The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-09
BUILDING ACTIVITY.
The Season Opens Early and with
Exceedingly Bright Promise.
NUMBER OF GOOD HOUSES COMING
If the Strike Docs Not Interfere,
Wheeling Assuming a Metropolitan
Appearanoe-Some of tho Notable
Buildings Now In ProGress-RapId
Work the Rule These Days.

The opening season bids fair 10 be an
unusually active one so far as building
operations are concerned, ii the carpen-
ters' strike, threatened for April l, does
not put a damper IN the activity. The
class Of buildings now going up, and
projected for the immediate future, are
a decided improvement on former ones,
For instance the big Baer block, seven
stories high, with a nine story tower,
helps to give the city q metropolitan
appearance, and with the new Hunter
spice factory, at the other end OF the
Main street bridge, and the hugo new
building Of the Wheeling Bakery Com
pany, Just below, makes q favorable i'm
preston on one who comes into tho
city or passes through over the u. 4 o,
road, or comes up from the South Side,
Another great improvement on a
prominent corner is the Egerter block,
at Market and Eleventh streets. 1t is
to be a four-story business block, Of
white pressed brick. The contracts
were let yesterday, the wood work to
Louis Hartong, the brick work to Frank
Perkins, the stone work to Max Long,
the tin work to Bayha, the painting to
Kurner 4 Co., the plastering to William
Stoetzer and the plumbing to Trimblc
4 Lutz.
The roof timbers of the Hearne taber-
nacle, on South street, are being placed
in position.
Tho now Bank of Wheeling building
is approaching completion. 1t is 10 be
ready for occupancy by April !. Ono
OF the special features, aside from the
very handsome front, is the pressed
brick vault, tho exterior OF which has
all the finish OF q street front, with
stone trimmings. 1t Is something new
in this locality, and teinor & Faris are
often congratulated on it,
The contract for the new front and
additional story on the wholesale dry
goods establishment OF L. S. Delaplaine
& Co. specifics that work shall CON.
mence May | and be finished July |.
That Is pretty fast work, but rapid work
is the rulo in Wheeling recently. The
Baer block has been put up in q
p~henomenally short time, considering
its magnitude, The new Peabody build
ing, too, now approaching completion,
has been n OF the quickest pieces OF
work ever seen here.
Work was begun yesterday on the
remodeling and enlargement Of II. Bic
berson's house on South street.
Work commenced yesterday on Dr.. E.
G. Myers now building at Virginia and
South Penn streets. Work is also in
progress on the Florence Birmingham
memorial, on Ohio street, to be the rec
tory Of St. Luke's. It will be a very ar
tistic and beautiful house. Mr.. Charles
Copp will erect a fine house, with q bus.
mess room below and two flats above,
on the corner OF Zane and South Penn
streets.
Leiner & Faris have drawn plans for
a magnificent now front for the old
German NJ. L church, on ChNpline
street in the Fifth ward. The contracts
will DO let soon and work will DO pushed
as rapidly as possible.
Work on the masonry walls OF the
we'll ut tho new city water works north
of town progresses satisfactorily. The
well is to be u by AZ feet and so feet
deep, with walls about eight feet thick
at the top and much thicker at tho
bottom. The power house will DO 40
by 1877 feet, the ceiling So feet high,
and OF the exposed truss, paneled STYLE.
The smoke stack Is a monster, aud will
BIO a fine piece OF work. 1t will stand
100 feet high.
There arc q number Of fine buildings
contemplated, which will DO put up this
season ii the strike does not embarrass
operations. A row OF dwelling houses
will be built Mt once on the site OF the
"old jail" on Market street above
Tenth, which is now being torn down,
and in several other localities fine
houses will take the places OF very com.
mon ones
The new electric power house OF the
Wheeling Railway Company at the foot
OF Forty-second street, is nearing com.
pletion. Machinery Is being put in
every day, The big brick stack is all
that remains to BIO done to complete the
building. 1t is one OF the most com.
plete and commodious power houses in
the country.
The new brick cold storage ware.
house being erected by the Wheeling
Ice and Storage Company, OH tho South
Side, is now under roof.
Tho monster brick planning mill OF
Woods Bros, on the South Side, is fast
being completed. Machinery is now
being placed,
To De Enlarged and Improved.
Those members OF the Young Mems