South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-14
SOUTH BEND CAIN
DOUBLE AVE RACE
This City Shows 48 Per Cent
Increase While Average for
County Is But u.

South Bends building gain dur
ing 1916 as was shown in the yearly
report Of Building Commissioner
Perkins and presented 10 the board
OF public works in more than
double the average of the gain in
the country at large Basis statistics
are taken from the annual report Of
the American Contractors.
The average gain in the "a cities
y hose reports are tabulated, has
been 26 per cent. while the gain in
this city has been IS per cent. With
the single exception Of Fort Wayne.
South Bend has the largest gain Of
any city I'm Indiana. Indianapolis
has done 26 per cent more building
than in 1915. and Terre Haute is
ranked third with a "a per cent
gain.
II is 10 South Bends credit to
take the whole country into con
sideration for she gain registered
locally in 18th in the list. This
takes into account those cities that
growth during the last year in the
way of booms and similar mutations.
\ good example OF this condition is
81 the case o. Duluth. Mimi This
city stands at the head OF the list
with gain of 277 per cent in its
building during the year. Other
cities among them Akron and Can
ton and SprinEheld have shown
similar gains due 10 similar circum-
stances.
Building during the year has
shown a marked favoritism to the
western part Of the country Only
two cities among those listed. Will
mingtou. Del. and Hoboken, y. J..
have shown gains above that Of
, outh Bend The development of
the newer parts OF the country has
become an established fact
The west. as represented by Taco
ma Wash. Wichita. Kans., San
Jose and Sacramento, Calf. Sioux
city and Duluth, Mimi, and Colo
rad. Springs. Colo. has come 10 the
front With a rush. In the east the
only really noteworthy gain has
been in Hoboken, y. J., and this
mas been very largely due to the
t1 the building of a new harbor
there TOR the convenience of hand
ling the great ocean traffic of New
York
CHANGING back over the years
work. July stands as the shining
planet in heaven OF stars our
ing this month the building gain
FOR the whole country advanced to
50 percent. In many years this is
the first in which a gain has been
noted every month even though in
September IL was only / percent
OF the "a cities listed in the an
D. ai report only 90 show losses in
tine building trade and these losses
have been only moderate. The
Ereatest loss has been tied by two
cities. the Borough of Bronx and
lE Spokane, Wash All other losses
lave been for percentages consider
ably less
During this last week building
ourrtaions locally have been on
staudstil. a gain is 70 be noted
over last week when but three per-
Elits for total OF $500 were grant
ed hut still the week business Is
FAR below the average. seven per
mits have been taken out for a to-
tal of $f.S67 IL would OF course.
he folly. and totally misleading to
compare these figures as typical OF
anything OF Importance They are
but records of expected slack times
I'm the building trade
V. Strzylecki. 445 $. Berlin St.
dwelling. $3.50.
W. Senkowski. lis y. Adams St.
addition, 1855
American Telephone Co. NcKin-
ley < Arthur. testing house s1s7.
Michigan Avenue Lumber ward.
1912 Lincoln way w. addition.
$3.50.
William Somers. 1891 ". Wash
ington av.. addition, $4,000.
A. VI. Todd, 201 f. Ohio st. addi-
ton. S335.
Frank Matson. us y Eddy St.
addition and furnace, $3.50.