The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-06
NO END TO HOUSES.
a MILLION AND a HALF DOLLARS
IN IMPROVEMENTS.

Expended in That Section Alone
improvements in the Residence
Section and in the Suburbs Archi-
tects and Builders Rushed with
Work.
More building is going on in Savannah
now than ever before in the ciSy's history.
Over s., 100000 in improvements are now
in progress, and half ii milliol more will
have been begun in the next three or four
months The greatest activity is now and
will be for the next six months in the
burned district The two public buildings
the court house and the pos5office-will
soon be well under way. The new hotel is
approaching completion, aud in three
months time it will be finished
The eastern and western and southern
portions of the city are by no means in
active, for building is going on everywhere
from the very heart of the city way out on
the outskirts The new part of the city,
south of Anderson street, is rapidly build
ing up, and houses are springing up on the
eastern and western limits. Home build
ing Is what indicates the prosperity of
people, and that is the kind of building that
isgoing on all over Savannah.
THE ARCHITECTS BUSY.
All of the architects are busy, Architect
Eichberg alone has $296. 900 of work under
way. Among the buildings now in prog
ress, for which he is the architect,
are A. s. Cohen's and the
FAIRIES estates new buildings, No. l57
and 159 Broughton street, j. T. Cohen's
building on State street. Harry Haym's
two handsome stores on Barnard street IN
the burned district $. Guckenheimers six
stores on Broughton and Abercorn streets,
A. S. Cohen's store on Jefferson street and
three dwellings on South Broad street,
Solomon Cohen's six residences on Jones
street. X. NJ ODpenheimers residence on
Bolton street. S. Krouskoff's residence on
Drayton street, the st. johns Mission
chapel OF Duffy street, and the st. Benedict
catholic church on East Broad street, and
the new st. Patricks parish house on West
Broad street. Mr.. Eichberg is also prepar-
ing plans for c. +. Suits new residence at
Hall and Habersham streets, j. S. Woods
new residence at Gwinnett and Whitaker
streets, Andrew Hanley's store at w hitaker,
President and York streets, and is also pre-
pairing for the remodeling Of the dwelling,
No. $50 Liberty street, next to the Brig
ham residence, bought some months ago
by Alderman Wells.
The other architects are busy, and are
having all they can attend to.
CONTRACTORS RUSHED WITH W DIRK
The contractors have more work than
they can do. Contractor Matthew O'Con-
nell said that the Conen block has kept him
so busy for the last six months that he has
not offered for any more work As soon as
he completes the Cohen houses, however, no
will begin building in the west end side of
the city.
The 1ybee hotel has kept Winton e. Bur
CESS busy for long time, and they have
not offered, but since the completion of the
hotel they are putting III good time on the
GuckenheiEner and Wilcox < Gibbs build
ings.
Several contractors from other cities have
found work hero in consequence of therush
on Savannah contractors T. o. Browne
of Augusta is doing tho brick work on the
Weed buildings, and also on the Johnston
residence.
Contractor John d. Gould said that more
work Is going on in Savannah now I IAN he
has ever known. He has been as busy as it
was possible for him to be for several
months, and he sees no let 10 Yet. Many
people have held back because they were
unable to got their work done. That will
come in as soon rs some Of the structures
hlch are now nearing completion are
turLed over to the owners
Some of the contractors are experiencing
some diticultyln completing their contrac IS
"a early as tney agreed, and hence the work
AAhtii W Db DcSub III IilS COulhleJlO1l OF those
contracts IS successfully delayed. Some have
stipulated too short a time IN which to com
plete contracts, and they are taxed to carry
on their work
Contractor Eason is on the Wilcox, Gibbs
X Co. building now, and he will be there
some time yet
The contractors hardly know how to ac-
count for the steady increase in the build
ing industry. While contractors have come
q abroad hecl 4, hill
Ing going on that the local contractors have
Eot had time to become envious.
W. ii. Prudhomme said that the way the
southern and southwestern part of the cit
is building up is lemarkable, and the dispo-
sltlon is, even in building the smallest tene-
ment houses, % make them neat and com
Portable, and paint them handsomely.
r. (. Bragden, the contractor. saws the
season as been one of great building activ-
lty in the southern part of the city, and that
the city IS growing rapidly in that direc-
tlon.
j. y. Smith, the contractor who has put
up some attractive residences, including the
pretty parsonage of the Sacred Heart
church, said that the progress of Savannah
Is something wonderful, and the city is
reaching out in every direction. 81 have
caught the infection myself, he said, land
am building five of the prettiest kind OF
two-story cottages out my way At the
rate Savannah is growing, it will soon be
among the very largest cities of the south. .
The growth of the city, Mr.. Smt
observed, has been steady, and this season
eclipses all past seasons.
W. F. Chaplin is about to begin work on
the Odd Fellows building, and he has halt
q dozen other contracts now on hand.
1t is universally conceded that with
the extension of the water mains
south of Anderson street. and
additional tower and other city
lights, the growth Of the city southwark
in the next two years will be uuadruple
y what it has been in the last five years. Lot
owners in the southern section are only
waiting for water and light Many of the
owners of real estate in that part Of the city
have bought with a view of building home.
there, while others will build for renters.
THE LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
The amount of building that is going or
requires good deal of money. The Home
Building Company has invested between
$4,000 and $4,000 in real estate and i'm.
provements In the last year. The company
has built for itself and others twenty
houses. 1t has just completed two hand,
some residences on Drayton street, and has
-FOUR more IN progress, one at Duffy and
Drayton streets and three on Bolton street
between Abercorn and Lincoln streets. The
residence at Drayton and Waldburg lust
completed was built at cost of 81. 500 ex-
elusive OF the lot. That at Duffy and Draw.
ton will cost 50, 900 exclusive of the lot. and