Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 30, 1913, Page 10

MUCH BUILDING WORK PLANNED FOR DANIELSON. Dwellings and Mill A< tions Promise a Big Year in Construction. Special to The B n, Jan. 29.—D: due for a building hoom this s During there was practic onstruction work done here, but in- dustrial growth was forecasting it all the time.’ The time has mow arrived. Six Cottages. Damase Boulias, contractor, is hav- ing celiars excavated at Industrial place for six cotiages which he is to construct. These cottages are as Scod as rented at the present time to operatives in the two mills of the Connecticut company and there is a demand for employes in these piants around which a village now promises to grow. A New Mill. The plans of the Comnecticut com- which will be developed before spring, contemplate the erection of another mill on a site just south of the present two for the manufacture of the yarns which they use, and now buy, facture of automo- bile tire duck. The dimensions of this structure are mot announced. This company now has a force of carpen- ters - ensaged in the building of a stockhouse 200 feet in length and one story in height. new being erected o site w . 1 mill and will be com, a month be put on this week and the metal sheathing with which the structure is to be covered and the roofing will be added at the eerliest possible moment. New Homes Needed. A group of the business men of Danielson now engaged on a plan that will undoubtedly result in the building of other coftages at Indus- trial piace during the coming summes a8 there is an urgent need for addi- tional homes in that section. Addition To Williamsville Among the big the building line 1913 is the Killingly Manufacturing company at Williamsville. This addition is for a hed and the stakes placed me since show that it is to be located at the present plant. It is to be of and will have a saw-tooth Troof. Changing Theater. W. 8. Brown, owner and manager of the Orpheum theater, has a plan for getting more stage room through ( Danie! of their Plant. things planned in Killingly @ brick alterations and extensions that he will | very probably make during the sum- mer season. Since it has been opened the house has recelved many com- pliments on its fine arrangement, but it has been found that there is too little space back of the footlights for big productions; hence a stage 44 by 45 feet is to be built in, with addi- tional dressing rooms. Changing Warren Dwellings. The estate of Frank P, Warren in- cludes two dwellings on Mechanie street that are undergoing extensive repairs and remodelling. At the cor- ner of Mechanic and Oak streets the Edward Jette four-family tenement house has been purchased by Amos Morin, who is to thoroughiy renovate it and add greatly 1o its appointments and conveniences during the epring months. Let’s Do It Néw; Dom’t put it off any longer. Come in my office now and let me give you an estimate and my prices for any con- tract work or buflding which you may contemplate having done. I Can Satisfy You Just as I have many others in Norwich and vicinity, if you will just give me the opportunity. . M. WILLIAMS, 216 MAIN ST. Tel. 670 Notwithstanding the Fire we are still doing business at the eid stapd end the quality of our work i Just same as ever—"The Best. N but skilled Jaber empisyeq end best materials used in eur wori STETSON & YOUNG, Tetophonar e " W i o T:e Office of WM, F, HILL Real Estato and Fire Insurance s leseted in 5 Qeu-a AL Witkiams, more cottages for the | building is | The sides and roof will | ition to the plant of the | southern end of the | WESTERLY TOWN HALL AND COURT HOUSE: Handsome Granite St-ucture Nearing Completion at Cost of $100,000. Eight Furnaces—Nickel Made Here—Other Note: The new brick foundry building to be occupied by the Pequot Brass Foundry, Inc.,, in the rear of and parailel to the plant of the Norwich Nickel and company on Chest- nut street, is wecll along towards com- plet! Contractor C. Morgan Williams expects to have the work fi two or three weeks, he brick walls are finished, the fram: Work for the roof and part of ti planking on. The work is at present confined principally to the roof. A force of nine men is at work on the I Job. |~ The bui f one story and 100 feet in 1 y 40 feet wide. On | the south end is a small addition for |an office 10 by 12 feet. There will be | eieht furnaces in the plant pment and the smokestack will be in height. |~ The plant will serve as an auxiliary to the N | business to ail the time { time and expense in securing | castings. The new plant will probably | be put on early in March o the plant is from Har- | The en ‘r\‘uy lane, off Franklin street. | Finishing Gregson Bungalow. | The are now engaged in rior of the new eight uire Greg- xins road. been completed, fixtures the plastering finished on the interior will occupy a | couple of weeks, when the painting | will be commenced. Mr. Gregson plans | to occupy his new home in the spring An addition to the storehouse of the J. B. Martin company, situated just west of the main bullding, | Iy completed. The addition m | about 20 by 30 and is protecte: | metal covering from hea snowstorms. The bulldin, store boxes in which the ou put of the | tering, which will be commenced with- | in a few weeks. The residence will be ready for occupancy in the early | spring. The building is beins built by H. Blackledge and Co Ten Room Cottage. An attractive ten-room cottage house_at the corner of Francis place and Perkins avenue is being con- structed by D, McCormick who ex- pects to occupy the new residence in the spring. The exterior is finished in weathered shingles and this work is practically completed, the work at present being confined to the interior. The frorit entrance is on Francis place The | Storehouse at J. B. Martin Plant. 4 company is shipped aw Eight Room House. The wood work for the mew eight room house, that is being built on | the cormer of Uncas street and Lin- i(‘oln ovenue, for M. B. Prentice, of | | Sachem strect, has been completed and | the house is now ready for the plas- PEQUOT BRASS FOUNDRY BUILDING Good Progress Being Made on Brickwork—Equipment of and Brass Co. Castings to be s. | rooms are of convenient arrangement | and in one front room an attractive fireplace is built into the chimney. A force of six carpenters i sat work at be present. The house will finished in probably April. Remodeling Building. on i he building above the Ch owned by John E. Fanning is being re- street #icdeled into a dwelling house of six | rooms. Work has been going on there | for some time, but will not be com- | pleted for some time yet. the floors are being 1 bullding contains living room, ind kitchen on the main ree chambers and bath econd floor. d_downstairs. room on the PLANS ARE OUT FOR POQUETANUCK SCHOOLHOUSE. One Story T Shaped Building With Three Rooms—To Be Heated by Hot Air. prepared by for the new of Preston in District No. 4, Poguetanuck, replacing the choolhouse, are being figured now. They provide for a one Stors frame bu g, attractive as to its ex- terior and adapted in its interior to the most modern requirements in 00l- house construction It is to be built in T form, with the top of the T making the front of the building, and providing twoc school rooms, with hallway between. A third Plans s | Preston | the tow: which | burned Architect H. school room is provided and is reached by the hallway extending straight ough the center of the building. All rooms are of the same size, 22 1-2X ten feet in helght, and accommo- te 35 pupils each. The central hall is 11 feet wide. In extreme width the building 1s 69 feet 4 inches and in ex- | treme depth 54 feet There is a cellar | bullding, wherein will be located the | hot air heating plant, and the cellar | will also serve as a playroom in stormy | under the whole | weather, as it is to have cement floor. In each school room there a boards,and ‘he six windows with which each room is provided are placed all on | one stde of their respective rooms, and 0 located as to give the light over the le shoulder of the scholars as they | sit at their desks. Each room also has 1 two closets in it, on for the school sup- { | plies and the other for the teacher, The front steps and the steps that | lcad in on the side to the rear school room are all inside the building, thus | protecting the scholars from the dan- | ger of outside steps, slippery in stormy | weather. In the halls are arranged coat rails, with a ventilating system in close proximity. The building runs up to a gable roof, which is finished off with a 12 foot located. tower above the ground is 36 feet. Windows in the front of the gable fur- has remodeled his residence and add- | ed a large verenda overlooking the sound on the south side of his house on Water St | Hyde Houss, which used to be the Btonington Inn, at the corner of Har- mony - and Water strest, making a tenement house with massive windows and large airy and high reoms with all improvements, GROTON, Excavating is now geing on for the bullding whieh B. L, Erane of Poquo- mock js tn put en Thames street in the site formerly oeeupied by the old house which contained the cobler shop of Mdwin Geodman. Phe building will be 421-3 by 45 feet, one story high, roomy, have aill medern improve- is and be divided inte twe stores. South Manchester, fn Seuth Manchester the J, T, Rob. selsen gompany, which manufaetur yaper, 18 aboul adding to its plant o twe stery brick factory buildisg 36x46 feet in size. t's am easy malter (o forgive those 0 trespass agaiusl othess. Dr. C, O. Mains, has remodeied the | | and will be from a small porch. The | nish light for the main hall STONINGTON CHANGES. | MIDDLETOWN. | Alteration of Cowan Residence and | New Woodworking Mill Nearly Fin- | Inn .Made Into Tensments. ished—Addition on High Scheol | Started. | (Special to The Bulletin.) ! i Stonington, Jan, 20.—C. W, Cowan, Middletown, Jan. 29—The brick work has been started on the new addition te the high school on Pearl street, and the work will be pushed | rapidly along, The contracts have all been awarded, Woodworking Miil. The new woodwerking mill being | erected on Berlin street, for the Gustay Loewenthal Co, is now about com- pleted. The Gustav Loewenthal Co, are now meving fheir entire piant te their Berlin street vard and are ereet- ing new lumber sheds. New Bank Building. Bids are teo elose February 1 for the purchase of the old brick heuse at the cormer of Main and €ellege streets, which is te be tern dewn to meke room for the new bank building to be erected by the Farmers & Me- chanies Savings Bank. The contract for the mason work in connection with the alterations to the ames H, Bunce Ue's store oR Main sizeet has peen 1 Phe Contracior is plastering Pono- hue Bres. twe-family house on Spring street. The' paiating \n the new nurses’ fiome dt the Middiesex Hospital om Cresceat street is being completed. | At present | schoolhouse for | e black- | tower in which the school bell wil} be | The extreme height of the! TLMS AT NEW LONDON TO BE DOUBLE HOUSE. Changes Being Made at J.dge Waller’s Home—Tenement House Question. to The Bulletin.) Jan. 29—The Tyler (Special New London, The Elm and owned by widow of Col. Augustus C. Tyler, and among the largest residential places in the Pequot colony, is being con- verted into a double house. Since the death of Colonel Tyler, Mrs. Tyler hag in a marked degree retired from society and the house was all too large for the comfort and convenience of the Mrs. Tyler, lady and her son and daughter. There will be no material change in the exterior appearance of the house | and grounds, but the division will be made so that the one house will prac- house. The north half will be rented to parties congenial to Mrs. Tyler. A new entrance is being built to the north part of the house fronting on Tyler lane, which will be independent to the original entrances to the house in the centre both from the front and rear. : Changing Waller Residence. The palsatial residence at the corner of Vauxhall and Fremont stre years the residence of former Willey, but for the past twenty-five years the residence of former Gov- | ernor Thomas M. Waller, is now the | property of the gowernor's son, Judge | Charles B. Waller. The house and grounds are undergoing radical | changes and improvemerfts and when completed the Judge Waller residence { will be among the most attractive in | the fashionable Northwest section | Scarcity of Tenements. The New London Business association, represented by a compe- tent committee investigating the ‘turing co Men's is { complaint of local manuf. | cerns of the reity of a_desirable {line of tenement houses in New Lon- { don. They are looking into the im- | porfant matter from all sides. If | there is found to be real neces for more tenements and the stabi he complaining concern warran mmittee will probably find ways means for furnishing the ten desired. Since the passage of Eastern Shipbuilding company, investors in real estate are like | the Miss ans. That's a reason for the preliminary investigation 1 ..oving Picture House Two New ILondon men ar eeking a desirable site in Waester! for a { moving pict house. If satisfacto! | site can be obtained, the building w- | be erected without del { BUILDING AND REALTY. !Compariaons the Past Week with ‘ Same Period a Year Ago. | Real estate transactions for the | week are of greater volume than for | the corresponding week of 1912, the | number _fo; week being = 285, | against 230 last year, . the amount of the mortgage loans the towns reported in The Commercial Record | | aggresate $1,016,929, as compafed wilh | $744,969 in 191 For six years, with one exception, ! the number of petitions in bankruptcy filed in Connecticut during the fourth week In January has been four, but | the amount of liabilities for the week | compares unfavorably Wwith | years. The eight new incorporations average capitalization of about $17,000. the fipures are mnot the years ago, the like weeks ol 1910. 1911 and Bullding permits in the four lead- ing cities of the State for the week aggregate 52 in number, for buildings h compares with costing $144,990, w a year ago and 45 for the same.wee $110,550 in cost, Among the important projec which contracts have been awar during the week are, a new school- house and fire station in New Haven, factory in_Bridgeport, store and teme- ments in New Haven, institute build- ing and clubhouse in Hartford, boiler house and business block in Bridge- port, theater in Hartford, power house in Waterbury, factory in the same city, also fine residences in New Hav- en, 'Hartford, South Norwalk, Nor- walk, Stamford and Guilford, with ome, two, three and six-family houses in all the larger cente Norwich had seven real estate sales the present week to five the same week last year and morteages for the tweo weeiss of $350 and $1,600. In New London there were mo sales jast week and three a year ago, the mortgages for the respective weeks being $14,125 and $16,900. WILLIMANTIC, “Fhe masen work on the mew Catho- lic chureh has beem cempleted. A woman’s second thoughts are Reariy always the mest unsatisfactory. mansion on Pequot avenue, known as | tically serve as two. Mrs. Tyler will occupy the southern half or that sec- | tion nearest the site of the old Pequot former | have | While the record is better than a year | good as | BWAY TO BE USED AT ; _ WESTERLY’S NEW STATION. Contract Awarded For Shelter K.‘g.‘ ~ of Same Type of Architecture as ' Depot. i (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Westerly, Jan. 28.—Whon the sub- way was built in connection with the railroad improvemexnts ii was not sup- posed it was to be used untll there was four track service, as the north- ern exit or entrance as the case may be, was located beyond the point where the additional tracks will be ultimately laid. But now it is known that the contract has been awarded for the shelter house which will be built in accordance to the general architecture of the covering of the southern entrance to the subway and the nassenger statiorn, and the subway will be utilized just as scon as the shelter house is cempleted. Steel Bridgz Done. The steel bridge over the railroad | tracks at West street and which is used by the trolley roads is now com- pleted anG the spans are the longest single spans of that type ever built by the contracting ccmpany. Owing to the location of the concrete piers and the bridge having been built to line | therewith, there is i difference in the | length of the spans aithough ihe gird- ers are of the same lcnzth. While the difference is hardly noticeable to the vision still there is quite a difference. The span nearest the railway station is just 146 feet In length, while the | other span is just sixteen feei and six i{neles longer. New Dwrelling. Emory Hodge is having erected 2 large dwelling house, of frame struc- ture on his Jand at Hinckley hill, near Contractors and Owners should get our prices for TIN, COPPER and GALVANIZED WORK before plac- ing your orders. PIPING FOR STEAM HEATING Large stock of Mill Supplies always on hasd Specialty of HONEYWELL Hot Water Heating J. P. BARSTOW & CO. 23-25 WATER STREET, NORWICH, CONN. the junction of West Broad sireet and the Stoningten and Old Mystic roads. For Building Lets. The extensive tract of land owned by, Hordce Vose in the vicinity of Quarry Hil! and Cross and School streets js beinz surveyed and as ex- plained in Shore Acres is to be cut| up into_building lo Several have already been engaged and just as soon as possession is obtained dwelling houses will be erected. Cottages at Plsasant View. Three cottages at pleasant View are nearing completion, the largest being for William Wheelock. Mrs. Pendle- ton and Miss Louise Miner, both of North Stonington, are the owners of the others. They will be ready for occupancy in the early spring. Two Houses at Tower Hill. A local contracting firm is erecting two houses at Tower Hill for Ex- Govenor Kimball. Another house at Wakefield, nearly completed for Former stant Attorney General | Harry P. Cross. Fifteen at Bradford. Fifteen t{wo-tenement houses are being erected in the Bradford section of the town of Westerly for the Brad- ford Dyeing association for the ac- | commodation of employes. PUTNAM TO HAVE NEW STABLE AND GARAGE. | Good Progress Made on Contract Office Building of Telephone Com- pany. to The Bulletin) 9.—The most notable (Specia Putnam, Jan. ATTE BUILDERS TION PAINTERS PROPERTY OWNERS WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERY THING IN THE Paint Line GOODS OF QUALITY. YOUR BUSINESS 'SOLICITED. Call or send for color cards and suggestions for interior or exterior painting. The Charles Osgood Co. 45 and 47 Commerce Street, Norwich, Conn. Wholesale — Retail construction work yet announced to take place in Putnam this/ spring is | to be done for Representative Henry | H. Davenport, of Pomfret, who on land that he recently purchased on South Main street, just north of | K stables, to erect a large and another be used as a garage large building to for the Southern New England Tele- phone company. This building is lo- ed on Grove ot, just east of its h Main. The mild two weeks has junction with of weather the allowed the brick work to be run up pldly, and there seems no doubt | at it be completed and ready | for occupancy on schedule time which is July 1 Cold Yard Trestle. s. N. Joslin of Putnam Coal and Wood company e arrange- ments for the re t the ez est possible moment of the more than 200 fect of rallroad trestle at his yard wa ed in the big fire of { } s | ovemb Mr. Joslin sa not s to give the e: E t work will commence, but it will be before spring, which is not far Joy's Stable Changes Nearly Done. | cepting the painting of the inter- | | ior, the extensive changes and altera- tions at what has long been known as Joy le on Front street, opposite th theater, has been com- | | pleted owned by J. | B. Tatem, Sr., and hereafter is to be| PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING | Any Leaks in That Roof or Gutter Pipe ? | If there is, it is tie very best :‘ma right now to have them repaired and don’t wait or put it off. Call us up | at once and let us put your roof an conductor pipes in firsi-class ord: ior the winter. | A. J. Wholey & Co., Telephone. 12 Ferry Street TuThS Sanitary Plumbin; A peep into an up-to-date bathroom | 1s oniy less refreshing than the bath | | dtseif.” During the summer you will the more look to the bath for bodily comfort. I will show you samples and plans of the porcelain and other tubs |and give you estimates for the work | of putting them in in the best manner | from a sanitary standpoint—and guar- | | antee the entire job. | % J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Street | S. F. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker Agent for Richardson and Boyni... Furnacez. 2 \West Main Streel. Morwich, T. F. BURNS, Healing and Plumbing, 92 Franklin Streat ROBERT J.COCHRANE| Guw FiGinz, Slumbing, Steam 10 West Main St., Nerwich, Conn | Agent N. B. O. Bheet Packing. spriu known as cellar to garret th thoroughly New Telephone Exchange. Tabiilsnow, Ao At the present time the principal| month. The upper floo building under construction in Pul-| £5r offices : il nam is the new central office building | Lasment inc Bl a cement fic Academy Te Become Parochial School. the g. Frem | has been | remodeled. STORAGE Largest capacity in the city. A N. CARPENTER 23 Commerce St All kinds of Mason Build- ing Materials, Small Trap Rock for driveways and walks. CONTRACTOR FOR EVERYTHING MILE, r | THE FENTON-CHARNLEY BUILDING CO0., Inc. GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH, CONN. The Vaughn Foundry Co. with the smallest are— No. 2 CHESTNUT CHESTNUT (“Nut”) nut. Egg to the smaller sizes. is extensive CENTRAL WHARF Telephones 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- GCOAL The sizes used for household purposes, commencing | Egg used with No. 2 Chestnut (at a saving of 75¢ per ton) has given satisfaction in many cases. | i A few blows of a hammer will reduce a hod full of ‘ Our assortment of LUMBER CHAPPELL, CO. 150 MAIN STREET