The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-06-13
PROPERTY IMPROVEMENTS.
New Buildings Going Up in Some
Parts.

I
Parts.
Considerable building of houses is going
on in the town, but little of it is observed
by the maj ority of the people in the town
on account of the scenes of operations
being on the outskirts and in alleys. There
is little room left on any of the main streets
for the carpenters and bricklayers to dis
play themselves and their work. A busy
part is at the southwestern outskirts
Here small dwellings are springing up in
mushroom fashion and within another
year this territory, which has been hereto
fore looked upon as a wilderness, will be
so thickly populated as to require division
of the Fourth ward, or separate election
precinct.
In passing along South Jardin street one
observes many evidences of visits by car
penters and painters The improvements
consist chiefly of extensions or additions to
buildings. Like many other streets, it has
no space for new buildings. Every foot
of property is taken up The character of
this street is undergoing a rapid change. A
few years ago it was lined by the resi-
dences of tolerably well-to.do mine work
ers and business men and their employees.
1t was a street distinct from the business
centres Now it is thickly studded with
small stores and they are increasing in
numbers. The hard times have forced
many of the residents in this quarter to
cast out nets to catch the stray pennies and
many apartments which heretofore figured
as costly furnished parlors are now lined
with shelves bearing limited amount of
stock principally groceries. One thing the
/ people of this part of the town have sue
cessfully evaded and repulsed. That is the
encroachment of the saloon. There was
passive sutferance of the opening of
stores, but when an attempt was made to
turn one of the houses into saloon there
was open rebellion and the fight was one of
the most bitter before the last term of the
Pottsville license court
The only new building on this street is
the school house in course of erection at
the northwest corner of Jardin and Cherry
streets, and to make room for it two large
dwellings were removed. This was the
only method by which a site for school
building could be secured in the Third
ward. 1t comes high to be obliged to buy
buildings in order to secure a site on which
to erect a school house, but there is no al
tentative and this, if nothing else, stamps
the movement of the School Board in
swapping up the vacant Titman property
ON North White street as a wise one.
The work of rebuilding on the sites that
were swept by fire two weeks ago is pro-
crossing, but not at the rate that character
lied the rebuilding that followed the fire
of November, 1888 The owners are not of
the same enterprising spirit some of the
previous sufferers displayed. The two
story frame structure for Ploppert, the
baker, is almost finished. Yellow boards
look odd in the midst of the blackened
wreck caused by the fire. Messrs. Carl and
Heisenberger, owners of some of the other
properties on Centre street side of the
square that was swept by the fire, have
cleaned up a good part of their
sites, but neither the stone masons
nor carpenters have yet made their appear.
ance. The space within the standing walls
of the Dornbach building is cleaned out
and everything is in readiness for the
builders. More progress has been made al
this point than at any other in the square
and the owner is evidently determined tC
get the new building up before the sum
mer closes. The old walls, or at least the
, greater part of them, will be kept in ser
, vice.
, Thomas Bells new building on Nortl
Market street will soon be completed ant
when it is he will occupy it, vacating the
house on the White street end of the
property, of which ne is also the owner
He will rent the latter.
Franey's big buildings on East Centre
street, opposite the Lehigh Valley depot
are not going up with the rapidity that wa.
J foreshadowed. The work here have beer
f very slow and the foundation walls ar,
5 beginning to wear a lonesome appearance
g When this property and the fire distric
| are rebuilt, people returning to the towr
t after an absence of several months, will
= hardly recognize East Centre street from
the Lehigh Valley Railroad to Main street
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Dentistry.
DR.. j. Donaldson Ford, highly success
I full dentist, OF Girardville, will OPEN
branch parlor at the residence of Na2