The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
BUSINESS IS BRISK
Merchants Find Trade Better
Than Last Year.
Several Firms Compelled to En-
large Their Quarters.
REALTY MEN BUSY.
Fair Weather Causes Increased
Activity in Market.
Various Items of Interest in
Real Estate Circles.

during the nrSt nalT or. June over the
same period last year. Building oper-
ations are going ahead at full blast,
and there is much more building in
sight. Realty men say that the favor
able weather conditions have caused |
an increase in inquiries in respect to
properties.
Taking everything into consideration |
there is reason for optimism, and a !
hard row to hoe for the chronic |
grumb1er.
Contractors have had an opportun- |
ity to rush work. Douglas and Evans |
are now putting in the concrete main |
floor of the new Mills building, and |
are employing nearly so men on the
job.
H. B. Howard is going ahead with !
the work of wiring the big structure.
1t might be interesting to note that
there will be 900 feet of small sized |
conduit and 10000 feet of the small
est size of wire used, and that the
amount of electricity for lighting the
building will be the same as is requir-
ed to light the city of Emporia.
There will be two big exhaust fans
in the basement of the building and
in the display rooms and offices $50
bracket fans will be installed.
The main feed will consist of five
cables, the copper wire in which will
be one and fourth inch in diameter.
All the conduits will set in the solid
concrete.
There will be Is telephone stations
in the building which will be equipped
with both the Independent and Bell
phones.
The building will be outlined with
| hundreds of electric light bulbs, and
! on top of the structure will be huge
electric sign bearing the name MILLS
in ten foot letters. This electric dis
play will add much to the general
nocturnal appearance of the business
district of the capital city, and on ac-
count of the height of the big dry
goods and office structure, the electric
sign will be visible for a distance of
Is or 90 miles.
Leeper and Smith. the contractors.
are rushing the work on the new
Brown flats and business building, at
Sixth and Western avenue, and the
structure is going up almost as if by
magic.
Ready by September 4.
F. M. Spencer states that the
Thompson-Hall building at Fifth and
Kansas avenue should be completed
about the first of September, If the
| contractor who is putting in the mar
BILE finishings does his work with dis
patch.
This big six-story building will be
one of the business blocks of which
| Topeka may well be proud.
Work is in progress on the third
and top story of the new solid concrete
| Santa Fee shops office building, which
is being erected by the same contrac-
| tor.
| Preparations are being made for
putting in the concrete main floor of
what will be Topeka's real skyscraper,
the 4 story Santa Fe Office building
spared in making the walls of the
building sufficiently strong to support
| the fourteen stories. The reinforcing
material being used in the concrete
! walls consists of pipes and a motley
collection of smaller connecting rods.
| Cuthbert & Son are bringing to COM
| pletion the exterior work of the Gull
| ford Dudley building at S27 Kansas
avenue.
Work on Wolff Plant.
The new $4,000 cold storage plant
| of the Wolff Packing company is we'll
under way, the work being under the
supervision of the superintendent of
the plant. The building is being put
up south of the present Office building
and east of the old cold storage plant.
It will be a seven story structure
and will be as nearly freproof as pos
~sible, being of brick veneer construc-
ton. 1t will be used entirely for the
storage of meats, and will probably be
in operation by the last of August.
Leeper & Smith are going ahead
rapidly with the work of excavation
for the new Y W. c. A. home. and
will later push the superstructure
along to completion so that it will be
possible for the association members
to get into their new home during
the fore part of the winter.
Plans are being prepared by Archi-
tect Frank c. Squires for a commits
sion house to be erected at Second and
Kansas avenue by John Seaton of
Atchison. 1t will be a brick and stone
structure with a basement and one IS
foot story, and will cost about $4,000.
Plans for the $4,000 Warren M.
! Crosby building are in the hands of
/ contractors, and the contract is about
to be let. The building will be COM
pleted by the first of October.
/ Several new bungalows are about to
be built in Topeka One is now in
course of construction in Oakland. 1t
is being built by Charles Cole and was
planned by Reese Van SAINT. 1t will
cost in the neighborhood of $500.
DR.. J. E. Kirkpatrick of Washburn
has purchased from Wilson & Neis-
wanger two lots at about 1880 Boswell
and will erect $4,000 bungalow,
which has been planned by Reese Van
SAINT.
Wilson & Neiswanger are building
high art bungalow for a Washburn
professor at 1908 Mulvane street.
1.-The activity in Topeka and subur-
ban real estate continues" reads a re-
port from Wilson & Neiswanger's
agency 1--WE have just closed sales on
property to the value of $4,000: The
Welding suburban home to VIM. NJ.
Shaver, price $500; the VIM. NJ.
Shaver home at the corner of Seven
teenth and Boswell avenue to L. w.
Wilson, price $4,000; 23A lots south
west corner of College and Huntoon
avenue, to L. w. Hagg. $3.50. and
also report other transactions in prog
ress. Topeka city property and To-
peka suburban property is selling at
very reasonable prices. The above
firm does not believe that a Stacking
up in the present pace caused by the
tightening up of money will cause a
ldecline in value of properties"
Il The Building Permits.