Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-03

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Contractors and builders are getting
ready for the spring rush, and in a short
time ground will be broken for number
OF operations The Delaware & Atlantic
Telegraph and Telephone Co. will start
the work of tearing down the houses on
Shipley street adjoining the company s
building probably next week The work
will be rushed, as it-is the desire of the
company to get the additional building
up as soon as possible When completed
the new structure, with the present one,
will make one of tho largest buildings
in the city devoted TO one purpose
h The present office building is four stories
high, measuring 2lxS0 feet The addi-
tion is to be three stories high, measuring
4ONS2 feet, containing ABOUT 1000 square
feet of floor space The first floor of the
present building will be still occupied by
the central department, and on the third
and fourth floors OF the same building
will be the traffic Offices and the operators
rooms. On the first floor of the new build
ing the terminal room will be situated.
On the second and third floors are to be
the operating rooms, each with "A switch
board designed to accommodate 10000
lines each, which is equivalent to 10000
stations
The structural steel material to be used
in erecting thed Poiit Btildng is being
manufactured by the Passaic Steel Co. OF
Paterson, N. j. The material will begin
to arrive about March 25th. J. H.
Graham, formerly manager Of the Edge
Moor plant OF the American Bridge Co.,
! IS now manager OF the bridge department
7 of the Passaic Steel Co.
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4 weather is about over, the work of ex-
, cavating for the du Pont Building, at
. Tenth and Market streets, will be rushed
more rapidly than ever. DIR. j. G. Robin
5 son will vacate the corner property on
e March 25th, and that building will then
4 be torn down.
! Local architects are busy getting ont
) plans for buildings to be started this
I. spring Architect r.. L. Rice is revising
the plans for the Friendship Fire Co. 5
new home, to be erected on latnall street
above Delaware avenue. The bids re-
ceived for erecting the building last week
/, were all too high and were rejected 1t
q is proposed to make this the finest fire
y house in the city
u Mr.. Rice has prepared plans for two
dwellings TO bc built on the southeast
corner Of Eighteenth and Washington
4 streets, for Samuel H. Baynard. They
are TO be thrce-story houses and will be
!, modern in every detail. Bids will be re-
ceived until next Thursday He has
y also prepared plans for four two-story
houses TO be erected at Lincoln street
10 and Shallcross avenue for ID. b. Ferris
n The condition of the real estate market
4 remains about the same as it was last
week. The demand for houses to rent
n is as large as ever, but the real estate
\ agents hayc very little to offer the many
, persons who would like TO make a change
b, A large number of houses changed hands
during the week. The following transfers
/. were recorded at the City Registry Blu
4 reau:
No ll09 Beech street, byIJohn j. Nc
Govern TO Frank Santowsli, for 81 .325
Property on Tenth street between
Poplar and Lombard, by Catharine A.
Wood to Thomas I. Frazier, for S2.O5O
No. 90l Jefferson street, by J. Corbit
ar Davis to Matilda Middleton. for 81. 500
10 House at Third and Rodney streets
s. by Lilburne Chandler to Ella b. Bane
- for 50 300.
IS House at Chestnut and Monroe streets
Is by Charles Warner Co. TO Andrew Lewan-
" dowslxi, for $1,000. i' OTIS Is
r No. l406 Harrison street, by Wood
s., lawn Co. 20 Brownell Dayett. for 81 700
q George NJ. Elliott TO Annie H. Millington
* for 81 ,45O.
H. Dwelling at Seventh and Walnut
la streets, by Joseph N, Harman to Thomas
l. H. Frazier, for 81 600
n House on Fourteenth street near King
ic by William T.. Hawkins to George IL
l., Gordon, for $4,000.
is Property on Orange street near Seventh
ye by James G. McComb TO Ida May Lewis
ic for 81 300.
in Property at Thirteenth and Tatnal
is streets, by Annie Carroll to Isabel lid
lie marsh, for 500.
n, Property at Eleventh and Tatnal
streets by George A. MessiclS, executor
TO Lawrence r. Messicl, ct al
Two-story house on north side of Sixth
street near Franklin, by Geneva A. Dillor
20 John I. Pierce, for SO 200
~ No 907 Shipley street. by Thomai
d Rossiter TO Dayina Mackenzie for IS. 200
!. No. 23ll latnall street, by Fnos II
20 johnson TO William Briggs, Jr., for 81. 900
~ No i01 West Fourteenth street. b,
H West End Improvement Co. to Catherine
NJ. Donovan, for Sl.75O.
~ Property az Seventeenth and West
w streets, by Louis Lchenstein TO William
~ II. LoNden, for SO 900
M .o Property at Seventeenth and Wes
| tifcele. nN loluS i1chenStcln TO lranCi
0e A, Price for 50 900.
Property at the southwest corner O
55 | Eighteenth and West streets, by Thoma
'u J. Farley 20 Edward +. Connel, 10
S4.70O
Property al Seventeenth and Wes
streets, by Louis Iichensiein to JOSEPH
v NJ. laRowe for $1,000.
ne No. 9l3 Shallcross avenue. by William
IL W. Crawford TO George Henry Dole, 70
ist Sl.f50.
ng No. 1904 West Fourth street. by Hom
Real Estate Co. to Harry S. Reynolds
Nv for $3.50
ON Property on Eighth avenue betweel
Coleman and Duncan. by Joseph l.. Car
penter, Jr, to George NJ. Carpenter, fo
$500.
Property at Elm and Franklin streets
Charles II. Curley, administrator, {,
~ Margaret T.. Healey, for $1,000.
o' Property az and Heald streets b,
ln William 5. Prickett 10 Cecil Preston, 70
81. 200.
i No. 1922 West Sixth street by Fredericl
4 A. Davis TO James A. johnson.
lhree-story house at Ninth and Churcl
streets, by Hugh Sweeney to Carroll "
1 Griffith for 81 450.
Property at Ninth and Lombard streets
Il hN trustee of David u Rush 70 1honna