Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1914, Page 15

Aggregate - Traceable directly to the withdrawal of the big vciume of business done by two Norwich banks that suspended during the past year, the statistics -collected by The Bulletin to show the aggregate monetary transactions in manufacturing, banking and the jobbing trade in New London and Windham counties show smaller figures in 1918 than in 1912. “This withdrawal took from the grand total a matter of about elghty million dollars. There were large gains among other banking reports and in manufacturing lines, but nothing equal to making up this big withdrawal. How the figures in the various lines in New London and Windham counties compare is given in brief as follows: New London county’s business total for 1913 was $445,206,008; in 12 it was $483,055,655, a loss of $37,849,647. Total manufacturing fig- ures in 1912 of $52,051,959 grew to $58,499,609 in 1913. A total jobbing trade of $18,579,000 in 1912, expanded to $18,799,000 in 1913, and total banking figurés dropped from $412,424,696 In 1912 to $367,907,399 in 1918, In Windham county the total business for the year showed a loss of $518,491 on figures of $192,319,181 in 1912, and $191,800,630 in 1913. In the jobbing trade the 1912 trans e $13,406,000, and the 1913 dealings $13,777,000. Total manufacturing recorded larger figures in 1913 than in 1913, respectively $39,000,058 and $36,980,193. In banking Ifnes the total iramsactions.in 1912 were $141,982988 to 139,023,631 in 1913, actions wel WAGE DISTRIBUTION FROM NORWICH MILLS AND FACTORIES WAS $3541,864 IN 1913 Exceeded Previous Year by $101,004—Silk and Velvet Mills Did Big Business—Thermos Factory Gave Figures a Boost—Firearms and Cutlery Works Show Gains. Offsetting business curtailment in some manufacturing lines in Norwich In the past year were gains in others that more than ma up for these losses in wage distribution by the factories and milis of the town, so that on general volume of business the past year shows somewhat larger figures than the vear before. In 1913 the man facturing plants of Norwich paid out in wages approximately $3,541,864, which was a gain of $101,004 over 1912 when the figure was $3,340,860. In value of manufactured product $13,119,664 was shown in 1913 to $12,473,642 in 1912, In the business of the cotton mills a gain was shown, total wages advancing from $1,308,000 to $1,34§000 and value of product from $4,175,000 to $4,483,000. On the other hand, the woolen mills distributed a ler amount in wages than in the preceding vear, paying out $ 0 in 1912 and $255,917 in 1913, while their product dropped from $1,408,300 to $1,149.550, Paper and belting mills did a larger business than in the vear efore as indicated by $194,390 in wages, $1 to corresponding figures of $169,692 and $1, Business growth that has been a steady careers of the silk and velvet mills of the in evident when they roport an increasesin wages paid $277,783 in 1912 to $339,000 in 1913 and in value of product $2,205,600 to $2,240,000 Foundry plants and boiler makers paid out in wages $1 nd produced goods worth $470,450 in 1913 compared with $1; in wages and $542,000 in product in the preceding year. Where there was a loss, through the going out of business of at least three plants, was among the makers of brass and other bright metal goods. In this class the wage list in 1913 was $57,759 to $114,7 in 1912, and product-value was respectively $327,000 and $425,000. Balancing this, however, was the business gain recorded by fire- arms, cutlery and file plants, which totalled $526,650 in wages and $1,020,544 in product in 1913 to $479,565 in wages and $867,441 in pro- duct in 1912, In the classification of miscellaneous industries there is a over $100,000 shown in wages on figures of $632,150 for 1913 and $527,361 for 1912, while value of manufactured product went from $1,649,301 to $2,203,180. This classification includes carriage makers, machinery plants, garment making industries, paint factories, fin- ishing plant, mattress makers, woodworkers, etc Entering into this class is also the City’s newest big industry, the American Thermos Bottle company factory. In the six months in which the big factory on Laurel Hill has been running here, with its auxiliary factory in the elevator building before that time, the com- pany has paid out about $100,000 in wages and by its report to the statistics committee of the Board of Trade Shows that its sales for the year 1913 were $700.000, amount spent in advertising Norwich, $15,711.33; postage May 1 to Dec. 1, $3,896.39; paid Norwich Gas and Electric department to Dec. Ist, $9,018:23; paid for freight and e press $5.910,17, and paid for addition to Norwich building. $64,778.91. 25,900 in product in 1913 1,000 in 1912 accompaniment of the own for a number of vears from from 650 gain It had 279 Norwich employes on Dec. 1st, and is evidently abundantly demonstrating its value as an addition to the industrial plants of the city. WILLIMANTIC MANUFACTURERS PUT $1,982,500 INTO CIRCULATION IN WAGES THE PAST YEAR. Gains Recorded in Some Classes, But General Policy of Retrenchment Caused Falling Off from the High Level of the Year Before. That Willimantlc’s manufacturing industries generally proceeded along lines of retrenchmen: in the past vear was evident from the re- ports made, and although, considerable increases of business were re- ported in some instances, they were not enough to offset the generally lighter business done, 5o that on the whole the wage distribution w smalier than the year before. The same number of industries that re- ported a total in wages in 1912 of $2.123,500 showed but $1,982,500 in 1915, a falling off of $141,000 from the high level of the year before, Wwhile their product in 1912 was valued at $10,654,600 as against $9,565,- 500 in 1913. For the past vear the cotfon mills reported practically no ence from their business of the year before, distributing $207,000 wages in the production of $787.000 worth of goous. In the classifica- tion of silk and velvet mills together a handsome gain was shown, largely contributed by the increase in business in the velvet line. In this class the wage figure grew from $216,000 to $290,000 and the valve of product from $1,165,000 tc $1,415,000. Foundry and machinery plants were also on the gain in 1913, reporting total wages of $16 a finished product of $:53,000 as compared with $111,000 in wages and $357.500 in finished product the year before. In the miscellaneous in- dustries, including woodworking plants, silk mill supplies, jewelry man- ufacturers, and thread mili, the figures for 1913 were smaller than the year before, as these plants report a total of $1,328,500 in wages put i circulation in 1913 in contrast to $1,589,500 in 1912, and a total value in product of $6,884,500 as against $8,000,000. The jobbing trade indicates a gain in 1 to $9,745,000. 3 over 1912 from $9 5,000 Busin THREE STORY ADDITION (Left of Picture) TO PALMER BROS'. QUILT MILL AT FITCHVILLE WHERE 475 HANDS ARE EMPLOYED. S —— $1,836700 IN WAGES IN 1913 FROM NEW LONDON’S MANUFACTURING PLANTS. Was Gain of $300,000 Over the Year Before—Machinery and Maring Works Showed Big Increase. With an increase in business over the year 1912, the manufacturing plants of New London contributed an important part to the general prosperity which that city enjoved in 1913. Their increase in wages over 1912 was $300,000, on figures of $1,836,700 in total wages to $1.536,700 in the vear before; and in value of manufactured product they advanced from $8,097,000 to $9,739,600. There was a_big gain in machinery and marine work, the wage account growing from $750,000 to $902,000, with an increase in product- value from $2,237,000 to $2,384,000. Silk mills and quilt mills with a few minor industries included in thi; class sent their wage account from 540.500 to $598,000, and produczd goods valued at §4,438,000 in one year and $5,966,000 in the next. A falling off in 1913 was recordal by the stove and heater manufacturers, on a showing of $41,200 for wafes and $139,500 for product in 1913, a 200 for wages and $177,500 against $77 for product in 1912. Other plants in metal work showed a vear of gain, advancing wages from $20,000 to $114,000 and product from $142,000 to $523.000. In miscellaneous lines also there was a gain, as indicated by $191,500 in wage: 100 in product, as compared with $140,000 in wages and $602,500 in product in 1912 The jobbing houses of the city showed that thei larger aiso in 1913 than in 1912, against $7,639,000 OVER THREE QUARTER MILLION IN WAGES FROM PUTNAM'S MANUFACTURING PLANTS. had been ,000, as business on figures of a total of $7,7 Past Year Made a Substantial Gain Over Figures of the Preceding Twelve Months. A bigger vear for business in 1913 than in 1912 was reported in all marufacturing lines in Putnam. From the manufacturing plants of the city the was placed in the hands of the wage workers in 191 product turned out was $2,668,000. In the past y these items had Erown to $788,000 in wages and $3,408,000 in manufactured product The cotton mills increased their wages account from $364,000 to $385,000 and product from $910,000 to $995,000. am of $701,000 and the value of The woolen manufacturers in 1913 distributed $186,000 in wages and produced $785,000 worth of goods, where in the year before the total of wages they paid was $155,000 and their product was $435,000. In the silk mills good business growth was shown on figures of $123,000 for wages and $1,285,000 in product as contrasted with figures of $108,000 and $1,100,000 on corresponding items in the previous year. In all other manufacturing lines their bettered conditions were shown on figures of $74,000 in wages and $228 in wages and $393,000 in product in 1913 In the jobbing business the prosperity of the industrial br reflected as their trade 13 is reported to have grown to a total of 4 0 where it was $3,871,000 for the twelve months immediately preceding 000 in product in 1912 to $94,000 hes was MONTVILLE MILL BUILDINGS Keyes Products Co. Replaces Finishing Department Building Destroyed by Fire—Erects Two Indurating Buildings. After the fire on August Gth, which destroved the frame building used for the finishing department of the Keyves Prod cts compad pa- per board manufacturers, at Palmertown, in the town of M 1 this company re ced th building with ot in which the machiner: The new building is one stor 65 feet wide which is 20 feet wi roof is supported b: 1 girde square feet, withc or e building has s| ed tank. Th w building Wwith the other part of the mill In the new building of the fin 1se. 5 feet 1ding floor spact in it. For fi e supplied with built w! is already Installed and i . of al protec water fror ere the old one was, ¢ t- nnecting ing department are the four dry Kilns, It of brick and concrete, and each eet vong and about six feet W Here ar 0 the presses, with steam tables, which smooth the paper board after coming from the steam tables and also the sanding machine, by which the board is planed to the required thick. and the saw tables, on which it is cut up into the required siz _ Bevond the brick building of the finishing department bullt two indurating buildings, where ‘the hardening proce on the board. One is 40 feet square and the other 15 feet square, apd both are built entirely out of the Keyes Products paper board. svhidh is at once waterproof and fireproof, and is used terior 1i houses and on all kinds of sailing craft for lining of bulkheads, sta rooms and bathrooms. The factory in Montville employs from 40 50 men, and turns out about one a half million square fect of board annual that makes this special process paper board. , being the only company MOOSUP’S NEW PAROCHIAL SCHOOL Fine Three Story Building for| All Hallows Parish Erected at Cost of About $35,000. One of the fine new school buildings added to Windham county and to be completed during the coming year was that of All llows’ parochial school at Mossup, for which the 16 by Rt. Rev Nilan of the diocese of, Hartford building will ea 200 pupils, t $35,000 cornerstone was laid on Nov Bishop John J The and is built at a cost of ily accomodat Its general measurements are S5x65 feet, three stories semeni, constructed of rich-toned red brick with linest ming On the first and second floors are five classrooms, each d corridors of 16 and teach room, 28x13 wardrobes and other smaller rooms, Wwidth. On the second floor is also entire third floor is given over to the lar nbly hall, with a stage, anteroom, kitchen and two lobbies. In the basem s for the girls x34 feet r the boys, eack playroos and 22: Here are also boiler room, storage and coal rooms, avera ing about 22x28 feet in size. The building is i-fireproof scon- struction and stands just east of the church. Its furnishings and school equipment are to be up-io-date, serviceable and convenient The building is expected to be read: and when completed will give the pa educational institutions in the castern vide for a considerable extension of the Moosup. »ccupancy about e of the finest Catholic part of the state, and pro- parochial school work in Ny W@W < In Eastern Connecticut Counties | In Manufacturing, Banking, Jobbing. Building and Road Work a Total of $637,006,698 In Past Year---$445,206,008 In New London County—-$191,800,690 In Windham County--Many [lanufacturing Lines Report Gains--Banking Figures Fall Off. NEW WARDS AT STATE HOSPITAL S Two for 100 Patients Each in Process of Erection—Pro- vided for in Last Legislative Appropriation of $175,« 450—New Horse Barn, Shop Building and Root Cel- lar Also—200 Foot Dock to be Built in the Thames River. “nabled by the appropriation of ,450 by the state legislature of 913, cont cts for five new build- ngs at the Norwich State Hos. dital were let in October, and the vork on them is already pro- sressing. They are north and south wards F, horse barn, shop Juilding and root cellar. All are 0 be finished by October 1914, The contracts let for the build ngs at present under construc Hon were at a total of $117,972, which is without equipment. Ths salance of the available appro- oriation is to be taken up in 1eating, plumbing and other :quipment contracts. ‘With the appropriations named, he total! appropriated for the Norwich State Hospital sinca its nstitution has peen $1,655,450. The two new ward buildings ire to follow the general type of srevious buildings erected for the same use, practically fireproof, iwo stories in helght, with base- ment underneath. Each will pro- vlde for accommodations of 100 patients of the semi-disturbed slass. The buildings are located on either side of the central dining hall, and westerly from wards north and south respectively. They will be known as ward north F and ward south F, the contract price for the first being $47,750, and for the second $47,350, without equipment. The new horse barn, for which the contract price is $10,220, is located near the cow barn, which built last vear, and will be about 44x60 feet, with two wings, each 34x34. It will be of reinforced concrete, with eurtain wall of terra cotta block, reinforced-concrete floor and plank roof covered with slate. One of the necessities of the institution is provided for in the pres- ent appropriation by the provision for a shop building, costing over $9,700. It is located near the western limits of the hospital grounds, across the corridor from the laboratory and the employes' clubhouse. It is to be 53x103 feet, of one story above the basement. On the first floor is to be a paint_shop, 31x50 feet inside measurement, and & car- penter shop, In the basement under the carpenter shop will be glue room, dry room, and space for lumber storage, with a saw- mill for cutting up timber as required. Under the paint shop is to be a mason’s room d space for storage for furniture made or to be re- P At the present time practically all the furniture used in the hospital is made right there. The root cellar, which is about 30 feet square, with contract cost of $2.862 built as an addition to the kitchen. It will have bins for the storage of vegetables in the cellar, and on the floor above will be room for the preparation of vegetables and further storage room for vegetables such as cannot suitably be stored on the lower floor. During th year there is to be built also a new dock in the Thames river, nearly opposite the power house. Work on this has mnot yet seen begun . It will be about 200 feet long and equipped with a coal conveyor, probably of the cable car type, to dump over the coal bins. Up to the present time the number of patients at the hospital has increased to 976, which, although an overcrowded condition, is handled in the best possible manner under the experienced and capable direc- tion of its superintendent, Dr. H. M. Pollock, whose wise government of the institution, since his appointment from its beginning, has made he Norwich State Hospital a model of its kind. 3 ‘With the new |xui|(l’|nflfl the normal capacity of the hospital will de raised to 1,280 patients. At present there are about 200 employes, DR. H. M. POLLOCK S el £ ,,zéag!.%;s;’u i BIRDSEYE VIEW OF NORWICH STATE HOSPITAL Showing All Main Buildi NEW SCHOOL AT BALTIC Three Story Building for Academy of the Holy Family —Modern Equipped Building to Cost About $33,000 —St. Jean Baptiste Society Erects New Hall. About the first of June the excavation work was begun for the new school building for the Academy of the H Baltic, to be basement. It is erected immediately adjoining th academy suilding and the material is wire-cut brick, like nt chur with artificial limesione trimmings and granite ste the first floor provides two primar ms, 24x16 and 24x24, sep ated by folding doors, and a reception hall, 40x24 srimary ms and the g the whole of the first floc rear is a or 10 feet wide the e main entrance A 10-foot between the extends & h floor at t ilding. the rear, and on length of the and basement are two culinary departments, trunk room. rooms, ‘the inter with_closets, bath room and the second floor are three library, 14x25, and a large study reom, nd separated from it by folding doors. ss room, 30x25, and a class ool grades, 29x25. There is also a room for the busines: wita a typewriting room, 16x10, next to it St. Jean Baptiste Hall. During the year the St. Jean Baptiste society of Baltic carried out a long cherished plan to have a hall of its own by remodeling rop- erty it owned on Main street, thereby obtaining a good ed hall for its own uses as well as for public rental. The bullding is of frame two stories in height, with store and the hall entrance and lobby or the main floor. The hall was formally opened on Thanksgiving day, the alterations and changes having occupied about six months, and carried on at an expense of about $6,000. In general dimensions the building is 37 feet wide and deep, and on the front of the building over the windows of the hall are the words the libra has a high h and eight department, 30% The third or chool ¢ SALLE ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, 1913. The hall is the full width of the build! a depth of 70 feet, and a stage g on the second floor, With ull width of the building and two dress and two about 17 feet deep. Behind the room toliet rooms. The main entra the hail is at the front, coming ip from street doors by wide stairway. At one side of the wide lobby on the street floor is the ticket office. ere ure emer- hall on each the rear b s 0 the ground steel sidewalls with tal steel ceiling. The hall is lighted by are five windows on each side and h 500 chair gency exits from th it flight pine wainscuiting and orname 10 electric chandeliers, and there two wide windows at the front. The hall is supplied w of stej at Present Erected and in Use 18,722,213 TROLLEY PASSENGERS. Carried in Past Year on Lines in This Section—General Office For Eastern Connecticut Roads Now. Located in Norwich. ; § Trolley travel on the lines that serve this eastern section of the state—the New London lines of the Connecticut company and the Nor- wich and Westerly Tractior company—was on the increase in the past e ago, as $23,833 more passengers were ear over that recorded e total number of passengers carried than in 1912 year tarried in on these lines in 19 was 17,808,380, In 1013 it was 18,722,213, Inters esting trolley statistics for the two years are shown as follows:, Connecticut Company—New London Lines i 1912 1913 pl age operated .... 105 108 FPassengers carried .. 13,293,80: 13,875,304 €ar miles run 2,214,295 2,281,77 Norwich and Westerly Traction Company, 1912 1913 Mileage operate. ——e ———— .5‘3 59 Passengers Carried .....eec..oeeoeees 4,604, aTE 4,846,409 Car miies run e e S 27 1,005,440 An important development in the management of the-trolley roads eastern Connecticut, and one anticipated to work to the increasing and accommodation of the public whom they serve, occurred in the past vear, when the New London lines of the Connecticut com< were taken over hy lease by the Shore Line Electric Railway company. The Shore Linc, Electric Railway company now comprises out 213 miles of track, operating a daily average of 61 cars, and =xtends from West Thompson to New Haven, taking in the New Lon- don lines of the Connecticut company, the East Lyme Strest Rallway company, and the original Shore Line Electric Railway company, from Deep River to New Haven. - President R. W. Perkins has located the general office of the Shore Line Electric Railway company and the Norwich and Westerly which now includes the Groton and Stonington advantage Traction company, Street Railway company, at 28 Shetucket street, Norwich. Completed Boswell Avenue Extension. The Shore Line Eiectric Railway company has completed the Boswell avenue extension in Norwich from the junction of Frankiin street and Boswell avenue to Pratt strest, and is planning an extension and im- provement of the express and freight serviee, / o 7