El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-26

home by the chamber OF com urerce
: has been built a detached Dorm Gory.
| the building being 30 by II feet II IS
! Blastered. with good floor, the hotal
cost being $500, which amount the
managers Of the home have been an
- able to pay fully as yet The dorm
toy Is one of several buildings %
Z 'ated on four lots recently fenced in,
lere being also play house, isolatt on
ID and Isolation hospital, and hou Sc
am lot for chickens, all Incorporated
VITA In the four new lots.
SA steIy ST. Patrick's Cathedral
The dedication on Thanksgiving
day, 1qZ5 Of St Patrick's cathedral 9,
nor fhesfsA corner of Mesa and Arizona,
IA ks ffne completion OF the finest
: cliuErh buiA1ing in the southwest The,
LsIifhcs cost $500 Another fine
Eehureh blnRHnz added to FL PasO's
J tie yezr is that OF the Asbury Meth
fodist church, Luna and Huecp streets
Reconstructed at an expenditure OF
Baadstte & Cropper. have coppAeted
! an $4,000 store room on West Texas
street for Gus Becker, the building
4 being Of brick and concrete, 81 Dy l-O
feet The same contractors completed
tesrlier in the year a garage at Mon
Esnai and Mesa for Mrs. F. NJ. Be II,
| .sentract price being $4,000 TNe
I building Is now occupied by the Over
! latRd Automo5ile agency Another
Z
| Montana and Campbell for the James
/ I. 1ferrt COMPANY cost $500. while a
4 third garage on Montana street Gov
hsrnhoent hill. was built by the firm
The stone & Webster Co. has com
krAetef an addition at the city power
ipAlnt at Fourth and Santa Fe and
me same company is now engaged
| n Installing a 500 horsepower boiler
FCompiet7on Of the contract will re-
i d7lirs several weeks work The cost
tof building, boiler and other improve
rnents VIII total about S75,000-
a modern cold storage erected by
the FL Pzso Ice and Refrigerator com
! paurv on Campbell street, between
| Kills and Texas. by the company
| construction force cost the builders
500 Do-
An alteration contract OF note IS
! lat being executed by contractor W.
Ivy. Creek for the Primm Cigar com
! many N zG--9 S-n Antonio street The
three. story brick building IS being
entirely remodeled. furnishing bust
lar ard lending a pleasant appearance
from the street The alteration viii
cost ABOUT $4,000.
New State School Of Mines.
I New structures for the Texas State
School Of Mines, north OF Mundy
/ Heights. are almost completed, and
/ il IS row but the question OF but a
few weeks until all buildings will
be occupied There is a dormitory
building and a main class building.
each OF three stories. chemistry
! laboratory OF two stories and a power
house frost & frost architects. have
so drawn the plans under direction Of
practical mining men ana state min
ing experts that there viii be abso-
I lute1y no waste space in any Of the
buildings. The style OF architecture
has been borrowed from Asiatic
styles Of Thibet, being type not
0Ffarr found America Striking
I characteristics and these at once no.
ticeable are broad caves and peculiar
wall structure. both OF which have
Z been admirably executed by Y. z.
New Buildings for School for Girls.
New buildings for the Fl Paso
school for Girls have also been com
pleted and are being occupied in the
: Government. Hill addition The build
( ings erected cost S65,000. The Smell
ter county school on Courchesne
7 street was completed at cost OF
s25.000 during the early fall
a $4,000 business block, TO be oe-
/ cupied by the H g. Snyder market, is
! now being constructed at sos Mesa
4 street by Y. + Ware The building,
| which is modern fireproof, viii be
/ completed about March l. Contrac-
I tor Ware has also completed a 5000
: ffreproof addition TO the Caples build
ing. During the early part OF 1917
the same builder finished a mill build
ing for the Southwestern Planning MILL
owned by J. Mack Crawford, at 1920
I East Missouri. the cost being $4,000:
also a warehouse at Lee and Missouri.
costing $4,000. for account Of V =.
Ware and now occupied by r c Sem
pie.
An alteration for the West Texas
Fuel company at Dallas and Fassett
streets, costing $1,000, has been COM
pleted by Jolly & Morris. The same
lirm did the woodwork on the new
elevator building for the Community
Milling company, the total cost Of
which Wa So luH. other alterations
by the firm during the year was a
new front for the Bryan Brothers
store, "a Oregon and Texas. costing
$500, and repair OF the Angelus hotel,
I Main and Mesa al a est Of 5000, fol-
{ lowing a fire at the Angelus.
Harvey P Jackson, superintendent
{ Of city water works, had constructed
I by Jolly & Morris at 1906 Texas
/ street a warehouse and garage at a
cost Of $4,000. The building is oceu-
pied by the Fl PasO Radiator COM
pany.
An $500 store house and office
I building was erected for the Fl Paso
l Bitulithic company at Piedras and
Rosa by Jolly & Morris For r p.
I Stevens the same firm built a store
/ and office building costing $500 ut
I Piedras and Alameda. DR.. George D.
/ Kendall is the owner OF 2 building
/ erected by Holly & Morris at Five
I Points, on Pledras street, the cost
I being $1,000.
Big Warehouse Completed.
One Of the largest warehouses to
! be erected during the year is that Of
I the International Commission COM
pany. completed shortly before tie
t new year, at a cost OF $4,000, by T.
! T. Mckee, H NJ Beutel architect. The
] building is Of concrete, located at Sec
I ond and Chihuahua. The Milwaukee
/ Beer company now occupies a second
I warehouse built by the same con-
1 tractor for the late Richard Il
] Thorne, the price OF construction be-
] ing s35Qo. The Garden theater built
I for Mitchell & Bacon, at East Boule-
/ ward and Ange. at a cost Of $500, is
/ another completion by r Z. Mckee
r. E Mckee reports extensive re-
pair and alter alton work during the
year, one Of the larger Jobs of which
/ uras the remodelfnc Of the numnir..