The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
THE HEBUILDERS' NEW HOME.
THE FINE EDIFICE ON THIRTEENTH
STREET NEARLY READY.
The Stores and Most of the other Rooms
Already Rented-Some of the Tenants
AN Offer ofTemporary Headquarters
for the Real Esta te Exchange.

for the Real Estate Exchange.
The new Builders Exchange building on
Thirteenth street is being rapidly pushed to
completion, and it is expected that the
builders will be permanently located in their
new quarters by the first of July. The paint
ing is now being done, and when that is
finished but few interior details remain be-
fore the building will be ready for occupancy.
more thoroughly arranged structure for the
purposes for which it will be used could
hardly be imagined. Everything is of the
best material, and the accommodations are
perfect The Whittier elevator, one of the
fastest made, is already In place and the
mozaic tiling in the corridors has been put
down. A speaking tube runs from each room
or store to the main one and an electric call
notifies every occupant of the offices when
they are wanted at the telephone, which will
be located in the exchange room. The four
stores on the first floor, each of which has a
display window and frontage on Thirteenth
street have already been rented. The occu-
pants will be: Store No. 1, Burdette &
Williams, hardware merchants, of Boston;
store No. 2, William G. Morrison, builder and
brick manufacturer; store No. 3, Joseph
Thomas & Son, dealers in mill materials, of
Baltimore; and store No. A, George 'Cochner,
the representative Of the White River Stone
Company and the Myers Manufacturing
Company, of Louisville, Ky. Mr.. Cochner
has received the contract to supply the
architectural iron for the new City Post Office
building.
On the second floor the Exchange proper will
be located Fully two-thirds of the / 800 square
feet of exhibition space in the room on the
ground floor, 50x60, have been rented by the
following firms The Grafton Stone Com
pany, Griffith Manufacturing Company, con-
structors Of the Bundy Radiator, White River
Stone Company, Hummelstown Brownstonc
Company, Myers Manufacturing Company,
Union Stove Works, e. s. Schaefer, dealer in
plumbers supplies, who will have 81 800 ex-
hibit, and many others. On the third floor
rooms 10 and IL will be occupied as offices by
the Washington Hydraulic Brick Company,
room -, by William G. Lewis, dealer in
building supplies; room ID, by the Hummels-
town Brownstone Company; room Ia, by the
Potomac Carbonized Cement, Stone, and Pipe
Company. On the fourth floor the New Ma
tional Brick Company, represented by Mr..
Small, will occupy rooms Is and 16,and Frostt
Bro, the brick manufacturers of Haverstraw,
N. Y, who now have works just below Alex
andra, will have their Office in room II. The
fifth floor has not as yet been rented, and the
rooms on the sixth will be utilized as place
of meeting for committees of the various
branches of trade Mr.. Thomas j. King, the
secretary of the Exchange, is very much
pleased with the success the Exchange has
met, and predicts brilliant future for the
venture 'We are still in our infancy,' he
said, ''havng only been organized two years
the 18th of next July. AT first everything
necessarily was ON reduced scale. We made
our rooms attractive, however, and made it
an object for our members to visit them. Now
there are 25S of us, and we have all become
welded to them. In fact, do not believe we
could get along without our Exchange.
AN OFFER TO THE REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.
"For this reason" Mr.. King continued, 81
am glad to see that THE HERALD has been so
earnestly advocating the establishment of a
real estate exchange. The progress we have
made and the benefits which we have gained
for our Exchange leads me to believe that
real estate exchange organized on strong,
firm basis cannot be otherwise than beneficial
to the men in that business. There is large
room on the main floor of our new building
which l have spoken to some of those inter
ested in the real estate exchange scheme as
being most desirable one for them to use
temporarily until they find permanent quar-
ters 1t is large, airy room, 50x60 feet, with
a twenty-fve-foot ceiling. 1t could be occu
pied on trial, and if the Exchange should be
failure, which cannot believe, the expense of
building, etc., would be saved
THE PROPOSED TRADE SCHOOL.
sour success has led us to anticipate the
establishment in connection with the exchange
of trade school. 1t will differ from a manual
training school in that everything will be
practical and very little theory We have a
piece of land 40x65 feet in the rear of the Ex-
change, which we propose using for the
erection of suitable building. All the trades
will be taught there by special teachers from
blacksmithing to laying bricks. The only
recommendation for admission will be com
mon school training and the Endorsement of
one of the members of the Exchange.
Tuition will be almost free. All we desire
in this direction is the hearty cooperation of