Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-10-09
DUPONTS Will BUILD
GIBBSTOWN COTTAGES
Is Homes to Go Up In Jer-
Sey Town for Powder
Workers
BANK BUILDING A
MODERN STRUCTURE

Gibbstown. N. j., like other locali-
ties where there are DUPONT powder
plants, is experiencing a great scare
fly of houses and the DUPONT Powder
Company has decided to erect cottages
there for its workmen as it has done at
Carney's Point and Haskell. In the
way of making a start in this project
the company is asking for estimates
from local contractors on plans for
twenty-five cottages which will cost
at least $4,000 each or a total Of $780,,
600. Among the contractors who have
submitted bids are A. S. Reed and
Brother Company and ]. A. Bader and
Company. The houses will each con-
tain six to seven rooms and be a story
and half in height. They will be OF
frame and OF neat design.
Brown and Whiteside. architects.
who have had charge OF the Second
street Office OF the Wilmington Trust
Company. have now turned over the
building to the company, the work be-
ing completed within the specified
time, except for slight delay due TO
Unexpectedly striking quicksand in
Ieying the foundation for the 6S-ton
steel vault which was installed in the
building. The Fifth street and the
Second street offices will be merged
and open for business in the new
building Monday morning at o'clock.
The entire building has been modern
lied. The two buildings in the rear
have been torn down and the bank
building extended TO Shipley street.
The front second story OF bank build
ing was removed. The iron balcony
was taken down as we'll az the stair
way on the west wall. The main bank
Ing room has been greatly enlarged
and a new screen placed in position.
The vice-president's room and the cou-
pom room are in the rear Of the bank
ing room. A terrazzo floor has been
laid in the main banking room.
In the basement there is a rest room
for the employees and a women's retir-
Ing room. New steel furniture and
partitions have been Installed in the
main banking room A hydraulic Gle
vator has been put in the building.
John b. Healy and Son vera the
General contractors The new vault
Installed I'm the building is constructed
bf Harvevized armor proof steel
Edward Candy May, architect, II
preparing plans for colonial house Z,
be erected on Seventeenth street be
tween Riverview and Woodlawn ave
hues. The plans will go out for esti
mates in two weeks.
Brown and Whiteside architects
are supervising the making of exter
sive alterations TO an old colonis
house near Chadd's Ford, Pa.
Several carloads of cut stone froT
North Carolina intended for the Hig
. School addition were held up for ST
days in being transferred from on
railroad TO another in Washington
This stone has now arrived in Wi
mington and is being put in place
Work on the addition has been pu
back two weeks by various causes
II Is feared that the work may shor
Il 1y be further delayed by the mol
arrival of the steel Orders. A S. Rec
and Brother Company, the contractor
have communicated with the Betl
iehem Steel Company, which is fur
nishsng the steel but can get no del
mite promise from them as TO whe
the steel will be delivered.
Il was stated today that the col
tract for the $4,000 bakery to I
erected by the Freebooter Baking Cor
pany at Thirteenth and Lincoln street
had not yet been awarded. AS soc
as the contract is awarded work wi
be started on the new building.
J. A. Bader and Company will tn
week pour the concrete for the TO-
OF the 6ve-story factory being ereC
ed for the Delmarvia Manufacture
Company at Third and French street
The company is making rapid progre
on the work of changing the ClaytS
House into an up-to-date theatre.