Evening journal., 1917-02-10
BUILDING ACTIVITY
Gets SET BACK
Cold Weather Puts Crimp in
All Operations Of
Past Week
ARCHITECTS REPORT
MANY PLANS READY

tremeiy cold weather cffectually pre-
venting almost any sort OF activity
out Of doors except on occasion and
Interfering also with interior
A number OF contractors, however,
were able 20 get eome work done and
the architects have been busy but
without much to give out because
plans are not yet ready.
II is expected the erection or the
steel work on the new building be-
ing erected for the Wilmington
Leather Company will be finished in
another week. This portion OF the
work would have been finished this
week but for the cold and unless the
unexpected happens the steel will
have been put into place by the end
OF next week.
More than 1000 tons OF structural
steel have TO be put up. Everything
connected with the construction of
Sthis big building now is reported
ready. structural steel, brick, hollow
tile. steel sash, glass and everything
connected with the construction is
ready to put into place. Nothing but
the extremely cold weather now Is
offering any delay &c is said, and the
work will be rushed as soon as II 10
possible.
The structure is 200 feet by 100 feet
IN ground area and six stories high.
The steel sash, which IS ready for
placing. IS furnished by the Detroit
Steel Products Co. Even the lumber
"a ION the Job" John J. Kennedy
IS the architect.
Interior decorators are putting fin
fishing touches on the house OF Mrs.
Victor DUPONT at Guyencourt. II Is
III hn az rlH
nv March % and the building be
ready for occupancy.
In the house OF Mrs. Joseph A.
Bowe, at Pennsylvania avenue and
Rodney streets. tho architect IS de-
signing NANTES, atairways, hreplaces
pnd other Interior details. The plas-
fering contractors will finish their
work in about o week. G. J. Dough
erty Is the general contractor.
John u. Healy & Sons, Inc, have
finished the work on the house OF w.
q. Oualo at Delaware and Riyerview
avenues and work on the new garage
will be started soon. Work on the
residence of William M. Written, Jr.,
at Seventeenth street and Greenhill
avenue will be started Monday. Time
FOR receiving bids on the new Office
building for the New Castle Leather
Company, has been extended TO Fri.
day February %.
Charles II. Tindall g. Son report
the plumbers working az Twelfth and
Market streets on the new apartment
house there. At the house OF Ciar
ence McCaullcy. the gables are being
put up and work Is being rushed so
that ID Is expected the building will
be completed before the apartment
house
George S. Charles G Son are work
ing on the addition to the building
OF the Electric Hose a Rubber Co.
at Twelfth and Dure streets. although
this work has been greatly delayed by
the cold weather. Carpenters are
working on the house of Eugene
Doughten at Oak Grove.
Cold weather has held up work on
the new parish house being erected
for ST. Andrews Episcopal Church.
The structural steel is now practi-
cally all In place. The work IS being
done hy William ID, Haddock & Co.
The cold weather has interfered with
work also on the new buildings OF the
Pennsgrove Pier Company at Penns-
grove. but the work Is being carried
on when possible
Work of remOdeling the house OF
uAAAl. " AAANN'M nN ANrNNAN 81 UAW
Eressinp The new work, which I'm
cludes extensive additions TO the
house will cost about $4,000 10 will
require about two weeks more, IL Is
reported, TO complete work on the
new garage for tho Delaware Motor
Sales Company at Eleventh and kiui
streets.
A. S. Reed g. Brother Sons Co. re
nortB the work at the High SchOO
building ready for piastering This
work has been held up by the cole
weather At tho laboratory being
erected for Francis ]. DUPONT on th'
Miller Road. the workmen are putting
IN the sash, glass and the like. The
plumbers and the electricians are alsC
ct work and the plastering is beinl
finished.
Estimates are being prepared foi
extensive alterations TO the property
Of Garrett Miller g. Co.. az Fourth and
Orange streets. The floors are to be
1earranged, layatories put in and a
place fixed for the Offices.
Wallace ETAene Hance, architect,
reports opening OF bids on Tuesday,
evening ior construction OF a new
ssnooi building at Rockdale, Pa, and
r,s.olng OF the general contract to
efr,,e.a brothers, OF Media, Pa. The
fhe - Is TO be six-room school
e euse' 70 cost about S27 600 The CON-
80. PROBABLY will be an,,ro,-oS =.
.no meeting OF the school 1,e,a.s a.
next wednesday, and vvo,,. "o ..,,i on
ing. 'ionoay morn
Drawings are being made Co..
school building, to be constr,o,as le W !.
Calena. Nd, and it is expectsS a. at
viii be ready for bids i'm sSo,..
month. Tho structure will cost sbo,,
100000. ''0u
The new school building. to h
erected at Linwood, which was I
have been an eight-room school wi
be enlarged to include a handson
auditorium, the entire structure
cost about $4,000. Mr.. Hance
7rawing plans and specifications, al
Expects to have these ready for bi,
about the first Of March. The stru
lure will be OF brick. two stories hig
aud with many modern features.
Contractors now are putting on n
finish and plaster of the new bull
Ing being erected for Max Breuer.
Fourth and Orange streets. al
should have the building ready for o
rupancy by March IS, II is reporte
Tho new school building at Marcl
Hook is being finished up
fiblons & Moore have sold for W
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