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Show NO SALOONS ON THE NEW AVENUE 1 , Hudson Avenue Property. Owners Hold a Meeting - and Agree on General Plans Buildings to be Uniform in Height and Architecture Archi-tecture Many Business Blocks Arc Planned. tidewalks and the curb and gutters In the meantime the erection of busl-l't-ss blocks will be bcRiin and hefon? Christmas the avenue will assume definite form as a business thoroughfare thorough-fare etf the city. A number of plans for business places are now being drawn by architects, ar-chitects, the building to Login as soon as the plans are 'perfected. John T. Hurst, of the firm of Paine & Hurst, has plans drawn for a three-tlory three-tlory building on tho ground now oc-eupled oc-eupled by the large skating rink, facing fac-ing Grant avenuo. Mr. Hurst's new building will front Hudson avenuo and extend lo Grant avenue. It will be a modern structure, furnishing epace enough for four good store 100ms on the ground floor, the upper floors to be used for offices and other purpose. The Beery estate Is now having plans drawn for tho erection of a fine j,lass-frout building on Hudson and Twenty-fifth street, on the ground now occupied by the building formerly former-ly ued by tho American Tea company. com-pany. These plans will be readv for the contractors within a short time, rnd. a member of the Peery Brothers' company states, the new building will be completed at tho earliest possibles moment. ' It Is understood thai the proposed business block has already I been leased, the owners of the prop- erty not caring to state, however, I who tho lessee is. nor what partlcu-I partlcu-I lar line of business will be carried I on. . . . , The remodeling of the Munsey ci-l.ar ci-l.ar store and cafe acros-i Hudson avonuo from the Peery place will be-io be-io at an early date, the plan being to make lhat corner modern In every ev-ery particular. The remodeled building build-ing will havo a glass-front on Hudson I'venno of 100 feet, with three enhances. en-hances. The lines of business to bo conducted in the building will be .1 barber shop, cafe and cigar store. TSrl.s work will begla as Koon as the paving pav-ing of the avenue and the placing of concrete tddewalkfl under way. The contractor having In hand tho removal of the buildings from the avenue is malting Kplendld progress 1 od state that he is certain of having hav-ing even-thing In readlm-ss for the new avenue at the contract time. The city engineering deportment has advertised for bids for the paving, pav-ing, cnrblnc and guttering, sewering Jiid rddewalklng of the avenue, th publication of the proposition to be concluded In twenty days. At the en I of that time the bids will be considered consid-ered by the city council and tJie con-Irpct con-Irpct awarded. The engineer Is also advertising for hlds for the paving of Washington avenue from Twenty-tccond Twenty-tccond street to the Ogdeu rlvei roldge, the work to be done In crm-necllon crm-necllon with th Hudson avenue work, the purpose of this being to make the contract of sufficient prr portions to" warrant th contractor, Khould lie be an Ogdn man. In tho construction of a local asphalt plant; A majority of the property owners on Hudson avenue, between Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, held an enthusiastic meeting at tho Weber Club roocn-s la-st night and decided upon up-on definite action looking; toward tho improvement of the property abutting the avenue. Those who attended tho meeting were M. S. Browning. Stanley Stan-ley Dee. Horace, Harold and Joseph Peery, J"ii T. Hurtst. John Sparo, J. C N'yo and O. A. Parmley. Tho property owners were unanimous unani-mous In the resolve that Hudson avenue ave-nue shall be made the most attractive attrac-tive businoss avenue of the city and that no means shall be spared in accomplishing ac-complishing that end. All agreed that there? should be uniformity uni-formity of architecture In the ercc-tlen ercc-tlen of buslnees Mocks on the street and that none should be built except under the moat modern and advanced Ideas of architectural desipm These Ideas will ultimately ho embodied In articles of agreement aud signed by at least 5') per cent of the property owners alont tho new avenue and. It is said by one of the leading spirits lu the movement, It 1 more than like-ly like-ly that every property owner will agree to the provisions. The question first brought before the meeting was as to sajorms on the avenue There shall be nonn. This Is to 1o Incorporated In the written agreement. It -was said by a number of the proprietors ef business houses on 'Wa.shinEton avenue, between Twenty-.fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, who also own property on Hudson avenue, that, with the saloon eliminated from the business houses of the new avenue, they would erect first-class business blocks on Hudson avenuo at their earliest convenience and transfer their biisincPH from Washington avenue to the new- avenue. ave-nue. These men state that they are determined to not have a saloon on the avenue, and they will use tludr very best efforts to induce tho mayor and the city council to not j;rant licenses for saloons in hat district. It also decided hy those at the meeting that no business building on the avenue shall be less than two stories high and that hII sholl be modern and substantial In every n-rpecf, n-rpecf, the objee't betnp; to have th avenue present nn appearand Qf un. foimity In "structural dentin as neur as practicable It Is the purpose or tlose Interested that Hudson avesjim fhall become th i'pto-daf nutdncas I art of the city. All present wcr enthusiastic In their advocacy of this particular Idea and It was announced that all would work with nn eye single sin-gle to the accomplishment of this ptir-pe.K". ptir-pe.K". Therr will be no wiring on the surface sur-face of the avenue and the street will be entirely free from point, of any description. de-scription. All the wirlnc for electric lights or- telephones, will be placed under ground The avenue will liv IlKhied.by twelvo cluster llRhts pine-oil pine-oil along the:slewalks on either Kld of the avenue, alx clusters on eath rile. This will brilliantly llht th" entire avenue and kIv an electric illumination that trill he attractive. Within thirty days all the building now stnndlPC on the avenuo will be razed and the contractors will bcRin I the laying of the sewer In that dl- j trlct. ihe placing of the osphaltum on ! the ctrcvt and tho buijdinjj ol the |