The herald., 1895-10-24
REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING
The Showing Made by the Off
cial Statistics
A REVIVAL OF BUSINESS
A Few Stores and Many Buildings Are
Commenced
The Dealers Reports Of Business Done in Real
Estate-A Long-DeIayed Street.
Opening Case
A REVIVAL OF BUSINESS

Seventy-two permits for new buildings
we're issued during the week ended yes
terday, the total cost of the proposed
buildings being estimated at $73, 329. The
mum Der of permits shows that building
has received new impetus, Tor it exceeds
that registered last week, and the amount
to be invested indicates that the builders
are largely of the home building class
who do not possess prlncely incomes, but
are workers newly arrived in the commu-
nifty.
While the store and lodging house
builders are not altogether without repre-
sentation, their mum Der is small. r. l..
DeHail took out a permit for the con.
struction of four-storv brick building
to be used for stores and rooms, on First
street. near Wilmington, at an outlay of
$4,000; W. d. Bridges is engaged in the
erection of two twu-story buildings on
Main street between Holly and Railroad
streets, which will cost $1,000 and this
concludes the list OF store buildings rep
resented IN this weeks permits.
The United Brethren have amassed
sufficient of this worlds goods to warrant
them in the erection of $4,000 church,
and a permit was taken out for the build
ing of such structure at the southeast
corner of Hope and Pico streets. NJ. E..
Richards Will e1pend $1,000 in the con-
strucGon of an engine house on First
street near St. Louis. Mrs. Ed. Botello
has let the contract and taken out per-
NIT for the building of two-story frame
fiat to cost $4,000, and to stand at the cor
ner of Twelfth and Olive streets, which
Is the extent of the weeks operations in
the beginning of buildings for public uses.
The reminder of the list is made up OF
dwelling houses averaging about $1,000
in COST though there are fair number
of buildings costing more money. Among
the latter are the dwelling house of Louis
Gottschalk at the corner of Georgia Bell
and Eighteenth street, to cost $500; the
residence of l.. L. Bowen. Sixteenth and
Bush streets. to cost $4,000; that of ]. W..
Webster, Adams, between Main and
Maple. to cost $500, and that of M. r..
Richards, a two-story frame building to
be erected on Seventeenth street between
Grand avenue and Hill streets, at a cost
of $25OO. OF dwellings evidently intended
for sale for rent, inasmuch as they are
bullt III groups, L. .. Ewing is putting UP
three houses at the corner OF Tenth and
Blaine, at cost of 1925, and Sperite
Bodero, WHO is building six dwellings at
the corner of Ord and CASTELAR, streets.
to cost $4,000.
In addition to the buildings included
in the list for which permits we're issued,
Mackay Il Young are now at work on
their $1S0000 job of providing comfort
able houses in which the young Los An
geles idea shall be taught how to shoot
which amount, it may not he out of
| place to add. would have been very much
| larger had not come excellent and effect
i've figuring been done by City Superin-
tenuent of Buildings Strange and the
members of the city council.
Not yet begun. but the plans are ready,
is the construction Of the new city jail,
to he located or First street vest of
Broadway, and which will represent an
outlay Oh the part of the city of about
$3.50, 900. Bids will be opened tor its con-
strucIon on the LIST DAY of the coming
month.
Taken all together, the weeks build
ing record is pleasant one fer patriotic
citizens to contemplate. 1t is large
growth and healthy one, free from symp-
toms of boom and speculative over build.
ing, and indicative of growth in produc-
ton and in business as well as in popu-
iaticn.