Show BOOM anUM BUIlDING BEACHES NEW NE t rr J lEVEl s R r hl 1 r r tV- tV py i 1 u All All' Parts of Country Report Re Re- 1 F port ort Unprecedented s Number of Permits j 1 i f 4 I NEW EW YORK March 16 16 AmericaS America S a a. record spring b ding boom ted Press dispatches from f c es in all parts of ot the tho country c sh W v today that building permits J JrE rE being issued on an i dented de ted scale The greatest Increase is in ap apartment apart apart- rt- rt merit ment houses Dwellings come sec eec second ond business business structures are a close closs third y Compared with the first two months of ot last year January and February show an enormous In Increase increase in- in crease crease Reports indicate that the b buildings going up and those about t f tp be constructed are of ot a more expensive ext ex- ex t pensive sort than those constructed d during during 1922 r T WAGE DISPUTES SETTLED I j j Building Budding conditions are greatly r c- c Improved in every part of or the country coun- coun I try and wage disputes are nearly all settled in the building trades Chicago reports the biggest boom ot of of its history Permits to March Marchi 1 this year totaled as compared compared compared com com- pared pared with for the fIrst to two months of 1922 4 In i-In In Detroit permits have been beep taken n out to date this year involvIng w Ing the sum of ot These permits include three seventy-three 41 apartment houses ft f An increase so of ot about Is s shown hown in Atlanta's building program for two t months This years year's figure 0 lis IS New Kew ew York City's figures for January Jan- Jan uary and February are Permits cost 4 v t 1 ll A great number of ot the permits r l for small houses and bungalows a lh T Queensboro PHILADELPHIA LADELPHIA HAS BOOM t In In Philadelphia 2960 permits Iba Save e been taken out since the first ot of othe the year involving estimated m costs of ot This Is more mored d th than n over last years year's estimate esti- esti mate for tor the same period I y February permits in St St. Louis Loul were in fn 1923 and ln in 1922 III 10 of The difference in money involved is is 1 r Just under w Milwaukee reports big increase In a all building lines Permits were wert r for the first two months this 0 year and last year u Oklahoma City reports per- per for this year The a increase of ot February over January was per cent and March is expected ex- ex eo petted to beat February In Tulsa the permits for tor March are expected to exceed Three hundred and one forty permits permits permits per per- mits had been filed tIed in fn Kansas City In February which Is a n decrease from last year but the money In Involved involved involved in- in is much moro more than 1676 1616 Permits for tor this year In Vancouver ver ocr total more than Lost Last years' years record of more than spent on buildings Is expected to be bo surpassed |