Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 6, 1913, Page 10

NEW ENGLAND BUILDING OPERATIONS. The statistics of Building Operations in New England as compiled by The F. W. Dodge Company ,follow: Contracts to Oct. 29, 1913 $146,160,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1912 164,538,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1911 149,824,000 Contracts to Oct. 28, 1910 136,988,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1909 188,691,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1908 89,521,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1907 113,862,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 19068 102,989,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1905 92,192,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1904 24,439,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1903 87,893,000 ¢ Contracts to Oct. 29, 1902 192,949,000 Contracts to Oct. 29, 1901 98,912,000 The Gpod Die Young. With the perfect man dead at the age of 29 some’of the rest of us can | become resigned to our physical im- perfections.—Boston Advertiser.. ANSWER THE CALL Norwich People Found- That This is Necessary. Have A cold, -~ strain, a sudden wrench, A little eause may hurt the Kindeys. Spells of backache often follow. 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The new house will face on Roath street. The contract has been awarded Hadley Potter and work on the excavations has beéen started. The house is to be 28 by 36 feet and will include two flats of five rooms each with all modern equipment. There will be a verandah across the front of the structure. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy April 1. A new garage has just been ‘com- pleted on the property. Work on Pump House. Work was started Monday on the excavations for the new pump house at the municipal light plant and the job is to be pushed rapidly towards completion, Excavations amount to about 250 cubic yards and when this is completed cement piers will be placed. The pump will be placed in two weeks and the entire contract will probably be finished in three weeks. Store Alterations. Extensive alterations which will give congiderable added floor space are un- NEW LONDON. Steel Fittings and Furniture Contracts For Municipal Building Let—More | Construction Planned. The general committee on new municipal building niture for the building to Edwards company of Syracuse. contract includes vault metal furniture. the O. M. fittings and has awarded the : contract for the steel fitting and fur- | The | ERECTING TWO FAMILY RESIDENCE On Kuebler Property on Roath Street—Excavating For New Pump House at Light Plant—Changes in Main Street | mortgage loans of $616,400, while for A sub-committee, consisting of C. H. | Thompson, Alderman Miner and Theo- dore PBodenwein was appointed to confer with the selectmen of the town of Waterford regarding that town’s share of the expense of fitting up the probate offic will confer h the water and sewer board regarding the expense of fitting up that department. Bids were also opened for lighting The same committee | | fixtures, but the contract was not awarded. The maximum cost of fix- tures is §2,500. Ornamental Plaster. Marshall F. Davenson of New Britain has been given the contract for the ornamental plaster work in | cornection with the new municipal building. Petitions to Build. The following petitions to build have been presented to the council: J. O. St. Germain, to move frame shed on wheels from Moore court to Waterford, via Bank street; granted. ank Damas, to build structure, x 5 feet on Lewis street. William Davidson, to erect store and apartment on Howard street. Frank Bvelyn, to build Vauxhall street, 12 x 16_feet. C. E. Gates, to erect house at Glen- wood park, 26 x 36. Joseph Montablaus, to build veranda at 23 Orchard street. Picture House. Negotiations by which Hartford and 24 shed on Springfield capitalists hope to be able | to locate a new picture theatre in | State street have been resumed. A week ago it was announced that the | project was all off. Today it was said by property owners, who have again been interviewed, that tentative agree- ments have been formed by which, if the money can be raised within a few days, the desirable property may be secured. It is planned to have an entrance on State street, and an exit to Bradley street, rebuilding the rear portions of store buildings so there will be stores to ‘let either side of the State street entrance. Sale of Property. W. B. Matterson of Syracuse, N. Y., today purchased the cottage in Nep- tune park owned by the late Flora 5. Rogers. The cottage was formesly owned by Jacob Linicus of this ci Last summer Mr. Matterson o€cupied one of the Henkie cottages in the park. Thomas C. Dillon, real estate agent, | today sold for R. J. Sisk a two-family house in Jefferson avenue to Rosarlo Bracco of this city. Poor Campaign Material. News that the crow is the farmer's friend excites only languid interest in political circles..—Washington Post. —OF ALL KINDS ON— AUTOMOBILES, CARRIAGES, '« ‘NS, TRUCKS and CARTS. Mechanical repalrs. nainting, tr ming, upholstering and wood wor — acksmuthing in ail its branches colf & Clark Corp. 507 to 515 North Main St. WHEN you want to + @8 betors tne pabiic, t um better & columns ut your bus| hraurh-:; = an vercs tnen A e advercs- wf The Bulietin. ed in additien to the market price. Rock Neook heme, a prize of The keys at Somers Dros.’ market, that | Attention, Farmers! DOLLARS BONUS To the raiser of the second largest, fattest and best young *urkey in addltion to the market price will be given. will furnish the Thanksgiving dinner for the Sheltering Arms. To the raiser of the |argest, fattest and best turkey over a year old a prize of $5.00 In additfon to the market price. County Home for Children for a Thanksgiving dinner. udges will be disinterested persons who will weigh the tur- All turkeys that are ellgibls for competition will be purchased at the market price, so any turkey raiser who enters a bird in the oontest is sure of selling the bird whether a prize s won or not. { Hartford, several frame cottages are to derway at the store of the Brooklyn outfitters, Beckenstein & Taylor, on Main street. The large room in the rear has been made a part of the store proper and a new floor has been lald here. New cases and shelves are be- ing. installed. The walls have been plastered and steel ceilings are bdnxl placed all over the store. The big show windows have been extended sev- eral feet back into the store giving fine opportunity for display. The changes will probably be completed in two weeks. Changing Desmond Block. The chahgilng over of the tenement on Central avenue owned by J. J. Des- mond is about completed. A partition has been taken down and a staircase has been boarded up, thus giving more room. The entrance to the {enement) has been built out even with the side- walk, and other changes have been made.. The new metal ceiling is nox up, and the painting of the walls will soon be started. A new trance has been built, witn the store door located hetween two roomy windows. H Blackledge & Co. have charge of the work. 5 1 BUILDING AND BUSINESS. Few Contracts Let During Past Week About The State—Sales Show De- crease. There is a decided falling off in the volume of real estate business in the towns reported by The Commercial Record, as shown by the warranty and | mortgage deeds, the record for the past week showing 290 sales, with the corresponding week of 1912 there | were 384 sales, with mortgage loans of $764,479. Four petitions in bankruptey, with assets of $5,082, and liabilities Of\ $13,460, were filed during the week in this State, while during the like week ! of the previous year seven petitions, | with assets of $7,855 and liabilities of $60.492, were recorded. The six new incorporations this week have a total authorized capital stock of $217,000, which compares with | six incorporations with a capital stock of $160,000, reported during the same week of the year 1912. Building permits were granted dur- ing the week in the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Water- bury and Stamford to the number of %9, for buildings costing $226,380. This | record. while larger than for some ! weeks, does not equal the record of the corresponding week of last year. The most important contract award- ed during the week was that of the new postoffice building to be er in New Haven at a cost of about $700, 000. Other contracts let include brick tenement block in Hartford, storehouse and frame tenement blocks in New Britain, theatre, business blocks and two fine residences in Stamford, hos- | pital addition in Derby to cost over $30,000, residence in Greenwich costing $35.000, frame residence in Middlebury | $40.000, storehouse, bakery | addition and several frame houses in Bridgeport, and foundry building and tenement blocks in Meriden. Plans are figuring for new school- houses in Thompsonville and East be erected at the State Agricultural College at Storrs; plans have been completed for schoolhouse additions in | Derby at a cost of $30,000 several fine residences are to be built in New Haven, also a brick garage, bids have been received for an office building in Waterbury, and plans are being esti- | mated -for a large ice cream hactory, in Bridgeport and several frame tene- | ment houses in Meriden and Hartford. | A number of one and two family houses are also reported in .various. parts of the State. There were eight sales of real estate here the past week to fifteen a year ago, the mortgage loans for the respective weeks being $17,060 and $11.500 | New London had nine sales the past week to five last year, the loans ! belng $3.000 and $17,500 respectively. 3 | The Real Explanation. It isn’t that the hookworm is so prevalent in Alabama, in our opinion. It is Hobson making the people tired. —Houston Post. A steel rail lasts, with average wear, about 18 years. ? For Fattest, Biggest and Best Turkey Raised $10.00 Next Best $5.00; Third $5.00 The Bulletin propoges to capture the three fattest. largest and best Turkevs to be offered for the Thanksgiv- ing market in Windham and New . London counties. They must be natives—hatched and grown in these two counties. I The Bulletin will buy the prize birds at the regular market price in addition to the prize to be awarded. The turkeys offered for prize must have head and feathers off, en- trails drawn and wings cut off at first joint. The first prize of $10.00 to the largest, fattest and best young turkey; second prize of $5.00 to the second young turkey; third prize of $6.00 to the largest. turkey raised in New London or Windham counties. The contest is open to any man, woman. boy or girl residing in these counties. The turkeys must be submitted for examination and welghing the Tuesday before Thanksgiving at 12 o’ciéck noon. For the largest, fattest and best young turkey $10.00 will be award- l largest, fattest and best fattest. and best This turkey will be given to the This turkey This will go to the | 25x40 WILLIMANTIC. Contractors Making Progress on Sev- eral Buildings' Underway Here. At the building in process of erec- tion on the property of the Methodist church on Church street and adjoining their_structure, the work of laying the foundation wall is progressing, the back wall having been completed and part of the side walls. There is still some excavating to be done in the front of the property. % School Walls Nearly Done. The basement walis at the new Nat. chaug school on Jackson street are practically finished and Doyle & Mur- phys men are at work laying t§> stone work and the cement floor for the first floor. There is another week's work on that. The building is of brick and stone and is to be firtproof throughout. The new parish house at the Con- gregational church on Valley street is going ahead rapidly. Plasterers are at work and a force of men are busy at present making the pipe connections for the building, High School Foundation. At the high school the work of clegr- ing out the cellar is not vet completed but about a third of the cellar wadls, partitions and flues are laid and a force of two dozen men keep things moving, Garage Building. The roof, sides and windows of the rear half of the Jordan Auto com- pany’s new garage are finished and the ground floor is used at present as a garage. The elevator pulleys and part of the apparatus have been installed. The cement approach to the garage en- trance was laid with a wrong grade and is in process of reconstruction. GROTON LONG POINT The foundation for the new cottage for John Campbell of Norwich is being put in by Contractor Musanti of No- ank. The clubhouse has been moved to its npw location and work on the foundation is golng on. James Royle has awarded the con- tract for doubling the size of his cot- tage In Shore avenue to Contractor Hewitt. Contractor McDonald has started work on the foundation of the new house for Mrs, Welcome E. Bates of Mystie. X "STORRS. Architects have completed the plans and bids will be received until about Nov. 12 for the three frame cottages to be erected at Storrs for the Connec- ticut Agricultural College. One will be feet, and the other two 25x36 They will each have shingled feet. sides and roof, fieldstone underplaning, | heat, electric and plumbing. furnace moviern wiring, STONINGTON. Work is nearly completed on a lodge contracted for by Edwin-S. Stanton for the use of his daughters, Wilimina E. 8. and Fanny A. Stanton. The todge, which will soon be ready for all year round occupancy, is of the semi-bungalow type, with liviag room, dining room, kitchen and butler's pantry on the first floor and bed rooms and bath on the second floor. MYSTIC. Work has been completed on the installation of cement piazzas at The Camp, the residence of Silas Maxson, and at Elinor cottage, Willow Point. The carpenters are still at work at Elinor cottage, which is being altered and considerably enlarged. FISHERS ISLAND. Architects have completed plans for a new residence to be erected on Fish- er’s Island for Dr. J. S. Dye of Chat- tanooga, Tenn. It will be of Colonial design and will contain nine rooms, E. R. & W. Ferguson of Fisher's Is- land are the contractors. We Should Worry If the count counterfeit 5 Ledger. Climax of Woman Suffrage. The climax will not be reached un- til the suffragist movement reaches Utah.—Washington Herald. This is Guaranteed to Stop Your Cough Make this Family Supply of Cough Syrup at Heme and Save $2. This plan makes a pint of better ecough syrup than you could buy ready made for $2.50. few doses usually conquer an ordinary cough—relieves even whooping cough quickly. Slmplls | as it is, no better remedy can be h: ! at any price. Mix one pint of granulated sugar with 145 pint of warm water, and stir for 2 minutes. Put 235 ounces of Pinex (fifty cents’ worth) in a pint bottle; then gdd the Sugar S_vrup, It has a pleasan$ taste and lasts a family a long time. Take a teaspoonful every one, two or three hours. You can feel this take hold of a congh in a way that means business. Has a good tonic effect, braces up the appetite, and is slightly laxative. too, which is kelpful. A handy remedy for hoarse- mness, spasmodic croup, bronchitis, bron- chial asthma and whooping ecough. The effect of pine on the membranes is well known. Pinex is a most_valu- able concentrated compound of Norwe- gian white pine extract, and is rich in guaiacol and other natural healin pine elements. Other preparations wi not work in this combination. This Pinex and Sugar Syrup remedy has often been imitated, though never successfully. 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THERHE s no aavertising medlum in Hastern Connecticut equal t The letin fo: business resulta Babies! "Suon they will be big boys annd! girls, and their faces will be wnly a memory. iBring the babies and we'll catigii their smiles, i T AIGHTON THI: £HHOTOGRAPHER ©Oppcisi'te Nerwich Savings Soclety. 5