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jjfo HUNDRED HOUSES.
Over i Million anil a Half in
New Buildings.
|[[ WAY SAVANNAH GROWS.
Than Haifa Million In Dwellings.
Manufacturing Enterprises Develop
' 4 Q u ‘ ir! - or of 11 bullion ln Ch urch
Improvements in the Last Twelve
lh2 - The Total Invested in Build
),<r Enterprises $ 1 ,G3G,000-New
Building Projected.
Two new buildings a day.
T6at ,3 the rate at which Savannah is
owing. The total number of buildings
froct-jd in the last twelve months is closo to
L The estimated value of these im
provements is $1,030,225. The residence
improvement* alone foot up approximately
$700,000.
The year was a remarkable one in the
•cavity of the building industry and the
coming rear promises to show still greater
Thegreatest amount of building last year
was in dwellings. While there will
hardly I* falling off in that
class of buildings next year, there prom
ts to boa big increase in the number of
commercial buildings.
The Provident Assurance Society’s build
ice at Drayton and Bryan streets will be
wan about March 1. It will be six or
leven stories high, of granite and brick,
aad will cost at least $125,000.
The government building will be begun
within the next few months. It will be
three stories high, of granite and pressed
brick, and will cover the entire block from
Bull to Whitaker and President to York
streets. It will cost S3OO.
The Schwarz building, at Bull and York
rtrpets, was completed last year at a cost of
>40,000,000.
The Lovell buildings, on Broughton street
tear Montgomery, which are now nearing
completion, will cost $15,000.
Salomon Cohen probably did more build
ing than any other single individual in the
city, putting $58,000 in dwellings.
He ereoted one block of five houses on
Gaston street at a coat of $20,000, nine
Puses on Waldburg street for $13,000,
twenty-six houses on Duffy street for $13.-
000, six houses on Henry street for $3,000,*
eight houses on Cuyler street for SO,OOO,
two houses on Sheftall street for $2,000,
and two houses on Russell street for SI,OOO.
The pla; s for the remodeling of the board
o! trade building are now in the hands or
Architect Eichberg. The center of the
building will be run up two stories and the
wings one story, the old postoffico corner
let down to the level of the street and fitted
up for a bank office, the whole interior re
modeled and the building fitted up with
all modern improvements, and elevators
put m running from top to bottom.
Work is now progressing upon tho new
school building on Henry street, betweeu
Whitaker and Barnard. The building is
complete to the first floor. The building
will front 140 feet on Henry street, with a
depth of 74 feet. The center will be three
stories and the wings two stories each.
The building will be of pressed brick and
granite with terra ootta trimmings, and
will cost when completed about $45,000. It
is expected to complete it in January.
The remodeling of the Savannah theater
will he one of the improvements of the com
ing year. The plans call for almost an
entire reconstruction of the building, and
will involve an outlay of between 540,000
and $50,000.
New Manufactories.
There have been several additions to the
manufactories of the city within the last
year.
The Pulaski knitting mills have begun
operations on William street near West
Broad at an expenditure of about $25,030 for
machinery and other accessions.
The Crystal Ice Company’s plant near the
Central railroad depot was completed in
time this summer to materially reduce the
price of Ice. The cost of the plant ajid
machinery was about $35,000.
The Savannah Brewing Company, be
sides other improvements, put in an SIB,OOO
ice machine this spring, and there will be
money in the Ice business. John H. Cava
naugh will erect a 00-ton ice plant at the
foot of West Broad aud River streets, and
the Gorrie ice company will resume inde
pendent operations in January.
J. W. Tynan has just completed a ma
chine and pattern shop, 40x80, two-stories
high, at the corner of West Broad and In
dian stree.s, costing about SIO,OOO.
The Allen variety works, manufacturing
house finishing material, has been recently
established in the southern portion of the
city near the Belt line power house, at a
cost of about $12,000.
J. J. McDcnough & Cos. have built au ad
dition to their mill at a cost of $5,000.
The Del,a\ eigne Refrigerating Machine
Company of New York is erecting a plant
at Indian and Water streets, which will
cost about $25,000.
George Ebberwein has built a large soda
water factory on Charlton street, betweon
est Broad and Montgomery, at a cost of
about $5,000.
J. C. Hartfelder & Son have established
8 ni *ll, sash, door and blind factory
3tree l- near the Savannah, Florida
$6 000 eStern raiiroad ’ at a “St of about
The Pintsch Gas Company has put in a
Plant at the old Mutual (las Light C- m
?, a,1 T 3 works, on East Broad street, at a
cost of about SB,OOO.
exlst fng planing mills, machine shops
factories have made many improve
mente and added many thousand doliaro’
worth of machines.
reoonfiJ >er^ected re Kindler Company,
ntljr or S amze d. expects to get to work
this year with a capital of $25,000.
Jlfin non .. batl y expects to build a
veer °i!L otto ,U ,aotor y at Southover next
rn-nt o ßn xr mak . 8 nume rous other improve
m Savannah Ufa ° tUring “ 010 lacrettSo
Church Improvements.
’|)rlvd nCreaSe ’ D oburoh property has been
b ! d * d ‘og of the Independent Presby
fclv which was begun eonsidera
,i, ,i y <vlr ago and which is almost an
the oue burned in the
Ji er ht was completed this sum
8t a 0031 °f $145,000. It is the hand.
Brciia‘ion UrCb in tbe °ity- The con
•jwol buildffiTs^m 0 rebuild ite Bunday
tinw ? I'.i 'Z oU3ton street Methodist church
from thf ?. almost a complete building
facL jo 1 ” Uis a brick building?
on iTT fitr6ot . and running back
work it; u f ton , and is a splendid piece of
Over iin riv. h ? ped 10 dedicate it this fail,
npoa it ana * alresd y been expended
'■•sttssasa ——
Its building#!? T? 11 8000 be K in w ork upon
Bion on hL* new St. Michael's mis
erected w <ji nry , 8t r eet - The building to be
TbeuSL° OSt ? bout 1.500-
coming °burch will begin work this
lot at tne n. JIT 0D ? mission church upon its
Streets whioJ 16 Abercorn and Anderson
-Abolit c ,° 8t “bout $3,000. .
tbe Cathedi^uhr. 1 ? b u improvements at
commence t d °bn the Baptist will
clocks and-him 0 . B ?, ircs w* ll be erected,
terior frescoos 518 i* 3 P ut in, the entire in-
The cost crftv 8 ? d tbe exterior plastered,
tween $35 <w, ‘p’Proveraente will be be
build a small A?* 1 * 8 chur ch has decided to
the sriu-.L w - s . UrL 'b *°r the Methodists of
Meat Broad ... n P° r t*on of the city on
road “reet, near Huntingdon. The
building will be a one-s*orv frame and will
cost about $1,500. Work will be begun upon
the church at an early and y.
Tho parsonage of the First Presbyterian
ohurcb, in thi rear of the church
.renting on Taylor street with an eastern
front on Drayton and a southern front on
Wayne street, will be ready for occupancy
this winter. It is a handsome brick dwell
■” 8) °i modern style, aud wili cost about
$6,000 completed.
The Lutheran church erected three two
story brick stores in the rear of the church
and fronting Drayton street tnis summer, at
a cost of about $6,000.
The colored churches have not remained
at a standstill. The brick work upon St.
James’ Tabernacle,a new Methodist church,
near the Savannah, Florida and Western
depot, is about completed. The church
building and the parsonage in the rear will
cost about SB,OOO.
®b. Philip’s A. M. E. church, on New
street, is adding a handsome brick front
and tower at a cost of about $3,500.
The interior of the First Bryan Baptist
church ou Bryau and Montgomery has been
remodeled and the windows fitted with
stained glass at a cost of over $3,000.
Beth-Eden. the new colored Baptist con
gregation, expects to build a'church in the
eastern portion of the city next year.
New Dwellings.
There have been a number of handsome
residences erected this year. The greater
portion, however, has been 6mall frame
dwellings, chiefly in thesouthern portion of
the city. In fact, the number of small
dwellings erected within the last twelve
months is much larger thau is generally
supposed, an idea being prevalent that very
little building has been done in the city this
year. This is a mistake. A large dealor iu
lumber and building supplies says there has
been more building in Savannah than any
year he has ever kuown.
Architect A. 8. Eiohberg has had
charge of must of the handsome buildings
that have been erseted or are now in course
of erection. He reports the following build
ing operations conducted by him since Sep
tember a year ago:
Remodeling parsonage for Baptist church,
corner Jones and Dravton streets, cost
$7,500; remodeling dwelling for Col.
William Garrard, corner Lincoln aud
Gaston streets, cost $15,000; sevoral small
remodeling jobs, amounting to about $6,000;
two dwellings for M. Sternberg, Jones street
near Bull, cost $16,000; two dwellings for
L. Collat, Whitaker street, near Houston,
cost $19,000; two dwelling! for A. E. Smith
and H. Traub, Gaston street, near Aber
corn, cost $21,000; two dwellings forj. L.
Sweat, Duffy street, cost SB,OOO.
NEXT SEASON’S BUILDING.
Mr. Eichberg said it is too early to make a
reliable estimate of next season’s building
activity, but judging from the number of
larties that have consulted him with a view
to building and the number of orders he
has already in hand he thinks the prospect
for next year a very bright one.
Mr. Eich berg has also conducted a large
amount of work outside of Savannah, somo
of which involved the use of Savannah
labor and material.
The remodeling of the commercial build
ing into an imposing board of trade build
ing will be begun under Mr. Eichbor as
soon as the transfer of the property is com
pleted.
A peculiar feature of the present building
season is the large number of small and
moderate priced dwellings that have been
erected and the absence of any large con
tracts, as each season for several years pgwt
has been marked by the erection of two or
more exceptionally large and expensive
buildings. It is difficult to compute the
amount invested in the small buildings re
ferred to, as no record is keptof them, and
their location, number and cost are hard to
trace, but it is safe to say that many thou
sands of dollars have been Invested in Sa
vannah through this class of building dur
ing the year.
One of the liaudsomest buildings of the
year U that of Mr. J. B. Woodson Whitaker
street, opposite tbe Park extension, now
nearly completed. The cost of this building
will be over $20,000.
Judge W. D. Harden is just completing a
a handsome residence on Gwinnett street at
a cost of about $15,000.
Jacob Rauers’ residence on Gaston street,
between Bull and Whitaker, was remodeled
at a cost of about $12,000.
Capt. Blun is remodeling tbe house next
to his residence on South Broad street.
The improvements will cost between $6,000
and $7,000.
J. J. Wall is erecting three handsome
frame buildings, three-story on basfftnent,
mansard root, on Bolton street, betweeu
Habersham und Lincoln, at a cost of about
$12,000. As soon as these are completed
Mr. Wall will erect three more buildings of
the same kind in the same neighborhood.
THE SOUTHERN SECTION.
A number of other fine residences have
been erected in tbe southern portion of the
city, as follows:
J. J. Gaudry, two-story dwelling on brick
baße:neut, on Lincoln and Hall streets,
about $5,000.
G. P. 11. Jones, two-story dwelling, Bull
and Henry streets, about $3,500.
Mrs. Alice Parsons, East Broad near
Henry, two-story dwelling. SI,OOO.
J. J. Crawford, Reynolds and President,
two two-story dwellings, about $2,030.
Two two-story tenement houses on New
Houston and Habersham, about $3,500.
Mrs. R. W. Overstreet, Eleventh street
and Habersham, two-story residence,
$1,500.
Jordan Hughes, two-story dwelling on
Montgomery street, near S. F. and W. rail
way, $1,200.
M, Egan, two two-story dwellings, Hunt
ingdon and East Broad, $2,700.
Tony Dwyer, two-story dwelling, Second
and Bull, $1,500.
Geo. Schroeder is building three two
story houses on West Broad street, at a cost
of about $2,300.
D. Grimm, four one-story houses on
Gwinnett street, about SI,BOO.
Jerry Crowley, three two-story houses
on Lincolor, near Duffy, $3,000.
REPPARD & CO.’S HOUSES.
R. B. Reppard ft Cos. have Suit a num
ber of frame dwellings iu the southern
portion of tho city as follows:
A double two-story frame dwelling,
Gwinnett street, east.of the S., F. and \Y.
railroad, SBOO.
A two-story frame building on Bolton
street, east of the 8., F. and W. railroad,
S6OO. _
A two-story frame house on Davis and
Price, about SHOO.
A two-story dwelling in Brownsville,
SSOO.
A one-story frame building in Sjuthville
for David Waters, SSOO.
A one-story frame building on Bolton and
Waters road, SSOO.
A two-story double tenement on Bolton
and Waters road, SBSO.
A story and a half dwelling on East
Broad and Duffy lane for Mrs. O. G. Sim
mons, SSOO.
A two-sftory tenement on Henry street
lane, near Savannah, Florida and Western
railroad, for Sauney Wilson, SI,OOO.
Also several small houses in 1!1 timers—
vide. .
Mrs. Helen Culver of Chicago is also
builmng two one-story houses on Waters
road, near Gwinnett, at a cost of about
* Mrs. M. E?. McGill, one story house, Sec
ond avenue and Drayton, SSOO. _
C. T. Cooper, one-story house in Browns
ville.
Mrs. Hagorty, two two-story dwellings
on brick basement at Henry and Lincoln
streets, about S6OO.
Wardlaw Screven, one-story house on
Fifth street, about S4OO.
Toby Hazzard, one story house on Fifth
street, about S4OO,
RESIDENCE IMPROVEMENTS.
Capt. C. S. Ellis is making improvements
in his residence at Gwinnett and Abercorn
streets, at a cost of about $3,000.
Maj. G. M. Ryals has added another story
to bis residence on Anderson street, at a cost
of about $1,500.
Richard Dye will shortly commence work
on two three-story houses on Bolton,
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1801.
near Lincoln, and one two-story house and
two one-story houses on St. Michael aud
Habersham.
Matt O’Connell has built about twenty
•mall house near the Catholic cemetery,
and a number cf other small houses have
been 1 tiilt in their neighborhood.
J. H. Oppenheim has built 12 one
story houses on First avenue and East
broad.
ACTIVITY IN- THE EASTERN SECTION.
The largest number of small bouses built
in one neighborhood is near the Tybee de
pot. Over 253 small frame houses have been
built there within the past year. Of these
Dr. W. S. Lawton has built 90, estate of
Seaborn Jonos 90, Mrs. Jane Jones 50. Col.
W. Garrard 8 anil Bt. E. P. Lawton 4.
The cost of the whole is about $75,000.
About 00 more of these houses will ho built
in the same neighborhood.
The Prenty buildings, one throe-story
dwelliug and three two-story and wellings, at
the corner of Houston and McDonough,
were completed witaiu the year at a cost
of about $lO,OOO.
OTHER HOUSES.
G. F. King has built a two-story frame
house on Duffy street at a cost of $2,000.
C. H. Ebbs built a one-story frame house
on Gaston street for $5OO.
L. A. McCarthy built two brick stores on
Drayton and York street lune for $4,000.
C. V. Snedeker built a two-storv frame
house on East boundary street for $ 1,600.
Mrs. M. J. Strauss built two two-story
frame bouses on Henry street for $4,030.
J. A. G. Carson built on Bolton street
lane a two-story frame dwelling at a cost of
about $1,500.
Capt. John Derst built a two-story brick
bakery on Congress street lane for $1,500.
Sar.<h McGrane built a two-story frame
dwelling on the Ogeecbee road, near Laurel
Grove cemetery, at a cost of $1,2 K).
S. IX Adams and C. H. Olmstead, trustees,
built a two-story frame bouse on New
Houston street lane at a cost of about
$1,200.
Mrs. W. O. Ryan and Miss Mamie Dwver
built two oue-story frame houses on Wil
son street lane at a cost ot 81,000.
Frank Jackson built a oue-story wooden
house on Cemetery street at a cost of $6OO.
R. C. Kennedy built a two-story store at
Broughton and Habersham streets at a oost
of about $l,BOO.
Mrs. E. B. Kent built a two-story frame
house ou Barnard street at a cost of about
$2,000.
B. B. Mingledorff repaired his house on
Duffy street at a cost of about $1,809.
Julia Hegeman built a two-storv wooden
house on Henry street at a cost of $2,000.
Scipio Herb built a one-story wooden
house on Oak street for $5OO.
THE STANDARD OIL’S IMPROVEMENTS.
The Standard Oil Company built a two
story brick warehouse and stable and one
story office on Gordon street, at a cost of
$4,000.
C. E. Broughton built eight one-story
wooden houses on Waldburg street for
about $3,200.
A. P. Solomon, Henry Solomon and Henry
Berg built a two-story wooden house on An
derson street for $2,0b0.
A. Hoheustein, trustee, built three two
story frame tenements ou Jones street, at a
cost of about $7,000.
B. D. Rosenbrook built two two-story
wooden houses on Whitaker street, between
Audersoa and Henry, at a cost of $4,000
Alfred Kent built a two-story frame
house on Indian street lane at a cost of
$l,OOO.
Willis Thompson built a ono-story frame
house on New Houston street for $5OO.
C. A. Munster built a two-story store and
dwelling and outhouse at Duffy and Dray -
ton streets for $4,000.
Cord Asendorf built two two-story framo
houses on Gaston street, between Price and
Habersham, at a cost of $2,500.
Joseph Herschbach built a one-story brick
house on York street lane at a cost of $5OO.
F. H. Hoar built a ono-story frame house
on Gwinnett street for $5OO.
James H. McKenDa built four ono-story
frame houses on Duffy and East Broad
streets for $2,000.
Thomas Jones built a two-story frame
house on Indian street at a cost of $BOO.
The Title Guarantee and Loan Company
built a two-story frame house on Haber
sham street for $1,500.
Charles Kohler built three two-story
frame houses on Duffy street, at a Cot of
about $3,600.
Mrs. L. H. Griffin built a one-story
wooden bouse on Lumber street for $4OO.
Mrs. T. W. Sexton built a two-story
frame house at Gordon and Habersham
streets for $2,000.
O. N. Berry built a two-story frame
house on Duffy street at a cost of $l,BOO.
John A. Patterson built a two-story
frame house on Gwinnett street, near Prioe,
for $1,500.
Susan M. and Josephine De Lorge built a
two-story frame house on Henry street.near
Lincoln for $2,000.
Fred Weasels built a two-story kitchen in
rear of his house at Huntingdon and Price
streets for $BO3.
William M. Bohan built two two-story
frame houses on Gaston street, near Haber
sham at a cost of about $4,000.
Letitia Duncan built a two-story frame
house on Pine street, uear West Broad, for
$1,200.
Mary Josephs built two two-story frame
houses on Houston street.near Booth Broad,
at a cost of $3,000.
Fred VVessels built a three-story brick
house on Huntingdon street, near Price,at a
cost of about $6,009.
J. L Minis builtadoublo tenement frame
house ou Charlton street, near West Broad,
at a cost of about $4,000.
William Sheehan built two two-story
frame houses on Hall street, near East Broad,
at a cost of $3,200.
J. H. Smith built a one-story frame house
on Cemetery street for $5OO.
R. D. Guorrard built two one-story
wooden houses on Gwinnett street at a cost
of about $BOO.
The Central railroad built a one-story
frame building on Harris street, 112x30 feet,
at a cost of about $2,030.
R. D. Guerard built ten frame houses on
New Houston street lane at a cost of about
$4,000.
Miss Willie Swoll built two one-story
frame bouses on New street, near West
Broad, for SSOO.
Mrs. A. L. Parsons built a two-story
frame house at East Broad street and Duffy
lane at a oost of $1,200.
Mrs. Mary A. Solte built three one-story
frame houses at Montgomery and Hall
streets at a cost of *1,200.
Michael Corolan built a two-story frame
house on Montgomery, near Charlton street,
for $2,000.
Estate of Owen Foley built eleven two
story houses on Zubly street at a cost of
about $9,000.
George Mack built a one-story wooden
house on West Boundary street for $590.
S. A. Wilson built two one-story frame
houses on Henry street for $l,OOO.
Herman Renkeu built a one-story frame
house on Olive street for $5OO.
R. D. Gtierard built four one-story
wooden houses on New Houston street lane
for $1,200.
John Downing built a two-story frame
house on Lorch street, between Price and
Host Broad, for $1,230.
D. H. Scbeuneman built a ono-story frame
house on Gwinnett street for $503.
Daniel Boon built a one-story frame
house on Oak street for $5OO.
R. M. Beytagb and M. W. Sexton built
two two-story frame bouses on Duffy street,
near Habersham, at a cost of $3,300.
M. A. and E. McCarthy built a two-story
frame house on First 3treet for $l,BOO.
E. Crawford built two two story frame
houses on New Houston street for $3,000.
William Lynch built three two-story
framo houses at Lincoln and .Second streets
for $4,500.
P. P. Stafford built two two-story frame
houses ou "Barnard street for $3,000.
J. T. Entelman built two two-story
frame dwellings on Liberty street at a oost
of about $3,500.
Mrs. J. K. Reilly built a two-story sta
ble on Congress street lane, at a cost of
about $l,OOO.
W. A. Price built a two-story from! out
house ou Lorch street lane, for sl,Oou.
Delia Morrison built eighteen one story
frame bouses on Maple and~Oak street-, at a
cost of $6,000. u =>, _
THE HARDEE ESTATE.
The estate of John L. Hurtles built at
East Broad aud St. James otroats, eight
one-story frame houses at a cost Of about
$2,500. -
John G. Butler built two two-storv brick
tenements on South Bread street lane, at a
cost of about $4,000.
A. Sonnenberg built a two-story brick
bouse on Perry street lane, for $1,300.
George Schroeder built three tw. -story
frame houses on Waldhurg stieet lane at a
cost of about $3,500.
Mary E. Riohardsou built two ons-storv
frame houses on Kali street lane, near East
Broad, for SI,OOO.
Nancy Nobles built a one-story frame
house on Roberts street, near West Bound
ary, for SSOO.
Mrs. M. Spellman built two two-story
frame bouses on Waldburg streot for
$3,000.
Thomas Gorman built a two-story frame
house on Berien Btroet, near West Broad,
for $1,200.
Clause Gerken built twc> one-story frame
houses on Hall street lane at a oost of about
SI,OOO.
D. C. Myerson built n 'fMie-story frame
bouse on Fourth street lfthC for SSOO
A. M. Sholar built a, oue-story frame
house on Henry street, nsaf East Broad, for
SSOO.
Charles H. Sepple built a two-story frame
house on Duffy street for $1,200.
Mrs. H. G. Stewart built threo two-story
frame houses on Duffy street at a oust of
$6,000.
Richard Kukland built a two-story brick
warehouse on St. Julian street at a cost of
$1 500.
Mrs. M. Ritchie buiit a two-story brick
, house at Perry and Habersham streots Jor
$2,500.
J. Randolph Anderson built a two-storv
store and dwelling at South Bread ami
Drayton streets for $6,000.
J. R. Sheldon buiit a oue-etorv frame
house at West Broad and Roberts streets
for SSOO.
J. J. Maanim built a one-story frame
house on Gwinnett street for $530,
Mrs. Mary Wakefield built a two-story
frame house on Tattnall street for $2,000.
E. Crawford built six two-story frame
houses on President street, between Ran
dolph and Reynold, at a cost of about
$6,000.
A. W. Meyer built jhroe fwo-story xvoodet}
houses on Duffy street, at a cost of so,otXk , .
Mrs. C. Walter built a three etory brie*
house on Congress strßt, near Montgomery s
at a cost of about ss,®p.
Edward O’Byrne bufjft a two-story frame
house on Huntingdon street for $2,000. • ! sr
Henry I. Beernan two two-slary
frame houses on Henry street for SI,OOO.
HANDSOME RESIDENCES. j: p ,,
W. B. Rockwell built 1 a two-storv brick
house on Harris street, 1 bear Whitaker, at a
sost of about $5,000.
Mrs. Jane Garmany built eight three
story framo houses on Duffy street at • eout
of about $20,000.
L. A. Sullivan built k two-story frame
house on Henry street for $1,200.
The estate of Turner built two ore-story
stores at Drayton street and York lane for
$2,000.
Henry Holmes built a one-story frame
house on Bolton street for S4OO.
T. J. Myers built two two-storT brick
houses on Montgomery street, near Hall,
for $4,000.
T. A. Folliard built five two story frame
houses on New Houston street, near Mont
gomery, at a cost of $9,000.
Dr. Stone built three houses at Haber
sham and South Broad streets for $9,000.
Dr. Wegefarth built a drugstoreon IleDry
and Bull streets for $2,000.
Maj. Schwarz built a bakery and dwell
ing at Jones and Lincoln streets f.r $7,500.
Joseph E. .Fulton is building a two-story
frame dwelling on Waldburg street, near
Montgomery, to oost about $3,500.
On the adjoining lot L. A. McCarthy is
building a two-story frail re bogsa, t oost
about $2,500.
B. Rothwell is building two three-story
brick houses on Charlton street, near West
Bread, to cost about SIO,OOO.
J. A. Brannen, H. F. Brannen and Ella
Brannon are building a two-story brick
house on Congress street, to cost about
$3,0;;0.
William Bouhan is building two two
story frame houseson Huntingdon street, to
cost about $4,000.
Calvin Miller is building a two-story
frame houso on Margaret street to cost
about $3,000.
W. W. Mitchell is building four two
story brick stores on Montgomery, Con
gress and Bt. Julian streets to cost $4,000.
W. C. Smallwood is building a two-story
frame house on Henry street, near Bur
roughs, to cost $1,500.
Mary Jane Mongin is building a two
story frame house on Henry and Thiffy
streets to cost about ss,ooo.
The Benevolent Bisters of Charity are
building a three-story frame buihiiog: q?va
brick basement, on RnSsell streets tif coat
about $7,500. im risen
A. P. Solomons is jjjiilding two
frame houses on Anders >n strter, Beßr
Cemetery, to oost abiAOt $1,200. , ~
T. A. Ward is building a t *o-story framp
house on Duffy street, near Jefferson, to
oost $2,000. 6b Tub
Mrs. Teynao is buiLiing a two-storyffrarae
tenement on Barnanfstreet, near Henry, to
oost about $2,500. '■' rj no
Mrs. Roohe is building two thredartony.
frame houses on Heilry street, to cost fiboWt'
$7,500. m. ■ .
The new engine hpuse and other improve
ments at fire headquarters cost $1,200.
The large woodai) house at the southwest
corner of Abercorn and Congress streets fins
been remodeled and mado into a double
tenement at a cost of about $2,500.
L. P. Maggioni remodelei the three-story
brick house at Barnard street and Bay lane
at a cost of $4,000.
A Lull in Building Nov 7.
The builders report business oxtremely
dull just now, notwithstanding the tfpaount
of building that has been done during the
year, but they expect, as soon as there is a
change for the better in the moaqy market,
to have a large amount o>. butiiing do.
The southeastern'portion of the city be
yond the .Savannah, Florida and Western
railway has the prospect of trie ereotiou of a
number of nice residences within tho - next
few months.
President J. S. Collins' of the Electric
Railway Company has all bis plans com
plete for the building at a handsome Resi
dence, colonial style, on Duffy street, .be
tween Ott street and Waters road, at a cost
of about SIO,OOO.
C. V. Snedeker of Reppard & Cos. expocts
to begin building iu the aum neighborhood
within the next two weeks.
P. B. Springer, W. W. Bennett, A. R.
Bradley, W. B. Stubbs, Esq., William Lat
timoieand several others expect to begin
building soon in that sect! jd.
SAVANNAH’d STSEEr RAILWAYS.
It Has Mors of Them Than Any City
of Its Sizs lu tho Country.
Savannah is probably better equipped
with street railways than any city of its
size in tbe country. There may be soma
covering more ground, that have more
miles of railway in proportion to popula
tion, but that is to Of the ten
streets from East Brcjpa.t-' WeStJiroal, in
clusive, open their edirs length, from Bay
to Anderson and ttie gity limits, eight are
now traversed wtfh sweet railways.
The city has fourteen milt* of electric
railway and seven miles of hdrsei car lines
within its limits, besides twelve miles of
suburban railway, not including the Savan
nah and Atlantic, a nart of tbe
Central railroad ■Tfjte— '* It will soon have
four additional nj&JTot electric railway
within the city, aPlWxxit ten miles addi
tional of suburban Jkies are in prospect
within the i
Nine miles of enkngio'Street railway have
been built within the present year inside
tbn city limits, besides three miles of double
track added by the Belt Line.
The Barnard street line was built last
spring by the Beit Line, running from Bay
street on Barnard south to Anderson and on
Anderson to a conneeti >n with the Belt on
Habersham street, a distance of about two
miles.
At the same time the track of the Belt
Line on Montgomery street, East Broad
street and streets in the southern portion of
the city, was double-tracked to the extent
of fully three miles. The Belt Line also
added several handsome now cars to its
eipiipment, and made a number of improve
ments in its power bouse. The total cost of
tho company’s improvements was over
*IOO,OOO. The work of double-tracking will
i>e continued this fall and winter, and a con
nection with the Bay and Baruaid street
hues will be made.
The Electric Railway Company’s line,
which was recently completed und is now
in operation, consists of about four miles of
railway, beginning on St. Julian streot,
east of the market, running to Price, and on
Price south to Gwinnett, and on Gwinnett
east to Ott, and then to Lovers lane.
The South Broad street branch of tho lino
lgius ou St. Julian, west of the market,
rung west to Montgomery, south to South
Broad and east to East Broad, conne “ting
, with tho main line at Price street.
A handsome power houso has been erected
by the company at Gwinnett and Ott streets
at a cost of about *IO,OOO, and is fitted
1 with the latest improved machinery of
the Edison patents. The total
cost of the Electrio Railway Company’s line
and improvements is over SIOO,OOO. Tho
company will bogin in November laying
four miles of additional track to complete
its present system. Tho line will begin at
tho end of the presont line on Pnco street,
run south to Duffy, west on Duffy to West
Broad and Laurel Grove cemetery; north
east on Roberts to West Broad, 'uortli on
West Broad to South Broad to a junction
with the presont line on South Broad at
Jefferson street; then from West Broad on
Margaret to Farm, Farm to River and
River to Ocean Steamship Company’s
wharves. The lino will also be completed
from South Broad down McAllister street
to a point near the Tyboe depot.
The line of the Savannah and Isle of
Hope railroad from the junction with the
Balt line on Estill avenue to Thunderbolt, a
distance of three miles, has been recently
completed and will soon be in operation.
Jt will be completed to Isle of Hope.
A railroad has been projected from the
same starting point to Southover, a dis
tance of three miles.
* Another street railroad in prospect is
*from West Broad street out the Louisville
,jnd Augusta roads beyond the proseut
. water works.
The streot railroads and the land com
panies are rapidly extending Savannah
oast, south and west.
$150,000 IN TERMINALS.
Improvements in Central Railroad
Property in the bast Twolve Months.
The Central railroad has made groat Im
provements during tho last year in its
yards, wharves and sheds. The Ogeechoe
oaual has been deepened a distance of a,OOO
feet, giving it a depth of 6 feet and a width
of “0 feet. This will enable the cotton,
naval stores and other freights to he light
ered from the wharves along the canal to the
vessels.
An iron draw-bridge has been placed
across the mouth of the canal, enabling
lighters to pass out to the river, ana ttie
bridge on River street has been raised 33.4
feet, with the same object in view.
The area of the yards ha* been increased
by filling in and grading a large part of the
uuaven p-ound included in the yards and
covering it with planking. A large part of
the old yard has been improved by tearing
up the old i planks and replacing them
with new.
Several thousand feet of track havo been
put in, and a large rosin shed has been built
at the head of the spirit yard. Large im
provements and additions are being made
now. Extensive repairs are being made to
all the cotton platforms, and the area in
closed by warehouse No. 1 and the Old
Central press is being refioored, preparatory
to handling this season’s cotton.
Three new tracks, amounting to about
4,000 feet, are being put in near the cotcon
platform, and also a tra .'k 1,100 foot long
connecting the track to the elevator with
the track to the wharf. Four additional
tracks have been put in to the new lumber
wharf. The tracks near the passenger do
pot have also been rearranged. Switch
lights ere being put in ou all the switches in
the yard.
The value of those various improvements
is in the neighborhood of *150,090. The im
provements in the yard and wharf property
will be continued this year. One important
work will be the dredging of the river in
front of the Oeoan steamship wharves from
the mouth of the oaual to the liqe of the
Central press, a distance of about 500 feet.
It is expected to get a depth of oighteen feet
of water to better enable vessels to load.
Great Improvements have also been made
in the Tvbee railroad.
SHIP BROKERS.
Geo. Bs k Cos,
Slij Bute
-AND—
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GA.
BRANCH OFFICES:-
Ceo. llarriss, Son £ Cos.,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Gea Harriss, Jr., & Cos.,
127 Walnnt St., Philadelphia,
J£W£Ul.
A. L DESBOUILLONS,
21 Bull Street.
*
DI.A.IMIOIN'IDS.
CHOICEST BTONES AT LOWEST PRICES.
Finest selection of dents’ and Ladies’
Watches.
Jewelry of Tory beet quality and latest de
signs.
Sterling SJlrerware In elegant cases.
Also a complete line of
Spectacles and Eyeglasses.
Watches, Jewelry and Spectaolea repaired by
expert workman. Satisfaction guaranteed.
A. L. Desbouillons,
21 Bull Streat.
OLD NEWSPAPERS—WO for 25 cents—at
business uffloe Morning News.
j DRY GOODS.
ECKSTEIN’S
—rmir- ~ i r ~fimr nmr 1111- imw—iij.i
A CHEAT “BLAHKET" SAIE
11 sell si Monday, Aipsl 31st, and
Alter, those Ail foil and Extra Size
BLANKETS, AT $365,
Now 011 exhibition in onr Show Windows, Whitaker and
Congress street lane. Positively the
Greatest Bargain offered.
AT “ECKSTEIN’S,”
fill sill 8i! Maniaj, Aupst 31st, and
Alter,tlwaipite styles 1© and dart
FRENCH SATINES 121-2cts
Now displayed in Show Windows, Congress and Whitaker
Streets. The price has been 25 to 35c. They
are given away at 12Acts.
On Tuesday, Set. plst., will show
Advance styles of elegant
IMPORTED ROHES
AND DRESS GOODS.
SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK ONLY,
100 Pairs $3 Blankets
at $2 per pair.
GDSTAVE ECKSTEIN & EOJ
RETAIL GROCERS. (
ESTATE S. W. BRANCf-T
EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT.
FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES,
■ - r -W
MS-
N. W. Cor. Broughton and Whitaker Streets. ' \
l
THE PUREST CONFECTIONERIE3. TURK ELGIN CREAMERY BUTTER
FINE WINES AND LIQUORS, EXCELLENT TEAS AND COFFEES,
CANNED - GOODS.
TABLE DELICACIES.
%
Fruits and Vegetables, Fresh and Fine.
TINNING AND PLUMBING.
P H KIERNAnT
• 30 1-2 WHITAKER STREET.
Tinning, Plumbing and Gas Fittings.
Roofs Tinned, Repaired and Painted
—WITH MINERAL PAINT.—
Bath Tubs, Water Closets, Wash Basins, Boilers, Lead and Iron Pipe.
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION.
STEAM DY'F. WORKS.
CHAB. RATZ,
PROPRIETOR OK
SOUTHERN
Stai Djiiiijr aJ Scouriig loose,
92* Broughton St., opposite Marshall House,
SAVANNAH. GA.
Pltompt Work. Fine Work, Reasonable Prices. Country Trade Solicited
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