New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Tearing Down Some WI
Located Landmarks !,
Old Insurance Distric,
$l25,OO0 Av. B Lea.
According to a Report, Cl,,.
Manufacturers Face Force
Shutdown May %
BY ARTHUR T. NICHOLSON

49, - - shhNhOAsoUN
Some old landmarks in the inan..
zone are being RACED at the nor,I..
corner Of William and John sta \.
seven four 70 six story buildinu ~
be improved with a twenty stOr, =
fee building by the William Kern.
Construction Company from CLANS !,
Frank II. Quimby for the ITO WIZ,
Street Corporation. The building VI
be called the William Street 0s,.,
The new william st. subway will h,,.
what is expected TO be the main a,
ton on the line through it.
The seven parcels of land were a.
sembled by the South Manhattan 4.
atty Company, the entire block ben,
sold by it through Charles B. Va,
Valen, the Noyes Company and VII.
iara A. White & Sons early in isiss
the 'esent owners.
Clark T. Chambers has leased sr
Lloyd 8. Bryce estate to Ema,sd
Lipkowitz the southwest corner Of lsh
st. and Az. B, 92x95.6 feet The ST.
is TO be improved with a two .ssu
garage. The lease is for twenty1,,
years at an aggregate rental Of sl9s
600.
The Exclusive Features, Inc. I'm
Goldstein, president), has leased
through A. L. Libman 1900 squu.
feet of space on the ninth floor Of de
Leavitt Building, at 1875 and 1872 Wed
10th st. The rental for the term sin
be about $4,000
Glass manufacturers face a forced
shutdown of practically all plsns N
the country on May %. says the Dcy
Service Building Reports. At present
there is not two weeks supply o.
hand in the country, should the nils
have 10 stop work now. Working %
capacity between now and May 20, toe
best the mills can hope to do is 10
supply the country's jobbers with about
sixty DAYS reserve. Shortage Of fuel
has caused loss of more than | ,OOOpeo
boxes of this commodity IN the last
ten months, equal TO a 10 per cent re-
duction in production. The loooer
through whom dealers get their sup
plies are without complete stocks.
Glass has not advanced IN proportion
to other building commodities, but "
is very likely to go much beyond pres
ent figures. especially If war IS de'
clared. Soda ash manufacturer hay,
been advised that the government WI
REQUIRE so per cent of their capaeltl
if war comes. Caustic soda IS ehisi
component of glass and is made oat 81
soda ash. There is great difficult! et'
perienced by glass manufacturer y
obtxin enough caustic soda now, %
that manufacturers, when asked vSsi
effect such a contingency would ss.,
upon future building glass prices sac
there was only one answer.
Baldwin. Long Island, is to have
brick railroad station. 1t VIII De .
English Colonial architecture. rs
name of the community will proosb9
be changed to Baldwin Haroor.
TIE apartment house at 42i Wee
146th ST.. sold recently by Derschuch =
Co. for the Vortex Company, me- y
Daniel II. Jackson. was held at SoVv'''
The Tanney Printing Company hss
leased the entire fourth floor IN W
American Theatre Building. at ~
West AID ST., from the Borough ms
atre through Morris Rose.
When one speaks Of building IN "
architectural or structural sense, ON,
thoughts naturally travel to tne x
where are found the most famous eyns y
ings. and at once the most beautisL, -
ali the world. says Theodore Stsrreu ~
the March number Of THE hoggsoA
Magazine" That spot IS tlorenee'
capital city Of Tuscany, far t9. l.
called by its citizens the Lily OF "
Arno." the scene OF the Italian kenss
sance and the birthplace, too OF ".
greatest builders the world mas CIV
known.
Architects they were eslled-sres,,'
tects they called themselves but oOho,.
ers they were. the noblest citizens q
their day. They performed the wol1
by which their epoch is remembers
Princes won Immortality through Oe's
their patrons.
eliminate the glare from artineis
illumination which is injurious 20 Wy
eyes" is the advice given 10 owners =
buildings, in a statement issued
Beverly S. King and Associates, sls. .
tects and engineers. They also -,
"When we consider that the human ~ =,
became adapted to brightness not 20
ceeding eight candle power per sq'ss. ~
inch, from exposed light sources N
centuries, and that to-day It IS ~.
jected to brightness far in excess \
5000 candle power per squsre ~.
from illuminants with eoneen'rs.s..'
filaments and gas filled bulbs, the Pr:
perity of oculists and the preas's, I,
nance of tinted eye glasses ceases :. :
be a mystery. To eliminate glare