Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-28
news OF THE week
IN BUILDING TRADE
Contractors Bid for Uncle
Sans Work Somewhere
in Delaware"
BUILDERS CAN'T
GET MATERIALS

samuel; his building goes right ON AZ
though nothing was happening, so II IS
that local builders and contractors. lind
inc little on the boards for local people.
have turned 20 the Government and are
bidding ON the jobs at a point "some-
where in Delaware where the Federal
Gol eminent is planning extensive de-
tense works.
Among the buildings for the Govern
ment on which local contractors are
bidding are bunk houses, mess hall,
kitchen. Offices. store houses, cement
sheds sand and stoue bins. trestles.
temporary buildings and other out
buildings. The bids are TO be opened
Monday In the local office of the United
States Engineering Department
Bids have been received by j.. =.
Rice lr.. and Company, for the building
for r. Iorillord Company. of New York
city. on Second street hCwcen Orange
and Tatnall streets The company
planned 20 spend about s25. 900 for the
rcmodelmg of tho present building on
that site. which IS known az the White
Factory Buildn. hut the bids for the
work have becn found TO be SO high
that the architect sent them on to New
York city without considering any
award OF contract The building If tho
alterations and additions are made. will
DO % bv % feet, three stories high and
with n bascmont. The building viii be
OF brick
Edgar Candy May. architect has re-
cei,od bids for several buildings -er 7.
ID. Jackev on Grubbs Road. and eN-
poets TO have the contract awarded next
week. The buildings viii be dairy
barn. garage and stable. the buildings Ca
be on the Colonial style OF architecture
and 30 match other buildings which have
already been erected there.
The same architect has completed
plans for the building for James Grand
Ter IN West Ninth street. lie expects
70 put the plans and specifications out
next week for estimates. The build.
ing viii be OF Colonial style and be built
Of brick. marble and plaster.
Mr.. MAY viii also send out plant
and specifications to Newark and Elk
ton contractors for estimates on som'
stables TO be erected Tor unnamed
parties at Sinecrlv. Nd.
Mr.. May announced yesterday thai
early the coming week he viii senf
out plans for the mission 20 be erect
ed al Elm and Franklin streets by th'
Wilmington Baptist Mission Society
The plans will probably go to the con
tractors Wednesday and estimates
will be asked for within week from
that date. Ar. May is working o.
plans for two-story apartment
house TO be erected at Marcus Hook
the detail plans not being ready fo
announcements at this time nor I'M
name of the owner.
Architect Wallace Eugene Hance re
ports progress on his plans TOT IN
FIRE house TO be erected at March,
Hook for No. ] Fire Company. IN
home VIII cost approximately $1,000,
will be two stories high and VIII b
of brick and terra Gotta construction
The building will be sixty-nve D
forty feet.
The same architect is completin
nians for a $4,000 schoolhouse TO D
erected at Laurel. Del. The buildinl
which VII be 100 by So feet Will b
OF brick and concrete construction.
Mr.. Hance has completed plans no
a store and residence for A. komha
At Third and Lincoln streets Oh
building to be two stories high an
twenty by sixty feet.
Some idea of the troubles eApel
fenced by contractors in getting m'
teriais is found in the situation COZ
fronting A. S. Reed and Bros. Con
pany Two years ago last iuesas
the company began work on the aou
ton to the High School, on DelaWal
avenue and the work is not hnish'
vet and will not be. Mr.. heed sa
Yesterday. in time for the opening
school this year. The delay is uue
fbo lack of finishing materials whit
nr4I have NOT ~
arrived from the southern mills. NJ
peed said that he expected the wo
would be done within a year from y
tire no started. but the constant d
laws. first in getting steel and tn
I'm other mater ais and finally in Z
finishing materials has held up {
iob Mir. Reed asked THE ENENlN
JOURNAL TO state that reports
trouble between his firm and the
chiteet who planned the building q
entirely erroneous and that they ha
absolutely no d fferences at al.
In connection with this schS
building work Il might be noted N
prices have taken an awful 5ump SIN
the contract was given Mr. Reed
the building. Brick OF the ordina
kinds has advanced thirty per &c
with fancy brick up fifteen q
twenty per cent. Fabricated steel
IN $50 per cent and can't be bougl
plan glass Is up forty per cent Ia
Der has advanced forty and fifty
cent and finished hardware such
hinges. staples, particularly brol
hinges. are up 200 per cent: rae
ton materials are up sixty-three
cent. and boilers have advanced 70
per cent. Mill work has gone
about 100 per cent
on Monday Mr. Kennedy Will 81
out plans and spec ihcations FOR
bungalow for George r. O'Connor
Relleloute There will be Sc
rooms and a bath. front and T
porches. single roof and will be C
structed OF hollow tile and stucco
Roscoe Cook Tindall has comp
ed plans for alterations and additi
to the tire shop OF y. W. Howell
No. ga Orange street The build
will be three stories high and
be constructed OF brick
At Tie Office Of Leon Wilde CT
ford it was stated yesterday that
Crawford expects James iirons
Dover 10 start work al once on