ALSEN'S PORTLAND CEMENT Highest Quality, Most Reliable, Best Color, Most Enduring Surface, Greatest Bulk to the Barrel. NOTABLE INSTANCES WHERE ALSEN'S CEMENT HAS BEEN USED BECAUSE OF ITS SUPERIOR QUALITY. THE U. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY, ELECTRIC R.R. SUBWAY, BOSTON. Alsen's Portland Cement Works, New York Office, 143 Liberty Street. ACENTS AT BOSTON: WALDO BROS., 102 Milk Street. or any foreign matter to injure the metal coating. No rolls are used to squeeze off the metal. To those interested we would advise them to correspond with the Taylor Company, and secure samples, circulars, and also the booklet which they have recently issued, devoted especially to this one brand of roofing-tin, which is pronounced by all interested to be the highest grade of roofing-tin now made. This firm has agencies in all the large cities of the United States, carrying stock in warehouses, so that shipments may be made promptly from any point. METAL CEILINGS. ELECTION is over. The outcome of a national election cannot of necessity please all, but, nevertheless, all turn with a sense of relief and confidence to certainties. In order to do our part to promote the good cause, we offer, at attractive prices, the most attractive designs of metal ceilings and sidewalls that are produced. From our great variety of designs in Classic styles, surely we are in a position to please all who may contemplate using such material. The fact that we are well filled-up with orders indicates that the many advantages of metal ceilings are apparent. BUILDING INTELLIGENCE. (Alterations and Additions Continued.) alterations & first-st'y store front; $9,500; o., C. Mathers; b., Sherman, Orem & Co.; a., Keen & Mead. bridge shops, and shows the extent to which MR. JOS. H. WILLIAMSON, who for nearly eighteen years has been the Business Manager of the Manufacturers Advertising Agency, New York City, desires to announce that he has severed his relationship with that Company to connect himself with the old-established Viennot Advertising Agency, 524 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, as its Business Manager, in the place of Mr. Thompson, resigned. Mr. Williamson also desires to express his appreciation of the uniform courtesy extended to him by his many friends in the "trade paper and general advertising field in the past, and will be glad to welcome them at any time at his new address, either at the office in Philadelphia, or at the New York Office of the Viennot Advertising Agency, 127 Duane Street, Graham Building. THE American Bridge Company is furnishing from its Lafayette plant, five bridges for Montgomery County, Ind. BUILDING INTELLIGENCE. Reported for the American Architect & Building News. ADVANCE RUMORS. preparing plans for a steel and brick apartment- We carry large stocks and our facilities are equal to increased demands; therefore, it Indianapolis, Ind. - Architect John H. Stern is would give us great pleasure to submit designs and quote prices, upon receipt of sketch and measurements of any work that you may have in view. Our specialties are metal ceilings, cornices and finials, corrugated iron, eaves-trough and conductor pipes, doors and shutters, graduated tile roofing, Spanish-tile roofing, metal lath, steel roofing and siding, galvanized-iron, tinplate, lanterns, lamps, torches, oil-cans, spraypumps, well-pumps, etc. THE BERGER MFG. CO., NOTES. THE American Bridge Company have just closed a contract with the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, calling for the erection of two steel buildings on the banks of the River Weser, at Bremen, Germany. The machine-shop will be 100 feet in width, and 300 feet in length, two stories in height. The foundry building is 75 feet in width and about 600 feet in length. Both buildings are designed after the best American practice. tract has been secured by the American Bridge Company in competition with the best German The con Port Huron, Mich.-The City Electric Railway Co. will erect a $12,000, 135′ x 225', car-house and Starkville, Miss.-Architects Bryan & Weathers Whitmires, S. C.-W. B. Smith and Whaley & Co., Wichita, Kan. - Bids will soon be advertised for a ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. Brooklyn, N. Y.-Meserole St., cor. Waterbury St., Liberty Ave., cor. Georgia Ave., four-st'y bk. ex. Chicago, III. —. Ninty-fourth St., Nos. 318-350, one & Wabash Ave., Nos. 182-186, one-st'y bk. addition, W. Lake St., Nos. 778-784, 2}-st'y bk. addition, 40' x 66', & rear addition, 40' x 41'; $14,000; o., Joseph D. Hubbard; a., H. H. Waterman; b., T. C. Wright, 529 Larchmont Ave. Tioga and Edgemount Sts., three-st'y bk. & iron morocco factory addition, 62′ 8′′ x 129}'; $25,000; o., George H. McNeeley & Co.; a., Roydhouse, Arey & Co. Hamilton St., nr. 24th St., fourth & fifth story addition, 40 x 108′; $12,000; o., Frank H. Fleer & Co., Inc.; b., Machin & Brown; a., Amos W. Barnes. APARTMENT-HOUSES. Brooklyn, N. Y.-Cook St., nr. Morrell St., five-st'y S. Portland Ave., nr. Fulton St., 2 four-st'y bk. Fulton St., cor. S. Portland Ave., 2 four-st'y bk. stores & aparts., 27′ 8′′ x 40'; $18,000; o., G. W. Smyth; a., Lawton & Fields. Chicago, Ill. - Prairie Ave., No. 5932, three-st'y bk. flats, 25' x 76'; $8,000; o., Geo. Leuz; a., Chas. W. Nothnagle; b., Fred Harder, 2842 Union Ave. Vincennes Ave., No. 4941, three-st'y bk. flats, 24 x 64'; $8,000; o., Thomas Moses; a., C. W. Van Keuren; b., Charles Schleyer, 6919 Elizabeth St. W. Jackson Boulevard, No. 1410, two-st'y bk. flats, 22' x 66'; $7,000; o., E. Carey; a., H. J. McMullen; b., Thomas Keating, 197 S. Center Ave. Drexel Ave., Nos. 4634-36, four-st'y bk. apart., 50/ x 111'; $50,000; o., Charles E. Bartley; a., Arthur Foster; b., J. W. Snyder, 3813 Langley Ave. Aberdeen St., No. 5432, two-st'y bk. flats, 25′ x 54'; $5,000; o., J. J. Pear, Jr.; a., Charles W. Van Keuren; b., Innes & Steinacker, 3645 S. Hoyne Ave. Grand Boulevard, Nos. 5009-13, four-st'y bk. apart., 66 x 141'; $96,000; o., Frank P. Epps; a., H. L. Newhouse; b., Harper Bros. Bryant Ave., Nos. 85-87, three-st'y bk. apart., 47′ x 90'; $35,000; o. & a., S. N. Crowen; b., Mueller & Walter. Fisk St., No. 3, three-st'y bk. flats, 21′ x 72'; $5,000; o., A. Hill; a., John Klucina; b., Joseph Rus, 1150 S. Kedzie Ave. Fifty-third St., No. 957, three-st'y bk. flats, 23′ x 53'; $5,000; o.. N. Swanstorm; a., A. G. Lund; b., G. N. Johnson, 6003 S. Morgan St. S. Ayers Ave., No. 598, two-st'y bk. flats, 22′ x 58′; $5,000; o., Timothy Cunningham; a., Lonek & Kallal; b., James Murray, 119 La Salle St. S. Troy St., No. 444, three-st'y bk. apart., 24' x 85'; $10,000; o, John Cullen; a., A. J. McMullen; b., James McClintock, 67 S. 44th Ave. S. Park Ave., Nos. 5552-72, and Fifty-sixth St., Nos. 577-579, 3 three-st'y bk. aparts., 37' x 72′, 371 x 82', 43′ x 50'; $62,000; o.. E. Mendel; a., F. L. Newell, 343 Fifth Ave.; b., O. E. Anderson. New York, N. Y.-Jackson Ave., cor. 156th St., 8 four-st'y bk. flats, 28' & 29′ x 65′ & 71′ 11; $140,000; o., Max Weinstein, 887 Jackson Ave.; a., Moore & Landsiedel, 148th St. & 3d Ave. One Hundred and Thirteenth St., nr. 5th Ave., 3 five st'y bk. flats, 33' 4" x 88' 7"; $105,000, o., Rachlin & Lewis, 400 Bank St., Newark, N. J.; a.. M. Bernstein, 245 Broadway. One Hundred and Fortieth St., nr. 7th Ave., 17 five-st'y bk. flats, 27 & 28′ x 85' 6''; $325.000; o., Seitz & Schreiner, 143 W. 125th St.; a, John Hauser, 1961 Seventh Ave. E. Fourth St., No. 330, five-st'y & base. bk. flat, 23′ x 82'; $20,000; o., John Katzman, 177 Orchard St.; a., M. Bernstein, 245 Broadway. Ninety-eighth St., nr. Park St., 2 five-st'y bk. & st. flats, 25′ x 86′ 6′′; $56.000; o., Edw. Muller and Jobn Scheuring, 418 E. 91st St.; a., John Hauser, 1961 Seventh Ave. W. Twentieth St., No. 222, six-st'y & base. bk. flat, 25' x 73' 8"; $28,000; o., Mrs. R. Shapiro, 10 Beekman Pl.; a., M. Bernstein, 245 Broadway. Ninety-eighth St., nr. Park Ave., 2 five-st'y bk. & st. flats, 25 x 86' 6"; $44,000; o., Muller & Schuering, 418 E. 91st St.; a., John Hauser, 1961 Seventh Ave. E. Seventh St., Nos. 111-115, 2 six-st'y bk. & st. aparts., 21 x 75 & 21′ x 86; $42,000; o., S. E. Jacobus; a., G. Fred Pelham, 503 Fifth Ave. FACTORIES. New York, N. Y.- Prospect St., nr. 178th St., onest'y & base. bk. factory, 156′ x 179′ 8′′, plastic slate roof; $34,000; o., Bronx Consumers Ice Co.. 882 Courtlandt Ave.; a., Frank Wennemer, 727 Trinity Ave. [Although a large portion of the building intelligence is provided by their regular correspondents, the edi BUILDING INTELLIGENCE. (Advance Rumors Continued.) 000. pared plans for remodelling a brick and frame 000. Write for PROPOSALS. board, southwest corner of Park Ave. and 59th St., December 3, 1900, for completing new public school 64, Broadway, Woodhaven. RICHARD H. ADAMS et al., committee on buildings. 1301 A SYLUM ADDITION. [At Washington, D. C.] Sealed proposals will be received at this office ward at the Washington Asylum. HENRY B. F. until December 4 for constructing a receiving MACFARLAND et al., commissioners, D. C. tors greatly desire to receive voluntary information, South Bend, Ind. - The gymnasium of Notre C' especially from the smaller and outlying towns.] ADVANCE RUMORS. Atlanta, Ga. - Atlanta University, Dr. F. H. Peck, superintendent, will erect a dining-hall for the University and a dormitory for the negro school, at a total cost of about $60,000. Cedar Rapids, Ia. -Fred Faulkes will erect a brick Dame University which was destroyed by fire COMPETITIONS. [At Lancaster, Pa.] Competitive plans are invited for an orphan's home PROPOSALS. POLICE STATION. 1301 HURCH. 1301 [At Albany, Ga.] Sealed proposals will be received until December 4 for the erection of a brick church for the Methodist Society. A. W. MUSE, chairman building committee. 1301 and stone business building, three stories high, 52 ASYLUM. [At Washington, D. C.] Sealed proposals will be received at this office until December 8 for constructing a police station. HENRY B. F. MACFARLAND et al., commissioners, D. C. 1301 [At New York, N. Y. Sealed bids will be received by the committee on buildings of the board of education at the hall of the CALIFORNIA REDWOOD LUMBER COSTS NO MORE THAN PINE and will last for generations. Resists fire. Does not SWELL, SHRINK, CHECK or SPLIT, and EXCELS all other woods for BUILDINGS. REDWOOD SHINGLES have no equal. Will last 50 to 75 years. REDWOOD can be bought at retail of the following named dealers: We have in stock and in transit from one to two millions of Redwood and can furnish any sizes required. Read our references from week to week; also write us for descriptive booklet. parative study. F. W. CHANDler, Mass. Institute of Technology. ["UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS," Urbana, Ill.] You have struck the keynote of what, developed, SETH J. TEMPLE, ["SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY," New York.] ་་ WARREN P. LAIRD, ["SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY," Syracuse, N. Y.] men. ["COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY," Ithaca, N. Y.] I have looked over the plates of "Topical Archi tecture" and think the idea excellent. ALEX. B. TROWBRIDGE, AMERICAN BRIDGE CO. GENERAL OFFICES: 100 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Designers and Builders of all Classes of We have decided to carry at all our plants a large stock of Raw Material, from which we can furnish with great promptness any ordinary order for Steel Bridges, Roofs, Buildings, Columns, Girders, Beams, Channels, Angles, Plates, etc., etc. ALBANY, N. Y. ATHENS, PA. BOSTON, MASS. BUFFALO, N. Y. BALTIMORE, MD. BUTTE, MONT. COLUMBUS, 0. CHICAGO, ILL. Branch Offices and Works: CANTON, O. CLEVELAND, 0. DULUTH, MINN. EAST BERLIN, CONN. ELMIRA, N.. Y. GROTON, N. Y. HORSEHEADS, N. Y. LAFAYETTE, IND. SEATTLE, WASH. Patent Automatic Scuttle Opener This Opener can be easily opened from the floor below. and will remain open. It is operated with ONE rope, which both opens and closes the scuttle. When closed, it is selflocking, having two (2) bolts, making it impossible to open from the roof. In case of fire, there is no climbing of ladder to unlock scuttle. One pull of the rope opens bolts and scuttle, which remains open, allowing people to escape by way of the roof. It is made of wrought and malleable iron, and will not break or get out of order. Simple in construction. G. BICKELHOUPT SKYLIGHT Treasury Department, Office Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., November 21st, 1900. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o'clock P. M., on the 27th day of December, 1900, and then opened, for the construction (except heating apparatus and electric wiring) of the U. S. Post-office at Blair, Nebraska, in accordance with drawings and specification, copies of which may be had at the discretion of the Supervising Architect, by applying to this office or to the Postmaster at Blair, Nebraska. JAMES KNOX TAYLOR, Supervising Architect. Treasury Department, Office of the Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., November 24th, 1900 Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o'clock P. M. on the 17th day of December, 1900, and then opened, for the extension of vault (issue division) Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Treas. ury Department Building, Washington, D. C., in accordance with drawing and specifications, copies of which may be had at this office at the discretion of Treasury Department, Office Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., November 14, 1900. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o'clock P. M. on the 5th day of December, 1900, and then opened, for the installation of a wiring system for the extension of the U. S. Custom-house and Postoffice at Dubuque, Iowa, in accordance with the drawings and specification, copies of which may be obtained at this office, or at the office of the Superintendent of Construction at Dubuque, Iowa, at the discretion of the Supervising Architect. JAMES KNOX TAYLOR, Supervising Architect. 1301 Treasury Department, Office of the Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., November 13th, 1900. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o'clock P. M. on the 4th day of December, 1900, and then opened, for furnishing the heating apparatus complete in place, for the Isolation Ward and Mortuary, U. S. Marine Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, in accordance with drawing and specification, copies of which may be had at this office, or at the office of the Superintendent at Cleveland, Ohio, at the discretion of the Supervising Architect. JAMES KNOX TAYLOR. Supervising Architect. 1301 the Supervising Architect. JAMES KNOX TAY-opened, for laundry machinery for the Hospital OutLOR, Supervising Architect. Treasury Department, Office Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C.. November 20, 1900. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o'clock P. M. on the 8th day of December, 1900, and then opened, for the alterations and extension of the ventilating system of the U. S. Post-office and Sub-treasury Building at Boston, Mass., in accordance with Treasury Department, Office Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., November 16th, 1900. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o'clock P. M. on the 7th day of December, 1900, and then building and Bath and Laundry Building at the U. S. Immigrant Station, Ellis Island. New York, in accordance with the drawing and specification, copies of which may be had at this office or the office of Boring & Tilton. 32 Broadway, New York City. JAMES KNOX TAYLOR, Supervising Architect. Treasury Department, Office Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., November 16, 1900. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 2 o'clock P. M. on the 7th day of December, 1900, and then opened, for refrigerators for the Hospital Outbuilding, and refrigerators and kitchen furniture for the Kitchen and Restaurant Building and Hospital Building, at the U. S. Immigrant Station, Ellis Island, New York, in accordance with the drawings and specifications, copies of which may be bad at this office or the office of Messrs. Boring & Tilton, 32 Broadway, New York, City. JAMES KNOX TAYLOR, Supervising Architect. |