April 25, 1914
 

RECORD AND GUIDE
 

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CURRENT    BUILDING    OPERATIONS
 

Including   Contemplated Construction, Bids W^anted,  Contracts
Awarded, Plans Filed and Government, State and Mxinicipal "Work

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CREDIT ASSOCIATION.

Has Arbitrated Three Thousand Com¬
plaints—Annual   Dinner.

The eighth annual dinner of the Cred¬
it Association of the Building Trades
was held April 23, in the Green Room
of the Hotel McAlpin. Speeches were
delivered by Milton Schnaier, of Milton.
Schnaier & Company, president of the
association; J. Harry Tregoe, secretary
and treasurer of the National Associa¬
tion of Credit Men; Walter Gordon Mer¬
ritt, counsel of the American Anti-Boy¬
cott Association; A. W. Ross, deputy
superintendent of school buildings.
Board of Education, and other officials
of the association.

Secretary Franz Neilson's report
shows' an unusually large number of ar¬
bitrations condiicted by the association
during its seven years, viz., 3074; also
total complaints adjusted in behalf of
members to the number of over 3,600,
involving three-quarters of a million of
dollars^ also credit information in the
office files regarding 6,000 parties' in the
metropolitan district, and warnings in
the present issue of the members' bulle¬
tin regarding SSO general contractors
and owners to whom it is unsafe to ex¬
tend credit. In this time, the associa¬
tion has published in the bulletin the
names of 1,274 such parties.

Others at the guest table were: Robert
D. Kohn, president N. Y. Chapter of,
the American Institute of Architects;
Samuel Sass, director N. Y. Society of
Architects; B. D. Traitel; C. G. Norman;
M. F. Westergren, Lewis Harding and
Andrew N. Petersen, former presidents
of the association; Francis N. Howland,
of Candee, Smith & Howland, third vice-
president; P. H. Hart, fourth vice-presi¬
dent; and George G. Bradley, first vice-
president.

To Compete for New St. Bartholomew's.
The selection of an architect for the
new edifice to be erected by St. Bartho¬
lomew's Episcopal Church, which is to
replace the old brewery structures on the
east side of Park avenue, between SOth
and Slst streets, will be by competition.
There are about nineteen full city lots
in the parcel, and at the present time
it is not known whether the trustees of
the church will use the entire plot front¬
age for its new building or dispose of
a portion of it for other improvement.
The final announcement of the proposed
plans for moving the place of worship
was made at the services on Sunday last
by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Leighton
Parks, although the matter has been
under consideration at intervals for sev¬
eral years. It will probably be several
years before the new church will be
completed, as the purchase of the new
property carries with it the condition of
reasonable time for the present occu¬
pants to vacate. A portion of the facade
of the church, including the bronze
doors, the gift of Mrs. Vanderbilt, a few
years ago as a memorial to her hus¬
band, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and de¬
signed by the late Stanford White, will
be carefully taken down and reset in
the new structure, together with other
costly memorials within the church and
chapel. The present site has a frontage
of 100 feet on Madison avenue, and a
depth of 145 feet in the south side of
44th street. There was a report around
on Tuesday that this property might
ultimately become the home of a large
and well known clothing establishment,
but nothing definite regarding an im¬
provement of this character has yet been
determined.    The estimated cost of the
 

new church with site will likely exceed
$2,000,000. E. R. L. Gould is treasurer
of  the vestry.

Plans for Schaefer Brewery Ready.

Mortenson & Co., 114 West 28th
street, have just completed plans for
the $1,500,000 brewery, fireproof, brick,
limestone and terra cotta construction,
which the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing
Company, now located at Park avenue
and Slst street, is soon to erect on the
East River front, from Slst to S2d
streets. Contracts for the work have
not been awarded. The present brew¬
ery site now occupied by this company
comprises a depth of 225 feet in SOth
street and 250 feet in Slst street, front¬
ing on the east side of Park avenue.
This property, which is valued at $1,-
500,000, has been sold to St. Bartholo¬
mew's Episcopal Church for improve¬
ment with a new edifice and rectory.
 

Six-Story Building for Fifth Avenue.
Bergdorf & Goodman Company, of 32
West 32d street, have commissioned
Rouse & Goldstone, 38 West 32d street,
to design plans for a six-story business
building to be erected at 616 Fifth ave¬
nue on a plot 30x125 feet. The prop¬
erty was recently acquired from the
Butterfield Estate. The fee to the land
is owned by Columbia College. _Work
on the new building is to start imme¬
diately so that work will be completed
for occupancy about October 1. N. A.
Berwin & Company have been appointed
agents for the building.
 

Cauldwell-Wingate Co.  Get Contract.

The general contract was placed this
week with the Cauldwell-Wingate Com¬
pany, of 381 Fourth avenue, for the
eleven-story store, office and loft build¬
ing to be erected at 415 Fifth avenue
and 3-5-7 East 37th street, for Mrs. E.
M. Anderson. The plans were prepared
by Howells & Stokes, of 100 William
street. The store and basement has
already been leased to J. & J. Slater,
shoe dealers, of Broadway and 2Sth
street.
 

Hotel and Business Building on Bway.

The Francis S. Kinney Estate, care
of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Com¬
pany, 22 William street, is having plans
prepared for the improvement of the
northwest corner of Broadway and 24th
street, now occupied by the Hotel Albe¬
marle, with a twelve-story hotel and
business building. Frank Hemstreet, of
44 West 44th street, will be the archi¬
tect.
 

Coiitract for Montclair Church.

Charles T. Wills, Inc., 286 Fifth ave¬
nue, Manhattan, received the general
contract this week to erect the First
Congregational Church at FuUerton and
Plymouth avenues, Montclair, New Jer¬
sey. Plans were prepared by Bertram
C. Goodhue, of 2 West 47th street, Man¬
hattan. The cost is placed at about
$250,000.

Dulness in the Trades.

Not in twenty-five years have the
building trades of Greater New York
had so little to do as they have this
spring. Seventy-five per cent, has been
the proportion of unemployment dur¬
ing the winter, and some of the men
have not earned a dollar in five months,
according to the reports received from
the various boroughs and adjacent coun¬
ties on Long Island by Secretary Tomp¬
kins of the Executive Council of the
United Board of Business Agents.
 

NO ARCHITECTS SSLECTED.

In this department is published advance in-
format:on regarding building projects where
architects have not as yet been selerted.
 

MANHATTAN.—The Corn Exchange Bank, 13
William St., Walter E. Pew, president, contem¬
plates altering the lower part of the building
at 124-126 East 86th St.    No architect selected.

BROOKLYN.—T. L.. Neff's Sons, Inc., 105
Maujer st, Edwin Neff, president, contemplates
the erection of a 1-sty brick factory, 50x100 ft.,
at 179-181 Powers st.    No architect selected.

FLUSHING, L. I.—The First Church of Christ
Scientist, P. 0. Building, contemplates the erec¬
tion ot a church here. No architect selected.
Marian E. Butler, 93 Amity st. Flushing, mem¬
ber ot building committee.

SARATOGA, N. Y.—Howard B. Bullard, vice-
president of the First National Bank, 360 Broad¬
way, contemplates the erection of an apart¬
ment house on Broadway. No architect se¬
lected.

SHERBURNE, N. Y.—The Board ot Education
of Sherburne, Harold Kautbach, chairman of
building committee, contemplates the erection
of an addition to the present high school. No
architect selected.

COHOES, N. Y.—The Cohoes Hospital Asso.,
Miss Anna F. Coon, superintendent, 225 Main
st, contemplates the erection ot a nurses' home
in the west side of Congress st, opposite the
hospital.   No architect selected. .

ALBANY,   N.   Y.—Finke  Bros.,   H.   A.   Finke,

301  New Scotland av, E. C. Finke, 13 West st,
contemplates the erection ot an apartment house
at Lake av and Elberon pi. No architect se¬
lected.    Cost, about $100,000.

BELLEVILLE, N. J.—The Board of Educa¬
tion of the Town ot Belleville, John W. Depue,
president, contemplates the erection ot a brick
hihg school here. An architect will probably be
selected by competition. No site selected. Coat,
about $175,000.

BATAVIA, N. Y.—The Church ot the Sacred
Heart,  R.  C,  Rev.  Father Joseph J. Winnicki,

302  South Jackson st, contemplates the erection
ot a church at Ellicott and South Swan sts, to
cost about .$30,000.   No architect selected.

HOFFMANS, N. Y.—John C. Hatcher, N. Y.
Central R. R. Station, Schenectady, N. Y., con¬
templates the erection of 114-sty frame bunga¬
low near Schenectady.    No architect selected.
 

PLANS FIGURING.
 

APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

ST NICHOLAS AV.—Henry J. Koelble, 114
East 2Sth st, architect, is taking blda tor a 6-
aty apartment at the northeast corner of St
Nicholas av and 152d st, for the West 152d
Street Co., 71 Naasau st.    Coat, about $42,000.

BROOKLYN.—Shampan Sc Shampan, 772
Broadway, architects, are taking bids tor two
5-aty tenements, 50x88 ft., in the south side of
Siegel st, 415 ft. east of Bushwick av, tor
Meta Mayer, 20 Belvidere st. Total cost, about
.fOCOOO.

MANHATTAN.—George J. Cavalieri, 3 East
44th st, architect, is talking bids for altera¬
tions to the residence 115-117 West 45th st, for
apartment and business purposes. R. H. Davia,
3 East 44th st, owner. Cost, about $25,000.
BANKS.

WEST HOBOKEN, N. J.—Leo S. Feinen, 3697
Boulevard, Jersey City, architect, is taking bids
on separate contracts for a bank building at the
northeast corner of Summit av and Paterson
Plank rd for the National Bank of North Hud¬
son, Summit av and Demott st, Howell S. Ben¬
nett, president.   Cost, about $50,000.

KEANSBURG, N. J.—The Keanshurg National
Bank, Main st, Thomas Collins, president. Is
taking bids to close May 1 for a 2-sty brick
bank and ofiice building, 30x50 tt, at the south¬
west corner ot Church st and Selina pl, to oost
about .$9,000. George Martin Huss, 65 Eaat
Morningside av, Manhattan, architect.
CHURCHES.

KINGLAND, N. J.—F. J. Schwartz, 113 Elli¬
son st, Paterson, N. J., architect, is taking bids
for a 1-sty brick and limestone church. 50x70
tt, on Page av, tor St. Michaels R. C. Church,
Rev. Father S. Kruszek, Page av. Cost, about
$15,000.

DWELLINGS.

SOUTHAMPTON, L. I.—Plans are being flg¬
ured for the 2^-sty terra cotta block and stucco
residence, 50x180 tt, tor'H. H. Rogers, care ot
the Standard Oil Co., 26 Broadway. Walker &
Gillette, 128 Eaat 37th st, architects. Donnelly
St Corrigan, Windmill Lane, contractor tor
foundations.

CLINTON,   N.   J.—The  State  ot  New  Jersey
Board   of  Managers  of  Women's  Reformatory,,
Mrs.   C.  B.  Alexander, 41  Newark at,   Trenton, .
is taking bids to.close May 1 at 1 K M. tor a
2^'-aty brick, concrete and hollow tile cottage.