Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
GAS AND ELECTRIC Co.
TO ERECT BIG HOLDER
Western Union Offices to Be En-
!arged-Man New StruC-
lures Planned

The Los Angeles Gas and Electric
corporation is having plans prepared in
its engineering department for extern
sive improvements to be made soon. a
two-story and basement reinforced con-
crete office building, S0X20O feet, will be
erected at the gas plant at Center and
Also streets for the mechanical de-
partment. 1t may be decided to make
The structure three stories i'll height.
A reinforced concrete office building
3Ox6O feet and three stories in height
will be erected for the electrical de-
partment.
In order to keen pace with the rapid
development of the city, the company
is having plans made for an immense
steel gas holder to contain 100000
cubic feet of gas. This will be the sec
ond largest gas holder In the country
and will have more than the capacity
of the present large holder on Seventh
street which is of considerable size.
Architect e. c. Kent has prepared
plans for adding two stories to the
fhree-story and basement reinforced
concrete building on the east side OF
Spring street just south of Sixth street,
occupied by the Western Union Tcle-
graph company. e. p. Bryan is the
owner. The two additional stories Will
be of reinforced concrete construction,
tile partitions, reinforced concrete roof,
finished floors of white maple, plate
glass front windows, wire glass and
metal frames for the rear windows,
galvanized iron and wire glass sky
lights. A reinforced concrete vault will
be constructed on the first floor. An
electric elevator running from the base
ment to the fifth story will be installed.
The entire completed building will be
occupied by the telegraph company.
Architect w. ]. Saunders has pre-
pared plans for adding two stories to
the four-story class G building at 509-
Bill South Main street for the Colyear
Furniture company. The building is
7Ox15O feet and the walls Will be
strengthened by constructing reinforced
concrete piers, 21x22 inches in size, y
feet apart throughout. These piers will
also support the two additional stories,
which will have reinforced concrete
frame, brick filler walls and pressed
brick front. The freight and passenger
elevator shafts will be extended to the
sixth floor, the freight elevator shaft
beinp freproof with metal lath and
plaster and the passenger elevator haV-
ing an enclosure of wire glass and or
namental iron. The cost Of the addition
will be about $4,000.
MANY OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
Architects reported the following ad-
ditional improvements to the Builder
and Contractor:
c. C. Rittenhouse is completing plans
for the erection of a three-story and
basement apartment house at the
southwest corner of Eighth and Coro-
nado streets for l.. H. Mitchell. 1t Will
be 45x199 feet, and will contain Y rooms
divided into eight three-room and "a
two-room apartments.
Edelman & Barnet. are completing
plans for the erection of a two-story
brick store and rooming house build
ing on Olive street near Seventh, for
Mrs. Kate Agcurre. 1t will be S1X125
feet class B construction. with con-
crete foundation, pressed brick front,
composition roof, structural steel, gal
valized iron skylghts and cornice
Wilbur D. Cook, jr., landscape archi-
tect, is preparing plans for the develop
ment of the grounds for the Fillmore