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Show iliOMBS IN raKIXI? ADD. Fifteen Elegant Brick and Stone, Modern Ee iJances Built Sines Htiv 'Qib'ir. 2 8 MOSE CONTRACTED FOE. No Subsidy to Boston Excursionists Who Brio Tneir 0 wn Eakud B ,au aad Doi't Sp'fld a OL'nU "I don't want yon to -think because w i can't do business on daya like this arol yesterday that wo aru cussing this kiml of weather," was tht remark that greeted the reporter when he visited one of tho real estate o Hires today. "This weather is worth a good deal more to Utah than all the disagreeable-ness disagreeable-ness it entails; it is bang up for tho ranchers and insures the best kind of a season for them and abundant crops of fruits and grains. It ts even likely that the will be able to raise spring wheat on the benches w ithout irrigation, which 01 itself would add hundreds of thousands thous-ands of dollars to the business channels of this city. For this reason we real estate meu'are looking on these storms I .... ..:.u I UI aietri ami allow Willi u wcai t't complacency, for we know that while ibo tim of onr prosperity may be delayed, de-layed, it is as certainly coming as that the sun will rise in .lulv. Thn A. vil I. OH. The architects want a fair show on the plans for the new building on the Eighth ward square. They do not object ob-ject to entering a free-for-all competition, competi-tion, but they want to have their plans inspected by some one who knows more about architecture than a SenCgamblan savage does about rufilod shirts. Some of thorn complain com-plain that when ttrey had made their plans for the structure which was to monument the site on First South and State street, they had no opportunity opportu-nity to dilate or orate on the merits of their creations; they would just walk up to the city hall with tho picture of the. front elevations and a bundle of blue prints, containing specifications and details and set the load down for the joint committee to pore over. After those gentlemen had pored over about five of them, they just loflged to be hung so as to be rid of a duty they kuew no more about than they did of tho seven gates of pearl which St. John saw. 'I'L. .... .! 1 . I. . WBB UOB UACrpilOU IU fcllltl, lUIVj that was in the case of Apponyi. Ho went before the committee and talked to them for half a night and cajoled them into thinking that he could erect his building (that was really quito a pretty picture) within the limits of cost stipulated by the specifications, when every architect archi-tect in the city knew that it could not be done for less than $",0,000, more than tho cost mentioned. This was not fair to the other competitors and it was manifestly unfair to the city and county. The architects now demand that if they compote for tho new plans Jiat they have the privilege of xplaicing tho merits of their de-igns. They also ask to have an ar-chitect ar-chitect from abroad who is free from : he suspicion of favor or prejudice for any of the competitors, assist tho committee com-mittee in awarding tho prize, which ought to bo the construction of the building for the w inner, and perhaps a small reward for the artist who is deemed to have made the second best plan. New llounea In Perkins' Addition. Since Geo. L. Chamberlain & Co. took hold of Perkins' addition last November No-vember and begun building and selling nouses on tho installment plan, they have erected and havo nearly completed comple-ted ready for occupancy, fifteen eie- rant homes, which have cost from $1000 to $20,001), anil all this on a site hat up to that timo was almost barren of a house or or other improvement. The George L. Chamberliu company which is now merged in the Metropolitan Investment company, still have on hand orders for twenty-eight more houses which hey will commence building just is soon as the weather permits. per-mits. 'These will range in cost about the same as those previously built. As a little addenda to the other Iniiirovpirients. contracts havo been let for laying concrete sidewalks on one of j the streets, which-will be extended to : all the others just as soon as they are ; settled up enough to demand it. No Subsidies for n.tni. I There does not seem to be any dispo'-jsitiou dispo'-jsitiou on tho part of the chamber of 1 eommerce or the real estate exchange i to ciio a subsidy to Pomeroy & ! Libby, the H osiou excursionist managers, man-agers, to bring a few car loads ! of the residents of the modern Athens to this city. Past experiences in that line with about the samu kind of hobos has been most unsatisfactory, for I it has been found that the re-! re-! puted capitalists were sbeol on entertainment but , very sterile or investments. They usually come along in a palace car and if they cannot .'t a free lunch, they eat a few cans of beans which they havo brought from ! o ue, with the inevitable accompany-inetits accompany-inetits of a band of Wagnerian music. PavementA In Front of Commercial Block A gang of lahorers have been set to work cleaning up tho rubbisfi in front of the Commercial block preparatory to laying down concrete sidewalks on both the Commercial and the Secoud South street sides of the building. WantUntt Ones to Coalville. C. E. Wantland has returned from a visit to Coalville where he went to look over some land in which he and Jay Gould are jointly interested. He fou.id the land in just the same spot as it was when ho w as there last. F.dwardt' Brick Tard. The Ctah and Montana Machinery company havo shipped a boiler and engine en-gine to the new brickyards, established by Kansas City Edwards near Simkins' on tho Kio Grande Western. |