The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-26
BUILDING AND BUSINESS
Something Doing Every Day in
Union City.

WOIhhSu are uOluS lHelr UeSU, everyone
vieing with the other to see who can d,
the best job.
Down at the Government post offic
building they are doing some of tn,
most substantial work ever done here
Most any time you visit the bui;5ins
Postmaster Keller and his chief, FGr
ney Arm, will be found there trying t
boss the job. But the minute the fore
man appears they scatter like magic
By the way the Government is usually
the last to change its plans. The speci
fications call for both electric and gas
pipes and fittings, and quite net work
of these fixtures are being put in. Oh
course the chances are that we will nev.
er be compelled to use gas light or power
in Union City, but the Department will
have to change its plans before public
buildings will be erected without gas
fixtures. The walls of the building
have been completed for some time,
and the roof will soon be done. The
roof is terraced with stone, as well as
the portico, and the dome will soon be
finished. The building now begins to
look like some of the large public
buildings. 1t has made already quite
change in Union City.
A little further down we find another
building, the First Christian Church,
that will compare favorably with any
thing ever attempted here The con-
tractor on this work is Mr.. Hubbard,
one of the most conscientious, capable
and painstaking men in the business.
There we also find the minister Rev.
Stuart, keeping one eye open on the
work day and night. Ask him if you
can see the job, and he says Hitch
your mule and come in right away"
and the preacher actually goes into
detail description of the work and be-
gins to lay it off with gestures, until
you actually stand under the sound of
a sermon on the building of famous
churches. The plan of the building
was shown in this paper on former
occasion, accompanying an illustration.
rTl,o ~
gray brick, trimmed in stone, with ca
thedral shaped windows, very beautiful
indeed The building is fashioned in
squares, with gabled roof and dome,
covered with heavy tin shingles. The
front is to be trimmed with stone col
umns about two-thirds the width in
Grecan architecture with extensions of
smaller designs. The sides of the build
ing will conform to the general archi-
tectural style and show to advantage on
all sides. The walls have been finished
and some of the roofing has been laid. |
The structural work is of the strongest
and best character. The eye beams and
the foundation beams for the dome are
of the very heaviest and best steel struc-
ture. The frame work is all in keeping
with the strength of the building. 1t is
the very best. Enough has not been
done on the interior yet to form an idea
of its appearance, but the different de-
partments can be seen. Through the
facade in front the auditorium will be
reached through swinging doors, row
of them. The building faces east, and
the auditorium faces the pulpit to the
northwest with elevated floor. The
church will be provided with balconies
and Sunday school room to the east,
with study, cloak rooms, ETC., in the
most convenient places. The balconies |
and side rooms are SO arranged that
when an overflow audience is present |
the speaker in the pulpit is in easy
speaking distance of every person in
the church. Quite number of handy
arrangements have been made in the
church which the minister told us con-
fidentially he had not yet laid fully be-
fore his congregation. He wants the
church and all of its splendid appoint
ments to grow on them gradually. He
wants to find the key to every heart in
the church, and when that is done the
building will he greater blessing to
them all.
DIR. w. A. Mailing has turned the
Massengill shoe store building, ravaged
by fire, over to the carpenters and they
are busy now remodeling it. 1t was one
of the handsome stores in Union City |
and will be restored to its former ap-
pearance. When the work is complet-
ed this store Will be occupied by the
Brandt Dry Goods Co., now on WASH
ington avenue.
The corner building, recently bought