Show GREAT BUILDING ERA FOR 1919 9 on the building situa- situa lon In America S. S S W. W Straus Straw of ur S. S W. W ton Straus Co New York says sas While evidences indicate a contin- contin tied ted high market for fol all 11 building ma- ma and labor It Is apparent that factors will wil not Interfere with the he extensive construction program which Is now flOW getting under way war Tho The government is rapidly rapId I removing remo all al re restrictive re- re conditions and the entire building situation is rapid rapidly 1 shaping itself for a period of or great grent activity Between Between Be Be- tween 60 ani and anil 70 71 per cent of or the buildIngs buildups buldin build build- buld- buld in Ings ups s In contemplation In itt the principal cities of tho the country arc are Industrial and ap- ap apartment houses house The Thc period through which we now nr ire are passing passing marks marts a definite turning point In iii American building and construction construction con Con- conditions Costs have reached a a level Jevel from which there will never nC be bea bea bea a pronounced recession Not ot only are all al American merican urban centers from frol rote 20 0 to lo 60 50 per cent un under under- built hult but tho demand abroad for build build- buildings buld- buld ln ings s Is prodigious lous and labor con conditions throughout tho the world are such that It ItIs Itis itis is not likely there will silI wil be sufficient re reduction reduction re- re in ill waSe wages at an any time to render huldin buildIng costs less than titan at present In Great Britain lin there is need for Cor the thc immediate immediate immediate im im- im- im mediate construction of ot a quarter of or a n million of new buildings 8 of various s lasses classes chiefly for housing purposes The reconstruction nee needs s of Franco France and Belgium will reach nearl nearly new buildings of or various t types It I Is evident therefore that despite the tite determination of or labor Interests to maintain the tile present high scale of or wa wages s and the fact that buildIng building build build- Ing material costs are approximately CO 60 f per cent higher than during the spring prin of or 1917 we have IHle now entered a cr era of oC activity which Is IR not 1101 only anI wide nation but world wide worl in scope These continued hl high h prices will wil re restrict restrict restrict re- re strict smaller types of ot construction and tho the demand for cit city apartment houses family hotels hotel and similar buildings for I housing put purposes will wil be bo Increased |