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Show BUILDING PERMITS FOR PAST WEEK INCREASE Bnilding permits for the first wcok of December ran up to tho handsome fieurc of $230,900, as compared to ,1 12,000 for tho whole of tho corresponding corre-sponding month last year. In this are included permits issued Moudas', November No-vember 30, which called for expenditures expendi-tures amounting to about $30,000. that are credited 'to tho week ending Saturday Satur-day but cannot bo included in the December De-cember record. This would make iho permits for the first week of Decern- j ber about .-7200,000, almost twice aa much as for tho wholo of December, 1907. |