Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1926, Page 20

REAL RESS CLUBTOGET FIFTY-TON CIRDER {2mmond Announces Last of Steel Work Is Now Being Placed in Position. the last of the steel work for the tional Press Building, at Fourteenth 1 F streets, now is being placed. i Hays Hammond, president of the .1ding corporation, today announced. This means that within a few davs » 50-ton proscenium girder, 12 feet <h, with a flange of 18 inches a an of 66 feet, will be put into posi- 1. The 5-foot girder spanning the ge opening will be hung to the sscenium girder, but will be swung o position first. ‘ompletion of the steel construction, olving about 3,000 tons of metal . millions of rivets, means that the <t phase of constructing the build- ¢ that has been called "A national jnument to the American press,” iring the concrete for other parts the building, promptly will be start- This is expected to proceed at the te of a floor or more a week. Along the F street frontage of the nilding, which covers a lot having an »a of 42,600 square feet, the concrete rk already is well under way, hav- been erected to the height of the <hird floor. As soon as the crane and other equipment being used to swing e massive steel pieces into place are smantled, the workmen will catch up ith this start on the west side of the building. ‘Will Rush Interior. Keeping pace with the concrete con- truction, the walls inclosing the the ter will be erected, and it is the ex- ectation of the architects, engineers nd contractors that the roof will be on the theater by the first of the year. I'his will make it possible to rush the interior construction of this massive place. The decorative plaster that will dorn the walls is ready to be put on 1 soon as the preliminary stages that must precede this work are completed. Delivery of the proscenium girder to the building lot attracted much atten- ion, because it probably is the larg »st single plece of steel that has been 1¢ed in construction vork in the Dis- rict of Columbia. Every detail in con- nection with its placing and riveting personally is being supervised by War- ren E. Gill, the representative on the Job of Rapp & Rapp, the architects of the building; Frank R. Dunlap, assist- ant construction manager for the George A. Fuller Co., the builders, and Maj. Ernest A. Graves, the owner’s engineer. “The girder weighs about 50 tons,” Mr. Gill said, “and will support a weight of about 1.000 tons. It has a five-to-one factor of safety, more than enough to carry any strain that con- ceivably can be put upon it in the building.” Besides this huge girder. the theater roof, which will be at about the sev- enth floor level of the National Press Building. will be supported by four big trusses They are 112 feet long, 15 fee h'gh and weigh 175 tons. There are about 8,000 rivets in each. While the pioscenium girder will be swung into place not later than Monday, it will take the gang of riveters on the Job about two weeks to complete the riveting. Some of the rivets used are 9 Inches long and have a proportion- ate diameter, . There will be an average of 25,000 square feet of floor space on each floor of the building. Besides that part of the job which now is visible from the street or from the windows of nearby buildings, the subsurface construction New Downtown Brick Home ESTATE. New York Pays for Transit Right—of-Way By Sale of Real Estate Taken in Fee Sale of city-owned real estate taken | which aggregated $2,122,090, or 35 per in fee a decade ago in order to secure perpetual easements for rapid transit right of way has netted the city of New York margin enough over the original outk to give the city its right-of-way without cost and net it a substantial profit on the transaction. That is the outcome of an auction sale of 25 parcels of city-owned Manhattan real estate, as analyzed in a recent is- sue of the New York Record: and Guide. Not only does the city gets its right of way without cost througi profit on its condemned real estate, but, in ad- dition, the city has transferred one large subway plot in Mott avenue, the Bronx, to an adjoining public school for nlaypround use. And it's all just a chapter in the general story of how growth of popu lation in every city of the country is pyramiding values in the city’s real estate, the National Association ot Real Estate Boards comments. This is the detail of the New York experience: The city realized from the sale a to- tal of $2,869,300, or $747,210 above the upset price fixed as resale value LUMBER INDUSTRY DECREASE SLIGHT Little Change Noted in Either Hardwood or Softwood Mills of Nation. Little change in the lumber indus- try was noted in reports received by telegraph today by the National Lum- her Manufacturers’ Association from 358 of the larger commercial softwood and 147 of ihe chief hardwood lumber mills of the country, when compared with reports for the preceding week. In comparison with softwood reports for the same period a year ago, how- ever, while production holds about the same leevl, there is considerable de- crease in shipments and new business. The hardwood reports indicated a slight decline in sales from the previ- ous week. , The unfilled orders of 222 Southern Pine and West Coast mills at the end of last week amounted to 503,273,85 against 517,259,276 feet fo s the previous week. The 122 identical Southern pine mills in the group showed unfilled orders of 199, 512,360 feet last week, as against 200,508,000 feet for the week before. For the 100 West Coast mills the un- filled orders were 303,461,498 feet, as gza‘nst 816,751,276 for 104 mills 2 week earlier. Altogether, the 341 comparably re- porting softwood mills had shipments 86 per cent and orders 88 per cent of actual production. For the Southern pine mills these percentages were, re- spectively, 80 and 78, and for the West Coast mills 84 and 83. Of the reporting mills, the 315 with an established normal production for the week of 213,415,609 feet, gave ac- tual production®4 per cent, shipmentg 79 per cent and orders 80 per cent thereof. goes below the level of F street to an equivalent of four stories. In that space are hidden the big boilers which will heat the building, the oil-burning equipment, refrigerating machinery to keep the theater at 2 normal tempera- ture in even the hottest weather and the 1(mher unseen but ' necessary “works " A ne high-speed, autamatic Otis ele- vators for the buflding now are being manufactured. : cent above the upset price. The original purchase price and con- demnation awards for the properties amounted to approximately $2,833,725, from which deductions of $61,0Q0 should be made for other rapld transit purposes, o that the difference, or $96,575, represents the profit realized. In addition to the actual cash profit, the city retains the easements for rapid transit which it purchased the plots. When acquired the properties were practically 95 per cent improved with business or other buildings. The properties were acquired, some of them in 1910, some in 1912, 1914 and 19165. Eleven parcels acquired in 1914 and 1915 at a total cost of $191,485 brought $205,000 in the sale. This is $4,200 better than the plots brought when of- fered separately-—in other words, a $4,200 “plottage value” had accrued. The United States Bureau of Mines is making a movie of the copper in dustry of this country and Canada. zht of way, to acquire | BUILDERS T0 STUDY METHODS IN B0OM Time to Take Stock of Big Operations Will Be Afford- ed at Convention. Methods under which the tremen- dous construction activities of 1926, in volving expenditure of seven and one- half billion dollars, were carried on are soon to be reviewed by leading builders. This action will take place at a cdnference to be held at Ashe ville, N C., January 24-27, under the auspices of the Assoclated General Contractors. of America. Prominent among the subjects to be discussed, today's announcement of the program -for the meeting dis closes, will b Surety bonding prac- tices, awards of contracts to irre- sponsible or incapable bidders, lien law provisions, methods of financing construction operations, economics of View of two of the houses built on Irving street north- west, between 17th and 18th. A highway construction, use of stand- ard contracts, construction of public projects under the ‘‘day labor” sys- tem and prevention of accidents. “The intensive bullding activities of the year just concluded have hidden from view the effects of many con- ditlons which would be more obvious in a less hectic perlod,” Gen. R. C. Marshall, jr., head of the conference’s sponsoring group, declared today “While po Immediate let-down of the furious pace of construction activities is In prospect, the return to a more normal volume of operations is cer- tain to come. “During the past six years the con- struction industry has been busily en- engaged in meeting the demand for new bulldings that was pent up during the w Completion of the task of satisfying this demand will return the Industry to the fulfillment of cur. rent needs as they arise. “It s for the sake of preparedness against the time when every possible efficiency and economy will be increas ingly vital to, the bufiding public that the ~ forthcoming meeting is being called.” Leaders of the construction indus try whose operatlons cover virtually every State and many forelgn coun- tries have been invited to attend the meeting. A gallon of water to a goldfish is a good recipe for a fish tank. R VAR Al Better Material Better Construction Better Location More Modern More Convenienc More Features These Are Things People of Washington Demand Today The average of wages in the princi pal construction centers of the United States remained level at index No. 225 for November. The average of prices paid by con- tractors for the basic construction ma- terfals rose 1 point to index No. 176 for November, being influenced by higher prices {n several localities for sand, gravel, stone and common brick. October Contracts Show Decline. ‘The volume of contracts awnrded during October was 7 per cent less than the volume recorded for Septem- ber. The total volume of contracts awarded during the first 10 months of 1926 exceeded by -8 per cent the total volume recorded for the corre- sponding period In 19 Revenue Freight Advances. ‘The total volume of revenue freight transportation for the first 46 weeks of 1926 exceeded by 4.4 per cent the total volume recorded for the cor- responding perfod in 1925. Construction Costs Rise. The average of construction costs in the principal construction centers of the United States rose one point to T R R A REAL ESTATE. st four months has been lower t 1923 Attractively Finished Homes With All Modern Improvements See Sample House 1505 West Virginia Ave. N.E. 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