The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-17
GOOD IMPRESSION
MADE ON VISITORS
Central City Seems 10 Be Always En.
Iargiug and Beautifying.
IMPROVEMENTS NOW UNDER WAY
Description Of the New Scranton Pri-
vate Hospital BuiIding--Joseph
Jermyn will Put UP a Large struct-
ure on Penn Avenue.-B. Moses Has
started Another Farther Down the
Avenue--Other Buildings in Course
of Construction.

Last night the directors of the
Scranton Private hospital opened bids
for the contract of erecting the new
hospital building. AS yet the success
full contractor has not been announced.
The foundation walls of the new
structure are about completed. They
indicate that the building is to be a
handsome and very substantial one,
and a glance at the plans for the su-
perstructure shows that this indication
Is about right
The building is to be of stone, five
stories in height, inclusive of the base
ment on the ground floor. On both the
Wyoming avenue and Mulberry street
sides there will be substantial and large
porches above the entrance on each
floor. These pOrches will be enclosed
in glass and heated by steam, thus
permitting the convalescing patients to
take the sun even in coolest weather.
The ground floor, which will be few
feet below the sidewalk level, will be
arranged for renting purposes, the cor
ner apartment being designed specially
for a drug store. The first floor will be
laid out in six two-room suites of Of
fees which will be rented to doctors.
On the second floor will be the admins
tration, operating and patients rooms.
The third and fourth floors will also
have patients rooms, twelve on each
floor. The top floor will contain the
nurses apartments. The kitchen and
laundry will be located in an annex
to be built in the rear of the present
location of the Won Storch building.
The Won Storch building will not be
used in any way in connection with
the hospital.
NEW STORE BUILDING.
On August 1 Joseph Jermyn will raze
the building front and rear at 129 Penn
avenue preparatory to the occupancy
of that site with a large store and fiat
building.
1t will be four stories high, forty feet
wide and one hundred and sixty-seven
feet long. 1t will be built of brick,
with stone facings and will be quite a
handsome and imposing structure.
At present the lot is occupied in
front by a hotel building, until recently
occupied by Ferdinando Arigoni, and a
small store building, in which Macs
book store was formerly located. In
the rear are private residences. Mr..
Jermyn said yesterday to a Tribune re-
porter that he did not know just how
building of that sort would pay in
that block, but at all events he was
ashamed of the ramshackles that are
there and resolved to replace them.
b. Moses has broken ground on Penn
avenue next to the Truth building for
| a 50X60 store and fiat building. AT
present it is intended to erect only the
first floor stores, four in number, but
| the foundations will be built with a
view of adding five or six stories at
any time circumstances will warrant
| it,
DIR. GUNSTER'S RESIDENCE.
The frame of DIR. P. f. Gunsters new
| residence on Mulberry street between
Wyoming and Washington avenues, is
now up and it shows a large and nicely
arranged building. The work of eX-
cavating for the foundations of the
| new department store building is about
completed.
All these. with the massive and beau-
tiful COnnell building, the classic-faced
| Savings bank building and other struc-
lures of lesser note that are under way
in the central city, gives the visitor,
doubtlessly, a strong impression that
this is n healthy and growing villa ge