Evening journal., 1915-12-04
ACTIVITIES Of WEEK
IN BUILDING TRADE
Wilmington Leather Com
pany VIII Build an Is by
90 Foot Addition
NOW RAZING THE
WARD APARTMENT

John j. Kennedy, architect, IS COM
pleting plans for an addition TO the
plant of the Wilmington Leather Com
pany at Second street and Greenhill
avenue. They will be sent to the
builders for estimates on Monday.
The addition will be placed at the
Third street end of the building and
will be 1880 feet. II will be two
stories high. Brick, steel sash and
reinforced concrete will be used in
the construction. The new structure
will contain up-tO-date offices and a
new buliing room.
j. A. Bader and Company have a
force of men at work razing the Ward
Apartment building in Tenth street,
on the site of which the proposed ad-
dition to the dupont Building will be
erected. As soon as the building Is
razed the work of eXcavating for the
foundations for the addition 10 the
building will be started and it is plan
ned to have the structural steel WORK
erected by February. The plans pro-
vide for a twelve-story addition TO the
dupont Building. occupying the site
OF the present Ward building and the
. plot of ground acquired by the DUPONT
Building Corporation from the Young
Mems Christian Association.
Edward Candy May, architect, eX-
poets TO finish plans next week for an
Office building in this city He also
expects TO post plans next week for
an out-of-town bank building.
Contractor W. Howard May is do
ing the exterior shaping to the new
home for Arthur Porter at Park Drive
and Grant avenue. The plans were
made by Edward Candy May, archi-
tect.
Rapid progress is being made by w.
D. Haddock and Company on the new
home for J. Christy Conner at Tower
Road and Sixteenth street. The plans
were drawn by Edward Candy May.
A. S. Reed and Brother Company
are bidding on the construction OF a
sewer 1920 feet long on Manor ave
me. Claymont. II is to be built Oi
iron and terra Gotta pipe and will run
under the p. b. and w. Railroad
tracks.
The pouring of the concrete for th'
floor Of the balcony Of the new Queer
Theatre. Fifth and Market streets
which was started on Monday morn
ing was finished on Wednesday morn
inc. One hundred and twenty mel
were nut on the Job by J. A. Bade
& Co., and the work continued ia!
and night One hundred and fift,
truck loads of broken stone, larg
quantities of sand and cement wer
REQUIRED in the work. Concrete wa
also poured for a girder sixteen fee
in deDth. two feet wide and sixty rec
i'm length. which will support the bal
cony. The entrance to the balloon
will be through an opening in thi
girder. The interior of the theatr
is now being gotten I'm readiness 10
lathing and plastering.
II is expected that the new hom
OF the Knights Of Columbus, at Tent
and West streets. will be ready TO
occupancy by February l. The whit
coating of plaster is now being place
on the interior walls. New porche
are being constructed on both Wes
and Tenth streets. They Will hav
steel columns.
Almost every day shipments
steel for the addition to the winning
ton High School are being receive
bv A. s. Reed & Brother Compan!
Work on the building is being rushed
John e. Healy * Son have mad
excellent progress during the week o
the excavation for the basement
the garage to be erected at the norti
cast corner of Ninth and Frenc
streets for DR.. S. l.. Mckee. The sam
contractors are making rapid heaG
way with the Goldey College buildin
at Ninth and Tatnall streets. tt
walls have been built up to the thin
floor.
J. A. Bader & Co. has received
contract to build twenty-five additions
cottages for the DUPONT Powder Con
pany at POmpton Lakes, and hs
started work on them. Good progrei
is being made on cottages bein
erected for the DUPONT Company
Haskill. Parlin, Gibbstown and Ca
ney's Point, n. j.