Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-01-01

The foregoing perhaps after all is not
an entirely fair record for tie gear, as 1t
10 well knoyn that large number OF
dxellings have been erected In the out
lying suburbs not within the city limits,
and yet persons who occupy those build
iugs are employed in the city. Most
notable among these suburban villas are
East Lake Park, the Highlands, Riddles
and BAucroft's Banks.
But one Of the main causes of de-
crease In the number OF building permits
was the great fear Of builders and con-
tractors Of strikes by the leading me-
chanics. These strikes actually did occur
in June, and continued more or le 9
nuctuating, but enough 70 cut down the
number Of building permits materially
during June, July, August, September
and October. In May last the number OF
permits taken out was so compared with
"A the year before.
A strike broke out In May, and In june
Last the number Of permits taken out was
81, compared with 40 for the previous
June. In July there was decrease Of
Il, in August "A, in eeptember II, and
in October 25. The total decrease during
June, July, August, September and 0cto-
Der was 120. In November, when 1t was
too late In the season for more strikes,
the number Of building permits increased.
It Is expected, however, that during the
present year building operations will be
m re active. Already there Is q discern.
able briskness In reas estate sales aud
changes, but all will depend upon strikes.
| IL the latter commence early Il win xnceh
the lie out of building operations. II
would be o good movement for mechanics
to meet early and settle upon their wages
| for next year, 80 that contractors and
builders would know what they had to
depend upon and make their contracts
accordingly.
During the year large additions have
been made to number OF large manu-
factories, which denotes an increase OF
business. Big erecting shops have been
built by the jackson " Sharp Company;
planning mill by the Harlan & Hollings
worth Company; large additional fac
tories to the extensive morocco manufac-
turiDg plants of the John @. Baker Com
pany and Charles Mullin; new carriage
| factory of Samuel j. White; additional
mills to the plant Of the Diamond State
Iron Company, and in the mercantile list
must be added the big Wholesale house OF
Quigley q Mullen, and the retail store Of
Crosby q Hill.
But while there have not been so many
buildlngs erected as the year before, there
never has been q year when go many
beautiful and costly mansions have been
completed and others commenced ne Is
shown by the following, which have been
erected and the amount they cost: w.
X. Crosby, store, Nos. sos, GOT, 500 Mar
ket street, cost Sos, 900; Red Mems Wig
wan Company, hall On Shipley street
between Fihh and Sixth streets, cost
S25, 900; Leonard @ Van Kleeek, dwell
ing, Pennsylvania avenue and Van Buren,
street, cost $4,000; Thomas McCorkle,
a--slllugi pslaRare a1es.ilie and Van Buren
street, cost $4,000; Holstein Harvey,
dwelling, Delaware avenue between
franklin apd Broome streets, cost S45, ,00o;
J. Miller Thomas, store, No. 604 Market
street, cost sl9, 900; Samuel ], Whit,
carriage factory, Second street between
Orange and Tatnall streets, cost S25, 600;
II. Victor Cause, dwelling, rennsylva-
mia avenue and Rodney street., cost $780,
600; Willard 8. Pyle, dwelling, Frank
lin street between Tenth and Eleventh,
cost $a5, 900; T Allen Hilles, dwelling,
sevsnth street between Clayton and Du-
Pont, cost go, 900; public school No. IS,
Seventeenth and Union streets, cost
go, 90; BaItihIffe & PhiiadelPhia rail-
road station, Water and Market. streets
(without ground) between Si1 eco apd
$4,000; Home for Friendless Children,
through Joseph l.. Carpenter, Jr., 20
Dwellings, 6h Ninth stfeet between
Monroe and Adams, and on Monroe
and Adams streets between Eighth aud
Ninth, cost S7s, 900 to 90, 600, Daniel Nc
Kepney, seven dwellings, Third street be-
tween Harrison and franklin, t17, 800;
James Barkley & Brother, store, No, 200
Market street, coet els, 900; John Null
vena, 10 dwellings, Sherman street be-
tween Poplar and Lombard, cost SIS, 900;
H. B. judd, dwelling, Broome street be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth, cost
t1e, 900 to Sl2, ,000; Thomas McCorkle, 10
dwellings, northeast corner Ninth and
Pine streets cost flS, eco; W. u. Austin,
seven dwellings, Second and Poplar
streets, cost tf4, 900; L. 4. Grubb s. son,
six dwellings, Spruce between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, cost li,000j Thomas
J.. Fitzsimmone, seven dwellings,
Second and Monroe streets, cost SIS, 900;
william Beadenkopf, dwelling, corner
Pennsylvania avenue and Broome street,
cost SIS, 600; J. r. D. Seeds & Son, fivt
dwellinge, Thirteenth between franklin
and Broome streets, cost $25, 600; same
hrm, i've dwellings, Adams between
Tenth and Eleves.h streets, cost $40, 900;
N. B. Culbert five dwellings, Frank in,
between Seventh and ElEhth streets, cost
$25, 600; George @. Lo6diil, Jr,, dwelling,
Broome street, between Gilpn and shall
cross avenues, cost $2 900 to s26, 900;
Tindall Brothers, row of dwellings, Kirk
avenue, between jackson aud Van Bffen
streets, cost $50, 900 TO $50, 900.
W.h all strikes out of the way and all
kinds Il business active as they no do bt
viii ne there f. no good reason why the
pieseht should NOT be the most pros
porous year the city Of Wilmington has
ever expert, need