Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-15
TO BUILDA BREWERY
TIE EuKER PROPERTY SOLD TO A
SYNDICATE FOR THIS PURPOSE.
Mr.. Cuvernator to Have Philadeiphia
Capitalists as His A'soc'ates-fh' via
auct-Othcr Building Items

There will soon be two large breweries
under construction here. 81,
One is 20 be erected Just across the rail-
road from the observation-disclosures, aud
tbo other not far within the western cor
porate limits.
The excavation for the former has
already been begun, and the WORK OF
building will commence as soon as the
weather opens well.
The latter is an enterprise just decided
unon and the contracts will soon De leu
Ii is TO be put up by the Richmond brew
ing Company. composed of Mr.. George Y;
Guyernator, of this city. and numpeI OF
wealthy Phlladelphiens. Inc estaoils sn
perty. atlthe head of Clay street, the sale
of which was closed yesterday by Messrs.
i. Thompson Brown d Co., real estate
agents. The sale embraces the historic
buchanan Spring property, together with
the row of ten stock brick dwellings, the
old brewery. ice-house, garden, and the
entire square bounded by Clay, Marshall,
Harrison, and Norton streets.
TO PROCEED AT ONCE.
The purchasers propose to pull down the
old brewery and other buildings and erect
n modern five-story brewery fitted with
all the latest and best improvements, -,
Plans are now being prepared and Will
be completed in a few days, when estic
mates will be taken. 1t is the intention oil
the company to give our homo contractors
the preference in their large expenditures
not only for buildings and improvements,
hut also for machinery and raw material.
Their EGGPLANT alone will cost consldera-
ble amount and will be the finest IN the
South r
MT. Guvernator. who is at the head OF
this enterprise, is a natiye-born Richmond
boy and well known not onl y at home but
also at Atlantic City, where he has Tor the
past fourteen years been the successtui pro-
prietor of Guvernator's Hotel, one OF the
best and most prominent at that resort.
Mr.. j bert Hill, Jr., who was for eight
wears Richmond manager for the, CONT
mental Brewing Company. of Philadelphia
is also associated with the company. MIR.
Hill Is a wide-awake and progressive man
and added very greatly to the success OF
the late Exposition by introducing with
Mr.. Guvernator MANY novelties, such as
the Galatea. Fall Of Pompeii. etc.
PRACTICAL AND WEALTHY.
II is said the company is not only COM
posed Of wealthy people but practical as
well. having several managers of large and
successful breweTies, as well as several ex-
pert brewers of national reputation, VINO
will locate here with their families. Ihey
intend to lose no time in their improve
ments, and with good weather and no I'M
foreseen delay expect to have their beer on
the market in July. 1t is said that the
consumption of beer in this city alone Is
from 10000 to $4,000 barrels per annum, not
including a large quantity whlchl shipped
and bottled.
Messrs. Brown & Co. say that they have
received more inquiries from solid enter
prises of this sort in the past thirty days
than in any like period in their experience.
They are in correspondence with western
gentlemen who are negotiating the pur-
chase of 100000 mineral tract, and also
with some Boston capitalists who en-
deavored TO secure last week an OPP
ton on q 100000 piece of property
and are negotiating the purchase. Ihey
are also having the bricks cleaned at the
old James-River Brewery, which was re-
Gently DESTROYED by fire, the owner OF the
same having authorized them to construct
large building or factory for the manu-
facture of wagons or agricultural nipple
ments, and they are now IN correspond
ence with a large corporation looking to-
wards the opening of such an enterprise
on the site of the old brewery.
Dn0 t1itn-StTeeL
The Fifth.street viaduct, which is being
built for the NOrthside Land Company,
will be finished tomorrow.
The work was commenced on the 18th OF
Decent her. and is the largest private enter
prise for public benefit ever carried out
in this city, costing between $4,000 and
$50 600.
1t ls1.ls5 feet and inches long, with a
driveway 81 feet and a walkway feet
wide. The floor is Of oak-timber doubled.
with felt tarred between the layers or
flooring. It's greatest height from Bacon's-
Quarter branch, which flows below, IS 80
feet. The bridge is of steel. resting on
stone piers. which are ombeddedin the earth
10 feet below the water IL was built by
the Edgemoor Bridge-Works Company
OF Wilmington, Del, the same firm
that built the Bedtime bridge. About 100
men have been employed upon the work.
three fourths of whom were citizens of
Richmond. Mr.. Kennedy, the foreman,
said to DISPATCH reporter yesterday that
these are such good workmen and helpers
that he desires them on other works IN
various parts Of the country.
Miss Katie 0Donnell was the first lady
to test the merits of the bridge after the
last plank had been fastened to the floor
beams.
Four Business-Houses.
Excavation is in progress for the erec-
ton Of four tenements on the Allen lot,
corner Of Main and Seventh streets. II is
the enterprise of Mr. Charles L. Davis, a
retired builder. These houses are expected
to be completed by September next, and
the tenants who VIII occupy them are an1-
ious to move IN.
The earth taken from the foundation has
been found to be such an excellent char
acter for street beds and macadamaZation
that the contractor has turned over this
gravel deposit To the city hands and carts,
by whom it is carted off for use on the
streets.
Mr.. J. B. Winter will have ready for oc-
cupation in about ton DAYS four frame tene-
ments Just erected on Boiling Green
street, Chelsea Hill. 1t is contemplated to
run o street railway along this street which
will connect with the Seventeenth-Stree
line.
The New Clubhouse.
Work on the Commonwealth Club house
has been very much delayed by the rainy
weather, although Mr.. Bailey Davis, the
contractor, has utilized every moment of
good weather TO advance it. This build
ing, which has heretofore been described
in the DISPATCH, will be of red or brown
stone and brick, ornamented with rich
terra-cotta designs. The basement Of
stone and the principal story of brick are
now ready for the ioists, and as good wea-
ther approaches its early completion may
soon bs expected.
Mr.. Lewis Ginter has recently showed
his public spirit bv the erection of steel
truss pen lattice bridge across tho stream
known as The Brook" on the Brook
turnpike. He has one span 100 feet in
length and O twenty-fve.foot driveway
foored with fOur-inch oak lumber. Ex-
perts pronounce it beautiful structure.
Site for Church.
A PRESBYTERIAN church is to be erected
at East Richmond. A beautiful sight.
which was donated by the East Richmond
Company. was selected yesterday by Rev.
DR.. Kerr, Rev. j. Calvin Stewart, and Mr..
II. II. Gillian. representing the Presbyte-
rian Union, and Messrs. j. Q. Dickinson
and David w. Reinhart representing the
company. A nice church will be built
without delay.
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Mr.. James Hall, representing the New
York Sewing Machine and Manufacturing
COMPANY Of Richmond. Va, will be in the
city on Tuesday TO select a site and break