Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1913, Page 15

NORWICI When The Bulletin's figure of $604,634,124 for the year 1911 for the aggregate monetary transaction of New London and Windham counties in banking, manufacturing and Jjobbing was published, it looked surprisingly big, but that big total is surpassed by the showing for 1912. There has been no stop In prosperous conditions generally which have attended this eastern end of Connecticut in the past twelve months, so that this period now comes forward with the mag- nificent showing of $675,374,831 for the year. This is an increase of $75,913,707 over last year. How this is made up may be learned from a perusal of the pub- lished statistics in this issue of The Bulletin, treating in detail each of the three departments of trade, banking, manufacturing and Job- bing. A summary along county lines may be given as foliow: New London county’s business total for 1911 was $467,496,803; for 1912 it was $467,933,884. Total banking figures for 1911 were $4 165,154, for 1912 were §412,424,696. Total jobbing in 1911 of $18,130,000 total manbfacturing of compared with $18,579,000 for 1912, and $47,201,649 In 1911 with $52,051,953 in 1912. In Windham county the total business shown in 1911 was $137,137,321. This time it is $207,440.947. Total banking figures of $89,380,085 In 1911 grew to $141,982.958 in 1912, total jobbing of $12,674,000 to $13,406,000, and total manufacturing from $35,083,236 to $36,930,193. VARIED MANUFACTURING PLANTS OF NORWICH PUT $3,340,860 AS WAGES IN CIRCULATION Cotton Mills Distributing $1,308,000 Lead All Other Classes—Firearms and Cutleries in Second Place—Norwich Products 1912 Were Worth $12,473,642. In two lines of manufacture, cotton and silk, some of the big wage maller figures for the year 19 distributing mills of Norwich showed than in 1911 with enough effect that gains in other lines of industry failed to offset the loss among the two industries named. The result is that the wage figure in Norwich for the two years is approximately the same—3$3,340,860 in 1912 and $3,385,000 in 1911. In value of product esuing from the Norwich mills and factories there was shown $12,473,642 in 1912 to $13,027,057 in the year before. From the statistics gathered it is shown that the cotton mills dis tributed $1,308,000 in wages and produced $4,175,000 in goods. to figures of $1,350,911 and $4,343,951 in the preceding twelve months. Foundry and iron work held at almost identical figures in ‘he two vears, $166,650 for wages and $542,000 for product. The woolen mills also make a showing of a healthy business year, $307,050 in wages and $1,408,300 in product in 1912 to $306,85¢ and $1,376,760 in the vear be- fore. A healthy business gain is reported in the velvet business, but in the silk industry the shutting down of one mill, the withdrawal of another and curtailment of business brought the figures for silk and velvet mills together down lower than last year. They put out $316,750 in wagee in 1911, 783 in 1912. Their product was $2,390,000 and $2,205,600 in the two years, respectively. Firearms and cutlery classed together showed = gain frem 1911 to 1912. Wages in the former year were $432,900, product $866,750. This Year they were $479,565 and $867,441. The makers of paper and belting Were another class of manufacturers who showed a gain, from $167,125 in wages to $169,692. There were diminished figures in the workers on metal goods, wages in 1912 being $114,759 and product $425,000, to $163,100 and $454,000 in 1911. Miscellaneous industries gained in wage distribution from $434,000 to $527,361 with product in 1912 at $1,649,301 to $1,875,356 the year before. The jobbing houses of Norwich show that 1912 was a better year for them than 1911. Their trade in the former is placed at $10,940,000 and at $10,700,000 in the latter. NORWICH NOW ON THE CREST OF WAVE OF BUSINESS PROSPERITY Merchants in Wholesale and Retail Lines Are Progressive and Aggres- sive—New Manufacturing Industries Secured—The Rose Blossom- ing to Full Beauty. Norwich, it seems to me, never was before in as prosperous con- @ition as she is at this moment. ‘We have a line of merchants, both wholesale and retail are proud of. They are both progressive and aggres: they are gentlemen. I know of no city in New England comparing in e with ours that can show the full and varied lines of merchandise at reasonable prices that we can. This can be attested to, and is every day by the reports of those who move away from here, and also by the large numbers of non-residents who come here to trade. Some, perhaps, are not aware of the good service we enjoy from our retail merchants. You have only to watch the van ioads of goods shipped by our ‘wholesale merchants to have any idea of their activit: Each yvear our streets and roads are being improved It is true that the roads to Jewett City and Groton should be bettered and made state roads. We are promised them. The addition to our manufacturing industries of the Thermos bottle plant and MacKay Copper Process rompany adds very much not only in a business way but to the large number of desirable citizens who will come to us, employes of these concerns. It is well for us when we are inviting industries to locate with us to take into consideration the intelligence of their operatives, just the same as we do when we are buying apples, we try and not buy any specked ones. The increasing number of buildings in our hospital plants ‘unfortunates, although they may impart a feeling of sadnes: much to our city in many ways. We are seriously hampered in our growth by the iack of medium size homes for renting, and it is hoped that some who have both the means and the land will build this kind as an investment. ‘The completion of Stony brook reservoir marks the epoch of the turning point of the Rose from a bud to a full-blown American Beauty. that we et withal for the vet add 3. D. HAVILAND, President Yorwich Board of Trade. PAYROLLS OF WILLIMANTIC MANUFACTORIES INCREASED BY $112050 IN THE PAST YEAR Business Was Good with Mills in All Lines—Value of Product Greater by Over Half a Million. Willimantic’s manufacturing plants, Jarge and small, were a hum- ming hive of industry in the past year, indicating by their statistics on volume of business, wages and value of product that the vear was 2 good one for them. On wages put into circulation in the city through the annual payrolls of its Industries the gain for the year was $112,050, the gain in value of product $640,090 and the increase in volume of busi- ness done $1,069,810. These were indicated by the total wages shown in 1912 of $2,123,500 against $2,011,450 in 1911, total product of $10,654,000 against $10,013,100, and total volume of business of $18,190,100 against $17,120,290. In each class of industry, there was a good gain in business shown. The cotton mills paid out $5,300 more in wages, the silk and silk throw ing industries about $15,000 more, the iron working and machinery plants about $9,000 more, while in the general class in which all others are grouped there is a wages increase of $82,000 shown. These differ- ences are on wages figures in 1912 of $207,000 for cotton mills, $286,000 for silk mills, $111,000 for iron workers, and $1589,500 for all other industries. In value of product manufactured, the cotton mills gained from $781,500 to $787,000, silk mills from $1,124,000 to $1,165,000, iron workers from $335,200 to $357,500, and miscellancous industries from $7,773,200 to $8,344,500. The jobbing trade of the city showed a gain from $5,897,000 in 1911 to $9,535,000 in 1912. PUTNAM’'S MANUFACTURING PLANTS HAD BIG AND BUSY YEAR IN 1912 Town’s Industries Paid Out $701,000 in Wages, a Notable Gain Over Preceding Year—Cotton and Woolen Mills Were the Big Con- tributors. For 1912, the manufacturing plants of Putnam showed a vear of business gain that put them far ahead of the preceding twelve months. Tota! wages disbured in 1312 were $701,000, to $459,000 in the similar item for 1912, and value of manufactured product gained from $2,236,000 to $2,668,000. Frosperous seasons for both the cotton and the woolen mills sent their total figures climbing well above the year be- fore. The cotton mills showed $364,000 in wages, $910,000 in product to $235,000 in wages and $9903,000 in production in 1911. The woolen manufacturers distributed $155,000 in wages, and produced goods in value of $435,000, whers the same figures were $85,000 and $275,000, Tespectively, the year before. In the silk mills, business showed a slight gain, ‘the estimated wage account for 1912 being $108,000 to $100,000 for 1911, Other industries contributed a total of $74,000 in wages and $223,000 in product to Futnem’s figures for the past year. In the jobbing lines, the business was practically the same, the total for 1912 showing at $8,871,000, and that for 1911 at $3,777,000, H_BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, Year for New London and Windham County Business OF $675,374.831 SHOWN IN MANUFACTURING, BANKING AND JOBBING, BUILDING AND ROAD WORK---FIGURE:- WAS $467,933,884 IN NEW lePON~COUNTY $207,440,947 IN WINDHAM COUNTY —WAGE DISTRIBUTING PLANTS GENERALLY REPORT BUSY SEASON. T NORWICH PRIZE WINNING FLOAT IN NEW HAVEN PAGEANT City’s Entry which Took the First Prize of $100 Grandfather clock.. The Six Pretty Norwich Youag Ladies On the Float from Left to Rright are the Misses Nellie Foloy, May You ng, Edith Blackburn, Amelia Young, Elsie Blackburn and Belle Leonard. NEW LONDON MANUFACTURING PLANTS DISBURSED $1,536,700 IN WAGES IN 1912 Was $92,000 More Than in Year Preceding—Big Business Gains Shown by Machinery and Marine Lines. 1 wage distribution greater by $92,000 in 1912 than in industries of New London gave evidence the with them had generally been one of big business. Proportionately e of product showed increased figures, totalling at 1912 to $7,724,000 for 1911 era of practical prosperity each class of industry was a he workers in machinery and marine lines the most they are also the largest wage producing industries According to tye figures collected, their wage account went up from $660,000 in 1911 to $750,000 in 1912, with an increase”in product from $2,002,000 to $2,237,000.. Silk mills, mills for making quiits and comfortables, and some other minor industries included in this class, showed a wage increase from $528,000 to $540,500, but output gaining from $4,762,500 to $4,938,000. From a wage figure of $73,200 and products of $165,500, the boiler and heater plants increased these figures to $77,200 and §177,500. Other plants in iron and metal wo recorded slightly diminished wages in 1912, the figure being $29,000 as compared with $32,000 in the year before, and the product was $142,000 as compared with $151,000. In the industries classed as miscellaneous there was also a falling off in both items, wages and product for 1912 showing §140,000 and $602,500, respectively, to $151,500 and $643,000 in 1911, The jobbing houses of New London reported a total increased business the past year, their figures of $7,639,000 exceeding the amount of $7,430,000 in 1911 With a tots , the manufacturi BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION HAS FULL PROGRAMME MAPPED OUT FOR 1912 Norwich Organization in Its Fourth Year Municipal Betterments. Is Working for Many Just ended a year of Charles S. The Narwich Business Men’s association ha much progress and growth under the able direction of Faircloush, re president. Just starting on its fourtr vear, the Norwich 1 ssoclation has forced itself well to the front, as being one of the most hustling of the forty-two similar associations | in the state. The objects of the association are to protect its members from bad debts and frauds, to promote by common action the business in- terests of Norwich and its citizens, to increase friendly and social spirit among the business men of the town and to co-operate with similar organizations in other cities. Some of the accomplishments as well as a part of the work under- ended, benefits Norwich has received taken during the year just through the efforts of this body, in fact, a short resume of the scope of the s work, can be hastily summed up as follows: Preparing legislative work to present to the next genera: assembly; collection after judgment bill; itinerant vendors’ bill; sealer of weig! and measur regulation of traffic in public streets; prosecution and collection of auc 's license fees; doing business under assumed « secure parlor-car service between Norwich and ew York city; effort to secure an aviation school and factory; first steps towards beautifying the city along landscape and architectural securing a better lighted business section; extension of trolley onee naiies lines; lines, one of which has been granted; representation at the deep- waterw convention held in Washington, D. C., and many other im- portant matters appertaining to the city's growth and welfare. So much for the year just ended. The new year opens under the most favorable circumstances with the following list of officers: Frank H. Sgith, president; Herbert R, The association membership list totals repres senting upwards of 300 business men of Norwich Looking. ahead, steps have already been ssociation to b about thé following benefits and r part of the new years work A petition to the president of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. to build a new freight station in Norwich; aiso to increase the switching force and motive power in local yards in Keeping with the increased busines: n with the postoffice department to insure also a movement to secure penny post- A hearty co-operati the success of the parcels post; age on all first-class matter, A movement to secure the reduction of the price of electricity for illuminating purposes that will be founded on a more equitable basis when compared with the present price charked for power. Co-operation with state and national Business Men's associations in order that business methods will be applied to all federal govern- ment _appropriations through the creation of a national budget. “Happy New Year!” The Norwich Business Men's association welcomes this new, great year—1913. A vear greater in promise, greater in opportunities, for-the prosperity it will bring you. Happy New and Prosperous Year! NK. H. SMITH, President Norwich Business Men’s Association. FE DANIELSON EMERGING TO NEW ERA OF INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT No Scare in the Borough About the Tariff—Manufacturers Planning Big Additions to Plants in Coming Twelve Months. The greatest industrial and commercial prosperity that the borough of Danieison has ever experienced is gradually developing, and before the new year emerges from its swaddling clothes our boom will be in full force. Our Industries are operating full time and in many cases over time on orders that show a splendid margin of profit, with every indication of a big year to come. Possible tariff disturbances and federal interference in corporate life have absolutely no influence with the many manufacturers in this borough who are planning big extensions and additions during the next twelve months. Our industries are on a #olid basis, not dependent upon tariff protection or the public sale of securities; hence our inde- pendence. Our business houses have had a good vear, our banking institutions show excellent earnings, our schools have been well attended, and soci- ety in general has prospered with commerce and industry. W. IRVING BULLARD, Warden, Borough of Danielson. PALMER BROTHERS QUILT MILL AT FITCHVILLE 166 Foot Addition Built in the Past Year—Fine Three-Story Stone Structure of Heavy Mill Type. INCREASING CAPACITY Construction work which bezan April 1 on a three-story addition to the quilt mill of Palmer Bros. at Fitchville has been pushed forward to completion through the summer and fall months, so that the new addition is already partially equipped with machinery and is operating in part, When fully equipped and in operation, it will mean a material increase to the present force of 400 employes and a consequent added benefit to the village where this industry has long been so mportant a factor for the prosperity of the community The new addition, which is built attaching to the rear end of the main mill, is a three-story structure, 166 feet in length, with a width of 90 feet at the rear, and a tower in the center. It is built of brick, but stone faced to correspond with the main mill building. In each detail the construction has been substantial and thorough, complying with all the requirements of the mill mutual insurance companies for heavy mill construction, heated by steam, and thoroughly sprinkl=d. As vet there has been no increase in the mill power plant to take care of the extra machinery put upon it, but in time this will be an inevitable de- velopment, it is expected. Each floor is divided about midway into two rooms, the top floor ppIying the opening room and the knotter room. Two of the knotters are operating now and more are to follow. Each of these machines s a capacity of 1,000 quilts in ten hours of work. Two openers are to be installed, one of them new and one coming from the old mill. The whole of the main floor is for the garnetts, making an addition to the present garmett machines in use in the old mill. Fourteen or sixteen new garnetts are to be installed, part of which are already placed and part ordered. This new machinery will increase the present product of the garnetis by about one-third. The lower or basement fioor of the mill is to be occupied by the g department. In connection with these changes the blacksmith has been moved from its former location to the rear of the mill TROLLEY TRAVEL IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT. 17,898,380 Passengers in 1912 on Three Lines in This End of the State. On the three trolley lines doing the principal passenger carrving in eastern Connecticut, which are the New London lines of the Con- uecticut company, the Groton & Stonington line, and the Norwich & Westerly line, the passengers carried in 1912 numbered 17,898,350, an increase of 1,913,277 over two years ago, when the totai figure for the same lines was 15,985.1( The comparison is shown as follows: Connecticut Company—New London Lines. 1910, 1912 105 Mileage operated Passengers carried Car-miles run L e amen isisgds Groton & Stonington Street Railway Company. 1910. Mileage operated .. 20 Passengers carried A 2.169,217 Car-miles run ........ 3 422,153 Norwich & Westerly Traction Company. 1910. Mileagé operated . Passengers carried Carsfllestranit Sty % ST 3 New Work by Connecticut Company. During the past year the Connecticut company has constructed and is now operating a line through Connecticut, Lincoln Jefferson avenues, New London, for the accommodation of residents of -that vicinity In’ Norwich, it has i and is now using a spur track through Shetucket stre for the purpose of facilitating the handling of trolley freight and express matter and in order to make this service unnecessary on Franklin square. It has made extensive repairs to the company’s portion of Laurel Hill bridge and laid new and heavier rail thereon. It has laid heavier and new rail through a part of Franklin street and paved the company’s portion of the street with hassam pavement, and hrranged for the comstruction of a trolley iine througn a section of Boswell avenue. The number of cars opcrated daily depends entirely upon the de- mands for sergice, but a very conservative estimate would place the number at about 40 operated ai the present time by this division, with headquarters.at Norwich. - BUILDINGS AT STATE HOSPITAL. & % Two New Wards, Amusement Hall and Dining Room, Clubhouse, and Cowbarn in the Construc- tion Work for 1912 — Legislature Appropriated $282,925—Total State Appropriations to Date Have Been $1,480,000 — New Buildings Will Equip for 1,050 Patients. To keep pace witll the apparently ever increasing demand that the state should provide care for those mentally wealk or irresponsible, the Norwich State hospital is in the process of making another step forward by the new building construction that has been begun or com- Pleted there in the past year. The whole shows a total of something over $282, which was the amount appropriated for the Norw State hospital by the legislature of 1911. In addition to thigs. c tion work of over $1,000 has been done by the hospital employes out of these appropriated amounts. Appropriations Made by 1911 Legisiature. % The appropriations mentioned were as follows For two waré«, construction and equipment, $130,000; for connecting co: $1v.0bu; for brick cow barn and furnishings $6,000; for amusement ha and d'ning rcom $123,000; for sewers $600; for water mains $700; for clubhcuse $10,i:00. Since the i stitution of the hospital a grand total of $1,480,000 has been appropriated for it by the legislature, and w:~n the completion of the present construction work brings all the Lew bu..’ings into service, there will be an institution with accommodations for 1,030 patients, where now there are 890. The present staff of employes numbers 180. Provision for Nearly Double Present Size. All bufldings are.virtually fireproof. In a number of respects pro- vision is made for still further extension, for there is an equipment in power house, kitchen, laundry, dining room, water and heating system and administration. building sufficiently large to provide for almost double the size of the present institution, which enjoys the able and progressive administrative direction of Dr. H. M. Pollock as superinten- dent. Two New Wards for 200 Patients. Of the five principal new buildings under course of construction in 1912, the two ward buildings are situated midway between Wards C and B, and are designated as Wards ¥, north and south. They are two-story brick buildings with attic and basement, 160 feet long by 64 wide, each providing for 100 patients of the semi-disturded class. The sleeping quarters are on the second floor. "Rhere are 35 single rooms and the rest of the space in dormitories. Amusement Hall and Dining Room. The building which combines an amusement hall, dance and social room, and dining room, is a valuable adjunct to the hospital accommo- dations. It is situated in the rear of the administration building, be- tween that and the kitchen. On the first floor it provides a main dining room for patients, seating 600. It is 135 faet long and 72 feet wide, increasing proportionately to 110 feet in width at the staircase tow This floor also contains the supervisors’ rooms, five in num- ber, a general waiting room, and to the north of the main dining room an employes’ dining room about 80x40, similar to the employes’ dining room built under a previous appropriation. The basement of the build- ing is to be occupied for a baggage room for patients and for general store rooms. On the second floor, reached by a wide staircase, ie the amusement hall, seating 850, with a_small gallery and a staze &s wide and nearly as deep as that at the Davis theater in this city. By the well devised arrangement of a mezzanine story over the supervisors’ office: nd a part of the dining room, a large dance and social hall, square, Is secured without increasing the size of the building. - Clubhouse for Employes. Out on the biuff overlooking the Thames river, an urtusually sightly and attractive location is the new clubhouse for employes. In obtaining this, the Norwich hospital has something to boast of over other similar institutions, since it is the first time an apprpriation has been made directly and only for erecting a new building for a clubhouse. In other cases the alteration of old buildings has always been made to serve for clubhouse uses. The state hospital clubhouse is a two-story building, 20 feet long, with a ten-foot extension, and 40 feet wide. On the first floor is room for three bowling alleys, a billiard room for three tables, and a store room. One-half: of the second floor is given to the gymnasium, 40x40, and the remainder of the fioor to game room, reading room, ladies’ parlor, two shower baths and two locker rooms. The government of the clubhouse Is to be entirely in the hands of the emploves, a board of directors of seven members being chosen, consisting of four from the men on the wards and three from the other departments. Cow Barn for Forty Cows. The new cow barn of concrete construction is a one-story building 57 feet long by 40 feet 4 inches, inside measurement, with a monitox roof. It provides for 40 cows. General Improvements Made. In the additions made during the year there has also been the inx stallation of a tubo-generator of 150 kilowatt capacity and two returrd tubular boilers each of 150 rated horsepower. In the basement unden the kitchen building has been built a large cold storage room with meat tracks and scales. There has been installed an additional ams monia compressor for cold storage, a small addition has been made to the kitchen building, increasing the size of the scullery and providing room for the cook’s daily eupplies, and additional machinery has been added to the laundry building, including an extractor, washer and slec+ tric operated body ironer, a new 12x14-foot oven, and a steam table imy the kitchen. Two deep wells have been driven, one 450 feet deep and the other 500 feet deep. There have been purchased and installed two electric driven ga§ compressors for pumping the water from the deep wells, and a 110-galy lons a minute triplex pump. A piggery nhas been constructed of cons crete blocks at a cost of about $1,000, the blocks having been manufacs tured by the inmates of the hospital. This piggery gives accommodas tion to twenty brood sows. There have been purchased and erected two silos, each of a capacity of 120 tons. Considerable grading between the administration building and the highway has been done. Th work has also been pursued in the viclnity of the superintendent's house, staff house and nurses’ cottage, The fire and water mains have been extended and sewers have been constructed. There has been & certain number of roads and walks constructed and other minor work done. ]