Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-13
GREAT SEASON FOR BUILDING
Mild Weather Enables Immense Amount
Of Construction to Proceed.
CONTRACTORS ARE LOSING NO TINE
In some Cases They Are Fbree weeks
I'm Advance of Their Expects-
lions ss Result OF Mod
erate winter.

Contractors arc thanking their lucky stars
for the continued mild weather and are
putting In their best ticks to get as much
outside work done as possible before real
winter sets in, II II ever does. Those who
arc lucky enough to finish the walls of
their buildings before the cold period can
take the rest Of the winter for inside work.
Construction on all buildings recently be-
gun II much further along than was ex-
pected 1t would be by this time.
Due to the warm weather the general con-
tractors for the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION building at Seventeenth and Har-
ney streets. are three weeks ahead OF their
expectations. II there Is no difficulty about
getting material next spring they will have
no trouble in completing the building by
January of 1907. the timc agreed on in the
contract.
The Hayden store, near Seventeenth on
Douglas and the Mercer building at Eiev-
enth and Howard streets are now under
cover and the carpenters are working In
side.
some work Pushing Ahesd.
The ground floor has been laid In the
Webster g. Sunderland retail store at Six
teenth and Howard streets and the steel
supports OF the second story are being
erected The foundation has been laid for
the Wright & Wilhelny warehouse at Tenth
and Jackson streets and the work contin-
ues. Three stories of J. A. Creighton's
warehouse for the John Deere Plow COM
pany at Tenth and Jones streets have been
completed. One block south the excavation
has been made and the piles driven for the
Parlin-orendorff-M Martin warehouse. At
Ninth and Howard work Is progressing
favorably on the mammoth wholesale dry
goods house of Byrne e. Hammer The
walls of the Hills building at Tenth and
Douglas streets are now six feet above the
ground floor.
The excavation for the Conservative Saw
ings and Loan associations structure ut
Seventeenth and Harvey streets has been
completed. but the foundation has not been
begun.
The Brandeis subway from the new build
ing under Douglas street to the Patterson
building has reached a depth OF twelve feet.
Workmen are clearing away the rubbish
on the Pundt corner, where the old build
ing has been torn down. NJ. Z. Smith & Co.
have spread manure over their site on
Ninth street, between Farnam and Douglas
streets. This will keep the frost out, so
that work may be begun early in the spring.
New CREIGHTON Dormitory.
The new dormitory being erected for
creighton college,, Just across the street
from the main building. is now up to tho
second floor. The outside walls of brick
and the inside wall of hollow blocks have
been carried steadily along since they were
started late in November. with intermls-
sions of only few days when 1t was &C.
tually storming. The masons work with
light cloth gloves on their hands. sometimes
without any covering at all. The mortar
mixers find no trouble with their work: In
fact. everything moves along just exactly
as II II were midsummer. Some people
contend that the workmen perform their
task with more comfort than II the weather
were hot, and it is unquestioped that very
speedy progress Is being made. with a few
weeks more Of such weather as has pre-
vailed lately the dormitory will be under
cover and the interior workers will be at
their part of the construction
Within few blocks either way from the
Creighton group of buildings carpenters and
interior hnishers at work on many pri'
xate dwellings. At no time since eonstruc'
ton. was begun on these has 1t been found
necessary to stop work. A great deal OF
painting has been done, too. not only on the
new houses but on older residences.