Evening journal., 1913-04-26
GARDEN ON
HOTEL ROOF
Dupont Hotel Company Will
Receive Bids for Work
on Monday
SLOW WEEK IN
REALTY CIRCLES

The building and real estate busi-
ness suffered slump this week. The
contractors report that outside their
regular job work that they have moth
ing on the boards Several big deals
are in the air. however, and next
week they are expected TO come to
head.
The real estate dealers are still
complaining about the scarcity OF
small houses and say that the demand
for exceeds the supply.
A. s. Reed and Company arc bid
ding on the new garage for the VIII
mington Automobile Company which
will be an extension of the present
garage Of the company 70 Hamilton
street The building will be eoN65
4 feet II was designed by Brown and
/ Whitesides.
The same firm is bidding on now
chapel for the Wilmington and
Brandywine Cemetery Company. The
chapel will be erected IN the ceme-
terry and will be of Port Deposit
granite; while small it will be hand
some and the contract will probably
be for large sum.
A local architect has prepared
elaborate plans for the new roof gar
den OF the Hotel DUPONT. The plans
are now in the hands of almost every
local contractor in the city and bids
will be received on Monday.
The roof garden as planned VIII be
one of the most delightful places In
Wilmington and will greatly add TO
the attractivoness Of the Hotel Du-
Pont. which itself has created a new
atmosphere in the city entirely for
eign to any it had ever known until
the building of the magnificent
hostelry of which any city might feel
proud.
The roof garden will be divided
into two sections. one enclosed and
the other open. The enclosed section
will be beautiful place and will nc
doubt be very popular with the vii.
mington public. II will be arranged
so that it can be heated and used late
, into the fall The garden will b'
beautifully decorated with palms an'
I plants and vii, be lighted in move
manner. I'm the enclosed gardcI
which will run about half Of thu
{ length Of the hotel the ceiling vii
, be low and the clustering lights
: soft and subdued.. The open gardel
will be covered with lattice worl
+ supported by large columns. II is IN
! plan of the management Of the note
E to make the garden one Of the fines
D in the country and no expense will b
5 spared TO make Il all that thought
money and ingenuity can provide fol
The roof garden will ahye its. .ow
= kitchen. pantries and rofrigerators al
T OF which will be entirely soparat
y from the hotel.
, J. A. Bader and Company. who ha'
I. secured the contract for the crcctio
" of the DUPONT Thcetre. have iui
finished a moving picture theatre fc
the Broadway Amusement Compan
of Camden, n. J. The theatre is bui
very much along the lines OF Oh
u Majestic Theatre here but contain
+ several new features that are innov'
IS tions in the building OF moving pic
II lures theatres. The new building Ia
e large number of exits and
v provided with rest rooms. toilets, ct
1t has a seating capacity OF abo'
1000 people.
Members OF the Old School Rapii
Church. whose property opposite y
Court House in King street, was r.
Gently purchased to make room Il
" the municipal building, have bougl
lot in Jefferson street 20 feet ncri
of Thirteenth street from Elizabe
"a S. Dure. ct al. The price paid WI
of $1,000 and plans are now being pr
N pared to erect one-story brick n
adj stone building on the site as a churc
nd The new building will have bas
3. ment II is expected the new stru
as ture will cost $1,000 and Il will
s. erected by local contractor.