Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — CUSTOM WAREHOUSE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUSTOM WAREHOUSE.

Active Work on the New Appraiser’s Store in New York City. Congress last session authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to make con-

tracts to the extent -of a million dollars for the completion of the new warehouse for the Government appraisers in New York. On March 4, $200,000 was appropriated for immediate use. The original appropriation on Sept 14, 1888, was for $850,000 for the site, which occupies the entire block bounded by Washington, Greenwich, Christopher and Barrow streets, and $650,000 for a ten-story pressed brick and granite building. This latter sum was found to be Inadequate, and has been expended In the construction of the first two stories. The contract for the entire work was given to Michael Giblin, of New York city, in November, 1892. The building, when completed, will be about 130 feet In height, and will have a frontage of 214.3 feet on Washington street. It will be finished In two years If the Supervising Architect’s oflice finishes the drawings and plans at once. The drawings have yet to be made. This new warehouse will t>e capacious enough to meet all possible requlre-

mentis of the appraisers’ stores for many years to come. The delay in Its construction costs the Government more than $75,000 a yea,r for the rental of private property to hold the stores. What Is commonly known as the “Chicago construction" Is being employed in the new structure. The outer walls serve merely as lnclosures, and not as supports.except for their own weight,the entire weight of the floors being upheld by hundreds of columns and girders.

NEW CUSTOM WAREHOUSE.