Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-09
SPENT MORE THAN
$16,OOO,OOO FOR
UPBULDNG CITY
Inspector Grove Reports OPP
erations of Eleven Years to
Council
NEAR 2 MILLION IN 1916
Only Three Other Years Since
1906 Out-topped Twelve
Months Just Closed

Harrisburg expended more than
$16,OO0,e0O - 6.SSS,441 to be ex-
act - in new building operations
during the past eleven years.
That nice round sum, by the way
was put into some 3,671 buildings, or
at least permits for the erection OF
that many structures were issued:
These interesting figures on Har-
risburg as a building city are contain
ed in the annual report for 1916 OF
Building Inspector James II. Grove,
which was submitted to-day to City
Council.
Prepared by Joseph w. Ibach, chief
clerk to Mr.. Grove, the report as sub
mitted to the commissioners to-day
is a gem of it's kind from the briefly
typed statement of the city's activity
during the past twelve months to the
big sheet of statistics that cover In
detail not only the variety, cost. ma
terial, etc, of every building but the
detail of expenditure down to the
last cent, by months, by wards and
by years from 1906 to 1916 inclusive.
The Records
What was expended in new bulld-
ing operations month by month dur
ing the past year and year by year
during the last eleven years, has been
stated in the Telegraph, although 1t
won't be amiss, perhaps, to mention
again that just 367 permits were
issued in the period ending December
81, 1915, involving an outlay OF ST.
SSO,923. September was the record
a million, mind you - was expended
in that month alone. February was
the short month, as SS1, ,46O was the
months building bill.
Erection of the great warehouse
and freight distributing station of the
Pennsylvania railroad on South Sec
ond street at an expenditure of close
to 100000 boosted the Second ward
into first place among the thirteen
with a grand total of $445.05O. The
Tenth was second with s325,660 and
the Ninth was third with S3l9,306.
The tail-ender was the First, which
only built s10,025 worth.
Only Three Bigger
OF the nearly s2.00O,000 which was
expended during the past year, just
$631, ,S25 was put into new dwellings,
1892, ,020 in other types of new build
ings. S12S,440 in additions, and $751;
62S in remodeling. Only three other
years - 1909 with S2,120,S25, 1907
with s1,s74,14S, and 1906 with ST.
S59,S40 - out-topped 1915.
In his typed statement of the years
operations Building Inspector Grove
calls attention to the following big
new buildings of a business, religious,
educational and public purposes:
The New Structures
Addition to the Sylvan Heights
Orphanage. st. Lawrence German
Catholic church and parochial school,
Messiah Lutheran, Christian Scien-
tist, and Covenant Presbyterian
church (addition), Chisuk Emuna
synagogue, T. j. Dunn cigar factory,
j. Q. and Edwin Jennings, shirt fac
tory, Hershey Creamery and Penn
sylvania Milk Products company, the
DIR. Charles c. Cocklin garage, the
keystone bank, the D. P. and s..
Pennsylvania railroad, and Capital
City Junk company warehouses, the
e. Ross Boas, the ]. L. L. Kuhn and
Jacob Tausig's sons, business build
ings.
The city netted just S1,000.50 in
fees for building permits and s115.55
for billboard fees.