The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-07
BRICK, STONE. IRON.
Durable Buildings for seattle's
Merchants.
ANoTHER FIvE-sToaY eElck
Four Big Buildings Uaasr Csser--Delays
on Aeeapns of Iron--Nsw
Bfscks Commenced.

AFSsaseet Fisher 10 working On she psAns Ter q
new ntessscfy besek hzagk 10 bA bMElx by Mr.
Louis FeEFeT. 81 roFfi4nd. The baIissfrg vii -
fHi ID = snee On toe Sic q tho old Posr TsExE-
LlGKscEg oz1lne. 90 1eslxr aEenne between
Fs0at street AID RaIyFpad azenue work hAs al
READY commenced ~ easing np the ground
preparatory % building TIE fOnndaxioa Al
pressaf ewt tasree stories vii - bufl: she r.
aaa11lsg two stories being Esfg Bnni Ax. Yes1s-
hutsSss on his vrop-Evy adjoining On she cas-
TIE ouaEdisg vii be sexi0e feet IN size. vita
BASEMENT, ard room Tor fwa stores en- she kTss
aner, and ten oshees pn eaen Eo0T ahsve. IL
froat VIII BE enc Of tbs hxnesorness and most
substantial ia the cir. Granite piisSers. q
pressed brick fron1 eiahoross stone cArFlngs and
plate glass windows vii b. put In. and The coSi
- tie cu8idlng VII exeeed 500 A feature 0i
The 'front.' viii b 4 large stone carving with the
letter 'sFT IA FelieI. which win - near the cop
Of tbs Third s1sgy.
EouE BUILDINGS RooFKn.
Fear new billings, OF wasek Tow1e & wEIeax
are aFehsfeets, have been rpofsd during the past
few days Kllne 4 Rosenberg building on
Washington street and G. C. M0aroess adjoining
q viii bs ready 70. occupancy during the pres
esss week. CoFs's ness tieater eaa defy the rain
and Eo,e 4 SosdrEm's building or Washington
between second and Thfsd streets, $50 has It's
roo. on and tie Interior VIII be finished II .
few days
A COMPLETED STRUCTURE.
Gancy 4 Higgins new building. Oh Pike street
between Front and Second streets has been Pro-
nsnnee7 finished By the architects, H=thertng.
ton, Clements & Co, aud occupants are already
moving In. II has three stoFer0oms aud atty
two rooms on the second aud third story.
w9EK or TIE OCCIDENTAL
Building on the new Occidental Ass ssresdy
been Delayed on aceount OF the lack OF iron. aud
the b.s Coiman building w1Il be IN the same box
IN short time. The iron iinteis. beasas aad
girecrs were ordered three mouths ago, bat the
iron works At TfttsbuFg are 50 overrEn with
work that they are unable 70 meet the demand
Toy Seattle buildings There are many other
bEiidings in eogFse Of construction IN the city
which are being ser oasy delayed by the faes
that the sYon work Is 30 SLOW IN coEaing. Some
Of the orders for iron have bses coanteruisnaei
lately and put ia other hands with the provision
that the work should be Turned ont a. once All
% the msnaiaciorsss, however. which do this
class 81 work in this country have been rushed
70 their t1lles; capacity the past few months,
aud tae iron that has tome 20 Seattle hiss been
secured only by paying exhofbitaut prices, and
even then hardly an order has been tllea with
out serious delay.
DELAYED or ACCOUNT OF IRON.
WORK on tAe Eipe building on Front street
near Marion, has bsan ct standstlll Tor several
weeks on account OF a delay in the receipt Of
iFon from PiitSburg. The owners have become
tired waiting now and work win be resumed At
once the iron work being supplied by Seattle
foundry.
Two carloads OF iron for the Noyes' bailding
on Front ard Madison streets. viii arrive today
They consist Of hntels beagns and Orders which
viii be pat in, In few days, On the first story
and above.
The Diiler hotel, on front and University
streets. has also been delafed by she laek OF iron
This difficulty win be overcome In few days
and the roof viii he pat OF in q few weeks
WORK STABBED OK Two ERGcKs.
Arohitect woodall tnrned the plans over to
Eihe contractor yesterday for the three story
4brieE 70 be erected by W X. cowie on Second
band Washington streets. The buildiag Is to be
FINISHED ia ten weeks IL viii have seventy
saoms in the upper floors and two store rooms
Npn the first floor
d Brick work commenced yesterday on the w.
~. Hunt twokfory brick building on Washing
Zen street, near Second. The contract requires
That It shall be finished In seven weeks.