Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 20, 1913, Page 10

Large Contracts Advanced—Stere and Opttage Con- struction Mere. (Speelal to The Bulletin.) ' Westerly, Feb. ““3" largest o tract e taken in the building line by any Westerly firm was the cen- truetion of the plant ef the Bradford Dyeing association, or rather ome- quarter of what 8 to the . plant when eompleted to the 'The contracts already award- ed amount to about $350,000. The Shermen company erected the im- mense bulldings and since their com- pietion has made an addition of elgh- ty feet. The uait'of the main plant is now completed and the Shermans are now constructing the caustic bullding of the plant. The bulldings are all of brick construction and after this building is completed it is ‘ex-. pected that work will be commenced on others. The association recently awarded a coatract te the Sherman company to build elght two-tenement frame build- ings, of twelve rooms each and all of these are nearing completion. Rebuildin- Brick Block. The H, T, Kenyon company ls re- building the Walton brick block in West Broad streect, which was recent- 1y damaged by fire. It was originally 3 four-story building but in the re- bullding one story will be omitted, though the front appearance will not be changed. occupied by Mr. Walton in his buei- ness, while the secomd flioor will be arranged for offices and the third as a soclety room or hall. Cottage and Bungalow. The same is now engaged in raising & modern and up-to-date cottage for Emory S. Hodge in West Broad street mnd on the corner of what was form- erly known as the Moss farm. This firm has the contract for the erection of a bungalow at Musicolony for-J. L. Wood, of Dallas, Texas. The sfruc- ture, including the verandas, will be 32x68 in size. Store Enlarged. The store occupied by William St. Onge, in the Leonard house, has been enlarged by adding thereto the office formerly occupied by Dr. Thomas E. Robinson. Cottage at Pleasant View. The Isaac Sherman company has contract for a modern cottage to be built for B. F. Chappell, of Mt. Vern- on, New York, at Pleasant View. The firm has jusi completed a residence, 40x60, at Tower Hill, for Ex-Governor Lippitt, of Providence, and extensive alterations and addition to_the re: dence of Harry P. Cross in Wakefleld. GROTON. Contractors have started the re- bulldiag of the plant of the C. M. Shay Fertilizer company, burned last week. The possibilities of new buildings are {uod as an enlargement of the fac- ory is contemplated. Get Providence Contracts. Contracts for ordinary and improved graanite paving blocks, bids for which were opened last week, were awarded by the board of contra and supply of Providence this week as. follows: 50,000 ordinary blocks, to R. B. Mar- | riott & Sons, Oneco, Conn. at $61 a thousand; 26,000 ordinary biocks, with go optlon on 36.000 mors, to Nelson' A ennett, Sterling, Conn., at $61; 100,000 d 50,000 ordinary blocks to the New land Granite Works, Westerly, at 8 and $67, respectively; 100,000 im- roved blocks to the Booth Bros. & urricane Isle Granite Company, New ork, at $64.50; 100,000 and 100,000 {mproved blocks to the New England Granite Company, Westerly, at $64 and 365, respectively. THE FENTON-CHARNLEY The first floor will' be [ BUILDING CO., Inc. GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH. CONN. PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING Any Leaks in That Roof or Gutter Pipe 2 1f there is, it is tae very best ‘'me right now to bave them repaired ang don’t walt or put it offt. Call us up at once and let us put your roof and conductor pipes in firsi-class ordes for the winter. A. J. Wholey & Co., ‘Telephone. 12 Ferry Street TuThS Sanitary Plumbin} “‘ WE[: into an up-to-date baf only less refreshing than the bath itself. During the summer you will the more look to the baih for bodily | comfort. 1 will show you samples angd plans of the porcelain and other ti and give you estimates for the work of putting them in in the best manner from a sanitary standpolut—and guare antee the entire job. J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Stree: S. F. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker Agent for Richardson and Hbynive Furnacez. 5 85 West Main Ss-est. Norwich. Tun T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, 92 franklin*Streat - ROBERTJ.COCHRANE Gus Vitdng, Phimbing, Stewm bl 10 West Main $t., & Nerwich, Coma. Ageut N. B. O. S8beat Packine aorid e ——————————————ru et | DR. F. W. HOLMS, Dentist Shanmen Bulldfag Ammex. Reom A. Betemnena Gl L Two Are Now Ready But Will Not be Used Until Spring— Pottor Manor Showing Much Development—Apartment Until spring the shacks at the new county tuberculosis sanatorium here will not be used, but ail the first pa- tients will be accommodated in the two ~wards which are immediately attached to the administration build- ing. In these two there Wwill be ac- commodations for 48 patients. In the two shacks, there will be accommoda- tions. for 48 more patients, one shack being for msen and the other for wom- en.- Both the shacks are - situated detached ffom the otherbuildings and will be used for the incipient cases when the sanatorium is using them. Here in_the shacks the Incipient cases can .spend the larger part of the time in the open air, having their befl.ll placed in ths sections into which the open-air paris of the shacks are di- vided. - Two beds go in each section. / and the contract was awarded to De- witt Howard of Norwich for some- where near the sum of $2,700, it is believed. This is about the amount the committee had at its disposal for building the schoelhouse. The con- tract includes all the detail for the schoolhouse, excavating, foundations, carpenter work, painting and heating plant. The excavating to be done is about 6 feet in depth and will be started as soon as the weather per- mits. Buildings at Potter Manor. During the past few months nearly | a dozen dwelling houses and a_store | have been erected on .Jand bordering | on that of the Potter Manor. Seven of the houses are at the present time completed and occupied. Hadley SHACK FOR A A A A AAMAAAAS A A INCIPIENT CASES AT NORWICH SANATORIUM The central part of the shack build- ing is the big living room, behind which is the locker room and the lav- atory with shower batks and tub baths. There is a separate heating plant for each shack to provide heat f,m-o the living room, bath and locker room. STATE HOSPITAL WORK Good Progress Being Made on the 3 New Buildings. The ,Norwich State hospital is a center of building activity at the; present time, four buildings being in | the course of ¢onstruction. The rein- forced concrete work on the two new ward. buildings has been completed and the steel work has been set on South Ward E and is being placed now on North Ward BE. The roof planking “is being laid on the South Ward building. The ward buildings will probably be completed by May. The new wards will accomodate 100 patients - each and are connected by corridors with warde B and C. The new dining room building is fast nearing completion, the plaster- ing being -already nearly finished. The terraze tile floor has been laid down stairs. The new clubhouse is attractively located on the river bank about 50 feet from ‘the main subway and from To b cbtained au Sroulient: view of the river. The building is now be- ing painted and finished in the inter- ior. On the first floor is the bowling alley and three alleys are now being laid. On this floor is also located the bililard room. It is planned to install two pool tables and one bliliard table at first but there will be room for an- other table if it is considered desira- Dle. Theré is a storeroom and soft drinks, candy, ice cream etc will be on sale here. * On _the second floor is the women's parior, a reading room, a card room, Aand the 40 by 40 gymnasium which extends up to the roof. Over the oth- er second floor rooms are the locker rooms, with shower baths. On the front of the clubhouse facing thé river are two spacious porches. Built by Special Appropriation. The. house is being built - and equipped from a special appropriation of $10,000 by -the last general assem- bly and will be the only one of its kinds buflt through such a special appropriation. The club itself is' known as the River View club and the male em- the hospital are eligible for membership. The government of the club is entirely in the hands of the members. The following board of directors wag recently elected to serve for one year; John Daggett, Arthur Davies, Preniice Chase, Fred Green- way, Charles Crowley, Frank Yerring- ton and William Wic The women employees of the hospital are to be made associate members of the club. The clubhouse wiil be finished shortiy and the directors are arranging for a formal opening which will probably occur about the first of April. are 90 active members. Two New Cottages. It is expected that two new cottages for the nurses will be builf across the road from the administration building sometime this summer. They will be like those already built. There are at present 914 patients at the hospital. ployees of Handseme Two Apartment House. + Work is nearly completed on the attractive’ ‘and novel two-apariment house, -owned by Emerson P. Turner and located on Elmwood avenue in Ure rear of the Slater Mansion. The house was formerly an ell on the mansion .and was turned about so that the part which formerly joined the mansion is now the front of the new ‘house. The exterior is being fin- ished in _cherry red with white trim- mings. The building is of Georgian, or oid English architecture, and is 65 by 30 feet In size, and two and one- half stories high. There are two sim- ilar apartments of ,nine rooms each besides halls and bathrooms. One of the apartments.has been completed and Mr. Turner and his family are now occupying it. The interfor is finished in colonial style the wood work being finished in white. The materlals of the interior are of the finest, having been used in the ‘old mansion’ house. The original architecture of the house has been maintained in the remodeling. The rooms' on the lower floor are all fin- ished with the old fashioned walns- coting forty Inches high, and .ihe floars are all of hardwood. The apart- ments are equipped with all the. lutest plumbing, heating and lighting appl- ances’ and fixtures. The stairway leads up from the living room in each apartment and all the rooms on the ground fleer are connected by French glass doors. The second apariment will probably be completed in about six weels. The buitding is most ailractve in design and arrengement and’ will be lkuown as the Elmwood apartment Poguetanuck 8chesihuse Bide. The, Preston town school eomimities as awarded the contract for the new frame schoolhouse building which is Thezs ! o | Potter is at work putting the finish- ing touches on a new eight-room cot- tage which fronts on Boswell avenue and which is set back some distance from the road. The plastering has been completed and the men are at work painting Moth the interior and posterior, of the building. The house will contain all modern improvements a bath, steam heat, electric lights, and hot and cold water. . Cottage for C. I. Rathbun. Mr. Potter has started work on a new eight-room cottage for C. L Rathbun. = At the present time the cellar excavation has been dug and the foundation nearly completed. Ow- ing to the recent cold weather it was impossible to continue on the erection of the building but as soon as Weather conditions permit the work will be pushed along as fast as possible. St. Regis Road Cottage. A small cottage, on the St. Regis road which was recently erected has been purchased by C. I. Rathbun who intends to rent it. Cottage of Concrete Blocks. Charles W. Burton of Boswell ave- nue has started a new eight-room cottage near his own residence. The celiar and foundation have been com- pleted and a part of the wall is now | built. Because of the cold weatker the work was stopped about a week ago, as the cement froze before it set. The building will be made of water proof concrete blocks which Mr. Burton manufactures himself. Be- sides the eight rooms planned there will be an attic room. The house will be equipped with steam heat, hot and cold water, electric lights, gas and a bath an_ when completed will be a modery. dwelling in every respect. It is expected that the building will be fin- ished and ready for occupancy some- time in May. The house and land on which it is being erected belong to Mrxs. Burton. . Changes’ in Store. Mr. Kudlick who conducts a mov- elty store on Central avenue is mak- ing 4 number of changes in the inter- for of the shop. For the past few days he has been occupled in building back of an addition, which measures about 10x12 feet. Shelves have been built on three sides of the addition and are now being painted. The im- provement will be ecompléted in about & week. Increasing business made it necessary to put Iin a larger stock which cramped the store space con- siderably, and the addition will allow more floor space for both customers and goods. Fire Marshal’s Records. Fire Marshal H. L. Stanton’s records shew that the quarter January, Febru- ary and March is the lowest period of the year in building operations. There | have been but three or four applica- tions for building permits since Jan- | uary., In 1912 there were but ten per- ] r.ats issued in this gquarter, while therel were twenty each In the next three In 1910 there were only 25 ted in the first: the year. n to McQuirk House. has been granted William H. McQuirk to build a 15x18 additien to_his house on Division street. It 1s the intent of the fire marshal that new buildings within the ribed fire district colneide stri with the ordinances in material of brick, stone or seme other firepreef material. A_permit SOUTH MANCHESTER. Underway and Planned Here This Spring. Buildings South Manchester, Feb. 19—Charles Behnfield has been awarded the con- tract for a new house to be erected on South Main street for Hugh Thornton. Tt will be a two-story frame house, arranged for four tenements, with all modern conveniences. The founda- tion ‘was bullt by the owner and the carpenter work has already been | started. House in East Hartford. Edward J. Holl will start work at once on the erection of a mew house for himself on Burnside avenue, Burnside. It will be a two-story frame house, about 28x42 feet, and will contain two tenements, wiih all modern conveniences. Finishing Almshouse. Gustave Schreiber s finishing the new almshouse on the Middle Turn- pike. The plumbing and roofing, heat- ing, electrical work and the painting havVe been finished. Contract for Residence. Thomas Wright has been awarded the contract for a new residence to be erected at Greemhurst, on Eaet Cen- ter street, for Mrs. Samuel Johnson. It will be a two-story frame residence, with #11 modern conveniences. Thomas TProtler has been awarded the contract for the-plumbing in Lhe new oneé-family house beiug ere¢ted on Main street for Jullus J. Strick land, Dwight Blish 1s the contracter &nd has staried the caipenier work, Patrick Gorman Las the Ceatrac for the muson work aid has started | the foundation work fer the new rwo- to be erecled on the Geer lot for dis trict No. 4, which ineludes- Poque- tanuck There were seven bidders family house 1o be erected on Delmont New Cottages and Stores In Prepa: © . tlon for.Coming Season. “(Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Watch Hill, Feb, 19.—The Sherman company of w..gm‘y ‘Is erecting three large houses of a high-grade, with all modern improvement for Mrs. Clem- ent A. Griscom at Watch Hill which are to. be ready for summer occupancy. They are also building at Watch Hill a large cottage near the Proctor prop- erty for J. Paton Russel, of Washirg- ton, and also a large cottage for Rod- man E. Griscom, and are building a large addition to the cottage of H. B. Joy, of Detroit, Michigan. Babcock Cottage. A large cottage is being erected at Watch Hill, on_the road leading from the pier to the New Watch Hill house, for Eristam D. Babcock.. It will be lo- cated in the rear of the Crown Thea- tre building. Four Store Buildings. Daniel Larkin i having four more store buildings erected in Bay street at Watch Hill. These stores adjoin the one adjoining the news and notion store near the entrance to the bathing beach. It is understood that the orig- inal store will be occupied as branch of the Nash News store during the coming séason. Rebuilding Log Cabin. Babcock and Wilcox are rebuilding and_enlarging the cottage of Samuel H. Davis at Watch Hill and known a8 the Log Cubin. 'Radical changes are being made in the interior and it will be fitted In the most modern style. When completed the building will be nearly twiee its original size. MORE INDUSTRIAL BUILDING. Extensive Enlargement of Plants in Process or Planned by 'Connecticut Concerns. The revival in industrial building in Connecticut. goes steadily forward. In Waterbury the Manufacturers’ Found- ry Company is adding to its plant a new pattern storage building and an office building, the latter of brick and limestone, two stories high. Addi- tions to an American Brass Company plant are the new power house and coal bin to be built by the Waterbury Brass Company. These buildings wiil Dbe brick and steel, the first 68x109 feet and the other 79x132. The Scovill Manufacturing Company is to build a new casting shop, a brick and steel structure 125x160 feet on the ground. In New Haven the Semon Ice Cream Company, wholesale manufacturers, is building 'a new factory and office building at a cost of about $25,000, and the Grand avenue power station of the United Illuminating Company is to have a brick and steel addition 58x80 feet in size and’ one story high. The National Folding Box & Paper Company, which has now bought in all but-four or five of the bonds in the $200,000 issue which wag meade for the erection of its Cedar HIll plant, 18 to add to that plant a great warehouse 100x200 feet in size and five stories high, of fireproof construction. Work on this will begin as soon as spring opens. In Bridgeport - the Salts Textile Manufacturing Company has con- tracted for the erection of two build- ings at a cost of about $50,000. They are a weave shed of one story and a factory building of three stories, and both will be built of brick and steel. In Hartford the new factory of the Mugford Printing & Engraving Com- pany will be of brick, two stories high and’ 218x45 feet on the ground. Among the other industrial build- ings about the State is the remodeling of the plafit of the Blakeslee Forging Company at Southington, where four new buildings are in process of con- struction. The Handel Company, manufacturers of lamps, in Meriden is enlarging its plant by carrying the two maln buildings, which are 54x29 and 56x20 respectively, up another story to make them three stories high. Cluett, Peabody & Co., South Norwalk, collar manufacturers, have purchased the old plant of the Artistic Bronze Company and will remodel the bulld- ings and add a fireproof structure four or five stories high and $0x100 feet in size. The John T. Young Boiler Company in Norwich has laid the foundations for new foundry buildings 136x66 feet and the new plant of ‘the Pequot Foundry Company in the same city is about completed. In New Britain the P. & F. Corbin division of the Amer- ican ~ Hardware Corporation has awarded the contract for making its present four-story main building, which is 225x60 feet in size, a seven- story building of brick and steel. The Excelsior Needle Company . in Torrington has started construction of a new factory, which is to be of brick and steel, one-story high and 65x120 feet on 'the ground. In the Pine Meadow section of New Hartford the D. B. Smith’s Sons Company is plan- ning 4 new weave shop for its cotton mill plant. The carriage factory of H. I, Wood in Stamford is to be en- iarged by carrying the present buil ing, which is 54x43 feet in size, up two additienal stories in hellow tile block concirnctien to make a four-story building. BUILDING AND REALTY. Prosvects Througheut The State Show Better Than Last Year at This Time. Sales of real estate by warranty deed as recorded in the tewns repert- ed in The Commercial Record for the past week numbered 202, which com- pares with 280 for the same week of 1912. The amount of mortgage loans for the same- week is $669,679, against $769,024 for the past year. The record of new incorporations in the State s greatly In excess of any like week for several years past. New companies were incorporated to the number of 18, with an average auth- orized capitaiization of about .$100,- 000. The petitions in bankruptcy re- ported in this State for the week have average assets of about $1,000 and average liabilitles of $2,625. . This is a better record than for the third week of February of any previcus year. The record of building. .permits granted in the four citles of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hariford and Waterbury shows ' 30 permits for bufldings dosting $303,440, but by far the major portion of this amount is in the city of New Haven —$271740. These figures compare with 37 per mits granted a year ago, for buildings costing $76,139. Among the more important projects for the week, for which contracts have been let during the week are, a store building in Waterbury, store and ioft building in Bridgeport, cold stor- age building ip the same cliy, with one, two, threé, four, six, eight and nine-family in New Haven, Bridgeport, New Britain, East Hart- ford and South Manchester, and a fing residence in Greenwich. Archilects are working on a large numper of plans . for new buildings to e erected Lhis spring, some of which are, office building aud boys' club in Watérbury, business block in New Eritain, brick hlock in New Haven, business block ifi -Bridgeport, thester and factory In Stamford, and one, houses streei for Jeseph Ginsberg. The own- er will do the painting, twe, three, foursix, eight” and nine- {amiy bouses in New Haven, Bridge- ~ 3R BUILDERS 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 * . 45 and 47 Commerce Street, Norwich, Conn. "“7holesale — Retail " PAINTERS New London - (NORWICH) R % —TO— “NEW YORK ~ STEAMERS Choose ‘this route nex: time you £0 to New ¥ You'll have a aeiightéal voyage on Long Isiand Sound &nd & superd yiew of the wonderful s line Eng waler front of Mannetian Telan New Lonaon at 11 p. New York, Pisc L E o Meal Sc: ice & la Carte; St‘l‘n\fl{;an. Romiiici @ 180 NEW YORK S New England Steamship Co. | Co. ing your orders. Contractors and Owners should get our prices for TIN, COPPER and GALVANIZED WORK before plac- PIPING FOR STEAM HEATING Large stock of Mill Supplies always on hand Specialty of HONEYWELL Hot Water Heating CHELSEA LINE Fare $1 Freight and passenger servica direct 1o New York, From Notwlch Tuesdays, Thure= deys, Sundays, &t 5.315 p. m. S York, Pler 23, Hast River, foot Roosevelt St t. Mondays, Wednesday: Fridays. at § p. m. Freight received until 5 p, m. ¥. V. KNOUSE, Agent. OB Alggy TITH STREET & UNIVERSITY \PLACE ©One Bloek West of Broadway NEW YORK CITY 5 bl;l:-g 0 Wheleskid and Retall MODERN Eflo ALY Firerroor 300 Rooms (200 with Bath, 23-25 WATER STREET, J. P. BARSTOW & CO. NORWICH, CONN. OAL A GOOD SUPPLY OF ALL HOUSEHOLD SIZES AND STEAM COALS also a cargo in transit LUMBER A FULL ASSORTMENT CHAPPELL CO. Branch 150 Main St. Central Wharf Telephones port, New Britain, Stamford. Norwich had four sales of real es- tate last weck and the same number for that week a yvear ago. The mort- gage loans were $10,200 last week and $49,500 a vear ago. Last week New London had three sales of real estate and eight a year ago. The mortgage loans last week were $8,900, against $15,075 for the same week in 1912. BUILDING OPERATIONS NEW ENGLAND. The statistics of Building Opera- tions in New England as compiled by The F. W. Dodge Company, follow: Contracts to Feb ..$16,065,000 Contracts to Feb. 18,350,000 Contracts to Feb. 13,138,000 Contracts to Feb. 13,721,000 | Contracts to Feb. 12! 13,036,000 Contracts to Feb. 12, 5,261,000 | Contracts to Feb. 12, 18,721,000 | Contracts to Feb. 12, $,864,000 Contracts to Feb. 12, 7,596,000 Contracts to Feb. 12, 6,786,000 Contracts to Feb. 12, 7,504,000 Ceontracts to Feb. 12, 9,242,000 Contracts to Feb. 12, 7,894,000 « Maeithetanding the Fire we are still deing business at the old stand and the quality of our work is ust tie same as ever—-The Best. Nothing but skilled labor employed aid best materials used in our work STETSON & YOUNG, Carpenters and Builders, Teicohone 58 West Main 8 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 A PIANO Out of Tune Isn’t Worth a Picayune. Of the Tuners, Take Your Pick, d. H. GEORGE Will Tune It Slick TELEPHONE RATES $1.00 PER DAY U Excelignt Restaarant and Cafe. o Prices. SRR L ot New Fork G ¥ We will serve another six o’clock dinner, Sun- day, February 23. Tables. are now being reserved. Phone 704 Music by the Orchestra. WAUREGAN HOUSE PARKER-DAVENPORT CO, Proprietors NOTIGE The Board of Relief of the Town oh Norwich, Conn., will meet in the City Hall Building, in said Town. each day, Sundays excepted. from Feb, 1st te Feb. 21st, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. to listen to appeals from the doings of the Assessors, and to do any other business proper to be done at sald meetings. Dated at Norwich, Conn., Jan. 36th, | 1913, FRANK R. M'LAUGHLIN, BEDWARD KIRBY, JAMES W. BLACKBURN, jan21é Board of Rellef. | We have a good assortment of | FISH | in cans, boxes, etc. Just the | - thing for the Lenten Season. 'People’s Market | 6 Franklin St. JUSTIN HOLDEN, Prop. Babies! Soon they will be big boys iand girls, and their faces will | be only a memory. E Bring the babies and we’ll Icatch their smil ~ LAIGHTCN | THE PHOTOGRAPHER Opposite Norwich Savings Society. | | Back, Livery and Boarding | STABLE We guarantee our service to be the { best at the 1108t reasonable nrices. MAHONEY BROS., Falls Ave Let’s Do It Now— Dow't put it off any longer. Come in my offic: now and let me give you an | estimate and my prices for any con- tract woik or building which you may contemplute having' done. 1 Can Satisty You Just as.T haye many others in Norwich und vicinity, If you will just give me the opportulits: 1 C.'M, WILLIAMS, 216 MAIN & Tel- 670