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Show I BUILDING FIGURES I FOR HJIIBOf MM I Increased Operations Shown I: Over Same Month Last I Year. I CHICAGO BREAKS ALL I OF ITS FORMER RECORDS 1 Gain in Windy City Is Sixty Per I Cent Over May, II 1905' ' Reports from torn a fifty of. tho leading cltlns H' of tha country, rccelvod by tho American H Contractor Chicago, tabulated and compared H, rrlth tho'0 th(Oorrcspoadlnfr month of last Hi year, sho-nf that -the building operation of Hj May. 100$, fully JustlfJo4. tlio predictions wo Hi made In our last to port, Two-thlrda of tho H' cities cbou fin IncrexBO 'over tho oporatlona H. of 15M, In. Greater Nec Tork tho gain Is H small, only ljier cent, but thin la a remarkable 1 showing when th enorraoas, rcoord-brcaklDfr bu tin a is of lost yeafi With, which tho com- . pari son la made, i taken Into accounL Chicago Breaks Record. H, Chicago breaks all ltt records with $3,494, j 220, a gala of CO pr coat over May, IMS, Tho ; percentage of rain In otlior leading cltlos Is ns follows: Atlanta, 84; Bridgeport, 1C7, Buf- , falo, 60; Clevland, 17; Duluth, 110: Unrrlsburg. 112. LoulsYills, CO; Nashville. 110: Newark, Now Orleans, 45; Omahn, 75; Philadelphia. a 11; Portland, 207; St. Louis, 14; St. Paul, 43; Seattle S0i Syracuse. 24; Toledo, S3; Tacomo, j 111; Wllkesbarrc, 271. Tho following figures I show tho losses reported In loading clttos-Bl clttos-Bl Cincinnati, 44; Donvur, 26; Indianapolis, S5; t Kaiun- City, 17; Milwaukee, 23. Minneapolis. if 5; Mobile, 67; Now Haven, 31, Some of tho II cities showing a loss have onjoyed a building 2 boom for romo years paBt and diminished Kt bulldlnc was almost a matter of necessity. Hi Export Is Satisfactory. HI Taken altogether, tho report lo of a most Hji lattsfactory and encouraging character and 4 leave.- no reason to doubt but what the bulld- 1 Ins opcrutlono of tho BCason now fairly under J way will break all rocorda. This seems all 1 tho more remarkable when It In understood 3 that both wages and building material are Hn now ruling very high, J May, May, Per Per 4 1903, 1KH, cent cent l City cost. cost. gain. loos. 1 Atlanta G49.197 ? 403,733 34 Hli Birmingham .... 236,752 I Bridgeport 231.SOC 105,430 167 I Buffalo 3.2S9.590 S01.400 CO l Baltimore 752.000 735.000 2 I Chicago 6,494.220 4.053.250 CO jg Cleveland 1,243.593 3,064.910 17 j! Chattanooga .... 12S.302 111,523 15 1 rinclnnatl 75S.525 1. HI. 650 44 1 Colurabut) 545.150 B10. 130 7 f Davenport 30,625 74.S00 .. 59 j Denver 445,720 C:-0,235 ... 24 j Detroit 1.227.400 3,03,900 21 l Duluth 355,533 100.112 110 Evansvllle ....... 55,092 32,127 72 i Grand Boptds... 238,332 243,649 2 1 llarrlsburg 233,775 135.675 312 l Hartford 327.310 249.S51 31 ? Indianapolis .... 4&9.72I 753,002 .. 35 ' Kansas City .... 010,570 1,109,417 17 Knoxville 128,745 C4.O40 101 i Loulavlllo 495.975 330.210 0 I.os Angeles .... 1.05LS32 1.244,151 .. 15 ). Milwaukee .. 761,121 0S2.959 .. 23 Minneapolis .. .. 846,560 1,134. 7S0 25 Memphis 343,200 323,-373 6 -Mobile 92,220 293.170 67 l Nashville 475.03S 203.0S5 130 l New Haven ... C49.R9S 277,237 34 Newark 1.00S.S52 796.165 K New Orleans ... E-S5.71S 596,242 4$ ' Manhattan .... 14.17C.S50 13,005. S- 9 J AlteraUons .... 1,769,750 1.S59.653 H' Brooklyn 7.B36.723 7.2O5.0SI 1 'I Bronx 7.S35.723 7.205.0S1 l Now York 20,616,003 26.309,071 1 ? Omaha 703,175 402.659 75- .. Philadelphia .... 4,5S6.655 S90.0SO 11 Portland 1.0S7.769 267.106 307 l St. Louis 2.163,255 1,ES6.47 14 Ml St. Paul 971.250 C51.CS9 49 V Scranton 24S.725 1S1.065 36 Seattle 726.673 5&3.S60 30 Hj Spokane 60,436 352.305 3 2 South Bend .... 61.555 151.747 It b Syracuse 192.350 143,443 34 i Topeka 60.2&S 101. 305 .. 40 ? Toledo .... 407.922 210.270 93 Hi Torro irauto 117.22S 141.S00 17 t Tacoma 273.130 129,257 111 Washington 3,311.766 2,5,559 43 -U'llkesbarro 5M.445 140.02S 271 Wlnnopeg 1.3S7.800 26,500 13 -In May. 1905, Mobllo Issued a permit for a ; 5235,000 hotel. Hit |