The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-08

ment and Iox1O0 feet In dimensions. Each
flat will contain twelve rooms anu, tIe
whole, will he built of brick cost, SlV'-
eco. The striking feature OF this Improve
ment Is the fact that it converts 10 no",
ern use an old colonial style residence, or
which there are many similar in Richmond
unproductive and undesirable for resi-
1ences, from the standpoint OF modern
comfort.
Leon IL. tStrause. of Richmond. has pur-
chased q knitting mill IN MASSACHUSETTS.
The plant will be taken to pieces anu
moved at once to Henderson, N. &. Here
thu, divided machinery will be put to-
sether in one OF the buildings best adapt
ed for the mill that can be found any
where in the South. The mills, under the
ownership Of Mr.. Strause, Will be known
as the Seaboard Knitting Mills. The cap
ital stock will be $4,000, fully paid up le
is expected that the mill will be put IN
operation at its new LOCALITY Within tie
next sixty days.
n mammoth fertilizer factory will be-
established at Castle Haynes Phosphate
Mines, eight miles from Wilmington "
c. This is an independent company.
backed by local bu, mess men and has
a capitalization OF s2ooGoo The plant
will be in operate by early fall.
The School Board at Raleigh. ~ e..
has ava r,led the contract for the building
of the Wiley Public School at q price or
$1,000. 1t will furnish room for 100 pu-
pills. Work is also in progress on large
school for the negroes.
The Academy of Music in Norfolk VIII
probably be reftted and its stage partly
rebuilt for the next season. This house
is leased by Thomas q. Leath, who runs
the Academy of Music in Richmond,
which was fitted up last fall at cost
Of S2O.cO0 The improvements In the Nor-
folk theatre will approximately cost S2''-
Oo0, when. it is claimed, it will be on
par with the best In the South.
The mammoth suSar-beet factory at
Fredericksburg, va. will be built as soon
as contracts are signed with the farmers
in the surrounding country for sufti-
cient supply OF beets to start the plant
ThisNwill be the lagest building In that
place. and will cost s50o, H0G0.
Doyle & Doak, of Philadelphia. nave
invited bids on the immense passenger
sta ton to he erected. in Richmond. Va,
by the Seaboard Air Line and Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroads. Wilson Bros. OF the
Drexel Building. Philadelphia. prepared
the plans. which call for four-story.
steel frame. fire@proof building. with
granite front. elevators at all ends OF the
building and barber shop, cafe. large res
taurant. toilec rooms. gymnasium on TOP
floor tidket and wa't'-~ rrST-' =,
clock tower will be built on top OF the
building, foundations of which Will be OF
asphalt, and the :ra;nshed will be of steel.
with truss roof and cement walks to
trains. Electrical and steam plants will
be included with all the necessary pow
er apparatus.
The silk mill at Roanoke Rapids. ".
c.. Is about completed and the machinery
Is being rapidly put IN. .oul.....
splendid two-story brick structure, 'Sx2sS
feet, and the roof is what is known as
the esaw-tooth roof. with skyligh,s al
over 1t to admit the greatest possible
light. Mr.. Sam Patterson. president OF
the company, says the mill will be ready
to begin work In thirty days. This mill
Is owned by the Patterson Textile Com
pany. and the authorized capital is stao.-
eco.
So far this year seventeen cotton m'Hs
have been chartered by the State OF
North Carolina.