Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-08
THE BUILDING
OUTLOOK GOOD
Architects and Builders Have
Many Contracts on Hand
at Present.
FINE SPRING PROSPECTS
Many Buildings and Plans
Under Way and More Are
Under Consideration.

Work in the building line is brisk
lat the present time, as compared with
its slow movement earlier this year,
say most of the contractors. This Is
usually the slack season for building
work, but this year the movement to-
wards activity seems TO have been
IShifted. for the busy spell has been
going on the past few months, up to
the present time.
Both contractors and real estate
men predict a prosperous and active
spring in 1910. Koyen & Oster-
gard, two prominent real estate
men, who make a business OF pros
pecting with large tracts Of real es-
tate, have sold 150 lots this year,
whereas they sold only twenty-five
last year. Emil Koyen, of that firm,
the contracting.
Some of the contractors are buster
at the present time than they have
been at any time during the year. J.
@. Donehue and Son have more work
on hand at present than they have
had In year. They are so busy that
there come constant calls to their Of
fee in the form of requests for men,
At times, twenty men could be kept
busy" said Mr. Donehue yesterday,
but to facilitate matters a force of
ten or twelve men Is constantly kept
at work"
Contractor Spencer Dayton has
just wound up very busy spell.
during which he has been buster than
earlier in the year Mason contract
ors Henderson Brothers are quite
busy at the present time The past
few months they have been doing
much work, in fact. they had more
and larger contracts than at any
other time this year. They are at
present building the new Fords
school and large ihree-story addi-
tion to Hotel Central, besides doing
several smaller jobs. Robert Hem
derson of that firm said today that
the outlook for the coming year is
good.
@. c. Christensen Is busy at the
present time. His largest contract Is
that for N. A. Nielsens new $4,000
building at New Brunswick avenue
and Fayette street.
Thorvald Ernst, painting con-
tractor. has much work on hand. He
says there Is considerable work in
his line In the city, but has objec-
tions to the cheap rates for which II
is done by outsiders.
Architect J X Jensen is very busy
at present. He is drawing plans for
a new fire house for the city, besides
making plans for big building In
this city, the details of which he Is
not yet prepared to give for publica-
tion. He has considerable smaller
work on hand.
Ira r. Grouse, contractor for Boyn-
ton Brothers new market building,
has lots of work on hand. He has
been exceedingly busy the past few
months and considers the outlook for
the coming season good.
Business agents OF local trades
unions say times have never been so
good this year as they are at present.
The carpenters and painters unions,
together with some Of the other
trades unions, have standing orders
on their states for men. Hundreds
of men are needed at the big million
dollar addition to the Liebig fertil-
izer works at Roosevelt.
Architects ], N Pierson & Son, of
Metuchen, who have Offices here, as
sert they have more workmen than
ever. 1t is mostly out-of-town Jobs.