New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Building Managers
Convention To Be
Held This Week
Delegates From Every PART
of Country Coming 10
Philadelphia Wilh Prob
lens; NY. Invites Visitors

Managers Of Office buildings m ev-
cry corner of the country Will meet in
Philadelphia this week to talk shop
The convention promises to be one of
the most important and interesting
that building managers have held be-
cause during the last two years they
have been confronted with problems
never met with before. The exigencies
of war have taxed the ingenuity Of
these men. Conditions sectional in
their influence in addition to problems
that are general Will be discussed and
the measures taken by the managers il
their efforts TO solve them Many war
time management tangles are still un-
solved. With the brains Of severa |
hundred men from every big city in
hope of the managers to solve the
many difficulties which have been de-
velOped.
About thirty-tve members of the
New York Building Managers Assocla-
ton will attend the convention. After
it is over delegates from other parts
of the country viii be invited to spend
a few days in New York as the guests
of the New York managers. 1t is eX-
pected that about 200 will avail them
selves of the opportunity of seeing
New York
The delegates will arrive here on
Saturday morning about 10 o'clock and
will be met at the Liberty Street ferry
by the New York Managers reception
committee consisting of Clarence
T. Coley, chairman; William T. Ropes,
Lee Smith, J. G. Cushman, Corwin
Black and William Lighthipe. Sight
seeing buses will be waiting to carry
the visitors about the city. The itin-
erary will carry them through twenty
one and a half miles of streets. start
ing in the morning and ending at 6 so
in the evening, in front OF the Hotel
Commodore, which Is to be the head
quarters of the committee.
Lower Broadway will be visited
first. The delegates will take look at
lower New York from the roof of the
Equitable Building. They will be taken
through the Bankers Club, in the
building. to show the luxurious side of
modern business life. and the Offices
of the American international Corpo-
ration, on the thirty seventh floor of
the building, will be shown as a model
of Office arrangement. The jewelry
district will be visited and the dele
gates will then go to the City Hall,
where they will be received by May
or Hylan. From City Hall, Chinatown
and the Bowery will be toured on the
wa north to the Metropolitan Tower,
whore the visitors will take a look at
the upper part of the city.
After luncheon DR.. Charles V.
Paterno's apartment house, the larg-
est in the world. covering the blocks
between Forty and Forty
eighth streets from Madison to Van
derblt and Park avenues, will be in
spected The Cathedral of st. John
the Divine. Columbia University and
Grants Tomb will be viewed.
The homeward trip will be along
the West Side Of the city. On Sunday
the delegates will be taken out on
the waterways about the city in the
Tech, General du Points big yacht
which has been turned over to the
managers shy General du Pont. The
Tech will make two trips on Sunday
one In the morning and the other in the
afternoon. 1t can accommodate about
eighty persons comfortably.