St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-01

! mace plays sad havoc with the income
! of the average man. The furnaces COM
monty in vogue eat up coal about as fast
| as 1t can be shoyeled into its rapacious
nav, so to speak. Steam heating has
| been pretty generally adopted in the
| apartment houses and flats that have
| been built the past season, and steam is
| esteemed far preferable to the other
| systems of heating. 1t is clean. and it
can be perfectly controlled with the
least bother and care.
| The business blocks, too, are of supe-
rior construction. They have generally
been erected within the fire limits, and
| this fact has necessitated fire-proof
structures. The list appended, it should
be borne in mind, does not include lot
| of speculative investments that may
| have been set in process of incubation
| for next year. They are bona fide, every
| one, and they have, moreover, been
/, erected the past season.
! One of the most extensive institutions
| that has been built the past season has
been the Walter A. Wood harvester
works. The aggregate cost has been
! S290.000 in round figures. Next season
the establishment Will be in full opera
| ton, and will greatly swell the receipts
| OF the city and increase the bank clear
| anceS. The Irvine and cordage works at
! Lake Como is another important factor
| in the building summary, and it will
| also be another source of no little in
| come to the city next year.
There were 2,016 building permits is
| sued the past year, as against 1855 in
| 1891, or 1863 less in 1892 than during the
| previous year. The cost of these
/ structures the past year, however, has
aggregated 1897, 165, whereas the cost
l OF the buildings erected in 1891 was only
So, 1856, 905. This makes a showing OF an
| increase of Sl40,260 for 1892 over the
! previous year.
| The following summary only includes
structures costing $4,000 or more:
| E. NJ. Smith brick and stone apartment
| house. $4,000, st. Adams street, between
| Laurel and Ashland.
| j. B. TarboX and A. Moore. brick market
! $40. 900. Thomas street, between Virginia and
| Western.
Stephen B. Webber, brick store $1,000,
Market street, between Sixth and Seventh.
W. P. billiard. two-story brick dwelling
| $4,000, Selby, between Victoria and Fisk.
| Boston u Northwest Real Estate company.
| five-story fire-proof block, 100000, corner
| Rooert and Sixth streets.
/ William Hamm, two-story brick bottling
| house. Sl3, 900, Minnehaha and Greenbrier.
| August BotZet, four-story brick stores,
! $4,000, East Seventh, between Cedar and
| Minnesota.
S. 5. Eaton. two-story frame dwelling
$1,000. Portland between Arundel and Mack
ubin.
George II. schick!er, three-story brick
stores and flats, $4,000, Fourth, between Ex-
cnange and Franklin.
II. NJ. Byllesby, two.story frame dwelling,
! $4,000. st. Adams street. between Summit
| and Grand.
A. K. Barnum, fve-story brick dwelling.
$1,000, Western, between Selby and Laurel
G. f. Arrol, tive-story brick dwelling. SIS, =
900, Laurel. between st. Adams and Grotto.
st. Paul White Lead and Oil company,
brick works $1,000, Water, between Custer
and Starhey.
Thomas b. Scott fvestorv brick store
$4,000. East Seventh, between Cedar and
Wabasha.
R. Warner, brick dwelling, 5000, corner
College and Sixth streets.
Boston & Northwestern Real Estate com
pany. threestory brick factory. $1,000
Eighth, between Cedar aud WabaSha.
Swedish Evangelical church, one-story
brick church, $500, Sims and Weide streets
Armstrong estate, tiye-story brick store