Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 13, 1913, Page 10

FARISH HOUSE FQR NEW LONDON CHURCH. “zcond Congregationalists Vots To Build $25,000 Structure. ¢ London, Feb. 12-aThe szcuni czaticrai church at its annual caded to build & large parish Broad - street. ‘It he-a .ldin of fwo stories vrjm a 10 will cost approxi ing committee 1 The 4% hiton, E. C. Newecomb, Eev. J. W. Bixler, Mrs. u,me and Mrs. L. K. Shipman. Buiiding Conflagration. It is not somany years ago that ome o’ the city banks Gfl?flfid to have a w banking house and in short order three other banks followed snd in a comparatively short peri there were four new bank buildings in the Now the building epidemic which means a more beautiful and better New London prevails among the churches. After a delay of a century o- mere a granite placed on St. Mary's Star of the Sea chureh. Now the church across: the way, the Third Baptist has under consideration changes in the chure! edifice which ineludes the removal of the wooder steeple on that brick edi- fice. On the same street the Unitari- ans have built a neat-looking little church of brick, while plans are in the works for the imprevement of the old Bethel. Tt was teld Jast week that the Second Baptist seciety was having buliding plans prepared for coutrac- tors to ereet a chapel to compare with the church edifice fronting en Wash- ington street and direetly in the rear of the church. It is expected that the plans and specifications will soon be readv fof the imspeectiom of con- tractors. Now along cemes the Second Con- gregational chureh Seciety with a prop- osition to erect a parish house of gran- ite right near the church and on prop- erty owned by the soeiety at the junc- tion of Broad, and Federal streets, the new parish house to face Broad street and opposite Memorial park. The matter of this new structure has been under consideration ror a long time. The mew will be in full keeping With the church edifice. Permits. Building permits granted include the following, showing that when Spring opens_much building will be under- way; Premtice and Cruise, for a frame house at Neptune park;G. B. Fields for a frame house at Ocean avenue; Es- telle B. Clark for a frame house in Elliot avenue;- E.- A. Henkle for a frame house in Mot{ avenue; W. E. Petterson for a frame addition’in Ade- laide street, and C. B. Waller for an addition to his house in Channing street. BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND. The statistics of Building Opera- tions in New England as complied by The ¥. W. Dodge Company, follow: Contracts to Feb. 5, 1913...514,550,000 Contracts to Feb. 5, - 11,000,000 Contracts to Jeb. 5, 10,618,000 Contracts to. ¥eb. 5, Contracts to Feb. 5, Contracts to Feb. 5 4,656,000 Contracts to Feb. 5, 11,800,000 Contracts to ¥eb 5, 7,205,000 Contracts to ¥eb. 5, 6,080,000 Contracts to Feb. 5, 6,100,000 Contracts to Feb. 5, 6,504,000 Conmtracts to Feb. 5, £,324,000 Contracts to Feb. 6,130,000 Contracts for Jan. 11,239,000 Contracts for Jan. 9,140,000 Contracts for Jan. 36,000 Contracts for Jan. £,707,000 Contracts for Jan. ), ), | Contracis for Jan. . 4,137,000 Contraets for Jan. 1 10,587,000 Conptracts for . Jan. 6,015,000 Contracts for Jan. 3,342,000 Contracts for Jan. 4,674,000 Contracts for Jan 5,887,000 Contracts for Jan. 6.489,000 Contracts for .Jan. 3,992,000 PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING. Any Leaks in That Roof or Gutter Pipe ? 1f there is, it is tae very best ‘‘me right now to have them repaired and don't wait er put it oft. Call us up at ence and let us put your roof an: conducter pipes in first-class orde: for the winies, A. J. Wholey & Co., Telephone. 12 Ferry Street TuThs Sanitary Plumbing A peep into an up-to-date bathroom 18 only less refreshing than the | e mmore Took tot to the bath for bodily o the or b comfort. lvm-hwyouumpln..d plans of the porcelain and other tubs and give you estimates for the work Vdmngtuninllunmm Bfl-- "n"::‘pollb—tl‘m J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Stree: S. F. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker Agent for Richardson and Boyntue Furnaces. 83 West M T. F. BURNS, ‘Heating and Plumbing, 92 Franklin Strez! ROBERT J.COCHRANE Gwas Fitiing, Pluml o Stemm Vadtin. 10 West Main St., Nerwich, Conn. Agent N. B. O. Bheat Packinz. anr Let’s Do It Now— Don't it oft longer. Come in my now and let me give you an estimate and my s for any con- tract work or building which you may contemplate having dope. I Can Satisty You Just as I have many others in Norwich and vieinity, If you will just give me the opportunity. C. M. WILLIAMS, Tel. 670 218 MAIN $ ! % in Strest. Norwich. Tun C. H. PRESTON, ARCHITECT. FRONT ELEVATION OF POQUETANUCK ”HOOLHO!}SE. P o ey POQUETANUCK SCHOOLHOUSE BIDS | ‘Awards Will Probably be Made This Week—Plans For New Front on Bruckner Block on Franklin Street—Progress on Contracts Here. i erection “of the new the town of Preston 4, Poquetanuck, are the town school com- Bids for the schoolhouse for in District No. in the hands of nearing completion and the men are now engaged In installing the eight furnaces. The building is all enclosed the roof having just been completed mittee and have been opened but no and the windows put in. Contractor awards made as there was not a full attendance of the board when the bids were opened. There were seven bids, practically all from Norwich builders. The town has $2700 to use for the erection of the schoolhouse. The award for the contract will prob- ably be made by the end of this week. Progress at Thermos Factory. For a week now the heating contract for the office building at the new Ther- mos plant has been completed and the plumbing and heating contract in the main. building has also been nearly finished up this week. Fires have been started in the two boilers to test them. The north elevator is the farthest ad- yanced and will be practically ready | for use today. Freight House. The storms of the week hindered the work on the addition to the freight house. The flooring has been ‘com- pleted and the frame work and rafters for the sides and covering thereof have been put in place and but a few davs will now be reguired to cover this in. The new platform is about 240 feet long, 35 feet' wide at ome end and about 17 feet wide at the other. Finishing Fitchville Mill Addition. Contractor (. M. Williams’ men are now completing the new addition to the Fitchville mill and will probably finish their work there within a few days. The addition is three stories in height and is 90x180 feet. Pequot Foundry Nearly Done. The new foumndry building for the Pequot Brass Foundry company in the rear of the plant of the Norwich Nickel & Brass company is rapidly C. M, Williams expects to complete the job in about a week The work wag held up for a day and 2 half by an injunction ewing to a claim that the new structure emcroached on neighboring property. Occupying New Home. Mr. and Mrs. George Charbonneau have taken up their residence at their recently completed new home on West Thames street. The building is an at- tractive two apartment house and is most modern and up-to-date in its finigh and fixtures. Mr. and Mrs. Char- bonnean moved inte their new heme on Wednesday. The house is of two stories with a | spaciotis attic and is 43x44 feet. Each | apartment has six rooms. A seven foot veranda extends along the entire front of the building and on both the north and south sides of the house are dor- mer windows. The attractive struc- ture is surmounted by a four-hip roof. BE. A. Kinne was the contractor. Plans to Change Block. Meyer. Bruckner is planning to ex- tend the lower story of his brick block and store at 58 Franklin street on {he front a distance of three feet. Mr. Bruckner owns a three-foot strip along his property and intends to enlarge the ground floor of the building by utiliz- ing this strip. The front of the build- ing will be finished In red sandstone as at present. Tenement House Work. Contractors have the framework for the two-story tenement house which James O. Mahoney is building in West | Main street, up and partially boarded in but the roof has mot as yet been raised. MIDDLETOWN. New House fo Be Constructsd and Alterations and ‘Changes Underway. Middletown, Feb. 12.—Mylchreest Bros. have the. contract for the mason work and have started the foundation for a new house to be erected at Murray’s Corner, Farm Hill District, for George F. Redford. Wells & Wil- cox have the contract for the carpen- ter work. The house will be of frame construction, 34x35 feet, and will con- tain eight rooms, with all modern conveniences. Contract for Alterations. John W. Glyan has been awarded the contract for the carpenter work anad Myichreest Bros. the mason work for the additions and alterations to Charles W. Warner's residence on ‘Washington street. A two-story frame addition. 12x15 feet, will be erected. New verandas with concrete floors will be built and the whole house will be stuccoed. e Addition About Done. B an addition to ng Groverson Masons are finishing the plant of the Pick Worlks in Portland. Other Notes. The contract has been awarded for 2,000 feet of guard rail to be erected on the new Middlesex Turnpike for the State of Connecticut. The new two-family house. being erected on Glover place. by James Murphy Is now ready for plastering. Work is_well along on the three houses in Newfield for the Tuttle Brick Co. Ome house is being plastered and two are all roofed in. George S. Chapin's new residence Cromwell is completed. NIANTIC. Niantic is makink slow but sure progress towards the erection of a li- brary building. The public library as- sociation has $800 in the treasury for building /urposes and announcement has been made of a gift of a piece of land on which to erect the building. in / Minnesota in 1912 sold 2,200 acres of state lands at prices ranging from five to twenty-one dollars an acre. BUILDING AND REALTY. Activity Shown in all Branches with Numerous Projects Reported. Real estate transactions as reported in The Commercial Record for the past week show sales greatly in excess of the first. week in February of last vear, the comparisen being 342 against 217 for the previous vear. The amount of mortgage loans is also greater by about $125,000. Not so many new incorporations were recorded in the State during the week as a year ago, the figures being | 11 for the week as against 14 last year, but the 00, ¢ number for the week i eight, but the authorized capitalization, is nearly double that of 1912. of bankruptcy petitions the same as last yi mount of assets and liabilities is very much less than the record of a year ago. While the recerd of building permits %rl.nted in the cities of New Haven, ridgeport, Hartford end Waterbury for the week s not large, the figures make a better ehowing than previous records. Sixty-one permits were granted during the week, as compared with 38 last year, for buildings cost- ing $121,968, againat §71.950 a year ago. Very few large contracts have been awarded during the week, among these are a brick laundry and business block in Bridgeport, brick garage In New Haven, severai frame houses in Water- bury of the better class, fine #esidence in Middletown, store and tenement block {n Bridgeport and several frame houses of the cheaper class in almost all the larger cities of the State. A number of new projects have been, reported during the week, and the out- look for a brisk spring and summer still holds good. In Hariford plans are being prepared for a memorial isolation hospital, two large brick apartment blocks, several fine residences and a business block. In Stamford a fine apartment building, business block and residence costing $30,000 are reported. Bids are being T ived for a new. schoolhouse in Southington and plans for a school- house.in Waterville will be ready for figures early next week. Plans are also being_estimated for a_children’s home in New Britain. cold storage plant in Bridgeport, moving picture building, N I PUTNAM | “exact dimensions are not REBUILDING AFTER RECENT FIRES. Repairs Being Made To Chickering Hotel Block—Wheaton Company Not To Restore Main Piant—Other Changes. (Special to The Bulletin.) Putnam, Feb. 12— Employes of E. M. Wheaton will be hard at work this week rebuilding the Chickering hotel block, o badly demaged by fire last month. The work of restoring the roof has already commenced. On the Union street side there will be little change from the old form, but on the Front street side the badly. damaged mansard roof is to be removed over a section 44 by 90 feet and another roof built on, this cutting out the third floor ower that area of the buflding. The imterior will be rebuilt along the present lings, bui with yarious hm- provements. Summer Boarding Place. is kngwn as the Judge Lynde Catlin house, buflt 2 number of years age at Harrisville, near this city, by Contractor E. M. Wheaton, 18 being remodelled fof use as . summer board- ing place, te whieh purpose the dwell- ing was deveted with success for ihe firSt time last vear e work is now underway. The large Tooms are being arranged inte a Wumber of smaller reems, with other alterations -desira- ble to the purpese for which the home 15 te be use: Woerk at Epileptic Colony. Al huc the interior werk on four bulldings of firepreef brick for the Connec! l(‘u( Rpileptic celony is com- pleted at - Mansfield, the Wheaton Building and Lumber company of Put- nam_ being the contractors. These Dufldings Gost $100,000 and are of fime and substantial construction. Large Green House. Clinton 8. Andem, who recently Te- signe@d as agent for the Grosvenordale company and purchased a home in this city, is to have a large green house constructed for him during the coming season’, near the 'East Side green houses. Mr. Andem is going into the rose growing business for the whole- sale market. A large boiler for a cen- tral steam heating plant is {0 be in- stalled. Wha Big Storage House. The, Wheaton Buflding and Lumber company, whose big plant on Front and School strest was wiped out in the big fire of November 22, has plans for the erection of a big storage house on a part of the site swept by the conflagration. This strncture, which is to be used for the storage of lime, cement, finishing . stock and other materials, is to be of wood. but the announced, new established in what is known as the Fisher shoe shop, is not to rebuild the main plant. The site where 1t stood s to be left for us in the future development of.the cit: or will be sold if a _satisfactory eppor- tunity presents itself. Changing Deane Place. At Thompson work has commenced on the remodelling of the J. W. Doane place for use as a select boarding school for young ladies. Extensive alterations are belng made in the property. which will be ready for use as & school at the beginning of' the next school year and probably before that time. Building Prospects Geod, The company A prominent contractoy doing busi= ness i is ciiy says that building prospects are better at this ume than has b the case for severnl years. Now instead of a surplus of rents there is getting to be a scarcity, indi- cating that there will be a building boom as soon as the spring sedson opens. theatre in Naugatuck, business block in Bristol, residence In Greenwich cost- Ing $25,000, business block in Derby, besides a number of small houses in New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport and Waterbur: Norwich had seven sales last week to five a year ago, while for January the total was 34 to 16 for January in 1912. There were no mortgage loans last week but a year ago they amount- ed to $7,100. ¥or the month they were $42.965 againsL $122.800 last year. ew London had the same number of sales last week as took place the | same week | year. The January | sales were 15 to 16 a year ago. ‘On mortgage loans New London reached the total of $13,550 last week to $1,900 a vear ago while for January in the two years the totals were $44,425 for 1913 and $53,450 for 1912. Feb. rz—c.mu-wtm m the work on the new ding for the Southcrn. ‘elephone company or 1':' fast as the weather m It. le masons new have the up about one story. It is te be of brick the frent face to rick. The plans are for the completion and use of the building this year. “The structure has a frontage of 26 feet running back 77 teet There is a og 33 feet from the front which leaves extreme rear 13 feet. The com- ‘merdcial office will oceupy the first floor on the front, the terminal apparatus room being located at the back while in the basement will be the stock room and the heater. On the second floor will be the switechboard and special locker and retiring rooms for the op- [+ erating foree. This will be equipped with a common battery switchboard so that when the new office is opened it will overcome the ringing by the sub- scriber to get central. The operation will be accomplished by simply remov- ing the receiver from the hook. SOUTH MANCHESTER. n Villa To Be Erected at Man- chester Green. South Manchester, Feb. 12.—Plans have been completed for an Italian villa to be erected at Manchester Green for Miss K. B. Spencer of New York eity, The house will be about 35x100 feet, two stories high, constructed of terra cotta tile exterior and tile roof. It will have concrete and brick ‘ter- races, and a separate building will be erected for a garage. It wili be fin- ished throughout in hard woods and provided with all the modern improve- ments including hot water heat, gas and electric lights, mantels, fireplaces and tile bathrooms. The grounds com- prise about 10 acres and the landscape work will be done under the super- vision of the architett. The garden acessories will probably Include a number of imported antiques. _ Dwelling Houses. The new two-family house being erected on the Middle Turnpike for Peter Larson is now being plastered. The new three-family house being erected on Eldridge street by William Enemen is newr reatly te fimish. Garage. Gustave Schriber s building a frame garage for the X: T. Blish Ce. in the rear of the oid Park bullding en Main street. It The Last Paris Chateau. The Chateau de la Muette, the last of the Paris chateaux, is to sell its pare— at any rate, a very handsome slice of it. Its proprieter, the Count de Franque ville, writes te a Paris jeurnal te say \that the repert that the chateau itself is to be sold Is not true, but that, ow!nfi to the “absurd tax on unbulit lands, he propeses to sell some forty thousand square vards of the adjoining estate. Upon_this, doubtless, will rise in time a modern suburb. One_reads the news with a chastened joy. Round the Cha- teau de la Muette and the lands which | have been ceded cluster many souve- nire. One flnds the place mentioned in ¥rench history as far back as the time | of Charies IX. In those days it was a pavilion de chasse in the Royal domain, and round it the wild boar rooted. There are still road hogs near where these things were, but one may not dae Berry. Peter the Great was among back to the place he came with twents ‘anc Owners sbould get our prices for TIN, COPPER and- GALVANIZED WORK before plac- ing your orders. f PIPING FOR STEAM HEATING Large stock of Mill Supplies always on hand ‘Specialty of HONEYWELL Hot Water Heating J. P. BARSTOW & CO. 23-25 WATER STREET, NORWICH, CONN. ATTENTION BUILDERS 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 0Osgood Co. 45 and 47 Commerce Street, Norwich, Conn. Wholesale — Retail M. Brard There were pursue them. In mid seventeenth cen- an; iries. bals | of the nineteenth century tury one finds at La Muette mention of gngg,pe,,‘:s B e e iamns. | bogght e, o8 for £32,000, and off- the first French race-course, when the | which will so suon be—which possibly | ered it to the king, but his majesty de- Duc d'Harcourt and the Duc de Joy- | Jlready are—covered with “otels | clined {he gift, saying ‘the chateau was euse matched their coursers the one|jarticuliers,” and Marie Antoinette in |in very good keeping in the hands of against the other for a wager of a|them. More, she erected a ball-room !|the famous maker of planos. The thousand ecus. A fragment of the his- | on the greensward, to which she gave |present owner, the Count de Franque- tory of the time records that the Duc | the mame of Ranelagh, from the Rane- | Ville, who masiied the niece and heir of de Joyeuse won the match and that his | jagh of London. ' Rosiérs and his friend | Madame ard, foumd the place, of “piquer,” or. jockey, was called Le|{ng Marquis of Ariandes rose from here | course, already much dwindled from itf Plessis. But it was the regent who|in n great Montgolfier balloon decorated | magnificence, and now it seems in 4 raised La Muette to its fuller glory. | with the fleur-de-lis, and sailed above | fair way to being enguif Som( It passes from “its humble estate of | Paris. Just before the Revoiution, |thirty years ago the chateau was a hunting-box to that of a full-blown | J,ouis tried to sell-the chateau, but no- | mixture of styles, bhut its new owne chateau. Its tenant was the Duchess |hody would buy. Next time he came |rebuilt it. The days of its hm!uruul ouvenirs have continued to the pres= its visitors. After the Duchess dled | five thousand others, whom the city of jent day. It was in the chapel at lLa the regent gave the chateau to Louls |'Paris had invited to make heyday on | Muette that the Bishops of France me XV., at that time a boy of twelve. It |the -~Quatorze Jullet" of 1790, and |to debate on the new situation whic was at La Muette that a certain Des- | metaphorically, if not actually, there | Was cneated by the separation of champs, director of the manufactery | were “gyves upon his wrist,” for he | Church and of St, l!'ftiex;ms, vd ‘dny' presented to the | was the Roi Prisonnier. The e young Louis and the regent a new in- | ¢ ied to sell it, too, and aln no 3 Sontion, the first repeating rifie. In | ens would Buy the bulding, so it was | 0@ to Attend Memorial Service five minutes he fired iwenty rounds.|confided to the care of the architect, | London, Feb. 12-—King George an. But the records say that the repetitions | Chalgrin and his wife. They betrayed | Dounced ftoday that he = personalld were in vain. The rifie hit nothing. |their trust to the extent of being unable | Would attend the memorial service for The souvenirs erowd more thickly. It |te lay their hands on a pound of can- | C4Pi. Robert I% & . and_his com= was at_the Chateau de 1a Muette that | dies which appeared upon the inven- | Iades to be held in St. Paul's cas Louis XVI. received the hapless Marie | tory. Therefore the Revolution laid | thedral. Antoinette when she came to link her [hands upon them—and very violent | B fortunes with his. Marie Antoinette | hands—snuffing them out perfunctorily | - Next to running the government aa loved the place, and from it she took |under the guiliotine. So, at any " it ought te be run, a man is seldom the idea of the Petit Trianon, with its | runs the story. In the second decade | auite sure what he could do’best it | Had Eczema Td nlmpl( wash it away, with that %lfl!hin‘ liguid, D.D.D. rescription. he very first drops instantly stop that awful itch. A 50 cent bottle will proveit. ‘We cannot absolutely guarantee a cure every time but we do say this, If the first” regular size $1.00 bottle does not do exactly as we say it will not cost you a cent. Better try a bottle at once on our personal guarantee. The Lee & Osgood Company. 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 NEW GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK CITY, REBUILT AT A COST OF $50,000,000, WHILE 800 TRAINS A DAY WERE'OPERATED AND SEVENTY FIVE TO ONE HUNDBED THDUSA.Nfl PABSEN. GERS WERE HANDLED. IT WAS OPENED THIS MONTH. EVERYTHING THE FENTON-CHARNLEY BUILDING CO., In:. GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH, CONN. The Vaughn Foundry Co. Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry st. MILL, CASTINGS ‘ a Specialty. » Orders Receive Promut Attention SPECIAL February Sale 35¢ Galvanized Coal Hods . . . ... 25c Coal Shovels, short, round handle ............. 5c 75¢ Sad Iron Sets . . ... . wieiciae o oo sie sisimivimioininia; 68C $1.00 Sad Iron Sets : fies's o+ S os v na s i ninis SBC s0apact Tin Pails . ..o o, . .o o oi s dale s dacnns MG 8 quart Galvanized Pails . ..c.... 15¢ 10 quart Galvanized Pails . ....... 17¢ 12 quart Galvanized Pails ..I.... .. 8 quart Enamel Tea Kettles 2, 3 and 4 quart Covered Tin Pails ... 10c Can Openers i Pie Tins, &and 9'itch .o s ... . Shallow Enamel Pie Tins . ... .. Enamel Cake Tins, worth 10c, for .... White Enamel Mugs, worth 10c, for ... ... ..o Tin Cuspidors ...... Tin Bread Pans .. 2. oo g Scrub Brushes, worth 10c, for ..... Crepe Paper, all colors, perroll . .... Fibre Chair Seats, worth 15¢, for < . ... siee ca'ece Wood Chair Seats. . . . .worth 15¢, for 10e—38¢, for 5S¢ Steel Chair Seats, imitation cane < .......;...... 25¢c 35¢ EnamelDisivPansfor . Do il b it Dl ol 206 B o v wlmee : 10c veven... 8¢, two for 15¢ 5¢ 5¢ 10c Any article shipped by Parcel. Post upon receint of price plus postage THE HOUSEHOLD Albert Boardman, Prop. BULLETIN BUILDING, 74 FRANKLIN ST.