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Show oo HOWELL BLOCK UNDERGOING CHANGES Excavation for, the basement of the annex to the Howell block on Washington Wash-ington avenue, near Twenty-fifth street, has been completed and the concrete men have begun on the walls, the expectation being that within the next thirty days the brick work will be done and the annex roofed in. It is said by the owners of the place that no time w ill be lost in erecting the annex and remodeling the entire block to conform with modern architectural archi-tectural designs for store buildings. Carpenters began work this morning removing the front of the buildinc;, preparatory to putting in the new and elegant marble and copper front. The material is at hand. There first will be installed a tern-, porary front, twelve feet back from the sidewalk line, so as to enable- the firm to continue Its business. The present front will then be removed and the upper stories of the building shored up with wooden timbers, and steel beams spanning the entire front will be raised upon steel columns, which will be inserted in the present brick walls at the ends of the building After the beams have been installed, the permanent fronts will be placed In the building The base underneath the windows along the sidewalk and in the vestibule will be of verde antinue marble and the pilasters above the base of Alaska marble The plate glass will be set in copper and also the prism glass above the transom line The doors and wood paneling in the interior of tho windows will be of ma hogany and all the hardware will be of copper to match the window set ting. The vestibules will he tiled and all the details carried out according to the most modern methods rr |