New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-20
BUILDING is FL0URISHlNG
Strike Troubles BeIieUed TO Be Per-
monentlq Settled.

AFTER two seasons of disturbance in che building
rsrades the Nex~York builders now predict an I'M
usually prosperous this year and the Build
ling Trades Employers Association. which has had
two fights with the unions over its arbitration
agreement. has definitely and regards the build
fng situation cleared up. Plans for buildings
which have been held up for years for fear OF
the interruption by strikes loekouts now
being fled and several large Office buildings and
apartment houses being arranged for. the plans
TO be fled within month 1t is estimated that
before April plans for buildings of this description
with an aggregate cost of Nooo6o.oo0 will be fled
with the Buildings Department. Both the unions
working under the arbitration agreement and the
trade associations in the Building Trades Employ
ers Association viii make final preparations to-
day for a general convention of representatives of
the unions and the trades organization in the
Building Trades Club to revise the arbitration
agreement.
Independent contractors well members
OF the Building Trades Employers Association are
preparing for a big building boom this season as
owing to the length Of The winter of iso3-'4 the
building season OF 1904 necessarily short even
az there had been building trades disputes. Ao-
cording TO estimates Of speculative builders II is
considered certain that from 100000 to $1,000 900
VIII be invested IN tenements and fats in the
coming season. The building Of the subway has
started boom n apartment houses on the north
side OF the Harlem
". r. Stephenson. secretary Of the Building
Trades Employers Association On speaking of the
situation said yesterday:
= Arcaitects and owners OF property who have
heslFated about Investing money beginning to
Lbs unions Practically aII The trade agreem@nts
5or the season have been signed. men are at work
there IS 10 reaso to lear any r0 Iab sa upheaV n
80; s-Sn as hsa occurred in the two previous
the same feeling Of confidence manifested among
owners OF property and architects
Independent builders expressed the same feeling
CT confidence. and plans being rushed through
by them for apartment houses and flats in The
EJ3ronx and IN The suburbs. In The Bronx plans
hvere fled for many fats and apartment houses last
week ranging In cost from S35000 500 900. Among
the apartment buildings being put up in New
York. for which plans have been fled is ten
story steel frame hreproof elevator apartment
hotel ut the southeast corner OF Madison-ave. and
1F9fty-ffti-st. Two four-story dwellings are TO be
zorn down at-znoa TO make room for this building
A sxteen-story Office building is 10 be started on
the northwest corner OF Nassau and John SITS. by
the Hooker Company, for which the plans have not
yet been completed It viii occupy the site of
several old four and i've story buildings, in OF
(which It IS said Aaron Burr had his law Office.
THE George a Fuller Company has the general
contract for this building and tho exact cost has
not yet been estimated
Plans are being prepared by Kirby. Petit g.
Green for the Journal building which win I
ccllpv the site OF the old Hotel Virginia, at the
Grand Circle Broadway, 5St-st. and sth-ave. The
old building IS to be torn down early in Hays
THE builders saystllat the general tsudxcnS now In
residence houses and apartment buildings Is TO I
buy large lots and make the houses higher T1Rn
1zave been customary in the last three or four
GEARS. Several existing hotels have asked for bids
for enlargement and improvement IN various parts
of the city, a large number OF store buildings ars
also being projected. most Of them between Gath
and z2d SITS. One, eight story building. II. 9TH
ave. East 34th and 18th sts., the general con-
cost s25O0,00 An eleven story store and office
Building is also being erected on the site OF sew
q o.
being demolished TO make way for store and oficea
IN the Bay Ridge section OF South Brooklyn
where for many years there has been compar-
Will be constructed along Fourth-ave. TO Fort
Idauilton has drawn a small army oc spectators
have been re1tricted to Queen Anne cottages, de-
eached from one another by q lot or two, the re-
to tbs grief Of the residents, and of fat and
apartment houses have already begun TO appear.
lators Of lots at enhanced prices Tor apartment
houses. Owners who had guaranteed that their
only single detached residences could be built
have yielded 10 the temptation to sell lots at great
years this section has preserved it's village char
acteristics, and in three or four years, Judging
from the rate at which building IS going on there
There are now thirty-two unions, representing
agreement. OF which twenty-five are the regular
unions, which came 20 terms with the employers
after the lockout had been declared by calling off
eight REGULAR unions. which refused to call off
their strikes in defiance Of ulfiuaaturl by the
employers association There are an equal number
OF trade associations in the empioyery association
which has now about l0O0 members. In all 192
ce4egates VIII be present at the convention Before
the strikes were called last year and the lockout
Dad been declared preliminary steps had been taken
inegouat.~ The revision OF the agreement will