a half years. The highest award is $37,050, to Wins¬ ton H. Hagen, owner of the property at 103 Joralemon street. William Augustus White receives $20,000 for damages to the Riverside apartment property in Joralemon street, between Furman street and Willow place. The estate of Daniel Fitzgibbons. is awarded $8,000 for the damages to the property at 1 Willow place, and the damage to the house of the late Bishop Littlejohn, at 179 Jora¬ lemon street, is appraised at $1,775. ACTIVITY AT POUGHKEEPSIE. Building Operations Are in a Satisfac¬ tory State at Poughkeepsie. * During the year 1913. the building permits issued represented $1,204,175, while those for 1914 total up $863,108, leaving a difference of $341,067 in favor of 1913. The difference is nearly offset by the cost nf the new buildings erected by the Moline Plow Company and the Colien Theatre, these two operations having cost approximately $318,000. During the year a total of 164 permits were granted, as against 208 of 1913. Provision was made for 298 families, while in 1913 provision was made for 266 families. More stores and business properties were erected in 1914 than in any previous year. The prospect for 1915 is reported to be bright. Plans for Hanover Square Building. Alexander Baylies, 33 Bible House, is completing plans for the twenty-story mercantile building to be erected in the south side of Hanover Square, between Stone and Pearl street, for George Ehret, 235 East 92nd street. The site meas¬ ures 71.7 feet in the square, 123.1 feet in Pearl street and 114.5 feet in Stone street. The cost of the operation is placed at $1,100,000. No engineer has yet been selected nor any contracts is¬ sued. For a New Borough Hall at Queens. Tlie Board of Directors of the Cham¬ ber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens adopted a resolution at its meet¬ ing on Thursday, urging the corporate stock committee of the Board of Esti¬ mate to take favorable action on the request of Borough President Connolly for an appropriation of $200,000 for the purchase of a site for the erection of a new borough hall for the Borough ol Queens. Competitive Sketches Wanted. The Board of F.ducalion of Highland Park, Middlesex County, Postoffke ad¬ dress New Brunswick. New Jersey, will receive competitive sketches at once for two four-room school houses, to be so designed that they may at a future date be enlarged or converted into eight- room schools. The cost not to exceed $20,000 each. Loft Building for Eldridge Street. iMorris Kulok, tailor, 39 Eldridge street, contemplates the erection of a six-story business building at 39-41 Eld¬ ridge street, covering a plot 50.3x100 feet. Max Muller. of 115 Nassau street, will probably prepare the plans. Work will be started this spring. LATEST LOFT IN WEST 40TH STREET r^^j:mSm^B^yim}-i&iLJi M ITM i i lU i I M i I i. BHffiTnTFn+HTJFT^Hjffl ■TKivutctv Huuiw-towii'.- raiiofc-hiiiu^'totJi-fivc- AMONG the new business structures' announced during the week to be constructed in the midtown section is the twelve-story store and loft building which the Realty Holding Company, of 907 Broadway (Nathaniel J. Hess presi¬ dent, Edwin H. Hess secretary) will erect at 206 to 222 West 40th street. Plans are being rapidly completed by the architects', Neville & Bagge, of 105 West 40lh street, who will take full charge of construction. The building will be 128.3 by 98.9 feet in depth and is being designed especially for heavy UcwTK» ;i*«iy ijfc*.* lie loads, such as printing and lithograph¬ ing establishments require to carry a live load of 250 pounds per square foot. It will be equipped with two passenger and three freight elevators, in addition to three interior staircases, and will be absolutely fireproof; that is, without any exposed w^ood being used in the con¬ struction, with cement floors and fire¬ proof doors and windows. The front will be faced with granite, terra cotta and pressed front brick. The cost is specified at $600,000. No contracts have yet been placed.