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Show uu BUILDING TO BE ERECTED IN ' 19H Finishing work on the Kiesel hotel and business block on Wall avenue and Twenty-fourth street has been delayed by the railroad companies not being piepared to transport certain building material when it was needed, but Mr. 'Kiesel says that he is now quite certain that the building will be ready for use within tho next thirty days. The work on (he building now consists con-sists of finishing the interior and completing the plumbing It was planned to place the building at the disposal of those who are going to do business there the first of December, but the unavoidable delays prevented. Progress is being made on the rebuilding re-building of the Healy hotel and it is announced by the contractors that tho structure' will be remodeled and ready for use in the early part of the year. The interior of the main building build-ing is being torn to pieces and preparations prep-arations made to reconstruct according accord-ing to modern plans. The hotel will havo about eighty modern rooms. Excavation on the Howell annex is nearly completed and the cement workers will soon be on the job. Excavation for the five-story business busi-ness and club room block on Hudsou avenue and Twenty-fourth street is progressing nicely and within a few i days time the basement will be j ready for the concrete workers. Fred J. Kiesel is building this block to ( accommodate the Weber club r.nd j also furnish a building for banking and other commercial purpor.es He aims to have the structure ready for use at an early time In the year 1913. After tho excavation work is done, it is not expected that much building can be dono until after the freezing weather is over, but no time, will be lost in starting in tho early spring. Resumption of work on the Eccles steel building on Washington avenue and Twenty-fourth street early next year, and on buildings mentioned above, together with tho erection of other buildings now planned for the coining year, make certain that Og-den Og-den will experience a building activity activ-ity next year that will eclipse any other since the early nineties. Builders Build-ers say the prospects for next year are exceptionally good. |