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 ?
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FRISCO BUILDING ******* ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
Kissimmee, Fla.—The Kissimmee Hotel and Improvement Company is reported incorporated with a capital of $50,000, for the purpose of erecting a hotel.
Knoxville, Tenn.—The Knoxville Banking Company will erect a modern office building on the southeast corner of Gay Street and Clinch Avenue. Estimated cost. $100,000. W. H. Gass, Joseph Knaff and John W. Hope are interested.
Richards, McCarty & Bulford, it is stated, are drawing plans for bank and office building to be erected by the Knoxville Banking Company; building to be ten stories; concrete foundation; first story of stone; the remaining stories, with the exception of the top, of light-colored face brick, and the tenth story of terra-cotta.
Lima, O.—Chas. M. Eddison, of Toledo, is reported interested in the erection of a $50,000 theatre here.
Little Rock, Ark.—Reports state that a Carnegie library is to be erected here; cost, $100,000. W. E. Lenon, T. M. Mehaffy and H. F. Auten are members of committee.
Long Beach, Cal.—The United Building Company, it is stated, intends erecting three apartment-houses, one to be at Ocean and Lime Avenues, to cost $80,000 and to be three stories high, and one at 113 Cedar Street, to cost $150,000 and be five stories high, and one at Magnolia and Ocean Avenues.
Los Angeles, Cal.—It is stated that plans have been prepared by Architects Parkinson & Bergstrom, 702 Laughlin Building, for an addition to the Alexandria Hotel. Cost, $600,000.
Marlboro, Mass.—The Marlboro-Hudson
Gaslight Company is reported to have decided to erect an office building here.
Marshalltown, Ia.—F. R. Benedict, it is reported, will erect a four-story building on Main Street.
Mason City, III.—A new cement plant, it is said, will be erected by the Leigh Cement Company, of Allentown, Pa. Cost, about $1,500,000.
Maysville, Tenn.—The County Court, it is stated, has authorized the Court-House Committee to accept the plans prepared by Baumann Bros., of Knoxville, for the courthouse, which is to be erected at a cost of about $50,000.
Memphis, Tenn.—The Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Honor are considering the erection of a building to cost $75,000.
Milwaukee, Wis.—M. G. Gilpatrick is reported to have secured a permit to remodel the building on Third Street into a fireproof hotel, the cost to be $60,000.
Leenhouts & Guthrie, architects, 102 Wisconsin Street, are receiving figures on the $80,000 church for Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal congregation, to be erected at Grand Avenue and Tenth Streets.
Reports state that the Consolidated Telephone Company, of Buffalo, N. Y., will build four telephone exchanges here at a cost of $300,000.
The remodeling of the present buildings at the prison at a cost of $150,000, or the erection of an entire new prison at an estimated cost of $475,000, is reported under consideration.
New York, N. Y.—The building of an elephant house in the Zoological Park, 14OX
78 feet, to cost $200,000, is reported under consideration.
Reports state that plans have been filed for a one-story brick chapel at Washington Bridge, 174th Street, Undercliff and Aqueduct Avenues, for Academy of the Sacred Heart, cost $65,000. T. H. Poole & Co., architects.
Architects Clinton & Russell, 32 Nassau Street, it is stated, have prepared plans for a new office-building at 30-34 West Thirtysecond Street for W. and J. Wanger, 10 Wall Street, New York. Estimated cost, $1,000,000.
It is reported that a new twelve-story building, 36x60 feet, will be erected by the Hudson Realty Company at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street. Estimated cost, $125,000.
The Mayor has signed the ordinance authorizing the issuing of $5,000,000 bonds to provide for the construction of new and improving the present schools.
Architect John E. Scharsmith, 500 Fifth Avenue, has plans for a six-story brick and stone office building at St. Nicholas Avenue and 180th Street for Moersch & Willie, at a cost of $125,000.
It is stated that Robert T. Lyons, 31 Union Square, owner and architect, will build a six-story high-class apartmenthouse, 71.11x90.11 feet, at the southeast .corner of Riverside Drive and Ninetyseventh Street, to cost about $200,000. No building contracts have been issued.
According to reports estimates are wanted for excavations and rock-blasting by Architect Herrmann Horenburger, 682 East jjgth Street, for the new six-story piano