Evening journal., 1915-11-13
COTTAGES TO CO
UP At GIBBSTOWN
du Pont Company Gives
the Building Contract to
Bader & Company
MATERIAL SOON
FOR SCHOOL ADDITION

J. A. Bader and Co., have received
the contract to erect twenty-five cot
tages at Gibbstown, n. j.. for the du-
Pont Powder Company. The contract
! will amount to $4,000. the cottages
costing about $4,000 each. Bids had
been received from a number Of con
tractors on October 9 and the contract
has now been given Bader and Com
pany who have already started the
work.
Gibbstown, like other localities
where there are DUPONT powder
plants, is experiencing a great scar
city Of houses and the DUPONT COM
pany has decided to erect cottages as
il has done at Carney's Point and
Haskell. The houses will contain six
70 seven rooms each and be two
stories high. They will be of frame
and of neat design.
Bader ana Company have completed
1870 buildings at Haskell, for the du.
Pont Powder Company. Good progress
Is being made on the houses for the
luPont Company at Pompton Lakes
and Parlin. Bader and Company are
making general repairs to the J. Nor
ton. Poole plant of the dupont Com
pany which il is expected will be fin
shed in weeks time.
Brown and Whiteside, architects,
lave made plans for extensive altera-
ions and additions to the country
'GOlonian residence of Francis Whit
ten at Cossart, Pa. Gawthrop and
Brother Company, of this city, have
been awarded the contract for the
plumbing and heating.
Bids are being asked for on plans
for the erection of a large porch of
handsome design, in the front of the
residence of ]. Harvey Whiteman, No.
1891 Franklin street. The plans we're
drawn by Leon Wilde Crawford,
architect. The porch will have brick
columns and a tile floor and cost
about $1,000.
The plans for the garage to be built
at the northeast corner of Ninth and
French streets for S. i. Mckee have
seen revised and new bids are being
asked for.
A. S. Reed & Brother Company have
Reeiyed word that the structural steel
Work for the Wilmington High School
addition has been shipped. A. S. Reed
said today the material should have
.een here month ago, and that the
work on the building is being re-
tarded on account of its non-arrival
The workmen are waiting to install
6ne steel window lintels on the first
floor. All the cut stone has been put
place. Work will be rushed as soon
y the structural steel work arrives
The Bethlehem Steel Company inform
cd Reed & Co. that the months delay
in turning out the work was not due
o the plant being rushed to fill wal
orders.
The cornice is now being put in
,sace on the new Perpetual Savings
md Loan Association building, Ninth
md Orange streets. Terra Gotta bay
windows have been placed in the
structure. which is three stories high
Charles j. Dougherty is the general
contractor and John j. Kennedy is
.e architect.
Bids went in today for the construc.
ton of a stone residence for Mrs
George c. Hutton at ClaymOnt The
plans were drawn by Architect LeoT
Wilde Crawford
,On account Of some changes in th'
plants. il is said that it will be i'm
possible to complete the transforma
lion of the Clayton House into a the
tire next month, as anticipated. i
is now proposed to have an enclosed
'oof garden.