step into their nicely furnished and cosy offices, No. 708 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. ” — Pittsburgh Correspondent of The Southern Architect.
SAFETY IN THE THEATRES.
The utility of the Asbestos Drop Curtain in case of fire was demonstrated recently at the Haverhill Opera-House. After the stage was set for the first act in the well-known spectacular performance, “ The Vendetta, ” the scenery took fire from a border-light and almost instantaneously the entire contents of the stage were in flames. At this juncture the Asbestos Curtain was dropped and the audience notified that there was no danger. The presence of the curtain avoided a panic and lives were doubtless saved thereby. The new Columbia Theatre of this city has just been provided with one of these Asbestos Curtains which are manufactured by the H. W. Johns Manufacturing Co., of New York, with branch offices at Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta. — From “Advertiser” Boston, Mass.
ROOFING-TILE.
The firm of Burns, Russell & Co. have been engaged in the manufacture of fine bricks for the past seventy-two years, and our bricks, during that time, have enjoyed the very highest reputation for beauty and durability. The demand for a superior article in the way of clay roofing-tiles has induced us to extend our business to embrace this branch, and we shall endeavor to earn for our roofingtile the same high reputation that our bricks have so long possessed.
In the preparation of our catalogue, we do not consider it necessary to dwell at any length upon the superiority of clay roofingtiles to any other material in use for covering roofs, their advantages being fully understood and appreciated by architects and builders. As to their durability, there can be no question, as» roofs are to be found in foreign countries that have stood for centuries, the tiles being as sound to-day as when first made. Being fireproof, they afford a protection that cannot be obtained with any other material. The tile is a non-conductor, and is, therefore, a greater protection against lightning than the old-fashioned lightning-rod. They are not affected by heat or cold, acid, smoke or rust, do not require any paint, and always have a bright, fresh and substantial appearance. It is impossible to obtain the beautiful architectural effects with any other roofing material that can be produced with roofing-tiles.
In our catalogue we present illustrations of our standard or stock patterns, and will add such other patterns as we think desirable, or will manufacture special designs from drawings furnished by architects. We will be pleased to receive correspondence upon the subject of tiles, and will cheerfully furnish such information about their use as may be desired by architects or builders.
BURNS, RUSSELL & CO.,
Baltimore, Md.
ARC LAMPS.
We beg to announce that we have acquired the sole right to manufacture and sell the Arc Lamps of the Universal Arc Lamp Company, which lamp as now improved and perfected we confidently offer to our patrons as the best lamp of its character now in the market.
We have devoted a large portion of our extensive factory to this purpose, and will use our best endeavors to fill promptly all existing and future orders.
Our aim is to furnish the best and cheapest Arc Lamp for incandescent and railway circuits that a liberal expenditure of money and ingenuity can produce.
INTERIOR CONDUIT & INSULATION CO.
Edward H. Johnson, President.
NOTES.
Wm. Cramp & Sons, Ship & Engine Co., of Philadelphia, are making extensive changes in their plant and have placed the contract for a new boiler shop with the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., of East Berlin, Conn. This boiler shop will be constructed entirely of iron and will be composed of two parts, one part 55ʹ in width by 350ʹ in length, made very high between joints on account of moving large marine boilers over each other. This portion of the building is controlled by a fifty-ton travelling-crane which is to be furnished by Wm. Sellers & Co., of Philadelphia.
Connected with this main portion will be a wing 58ʹ wide by 370ʹ long, served the whole length by a twenty-ton Seller’s travellingcrane. The building is composed entirely of iron from the designs of the Berlin Company, and will be one of the most complete in every detail.
The iron roof for the store-house which the United States Government are building at Willetts Point, L. I., will be furnished by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., of East Berlin, Conn.
•
In our September number we made our readers acquainted with a new kind of Tapestry for wall decoration, which is imported by Emil Majert, 216 Church Street, New York. We have had, since then, the pleasure to inspect a number of new designs, in Italian, French and German Renaissance, particularly well adapted for hotels, halls in private dwellings, libraries, club-houses, theatres, churches, etc. Also, for dining-rooms and restaurants several exquisite patterns composed of fruits and flowers, have been produced.
We can warmly recommend these tapestries, on account of the highly artistic manner in which the design and colors are carried out. The peculiar and attractive textile effect of this new fabric, should cause it to be widely used.
The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company of Stamford, Conn., are distributing a very dainty booklet under the style of “Artist and Artisan, ” the intention of which is to encourage householders to give more attention themselves, or through their architects, to the character of the metal-work used in their buildings. The little volume closes with a partial list of the buildings in which the work of this concern has been used, but, unfortunately, it does not state in what instances the work was prepared especially for the job from the architects’ designs.
The Delaware Iron Company, owned and operated by Morris, Tasker & Company, of New Castle, Delaware, have decided to rebuild their plant which was lately destroyed by fire, and have placed the contract with The Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Conn., for the entire plant, which will be constructed of iron from the designs of the Berlin Company. The work has to be completed by December 1st.
The Butler Hardware Company of 18 Warren Street, New York, have issued a very complete and handsomely printed catalogue and price-list of 166 pages, illustrating their full line of Builders’ hardware.
Many of the designs are new and unique, and Architects, Builders and users of Builders hardware generally, will be mailed a copy on forwarding a business card.
BUILDING INTELLIGENCE.
Reported for the American Architect & Building News.
APARTMENT-HOUSES.
Brooklyn, N. Y. — Ralph Ave., s e cor. McDonough St., four-st’y brick double flat and stores, felt and gravel roof; cost, $20, 000; owner, Thos. H. Radcliffe, 826 Fulton St.; architect, John A. Sinclair, 284 Reid Ave.
Tompkins Ave., e s, 150ʹ n Pulaski St., four-st’y brick flat and store, tin roof; cost, $11, 000; owner, Mrs. Felix Batalora, 74 Sumner Ave.; architects, J. D. Reynolds & Son, 363 Fulton St.
Irving Pl., w s, 300ʹ n Putnam Ave., four-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $9, 000; owners, C. W. and E. M. Barlow, 16-18 Irving Pl.; architects, J. D. Reynolds & Son, 363 Fulton St.
Chicage, Ill. — G. Metz, two-st’y flats, 742 Tuttle St.; cost, $3, 000.
Mrs. Mary Wihner, two-st’y flats, 543 Burling St,; cost, $3, 000.
Fred Sammer, two-st’y flats, 6315 McChesney Ave.; cost, $3, 000.
William H. Pruyn, 4 three-st’y flats, 4543-4549 Ellis Ave.; cost, $48, 000.
J. L. Swan, 5 two-st’y flats, 5622-5636 South Green St.; cost, $10, 000.
Henry Gade, 2 three-st’y flats, 568-570 Ogden Ave.; cost, $14, 000.
August Klemke, 2 two-st’y flats, 345-347 West Thirteenth St.; cost, $10, 000.
J. Tabor, three-st’y flats, 4321 Evans Ave.; cost, $7, 000.
Otto W. Mitchell, 2 three-st’y flats, 4339-4341 Oakenwald Ave; cost, $12, 000.
Frank A. Anderson, two-st’y flats, 4419 Vincennes Ave.; cost, $3, 500.
Martha and Emma Rimmer, three-st’y flats, 2720 Fifth Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
W. H Cameron, two-st’y flats, 4-12 Kendall St.; cost, $16, 000.
A. B. Camp, two-st’y flats, 172 Albany Ave.; cost, $4, 500.
John Atkinson, three-st’y flats, 5008 Dearborn St.; cost, $4, 500.
P. E. Follensbee, 4 two-st’y flats, 5411-5419 Dearborn St.; cost, $16, 000.
T. J. Ryerntson, three-st’y flats, 889 North Hoyne Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
Christopher Berntsen, three-st’y flats, 361 Troy St.; cost, $4, 500.
C. W. Weiss, two-st’y flats, 5336 Wabash Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
William Bradt, two-st’y flats, 7306 Woodlawn Ave.; cost, $3, 000.
F. W. Bartsch, three-st’y flats, 6215 Wabash Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
Max Kohn, three-st’y flats, 149 Thirty-fifth St.; cost, $6, 500.
John L. Vandermark, 8 three-st’y flats, 6557-6559 Lexington Ave. and 517-521 Sixty-sixth St: cost, $50, 000.
Cincinnati, O. — F. G. Huntington, five-st’y flats, Auburn and Locust Sts.; cost, $16, 000; architect, G. W. Drach.
New York, N. Y. — One Hundred and Forty-first St., s w cor Alexander Ave., 4 five-st’y brick flats, tin roofs; cost. $56, 000; owner, Henry Muller, 701 East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth St.; architect. Walter H. C. Hornum, 150 East One Hundred and. Twenty-fifth St.
Henry St., No. 111, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $22, 000; owners, Fay & Stacom, 337 Pleasant Ave.; architect, Charles Rentz, 153 Fourth Ave.
Allen st.. No. 185, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $20, 000; owner, Philip Kottowsky, 235 Henry St.; architect, Charles Rentz, 153 Fourth Ave.
st. Mark’s PL, No. 101, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $40, 000; owner, George Horenberger, 95 Seventh Ave.; architects, Kurtzer & Rohe, Seventh St. and Third Ave.
Ninetieth St., n w cor. Lexington Ave., tive-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $25, 000; owner, John Weber, 1121 Madison Ave.; architects, Weber & Drosser, 81 and 82 Bible House.
Cherry St., No. 274, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $23, 000; owners, Weil & Meyer, 227 East Sixtieth St; architect, G. F. Pelham, 1381 Broadway,
One Hundred and Eleventh St., n s, 50ʹ n Madison Ave., 2 tive-st’y brick flats, tin roofs; cost. $40, 000; owner, John S. Scott, 4 West One Hundred and Thirteenth St.; architect, John C. Burne, 1531 Third Ave.
Seventh Ave., w s, 75ʹ s One Hundred and Fortysecond St., 2 five-st’y brick and stone flats; cost, $60, 000; owner, G. C. Currier; architect, E. L. Bradley.
Eighty-fourth St., n s, 175ʹ w Eighth Ave., 2 fivest’y brick and stone apartment-houses; owner, David Richy; architect, G. A. Schellenger.
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth St., s s. 150ʹ w Amsterdam Ave., 2 five-st’y brownstone and brick flats; cost, $38, 000; owner, George Austin Smith; architect, Charles S. Sidney.
HOUSES.
Brooklyn, N. Y. — Stockholm St., s s, 325ʹ w Knickerbocker Ave., 2 three-st’y frame dwells., tin roofs; cost, $4, 200 each; owners, Wm. Hillenbrand, 167 Harmon St., and A. Trennel, 196 Knickerbocker Ave.; architect, George Hillenbrand.
Essex St., w s, 55ʹ s Blake Ave., 2 two-st’y frame dwells., tin roofs; cost, $2, 200 each; owner, Anna Laird, Linwood St. and Blake Ave.
Pacific St., n s, 450ʹ w Kingston Ave., 5 three-st’y brick dwells., gravel roofs; cost, $8, 000 each; owner, Chas. H. Nicholls, 28 New York Ave.; architects, Langston & Dahlander, 1239 Bedford Ave.
Hamburg Ave., w s, 50ʹ s Harman St., 4 three-st’y
SAFETY IN THE THEATRES.
The utility of the Asbestos Drop Curtain in case of fire was demonstrated recently at the Haverhill Opera-House. After the stage was set for the first act in the well-known spectacular performance, “ The Vendetta, ” the scenery took fire from a border-light and almost instantaneously the entire contents of the stage were in flames. At this juncture the Asbestos Curtain was dropped and the audience notified that there was no danger. The presence of the curtain avoided a panic and lives were doubtless saved thereby. The new Columbia Theatre of this city has just been provided with one of these Asbestos Curtains which are manufactured by the H. W. Johns Manufacturing Co., of New York, with branch offices at Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta. — From “Advertiser” Boston, Mass.
ROOFING-TILE.
The firm of Burns, Russell & Co. have been engaged in the manufacture of fine bricks for the past seventy-two years, and our bricks, during that time, have enjoyed the very highest reputation for beauty and durability. The demand for a superior article in the way of clay roofing-tiles has induced us to extend our business to embrace this branch, and we shall endeavor to earn for our roofingtile the same high reputation that our bricks have so long possessed.
In the preparation of our catalogue, we do not consider it necessary to dwell at any length upon the superiority of clay roofingtiles to any other material in use for covering roofs, their advantages being fully understood and appreciated by architects and builders. As to their durability, there can be no question, as» roofs are to be found in foreign countries that have stood for centuries, the tiles being as sound to-day as when first made. Being fireproof, they afford a protection that cannot be obtained with any other material. The tile is a non-conductor, and is, therefore, a greater protection against lightning than the old-fashioned lightning-rod. They are not affected by heat or cold, acid, smoke or rust, do not require any paint, and always have a bright, fresh and substantial appearance. It is impossible to obtain the beautiful architectural effects with any other roofing material that can be produced with roofing-tiles.
In our catalogue we present illustrations of our standard or stock patterns, and will add such other patterns as we think desirable, or will manufacture special designs from drawings furnished by architects. We will be pleased to receive correspondence upon the subject of tiles, and will cheerfully furnish such information about their use as may be desired by architects or builders.
BURNS, RUSSELL & CO.,
Baltimore, Md.
ARC LAMPS.
We beg to announce that we have acquired the sole right to manufacture and sell the Arc Lamps of the Universal Arc Lamp Company, which lamp as now improved and perfected we confidently offer to our patrons as the best lamp of its character now in the market.
We have devoted a large portion of our extensive factory to this purpose, and will use our best endeavors to fill promptly all existing and future orders.
Our aim is to furnish the best and cheapest Arc Lamp for incandescent and railway circuits that a liberal expenditure of money and ingenuity can produce.
INTERIOR CONDUIT & INSULATION CO.
Edward H. Johnson, President.
NOTES.
Wm. Cramp & Sons, Ship & Engine Co., of Philadelphia, are making extensive changes in their plant and have placed the contract for a new boiler shop with the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., of East Berlin, Conn. This boiler shop will be constructed entirely of iron and will be composed of two parts, one part 55ʹ in width by 350ʹ in length, made very high between joints on account of moving large marine boilers over each other. This portion of the building is controlled by a fifty-ton travelling-crane which is to be furnished by Wm. Sellers & Co., of Philadelphia.
Connected with this main portion will be a wing 58ʹ wide by 370ʹ long, served the whole length by a twenty-ton Seller’s travellingcrane. The building is composed entirely of iron from the designs of the Berlin Company, and will be one of the most complete in every detail.
The iron roof for the store-house which the United States Government are building at Willetts Point, L. I., will be furnished by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., of East Berlin, Conn.
•
In our September number we made our readers acquainted with a new kind of Tapestry for wall decoration, which is imported by Emil Majert, 216 Church Street, New York. We have had, since then, the pleasure to inspect a number of new designs, in Italian, French and German Renaissance, particularly well adapted for hotels, halls in private dwellings, libraries, club-houses, theatres, churches, etc. Also, for dining-rooms and restaurants several exquisite patterns composed of fruits and flowers, have been produced.
We can warmly recommend these tapestries, on account of the highly artistic manner in which the design and colors are carried out. The peculiar and attractive textile effect of this new fabric, should cause it to be widely used.
The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company of Stamford, Conn., are distributing a very dainty booklet under the style of “Artist and Artisan, ” the intention of which is to encourage householders to give more attention themselves, or through their architects, to the character of the metal-work used in their buildings. The little volume closes with a partial list of the buildings in which the work of this concern has been used, but, unfortunately, it does not state in what instances the work was prepared especially for the job from the architects’ designs.
The Delaware Iron Company, owned and operated by Morris, Tasker & Company, of New Castle, Delaware, have decided to rebuild their plant which was lately destroyed by fire, and have placed the contract with The Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Conn., for the entire plant, which will be constructed of iron from the designs of the Berlin Company. The work has to be completed by December 1st.
The Butler Hardware Company of 18 Warren Street, New York, have issued a very complete and handsomely printed catalogue and price-list of 166 pages, illustrating their full line of Builders’ hardware.
Many of the designs are new and unique, and Architects, Builders and users of Builders hardware generally, will be mailed a copy on forwarding a business card.
BUILDING INTELLIGENCE.
Reported for the American Architect & Building News.
APARTMENT-HOUSES.
Brooklyn, N. Y. — Ralph Ave., s e cor. McDonough St., four-st’y brick double flat and stores, felt and gravel roof; cost, $20, 000; owner, Thos. H. Radcliffe, 826 Fulton St.; architect, John A. Sinclair, 284 Reid Ave.
Tompkins Ave., e s, 150ʹ n Pulaski St., four-st’y brick flat and store, tin roof; cost, $11, 000; owner, Mrs. Felix Batalora, 74 Sumner Ave.; architects, J. D. Reynolds & Son, 363 Fulton St.
Irving Pl., w s, 300ʹ n Putnam Ave., four-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $9, 000; owners, C. W. and E. M. Barlow, 16-18 Irving Pl.; architects, J. D. Reynolds & Son, 363 Fulton St.
Chicage, Ill. — G. Metz, two-st’y flats, 742 Tuttle St.; cost, $3, 000.
Mrs. Mary Wihner, two-st’y flats, 543 Burling St,; cost, $3, 000.
Fred Sammer, two-st’y flats, 6315 McChesney Ave.; cost, $3, 000.
William H. Pruyn, 4 three-st’y flats, 4543-4549 Ellis Ave.; cost, $48, 000.
J. L. Swan, 5 two-st’y flats, 5622-5636 South Green St.; cost, $10, 000.
Henry Gade, 2 three-st’y flats, 568-570 Ogden Ave.; cost, $14, 000.
August Klemke, 2 two-st’y flats, 345-347 West Thirteenth St.; cost, $10, 000.
J. Tabor, three-st’y flats, 4321 Evans Ave.; cost, $7, 000.
Otto W. Mitchell, 2 three-st’y flats, 4339-4341 Oakenwald Ave; cost, $12, 000.
Frank A. Anderson, two-st’y flats, 4419 Vincennes Ave.; cost, $3, 500.
Martha and Emma Rimmer, three-st’y flats, 2720 Fifth Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
W. H Cameron, two-st’y flats, 4-12 Kendall St.; cost, $16, 000.
A. B. Camp, two-st’y flats, 172 Albany Ave.; cost, $4, 500.
John Atkinson, three-st’y flats, 5008 Dearborn St.; cost, $4, 500.
P. E. Follensbee, 4 two-st’y flats, 5411-5419 Dearborn St.; cost, $16, 000.
T. J. Ryerntson, three-st’y flats, 889 North Hoyne Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
Christopher Berntsen, three-st’y flats, 361 Troy St.; cost, $4, 500.
C. W. Weiss, two-st’y flats, 5336 Wabash Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
William Bradt, two-st’y flats, 7306 Woodlawn Ave.; cost, $3, 000.
F. W. Bartsch, three-st’y flats, 6215 Wabash Ave.; cost, $5, 000.
Max Kohn, three-st’y flats, 149 Thirty-fifth St.; cost, $6, 500.
John L. Vandermark, 8 three-st’y flats, 6557-6559 Lexington Ave. and 517-521 Sixty-sixth St: cost, $50, 000.
Cincinnati, O. — F. G. Huntington, five-st’y flats, Auburn and Locust Sts.; cost, $16, 000; architect, G. W. Drach.
New York, N. Y. — One Hundred and Forty-first St., s w cor Alexander Ave., 4 five-st’y brick flats, tin roofs; cost. $56, 000; owner, Henry Muller, 701 East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth St.; architect. Walter H. C. Hornum, 150 East One Hundred and. Twenty-fifth St.
Henry St., No. 111, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $22, 000; owners, Fay & Stacom, 337 Pleasant Ave.; architect, Charles Rentz, 153 Fourth Ave.
Allen st.. No. 185, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $20, 000; owner, Philip Kottowsky, 235 Henry St.; architect, Charles Rentz, 153 Fourth Ave.
st. Mark’s PL, No. 101, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $40, 000; owner, George Horenberger, 95 Seventh Ave.; architects, Kurtzer & Rohe, Seventh St. and Third Ave.
Ninetieth St., n w cor. Lexington Ave., tive-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $25, 000; owner, John Weber, 1121 Madison Ave.; architects, Weber & Drosser, 81 and 82 Bible House.
Cherry St., No. 274, five-st’y brick flat, tin roof; cost, $23, 000; owners, Weil & Meyer, 227 East Sixtieth St; architect, G. F. Pelham, 1381 Broadway,
One Hundred and Eleventh St., n s, 50ʹ n Madison Ave., 2 tive-st’y brick flats, tin roofs; cost. $40, 000; owner, John S. Scott, 4 West One Hundred and Thirteenth St.; architect, John C. Burne, 1531 Third Ave.
Seventh Ave., w s, 75ʹ s One Hundred and Fortysecond St., 2 five-st’y brick and stone flats; cost, $60, 000; owner, G. C. Currier; architect, E. L. Bradley.
Eighty-fourth St., n s, 175ʹ w Eighth Ave., 2 fivest’y brick and stone apartment-houses; owner, David Richy; architect, G. A. Schellenger.
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth St., s s. 150ʹ w Amsterdam Ave., 2 five-st’y brownstone and brick flats; cost, $38, 000; owner, George Austin Smith; architect, Charles S. Sidney.
HOUSES.
Brooklyn, N. Y. — Stockholm St., s s, 325ʹ w Knickerbocker Ave., 2 three-st’y frame dwells., tin roofs; cost, $4, 200 each; owners, Wm. Hillenbrand, 167 Harmon St., and A. Trennel, 196 Knickerbocker Ave.; architect, George Hillenbrand.
Essex St., w s, 55ʹ s Blake Ave., 2 two-st’y frame dwells., tin roofs; cost, $2, 200 each; owner, Anna Laird, Linwood St. and Blake Ave.
Pacific St., n s, 450ʹ w Kingston Ave., 5 three-st’y brick dwells., gravel roofs; cost, $8, 000 each; owner, Chas. H. Nicholls, 28 New York Ave.; architects, Langston & Dahlander, 1239 Bedford Ave.
Hamburg Ave., w s, 50ʹ s Harman St., 4 three-st’y