Evening journal., 1914-04-25
BUILDING TRADE
BETTER This week
Contractors Submit Bids on
Many New Homes and
Properties
CONCORD HEIGHTS
WORK INCREASES

Contractors of the city have been ask
d to bid on extensive alterations and
additions to the residence of Dr. Julien
lrtiz, a chemist Of the dupont Company.
From the plans prepared by +. verpel-
eaux, architect of Dumont, n. j., the
lhanges will cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
The plans call for a complete change
)f the architectural design of the house.
It will be rebuilt along semi French
lines, with glass doors opening off the
living room which viii be very large.
Most of the first story of the house will
De taken up by laboratories. On the
lrst floor will be vestibule, living room,
ltair hall, chemical laboratory, physical
laboratory, meteorological laboratory,
lark room, water analysis room and two
bther rooms.
On the second floor will be eight rooms
md two baths and on the third floor will
be servants quarters, store rooms and
three tanks, with a capacity of 500 gal
Ions each. The walls of the house will
Be dashed. Bids are due on april 27.
The A. S. Reed and Brother Company
will break ground on Tuesday for the
girls' Industrial School building at Clay
mont.
Brown and Whitesides are preparing
plans for IA houses to be erected at
Nineteenth and Tatnall streets for the
Home Building Company. The houses
will contain six rooms and bath each,
aud will be finished very nicely. The
Fronts viii be novel in Wilmington for
buildings Of this nature and price. They
will be fancy and win be Of either tap
estry brick or speckled yellow brick.
Charles ]. Dougherty has been award
ID the contract for the Mary G. Eyer
house at Fourth and Harrison streets
at a price of $500.
Jacob Schunder has been given the
contract by c. j. O'Keefc to erect six
houses at Ninth and Clayton streets. He
Il also making alterations and additions
ior John MullarlSy, at Ninth and Du-
pont streets and building a kitchen toI
William BOwe at No. SIG Van Buren
treet.
Roscoe Cook Tindall has prepared
plans for two houses for Mrs. Anne
MILLER at Oxford, Pa They viii cost
sbout $1,000 each and viii be of brick
md stucco.
The following bids on the houses
tor the Allmon estate, TO be erected
Al Twenty-third and Carter streets
are interesting because of the dlf,
terence between them: A. 5. Reec
and Brothers Company. $1O,5S4; Had
Jock and Company. S10,223; Georg'
Mckee, $4,000; George Seeds, $9,4S3
Talley and Company, $4,000; NJ
Wood, S9,15O; Charles e. Anderson
BS,99S: w. II. Jones, SS,5l4; Bradle,
t 49,. 60 47o. xtr;lIfau, IT School
master. SS.39S; John r. Healy an'
Son. $3.50; Joyce and Carrigan
1924; George S. Charles. $500
George W. Taylor, $500, and w. II
Pierson, $1,000.
Superintendent Mack, of the Parl
Commission, is rushing the setting o
lhe curbs around the small park EN-
braced within the Identification plal
at Concord Heights. William Belts i
also setting curb in front of his resi-
dence opposite this park which viii
complete all the curbing on the Con
cord Heights side of this improve
ment with the exception of ten fee
which will be set as soon as Elwool
Hilbert completes his residence a
the corner of the Boulevard and Con
cord avenue, which he will start mex
week.
About one-third of the long stretcl
of six feet sidewalk on the south sid
of the Boulevard, which is being lay
ed by the Concord Heights Compan
is down and the balance will be il
by May 1. Patrick Marlborough i
putting in the pavement.
One of the recent sales of hom
sites at Concord Heights was to MI
and Mrs. K. NJ. Peacock. It is a larg