New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 18

BUILDING PERMITS FOR DAY $63,000 Four New Houses Containing 21 Apartments to Be Erected The office of Building John C. Gilchreest did a recor: breaking business this morning, per. mits having been issued for apartment houses, the total cost of which will be $63,000, and by which 21 new tenements will be afforded. D. D. Rachlin was given a permit for a six tenement house at 90 West | street, 61x36, the cost of which will be $17,000; Carmino Mottola was given a permit to build a six tene- ment house at 138 Beaver street, 85x64, to cost $17,000; Stanley Bog- danski took a permit to build a six tenement house at 101 Gold street, 36x60, to cost $16,000; and C. Cianci was granted a permit to build a three tenement house at 348 Eim street, 30x43, to cost $12,000, Curtin Has Busy Year Electrical Inspector Cyril J. Curtin has completed his annual report and will submit it to the common coun- cil at its next meeting. Although the | inspector has no assistant in his de- partment, the report shows nearly 1,- 000 more inspections made this year than last year when the office had three inspectors. The permits {ssued were also greatly in excess of those of last year. ¢ During the year 1,223 permits were issued and 1,768 inspections were made. The {inspections covered a great variety of electrical jobs, the following itemized account of Curtin's work shows: New tenements, 427; old tenements, 792; fixtures, 47; garages, 159; stores, 168; signs, 8; dairies, 10; #as atations, 14; club rooms, 2; spe- elal, 28; apartments, 1; factory, 7T: hotels, 7; warchouse, 1; service, 27; fcehouse, 1; bottling works, 1; laun- dry, 1; repair shop, 2 temporary work, 10; church, theaters, 3; barns, 12; oil heaters, batteries, achools, fire department com. plaints, 14; bakery ,1; halls, 2; hos- pital, 1; wires replaced, 8; condemned wiring, 8; gas pumps, 2; stereopticon machine, 1. 10 GIVE GONCERT HERE Inspector | four } LIGHTS V5. RADIO | 1 Paso Citizens Claim Arc Lights In- | terfere With Broadcast Reception— Want Investigation. El Paso, Tex, April 11.—Declaring arc lights interfere with wireless mes- sages, radio fans here have induced the city courcil to postpone calling for s for lights for the new white way antil- tests can be n J. T. Burke, president of the El Paso Radio club, protested that “after an arc light has burned a short time chattering is produced which throws out a carrier wave.” “One lamp would interrupt radio communication within a radius of four or five blocks and 400 would |the entire city,” he said. “This would not only interfere at El Paso but the chatter might be picked .up by a high power set and broadcast for miles outside.” “Summer is nearly here, anyway,” said G. A. Winder, who has the lights to II. “In the summer you might Jjust as well put away your radio sets, for nothing but ‘blah-blah’ can be re- |ceived anyway.” Ford’s Hegewisch Plant To Double Its Capacity Chicago, April 11.—Contracts have Leen let to double the size of the Hegewisch plant of the Ford Motor |company at a reported cost of $1,- 750,000 making it one of the largest assembling plants of the company. The present plant, understood to have cost $1,500,000, was opened in Janu- ary, is operating with a force of be- tween 1,300 &nd 3,500 men, and re- cently established a'record when it turned out 300 complete cars twenty-four hours, { | Doctor, Experimenting, Sleepless for 59 Days T.os Angeles, Cal, April 11.—Dr. Willlam F. K#y, Los Angeles physi- cian, was enjoying an undisturbed |slumber today after a series sald kept him awake almost continu- | ously for fifty-nine days. “The prin- | »xplained just before turning in last night for a eound sleep, “was for the | subject to get on the threshold of un- consclousness right at the point where one is about to doze off is going on 1a his mind,” Saxony’s Lone Saxophone Attracting Great Crowds Washington, April 11,—~There is one saxophone in Saxony and it is attract- ing 80 much attention that special po- llce guards are kept in front of the | shop which exhibits it to keep the ; SHIPPING PROBE affect | in! of | physiological experiments which he | cipal object of the experiment,” he | to | sleep, and then to tell observers what | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1924. 1 | Wisconsin, took up rate conferences, referring rtic ly to what he termed an “almost treasonable con- spiracy agalnst American taxpayers,” by foreign lines who 1 ma it possible China cheaper tI shipments agair from Washington and Oregon. Mr. Thompson said the board ticipation in rate conferences w matter for tmmediate consideration and added that in his opinion a ma- ority the board was opposed to participation. Records Show Shipping Board Operat- | ave ors Also Were Agents For Foreign g e n rates charged for. | American shippers for Companies, { Washington, April 11.—At t iug of today's shipping board hearing, | Cooper, republican, Wisconsin, a member of pen. par- Kepresenfative 2 the cormmti- tee, read from a record showing sev- of cral shipping board operators also acted as agents for foreign ship lines, and Commissioner Thompson replied | that he had prepared several resolu- tions to forbid such practi but that |no action had been taken on them. The commissioner asserted he did believe President Palmer of the emergency fleet corporation was a di- |rector of the international mercantile marine or any other line competing with the shipping board. Chairman O'Connor of the announced today that the board kurlnpud a plan to consolidate t} |trade routes operating between north |Atlantic and United Kingdom ports which retain all the 31.s in the |service. President Palmer of the |emergency fleet corporation, has r ommended withdrawing 11 ships from the trade. The agreement will retain as operators the W. A. Blake & Com- |pany and the Baltimore Steamship | |company of Baltimore in a southern route, and J. H. Winchester & Com- pany of New York, in a northern | service, g + P tepresentative Cooper, republica FOUR PRISONERS HELD London Commissioner Charges 'm With Navigation Violations w London, April 11.— The four brought in here coast guard cutter ed in the local customs before U. Cemmission- er Earle Matthewson of Norwich and bound over to the fe court, charged with proceeding in foreign waters without delivering manifest and obtaining clearance, hez of this ip of the t New Th N prison on the > arrai; tod, not board has Joseph 8 claimed owners en prohibition nd Arthur Row- required to former »ment agents and of Bridgepor turnish g Suspiclon connccting them with the $6,000 bank robbery at Bellmore, L. 1 s set aside last evening when State ice Sergeant Clifford Gorgas board- ied them. t are 786 PAIRS OF NEWEST STYLES ON SALE | to ship Canadian lumber to | {Hearing on Erection of j‘\\ omen Democrats Will Elm St. Public Garage| Owners of adjoining properties will be given a hearing on the construc- |tion of a public garage by H. Kop- | pel on Elm street, ncar East Main |in the cemocratic successes at WANT 30 SPEED BOATS First of Drq Armada Will Be Started | Soon in New War On Rum ‘Run- ning Vessels, ) " . commission next Tuesday evening at |ing of the general committee Washington, April 11.—The admin- | 7,30 orelock. |the ward chairmen for next istration program for expansion of the | coast guard to fight rum runners was | qw 3107 . % today with the f4o Million in Bonds for started on its way cpening of bids for construction of 30 | speed boats, the first of a flotilla of | veral hundred craft to be added un- | r the recent appropriation ol - . “(,”'L ;“"Lp:fl“;'.“.,l “,h: ;;:w‘uoltner bonus bonds, officials of the _ Crait Wil cost around $7.000 each, | American Legion announced today | Woman Expert to Study The next step after contracting for | {hat the 800 posts in the state would boats, will be the receiving | 2@ Teady to assist veterans in filling | T it | out “bonus application blanks when ) . L re distributed from Albany by the bonus for' the specdboats call for | trial speeds of ulrou}l 12 k‘.‘;olxt, or :n {commission about May 1. The com- agflg:"';',‘efimnf on bility to overhaul any rum running | Pensation law gives $10 a month for | I S0 craft with which the guard has ruuw:“"“h1 full mf““"iiso"fl “"“‘Clfi “P! to in contact thus far in its chase of rum Maxlmum o or &il veterans | . 7 i | who enlisted as residents of .\'ew-?xo“'tcei i tr?fl ]‘""'cd Eten | York state. visi s unofficlal. | | Miss Allen performed valuable Mauretania Touches Ground | somen munition workers a But Is Not Damaged at All| Southampton, April 11.—~The Cun- ard liner Mauretania, which left Southampton in tow this morning for CONGRATULATES PAONESSA. | Cherbourg for repairs, is reported to 'have touched ground when turning| Congragulatory m ges continued e | ment, )mur"‘ . office of Mayor A.' New York Bonus Are Sold |open one at which all New York, April 11.—With sale of the $45,000,000 New York |8an has announced. 100,000, London, April 11.—Miss London’s the ganization and working of SMugg In addition to the $14,000,000 which will be used for the speedboats and cutters and for additional personnel, the recent appropriation provides that the guard will receive 20 dwstroyersl nd two mir pers from the navy. | order of the British Empire. | the war she has supplied {women police for Ireland and Calshot Point, near the Isle of Wight. | X M® Paone ed was [#he was not damaged and proceeded | e from Congressthan P. B. 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