Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-04-01
BUILDING OPERATIONS
SEvENTY-THREE ING
LINES FOR MARCH.
Wilmington Going Ahead-Great Aotiv
ity In Building Dwellings, Halls,
Churches and Banks.

Ii Wilmington keeps on as she has
started for the mouth of March this will
be the most prosperous year she will
have experienced iu her history. The
monthly report of the Building Inspector
for the month of March shows that 73
building lines have been run and estab-
lished against 43 lines of last March.
THIS Is the largest number of building
permits taken out In any one month In
the history Of Wilmington. II nothing
interieres to check this spirit OF improve
ment there is no reason why the number
should not reach one thousand buildings
this year. This number OF buildings,
making all allowances for additions to
buildings, and other buildings not dwell
lings, Is "a increase Of 1000 10 the popu-
lation Of the city, allowing an average Of
four to each dwelling. This wifi no
doubt move Wilmington In 1890, the CEN
sus year, up to the 10000 population line
mark.
From present indications the great bulk
OF building will be IN the direction OF
silverbrooB, while the CIeston Land and
East Lake Park settlements will come 10
for their full share. The dwa.l,s:,,.s will
be mostly two-.sury dwelling houses for
wot9iugmen, such as will rent for from
Sl2 to SIS per month. The demand for
dwelling houtes is far In excess OF the
supply. The only dwellings left over not
rented this spring are large ones, such as
rent for from $40 to $50 per month.
Year by year Wilmington is becoming
more and more developed as a manu-
featuring city, and this increases the de-
mand for worklngmen's houses. The
tendency to move from the country into
the nftU Ia nfar ha ~
fore. Farming Is le 8 remuneratiye than
since the war ended, and farmers arc dis
posed to sell or rent their iarme and come
to the city to engage In mercantile pur-
suits, while farm hands come to the city,
rent the cheapest houses aud seek en-
ployment In the shops.
All this tends to build up and Increase
the population Of the city, while as
general rule there will be very little ad-
vance In the population In the rural dis-
tricts over 1880. Amongst the prospec-
tive new public buildings In the city this
year will be the extension of the Farmers
Bank at Third and Market streets, Eden
Hall on Tenth near Orange street, both
already under way, the new National
Bank at Fifth and Market streets and the
new Triuity Episcopal Church at Della
ware avenue and Jackson street. Several
new churches are talked about, but the
building may be postponed another year.
Amongst other improvements which will
employ large numb2r of hands will be
the building of the Eighth street electric
railway and the intercepting sewer down
the Brandywine. Of course there will be
many other enterprises put on foot that
are now only coniectured, but anyhow
the March start off is brilliant and in.
/ a Of tx,ff fTha oI
lowing are the building lines Issued for
the Month of March:
Robert McCaulley, 10 dwellings on the
southerly side of Shsllcross avenue be.
tween Adsms and jackson streets.
Ganree w. McCaulley, nine wellings
southeast corner or Kirk nT enuu ant
VanBuren street.
Thomas II. Melvin, 10 dwellings west
side of Pine street between Ninth and
Tenth.
Ellwood J. Sharp, four dwellings west
side of Harrison street between Elm and
Linden.
Robert Smith, stable southwest corner
OF Second and Ere nch streets.
John L. Malone, stable north side OF
Eleventh street between Jefferson and
John B. Ward, house and store north
west corner Of Eleventh and Lombard
streets.
Daniel Ryan, addition to dwelling on
the south side of Third street between
Poplar and Lombard.
Henry r. Stewart, dwelling on east
side of Lincoln street between Gilpin and
Shallcross avenues.
Franklin P. File, dwelling east side OF
Twenty-tifth street between Tatnall and
West.
William E. Martin, stable, west side of
Orange street between Second and Third
Abner @. Wivel, dwelling, south side
OF Fourth street between Monroe and
Adams.
Edward witsil, dwelling, southwest
corner OF Sixth and Monroe streets,
John Mulvena, 1S dwellings, east side
OF Lincoln street between Front and
Second.
Farmers Bank, addition, northwest
corner of Third and Market streets,
William Forresr, dwelling, east side OF
Church street between Sixth and sev-
enth.
Annie A. Adams, addition to dwelling,
south side of Eleventh street between
Pine and Kirkwood.
John =. Postles, dwelling, south side
Of Maryland avenue between Stroud and
Cedar streets.
A. L. Ainscow, addition to dwelling,
north side oil Ninth street between Ship.
ley and Orange.
Ann Mullen, dwelling, west side OF
Porter street between Elm and Lincoln.
John Reilly, two dwellings, east side
OF Claymont street between A and Lob
dell.
John W. Reed, addition TO dwelling,
southwest corner of Lord and Lombard
streets.
Tobias B. Merritt, two stores aud addi-
tlon to hotel, north side of Front street
between King and French.
Wilmington City Passenger Railway
Company, stable, south side of Gilpin
avenue between DUPONT and Clayton
streets.
Eden Hall Company, hall, south side
of Tenth street between Orange and Tat
nall.
William A. O'Connor,
Practical Tailor No 2i1 MsrlaE nt.oat