Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 23, 1913, Page 10

NEW LONDON IS HAVING wien sonone| NORWICH HOSPITAL'S GLUBHOUSE New Business Blocks, Public Structure, and Private Dwellings Underway. (Special to The Bulletin.) New London, Jan. 22—Mayor Mahan practices what he preaches, especial in the building line, for he says build houses and the Jtenants are sure to come. in every > ) community. He is perhaps the largest real estate owner in the city and has. probably caused to be constructed more desira- ble tenements than any other resident. | In fact the whole section of the city in the vieinity of what was unce known as Bolton's pond is now laid out into} streets and lined with really first-class residences, all due ' to Mr. Mahan's| enterprise and faith in New London's| At the Norwich State hospital the open winter so far has been partic- ularly favorable for outside building operations on the two new ward build- ings which are in process of erection while the interior work on the em- ploves club house and the combination growth. He built the houses and both ! building for dining hall and amuse- tenants - and purchasers were thel ment hall has been pushed forward. natural result. Just at the present| Just at the present time the plastering time ihe officers of the New Londonm|in the.club house is being dome and when this is finished the interior finish can be put in and after that the tur- nishings and furniture can follow.; There are granilithic floors on thel first floor. These are all in. This is the building in which the Ship and Engine company, one of the| largest and most rapidly increasing | local industries have made complaint of the lack of tenements for emploves | both in Groton and New London, and the matter is now receiving the atten- tion ‘of the New London Business| Norwich state hospital has some dis-|{ Men’s association and kindered organ- | {inction through the fact that this is| ization: So it is quite probzble that|ihe first case where an appropriation the buildings will be erected and the!| was made for a new building for club house purposes. Always before it has| tenants will surely come. This will been the practice to adapt some old mean an impetus to the building trades | in New London and consequent in- | crease in the importance and growth of the city. ! New City Hall. | the building | the new cit line at the pre: hall, of modern n architecture | and furnishing: of lime-stone | exterior and w be about twice as! large a: inadequate for of the city uses. will probably be read within a year and will} st of buildings de-| to city affairs In the g is on the site of ; in State street and D be among voted entir state. the old hall will cost, completed, about $150,000. Business Block. On the same side of the street, and in the immediate ity a business block is the trustees | of the ring al associa- | tio to be devoted to the ( fund of the hospital when | Good Progress on Two Story Structure Overlooking River at State Institution—Reconstructing Central Wharf Brick Buildings—Other Improvements. ———— IMPOSING NEW STRUCTURES FOR TOWN OF WESTERLY. History—Town Hall, Postoffice. (Special to The Bulletin.) Westerly, —an. 222—Never before in the history of Westerly has there been so much in the building line as at pres- ent, i. e, so muci of a public nature. The large and magnificent town hall and court house, of native granite, is| nearing completion and, it is expected ! it,will be ready for occupancy within | three months. This is easily the| handsomest town building in Rhode; Island and the cost will not exceed: $100,000, and will serve as a monument | to the granite industry of the town.| It is the only granite building in the town worthy the name, excepting Christ Episcopal church, which is on! the adjeining property Railroad Buildings. i It is expected that in the early| Station 'and tions completed for a two-story tene- ment house on West Main street’ oppo- site the Pierson stable. It is to be a wooden; structure 30 by 48 and will probably be completed some time in the spring. The brick foupdations are finished but the wood work has not been started as vet. Restoring Central Wharf buildings. On Central wharf where the fire leveled the most of the buildings, the Edward Chappell company has begun the restoration of some of those in % x which the brick wails were left partial- | SPring the new passepger station and | 35 e - buildi e | freight depot of the New York, New gcc:;ia::dls!:,g’p;:] e Pullding | I0PMEElY | HTaven and Hartford railroad company llams company has been restored and| Will completed by early spring, and is now occypied by the Chappell com- | that when summer comes the sur- pany for lumber storage. It was found; 'oundings will be in keeping with the possibie to build up the gaps in the| handsome passenger station, and that brick walls with brick that came out| the whole will be one of the most of the fire. The building is two stories | attractive stations of the entire rail- high and in two sections with a brick{ rcad system. An idea of the magni- tude of the work done by the railroad company in Westerly can be gained from the fact that when the work is completed there will have been ex- pended about $450,000. That's a rea- i son why Westerly is not included with l some other places in Rhode Jsland who | are knocking the company at every opportunity some of which are created simply for knocking purposes. Postoffice Building. There is now in course of construc- tion the postoffice building of marble for which the government made the libera] appropriation of $100,000. This building according to contract is to be complefed by June, 1914. For a time the work was very slow, so much so, that Westerly people began to believe that the time the roof was in place it would be abeut time for a boom for another postoffice building, as the _superstructure had become useless by ! reason of old age. But now the indi- cations have changed and the work is progressing as rapidly as is possible| consistent with the class of work re- sontract, and under the reality, The Manwar- quired by the carefu] super ion of a representative Ting ated on Manwarring hill, edas a home for nures, | of ihe supervising architect's depart- wil be the site of the new | ment. This will be a beautiful build- haospital which will be devoted to the ing and in keeping wlith the general treatment of children, as a memorial < appearance of the clvic center of the > Dr. Robert A. Manwarring, town. was provided for in the g g S e will of his son, the late Wolcott Man- NORWICH STATE HOSPITAL CLUBHOUSE. e Another Business Building. ask] e as en very i e i e D Ang an. | Duilding to club house purposes,. but! fire wall between. Just to the south| The past vear has been very qulet building and mext to the his|in this an appropriation for an entire- [ is another bullding which was pretty | 1l _new ©onstruetion WorL S 6% ilding, there is another 1Y Dew building was made. { thoroushly: leveled. by ihe fre Ahell® bout '$10.000, and everal new Bihclc totbe bulliihe The building has been located on a | walls here have been pulled down and| e e e L the owner of the|.commanding bluff overlooking the|are now being rebuilt of brick. This|houses have be % o i bt ITiver. On the river side is a porch. | will also be used for lumber storage.; at beautiful and| . The clubhouse is a two-story build- | Repairs have also been made to the SOMERS. al building. ing, 80 feet long, with a tgnf&oe: jex- wharf which was damaged by the fire. : ‘ e « e tension, ans eetl wide. n Several new residences ave e Crocker House Changes. floor is room for three bowling alleys, Waunsfine [ ifonke (Chmnae erected at Somers and Somersville Mayor Mahan it s nning to a billiard room for three tables, and a| At the Wauregan house, the altera-| quring the past year, including the new mak ve changes in the exter- | stor room. One-half of the second | tions that have been underw 3 fgr residence of Ralph D. Keeney to cost r house building, his | floor is given to the gymnasium, 40x40, | some time making a transformation in| about $10,000. able real estate holdine. So|and the remainder of the floor to game | the Broadway entrance, lobby, office, room, reading room, ladies’ parlor, two to be much wor > shower baths and two locker rooms. street within t year, kken as an indicator of the | The zovernment of the clubhouse is to be done all over the|{o be entirely in the hands of the em- builder declared | ploye a board of directors of seven | inion 1913 will | members being chosen, consisting of ground floor, h a tenement above, Mohegan Avenue House. w James O. Mahomey has the founda- be the banner building New | four from the men on the wards and London. three from the other departments. Ocean Beach House New Eight Reom Cottage. The foundation completed | The carpenters are at work on an for another house Beach for | attractive elght room cottage house Dr. Hentk The work is!on Asylum street for Herbert Willey. being done by the day and the er | The house is well alons towards com- | eontracts will be let by the owner. | pletion and the work 18 now confined | Alterations to Building. principally to the interior. There are| =5 2 ‘ four rooms on each floor with another | W < s 1 S ed O chan, . H to il bas bean started on cHANEES ! oom inihe fHe |Mr Willey Disns ad S i Toe BT, ikox. 1 to occupy the new home in the spring. Two be fitted up on the| Tenement House, and stairway are making good progress GROTON. and when completed will bring this detail of the hote] up to modern re- quirements. On the Broadway front the stone work for the spacious en- | trance has been compieted and the name of the hotel, “The Wauregan,” is Work has been started by Bverett L. Crane to improve his property in Thames street and ground has been broken for the erection of a building to contain two stores and possibly a ten- shown in large letters in the stome|cnors” Tyl Tmall house formerly oc- work over the doorw: At present| .yp,ied by the family of Edward Good- the woodwork for door casings and| .03, ¢ heen sold. This was pur- windows is being put in. Inside the| p.c.q by Frank R. Danesi, who is to eel frame- building in the lobby, the s work for stairways, lobby rotunda, ceiling beam and supporting pillars have been in some time, and the work men are now doing some of the inter ‘or finish. Much of the brown marble wainscot{ing has been plac Plastering above the wainscottin, also partially on and is about ready for the outside finish, have the building removed to Mitchell street. Mr. Crane intends to erect a building on the ground floor of which | will be two modern and up-to-date stores. It is not decided whether there will be a tenement overhead. The new structure will adjoin the block which Mir. 'Crane had built a short while ago and which is now occupied by two stores. started n a oew | - vemue for S | STAFFORD SPRINGS HAS SAERE. for [ fepuie SEVERAL NEW RESIDENCES. ining 12 room 1 heat and eVerY | Now Home of C. B. Pinney is Nearly Completed. convenience. Alterations to Residence. 1 'ng’ on th- proposed (Special to The Bulletin.) i wouse for ( Waller. | gtafrora Springs, Jan. 22—C B. Pin- | Neptune Park House. | ney has his beautiful residence on East | has been let for a|street most completed. The only | stune Park for | other building of importance in the all for a frame | borough during the past vear is the 1 house Frederick Faulkner on I Terrace, which he is now { occupying. Fred Rand is now occupying the new house which he recently erected in Orcuttville. Joseph Psychhe has completed a two frame house in the rear of Pros- ct street and C. G. Ellis has built a mmodious barn and sgarage near his house on Highland Terrace has_about | 1ding at abr of Holmes NEW ENGLAND BUILDING OPERATIONS. Py % :i z operations BUSINESS AND REALTY. complied by Th = b R o s Y TRe 1 Activity Throughout State For Third ,547,000 The volume of real estate transac- i he towns reported in The 1 Record for the week end- 18, is about the same as 5,799,000 tions ponding cor i | | | | Week of Y | | .592,000 | | | corresponding ......... 360,000 | 254, comparing with 247. The aggre- corresponding gate of mortzage loans is somewhat X <e..... 5,605,000 | less than the previous year. corresponding The bankruptcy figures for the week et . 1,880,000 | do not make a very satisfactory show- correspon {ing. The seven bankruptcy petitions! e 5 3,265,000 | have average assets of $2,557 and av- Contracts erage liabilities of $11,327. The record | period, 1 «...... 3,713,000 | compares unfavorably with previous Contracts corresponding i Eleven new corporations have | period, -...... 1,756,000 | average capitalization of a little less | > ponding ! than $60,000 i --..... 3,243,000 | Building permits have been granted | responding {in the cities of New Haven, Eridgeport, | 3 ... 3,334,000 | Hartford and Waterbury during the| corresponding | week to the number of 49, for buildings .- --.w.- 3,926,000 | costing $2 The record Contracts corresponding | gards the amount of money inv period <e.e-.. 3,133,000 | about the same as a vear | the bulk of the work Bridgeport, while last year it New Haven. Among the projects placed under | contracts during the past week, one of the most important 125,000 stable in Noroton, a purifying house in New Britain, factory in Bridgeport, | store and tenement building and a bus- iness block in the same city, and one, | | two, three and six family houses in | New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Wa- terbury, East Hartford, Bristol. South Manchester and Stamford, with a 16- family house in the jatter city. Norwich had five sales in the week against one In the same week last year. The mortgage loans for the respective weeks however being $13,100 and $102,100, New London had five sales this year to eight for the same week last vear, and the mortgages for the two weeks | were $11,200 and $6,250. STORAGE Largest cagtaycity in the A N. CARPENTER 23 Commerce St. All kinds of Mason Build- ing Materials, Small Trap Rock for driveways and Adrianople Staple Trades. Adrianople, scene of desperate fight- ing of late, provides the bulk of the trade of the world in attar of roses. Other important exports include silks, leather ,tapestries ,and the dye known as Turkey red, The best wine that is| produced in Turkey comes frem the district about Adrianeple. EVERYTHING F. C. GEER, TN ~ Phone -511 Norwich, Conn. There is always mere or less preju- dice agsinst a man helding aa | Three New Desidences In STATE BUILDING OPERATIONS. STONINGTON ACTIVE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION. Different Year Just Closed was Active One and Equalled Year Previous. Stages—Wampossett Inn Remodeled. Throughout the State the vear in s %he building trades has been a good | (Special to The Bulletin.) ! one, the aceregate amount of worlk | Stoatnaton Tan “Phe Wampos- | Peing about the same as for the pre- sett Inn’ owned by Doctor C. O. Maine, | Vious year. The flgures which are has been made over from the Capt. | &iven in the following table show in| detail the number of permits issued | Alex Palmer Place, to the present ex- cellently equipped summer hotel. It is situated on Water street, and has a st of new buildings in the larger | Number of Permits fine ground reaching out into the water. There has been added this 1912 year a large garage, 'a wharf New Haven ... feet long has been built Bridgeport across the back of the en .| Hartford xteen bedrooms have becn added, | Waterbur, two toilets, one bath, a dining room | New Er 30x15 built on that will accomodate| Meriden fifty people, hard wood floors laid|Stamford . through the buildings and zn office| Norwich ...... | with a large desk and letter boxes| New London ool 88| {added. A thirty-foot sea wall filled in Cost of Buildings. 00t one buSee protects 1912 and an eighty the * ', is building a residence| New IHaven on upper Main street, with all modern | ;7% ,&,’,d‘ improvements. an el Mr. Vargas, is also building a hand- some home, near the Red Barn whic he will occupy a: on as finished W. O. Stan of Springfield, Ma: who spends summers at Lor Point, and who has erected many neat | cottages at the Point has ust com- pleted an excellent large building he will use as a summer hotel adding| many improvements also to the shore property. f Meriden ...... New London . REAL ESTATE The records of sales of real estate and mortgage loans in 33 of the lead- i towns and cities of the State dur- the year is compared with Structure over Connecticut River at East Haddam Nearing Completion. The draw of the Bast Haddam- Haddam highway bridge on the Con- necticut river was swung into place| - Tor the first is week. As thel >lectrical equipment has not n in- | ’ led the closing was done by hand. n t Uu now found that the draw, which -t in length, fitted perfectiy. A That I can suit your requirements in large number of twonspeople had gathered to witness the operation and when the shore connection was made every way in conmection with any con- iracting work or building wh'ch you heered lustily and the whistle of the! , .. .oniempiate having done? ferryboat, General Spencer, tooted| %Y ¢UBteMP b . 3 IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT The first closing of the draw, al-i ... oniyv way 1 can convince you of it though only temporary, marks an im- portant advance toward the comple- tion of the bridge, as it affords an opportunity to adjust the bearing ma- chinery and do other necessary work. { 1 to see nie and talk it over. My 3stl- mat are very reasonable and my work is guaranteed. C. M. WILLIAMS, There is yet considerable riveting to| _ . A be done and the operator's house io| Telephons 670 15 Main Strest be installed, There is no planking on the draw as yet, but the approach- es are practically complete in this 3 H * = Saspect. e beldse ‘bt be painteq| Notwithatanding the Fire also. we are still doing business at the old No public crossing was allowed | stand and the quality o.f_r;ut wotr-'k_ is and will not be until the river L 3“1 5 closed to navigation and the ferry Nothing butfl; ‘x e aior emnoyk- boat ceases running because of ice|erd best matcrials nsed in our worl STETSCON & YOUNG, trouble, In that case it is expected = that a plank will be laid on the Carpenters and Builders, Graw so that foot passengers may | Telephonc, 60 West Main St eross the bridge. Until navigation }‘lusc:]lhe draw must be kept open h o or the Hariford and New York T v h F d yc steamers and other craft that are stll e auO L oun r 0. piying ine river, The first persons to cross frem shore to shore on the bridge were Chief En- gineer E. W, Bush, F. Stangle, super- intendent of steel censtruction, and H. J. Bmith, assistant enginser. Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry St., MILL, CASTINGS a Specialty. » Orders Receive Prompt Attenlion EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR Universal Rubber Roofing We have carried thnloofinz for a number of years. Most Building of Public Nature in 1ts| Those who have once used this roofing when wanting more ask for the Universal, e Bulletin Building Note price. The lowest we have ever sold it for. 1-ply, 108 square feet, per roll, $1.50. 2-ply, 108 square feet, per roll, $1.85. COMPETITOR ROOFING 1-ply, 108 square feet, per roll, $1.25. 2-ply, 108 square feet, per roll, $1.50. /Above have nails and cement in each roll. SPECIAL § Kelly Axes, unhung, 75c. Keen Kutter, warranted, $1.00. The Household 74 Franklin Street HUSTLING WORK AT takings that $75,000 should have been raised and collected without of expense. $3,500 to meet the final subscribers who hav agreements are counied on not to em- barrass the officers by further delays. Heating Finished Except for Flue. ¥ Bart, Coubet, France, Paris, Bretagne, Provence, and Lorraine. M. Delcasse has decided that in christening this P b e ] year's ships he will continue the prac- ( 98 Five:) tice of naming vessels after the French The four new dreadnoughts be named Normandie, Languedoe, and Flandre. British Defence Against Airships. The very real danger which British military and navel authorities consider in’ the air forces of Continental wers is well shown by the system THE THERMOS PLANT. provinces. | will. - therefore, a ‘ Gascogne, cent about pavment and e not yet met their It will require The steamheating is all completed | of defence adopted for the new naval except a fiue from the boilers to chim- | magazine Portsmouth, where the ney. ‘The boilers have now been set | high explosives used on battleships are but the flue could not be ordered un- | to be stored. The magazines are sit- til that work had been accomplished | uated at Bedenham, an isolated spot and it will be about ten days before | on the upper reaches of the harbor. the flue which has been ordered can I congist of a number of sunken be delivered. ferro-concrete chambers which ara { MANY ARMY AND What This and Other Countries are .Doing For Land, Sea and Air De- completely with four feet of and turfed at the side in a way makes the location of the spot from above a matter of extreme diffi- culty. A ferro-concrete pier is being buiit thereat for the use of small craft A NAVY PROJECTS. onls work of rails will enable fense. ihe to be conveyed direct. The magazine’s works, which resemble As a result of a report made at the| military earthworks, are under the Army War College, plans for the pro- | protection of the metropolitan police, posed fortifications at the mouth of who at night are assis trained Chesapeake Bay have undergone some ; watchdogs while the harbor waters important alterations. On account. of { are patrolled by water police. The the increased range of modern arma- | site is some two miles from Gosport ment and tHe increased draft of ve and Portsmouth hdrbor. The new sels, the idea of making an artificial | works w 500,000, 1 | | | | { | | island at the entrance of the bay has been abandoned and it now is contem- plated to confine Cape provide for placements for eight 12-inch mort four 12-inch rifles rifles, the necessary and tems, at an estimated cost of $1,801,700. It has been suggested, however that on account of the increasing power of naval vessels which might attack fortifications mount 16-inch guns instead of 12-inch and constructed for the defence of the Pan- 92 Per Cent Navy Native Born. Naval officers here treated with con- tempt the statement made by Major Samuel Simpson Sharpe, conservative member in the Canadian FPs for North Ontario, criticising the en- listed men of the American nava! ser- Major Sharpe's statements and quotation from Frederick William lace, who i8 said to be an “eminent the fortifications to The latest project will the construction of em- Henry. and four 6-inch mining structures fire control and searchlight svs- Wa the it would be advisable to The statement that Americans sign for the v the stics which percentage of mnative the year was 7 2 [ that mortars of the model being th ama Canal shouid be provided. The 1 navy yast L1 total estimated cost of the project. Sharpe quoted Wallace along the lines now being considered, would be $3,614,700. Would Sell Brazilian Dreadnought. ‘e Americans sign for the those who do are desperate no good, socially, morally Admiral Baptista Franco of Brazil| se. A hard er, hard recommends the sale of the dread- | trikes make t re- nought Rio Janeiro to Russia. He ons for the United States says that the new dreadnought would | it becomes a sort of home impair the uniformity of the fleet and | and moral dezenerates. that the country should pay chief at- n ships. Scandi- tention to the defence of her co: | inns, Austrians which demands submarines and des- | the Yankee troyers. Finally, he declares that the| > language sountries | life to them is to get naval | compared. with their previous from New York, where he headed the at Brazilian exhibition. his sojourn in will probably accompany scientist, Mr. Lange. on h rubber distriets of the Amazon. Feur Big New French Ships. Admiral | returned | | THE FENTON-CHARNLEY | BUILDING €0., Inc. ence.” Carlos Carvaiho the rubber y pleased hy 5 ¥ commission He was hi s trip to the M. Delcasse, minister of marine, is about to ask Parliament to hasten the | GENERAL vote of the naval programme. Ar 2 rangements are already mad to Iz down four superdreadnoughts of the year’s programme. V vessels are completed ¥r | eleven new of from The | ing, s part - CONTRACTORS NORWICH. CONN. nce will have ss battleships 23,000 26,000 tons burden. seven ve , completed or build have received the names of J COAL The sizes used for houschold purposes, commencing with the smallest are— No. 2 CHESTNUT . CHESTNUT (“Nut”) STOVE. (“Range”’) EGG (“Furnace”) BROKEN (“Furnace”) In order to secure any of the Chestnut and Stove sizes, we have been COMPELLED to take a large pro- portion of Egg, in each cargo received. The result is that our supply of Chestnut and Stove is extremely lim- ited, but we have a fair supply of Egg and No. 2 Chest- nut. Egg used with No. 2 Chestnut (at a saving of 75¢ per ton) has given satisfaction in many cases. and first-c to A few blows of a hammer will reduce a hod full of Egg to the smaller sizes. Qur assortment of LUMBER is extensive CHAPPELL. CO. CENTRAL WHARF 150 MAIN STREET Telephones