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MOttlMr, ftKPTKMBKR 28, 1008.KAHN SYSTEMWILL BE USEDON ARCADETEMPORARY WORK OX ItUUJHKG FINISHED, NOW READ f’ON-STiiiXTiox wriiL begin.Quick Work in Rebuilding WrUlifclt Room—Plate Gla^s Yet to Be Put, In.The temporary work on the new Arcade building, mad 3 necessary for the accommodation of the Browne grocery and Meridith clothing store, having been finished, the contractor, Mt. E3. K. Hibbs, has now begun thepeimancnt construction of the building.A big concrete mixing machine is now on the job. The Kalin people, who erected the Eli Mull six story structure, have* the contract for putting in the reinforced concrete work, which will soon commence.The building will be made of concrete and brick with tile partitions in the basement and a gravel roof will take the'place of the temporary roof now over part of the east end of the structure. The temporary wooden partitions ‘in the Brown and Meridith 1 corns will be removed niter and plate glass will take their places, giving both stores a glass frontage on the Arcade and adding about two feet in width to each of the two rooms mentioned.The Third street front of the Arcade will be made of cement and glass, tha Fourth street front of red brick oE ftne quality. The Arcade fe to be floored with tile.George Vogelmeier, who has been doing the excavating since July 1, is now removing the earth from under the Browne and Meridith rooms, which were built upon concrete piers. The iron and reinforced concrete work on this part of tflfe building isyet to be done. -Meridirh Brothers .vacated their old room on August 10th and they began to put their fixtures in the new room on September 23- This week the new store is to be opened. As before stated the wooden nor-th Avail in their room will be taken out and replaced with plate glass within a few weeks.
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Newark Advocate
Newark, Ohio, US
Sun, Sep 27, 1908
Page 7
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