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Show FINE WEATHER IS AN AID TO BUILMNG i Fine weather Is. welcomed by the builders of the city, as It afford3 an opportunity to proceed with work that has been planned for tho fall and early winter months. The past three days a full force of men and teams has been at work on the Eccles building on Twenty-fourth street and Washington Wash-ington avenue, and splendid progress has been made on tho wrecking of the Klesol structure, at, tho corner of Hudson avenue and Twenty-fourth street. The largo boilers that were used in tho basement of the Eccles building were moved Sunday by means of pulleys pul-leys and heavy trucks, clearing the way for further excavating In the southwest corner of the basement A retaining wall of cement has been constructed at tho northwost corner of tho basement to prevent tho street caving Into the pit. Tho wall will serve as the outer wall of the basement base-ment of tho steel structure occupying apace under the sidewalk on Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street. It 1b anticipated that the entiro work of excavating the basement of this magnificent steel structure will be completed before cold weather sets in. The placing oC the steel In the walls will begin early in the spring. Within the next few days the walla Qt xthe Klesol block at the corner or JJudBon avenue, and Twenty-fourth street will be razed to tho ground and the contractor will begin excavating the basoment This building, whan reconstructed, will be five stories high, while the Eccles block- will ranch the eighth story. The uppor floor of the Kiesel block will be occupied occu-pied by the Weber club, the other part of the building to be used for etores and offices. The Kiesel business block and hotol on Wall avenue, at the corner of Twenty-fourth street, Is now In the hands of the. finishers and it Is ex-pocted ex-pocted that the place will bo ready for occupancy about December I, Thin will be among the most modern business busi-ness houses of the city. The remodeling of the Broom hotel corner is going on rapidly and it wiI not bo many days when the glass will be placed In position. The National Cigar Stores company has taken a long-time lease on this corner and expects ex-pects to move by December 10. |