The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-05-05
GREAT BUILDING
ACTIVITY HERE
THIS SUMNER
Permits Show Many New Buildings
Goine Up III Cairo Hotel
Ordinance Passed.

IL lHe ptIhliS dShOi anu s'oHI@'
already are any criterion. In fact.
tho building trades will have an un
usually busy season, it is expected.
Many new Buildings are going up
or are projected, and these Include
beth business blocks and residences.
OH shacks are being torn down aud
replaced by substantial edifces and
unlf shtly buildings will be repaired
and remodeled. Petitions are com
ing in fast and many are granted
at each meeting of the city council.
Workmen are expected to have no
complaint to offer this year because
CT lack Ct work along this line, and
the city by next fall will present a
better appearance than for a long
time.
At the last meeting of the coun-
ell, yesterday morning, the follow
Ing permits were granted:
Building Permits Granted.
John Barry to improve his resi-
dence at 2S03 Sycamore street, by
raising, Euilding new foundation,
Iporches, and stuccoing. the I'M
proycments to cost about $4,000
Edward Martin, erect cottage at
1875 Twenty seventh street, 20 cost
about $4,000.
Mrs Fanny Steger, to add one
story to building at 1928 Washing
ton avenue.
A. II. Twente to repair dwelling
and erect garage at $500 Elm
street This is the old Atcher Prop
erty on the corner of Twenty-fifth
and Elm.
Mrs Anna f. Powers to erect cot
tage at zoe Twenty second street to
cost $1,000.
Salem Boalbey to erect brick busi.
ness house at 1901 Commercial ave-
nue. to cost $4,000
New petitions were received AMI
referred to Commissioner Feuch-
ter's department as follows;
William A. SaNtcn TO erect addt-
ton to building at 219 Twenty-nfth
Underwood Crouch to erect addi-
tion to building at 1906 Poplar.
Alexander Wilson to erect stucco
garage in rear of lots at 429 Tween
ty-eighth street.
George Maloof to erect two-story
brick business building at 100
Commercial avenue. The present
frame shack adjoining police head
quarters to be torn down.
Other Council Business.
w. Trigg was denied permission
to repair building at Third and
Washington, a protest of property
owners in the block having been
dled with Commissioner Feuchter. 1t
3 contended that the building is
moro than fifty percent dllapidated
ana therefore beyond repair.
A junk dealers license was
granted Joe Solomon, at Third and
Jefferson, formal verbal protest by
the railroad companied is said to
have been withdrawn.
Petition granted J. NJ. Bergman.
proprietor Illinois Liquor company
to transfer liquor license from Sec
ond and Railroad streets to An
Ihuscr-Pusch building at 206 Com
rercial.
| Fire plugs ordered placed on
Tenth and Eighteenth streets, two
hundred feet east Of Mississippi
levec.
Petition granted O.tdcor Adver.
Using company for metal billboard
lat Seventh and jefferson.
Various claims against tn city
Iallowcd
Reports of city officers were read
~ follows
Pclioe Magistrate Lutz reported
the collection Of $2S3.S5 in fine.
during the month of April.
Chief of Tbliae Fuller reported
1919 arrests made by the police dur.
ms April
Chief of the Fire Department
Peter Lind reported thirty-eigh'
fire alarms responded to and IA.
trips made by the patrol wagon.
Hotel Ordinance Passed.
The ordnance for proper protec
ton of guests at hotels from fire wa
passed. A motion to amend the or
dinance to leave the question o
knotted ropes to the discretion o
the fire chief where other protection
was furnished was made by Com
missioner Hurd but was defeatet
by a vote 0f IN /