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Show ILK INSPECTOR 18 STILL BOSY II Forty-Nine Permits Issued During Dur-ing Week, Jailing for Expenditure Ex-penditure of $118,300. Building Inspector Ilirth almost smashed all weekly record in tho issuing issu-ing of building permits for tho week ending Saturday. Forty-uino permits, calling for a total expenditure in buildings build-ings of $11S.300, wero issued. This raisos tho record for the month to the handsome figuuro of $222,S00, which is far in excess of the amount of the permits for tho first ten days of last April, and within $50,100 of tho record of the whole of that, month. In ! fact, tho permits for the first ton days of tho current month aro equal to SO per cent of tho permits for all of last April. Tho week just ended did not start off very promising, only ouo small permit, per-mit, for $2500, being issued Monday, but Tuesday I he permits cauio in with a rush, amounting to $50,000. and making this the banner day of tho week. Friday was second, with permits per-mits amounting to $27,800. "With twenty days yet to run, Mr. Hirth hasn't the least apprehonsion that tho currout month will tall bohind last April. |