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64 WINNETKA TALK a. November 5, 1927 Ny Leland G.Vincent General Contractor Remodeling and Repair Work Estimate Furnished 394 Center St. Phone Winnetka 1417 [Fy --Stepping Stones-- for Walls and Sidewalks --Rubble Stones-- for protection of your lawn or and surve in your driveway --Driveways-- We'll build a new one--or repair the old . B. W. BLOW Established 1905 660 Center St. Phone Winn. 201-202 | erected at Do You Know HAT a skyscraper which will give to 1,000 girls and women of Chi- cago a home with all the comforts of a suburban residence, together with a lot of additional conveniences, is to be the northwest corner of Ontario and Rush streets in Chicago. The Illinois club, now at 814 South Michigan avenue, has just purchased the vacant property there, fronting 150 feet on Ontario and 109 feet on Rush, from Milton S. Plotke for a re- ported $400,000 and proposes to erect a seventeen story structure on it. This club in the few years of its existence has furnished accommodations for 37,- 000 girls and now finds itself needing far larger quarters. When it comes to residence quarters, rooms on the lower floors will cost as low a rate as $1 a day. That ground has been broken for twin buildings at 5043-59 Fullerton ave- nue in Chicago, each to contain twenty- eight three and four room suites and four stores, and that one will be called the Renee and the other the Diana, these being the names of the daughters of the builders, Arthur A. Klein and David A. Klein respectively. The cost is placed at $300,000. That what is claimed is a record for speedy construction in Chicago has been made in the erection of the Finchley building in Jackson boule- vard, just east of the Davis store. Wreckers started to clear the site on May 1. The fifteen story building stands on caissons and is practically completed. Bron den OIL HEAT Let us care for all your problems in Oil Heating--whether it's a new burner that's wanted or repairing the vid one. Ol COMAT MAT] LOMAT North Shore Dewey Hoke 448 Oakdale Glencoe 101 A of 735 ELM STREET WINNETKA Builder's Hardware Most Complete Assortment BUILDER'S HARDWARE T he standard make of Tools Eckart Hardware Co. PHONES 843-844 DECLINE IN NATIONAL BUILDING CONTINUES Increasing Construction Shown in Large Cities, Including Chi- cago, Straus Report Says Continuation of f the downward swing of the curve of activity, lower prices generally for materials, and a tranquil labor situation are the outstanding current features of the building indus try throughout the United States. Reports from the Building Depart- ments of 476 cities made to S. W. Straus & Co., revealed the issuance of permits or the filing of plans of $291,- 675,134 in September compared with $326,599,119 in September last year, a loss of a little less than 11%. For the first nine months of the year the de- cline was equally pronounced, the 1927 total being $2,947,884.857 compared with $3,308,894,986 in 1926. The exact meaning of these figures should not be overlooked. They reflect only prospective conditions in the con struction of buildings within incorp- orated cities. They represent substan tially 80% of this type of activity throughout the country but they do not include general engineering pro- jects, road building, utility plants out side of corporate limits and only in a limited number of cases do they in- clude public buildings. Accurate Index They do, however, as time has shown, constitute the most accurate index obtainable of the trend of Amer- ican urban building so that the general business interests of the country can with certainty now plan on less support from the building industry during the ensuing four or five months than was the case last winter. While these conditions apply to the country as a whole, signs of increasing construction are in evidence here and there. Among the large cities of the country, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Denver and Louisville are sus- taining or exceeding last year's range of activities. Similar conditions prevail in the states of New Jersey, California, Con- necticut, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Washington and in much of the subur- ban areas of New York and Chicago. . PLUMBING'S AN AWFUL LOT OF FUN- WHEN YOu DO THE BEST WE admit that we get a lot of pleasure out of our business. When a man does his work right, he feels quite comfortable at the conclusion of each and every job. We're employed by the public and we must say that we're fond of the boss and also that the boss is pleased with the work we do. Phone 874 ~464 S.J. STEFFENS 703 OAK ST. WINNETKA,ILL. oe rr . -- --