The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-26
BRICK WORK HAS
Been SUSPENDED
No Brick Could Be Had for
Weiss Building.
BECAUSE OF BLOCKADE
Two Cars Have Been in Mo.
PaC. Yards a Week.

Work on the Otto Weiss wholesale
house, which is being built along the
Santa Fe tracks south OF the Wichita
Wholesale Grocery company, was sus-
pended yesterday morning because no
brick could be obtained. Two cars are
in the Missouri Pacific yards and have
been there for the past week. but on ac-
count of the blockade in those yards,
they have not been in such a shape that
MIR. Weiss could get to them. AS re-
suit of not being able TO obtain these
cars OF brick. the completion of this
wholesale house will be delayed for sew
eral weeks Contractor Aiberts and his
force of bricklayers are out OF work for
number of days, and the carpenters
will be forced to quit in few days.
As "a rule a car is transferred to the
Santa = tracks and set on the day after
it arrives in the city. This case, where
the two cars of brick have been in the
Missouri Pacific yards for over a week
and have not been set. is only another
proof of the inability of that road to
handle its Increased business with its
present facilities. Most of the time the
road is working four switch engines,
which would be enough to easily handle
the traffic if they had enough switch
tracks. but as it is any amount OF en-
gines could not attend 10 the present
business. The road must have more
tracks This is the problem that has
been bothering the Missouri Pacific for
some time and until it is solved and
the additional tracks are secured those
who receive goods over the line will be
delayed in securing them. There has
been more or less of a blockade in the
Missouri Pacific yards since the wheat
began going on the market and at pres
ent the blockade is at its worst.
Mr.. Alberts has the contract for the
brick work on Otto Weiss building, and
one wall is completer. Had he been
able to secure the two cars of brick that
have been laying in the Missouri Pa
cifc yards and three more which were
billed out OF Caney over two weeks ago
and of which nothing has ever been
heard since, he couold have completed
the brick work Of the building by the
last of this week of the first of next
Mr.. Alberts also has the contract for
building the irving SCHOOL duulllOh, uut
the stone work Will not be far enough
advanced for the bricklayers to begin
until next Tuesday. At this time Mr..
Alberts will be compelled TO switch all
of his force TO this building. as it is i'm
perative that the school addition be COM
pleted as soon as possible. This means
that Mr.. Weiss building must now wait
until the brick work on the school build
ing is finished and all work on his build
ing must be suspended. Had it not been
for the blockade all of the brick work
would have been completed before time
to begin on the Irving school, but as 1t
is it will be several weeks before the
work of construction can be renewed
unless the cars of brick should be trans
ferred and set today.
This is only one instance of the hard
ship that is being wrought on the con-
tractors builders, wholesale and retail
merchants by the present blockade. All
are having trouble in getting their ship
nents But the heaviest losers are the
laboring men. Bricklayers and stone
nnasons necessarily lose rainy days, and
when TO this is added several days off
because material cannot be secured, 1t
means no. little TO them.