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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 99, no. 2561: Articles]: April 14, 1917

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April 14, 1917 RECORD AND GUIDE 529 and panel tests, and laboratory inspec¬ tions in the afternoon. The program of the Building Officials' Conference has not yet been officially promulgated, but the following has been planned. The meetings on Wednesday tlie 9th and on Thursday the 10th are to be joint meetings with the National Fire Protection Association. On Wednes¬ day the members of the conference will visit with the National Fire Protection Association the Bureau of Standards, at which time a test on the full size steel column is to be made, this test being one of the series made under the aus¬ pices of a committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers. On Thurs¬ day a joint conference with the Fire Pro¬ tection .Association is to be held at the New Willard Hotel for the theatre dis¬ cussion. Clarence H. Blackall. archi¬ tect, of Boston, will speak on "Planning for Safety"; Major Raymond W. Pull¬ man, Superintendent of Police, Washing¬ ton, will speak on "Fire and Police De¬ partment Supervision," and R. S. Robins, manager of Keith's theatre in Washing¬ ton, on the "Care of Theatres." This is to be followed by a general discussion. The main topics for consideration at the meeting on Friday are to be a de¬ scription of the work of the new Board of Standards and .Appeals of New York City by Rudolph P. Miller, chairman of that Board; a paper on districting, with special reference to New York's new Zon¬ ing Law. by Alfred Ludwig. SuoerintenJ- ent of Buildings of Manhattan: a paper on accidents in the building trades and their prevention, by A. E. Davidson, and a discussion of the organization and work of building departments based on re¬ turns from a questionnaire, by Sidney J. Williams, inspector. State Department of Labor, Madison, Wisconsin. Apartments to Replace Church. Shampan & Shampan, 772 Broadway, Brooklyn, have completed plans for three six-story apartment houses, to occupy a plot 142 X 132, at the southeast cor¬ ner of Lee avenue and Hooper street, for M. Solomon & Son. The new struc¬ tures will cost approximately $250,000. Tlie exterior of the buildings has been designed in the Italian Renaissance style with Florentine feeling, and will be con¬ structed witli a cherry red brick with trimmings of granite and Indiana lime¬ stone. The skylights of the facades will be especially effective, since they will be broken by two high towers at each end of the building and roofed with Spanish tile. The property is now oc¬ cupied by the edifice of the United Con¬ gregational Church, and is one of the landmarks of the Eastern District. At one time a motion picture concern had almost completed negotiations for ac¬ quiring the property, but the deal was abandoned. Obtain Record Order. What may be the largest single order of its kind ever placed in this country for mesh reinforcing has been closed with the Fireproof Contractors Corpora¬ tion, by Albert Oliver & Son, Inc., sales agents for the Clinton Wire Cloth Com¬ pany's Structural Products. The order calls for approximately 1,060,000 square feet of Clinton Electrically Welded Fab¬ ric, for the floors and roofs, as well as large quantities of fabrics for structural steel wrapping, for the new Commodore Hotel, now in course of construction at Lexington avenue and 42d street. It is expected that the delivery of the entire order will be completed in five months from June 1, the date of the first deliv¬ ery. The Clinton Welded Fabric was also used on the Biltmore Hotel and the McAlpin Hotel. New Union College Building. The Amsterdam Building Company, l40 West 42d street, Manhattan, has ob¬ tained the general contract for the con¬ struction of the three-story stucco on brick and stone, science building, to be known as the Butterfield Memorial Building, at Union College, Schenectady. N. Y. The new building, which will measure 57 x 121, has been designed by George B. Post & Sons, 101 Park ave¬ nue, Manhattan, and with cost $100,000. Approve New Terminal Plan. The Public Service Commission has approved the plans and specifications for the new terminal for the Putnam Divi¬ sion of the New York Central Railroad, to be constructed jointly by the railroad company and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, west of Sedgwick avenue, between 161st and 162d streets, in the Bronx. PERSONAL AND TRADE NOTES. Queens' Building Activity. Cantor & Dorfman, 373 Fulton street, Brooklyn, have completed plans for the erection of six three-story buildings, to be located in the north side of Fulton street, 128 feet east of Bergen avenue, in the center of the business section in Jamaica, in the Borough of Queens. This part of the borough is experienc¬ ing considerable activity. The buildings will be erected by the Milo Construc¬ tion Company, Joseph Grodsky, presi¬ dent, and will involve an outlav of about $130,000. Cass Gilbert, architect, has moved his offices to 244 Madison avenue, south¬ west corner 38th street. Hoppin & Koen, architects, now at 244 Sth avenue, will move their oflices on May 1 to 4 East 43d street. Donald G. Anderson, architect, for¬ merly at 28 East 49th street, has moved to 424 Avenue E, Bayonne, N. J., where he has been appointed school architect. Ryan-Leahy Company of 491 Grove street, Jersey City, N. J., has been in¬ corporated to do a general contracting and construction business. Edward A. Ryan and James W. Leahy are inter¬ ested. National Association of Master Steam and Hot Water Fitters, the Master Steam and Hot Water Fitters' Association of the State of New York and the Master Steam and Hot Water Fitters' Associa- Edison Current to Serve Huge Bush Terminal Structure Contract with the Central Station for 3500 lights and 375 horsepower has been made by the Bush Terminal Buildings Company for its great building- going up at 132-34 West Forty-second Street. This "merchandise clearing house" extending through to Forty-first Street will be twenty-seven stories high and an impor¬ tant addition to the Times Square section If a superior electric supply had been possible, Edison Service would not have been spoken for. The fact stands that no other supply could bear comparison. The great structure which will offer the last word in convenience and effective¬ ness could hardly have been burdened with inferior electric service This contract, with others of recent date fully as notable, presents a verdict that cannot be questioned. A service required for the newest and greatest is the service for every building. Write us for esti¬ mates. Our engineers and entire organi¬ zation are at public command The New York Edison Company At Your Service Geueral Offices Irving Place and 15th Street Telephone: Stuyvesant 5600