Los Angeles Herald, Volume 44, Number 63, 13 June 1895 — REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING [ARTICLE]

REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING

Transfers Now Indicate More Than Mere Speculation BUILDING IS INCREASING Many Palatial Residences Are Under Contract Architects Busy With Residence and Business Block Plans—Contractors Also Increasing Their Forces

A talk With some of the leading real estate dealers yesterday indicates a good feeling among that class of business men. The number of transfers , while tair.docs not indicate the real pulse of tbe real estate market,as it is really hetter than the mere number might lead one to suppose. Every transfer now has some object more than mere speculation, generally the immediate building of a residence or business block.

A hasty circulation among the archi tects revealed pltns in preparation for six flats on Vincent street for P. Nichols by Capitain it Krempel, and in the same office Simon Maier is having plans made for a §6fioo residence on Grand avenue near Twelfth street, and Joseph Meyers for a residence on Sixteenth and 1' igueroa streets, to cost $Hof)0. The Builder and Contractor furnishes the following on future buildings in the bands of architects and contractors: Austin & Kronnick have prepared plans for Mrs.B.E.Harrington for a residence on Bonnie Brae street,near Tenth ; cost 15000. Dennis & Farwell are the architects for H. L. Gordon, who will build a three- j story brick block on Btoadway, noar Sec- ] ond street. R. B. Young is preparing plans for J.B. Lankcrshim for a two-story building, 100x75. on the corner of Central avenue and Wild street; it will contain four stores on the tirst floor and twenty-three rooms on the Hoot above. Burton ,fc Parkinson ate preparing plans for Clark et Bryant for a one-story brick building, to be erected on the corner of Washington and Main streets, to be I'M feet on Main street and 6U feet on Washington street, to contain eight stores. J. R.'„Vogcl will build a two-story building on Hill street between Seventh and Eightli streets, to cost $4060, F. D Hudson will build a story and a half cottage on the north side of Thirtysixth street, between Main street and Maple avenue: cost $217-. R. J. Waters will build a two-story residence on lot li. block 2, Beaudry ttact, east side of Grand avenue, between Second and Third streets; cost 16319, From tbe Journal we take the following items, whicn indicate the general trend of real estate sales and building: McGarvin St Bronson have sold lots 33 and 34 in the Bornsuii tract to Miss M, Moore for $1(100 cash. Gowen. F.berle ,t Co. have sold a lot on West Twenty-eighth street near Grand avenue to M. S. Lee for $01X1. Clark k Bryan have completed the sale to J. W. Minion of the last live lots in the South Bonnie Brae tract for s.VWIO. Mrs. L. H. Stagg is building a cottage to rent on Twenty-eighth street near Wesley avenue. It will cost about $050. J. Waggoner tt Co. aie prepaiing plans ot a residence of live rooms tor Rev. F. S. Woodcock of Monrovia, to cost aoout SI 1100. A Mr. Wright has commenced a twostorv house on Thirty-seventh street vest of Wesley avenue. It. will cost about $1500. Hannibal Edwards will move iiis residence from tlie corner of Fifth and Main strets to San Julian street, to make room for a line business block. Gowen, Eberle & Co. have purchased a lot on Twenty-eighth street, between Main street and Grand avenue, for $1000. The probabilities are that the gentlemen will build on this lot. I. J. Brenner has sold lot 64 in his , Ninth-street tract to Charles F. Roark for 1150. Mr. Roark will build at once for his residence. This makes eight lots sold in this tract the past week. He has also sold lots lb'. 17. anil (S in his Ninth-street tract to C. D. J. Beck 'or $r>oo. Mr. Beck is moving his family to live on these lots. Thomas Lloyd of University bas sold lots 15 and lb of block A. West Los Ani eles, belonging to B. B. Bird to Mrs. Agnes L. Ryan for tbe sum of $2000. J. Waggoner & Co. architects have just let the contract lor the building of a sixroom house to bo built on Jefferson street on lot ISO of the Bronson tract for Mis. Sarah Mnnara: to cost $000. The sale that Clark ,fc Bryan made several months since of Dr. Wise's 70 feet on Main street, between .Fifth and Sixth to C. J. Ball for $18,000 is tinaily. through the efforts of the above agents, closed up and the deed recorded yestrday. The plumbers have tinished work in tbe I. X. Davidson residence; the lathers and plasterers began yesterday. This will be a very complete building. J. Waggoner it Co. have prepared plans for a large and handsome residence of twelve rooms to be built by Captain Foster of British Columbia. This line dwelling is to be located on Grider & Dow's Adams-street tract, m Adams street near Central avenue. It will cost about 15000 It is a large two-story mansion built on the old colonial style The following list of prospective new buildings is taken from yesterday's Build er and Contractor: A. J. Htanler will shortly build a large warehouse and grist mill on the corner of Seventh antl Market streets. Riverside. A. P. Erie intends building a residence on East Fifth street, near Cummiiigs street. Kelly Bros, intend building a warebouse on a lot which they have purchasd at Eddy's'gruve. Santa Baroara. Colonel Mayberry intends building another block at Hem it. 11. Edwards, :>O3 South Main street, intends building a two-story brick block (10x00 feet on tho southwest corner of Main and Fifth streets. The lower part will be for stores and lodgings above. The Baptists propose building a new church at Long Beach on Locust avenue, Second and Third streets. James I. Clements will build a cottage on Towne avenue, near Fifth street. 1 The Los Angeles Whip company intends building a factory on San Pedro street, near Eighth street. Mrs. Cora Eldrod intends erecting a handsome residence on the corner of North Raymond avenue and Mountain street, at Pasadena. William F, Buihank, proprietor of the I Record, is planning to erect a seven- | story office building. Tho basement will be devoted to pressroom and type-setting I machines,the first floor for business office and some of tlie upper lloors for editorial, reporting and oflice rooms. The Los Angeles Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta company will furnish tlie pressed brick for J. fi, Bullard's building. Tne bids for contracts for tbe Morgan Oyster company building will be received up to.the lL'th instant by Morgan ,fc Walls. Bids for contract on carpenter work on the Billiard block will be received up to 5 T. in., June 12th by Morgan it Walls. The ti. W. Blinn Lumber compay bave leased for ten years from F. A. Jesurum the northeast comer of Third and San Pedro streets, where they will suortly remove their offices and yards. If material men and contractors read the mechanics' lien law there would be fewer "void contracts," less occasion for liens being filed, and much trouble and uncertainty avoided. The supervisors of Los Angeles county are inviting bids for the construction o"f an addition to ro.im 46 of the county court house; also, for tbe graing and till-

ing in of a portion of Western avenue | Bids will be received up to 2 p. m. June ; 20th. I The luniher companies ot Ban Diego i bave got together and reduced tho prico of lumber $2 per thousand. This makes the price of rough lumber $1"> per thousand. Thi lumber men say they made the reduction voluntarily, for tbe purpose of stimulating building in this city. The price of tnis lumber is in Los Angeles at present $17.50. For further building news read the Builder and Contractor. HE WAS A DECEIVER In Spite of the Fact That His Name Was Dean Calla Meyers has begun judicial proceedings to have the marriage which she contracted wi'.h Charles Charles Campbell, alias Charles Dean, set aside and annulled. Sho says that she married Charles on January 21, believing him to bo sirglc. Since then sho has been in formed that he married a certain Miss Thomas at Monmouth, 111., in 1801, and this lady is still bis wife. When Charles married Miss Calla ho represented to her that he was a minister ofthe gospel, in affluent circumstances, and that his name was Campbell,whoreas sho has since learned to her sorrow that he was not a parson had no title or interest in the fleshpots of Egypt, and that instead of being entitled to the aristocratic cognomen of Campbell his very plebeian name is Dean. The fair [plaintiff avers that Dean posed before her as a chaste and virtuous man .at tlie time of the marriage, but sbe adds that he was so pel force at the time owing to physical diseases. This last reason is made one of the grounds for the annulment of the Campbell-Dean entanglement. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Action (o Secure Better Freight Rates for Los Angeles Fourth ol July — Good Roads Movement. California Products In the East—lndian Antiquities

The board of directors of the chamber of commerce met yesterday afternoon, the following named officers and directors being piesent: Cline. Davisson, Graft', Jones, Klokke. Mullen, Munson, Patterson, Parsons. Stimson and Vetter.

President Patterson occupied the chair. The following were elected to membership in the chamber: C. Loonardt, S. S. Salisbury, Charles VV. Adams and Stanley 0. Bagg.

Through its chairman, Director Parsons, the committee on railways and transportation reported in the matter of the rates from New York to San Francisco by way of Panama, wheb were enabling the San Francisco jobbers to cut under the Los Angeled trade, advising that a meeting of tho merchants interested be called at tlie chamber of commerce and that it he ascertained what am cunt of freight could be pledged to any line ot steamers that would stop at the adjoining port. This recommendation was adopted, and a meeting will be called in the near future. A communication was read from Gaptain Overton with regard to participation iv the Fourth of July parade on the part of the chamber. The secretary was instructed to respond that on investigation it had been found that so many of the otricers and members of the chamber were members of other organizations that would participate in the parade, that it was, in the opinion of tlie board, impracticable to attampt a general demonstration on the part of the chamber. A communication with regard to the establishment of a sanitarium in this vicinity was referred to the committee on sanitation. Director Davisson chairman. A communication was read fiom the chamber of commerce of Galveston, Texas, announcing the successful completion of the deep water harbor at that place and thanking the Los Angeles chamber for its assistance in agitating the matter. The secretary was instructed to respond congratulating tlie chamber of commerce of Galveston upon the success of its efforts and soliciting its assistance towards tbe contsruction of a harbor in this vicinity as the Paciiic complement of tbe Galveston harbor. The subject of good roads coming up for discussion, it was moved and carried that the president be authorized to call a meeting of the members of the chamber and tho members of the League of American Wheelmen at some early date to consider what can be done to improve the condition of tho highways of Los Angeles county. The secreary was instructed to prepare a circular of Inquiry with regard to the reception with which California products were met in the east and the condition in which they were presented to eastern consumers, which should be sent to several hundred grocers and fruit dealers in the eastern states who handle California products, their answers to be embodied in a circular to be distributed among California producers. A proposition was presented from tbe owner of one of the largest and most valuable collections or" Southern California Indian antiquities for its display in the chamber of commerce and the matter was referred to a special committee con si sting of President Patterson. Vice-Presi-dents Forman and Stimson and Secretary Wiilard, to report at the next meeting. The board then jn motion adjourned.

Mangled hy a Trailer

John S. George, father ol Otis George, a 9-year-old boy, yesterday sued tho Los Angeles Railway company for 925.000 damages. On May .". tho little hoy, while go ing from the public school to his aunt's house, crossed I'asadena avenue, Fast Los Angeles, and one of the street car company's trailers which was being pushed along by some youngsters passed over the child and mangled its left leg so that it had to be amputated. The complamt avers that the trailer, which is a light car generally used in connection witli the regular motor car, had been left unguarded by the company upen a public thoroughfare.

To the Charge At that command you double time and hay onet tlie enemy in the fracas.—Now to charge upon the landlord you double timo up to our office and get stuck on one of our cosy little homes we are selling on monthly payments, just like rent ami no ensh down Come and join the army of emancipitted renters. Hermit in? office 226 8, Spring, (iencral (debility) I.aiiK worthy.