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Show MARION HOTEL UP :,;JHREE STORIES 'itoof Will Be in Place Before the Winter Storms Commence Other New Buildings Are Rapidly Nearing Completion Paving' Continues on Washington Avenue. It will require only a few more days' work for the niasons to finish the walls of the Marlon hotel, on Lincoln Lin-coln avenue and Tvvcntyfifth street. The roof will be In place within the next two weeks and the building will then bo under cover and Insldo work will not le Interrupted by the winter weather. The building is now assuming assum-ing definite form nnd Is a creditable 1 Btructure. I The Bamberger Interurban car line people are putting stony, block in the roadbed on Twenty-fifth Btrect, on the south 6lde of its Intersection with Lin-j Lin-j coin avenue, and it is stated that they I intend finishing the roadbed to Twenty-fourth street, along Lincoln avenue, i This piece of road has been open for a number of weeks, the excavation 1 for the same having been made at the I beginning of that time The foreman of the work states that the road will (be 'built as soon as the concrete base can be laid, and that the eoqereters j will be at work within the next day or two. I In David Maule's new business block on Twenty-fifth street, near Lincoln avenue, the workmen are busy installing install-ing the heating apparatus and finish ing the inner part of the Btructure. 1 The tileman Is also at work laying tile On the ground tloor of the building. build-ing. Mr. Matile says this building will be ninouj the most modern of its kind In the city. Fluishlng-bnuchos are being given to the A. G. Tell and the Fred Mc-ls-iicr business houses on Grant aven- e, and they will be ready for occupancy within the next two weeks. A force of men were on Hudson avenue this morning finishing the sidewalks. The gutter from the avenue to Grant avenue, av-enue, on Twenty fourth street, has been completed. Th stone block gutter gut-ter has bc?n removed and replaced v.jth concrete guttering, which is an. improvement. The asphalt layers on Washington avenue are working on the second lap from Twenty-second street north today, to-day, the block ".-'tween Twenty-second and Twenty-first having been finished yesterday. Street building in this locality lo-cality Is progressing rapidly, and It will not 'be many days at the rate of advancement now being made until the avenue Is laid with asphalt. There are three street intersections, Twenty-second, Twenty first and Twentieth, to be laid, but it will not require much time for that. The asphalt plant is runnin gfull capacity. |