Evening journal., 1917-01-20
QUIET CONDITIONS
IN BUILDING Lines
No Great Activity Shown
By Contractors But Ar
chitectS Are Busy
TRAP SHOOTERS CLUB
tTOHAVE FINE BUILDING

quiet curing lilt pclcb McNNt esN
TO builders and contractors here, cold
weather being given as reason for
slowness In construction work ana
architects declaring they are BUSY
drawing up new plans. NO new con
tracts have been awarded during. the
week, the only proposition on when
bids were received being. for the cree
ton Of a new building for the Roth I
acl1er Rubber Company, contracts for
which will be awarded shortly. A. ,. /
Reed and Brother Sons Company are
said to be the lowest bidders.
The new building will be erected on /
the site of the old structure at No. u
Shipley street and will be Is feet by
90 feet, two stories high, brick, stone
steel and daylight construction. The
main floor will be occupied by sales
and display rooms and the second
floor, which is set back 30 feet from
the front line of the building, will be
used for offices. Modern plumbing
will be installed and the indirect sys-
tenn Of electric lighting used. j. j.
Kennedy is the architect. Bids were
received Wednesday, ia
Bids were received yesterday
the construction Of a new clubhto,e !
FOR the Wilmington Trapshooters' Az
with every facility for entertaining
sportsmen, both men and women.
Locker and retiring rooms for men
and women and a huge main hall IN
the form of a hunting lodge will be
the main features. The structure Will
be Of frame construction with hollow
tile walls and slate roof. It will be
one story in height and will contain
O basement.
Bids on the construction Of the new
dwelling for William NJ. Written, Jr.,
at Seventeenth street above Greenhill
avenue, are due Monday. Brown and
Whiteside are the architects. The
building is to be two stories high with
a peaked roof, brick construction, Co
lonial style. Dormer windows and the
regulation Colonial doors will be used
throughout the building. The deep
red brick used will be furnished by
Sayre and Fisher. The structure will
contain twlve rooms and three baths.
All the modern conveniences, such as
electric lights, steam heat and the
like, will be installed
Charles H. Tindall and Sons are
continuing work on the house of
Thomas McCaulley, at WOOdlawn ave-
nue. and Seventeenth street and have
the structure ready for the brick lay
ers. The building is two stories high
with high peaked roof and will con-
tain about nine rooms and two baths
The second floor jOists are now in po-
sition. Edward Candy May is the ar
chitect. Work also is progressing on
the new apartment building at the
corner of Twelfth and Market streets
FOR the Misses A. L. and f. NJ. Craw-
ford, the building now being ready foi
the roof.
George s. Charles, contractor, is
erecting three houses at Fourteenth
and Claymont streets, where the tirs'
floor jOists are up and another house
at Seventh and ClaymOnt streets, FOL
John Fielding, work on which has JUS
been started. This latter structure
will contain nine rooms, will be tire,
stories high, Of brick with slate roof
The cellar walls now are up on thu
building. The machine shop BENZ
constructed for the Electric Hose ant
Rubber Company at Twelfth and Dur
streets is well under way. The struc
ture is a one-story shop Of brick AM
concrete Of the usual machine shol
construction.
Six houses are now just being I'm
ished for the Almond Company
builders, at Vandever avenue and La
motto street and plans are under wa
for construction Of a number OF gan
ages at Nineteenth street betwee
Riverview and Greenhill avenues
Robert King, Ralph Bailey an
Charles Ten Weeges being among tn
owners. They are double garagesa-
owners. The houses for these thre
owners. are all completed except f.
the cement floors. They are doub
garages, to contain two cars each.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made
complete the interior finish of Il
house being erected for Euger
Doughten at Oak Grove, near III
mere. This structure is Of eigl
rooms, brick, with shingle roof.
The building Of the Speakman Su
sly and Pipe Company on Tatni
Street between Eighth and Min
streets, is nearly completed, interi
partitions now being put in place al
the cement floor Of the basement ha
ing been completed. The work h
been done by John E. Healy and Sor
Inc.
Work on the new parish house a
dition to the St. Andrews Church
progressing rapidly and w. ID. Ha
dock and Company, the contractor
are bending every energy to gettl
the work closed in before the raj
season commences. Inc steer lIai
now is nearly in place and gre
changes in the appearance Of I
structure are promised within I
next week unless the weather is
bad to carry on the work.
Work on the three-story addlti
TO the rear of c. Edgar Deerin
store on Shipley street is now nea
completed outside, the copper.
windows and other outside work
ing finished up. Work on the addit
TO the old Bacon restaurant proper
which extends on Shipley street,
been started in earnest after havl
been delayed greatly on account
bad weather. Most Of the early W.
was bricklaying, which could not
carried on effectively in wet
snowy weather.
Haddock and Company are estim
ing on plans of the DUPONT Pow
Company for a new clubhouse at {
news Point. The structure will c
tain bowling alley and other fe
ures Of a clubhouse. Bids are
nv