New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-20
BUILDING Is FL0URISHlNG
Strike Troubles BelieUed To Be Per-
anonentLu Settled.

after two seasons of disturbance IN The building
tsrades the NsE-Yorlx builders predict
usually prosperous season 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
ing situation cleared up. Plans for buildings
which been held up for two years for fear OF
the interruption by strikes lockouts now
being fled and several largo Office buildings and
apartment houses are being arranged for the plans
10 be fled within a month IT is estimated that
before April plans for buildings OF this description
with an aggregate cost OF Noo.o0ooo0 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 general convention Of representatives Of
the unions and the trades organization in the
building Trades Club to revise the arbitration
agreement
Independent contractors well as members
OF the Building Trades Employers Association are
preparing for big building boom this season as
owing TO the length Of The winter Of 1e03-0 the
building season OF 1904 necessarily short even
az there had been no building trades disputes Ac-
cordins 10 estimates Of speculative builders It is
considered certain that from ssoooooo to s7OooOoOo
VIII be invested IN tenements and fats in the
coming season. The building Of the subway has
started boom h apartment houses on the north
side OF the Harlem
W. r. Stephenson. secretary Of the Building
Trades Employers Association tn speaking OF the
situation said yesterday:
Architects and owners OF property who have
hesltated about Investing money are beginning TO
lhe upon haye no now no trognle W1a
5or the season have been signed. men are at work
heTe 40 reason to fear any II ab 5 npheaVa in
ot a. 5 5 s s f IN tae ba s"4 bd pTeT bs
The same feeling Of confidence manifested among
owners OF property and architects
independent builders expressed the same feeling
Of confidence. and plans are being rushed through
by them for apartment houses and flats in The
iBronx and IN The suburbs In The Bronx plans
hyere fled for many fats and apartment houses last
week. ranging in cost from $35OOo to $4,000 Among
the apartment buildings being put up in New
York. for which plans have been fled. is q ten
story steel frame hreproof elevator apartment
hotel ct the southeast corner Of Madison-ave. and
17Gfty~frtl-st Two four-story dwellings are to be
torn down at once TO make for this building.
A sKteen-stoTy Office building is TO be started on
the northwest corner Of Nassau and John SITS. by
the Hooker Company, for which the plans have not
vet been conplsted- 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.
FThe George A. Fuller Company has the general
contract for this building and tho exact cost has
mot yet been, estimated
Plans sre being prepared by Kirby, Petit d /
Green for the new Journal building, which win
occupy the site the old Hotel Virginia, at the
Grand Circle Broadway, 58th-st- and sth-avs. The I
old building IS to be torn down early in Mays
The builders saysthat the general tsudsrns now In 4
residence houses and apartment puilo,nss Is 10 4
buy large lots and make the houses higher f1Rn 4
Have been customary IN the last three or four
bears. Several existing hotels have asked for bids
for enlargement and improvement in various parts
of the city. q large number OF store buildings are
also being projected. most OF them between s4th
znd z2d SITS. One. eight story building. IN 9TH
tractors for watch are Mark fadNtz & Son, viii
S&501.OO An eleven story Etore and ONCE
building IS also being erected on the site OF sew
and further uptown a number OF cid buildings are
being demolished TO make way for store and Office
IN the Bay Ridge section OF South Brooklyn.
where for many years there has been compar-
satively little change, the certainty that subway
viii be constructed along Fourth-ave TO Fort
1iamilton has drawn email army of spectators
Raye been restricted 20 Queen Anne cottages. de-
sanhed from one another by q lot or two, the re-
to the grief Of the residents, and of fat and
apartment houses have already begun TO appear.
Iators OF lots at enhanced prices for apartment
houses Owners who had guaranteed that their !
only single detached residences could be built
have yielded the temptation TO sell lots at great
years this section has preserved village char
acteristics, and in three four years, Judging ,
now, il viii be regarded longer q suburb.
There are now thirty-tWo unions, representinga
agreement OF which twenty-five are the regular
unions, which came TO terms with the employers
tielr strikes ana eight new unions IN place OF
eight regular unions which refused to call off
employers association There are equal number
OF trade associations in the empioyerY association.
celeEates VIII be present at the convention. Before
The strikes called last year and the lockout
<or This convention, but the lockout stopped all
IeEotat. The revision Of the agreement will