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4 Contract Let for Hamburgers Big Department Store PLEDGES OF THE WELL KNOWN COMPANY ARE MADE GOOD With the letting of the contract for the structural steel and Iron to the Llewellyn Iron works of this city on Monday last, begins the construction of what will be one of the largest buildings devoted exclusively to relail business west of Chicago. It is the fruition of the promise made by the Hamburgers to tha people of Los Angeles to erect a building for merchandise purposes the equal, if Aot the superior, of any in tha west. Iri the great Hamburger department store there will be no less than 5500 tons of steel required for the skeleton frame. This means 11,000,000 pounds material, costing about $450,000. To convey an adequate idea of the magnitude of the building, one has but.

to know that this is a larger tonnage of steel than was used In the Palrmount hotel at Ban Francisco and the Merchants exchange of the same city, together. It is more than 1000 tons in excess of the steel that was used in the Huntlngton building In this city and about five times as much as will be used In the construction of the Tehama building at the northwest corner of Seventh end Broadway. Home Material In Building In the construction of thld building there -will be used between thirty and thirty-five thousand barrels of cement for tha 646,000 square feet of floors and Ithe flreproofing of columns and beams. thousand barrels of this cement purchased In Los Angeles for Immediate delivery, so that tho work of putting In the retaining? walls and the foundation might not be delayed. The I remainder will be Imported by the company direct and only the very best German cement will be used.

Every piece of material used In the construction of this building will be the very best of Its kind purchasable, as It Is jthe Intention of the Hamburgers to make their building a model of its kind, and with this In view they have recently made a tour of the country with their architect, A. F. Rosenhetm, for the purpose of Inspecting the best department stores of seventeen of the most Important cities. Their building will embody the latest Ideas and improvements designed to facilitate and expedite the work of handling the business. Corner Broadway and Eighth The site, on the southwest corner of Eighth and Broadway, has a frontage 300 feet on Broadway, 161 feet on Eighth street, with a wing or extension running through 161 feet to Hill street, with a frontage of 124 feet on that thoroughfare, thus covering a ground space or area of 70,000 square feet.

This Is 10,000 square feet larger than the Huntlngton building at Sixth and Main streets, itself one of the largest structures In the United States. The building will rise five stories and a half above the sidewalk, to a height of about 120 feet, with a twelve-foot clear basement over the entire area and a sub-basement at the Eighth street end, having a clear height of twenty-two feet, providing an area of about 50x170 feet for the light, heat, power and refrigerating plants, as well as other machinery that will be required for the cooling and cleaning and the pneumatic "tube system, which will be be extensive. The stories will be of the following unusual heights: Twentythree feet for the first, eighteen feet for 'the second and sixteen feet each for the third, fourth and fifth, while the attic will average eight and a half feet, and Is designed to contain the piping In connection with the heating, Ventilating and plumbing systems. Here will be 1 located all the workrooms used in connection with the various departments of the store, such as millinery, cloak and suit, tailoring, dressmaking, window shades, carpets, Ornamental Front The materials to be used In the exterior are highly ornamented castiron from sidewalk grades up to and Including the second story sill course, from point to the top of the parapet full glazed or enameled creamcolored terra cotta, the same treatment being carried throughout the Broadway, Eighth and Hill streets fronts, along simple architectural lines. The Interior will be finished throughout In selected mahogany.

All stairways will be of steel and concrete construction, enclosed in fireproof shafts; likewise the elevators, oe which there will be ten, as follows, six exclusively for passenger service, with cars of unusual pize, designed to carry from twentyfive to forty people; two exclusively for tho use of employes and two exclusively for the use of 'freight. The freight cars'with be 6xll feet each. The type of elevators to bo installed lias not yet been- determined, but it Is safe to cay lhat they will be of the latest and most approved pattern, equipped with all safety devices known to the lead- Ing manufacturers. Elevators and Moving Stairways In addition to the elevators, It is the Intention to install a series of or moving stairways, extending from the first to the top floor, and by means of which people can be carried to the upper floors at the rate of 4000 per hour, far exoeeding the capacity of all the elevators. There will be a gravity package conveyor connecting with all floors and terminating in the shipping room in the basement of the Hill street wing.

In connection with the shipping department there will be a city system which is believed to be original in Idea' with the Hamburgers, that of having the wagons enter thebasement by means of an Inclined --driving up to the distributing parcel tables, loading and driving out in the same manner. In this way I the street will be entirely free of obstruction and both the firm's freight and. its parcels will not in any way interfere: with the public or Impede the Two large entrances on the Hill street, wing provide for the runway to the basement on one side, and for the reception of freight on the other. Here the large trucks carrying freight backed in from the street to large freight elevators forty feet back in "the building, being entirely within the building, and the ele: vators will beraised or lowered as the i condition of the load makes it more easily handled. Interior Features In the designing of this building, especial care was taken to apace th 9 columns as wide as possible consistent strength and safety.

The longer the column, the more expensive the steel, but to avoid a sea of columns it decided to pay more for the steel. In tbia respect the column spacing will exceed in width most of the department stores in the United States. Plate glass only will be used In the windows throughout, and where occur on. dividing property lines, they will be furnished with gteel i frames, and and wire glass, making them absolutely, fireproof bo far us external effects of heat ore concerned. The.

in the elevators and. stair shafts will, in like be; provided with wire glass, polished as 'not to obstruct the PART llf VIEW OF THE MAGNIFICENT DEPARTMENT STORE BUILDING TO BE ERECTED IMMEDIATELY ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BROADWAY AND HILL STREET. TOTAL COST $1,500,000 The floors throughout will be of selected white maple in narrow strips. Plaster of Keene's cement will be employed, and all ceilings will be subdivided Into panels by means of plastered beams, running longitudinally and transversely, on the lines of the columns, all of which will be circular and finished with an ornamented cap directly under the beams. The steel frame of the building has been designed of sufficient strength to permit of the erection of two or three additional stories at some future time, bringing the height of the building up to the full limit allowed by the city ordinances.

The cost of the structure, exclusive of the interior counters, shelving, show cases, lighting fixtures, decorations, etc. will be approximately $1,250,000. The fixtures themselves, which it is proposed to construct of ma-, hogany, will increase the cost to in round figures. The excavation of the Broadway front of the building was done by Carl Leonardt, and of the Hill street frontage is being done by the Engstrom company. Fulfillment of Hamburger Pledge When the announcement was made last July that the Hamburgers intended to build this building, it was received with distrust.

It was passed around that it never would be built; that it was a scheme to unload a lot of property on the public at high prices, and under the guise of this improvement. The Hamburgers have been In business in Los Angeles since October, 1881, when they unfurled th-? banner of one price, cash, square dealing and uniform courtesy to all. They started in a little store on Main street, next door to the corner of Requena. Their business outgrowing the space, they had erected for them the Buniiller block, and in turn the Phillips block and Ponet Block. At present they occupy a ground space of about 186 feet on Spring street, running through to New High street.

Realizing that the city was fast growing southward and away from them, and recognizing the necessity of securing a location in the future center of the city, D. A. Hamburger was detached from the business to attend to this end of the work. He finally decided tint Eighth and Broadway should bo tin- Kilo, and this was concurred in by tlia company; Through the agency of 1. Hollingsworth and W.

It. Burke the Hamburgers started to buy up all the property they could. It -was their intention to build 180 feet from the southwest corner of Eighth and Broadway and the southeast corner of Eighth and Hill and 330 feet on Eighth street, but they were blocked by J. C. Kays, who refused all overtures to sell or exchange his southeast corner of Eighth and Hill.

Plans were then changed and feet on Broadway and 124 feet on Hill street, next to the Kays lot, were purchased. Profitable Investments The realty interests becoming so' large, The Hamburger Realty Trust company, with a capital of was formed, with A. D. Hamburger president, Messrs. S.

A. and M. A. Hamburger vice presidents and O. Sweet secretary, with offices in the Chamber of Commerce building.

The company's properties bought in and around the store site have so Improved in value that when the same are sold and converted into money the building and ground upon which it stands will represent the profit made on the adjacent pieces of property purchased as aforesaid. As a matter of public interest, it may be mentioned that the northwest corner of Eighth and Broadway was purchased by the company a year ago last June for $1000 a foot, and $4000 has been refused for it. In view of the rapid advance expected to be made in the southwestern business district, and the low prices" of real estate on Hill street as compared with Main, Spring or Broadway, the Hamburgers have again entered the market and made the following purchases on Hill street: Mrs. Marion E. Hassan sold to Hollingsworth Barr 50x103 feet on the west side of Hill street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, being the south two feet of lot five and the north forty-eight feet of lot six, in block Bixty-nine of Ord's survey, for the'sum of $43,500, or $870 a front foot.

Hollingsworth Barr in turn sold this property to The Hamburger Realty Trust company for $900 a front foot. This property was offered to the Hamburgers last June for $500 a foot and they declined it at that time because they thought they had enough. They also purchased from a syndicate of owners, represented, by Title Insurance Trust company, through the agency of A. E. Halsey, 921 South Hill Btreet, being 50x155 feet to an alley, for the sum of $60,000, or $1200 a front A.

15, Halsey purchased from S. G. Grove the southwest corner LOS ANGELES 'SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL' 15, 1906. of Hill and Fourteenth streets, being 60x120 feet, for $29,000, and sold it to the Hamburger Realty Trust company for $30,000. Views of Mr.

Hamburger D. A. Hamburger of the Hamburger Realty Trust company, in speaking of the company's recent purchases on Hill street, says that he considers the piece above mentioned at $900 a foot the cheapest piece of business property in Los Angeles. In his judgment, Hill street is going to be the Fifth avenue of Los Angeles, and the next five years will see all the exclusive store? located on Hill street; that Hill street property between Seventh and Washington streets will, at any and all times In the future, be more valuable than Main or Spring street property; that within the next five years some of.lhe large stores situated on Broadway, north of Third, will bo doing business on Hill street, south of Seventh, and goon will be scrambling for desirabla locations. He says that he believes that within the next two years property on Hill street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, will be worth $1500 a foot, and between Ninth aitd Tenth streets will be worth between $1750 and $2000 a foot.

Mr. Hamburger is a great believer in the future greatness of this city, so much so that he has never sold a piece of property until the price he had put upon It was reached. Although prices in the district south of Seventh street have gone up as high as $5000 a foot, the next ten years will see values down there as high as $10,000. This confidence in that section of the city is shown by the investments they have made there. Mr.

Hamburger believes that Hill street, being the last to be Improved with business blocks, will be benefited by the latest construction and the high valuation of the property makes It necessary for owners to put up elegant blocks. Consequently, Hill street will be more beautiful and more symmetrical than any other street in town, and he considers that in the next five years Hill street will have Main and Spring streets outclassed in every direction. The character of improvements that are going up on Main street south of Tenth, and the character of the business that is occupying the premises so improved. Indicates that it will never be as good as Hill street, as the character of business that will be prosecuted on Hill street will make the property on that street at all times more valuable? and income bearing. He says property will continue to improve Oil all the main thoroughfares, but for the reasens given, he prefers Hill street to others at present prices for investment.

NEW FAD PERIL TO HEALTH Special Cable to The Herald. LONDON, April Fashion's decree that smart women must wear gloves of elbow length without a wrinkle has brought into vogue a new pattern let to hold the glove In position, called a slave bangle, and medical men prophesy a large Increase in disease of the circulatory system. JMfBJWI "It is greatly- to be deplored that women are wearing a tight bandage round their arms," a physician said. "I have seen patients pull off their gloves and snow below the elbow a deep weal where the bangle had bitten In. I have tried to instill- fear of varicose veins and their attendant miseries into their hearts, but I find that a hint that the new fashion may result in a woman's hands becoming as red as her kitchen maid's has in many eases proved more effectual." GRIM TRAGEDY AFTER SUICIDE Parisian Who Secures Piece of Fatal Rope Fractures Skull in Hurrying Away Special Cable to The Herald.

PARIS, April A curlou3 tragedy, arising out of a grim superstition, occurred yesterday in the Faubourg dv Temple, where a police sergeant discovered that a clerk named Durenae had hanged himself in his room. The news spi'ead from the house and the neighbors hurried in to cut off pieces from the fatal rope. These pieces are considered to Insure good luck to their owners. A vagabond named Guisset, hearing of the suicide, and wishing to obtain a talisman, stole Into the house, ran upstairs to the dead man's room anil cut off a piece of rope. Hearing a noiso In the next room, he fled downstairs in such hasto.

that he fell mid fractured liis skull. Ho was picked up dying, with the "talisman" still clutched in his hand. MI.IH Ilhciiiiiutixm Milken l.l fo Miserable A happy home is the most valuable possession that Is within the roach oC mankind, but you cannot enjoy its comforts if you are suffering from rheumatism. You throw aside business cares when you enter your home and you can be relieved from those rheumatic pains also by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. One application will give you relief and Its continued use for a short time will bring about a permanent cure.

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