All official tests and juries have given CORRUGATED BARS first place.
Additional cost per pound more than other tvpes, yes, but A FRACTION OF ONE PERCENT. ONLY ON TOTAL COST OF STRUCTURE.
Why take chances with inferior forms of reinforcement when the use of CORRUGATED BARS insures perfect bondingand permanency of structure ?
Expanded Metal & Corrugated Bar Company
FRISCO BUILDING ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
show three-story building, measuring 74x136 feet, to have front of pressed brick with stone trimming, hardwood finish and floors, hot air heating, electric wiring, etc. Cost, $50,000.
Architects Burnham & Co. are taking bids on a warehouse to be built on Michigan Street between Kingsbury and Orleans Street, for the John Mohr Boiler Works, 42 Illinois Street. It will be ten-story, 100x92 feet, of fireproof construction, have cut stone and terra-cotta exterior, composition roof, galvanized iron globe ventilators on roof, and cost $100,000.
The Oliver Typewriter Company, it is stated, has secured a site on Dearborn Street, on, which it is proposed erecting a five-story fireproof building, to cost $150,000.
It is reported that new buildings to cost $58,000 are contemplated at the Lake Forest University.
F. V. Newell, 78 La Salle Street, is preparing plans for an apartment house, to be built at Evanston Avenue and Crescent Place, for E. L. Heagstedt. It will be three stories, pressed brick and stone fronts, and cost $80,000.
The George A. Fuller Company, Marquette Building, it is stated, has secured the contract to erect a ten-story building on Franklin and Congress Streets, for Kohn Bros., at a cost of $250,000.
A new theatre is to be erected on Clark Street, just south of the Grace Hotel, at a cost of $150,000. The building will be 75x xoo feet.
Cincinnati, O.—The management of the Munro Hotel, it is stated, intends making
improvements to the hotel which will cost about $50,000.
Plans have been accepted by the Empire Circuit Company for the erection of a theatre at 142-48 West Madison Street, to cost $125,000. S. N. Crowen, 85 Dearborn Street, is architect.
Cleveland, O.—The members of St. Stanislaus R. C. Church, it is stated, intend erecting a $60,000 school at Forman Avenue S. E. and East Fifty-eighth Street.
Bids will be received until November 28 by the Board of Trustees, Cleveland State Hospital (Dr. A. B. Howard, Secretary) for furnishing material and erecting an industrial building at the Cleveland State Hospital. Frank L. Packard, architect, Hayden Building, Columbus.
Architects Blackall & Page, 1135 Schofield Building, are preparing plans for the new Forester’s Temple, to be erected on East Fifty-fifth Street, near Euclid Avenue. It will be six stories, 90x106 feet, constructed of reinforced concrete and steel. Cost, $130,000.
Architect W. B. Mead, Garfield Building, it is stated, his prepared plans for the Mittleberger School, to be built off Euclid Heights. It will- have steam heat, four stories, and cost $60,000.
Architect Milton Dyer, 801 Cuyahoga Building, is preparing plans for a new Presbyterian church, to be erected at Wade Park and Madison Avenue. Cost, $50,000.
Plans are on foot, it is reported, looking toward the erection of a new hospital in this city, to cost $1,000,000.
Reports state that plans for the new
Foresters’ Temple to be erected on East Fifty-fifth Street, near Euclid Avenue, have been prepared by Architects Blackall & Page. The building will be six stories high, of reinforced concrete and steel construction, with pressed brick facing.
The Eldridge & Higgins Company, it is stated, is arranging to erect a nine-story business building.
Columbia, S. C.—D. G. Zregler, 800 National Loan & Exchange Bank Building, it is stated, proposes to erect a cement block manufacturing plant here at a cost of about $50,000.
Columbus, O.—T. L. Calvert, Secretary State Board of Agriculture, writes that all bids opened on October 29 for erecting the amphitheatre on the State Fair Grounds have been rejected as being too high, and new bids will be received. Architects, Linthwaite & Holbrook, State and High Streets.
Plans have been prepared for the $100,000 Military Hospital, to be erected on the Columbus Barracks. The building is to be brick with stone trimmings and slate roof.
Cordele, Ga.—Bids will be received by S. W. Coney, ordinary, about January I for the erection of a two-story court house and jail for Crisp County. Cost, $80,000. Plans are being prepared by Architects Lockwood Bros., Columbus Investment Building, Columbus, Ga.
Duluth, Minn.—Architect J. A. Wagenstein, 401 Providence Building, will prepare plans for the erection of a new court house. Estimated cost, $500,000.
The Duluth Elks propose to erect a club
house to cost $120,000. It will be seven