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BUILDING AND BUSINESS. Slight Dezorease in Permits Over The : Previ The Tecerd of real estate transac- tions for the past week in the Con- necticut wwns reported by The Record shows 3?1 sales by warranty deed, with mortgage loans of $704,420 for the korresponding week of last year. Petitions in bankruptey for the week numbered three, with assets of $3,349 and liabilities of $7,340. Last year for the like week four petitions, with as- “sets of $6,578 and liabilities of $21,892, were filed in this State. ¢ The 13 ingorporations this week have a total authorjzed capital stock’ of $262,500, against six, with capital of $1,610,000, formed during the corres- ponding week of 1912. Building permits were granted the week in the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury and Stamford to the number of 86, for buildings costing $223,702, which is a slight * decrease when compared with the same week of last year. Contracts awarded during the week include a factory addition in New Britain, sghooihouse in Waterbury, three fine residences in Stamford, res- idences fn Bridgeport, storehouse and block in New Haven, schoolhouse, fine residences, apartment block, public bathhouse in Hartford, and brick schoolhouse in South Manchester. Plans are being drawn for a large amount of schoolhouse improvements in New' Haven, factory in New Britain fine residences in New Canaan and Saugatuck, coal pocket in Greenwich, factory addition and $40,000 residence in Bridgeport, frame schoolhouse in North Haven, brick schoolhouse at Stafford Springs brick apartment block in New Britain and some small- er work in all the larger cities of the State. Norwich had five sales of real estate last week against seven of a year ago. The mortgages for the respective weeks were as follows, $8,276 and $7,100. In New London there were four sales last week to one a year ago, the mort- gages being $7,150 and $1,900 respec- tively. ROCKVILLE. The Fenton & Charnley Ceo. of Nor- wich have been awarded the contract for the new parsonage to be erected on St. Bernard terrace for Rev. M, H. May. It will be 38x56 feet, built of gray pressed brick, with limestone trim and a slate roof. It will contain 15" rooms, finished in hardwood. The plumping and heating will be left in separate contracts, It will cest about $16,000. PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING Do IT Now Pilumbing as it should be done is the kind we deo. Open, every joint tight, sanitary and latest style plumb- ing. Best of bath tubs, latest devices in water closets, sinks, and everything you can think of in the plumbing line. Call us up on the 'phone, write or gee us. We will fix you up in good shape at a moderate price. A. J. WHOLEY & CO., Telephone 734 12 Ferry Street Sanitary ¥lumbia; 4 peep into an up-to-date bathroom 18 only less refresiing than the bath itself. During the swamer you will the more look to the batk for bodily comfort. 1 will show you samples and plans of the porceiain and other tubas ana give you estimates for the of putting them in in the best manner trom a sanitary siandpeint—and ‘guar- antee the entire job. J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Stree: T. F. BURNS, Healing and Flumaing, 92 Frankiin Strea: C. E. WHITAKER Buccessor to S. F. GIBSON. Tin and Sheet Metal Worker, Tar or Asphalt and Gravel Foofs, Walks and Lriveways. ROBERT J.COCHRANE v Mess Maim St . Nerwick, Agent K. B. O. Sheat rucking Defivered to Any Pare the Ails that is acknowiedged te b« the best oa the market—HANLLE PEERLESS. A yivhe order Wi reesive prempt attsatiom. B. J. McCeRMILA. « Fraaxtia 3¢ FERTILIZER G’Wfib LIMESTOMNE ., AIR SLACKED LIME. Brick, Cement, Sand, Lime, aff hard Placters and Prepared Reofing, Best market. Full line of Sewer Pipe, THE UPSON WALL BOARD -* Nerwich et Roofing Peint in the 18 INTXPENSIVE WATER PROOF AND IN HANDY: SjZ€ES, Largest Storage Capacity in City A N, CARPENTER - Tel. 171 23 Commerce St JURiN 0, FOX & CO, —DBALERS IN— Lumber of All Kinds Lime, Gement, Drain Pipe, Fertilizers, ¢ Fire Brick, Ladders, " Paints, Bils and Varnishes and Salt work | Ground has been broken on the for- mer Slater property, on Broad street, in preparation for the erection of the new two and a half story residence for the Misses Cadden. A. N. Carpenter has the contract. The house is to be 30 by 46, with a hip roof, and balcony and piazza on the northeast corner. The plans call for three bay windows. The exterior will be finished in natural shingles, with white trimmings, and promises to be most attractive. . In the cellar there will be closets and coal bins. The main entrance is on the side to- wards Broadway, and opens into the hall. The dining room is on the east side, while across the front of the house is the living room. At the rear are located pantry, kitchen and laun- dry, the kitchen opening on a small rear porch. At the front on the second floor is a large chamber with private bath. An- other chamber on the east opens on a sleeping balcony. On the west side lis another bathroom, a lnen closet and a third chamber. At the rear of the laundry on the first floor. At the rear of the floor on the east is the den, with a large open fireplace. The third floor i8 given over to the maids’ apartments, which inciude a chamber, a small sitting room and bath. A china closet {8 bullt into the wall of the dining room, and there is a wide bay window in this reem, The bathroom floors are to be of white tile, and there will be a four foet wainscet- ing of white tile. Beveral of the bed- room doors have full length mirrers, The interior finish will be white, All floors will be'of hardwood, The plumb- ing, lighting and heating features will all be of the most medern deshign. | and there will be speaking tubes about the house. | The grounds about the house fre te be terraced, requiring five steps frem | the street. An unusual feature is the |garbage receiver, located below the | ground at the rear of the house and | connected with the kichen. The eon- tract calls for the completien of the building November 1. Mulberry Street House. Plans are now out for estimates for a new residerice to be erected on Mui- berry street for Clark Hummell. The plans call for a frame building, 30x42, with eight rooms and a bath. It will be heated by Steam. New Parsonage. The Fenton-Charnley Building com- pany was awarded the contract om Monday | for the handsome parsonage to be built in Rockville for St. Bernard’s Roman Catholic parish, and work was started on Tuesday. The building is to be 40 by 58, two stories high, of brick and limestone trimmings and slate roof. DANIELSON. Two Story Dwelling Being Erected on Sthool Street. Damase Boulias is at work on the construction of a two-family dwelling on School street extension for Pierre ! Turgeon, who owns other dwellings in | that vicinity. The building 1s to be | two and cné-half storries and will have {all modern improvements. Its ground {area is 27 by 481-2 feet. Mr. Boulias will also start work at | once on two more dwellings on Coburn | avenue, these to be of the cottage type 1and buiit to accomodate employes of | the Connecticut Mills. Peru will spend $10,000,000 for irri- | gation in the near future. ~ A WORD ABOUT BIOPLASM Perhaps you have had it prescribed before by your physician. If you have not and you are accustomed to take a pill, powder, capsule, or bracer to relieve you of Constipation, Indiges- i tion, Nervousness and .ther ailments simulation, the story of BIOPLASM (Bower) will interest you. Physicians all over the world have used and prescribed BIOPLASM for years. We have thousands of tes-i- monfals from the profession which prove its remarkable curative value. We now want the public to know |about BIOPLASM. We want every suffere; to understand that BIO- PLASM {s absolutely harmless—that it containg no Alkaloids, Aleohol, min- erals or habit-forming drugs—that 't is pleasant and easy to <e and ean be used with marked benefit by every member of the family, from baby up. BIOPLASM is not a “cure-all” It i merely an ally te nature-—nature after all, effects all cures. BIO does however, promptly: and theroughly aid the tissue cells te throw off the lingering waste matter whieh eauses all internal ailments. Indigestion, Merveus Prostration, laek of Vitality, Anemia, ete, are ail due to the same sguse, and the BIO. PLASM treatroent jg as effpetive with | one as wit” the other — it remevss | the obatacie whieh prevents the nor- | mal flow of pure, rieh biesd—the one | necessity to perfeet heaith. | A beekiet which we will gladly send on applieation will alse give yoa the testimeny of many prominent physiciass whe have mst with won- derful sueeess in the treatment of Diabetes, Inecipient Comsumption, Lo- eemotor Ataxia and other chromie dis- eases, Read what these deetors say. Most every knewn ailment is de- scribed in detail and the results of treatment. In the meantime, get a bottle of BIOPL.ASM (Bower) from your gist or from Lee & Osgood Co. of this eity., Your momey will be refunded if not satisfied, after a fair trial Prepared by the Bioplasm Mfg. g;,m.uq; 94 John street, New York ty. Note: A mild laxative ltke SAT.- LITHIN should be taken occasionally during trestment, Your druggist will give you complimentary a full sizs bottle of SAL-LITHIN with purchase of first bottle of Bioplasm on request. Best Laxative for the Aged. Oild men and women feel the need of a lawative more tfan young foiks, but it must be safe and harmless and ene whieh will pet ceuse pain, Dr, King’s New Life Pills are espectafly g for the {8r they ast prompt- Iy gnd easily, 26 Recommend- ed by lLee & Oggood Ceo, 3 ORDER IT NOW BRephins & €s’s Light Dinner Als, 76g_per doaea, ehier’s Pilsner, 60e per rommer's Hvergre 768 Pev omen, . Free delivery te :l-l' parts eof the eity. Telephone 186-5. H. JACKEL & CO. NEW COTTAGE ON BROAD ST Work on Handsome Residence For Misses Cadden Started —Contracts Aggregating $60,000 Secured by Fenton- Charnley Co. in Rockville and Moosup. the hall is a clothes shute leading to| caused by mal-nutrition and mal-as- | Schoolhouse Contraot. The Fenton-Charnley Building com- pany of this city was awarded the contract last Wednesday for the All Hallows’ school to be erected in Moos- up, and work was started on Thurs- day mo; 3 The building is to be 36 by 66 feet, three stories high, of gray pressed brick, with Indiana limestone trim- mings. The estimated cost of both buildings is $60,000. The first two stories of the Moosup school will be for school purposes ex- clusively. ' There will be five rooms on each floor, each having seating capac- ity for 43 pupils, thus affording accom- modation for a total of over 400 pupils. The school rooms will be ll'hg:l by the uni-lateral system, the light from windows coming over the left shoulder of each pupil, thus preventing the crossing of the sun's rays and giving an advantage in the way of protection to children’s eyes that is sald to be | very great. Hach floor will have two side and two rear entrances, each | room two doors swinging either way, and the rooms average in size about 23x28 feot, Hach room will be pro- vided with a beolkcase. On each floer there will be a ceorrider sixteen feet wide, affording ample opportunity for marching, athletics, ete. In the corri- dors will be four ample wardrobes with racks for rubbers, hat shelf and eeat and hat hooks will be se arranged that elothing will hlng&w@y from the wall, a great advantage stermy weather. In the basement there will be a play roem for boys and ene fer girls, each 32x84.3, a beiler reem, ete., for the steam heating plant, cement fleer, ete. Phe elosets are built at the rear of the structure and econnected with sewer, On the entire third fieor wiil be an assembly reem 63x83 feet, eapable of aceommoding 966 peeple. This hall will be used for scheol exercises, en- tertainments, fairs, and all parish pur- peses where peeple assemble. It will se previded with a large stage, 16.8x 0.8 feet, and having ante-reem and { | entranees to the hall, one en each side. Over the handseme and spacious ! main enranee to the building there will be a teachars’ room of convenient size. Changing Tenement Mouse. Contractor Del Carles has a force of men at work raising the foundation, of the Shetucket company™ tenoment house on the corner of Second street and Centrel aveaue. The house, a four tenement wooden dwelling three stores in height, has been jacked up several feet to allow the workmen to remove the old foundation and replacé it. The old foundation had settled copsiderably, allowing the building to drop some inches from it former position. e b A A e LORD'S POINT. Much Buiilding Is Underway—Effort For a Waiting Room. Cottagers are arriving daily .at Lord’s Point for the summer and the season already gives promise of being an unusually busy one. Considerable building work is geing forward at the Point, or has just been completed. Hr- nest I.. Davis’' new’ house at the cor- ner of Boulder avenue and Hampton street, is nearing completion, and Mrs. Cora White of Hartford is building a house in Hopkins street. The found- ation has been started for a cottage {for Charles Thurber of Putnam in { Boulder avenue. Warren L. Bradway | of Putnam is arranging to erect an- | other cottage and is now having a | garage built for his summer home at the Point. The summer residents of the Point living at Norwich have interviewed General Manager Pgrkins of the Nor- wich and Westerly' Traction Co. and have hopes of getting a suitable and convenient waiting room at Lord’s hill for the gise of, the Point summer residents. This will' be patronized dur- ing the season by over 500 summer people from the Point alone. T MysTIC. Silas Maxson is enlarging Woodbine cottage in Cedar street, next to his Red Gables property. and is equipping the place with running water, electric lights and all medern improvements, and when completed it will make one of the most desirable places in this section. MIDDLETOWN. Work has been started on the tear- ing down of the house at the corner of Main and College streets, where the new bank building is to he erected for the Farmers and Mechanies Bavings Bank, The new building will be 42x80 feat, one story high, bullt of briek: j with stone trim, FHoggson Bros, of | Mew York city are the general con- | tractore and Goldwin, Starrett & Van Vieck of New York city are the avehi-~ tects, | Dennis O'Brien has the contract and has started work on the erection of a brick boller house for Gustav Lowenthal Co, on Berlin streat, STAFFORD SPRINGS, From the pians of Architects John- son & vurns, Ine, of Hartford, bids are being received for a four-room ad- dition to the High School b\lfl? g. It will be 80x25 feet, with entry 9x: ln,eet. two stories high, of construetion with slate and tin roofing, and direct and indirect ste: heating. Interesting People. Sir Joseph Lyons, England's largest caterer, went into the business years ago in a small way to furnish ciean. cheap lunches to clerks. That laid the foundation stone of an industry which now feeds 2,000,000 Inhabitants of London, and which on every working day in the year caters to 500,000 men, women and children. In the business with its 250 branches are nearly 16,- 000 empioyes. Bennett C. Clark, Champ Clark, has house parliamentarian. The position, which carries a salary of $4,600 a year, makes him adviser to his father on all disputed points of order. He is a grad. uate of the University of Missouri. Mrs. Anta Powless, who will have the unique distinction of bei: - uated from the University of Colorado on the twenty-fifth anniversary of her wedding, started her college career at the age of 40, son of Speaker Twenty years ago there were about 9,000 telephone stations served by sev- en central offices in Manhattan and one in the Brons, zgd the rate charged subseribors weas $240 per annum, 3 lines were largely grounded aircutt. The eguipment was entirely magneto and the distributing plant mostly over- head wires strung over house tops. At the present time there are in Manhat- tan and the Bremx more than 850.660 stations and nearly 850,000 eta- tiens in the states of New York and part of New Jerssy, . kitchen connected. There will be two | “8OUTH MANCHESTER. Geod Progress on the Additien to Orferd 8oap Company. Work 18 well under Wiy on 'the addition to the plant of the Orford Soap Co. on Hilllard street. The Bur- gress Construction Co. of ~ Hartford have the carpenter work, J. M. Wool- ley of Hartford the mason work and the L. C. Baker Co. of New Britain the concrete work. The addition will be 60x125 fee, three stories high, with & tar and gravel roof. The owners are planning to have another building erected next year which will be the same size and connected with the bullding now being built. g The new bath house being' erected for Cheney Bros. on Pleasant street is ynew all -roofed in and will be com- flem in a short time. The H. Wales nes Co. of Meriden are the con- tractors. g Plans for Blook. Plans are being figured for a frame block to be erected at the cormer of Bissell and Foster streets for Mrs. E. Grube, 17% Birch street. It will be 35x70 feet, three stories high, with a tar and gravel roof, and will contain | six tenements and a store. House on Lilley Street. Dwight Blish has the contract, and work has been started on the mason work for a new house to be erected on Lilley street, for James Trotter, 40 Summit street. It will be arranged for two tenements of six rooms each. Contract for New House. | S. Emil Johnson has the contract for a new house to be erected on Strant street for Frederick J, Schwartz, 20 20 Madison avenue. It will be of frame construction, and will contain two tenements of flve rooms each. To Bulld en West Center Strest. Edward J, Holl will start work soon on the erectien of a new building for himself en West Center street, It will | be of frame cemstructien and will be arranged for a stere on the first floer and a five-roem tenement above. Building in Burnside. Terranee Shannen has work well un- | der way emn the erection of a new | building te eentain a store and one tenement on Burnside avenue at the eore Trast. Bijds for Schoolheuse. ‘There were 11 bids received for the new schoelhouse fer the Eighth School | district. John W, Allen & Son of New Britain were the lowest bidders. Lewis A. Miiler, Meriden, and Torrington | Building Ce. were the next in order. | | These bids were taken under consid- | eration until a meeting has been called te make the appropriation. | ! BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND. The statistics of Building O tions in New Bnglend, as compiled by The " W. Dedge Company , follows:— Ceontracte to June 18, 1918..$79,400,000 Centracts to June 183, 1818.. 91,679,000 Contraets to June 17,670,000 Coatracts to June 178,428,000 Contracts te June 75,886,000 Contraets te June 18, ,228,000 Contraets to June 63,311,000 Contraets to June 52,364,000 Centraets to June .. 48,804,000 Ceontracts to June 18, 1904.. 41,472,000 Centracts to June 18, 1903.. 42,694,000 Contracts to June 18, 1902.. 690,578,000 Contracts to June 18, 1901.. 58,457,000 COAL AND LUMBER. Q. COAL Full Assortment Lumber Large Stock and Variety ALSO CEMENT, BRICK and LIME CHAPPELL CO, Telephones Central Wharf M. C. HIGGINS COAL. HIGH GRADE COAL Office and Yard 203 North Main St Office Telephone 1257 J. A. MORGAN & SON GOAL Office 57 West Main St, Telephone 518 Yard Central Wharf, Telephone 834 PROMPT DELIVERY GOAL fres Burning Kinds and Lehig) ALWAYE IN STOCK. A. D. LATHROP, a—cor Market and Shetuc.c Telepbome 183-13 CALAMITE GOAL Q. Q. i “I: burns np ~lean.” Well Seasonsd Wood C. H. HASKELL. 402 — Phones — 489 THE FENTON-CHARNLEY BULLDING €., 1as. GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH. CONN. WHITE ELEPHANT CAFE DAN MURPHY & Co. Ales, Wines. Liquers and Cigars Corner of ‘Water end Market St ““Studebaker wagons certainly last a long time” “T have had this wagon twenty-two years, and during that time it cost me only $6.00 for repairs, and that was for setting two tires.” “And after twenty-two years of daily use in good and bad weather and over all kinds of roads, fwxfl put this wagon against any new wagon of another make that you can buy today.” : “Studebaker wagons are built of air-dried lumber and tested iron and steel. Even the paint and varnish " are subjected to a laboratory test to insure wearing _qualities.” : “No wagon made is subjected to- as many tests or is mere W than :Smd-hku. You can buy tln-:;l Stude. baker rs everywhere.” “Don't listen to the dealer wno wants to sell mv«pn-anhdhbc‘juflngwd’nl&'&d‘c Farm wagons, trucks, dump wagons and carts, delive: buggies, surreys, depet wagons—and hamess of all ki dmnm' standard as the Studebaker vehicles. See our Doaler or weits us. a cheap ¢ STUDEBAKER South Bend, Ind. NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY DENVER MINNEAPOLIS BOSTON SAN FPRANCISCO Contractors and Owners should get our prices for TIN, COPPER and GALVANIZED WORK bhefore plac- ing your orders. PIPING FOR STEAM HEATING Lacge stock of Mill Supplies always on baad Speciality of HQNEY WELL Hot Water featiag J. P. BARSTOW & CO. 23-25 WATER STREET, NORWICH, CONN. BUREAUS CHIFFONIERES DINING TABLES DINING CHAIRS CHINA CLOSETS IRON BEDS ART SQUARES GO-CARTS and CARRIAGES Funeral Directors and Embalming M. HOURIGAN, ERn BLOCK, JEWETT CITY PHONES—Store 61-2—House 35-5 JOHN DEERE SPREADERS The only spreader with the beater on the axle. No chains — no clutches — no adjustments. If interested send us your address and we will notify when and where you can examine it and see it work. Dearnley & Clarke, "¢, KEEN-KUTTER SCYTHES Every One Fully Warranted The Household ALBERT BOARDMAN, Prop. ' . BULLETIN BUILDING, 74 FRANKLIN STREET STETSON & YOUNG Carpenters and Builders Best work and materials at rigmt prices, \by skilled labor. 3 Telephone 50 WEST MAIN ST. "Palace Pool and Billiard Parlars: Six Tables—five pool and one Billiard. Tables sold and repairing done at reasonable prices. Supplies at all times. 49 MAIN STREET WHEN you want t¢ put your Busi- WHE! ness befors the publie. tg:ri,\‘-»;b -“fi" bcf'crz?t nes dar better than throusd. ib & columna ot The Baiteiin T a2 | flum bett & public, hio ma- thro ut yowu, there’fa h Vi