Evening journal., 1917-01-13
BUILDING ACTIVITY
Record BROKEN
Good Weather Starts Oper-
ations and New Year
OpeGs With Rusb
MANY PLANS NOW
WITfF CONTRACTORS

What Is declared to have been one
OF the most active burGing weeks "a
the history of tie cIy has just passeI,
contractors and bu ldcls bore declaF-
ine the activity comparable win lhll
OF last summer. The statement MADE
several weeks ESQ thu the building
activity War Sc, cIalweeks Ia advince
OF the situation useai ai this time on
tnc year is be ng lrrnc out no, onl!
are architects busy With plans OF now
structures DC; contracts are bclnt lex
ana I'm many places there mas been q
sroal deal of building aciiv ty.
Onc contractor yesterday cXplaineu
, 10 was employing more .rcn on lhc
inrescnt time inan he did last summer
o;and CNcell where delayed on account
bad woa hcr work was going Tor
Nurd oCUa in amount go that usually
flono at othur sea3ons Of the year.
One of thc biggest prcpoa 'iohs uu-
tcrtakel 0urug Che ra-t tW'iNc
months tho cree Ion OF 500 nV"
houses i0g tie DUPONT Powder Com
rany o. Ca.a-y's Point. The contIs'.
require thst the work Dc completed
ty Norsn / and work consequently IS
auins forward with iush The work
Z. ieing done by thc j. a. Bader COM
nany cad D.ll be a-iahed before con-
ract time. q "a declared. The con-
tract was placcl December lO' ana
rrsan zatog wat 20 once elected
Some peel 'minai'y wcrk was done dur
INK the ncys week or two but matters
lid moi start II earnest unt'l af en- th0
Gr-i SO tic NoH Year
Al the present time io2 OF the new
Louscs are well advanced la construc-
lion. Materials amounting 90 1870 car
loads have been delivered on the
ground and most OF 70 Is assembled
in the new buildings. There are now
about $50 men at work on the job
most OF them carpenters. Mr. bddel
Is planning TO have more than 5Oo
men at work Ia ,he near future the
completion OF the contract requiring
that about 40 houses shall be com
pleted each week There are now
three saw mills on the premises ana
under operation and four more are
expected soon. making seven that VIII
De at work within the nest week OF
ten days.
The Bader Company also has Sc
cured the contract Tor construction Of
new power house for the Josepi
stoecklo Brewing Company near the
present plant Firth and Adams
streets. Everything IN the construc
ion of the buildings IS to be up-to
date and the structure Is said 80 b.
one OF the best of the sort that ha
been designed here. John pocker
Thompson Is the architect
Fifty new houses now are unde
construction by the !. A. Bader Con
pany for The duPonl Powder Compan
at Parlln y. j.. large force of me
being ~ work there and evorythin
being pushed forward aa rapidly @
possible.
Plans and specifications have bee
completed and estimates asked for b.
John Dooknry Thompson, architect
for construction OF new storag
warehouse for the New Castle Leathe
Company at Fourteenth and POpla
streets. The structure Is TO be ~
feet long and 100 feet wide thre
stories high. Of reinforced concret
,rith steel frame. Bids are being SUI
m.ited by the Turner Concrete Stet
Company the Irwin Leighton Con
pzny the PomerOy Construction Con
panv and the George Fuller Company
OF Philadelphia; ihe J. A. Bader Con
pany and the Realty Constructio
Company of Wilmington; Walter !
Bonger. OF New York; Barclay, Whit
g. Co.. and +. w Marks Company,
Philadelphia Bids are retuwab
next Friday at noon.
rians and specifications have bee
prepared b. j. J Kennedy, architec
for new store building at Tent
and Sh.Dlcy streets and VIII be oi
f1r bids today The structure Is
uc two sior.en h'gh A. ieeI by 90 ie
70 around area cf brick and stOn
r.th eieci frame. The trout W
te provided with large windows W
,hera wa ie akvIghts On the ro'
sve1y,h.rg about the building viii
NJ mode. construction ana up-i
TATE IN 1l1angencnt
Al The Wilmington Leather Cor
oary the concrete loot nss for d
iornd tiou are being put Into pla'
The steel sash has arrived ifom i
troit Nilh.. for ihc Detroit Steel PI
ducts Company which is TO do tf
rart of the work and much OF {
Structural steel has been placed
he site ready for erection. Work
putting tho steel beams IN pla
VIII be started in q few days.
Plans and specifications have be
prepared By Brown and WhitosiC
architects for "a new residence I
William II Written az Seventeen
street and Greenhill avenue T
structure IS Colon al "a design vi
twelve rooms and three baths.
IS three stories high the third sto
being under the high roof. and CO
ta'ns many modern features of co
sirGction The porch floors and {,
races arc % tile The building
10 be heated with a hot water s.
icni and shtod with electric
Floors are OF hardwood The n
huiidinc IS unusually handsome
in Keeping with tho general deyel
renl 60 .hc neighborhood Is
signed 20 7doIr. Plans have b
given out Tor bids and are retuns
Ianuary g. at noon.
William d. Haddock and Conn
Will start soon 10 remodel the 81
n Miilard Davis on Second str
The rcw work Is 70 he two sto
h gh. arranged to make additi'
PURE, RICH BLOOD