The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-30
REAL ESTATE NEWS.

Builders who are wondering how it was
that Contractor English, who is building
the new City Hall, had the brick work done
so rapidly, would be enlightened in a few
minutes by inspecting the latest improved
machines for the delivery OF material which
he used. Instead of the old-faShioned hand
winding hod chains, he had steam nod car
riers in all four corners of the building,
which took up eight hods of bricks or NOR
tar, as the case might be. The latest device
in building, however, IS an electric endless
chain. 1t can be used for carrying up hods
of brick or mortar, its s~teadiness is its
strongest feature. Mr.. English had one of
these machines in the Montgomery and Hen
derson street end of the building. Just now
he is using it for carrying up the fire proof
material with which each ceiling is lined.
Wooden shelves are attached to the chain,
and the material is placed On these and car
ried to the third floor. Its steadlness will be
realized when it is told that not a single
piece of material has fallen from the shelves
since it was first put into operation. MI.
English procures his power from the Hud-
son County Electric Light Co.
A thorough examination of the founda-
tions of the new buildings will also convince
one that the work done is of the nnest kind.
In the basement, the immense foundation
walls are at the present time unprotected.
Cartmen and truckmen who drive in the
DhSSIIlE1G AlCll Q L iAElIC lOtAT HbIfN oShoS0
against them with the hubs and tires of their
big heavy truck wheels. There are but two
instances where the wall has been hurt BY a
collision. In one, a piece of brick an inch IN
length was knocked out, and in the second q
half brick. The cement III which the bricks
were laid, remains there as hard as g rock.
Contractor English declares that the half
brick was knocked out when the wall was
green, and but ten feet high. He says now
thai it is impossible to get a whole brick ont
of any of the walls, so strong is the cement
mortar. The cement is harder than the
bricks in the walls.
On August I the Street and Water Com
miSsioners will hear remonStrances against
the confirmation of a number OF improve
ment assessment maps. One of these is for
Ogden avenue between Bowers and Congress
streets.
Transfers.
Sarah Francis Green to Elizabeth X. Buck for 81,
lot 81. north side OF Beacon avenue.
Elizabeth K. Buck to Michael Milk for S4,UW, above
Rebecca Van Buskirk to Joseph Magee for $3.50,
land and premises on the northeast side Of West
Forty-third street, 292 feet southeast or Avenue z.
EfGngham w, Nichols TO Mary Andrews for $3.50,
lot AIS, Block ISL. southeast side OF Delaware avenue
$50 feet from Duncan avenue.
Henry Hohorst to Thomas j. Manning for S4,525,
land and premises south side of York street, 21
feet west OF Grove street.
Mortgages.
Kate Knapp to Irwin Cadmus on lot IS, Block 81,
north side or West Forty-tourtn street bayonne.
catherine Tt1rin Flanerty to the Monticello Mutual
Building and Loan Association on lot 2l, east side of
Bostwick place, for $500.
John L. Adams aud Elizabeth Fowler to the New
Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company, on lots
Il and Is, Block i0h. northeast side of Claremont
ovanup5 for S25El. a-.t 4"sMH -InN