The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23
PLATE GLASS ERA
BUSINESS |SG
More Than One Mile az n
improvements COmpIpi'
in Last Year.
CONTRACTOR ESTIMATRo
COST OVER Sid
One Single Window
$500, and Insurance
Is a Big Item.

One and one-quarter miles n
plate glass fronts constructed
Lake the last year represent
vcstment of more than s1OO,0Oo|
ly. according to the estimate ~
contractor, who makes spoc;.
display window fronts. Altbou1
man was probably better ftteI
any other builder of the eity h
an off-hand estimate, he admitt1
careful computation of all N.
done in the business district b
Lake in the last twelve mona
foot nearer $l50,0O0 than 'sjn6
1.-The most striking exampla
renovation Of buildings by tL>
struction of new plate glass a.
probably shown In East Fin
street, between Main and Stalc .
on the south side, said this "a.
or. Saturday. 'In this blGk
wo-thirds Of the frontage kas hs|
constructed. including most N
property owned by the Clayton 4
ment company. This has vyou
transformation IN the appcarunee
street and. incidentally, bfour
the rental revenue about 10 PER-
State Street Transforlned
New plate glass fronts in'
street within the last year hsgc
formed the appearance of proha1
fifth of the frontage between n
Third South streets. On the a
OF State street, many of the nc1
are IN new buildings, while
west side a number of old d
have been remodeled. Farthe'
the Moxum hotel building a
feet TO the plate glass front
the Newhouse, Boston and FtI
ings present another acre or
transparent elegance, and Man
from Fifth South TO the -Pio1e
ument, has come in for its "a
of remodeled fronts. Second an
South streets add a few moro
feet of new windows, which b
total way above the mile ma
Probably the most costly
window glass in Salt Lake is
at the south Of the keith-O 'Brl|
This pane of glass today is "
proximately 5000. IT cost al
amount and, since it was put
few. years ago, it's value
down below $500 and then
5000. At the present, accd|
plate glass dealers, the mari
for the big panes is hunting q
record, aud the top-notch is I'd
sight. One of the items in
of the Keith-O 'Bricn window
fact that, on account Of Their
size, it was necessary to Il
freight car to make the shipml
the east.
What Fronts Cost
"Plate glass fronts, includin1
and baseboards. cost anywho
$40 10 $25 a linear foot, dep6u
the size of the single panes
materials used for the base.
local contractor Saturday. F"
average would probably be $l5|
foot and this would surely
enough, y
The improvements TO be mad
The next few months by the'
Cigar Stores company in
house, Kenyon hotel and The
Pitts Drug Company building
for approximately 300 feet
glass frontage, while the 81
hotel, Newhouse hotel, DAILY 3
aud the other structures to
this year in the vicinity Of
Fourth South street will bn/
amount Of plate glass nscd
Lake in 1910 up to the paee
year. Small building operatIoI
templated for spring will cau5'
usually heavy demand for vlndQ
Of all sizes, and local dealors p
anticipating this demand by
chases, despite the rising ua'4
Insurance Big Hs1'
The insurance of SaH lskf
glass fronts is in itself . 9
item in the business of V
il is said that about S0 ~
the windows in the bunn'
are covered by Insurance.
this insurance have had
with recent changes IN stsi
custom of joining the plates
cts, which are bolted af,@
drilled in the glass. is falhnf
favor. for the reason ins1
rates where the glass -
bolted are three times as y
rates where The Jolnts aH
regular frames, or by tne
approved system Oh elaNP
angles, without boring iols
CALL MAIN 27oo
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