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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 99, no. 2569: Articles]: June 9, 1917

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June 9,1917 RECORD AND GUIDE 817 COMMITTEE ON LUMBER. THE subcommittee on lumber under the committee on raw materials, Council of National De¬ fense, is as follows: Chairman, R. H. Downman, president, National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa¬ tion, New Orleans, La.; E. T. Al¬ len, manager. Western Forestry and Conservation Association, Portland, Ore.; D. O. Anderson, lumber manufacturer, Marion, S. C; W. R. Brown, lumber and paper manufacturer, Berlin, N. H.; W. E. Delaney, president, Kentucky Lum¬ ber Co., Lexington, Ky.; Henry S. Graves, chief forester. United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C; J. F. Gregory, logger and lumber manufacturer, Tacoma, Wash.; Charles S. Keith, president. Southern Pine Association, Kansas City, Mo.; George B. Lewis, lum¬ ber manufacturer, Holyoke, Mass.; G. S. Long, manager, Weyer¬ haeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, Wash : W. M. Ritter. president, W. M Ritter Lumber Co., Welch, W. Va.; E. A. Self ridge, president. Northwestern Redwood Co., and Redwood Manufacturers' Associa¬ tion, San Francisco. Cal. ; W. H. Sullivan, manager. Great Southern Lumber Co., Chicago, IIL: C. H. Worcester, president. C. H. Wor¬ cester Lumber Co., Chicago, 111. Will Remodel Hotel Renaissance. Plans have been filed for the recon¬ struction of the liotel Renaissance prop¬ erty at the southwest corner of Fifth ave¬ nue and 43d street, recently purchased by William Ziegler, Jr. The building \vill be converted into a high-class office building of modern type with stores on the first and second floors. The present central light court will be built over, and a large new light court built on the southerly lot line. The alterations will cost approximately $250,000 and will be made from plans bv Rouse & Goldstone, 38 West 32d street'^ architects. To Build Club Addition. Marc Eidlitz & Son, 30 East 42d street, have the general contract for the con¬ struction of the addition to the nine- story brick and stone clubhouse of tlie University Club at 6 to 8 West 5Sth street, from plans by McKim, Mead & White, 101 Park avenue, architects. The New York Life Insurance Company has "LIBERTY LOAN." The $5,000,000,000 bond issue of this year is named "The Liberty Loan of 1917" because it is. to be a loan from a free people to be used in freeing the world. It is the loan of a liberty-loving people to be devoted to the establishment of liberty in Europe and on the high seas. It is the loan of the great democracy of the New World to redress the wrongs and support the cause of the democracy of the Old World. War Time Preparations. The Public Service Commission is co¬ operating with all of the great public service corporations of New York City, some forty in number, and in addition with the New York Telephone Company, which is not under its jurisdiction, to the end that there shall be no cessation of functioning on the part of these great corporations during the course of hos¬ tilities. The transportation, gas, elec¬ tric and telephone companies of New York Citv furnish approximately 20 per cent, of the whole quantity of such ser¬ vice supplied in the entire country. It is hoped that it may be possible for the employes of the several utilities corpor¬ ations to be so classified and their -work adjusted that those within the ages spe¬ cified by the Draft Law may be spared for military service as far as may be consistent with keeping these utilities going. It is also hoped to aid the Gov¬ ernment bv certifying to it such men as are specialists in their respective lines, who may be needed for important and specific work by the Government. .A.S a result of a circular to the heads of the several corporations, setting forth the urgency of the situation, an informal conference was held at the offices of the Public Service Commission last week at which an organization was formed for the purpose mentioned above. The gath¬ ering was addressed by Chairman Oscar S Straus, Commissioner Travis H. Whit¬ ney. George B. Cortelyou, president of the Consolidated Gas Company, and sev¬ eral others. . . Chairman Straus in his address said that if at any time during the war, ow¬ ing to the lack of men or if for any other cause, there should be a paralysis in the operation of any of the great public util¬ ities of New York City, the effect will be felt far beyond New York City. He pointed out that one highly trained man could perform at home functions more important to the national welfare than the work of a regiment in the field. The following executive committee was named to carry out the project contemi- plated by the conference: J. W. Lieb, vice-president of the New York Edison Companv; Walter R. Addicks, vice-presi¬ dent of the Consolidated Gas Company; E. .\. Maher, Sr., president of the Third .\venue Railway Company; T. J. Demp- sey. Superintendent of Transportation, Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company; F. H. Thurber, New York Telephone Com¬ pany; J. H. Jourdan. engineer. Brooklyn Union Gas Company, and Wilbur Fisk, president of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad. loaned to the Club $1,000,000 on its prop¬ erty at the northwest corner of Fifth avenue and S4th street, which has a front¬ age of 100.5 feet on the avenue, running irregular to 55th street, where it has a frontage of 52 feet, the frontage in S4th street being 174.11 feet. What About Coal If 3^ou have tried to contract for advance deliveries, you have found it impossible. If }'OU have secured deliveries at all, you are fortunate. And yet you have got -to supply your tenants with electricity There is one way out of the difficulty worth thinking about now. Avail your¬ self at once of the service of the Central Station, and spare yourself further worry. The Central Station, as in the past, will provide for its patrons. Our entire re¬ sources are at your command The New York Edison Company At Your Service General Offices: Irving Place and 15th Street Telephone Stuyvesant 5600