Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-14

Contracts have been given out and
.be work started on several large
bnilding operations during the current
week Among the contracts recently
swarded we're for the new school build
inc at Thirtieth and Market streets,
~ proposed Union Bank structure at
T;ghth and Market streets and the
InSenendence Fire Co. 3 house, at
twelfth and Claymont streets.
The real estate market is compare
t;veiv inactive and but few sales are
,snorted. There is still a scarcity Of
houses for rent, but the demand is
Architect E. L. Rice is preparing
rlans for five houses and a store for
evv Courtman James Logue, to be
erected at Twenty-fifth and Tatnall
streets. Bids will probably be asked
for some time next week. Mr.. Rice
is also preparing plans for the remod-
elinp of the first floor and the base
menf of the Phoenix Fire Co. s house.
Extensive improvements are to be
made there. The meeting and assem-
bly room will be in the basement.
The contract for alterations to the
Miller Drug Co. 8 store, at 404-6 Mar
ket street, has been awarded to n
Smith Barkley. Plans for the inn
movement were made by Mr. Rice.
The iron framework for the new
do Pont Building is being delivered at
Tenth and Market streets.
The following transfers of real estate
we're recorded at the city registry
bureau tins week:
No. 1921 Madison street, by Mary
II. Askew Mather to Harry II. Smith
Dwelling at Fourth and jefferson
streets. by Thomas Holt to Frank j.
Green or S3,70O.
Property on the north side Of Sixth
street between Franklin and Broome,
by Walter @. Cheavens to Eliza K.
Wenninger for 50, 400.
No. si7 Wollaston street, by William
L. England to w. Cook for $780,
House No. 5 East Twenty second
street. by Michael keenan, to Pietro
Geordano for $780,
Lot at 1hirty-fourth and Market
streets, by Wawaset Land Co. to
Henry M. Barlow for 1926.
Property at Twentieth and jefferson
streets, by Henry II. AIbertson to
Reba VI. Morrow for $780,
Property at Twelfth and Rodman
streets, by Bernard McHugh to Harry
Quig Gamble for 1887. 90
No. 324 Ninth avenue, by William
A. Nickesell to Sarah +. Kent for
$1,000.
Properly at Second and Scott streets,
by John A. Walsh to James b. Oberly
for 1916.
Dwelling on the southeast corner of
Fourteenth and Tatnall streets, by
Charles +. Anderson to William L..
Hammond for SO, 500.
Two properties at Fourteenth and
Locust streets, by Arthur L. Foster
to Standard Fuel Co. for So, 600.
House at Sixth and Spruce streets,
by Elizabeth NJ Dunlap to Alfred L..
McMullen for 81, 900.
No. 1905 Market street, by trustees
for Jennie W. Tatnall to Robert p.
Fletcher for $500.
House at Lobdell and Clayton
streets, by John May to Branislaw
Brajinski for g, 600.
Dwelling at Taylor and Lombard
streets, by Thomas H. Melvin to
William II. Lohand for "a, 600.
Property at Tenth and Monroe
streets, by Mary f. Gray to John p.
Pyle for 81. 500.
Frame dwelling at Eleventh and
Walnut streets, by Joseph Donovan,
et al, to Robert A. Bentzen, for S7O0.
Property on the east side of Railroad
avenue, south of Lobdell street, by
Theodore i. Pibenelo to William J.
Faulkner for So, $50.
Property at Fifth and Monroe streets
by Herman Hippo to Bernard Best'
for g. 900.
Property at Pleasant and jackson
streets, by Michael H. McEvilly t.
Catharine Farley, ct al, for 81, 600.
No. 3104 Madison street, by jennie
Jones to William S. Hilles for 81, 200
House at Eighth and Lombard
streets, by Alfred NJ. Driscoll &
Marion N. Wood for 81, 800.
Property at the southeast corner @
Seventh and Lincoln streets, by An
thony Corleto to Nicholas Fidance 70
$1,000.
Property at Willard street and River
view avenue, by the Woodlawn Co. t
Charles J. Allen.
Property at Nineteenth and Wash
ington streets, by Thomas Reardon {
Margretta Tindall for 81, TIE
Nos. 120 and 10 Rodney street, b
Edna M. Black to A. S. Reed fc
81, 150 each.
Property at Second and West street,
by Thomas E. Newell to James j
McCusker, administrator, for 81, 800.
No. 2l5 King street, by Charles N
Tarbutton to Samuel S. Macy an
Marie Constance Mellon for 50, 600.