Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 15, 1913, Page 10

NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, MAY 1.5, 1913 BUILDING ACTIVITY IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT $35,000 School Building For Baltic Contract Awarded to Fenton-Charnley Company—Construc- NEW LONDON. Construction Work Is Underway With Good Wuther at Hand. B. H. Dunbar lL taken the contract to build a two-family house on Gorton strcet for W. L. Bolles. The plans are v Architect George Gilbey, and call a frame house, each flat having six rooms, provided with steam heat, and | every convenience. Darrow Street House. H. C. Griswold has taken the con- tract to build a house on Darrow street for James Wilkinson. John Grane has th tone work, and the other contracts are not let. The house will be 24x44 feet, of wood, arranged | for two families, provided with furnace heat. Contract for Residence. The contract the erection of an 't for attractive idence on Bellevue place W for Mrs. liam H. Starr has been given to H. C. Griswold. Peter Toolin has the mason work and the other sub-contracts are not let he house will be feet, of wood, containing | rooms, fitted up with furnace t and every convenience. Will Become Used to It. Probably in time Congress will be come so used to the visits of Pre dent Wilson that it will not dodge every time it s him coming.— Cleveland Leader When a man hinks he | needs he has JORN 0. FOX & CO. ALERS IN— Lumber of All Kinds Lime, a lar Cement, Fire Brick, Ladders, Drain Pipe, Paints, Oils and Varnishes and Salt 72 Harris St., Putnam, Conn. FERTILIZER GROUND LIMESTONE AIR SLACKED LIME. Brick, Cement, hard Plasters Roofing. Best market. Full line of Sewer Pipe. THE UPSON WALL BOARD s INEZXPENSIVE WATER PROOF AND IN HANDY SIZES. Largest Storage Capacity in City A N. CARPENTER Tel. 171 Sand, Lime, all and Prepared Roofing Paint in the 23 Commerce St. C. M. WILLIAMS General Contractor and Builder Mill Construction a specialty! 218 MAIN STREET, lephone 370 Norwich, Conn. THE FENTON-CHARNLEY BUILDING CO., Inc. GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH, CONN. Our Spring showing of CARRIAGES and HARNESS | is open for your inspection. of t Before trading s show vou: our line and quo! ur prices. AL B e 14 Bath St., Norwich, Ct. TheDimeSavings Bank OF NORWICH. DIVIDEND The regular Semi-annual Dividend has been declared from the net earn- inas of the past six rate of Four per cent. months at the a year, and will be payable on and after May 15, FRANK L. WOODARD, aprildaw Treasurer. 1647 Adam’s Tavern 1861 effer to the public ile Nnest standarq bran\: of Seer of Europe and America, Bobesuan, Fusner, Culinbach Bavarian beer, Lass Fale and Lurton, Mueir's Beotch Ale, Guinness' Dublin Stour, C, & C. imported Ginger Ale, Bunker il P. B. Ale, Frank Jones' Nourish- ng Ale, Sterling Bilier Ale, Anbeuser, Louwdweiser, Schliits and Pabst. A. A. ADAM, Norwich Town. epnone ¢47-1% AMLRI(.AN HOUbi:, Farrel & Sanderson, Frop. Special Rates to Theatre Troupes. Iraveling Men, ete.. Livery connests: Shetucket Streets Fertilizers, | The Fenton-Charnley Building com- pany has been awarded the contract for the construction of the new $35,000 | ng for the Academy of the Holy Family at Baltic The building will be of three stories and a base- ment. The material will be wire-cut brick, like the present church, with artificial limestone trimmings. Work will be started on the project in a short tim school buil of the ridor length ment one also feet the buflding. two culinary and one 26x There are closets and a bathroom. while along the r side is a trunk room 10 feet wide extending the whoie length of the building. A piazza 10 feet wide extends along the whole of the first floor on the rear. On the first floor are two primary | rooms separated by folding doors, one 4x16 and the other 24x24. There is | also el hall 40x24 on this | ficor. Be the primary rooms and the hall is the main en- t which runs back to the the re The steps entrance are of granite. On the second floor is an intermedi- te room 30x22 feet and a library 14x 5. Adjoining the library and separat- ed by folding doors is the large study hall 45x25 feet. The third floor has a room 30x25 and a classroom seventh and eighth grades 29x25. also loca the business de ment, a room 30x25, with a typewriting room’ 16x10 adjoining. The new building will be an a tive one and make a valuable ad- dition the academy Sesides Fenton-Charnley company there were bids Patinaud of Montreal and Pec & Co. | of this city. The contract was signed { on Wednesday None of the | contracts bave been awarded as yet, | | wide and extending the In the base- departments, and a hall, along idor leading to t high school- for the rac- but co new building will cost T. P. O’Connell of Boston architect. abo the i Putting Roof on Foundry. { The north end of the new | of the Jonn T. Young Boiler blown down last wind, has been d the men are at pe roof. In another week building will be ctically and it is hoped that it may by the middle of next the company needs the to accommodate its business. Gets Lynn Contract. enton-Charnley Building com- has been awarded the contract he new St. Pius Roman_ Catholic Lynn, Mass. The edifice wil feet and will be constructed by all work put- k or week arly was 1vy two t complet be occur of pressed b k, with artificial stone | trimmi The building will have a | seatin pacity of 1,200. J e - -~ e | SOUTH MANCHESTER. Frame Tenement Block To Be Built ! on Birch Street. will be started at once on the block at frame teneme m w9 has family house on the site been | moved to the rear. Bungalow and Garage. Walter E. Luttgens will have work started at once on the erection of a frame bungalow to cont five rooms on the lot he recently purchased on Malr He will also build a con- e, 30x50 feet, in the rear. Block Ready to Finish. The new four-family block being ] erected on South Main street for Hugh | Thornton, is now ready to finish William Kanehl has new resi- | dence on Griswold t ready | He has the exterior ! coed Behnfield & Shultz have just com- | pleted Peter larsen's new house on the iddle Turnpike. BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND. atistics of Building Operations On the rear of the building on each | three floors there will be a cor- 10 of Here | rt- | the | minor foundry | company, | T for, buil ar wor N wor Join hiA mid Shol ed. wat all B stat ture one buil 5 War ter War the in t capacit; 1. . ¥he emi rac 3 alleys com mov The $258,000 asked | for | buil | pati | the | none | encc Charnley company. encountered delayed east end of the freighthouse. made at steam present $258, mn.ml) ploy other s manufac tion Work at State Hospital in Progress and Contemplat- ed—Contracts About Town. Building Foundation. he work of laying the foundations the new Kosciusko-Pul ociety ding on North Main ted Wednesday by the Fenton- Ledges which were the e k to a considerable extent. New Platforms. ew Haven road carpenterss are at rebuilding the platform on the Both new t and planking are being laid. Improving Sholes Home. noticeable improvement along dle road to Poquetanuck has been the residence of Clarence les, which has recently been paint- Mr. Sholes also intends to put in heat, electric lights, running er and bathtubs, giving the place modern convenien Hospital Construction Work. 1ild: tivities at the Norwic e hospital are coming to a close at but with the granting of 000 appropriation by the legisla- the coming year will be a bus; at the hospital e new dining comple! dings are Plasteri south Ward ¥ d F is now being plastered. The ze floor is being laid in the South d F building. This building is in male growp and the North Ward F he female group.- Bach have a of 100 patients. attractive club house for s overlooking the Thame 1y completed and the linol being laid. Three in the club house have been pleted and the furniture is to be ed into the building shortly. for will provide the erection of two m ward dings with a capacity of 100 ents each a contagious hospital for isolation of any contagious case: of which however have yet been suntered the institution, a shop entering and , a new lunn a arried employees and an- nurs All furniture at institution so street 13 room building l. The new ws nearing comple tic now ® ired e that the shop building is a necessity. | Additional farm land, root cellar, | greenhouses and sewer and wate | maing are also included in the appro- i priation. | Raising Building. | The singie ry house of Mrs. Champlin on West Main street I | been raised and another story adde | beneath the old house. The frame ‘vwvrl\ has been finished and the new { lower story is mearly boarded in. The | house will be divided into two apart- ments, there being small additions on the north and west sides of the build- ing. was ! vation | the | the | bowling | BUILDING AND BUSINESS. Contracts For New Work To Amount of Quarter of Million in Past Week. The volume of real estate transac- tions in the State still continues to in- ' crease. During the past week sales by warranty deed in the towns reported by The Commercial Record totaled 383 | and money loaned on mortgages: $1,049,5567, against 350 sales and mort- gage loans of $898,323 for the same week of last year, The record of new incorporations for the week number 13 with auth- orized capital stock of $630,000. Last vear in the corresponding week eight certificates, with authorized capital of 5240 000 were filed in the State. i ‘e petitions in bankrupt ‘;asselfl of $33,483 and liabili | $48,700 were filed in this State during | the week. This record is about the | same as the corresponding week of | last year. Building permits to the number of 123 have been granted in the cities of | New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, {W.uer‘uury and Stamford during the | week, for buildings costing $289,080. These figures compare with 171 per- mits during the same week of last year for buildings costing $600,121. The contracts awarded !ing the week include a schoolhcuse and several idences in Waterbury, factory ing in Bristol, office building, schoolhouse, large apartment and several residences in Hartford. brick and steel foundry, and business | block in New Britain, brick parochial school in Wallingford, and several small houses in New Haven and Bridgeport. New plans are reported this week for a business block in New Britain, fine houses in Stamford, fa buill- brick | { 1 | v building in South Norwalk, fac- tory bullding in Bristol, theatre and factory building in Hartford and sev- sidences in New Haven, Bridge- Hartford and Greenwich, besides port, the usual number of smaller houses of | the one and two-family type in almost all the cities. There were six sales here last week to three the same week last year, while mortgage deeds for the respec tive weeks were $10,300 and $1,700. New IL.ondon had four sales last week to three that week in 1912 with loans of $8,500 and $15,400 for the same weeks. | Othre People’s Ways. “Shoe shining pariors seem to beun- known in London. An American writes to the Chronicle of that city: “Having occasion to cross London | bridge veery morning and having my boots genérously bespattered with mud by the paseing vehicles, I dis- covered a shop in King William street, opposite the monument, devoted solely to the polishing of boots and shoes. The customer, sitting on a comfortable armchalr, placces his feet on low ped- estals and has his two boots polished | at the same time if he i in a hurry I belleve this is the only shop of the kind in London. 1 am sure you could use more of them. ” Could Have Saved Time. years for a chauffeur for running over a and killing him. In this part of the world he ceuld have riddled him with a shotgun for a fraction of that term. New York Press Fourteen man { | The lin New gland as compiled by The | F. W. Dodge Company, follow | Contracts to May 19 ..$55,106,000 | Co s to M 19 z 74,000 Co s to May 7, 19 000 | Contracts to ) 1910 Contracts to A 1909 Contracts to ) 1908 Contracts to Contracts to May 1906. . | Contracts E 1905. 1904 . 1903 1902. . 1901. MIDDLETOWN, Weeks has been a garage to be of Washington and Hi Frank B, a permit for at the corner street to cost $900. granted | I | erected | The Gustave Loewenthal Co. have | been granted a permit for a dry kiln | on Berlin street, to cost $300. | s | SINGULARITIES. Land which was absolutely forced |on the Snake Indians in the Creek | river country, Oklahoma, proving | source of inestimable riches, ow- | to the dicoveries in that section | oil prospec About nine years | the vernment decided to allot | arbitrar to the Snakes. All the | land was gone and they gave allotments in a section of the k nation where the land was con- sidersd worthless. The federal gov- | ernment set aside 160 acres for each Snake, the land being classified at $2 an acre. Since oil was struck the | rights of the Indians have been car t'ui\_\ guarded by the department the interic e records were Hunger stri some years ago by named Granie. who was murder in circumstances Wwhich | no doubt as to his guilt. mined to starve himself to death order to escape the guiliotine, and from the day of his arrest refused to in spite of every effort on of the prison authorities, who tried tempting him to eat by ing the most dainty meals-in his nd when that failed attempted ble feeding. Granie held out for sixty-three days, at the end of which time he died. arrested for left eat part Said to be the oldest ship in the world in active eervice, the Copen- hage: icht Constance has been sold to a fisherman of Skaw, in Jutland, who will use the ancfent craft in his de. The Constance was built 193 s ago and in her long life she as salled into almost every port the world. Her timbers are still stanch. The chap with the loudest voice doesn’'t always win the argument, of | broken | a Frenchman | He deter- | m | the | i ALCOHOL 3 PER LENT i A\/Ege(ablePrcpme.<,nr ds similating the Food ane! Reg lmQU'""‘r' tachs any Promotes Digestton Cheerfi- ness and Rest Contains neither | Opium Morphize nor Mineral NOT NARCOTIC. | Al Locrelle Salls~ Anise Seid P o Snd- Lo A riect Remedy for Consfige: tiu?\e, Sour Stm?lyz;ch Diarrhoea Worms Convulsions.Fé ness and LOSS OF SLZEP Tre CENTAUR CoMpaKY, NEW YORK 35])051-‘5‘ '; 5¢ NTS .. GASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hava Alwavs D Bears the Signature of For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. } | | DINING TABLES DINING CHAIRS CHINA CLOSETS ART SQUARES GO- BUREAUS CHIFFONIERES IRON BEDS CARTS and CARRIAGES Funeral Directors and Embalming M. HOURIGAN PHONES—Store JOHN DEERE SPREADERS The only spreader with the beater on the axle. chains — no clutches — no adjustments. If interested send us your address and we will notify when and where you can Dearnley & Clarke, FINN BLOCK, s JEWETT CITY 61-2—House 35-5 No examine it a.nd see it work. Jewett City, Conn. dur- | brick | res- , block, | Chicago | | ] Contractors and Gwners should get our prices for TIN, COPPER and GALVANIZED WORK bhefore plac- ing your orders. PIPING FOR STEAM HEATING Large stock of Mill Supplies always onm hand Specialty of HONEYWELL Hot Water Heating J. P. BARSTOW & CO. 23-25 WATER STREET, NORWICH, CONN. “Yes, our new wagon’s a Studebaker — the only kind we KNOW”’ “The Studebaker idea has been in our family for sixty years. other kind of a wagon.” ‘We have never thought of buying any “It's true, we're continually being offered other wagons costing a little less, with lots of promises as to what they will do. But we know in our family what a Studebaker will do. doesn’t mean much. that we consider most.” A few dollars difference in price It’s the service a wagon gives “Long service for a fair price means more every time than short service for a few dollars lesz.” “That's why we stick to Studebaker—and ‘Stick to Stude- baker’ is a pretty good motto for a man who uses wagons. “Studebaker wagons are built of good stuff. They're made right by people who've had years and years of experience in making them right—people who are trusted the world over. *“Studebaker wagons last, because they're made to las “Look out for the dealer who tells you his wagon is just as good as a Studebaker. experience — and the experience of all of my people. That's my advice after a good deal of You get a Studebaker and you’ve got a safe investment. See our Dealer or write us. STUDEBAKER NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO South Bend, Ind. 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WHOLEY & CO,, Telephone 734 12 Ferry Street Samtar) l’lumbm 4 A peep into an up-to-date bathroom 38 only less refresLing than the bath itself. During the summer you will the more look to the bath for bodily comfort. 1 will show you saniples and plans of the porcelain and other tubs ana give you estimates for the work of putting them in in the best mannes from a sanitary standpoint—and guare antee the entire job. 1. E. TOMPKINS, €7 West Main Street 1. F. BURNS, Heaiing and Plumbing, 92 tranklin Stresi C. E. WHITAKER Successor to 8. F. GIBSON. Tin and Sheet Me Worker, Tar or Asphalt and Gravel Roofs, Walks and Driveways. apryd 55 West Main St. ROBERT J.COCHRANE nez. Pivubing. Steam it . 10 Wesi Main St., Norwich, Cemn Agent N. B. O. Shact Packine. Gum & aoria STETSON & YOUNG Carpenters and Builders Best work and materials at rignc prices, by skilled labor. Telephone 50 WEST MAIN ST. 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