it is evident that the growth of concrete would increase rather than diminish the use of such forms. Of the 5,750,000 tons of iron castings it is hard to see that any considerable percentage could possibly be affected by concrete.
Altogether, it would appear that of 25,- 000,000 tons of iron and steel products only about 2,000,000 tons, or eight per cent., is vulnerable by the growth of concrete.—Iron Trade Review.
Natural Gas Supply Short—A press report from Pittsburg, Pa., under date of December 12 declares that though natural gas has been plentiful for several years until this fall, an acute shortage has developed, especially in the territory served by the Manufacturers’ Light and Heat Company. The potteries at East Liverpool and several glass plants in the suburbs have been compelled to revert to coal, and domestic users have suffered severely recently. The Philadelphia company in the Pittsburg district has advanced prices 10 per cent, on wholesale consumption, which includes the manufacturers, but made no change in domestic rates. The Manufacturers’ company expects soon to relieve the situation in its territory by turning on the new 120-mile line from the new gas field near Fairmont, W. Va. Efforts are being made by borough and city legislation in the Ohio valley towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio to prevent this company from enforcing its notice of a 10 per cent, increase in rates to domestic consumers. The reason for the shortage is not a lack of gas,, but a lack of carrying, or pipe-line facilities. Prevailing prosperity is using an enormous amount of gas, both domestic and in manufacturing, and while the fields have abundant supplies the pipe line capacity has not grown in pace with the consumption.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger- cities.)
Aberdeen, S. D.—Plans are being prepared for a hotel to be erected on the burned Sherman House site. Cost, $200,- 000. Address James and Patrick Ringrose.
Albany, N. Y.—It is reported that plans are on foot to erect a State hospital at Comstocks, Washington County, this hospital to cost $1,000,000.
Altoona, Pa.—Architects Shollar & Hersh, Trust Building, are preparing plans for a six-story brick furniture store building, 65x120 feet, for Oliver Rothert. Cost, $100,000.
Alva, Okla.—Architect S. A. Layton, it is reported, will prepare plans for the new $50,000 building for the Northwestern Normal College to be erected here.
Ardmore, Pa.—It is reported that bids are being received for a three-story brick and stone, 50xi4Ô-foot Y. M. C. A. building, to be erected at a cost of $50,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—Bids are asked by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C, until 3 P.M., January 10, 1907, for construction of foundations for United States postoffice and court-house.
Reports state that a $75,000 Pythian Cas
tle hall will be erected here by the Knights of Pythias, No. 153.
Atlantic City, N. J—James P. McConnell, of Philadelphia, has purchased a section of land on Massachusetts Avenue, and proposes to erect there a ioo-room hotel.
Attleboro, Mass.—Plans are being prepared by Karl H. Hyde, architect, for the erection of a three-story factory building, 40x250 feet, for S. O. Bigney & Co. Bids will be- received about January 15. Estimated cost, $50,000.
Baltimore, Md.—Wilder & Wright are reported to have prepared plans for the one-story building which is to be erected at Tenth Street and Baltimore Avenue, for the New England Bank, at a cost of $150,- 000.
Reports state that Architects Wyatt & Nolting have completed plans for the new structure to be erected by the trustees of the Johns Hopkins University at the northwest corner of Water and South Streets.
It is reported that Andrew Carnegie has presented the Enoch Pratt Free Library with $500,000 for the construction of twenty branch library buildings. Address James A. Gary, president Board of Trustees.
Battle Creek, Mich.—The School Board, it is stated, has decided to erect a high school at a cost of $100,000.
Bayonne, N. J.—The members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, are said to be contemplating the erection of a building to cost $60,000.
Binghamton, N. Y.—Major Laurel L. Olmsted is said to be arranging to erect a six-story business building at Washington and Henry Streets.
Bowling Green, Ky.—The Grand Lodge of Red Men of Kentucky are said to be contemplating the erection of a home for the orphans and widows of the members of the order at an estimated cost of $100,- 000. H. H. Denhard, of Bowling Green, may be able to give further information.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Plans have been prepared by R. T. Rasmussen, architect, 30 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, for the erection of two five-story brick stores and tenements to be erected at Myrtle and Sumner Avenues. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Woodruff Leeming, 20 Broad Street, Manhattan, has plans ready for bids on a brick and stone addition to the Grace Presbyterian Church, Stuyvesant and Jefferson Avenues. The cost is estimated at about $50,000.
Carlisle, Pa.—Reports state that a site at the southwest corner of Pitt and Lowther Streets has been selected for the new Federal building; $75,000 has been appropriated for the new building.
Charlotte, N. C.—Charlotte Auditorium Company is completing arrangements for the erection of proposed auditorium to cost not less than $50,000.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—R. H. Hunt, Eighth and Broad Streets, is reported to have prepared two sets of plans for the city hall and auditorium ; one plan provides for two buildings, costing about $225,000 for the city hall and $100,000 for the auditorium ; the other plan for one building, costing about $300,000.
Chicago, III.—It is reported that the George A. Fuller Company, Marquette Building, has been awarded the contract for the erection of a îen-story building on Franklin and Congress Stre ets, for Kohn Bros., at a cost of $250,000.
D. H. Burnham & Co., architects, are receiving bids for the erection of a ten-story fireproof warehouse to be erected on Michigan Street, between Kingsbury and Orleans Streets, for the John Mohr Boiler Works, 42 Illinois Street. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Architect William Ohlhaber has completed plans for the five-story machinery building, 125x125 feet, to be built for the William Ganschow Company, at the southwest corner of Washington Boulevard and Morgan Street. It will cost $100,000.
Architect L. M. Mitchell, 145 La Salle Street’, has. designed a modern apartment building to be erected at Englewood for A. G. Mackee, 145 La Salle Street. Designs show three-story building, covering 50x116 feet. It will be built of .brick and stone, and will have composition roofing. Cost will be about $50,000.
H. R. Wilson, architect, 218 La Salle Street, is preparing plans for a three-story apartment house to contain twelve apartments, to be erected at Fifty-third Street and Woodlawn Avenue, for himself. Estimated cost, $150,000.
Reports state that Francis M. Barton, architect, is preparing plans for a large factory, to be erected on a five-acre plot of ground bounded by South Forty-third and South Forty-fourth Streets, and the alley south of Colorado Avenue and the Chicago Terminal Transfer Company’s tracks, for the Adams & Eiting Company, manufacturers of paints and wood fillers. There will be several buildings of reinforced-concrete construction. Estimated cost, $100,- 000.
Architect J. E. O. Pridmore, First National Bank building, 164 Dearborn Street, has made sketches for a warehouse to be built on the West Side. It will be tenstory, 60x100 feet, probably of reinforcedconcrete construction, have brick exterior, elevator, and cost $100,000.
Joseph Downey, builder, Stock Exchange Building, no La Salle Street, is having plans prepared for a factory to be built at Desplaines Street and Jackson Boulevard for the Edward Rose Company, 206 Market Street. It will be eight-story and basement, of mill construction, with pressed brick exterior, elevators, electric-wiring, and cost about $50,000.
Chippewa Falls, Wis.—Alex. B. Mc Donnell has donated, according to reports, $50,000 for the erection of a high school for the Notre Dame parish. The building is to be known as the McDonnell Memorial High School.
Cleveland, O.—Hubbell & Benes, Citizens’ Building, are said to have prepared plans for a $100,000 office building, to be erected at St. Claire and Hazeldell Avenues, for the Bell Telephone Company.
Plans are on foot, it is reported, looking toward the erection of a new hospital in this city, to cost $1,000,000.
Colfax, Ia.—T. W. McNear is said to be interested an the erection of a $100,000 hotel here.
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Plans are being prepared by Dr. F. F. Caldwell, Brooklyn, N. Y., for a sanitarium in Colorado Springs. Cost, $150,000.
Covington, La.—Bids are asked by C. Z. Williams, Mayor, until December 29, for the erection of a school building here. Andrew J. Bryan, 708 Hennen Building, New Orleans, is architect.
Altogether, it would appear that of 25,- 000,000 tons of iron and steel products only about 2,000,000 tons, or eight per cent., is vulnerable by the growth of concrete.—Iron Trade Review.
Natural Gas Supply Short—A press report from Pittsburg, Pa., under date of December 12 declares that though natural gas has been plentiful for several years until this fall, an acute shortage has developed, especially in the territory served by the Manufacturers’ Light and Heat Company. The potteries at East Liverpool and several glass plants in the suburbs have been compelled to revert to coal, and domestic users have suffered severely recently. The Philadelphia company in the Pittsburg district has advanced prices 10 per cent, on wholesale consumption, which includes the manufacturers, but made no change in domestic rates. The Manufacturers’ company expects soon to relieve the situation in its territory by turning on the new 120-mile line from the new gas field near Fairmont, W. Va. Efforts are being made by borough and city legislation in the Ohio valley towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio to prevent this company from enforcing its notice of a 10 per cent, increase in rates to domestic consumers. The reason for the shortage is not a lack of gas,, but a lack of carrying, or pipe-line facilities. Prevailing prosperity is using an enormous amount of gas, both domestic and in manufacturing, and while the fields have abundant supplies the pipe line capacity has not grown in pace with the consumption.
BUILDING NEWS.
(The editors greatly desire to receive information from the smaller and outlying towns as well as from the larger- cities.)
Aberdeen, S. D.—Plans are being prepared for a hotel to be erected on the burned Sherman House site. Cost, $200,- 000. Address James and Patrick Ringrose.
Albany, N. Y.—It is reported that plans are on foot to erect a State hospital at Comstocks, Washington County, this hospital to cost $1,000,000.
Altoona, Pa.—Architects Shollar & Hersh, Trust Building, are preparing plans for a six-story brick furniture store building, 65x120 feet, for Oliver Rothert. Cost, $100,000.
Alva, Okla.—Architect S. A. Layton, it is reported, will prepare plans for the new $50,000 building for the Northwestern Normal College to be erected here.
Ardmore, Pa.—It is reported that bids are being received for a three-story brick and stone, 50xi4Ô-foot Y. M. C. A. building, to be erected at a cost of $50,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—Bids are asked by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C, until 3 P.M., January 10, 1907, for construction of foundations for United States postoffice and court-house.
Reports state that a $75,000 Pythian Cas
tle hall will be erected here by the Knights of Pythias, No. 153.
Atlantic City, N. J—James P. McConnell, of Philadelphia, has purchased a section of land on Massachusetts Avenue, and proposes to erect there a ioo-room hotel.
Attleboro, Mass.—Plans are being prepared by Karl H. Hyde, architect, for the erection of a three-story factory building, 40x250 feet, for S. O. Bigney & Co. Bids will be- received about January 15. Estimated cost, $50,000.
Baltimore, Md.—Wilder & Wright are reported to have prepared plans for the one-story building which is to be erected at Tenth Street and Baltimore Avenue, for the New England Bank, at a cost of $150,- 000.
Reports state that Architects Wyatt & Nolting have completed plans for the new structure to be erected by the trustees of the Johns Hopkins University at the northwest corner of Water and South Streets.
It is reported that Andrew Carnegie has presented the Enoch Pratt Free Library with $500,000 for the construction of twenty branch library buildings. Address James A. Gary, president Board of Trustees.
Battle Creek, Mich.—The School Board, it is stated, has decided to erect a high school at a cost of $100,000.
Bayonne, N. J.—The members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, are said to be contemplating the erection of a building to cost $60,000.
Binghamton, N. Y.—Major Laurel L. Olmsted is said to be arranging to erect a six-story business building at Washington and Henry Streets.
Bowling Green, Ky.—The Grand Lodge of Red Men of Kentucky are said to be contemplating the erection of a home for the orphans and widows of the members of the order at an estimated cost of $100,- 000. H. H. Denhard, of Bowling Green, may be able to give further information.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Plans have been prepared by R. T. Rasmussen, architect, 30 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, for the erection of two five-story brick stores and tenements to be erected at Myrtle and Sumner Avenues. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Woodruff Leeming, 20 Broad Street, Manhattan, has plans ready for bids on a brick and stone addition to the Grace Presbyterian Church, Stuyvesant and Jefferson Avenues. The cost is estimated at about $50,000.
Carlisle, Pa.—Reports state that a site at the southwest corner of Pitt and Lowther Streets has been selected for the new Federal building; $75,000 has been appropriated for the new building.
Charlotte, N. C.—Charlotte Auditorium Company is completing arrangements for the erection of proposed auditorium to cost not less than $50,000.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—R. H. Hunt, Eighth and Broad Streets, is reported to have prepared two sets of plans for the city hall and auditorium ; one plan provides for two buildings, costing about $225,000 for the city hall and $100,000 for the auditorium ; the other plan for one building, costing about $300,000.
Chicago, III.—It is reported that the George A. Fuller Company, Marquette Building, has been awarded the contract for the erection of a îen-story building on Franklin and Congress Stre ets, for Kohn Bros., at a cost of $250,000.
D. H. Burnham & Co., architects, are receiving bids for the erection of a ten-story fireproof warehouse to be erected on Michigan Street, between Kingsbury and Orleans Streets, for the John Mohr Boiler Works, 42 Illinois Street. Estimated cost, $100,000.
Architect William Ohlhaber has completed plans for the five-story machinery building, 125x125 feet, to be built for the William Ganschow Company, at the southwest corner of Washington Boulevard and Morgan Street. It will cost $100,000.
Architect L. M. Mitchell, 145 La Salle Street’, has. designed a modern apartment building to be erected at Englewood for A. G. Mackee, 145 La Salle Street. Designs show three-story building, covering 50x116 feet. It will be built of .brick and stone, and will have composition roofing. Cost will be about $50,000.
H. R. Wilson, architect, 218 La Salle Street, is preparing plans for a three-story apartment house to contain twelve apartments, to be erected at Fifty-third Street and Woodlawn Avenue, for himself. Estimated cost, $150,000.
Reports state that Francis M. Barton, architect, is preparing plans for a large factory, to be erected on a five-acre plot of ground bounded by South Forty-third and South Forty-fourth Streets, and the alley south of Colorado Avenue and the Chicago Terminal Transfer Company’s tracks, for the Adams & Eiting Company, manufacturers of paints and wood fillers. There will be several buildings of reinforced-concrete construction. Estimated cost, $100,- 000.
Architect J. E. O. Pridmore, First National Bank building, 164 Dearborn Street, has made sketches for a warehouse to be built on the West Side. It will be tenstory, 60x100 feet, probably of reinforcedconcrete construction, have brick exterior, elevator, and cost $100,000.
Joseph Downey, builder, Stock Exchange Building, no La Salle Street, is having plans prepared for a factory to be built at Desplaines Street and Jackson Boulevard for the Edward Rose Company, 206 Market Street. It will be eight-story and basement, of mill construction, with pressed brick exterior, elevators, electric-wiring, and cost about $50,000.
Chippewa Falls, Wis.—Alex. B. Mc Donnell has donated, according to reports, $50,000 for the erection of a high school for the Notre Dame parish. The building is to be known as the McDonnell Memorial High School.
Cleveland, O.—Hubbell & Benes, Citizens’ Building, are said to have prepared plans for a $100,000 office building, to be erected at St. Claire and Hazeldell Avenues, for the Bell Telephone Company.
Plans are on foot, it is reported, looking toward the erection of a new hospital in this city, to cost $1,000,000.
Colfax, Ia.—T. W. McNear is said to be interested an the erection of a $100,000 hotel here.
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Plans are being prepared by Dr. F. F. Caldwell, Brooklyn, N. Y., for a sanitarium in Colorado Springs. Cost, $150,000.
Covington, La.—Bids are asked by C. Z. Williams, Mayor, until December 29, for the erection of a school building here. Andrew J. Bryan, 708 Hennen Building, New Orleans, is architect.