The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-20
HAMMER IS HEARD
Contractors Are Rushing Work
to Utmost Capacity.
Realty Men Say Their Trade Is
Not So Brisk.
A FIRE PROTECTION.
Hardware Company Installs
10000 Gallon Tank.
Plans in Weaving for Display at
Irrigation Congress.

The sound of the hammer has been
heard on every hand this week in To-
peka, as contractors are rushing work |
to their utmost capacity, but realty |
men saw their trade has been not so |
brisk. Darkness before dawn" might |
anply to the present state of the mar
ket for within a few days the tide will
turn and a lively fall trade will be ush- |
cred in, say the land men.
ri ere are more improvements being
made along Kansas avenue than there
has been in months. Work Of remodel |
ing Crosby Brothers store. and the
home of the Palace Clothing company is
progressing apace, and several of the
new buildings are nearing completion, |
including the Guilford Dudley building
at No S27 the Gordon building at
Fourth and Kansas avenues and the
Rigby building at No. 535 Kansas ave-
nue..
The Garlfnghouse Realty company
tege the erection of two new dwellings
this week. which makes a total OF
nine in course OF construction by thlS1
firm. Others probably will be built by
them this fall. Those now building are
going up in the Elmhurst addition, and
in the southwestern portion of Topeka
Mrs E. Murphy this week began the
erection of two story frame dwelling
at 634 Lincoln street which will cost
So, 0O0 A sleeping porch VIII be one OF
the modern features.
The model drug store and tenement
building which ]. M. Leeper OF Leeper
& Smith expects to build at the cor
ner of West Sixth avenue and Buch-
-. IN
terror OF the store will be finished in
mission style and marble will be free
ly used.
A dwelling which has been in
course of construction for many
months and which has excited con-
siderable curiosity on account of it's
influences of style is that which
Architect N. P. Nielsen now is having
completed, Immediately west of his
home, at the corner of West Sixth
avenue and Taylor streets. Among the
exterior peculiarities which one OBJ
serves is the pebble-dash or stucco-
like finish, the elevation above the
sidewalk, the concrete retaining wall
and the many windows. Perhaps the
unique feature of all is the base
ment garage, fitted with metallic doors
which swing out into the alley. into
this spacious room, made entirely fire
proof, with concrete floors. walls and
ceiling, an automobile may be run
with ease.
Upon entering Architect Neilsen's
house one is surprised to find that 1t
is not larger. The rooms are commo-
dious, but not so numerous as one
might expect to find, judging from
the outside appearance. The drawing
room is 17x27 feet, and will be fitted
with a keen cement mantel. Instead
Of hui tho raQ1I12tiOn SlaQninR
porches, innumerable windows supply
air for the rooms on the second floor,
the large front room, 17x22 feet, be-
ing provided with eight windows, aside
from three others in two adjoining
closets of large dimensions.
A fire protection system has been
installed at the store of the w. A. l..
Thompson Hardware company at a
cost of $4,000. A water tank with a
capacity of 10000 gallons will be built
back of the building to insure an
adequate water supply. Pipes are run
overhead through the entire building
with valves covered with solder at
tached at intervals. When the heat
reaches $50 degrees the solder melts
and a spray of water shoots forth.
The Karsas State Association of Real
Estate Agents is planning a display of
agricultural products at the National
Land and Irrigation congress at Chicago
in October. and there is some talk OF
putting on a statewide display at the
Kansas State fair in Topeka. Products
used in the display in Topeka could be
taken on to Chicago at a later date.
A committee of the State Realty
dealers is looking up laws in vogue in
the various states of the Union which
regulate the sale of real estate. This
is being done with a view to later franz
ing a bill to go before the state legisla-
ture, which would If passed. deal
death blow to the curb stone" men. In
Missouri a man can be fined $500 for
selling property without written con-
tract signed by the owner.
Olinge- & Eaton and the Shawnee
agency are getting out an illustrated
folder advertising the Taylor estate on
the North side which has in part been
l.latted, and now is ready for sale This
property will be sold in tracts of IA
lots each to these who wish a subur-
ban home where they can defray part
of the running expenses OF the house
hold by growing garden truck for their
own use.
The clearinghouse Realty company
reports these sales: A five roor1 modern
Wade of Mcriden for 300; five room
cottage at 1929 Clay street to Roy Ham
mon for $4,000; five room cottage at
1917 Clay street to D. B. Kraus of
Texas for $500; one and one-half lots
at 1921 Clay street to D. H. Hippen-
steel for $3.50 for a building site; two
story fiat building at ZIG West Twelfth
street from J. A. Early to Mrs. Grice
for $4,000; an eight room dwelling on
West Sixth avenue from A. G. Stevens
to William Smith for $4,000; one and
cne-half lots on Arch street for $3.50;
a six room modern house at 1428 Fill
more street to Fred Boyer for $3.50.
Wilson & Neiswanger have sold
four room modern cottage at sos Ger