Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-18
BUILDING PROGRESS
A LitHs Talk About the New Houses Erected
the Past Year.
THE PROSPECTS FOR NEXT SEASON.
The Opinion General That Many Improve
menS Will be Made.
WHAT THE BUILDERS SAY.

In the past year, some OF winch are com
pleted and occupied and others Just being
finished. Some Of these houses are hand
some onts, too, and ref acs ereiit upon the
taste Of the builder, as well as the de-
s'gaer.
Handsome dwelling houses are some
thing that in previous years Wheeling has
been short of, but of late the people
who can affJrd to build domicile, OF their
own, and especially for their W use,
have become mora advanced in their
IDEAS Of what a modern house
should look like, and how it should be ar
ranged. Indeed, very few men have built
hCu5es to rent any way near what a mod
ern house should be, and these few could
not do it all. The men in Wheeling who
have enterprise enOrgh to build houses to
rent out are scarce, but there are some,
may their number
NEVER GROW LESS,
who have shown their public spirit in this
re pect, greatly TO the accommodation OF
people who are compiled to rent their
residences.
All this leads US II remark that in ali
these years no man has seen fit to
build a block Of houses to snit
small families, There are hundreds of
these families in Wheeling who would
lump at a chance 10 rent q nice, c)mtOrta-
BILE f]ve-roomed hGuss at a reasO liable
| pr:ca, but as houses of this s;zo are scarce,
they are comp lied to rent a larger house
than they can make use Of or live in with
another family. Of course this matter has
been talked of before, bat it is an ever
fruitful and pertinent subj ect, and the only
wonder is that some one with the means
at command doesn't build a 81 ,ck Of Ordi-
nary siz ID houses. 1t is impossible to find
a m IN with any business re use wtatsvsr
who can help acknowledge that the invest
ment won be a paying one If the loca-
ton Of thu houses was at all favorable.
Houses for people in ordinary circum-
stances is what Wheeling
NEEDS AT THIS JUNCTURE
in her growth, and Whist she must have.
But 10 get back to the original thought
Az before remarked, there have bsen quite
a number of dwelling houses erected in
the city the pss5 year, but very few bust.
re3s houses. A talk among contractors
and builders shows that while building has
been ordinarily gocd it has rot gone be-
yond that stage in the past year. Just
what this IN Re attributed II is not plain,
although t is va,iOuslV charged to the fact
of this b 9ing Pr sideLtial year, the spring
ing Of thu prohibition ame1dGent on the
people, the carpenters strike, etc, etc. 1t
may be ary or all of these csuses-ao one
can tell.
However, the architects and builders
say ,hsy have been kept pretty well EN-
p'oyed the whole year, and some Of the
planning mill men cay they have had as
much az they could do with their regular
force of hands. All, too, join in the
belief that next year will witness the
erection of number of new bui'dngs and
the making of many improvements in
property, and already q good deal Of work
has been laid out FIR commencement
IN THE EARLY SPRING.
Mr.. E. W. Wells, of Klieves, Kraft &
Co , said: "While the bu ding business of
the past year hes rot bten anything big,
still we have had about as much work Of
various kinds as we could attend to. We
are now Just completing the h CHEST build
ing ever erected in this city for the Bloch
tobacco works. 1t is seven stories high,
AMI will be finished in about two weeks.
The finishing touches are Being put oa the
Y. NJ. G. A. bu hing, and We have made
pans for remoieling the First NJ. E.
Church in & .llaire. 1t is very probable
that the Axiom S nging S-ciety will MAKE
extensive improvr ments in their club house
in the spring. which, if done, will make it
cns Of the most complete and CommOdious
buildlrg' of the kind in any city of Wheel
ing's s,z9 in thu country. Then We have
prepared plans for several other b1ildiDgs
which are TO 90 up in tire spring, among
which is a handsome business house and
dwelling for Mr.. c. l.. kurtz. We look
for a very prosperous year in our business
in 1899"
Mr.. Wells has had the founda iOl laid
for a double dwelling house at the corner
of Chapliue and Twenty third street,, and
Judging firm the plans he has prepared it
will be undoabtedly the
FINEST AND MOST MODERN
dwelling on thu South Side. 1t will be
completed as elrly in lhe sp:ing as possible.
Architect You 1ge:-I think next year
will bsag good one for TIE building business,
at least all the indications at present
point that way. l Go not tbi k
architects or builders wi | have any cause
A. --l:, ra-k oaaaNn nnlooo CANA
thing unforeseen turns up. am low en-
gagged in finishing up the plans for the
Jewish Synagogue, tue erection Of which
will BE- ccmm mead a. soon as spring Cpen'
up. | am also At work on plans for "
small Catholic churches, n at Miltors-
burg and the other at Burkett's Station,
Ohio. I have also zen promised gu ts a
number of private dwellings, some fifteen
in number, which are to be built next
ssasou."
Beltz, Fading & Co also report the pros
poets for ths building b1sineSS next year
as being excellent, and a Der of citi-
Ems have already declared their intention
OF building their own hOusfs.
Il expect to see," said Mr. B-ltz of thai
firm, many of tho3e lots in CaldwelIs
addition and those on the leland which
were recently sold, occupied by nsw dwell
ipgs before this time next yea. The pop
ulation Of the city is rapidly increasing
and we must have moIe hous p"
Mr. Ed Holiday, of the firm Of Holli-
day & Soa, said:
1--WE have nothing to complain of and
haven't had. 10 fact We have been kept
running to our full capacity to meet orders,
and then
ersNS To RE No IET-TP. YET.