Building Boom

Dun's Review has published some illuminating statistics on the current boom in construction. New building permits filed last March call for the expenditure of $318,926,000, compared with $248 million in the month preceding, $189 million in January, 1924, and $292 million in March, 1923.

Most of the leading centres of population show larger amounts this March than for the same month last year; leading examples are Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Greater New York, Memphis, Dallas, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and practically all the Pacific Coast cities. Yet many large cities, notably Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Indianapolis and smaller Western and Southern centres, show a decrease compared to 1923.