Evening journal., 1916-04-15

recently sold as a site for forty or
fifty new houses.
Work on the row of ten houses OF
Charles W. Gooding, on Washington
street, between Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh streets, is nearing
completion. The plot is % feet by
26 feet, and the ten houses are built
semi-detached. They are two stories.
square plan. with individual front
and back pOrches The houses have
seven rooms, bath and pantry.
DUPONT Building Work.
All building records for operations
either of similar magnitude or ap.
preaching in this country, are being
broken in the erection of the add.
tion to the DUPONT building.
The record probably up to this
time for similar construction was
made In the erection OF the everett
Building. in New York which was
completed in five and one-half
months time. The DUPONT addition
lids fair. at this time, to surpass this
record. II will give. probably. a more
accurate ide. of what has been ac.
complished. and of the rapidity with
which the work is progressing, to
scan the following record of detail
of the building:
The actual work was commenced on
December 2, 1915. by the first hammer
stroke in the wrecking and removal of
the Ward Apartments, which occupied
the site of the present operation.
Fifteen days later, this work was com
pleted tho Ward Building was a thing
OF the past, and the site was cleared of
all debris On December 20, the work
of general excavation was started. and
on January II. 1916, this had been
completed and the excavations for the
iootngs for the steel columns had
started.
Three days later. on January IA.
the steel erector delivering apparatus
had arrived and was ready for busi-
ness. January Is the construction Of
the column footing was begun i'm the
large excavations for them. started but
a week previously. The first column
of steel was erected by February Z,
and this work was rushed with the
usual rapidity which marks all con
struction work Of this division. so that
on February %. the bricklayers com
menced TO lay the bricks on the fourth
floor
The same day expert workmen COM
menced the installation of the electri-
cal. plumbing and steam heating
work, which was carried forward with
such speed that on February 20. the
first floor slab was poured. BY March
IL the entire steel framework of the
buildings had been completed. which
meant that in approximately one
month and four days. tons and tons
of steel had been received, trans
ported to the building, and erected
without a hitch in the carefully ar
ranged plans.
The work Of setting the stone for the
first three stories commenced ON March
81. April 4 the brick work was com.
pleted, and the same day the finished
floor on the fourth floor, where the
brick work was commenced, began. Par
titions of this floor were erected on
April 10, and the next day. April IL,
the stone work of the first three floors
was completed.
Every stone in the three floors, win
dow stills, etc. required separate detail
drawings, and blueprints, which were
sent TO the quauies, and each piece Of
stone cut 10 exact size before ship
ment; bricks required the purchase of
the identical brick used in the former
structure, from the same firm. and in
large quantities; every bit Of the steel
structure required its own individual
drawing, in order that when il arrived
here the rivet holes in one piece ex-
actly matched those in its fellow.