Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

LETS CONTRACTS
ENTERPRISES UNDER WAY TO
COST $4,000
MAIN IMPROVEMENT PLANNED is
A DUcAL PALACE
Balance Of Money viii Be Spent on
Concrete 8ulkheads, Bridges,
Streets and Elaborate
Lighting System

There were closed $15O,OOO worth Of
building contracts for Improvements
at Naples last week. The negotiations
in this deal had been pending for four
months, but We're not completed and
ratified until Thursday afternoon.
The James Investment company and
A. M. and A. c. Parsons, general
agents of Naples, will cooperate in
making Naples meet the dream plans
of the founders and announcements are
now made that July l will mark the
formal opening of the completed city
of the red tiled roofs"
While the basis on which the James
Investment company comes into the
Naples proposition has not been made
public, A. NJ and A. C. Parsons report
that a large cash consideration has
changed hands. as the result of which
all plans for improving Naples Will be
realized to the full.
Improvements will consist of addi-
tional concrete bulkheads, concrete
bridges over the canals, asphalt street
paving and an elaborate lighting sys-
tem and, most prominent of all, the
construction of the beautiful palace IF
the Dukes S50,000 building.
AS the foundation for this beautiful
structure already is in place work on
and the building rushed to compile
| ton by the opening date. This struc-
ture will occupy six business blocks,
bordering the colonnade canal, and Will
span the latter at its broadest part.
The building will be 200 feet long and
| 100 feet wide, extending on the land
fifty feet on each side of the canal.
1t will be seventy feet high, sand will
follow the design of the historic build
ing at Venice, italy, after which 1t is
named There will be five arches SPAN
ming the canal twenty-five feet wide
and thirty feet high, enabling boats
to pass under the building. The first
| floor will be occupied as a boat land
ing.
Cafe and Auditorium
On the second floor will be a cafe,
and the third will have an auditorium.
The roof will be used as a promenade.
It will be of heavy frame construction,
with an exterior of waterproof cement
plaster over expanded metal lath, and
will cost a total of $70,000s including
| foundations.
A $4,000 house will be built by He'i-
ry r. Huntington for a summer home
at Naples, and will face the bay front
Near by j. A. Fairchild Of the Fair
child -Gilmore-W Wilton company will
build a ffteen-room red-tiled roof
house to cost $4,000 and DR.. p. Janss
has announced his plans to erect a
dwelling for himself to cost about the
same amount. Harold Braly has lat
the contract for $4,000 house on the
bay front west of A. C. Parsons dwell
ing, and Herman Janss OF Chicago,
who is returning to Los Angeles with
his bride, formerly Miss Braly of this
city, will start at once construction on
similar residence.
! Ten high class bungalows Will ne
built, some on the Rivalto canal and
others fronting on the asphalt streets
of Naples by the Jams Investment
company within the next few weeks
These win be ready for occupancy
when the summer season opens.
Plans of a magnificent bath house
and resort to cost not less than $75.0O0
are being prepared for site facing
the entrance to Alamitos bay in East
Naples. which will also be erected
shortly. Adjoining on the north the
the property of the San Gabriel River
Investment company, fronting on the
river, and the western arm of the bay,
at the intersection of the Pacific Elec-
trio railway, two townsites will be
blocked out Here construction of
number of houses will also be built by
the Janss company. These contracts
mean that building activity and inn
provements will go on at Naples and
vicinity for an indefinite time, and the
stockholders and lot owners of Naples
are elated that such a strong concern
as the Janss company has allied itself
with the founders.