The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-25
NEW BUILDINGS GOING UP.
MORE ACTIVITY THAN THERE HAS
BEEN IN MANY YEARS.

Between 70 and 100 New Buildings,
Churches, Factories, stores AMI
! Residences in PrOgress-One Hun
dred thousand Dollars Invested in
Church Property AIOne-over
$T5O.OOO VIII Have Been Put Into
New Buildings and Improvements
| by the End of the Year.
! 1t is difficult for a resident of a city TO
| keep track Of the changes and improve
ments that come about gradually and al
/ most impercepub,y. New buildings are
! constantly going up. but in a few months
the date of their erection is forgotten, and
! they become a part of the city as If they
had been there for years.
| Savannahans do not have to 90 far now
| to become aware of new building In course
of erection on almost every street Be
tween seventy-hve and one hundred are in
course Of erection or about to be started.
! There is more building than there has been
at any time in the last four years. There
| is an active demand for building lots, as a
result of the activity in building. The
most of the new buildings are residences.
| Between thirty and forty are in progress
| or in contemplation in the southern sec
! ton alone. In the business section there
is more building than there has been for
/ many years
! The new postoffice, the exterior Of which
! Will be completed in a short time the new
! Sailors Home, on st. Julian street. the
| Georgia Car Manufacturing Companys
! shops, the Merchants and Miners Steam
/ ship Companys wharf Improvements, and
the Ocean Steamship Companys freight
| sheds, the contract for which has just
| been awarded, the new wharves, the Law
| ton Memorial church, at Anderson and
! Bull streets the Marvin Methodist church.
| It Seventh and Jefferson streets, the new
! Second Baptist church. at Abercorn and
! Duffy streets work on which viii begin
! ip few months, the Beth Eden Baptist
| church, colOred at Lincoln and Wayne
| streets, which IS about completed, are
! some Of the larger buildings It is a sig
| nifcant fact that three churches are in
| course of construction and a fourth is
| about to be started over $4,000 will
| have been expended this year on church
! property alone. Counting the new post
! Office, the churches, sailors home, car fac
tory, wharf Improvements, stores and
! dwellings, over three quarters Of a mil
lion dollars of improvements Is in pro-
! gress
| Among the residences are the following:
J. B. Chestnut, corner Hall and W.hita-
| ker streets.
Rev. L P. Mendes, Gwlnnett. between
| Barnard and Tattnan
| Fred w. Clarke, corner Barnard and
| Waldburg.
Miss e. NJ. Kelly. two, New Houston,
| between Barnard and Whitaker.
! T. II. Mcmillan, six. corner of Lincoln
| and Huntingdon.
! J. e. Grady, corner Henry and Price
! The Entelman row, corner Habersham
! and Gordon.
! NJ NJ na,,taso,, .h,oo .. IT,
r. L. Pritchard, two, corner Henry and
! Lincoln.
c. c. Ely, corner Henry and Abercon.
Mrs. Purse, Bun, between Sixth and
! Seventh
p H. Herman, Bull, between Sixth and
| Seventh.
George Richter. Bull. between Seventh
and Eighth.
]. E. Marlowe, two dwellings Bull, be-
tween Seventh and Eighth.
Maurice f. Robinson. Bull, between
Eighth and Ninth.
C. f. Rossignol, Bull, corner Eighth.
A, nj. Honour, Twelfth, between Bull
and Whitaker.
Marvin church parsonage. Jefferson, near
Seventh.
Sheppard Ninth, between Burroughs and
Register, Ninth, between Burroughs and
| Florence.
Hester. Montgomery, corner Tenth.
H. II. Miller, Bull, between Tenth and
| Eleventh.
Butler and Stevens. two dwellings. Flev-
| enth, between Abercorn and Drayton.
James Jackson, two dwellings, Jeffer-
son, corner Tenth
w. A. Pigman, Eighth, between Dray-
ton and Bull.
J. A. Crisp. Eighth. between Drayton
and Bull
George A. Hudson, three Ninth.
John f. Glatigny, corner Drayton and
| Seventh.
Further down town are the store of Fox
& Weeks on Liberty street. between Whit
nker and Barnard, and the Abbo sanitar-
ium, adjoining ii on the west.
The Walsh hats at Liberty and Mort
gomery streets.
The McIntire row OF six houses on
| President street. corner of Montgomery
The Hesse row of FIVE houses on York
street, between Montgomery and West
Broad streets
James Gllhooley Berrien street between
Montgomery and Tattnall.
Estate G.. Minis, Alice. between Mont
gomery and West Broad
Among the stores are three by A j.
Dierks. at Jones and Whitaker streets.
one by c. r. Rossignol al Bun and Ninth
streets. and several smaller stores
A number OF small houses on Bryan
street. and on East Broad are nearing
completion, and numbers of houses in
what is really the old part OF the city. are
being remodeled and repaired. In fact the
work OF remodeling Is going on all over
the city. Alphabetically plain houses are
being made into ornamental an attractive
residences.
on the extreme outskirts of the city a
good deal OF building Is In progress. East
OF the city In what is known as The Mea-
dows, Mr.. j. y Collins Is about TO begin
the erection OF several attractive cottages.
Several cottages are also going up nearer
in towards the city, east OF the railroad
TREPHINED HIS SKULL.