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Show I ; TWO-STORY STORE ; ! FOR MAIN STREET , United (.'tear Stores to Erect a New Building at Cost of f About $25,000. t . II , , PART OP PI AX TO IMPROVE I I CM FT HOUSE PROPERTY I it 1 I . 1 1 E. Mehesy, Jr., Furrier, Takes I 1 Lease on Structure Tor i 1 Term of Years. I Final papers worn drawn up Monday, I 1 which will mean the erection of a Iwo-II Iwo-II " story Roro building on Main street on the old Clift houso property, which will cost in the, neighborhood of $25,000. Work on the erection of his building J will start March 1, or ns soon afterward i s the present buildings are. demolished, ' " and the now store will bo completed in ' , about sixty daya. , This building, which is to be erected . by the United Cigar Stores company, has already been leased for a term of j years to K. Mohesj', Jr., who, as soou as the building is complotod, will move n from hist present location, on Main Ftrcet between First and Second South I streets, to I ho now location. I Site of Now Building. Tho site of tho new building is on the west side of Main street., just north .' of the Clift houso building, now oc cupied by two one-story frame struc-I struc-I turcs. housing a saloon "and tho Olym- pia Candy Kitchen. The new build-, nig will havo a rontagcof thirtv-cight feet on Main street and a depth "of 305 feet, the full area of tho lot. This deal was made in connection with the proposed remodeling of tho ('lift house storerooms, tho story of I men appeared exclusively in Sunday's Tribune. Tho Cigar Stores compnnv lakes tho comer Toom, J .1x35 feet, and the Van Dyke Drug company takes t he rooms adjoining the corner on Main and on Third South slrocfs. with entrances en-trances from each thoroughfare. At the same timo tho Krug Brewing com- pan-, which owns tho present lcaso of the saloon adjoining on Main street. , has taken a lcaso for five and one-half years on the rear part of the Clift house building, with a frontage on Third South street. This part of the k building is now occupied by tho JBurt & Carlquist Ttcal Estate company, a restaurant and a barber 'shop. The remodeling of the Clift house will in. ludc pJato glass fronts on Main and i hird bouth streets and the moving of tho rntranco to the hotel from Main street to Third South street, where a large modern rntranco will bo built. The upper floors of tho hotel will also be remodeled and improved and tho place will bo converted into a first-class hotel. Good Building. The jiow building to be erccied next Alarch for Mr. Mohesy will be one of tho finest and best-lighted storerooms store-rooms in the cify, with a plate "lass front extending thc full two stories of tho front. Tho rear part of thc building build-ing will be constructed of three stories to accommodate tho workrooms for both the fur and millinery departments. depart-ments. At thc rear the plans call for largo concrete cold storage vaults for furs. One of these vaults will bo used by Mr. Mchcsy for tho storing of his stocks of finished nnd unfinished furs and the other will be used for storing furs belonging to patrons. By the terms of his lease Mr. Mehesy has thc say as to dotails nnd thc gen-oral gen-oral arrangement of thc building and his plnns for the construction of tho iron), arc modeled after some of thc fiuest storerooms in Paris and Vienna |