The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-05

The contract for the westmoreland
Bank Building, to be cors;ruc,es A.
.'rcensburg. Pa. overs 400 tons OF
Idpricated shapes. wN,h Will be fur
flshed by the American Bridge Conn
fhhy' IL Is understood .ha the steel
contract FOR the Greenwich Trust, Com.
pahy building. Greenwich. Conn, viii
go TO Post & McCord. Bids have been
submitted on 300 tons OF fabricated
tteel Tor n machine shop To be con-
structed AZ New Brunswick, y. ]. for
the Simplex Automobile Company. II
IS reported hat the Belmont Bridge
company will fabricate several hun
dred tons Of steel for m addition 10
the plant OF the InEcrsoll-Ran nd Conn
rany at Phiilipshurg. y. j The Klein
Il Jackson apartment building, TO be
constructed at SeN"nty-second street and
Madison avenue. IS stlll before the fab
r~icators. About 500 tcns OF structural
Shapes are required. BID have been
submitted on 5000 tons OF structural
steel for the various buildings en-
hraced w'thiif the projectile plant 81 the
Revere Sugar Refining Company. but no
decision has been rendered. Rlds sub
niitted to local architects are said To
have been referred to Boston.
Gibbs 4 HI. engineers N charge Of
$50 'AtNAA VI wv !
Railroad, are finding difficulty in So
curing bids on transmission poles. The
inquiry recently put out calls FOR 400
tons OF steel only. but, no two poles
are alike and the work is considered
undesirable by the ~fabricatlng shops.
Other inquiries for transmission poles
and owers for Eastern delivery call for
about 1000 tons. some similar inquir-
les are being male on the Pacific coast.
No decision has yet ben rendered IN
regard to the contracts for the Long
Island Hospital and the Kings County
Hospital. nd on the steel work were
submitted several weeks ago.
7. II estimated mat about $50 tons Of
steel viii be required for the pier 10 he
erected in Brnoklyn for the Bush Ter
ninal. Tho George Kellogg structural
Steel Company has taken an order for
$50 tons OF fauV.,ttiug shapes Cor a
theatre and st,ro % he constructed az
Olean. y. y. Smith & Cafrery have been
awarded a contract for 300 tons Of stric-
tural shapes for an Agricultural college
for the syracuse University. The Will
Jams Bridge Compai! will fahricate the
steel shapes required FOR a foundry for
the Syracuse Malleable Iron Works.
'Hl'h4'f' FhAN''f"bS N'NA'A'EAFF hlAFA
securing this country for steel TO he used
for japanese boats, have finally sue
ceeded IN securing several thousand tons
of marine plates At Chicago and on the
Pacific coast, and have also purchased
several thousand tom Of angles and other
structural shapes an rivcis at Clcve-
land. The steel for this ship construction
was originally obtained ~ England, hut
slow deliveries have caused the Japanese
IN flr,.p IN thig cptIrerNs snr "a EGlSf 1ttce
In the central West and far West
there are several structural contracts
pending. including 5000 tons for a de-
partment store AZ Toledo, 1900 tons for
repair shops at Jackson, Mich. for the
Michigan Central Railroad 200 tons for
the power house for the city OF Los
Angeles, several hundred tons. for trans
mission towers for the United S'a,es
Government to he constructed at Key
port. Wash. 800 tons for . h~ighway
tons FOR a hridg. in California for the
Northern Electric Company.
The Southern Railway is 70 build 1900
cars at the Lenolr Car Works. which
will require 10, 600 ton OF steel. The
Burlii -ton ~ reported To have placed
an ore : for 800 car centre sills and
is ~ the BOO ,rkct for 500 tons Of chan
nels for car construction. The Rock
Island IS still In tho market for 800 !
centre sills and the Illinois Central is
taking bids on 300 wooden stock cars.
The Baltimore and Ohio has placed an
other small bridge order, requiring 200
tons of structural shapes. with the Amer
lean Bridge Company.
The Brier HI Steel Company has not |
yet asked fabricators for bids on 5000 ,
tons Of structural steel. This material, il !
is understood, viii ho required for plan, |
extension AT Youngstown, Ohio. The
American Bridge Company will furnish |
l,425 tons of structural steel for the |
WESTINGHOUSE High School The same
fabricators will also furnish 1000 tons |
of steel for the Statler Hotel 10 be con- |
at st. Louis,
Stocks OF pig iron carried on furnace
banks by pig iron producers represented
in the Eastern Association were again
reduced slightly last month. Most OF
the furnaces are also sold to capacity
for many months. They are consequently
in n position TO look with equanimity |
the smaller order for pig iron be-
ing placed by consumers in the East
ern territory, Another inquiry WAS put
yesterday for 600 tons OF foundry
iron for delivery At Corning, n. Y.
Export business continues TO increase
In volume and several large contracts are
still pending for semi-,nished steel, while
the demand for fully finished Is increas-
rather than otherwise.