Identifier: historyofrealest00durs (find matches)
Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Record Association Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC
Subjects: Real estate business Building Architecture
Publisher: New York : Record and guide
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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lie libraries: boudoir dressing-saloons,with the most sumptuous cabinet trim that could be devised, be-came the indispensable adjuncts of all high-class houses : the cere-monial dining-room took the ))lace of the back parlor, and then anelaborately-trimmed l)Utlers i)antry became a necessary adjunctof every Xew ^ork town house. In office construction the re-quirements were sini))ler, of course, but the trim was not lesssumiituntis, and in most of the retail stores the art of the cabin.et-maker was made manifest wherever possible. This artisan is ashop workman. The plans of the architect for the wood decorationof a dwelling, office or store, a church, public building or hall, areturned over to him, to be executed in given kinds of wood. Heputs them together in sections of various sizes, ready to put inplace. Then the wood finisher takes hold of them, and with hisgums, his oils, his varnishes, his pumice stone, his rubbing imple-ments and his strong arms, puts upon them a polish through
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BUILDING AXD ARCHITECTURE IX NEW YORK. 413 which the natural beauties of Hne and form and color appear likepictures. It is the carpenters business to put this finished workinto place, and generally he is capable of it; but sometimes, as inthe laying of parquette floors, the fitting of timbered and paneledceilings and walls, the construction of bufTets, mantels and arche.-,,it becomes neces.^ary to call in the cabinet-maker. Then an anom -aly in tra(les-uni(jnism apj)ears. The cabinet-maker, though ahigher artisan, has not yet been able to win the rate of wages andthe short day of which the carpenter is the beneficiary, and when heinvades the carpenters field of endeavor either he passes for a car-penter and receives carpenters pay—or there is a strike. In 1891the cabinet-makers struck for the third time for an eight-hour da\-and higher wages, but after hanging out for five months at a lossto themselves of over half a uiillion in wages, and to the buildersof a still larger sum in del

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