All official tests and juries have given CORRUGATED BARS first place.
Additional cost per pound more than other types, 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 bonding and permanency of structure ?
Expanded Metal & Corrugated Bar Company
FRISCO BUILDING
ST. LOUIS MISSOURI
pressed brick and terra cotta exterior, composition roof, hardwood and Georgia pine finish, tile floors, steam heat, electric light, and all the latest improvements, at a cost of about $400,000.
Architect A. G. Ferree, 404 West Sixtythird Street, is preparing plans for an apartment building to be erected at the northwest corner of Clarendon Avenue and Crescent Street, for Dr. J. I. McCauley, 1212 Hartford Building, 140 Dearborn Street, who will take figures. It will be three-story, 90x92 feet, have pressed brick and stone fronts, composition roof, golden oak finish, polished oak floors, marble and mosaic entrances and floors. Cost, $50,000.
Architects Postle and Mahler, Marquette Building, 204 Dearborn Street, have completed plans for, and are taking figures on a warehouse to be built at La Salle and Polk Streets for the estate of Edwin Cody. It will be eight-story, 100x50 feet, of mill construction, with brick exterior, stone trimmings, composition roof, steam heat, concrete foundation, and cost $50,000.
Architect Robert T. Newberry, The Temple, 184 La Salle Street, is taking new figures on a warehouse, with stables, to be built at 1706 to 1714 Wabash Avenue, for the occupancy of Rothschild & Co. It was originally to be eight-story, but will now be ten-story, of fireproof construction, have pressed brick front, composition roof, concrete floors, and cost $75,000. It will have foundation and walls substantial enough to support twelve or more stories.
Chisholm, Minn.—Plans by W. R. Parsons & Son Company, architects, of Des
Moines, la., were adopted for the high and grade school building. It will be threestory, pressed brick, cut stone trimmings. Cost, $70,000.
Cincinnati, O.—The College Hill Realty Company, it is reported, has purchased a tract of land in College Hill on which a $100,000 flat building will be erected.
Plans have been prepared by Elzner & Anderson, architects, for a school building for the Board of Education, at a cost of $180,000.
E. H. Dornette, architect, 56 Pickering Building, has prepared plans for a school building to be erected here at a cost of $130,000.
Clarinda, Ia.—The State Board of Control, it is reported, intends erecting a woman’s building at the State Hospital, to cost $75,000.
Danville, Va.—The American Tobacco Company will erect two large brick warehouses here at a cost of $100,000.
Dayton, 0.—The Board of Trustees of the Montgomery County Memorial Association contemplates erecting a memorial hall, to cost $250,000. Charles Winchet, South Canal Street, may be addressed.
Decorah, Ia.—It is reported that at the Lutheran Pastoral Conference, held in Red Wing, Wis.,.the erection of a $60,000 dormitory at the Decorah Seminary was considered.
Denver, Colo.—The Denver Lodge, No. 17, B. P. O. E., will, soon let a contract for the erection of a four-story creamcolored pressed brick building, to cost $125,000.
Dover, N. H.—Hartwell, Richardson & Driver, architects, have prepared plans for a new Masonic hall, to cost $80,000.
Epes, Ala.—It is reported that the Minona Portland Cement Company is planning to construct a cement plant with a daily capacity of 1,000 to 1,200 barrels per day, to cost about $500,000. Contracts not yet let.
Erie, Pa.—The contract for the new Hotel Jerome, it is stated, has been awarded to Henry Shenk Company, of this city. It is to be of steel and brick. Estimated cost, $200,000.
Evansville, Ind.—A new company has been incorporated for the purpose of erecting a $50,000 opera house and hotel, fouistories high. Plans are being prepared and bids will shortly be received. For particulars address George P. Kidd, owner of the Kidd Block.
Fargo, N. D.—Fowler & Smith will erect a theater here to cost $35,000.
Finleyville, Pa.—Architect O. M. Topp, Westinghouse Building, Pittsburgh, is taking bids on one-story brick church for the Roman Catholic congregation, care Rev. Francis Hertzog, Finleyyi.He.
Florence, Ala.—According to reports, a government building will be erected here. Cost, $50,000.
Flushing, L. I., N. Y.—W. W. Befhnell, it is stated, intends erecting on Broadway and Union Street, a three-story brick office building, to cost $55,000.
Fort Smith, Ark.—W. R. Parsons & Son Company, architects of Des Moines, Ia., have been commissioned to prépayé