Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 15, 1914, Page 10

ROCKVILLE. Contractors Not Very Busy During The Past Yean The largest and most costly building erected during the year is the new rectory of the St. Bernard’s Catholic society, which will cost when com- pleted about $25,000. It is a most attractive edifice, located on St. Ber- nard’s terrace, adjoining the church, 1t is built of gray pressed brick, with Indiana limestone trimmings, and the basement is of Monson granite It is being built by the Femton-Charnley company of Norwich. The Palace theatre was erected by George Armold & Son on School street, at a cost of about $12,000. It is de- signed largely for & moving picture house, but has a stage adapted for trayeling theatrical companies. There have been only a few houses built dur- ing the last Yyear. Jobhn Walz has built a house on Lawrence street, at a cost of about $5000; Spencer S. Fitch, a housy rear of the Fitch block, costing about $4000 and Arthur Davis : house on Florence street at a cost of 1500. MIDDLETOWN. Middietown experienced a quiet year in the building line in 1913, partly on acount of the small number of large buildipgs erected. Among the largest were the new bank building on Main street, being erected for the Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank, the new swimming pool at Wesleyan, the new Beta Theta Pi fraternity houses and the addition to the the plant of the Russell Mfg. Co. A great part of the woik on tie addition to the high school was also dome during the past year. NEW LONDON. The irustees of the local Y. M. C. A. bave purchased the Williams property at the corner of Church and Meridian streets 130x160 feet, as a site for a new building. No architect has been selected as yet. STETSON & YOUNG PROTEST AGAINST b Changes at Tire Shop. The pile driver for work on the new Thayer building on Franklin square has arrived and is being put into shape for driving the 300 piles {which will be needed to support the foundations. The piles are to be 25 to 30 feet long with 12 inch butts and 8 inch points. They will be of white oak. Willlam Cook of Mohe- gan has the piles all ready for de- livery as soon as they are needed. Thames Union, U. B, of C. and J. of A. is protesting against the erec- tion of the building by non-union la- bor and two union carpenters were called off the job. Mr- Young has 30 men in his employ and has had these men with him for a year and a half. Stone masons and carpenters alike re- ceive $3 a day for a 48 hour week while local union rgeulations call for $3.4¢ a_day with a 44 hour week. The union takes the stand that Mr. Young { will be unable to fill the contract { through inability to secure materials { for a non-union job. The contractor takes the stand tha¢ his men are not employed as skilled laborers, as they are put to work on various kinds of jobs. He says that when he needs Specially trained men he will pay for trained labor, but that his empfoyes are not strictly skilled. He has men enough now and can get more when he needs them. ! In Construction of New Thayer Block-TRudy to Drive Pilin; —Work on Cottage For Mrs. Helen B. P. Huntington— NON-UNION LABO e e Cottage for Mrs. Huntington, The second floor joists have been laid for the new seven room cottage being erected by B. Walter Phillips Helen B, P. Huntington at Boarding of the second floor has just been started. The st of materials and finish are to be used and the cottage promises to be for Mrs. No. 193 Broad street. b a most attractive one, across the entire front. Floors first floor. The cellar to be ce- mented. is cefling is to be put in. K. Walter Phil- lips is doing the work. SOMERS. Year Was One of Steady and Con- sistent Progress. | | The year 1913 has not been marked by any unusual building operations in | the town of Somers, although activity | along that line has been steady and | consistent. Following is a list with | Carpenters and Builders Best work and materials at rigat wrices by skiliea labor. Telepbone 80 WEeST MAIN ST. JOBN 0. FOX & CO. —DEALERS IN— Lumber of All Kinds Lime, Cement, Drain Pipe, Fertilizers, Fire Brick, Ladders, Paints, Oils and Varnishes and Salt 72 Harris St., Putnam, Conn. C. M. WILLIAMS Contractor and Builder Estimates Cheerfully Given Telephone 370 216 MAIN STREET —The Fenton-Charnley Building Co., Inc. GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH, CONN. PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING bo IT Now Plumbing as it ehould be done 1s the kind we do. Open, every jolmt :.ight, sanitary and latest siyle plumb- ng. cest of bath tubs, latest devices In water closets, sinks, aud everything you can think of in the plumbing line. Call us up on the 'phone, write or see us. We will fix you up ia good shape at @ moderate price. A. J. WHOLEY & CO,, Telephone 734 12 Ferry Stry t PLUMBING Why not atttend to it now? It will be fully as easy and ¢onvenlent for you t0 have the work dono mow as later when it may be freezing weather. Estimates cheerfully furnished cn any york you need dome. J. E. TOMPKINS 67 West Main St. C. E WHITAKER Buceessor to 4. ¥. GIBSON, Tin and Sheet Metal Worker, Tar or Asphalt and Gravel Roofs, Walks and Drlveways, pep e aprid &5 West Main St approximate cost: R. Leland Keeney, residence, $8,000; Mrs. Ellen Sheldon; residence, $2,500; Bert Stebbins, bung- alow, $2000; Wilbur Converse, resi- dence and barn, $2500; James Billings, tobacco shed, $1,500; Ralph Eastwood, tobacco shed, $500; Jarvis & Zace, to- | bacco shed, $1,000; Lafayette Keeney, | alterations to barn, $500; Ralph Keeney, private garage, $500; A. S.| Hulberf, private garage, $300; Edwin T. Huibert, private garage, $300; | Somers creamery, instalation of re- frigerating plant, $5000. There have | been many siles built in'town at the expense of about $1,000. Large poul- try houses have been erected by Hor- | Sikes, A. Vail Smith, Fred C.| Mrs. Myrtie Davis, Mrs. Mary and Seth Cone, costing about ns | th BUILDING AND BUSINESS, Decrease Shown in Permits 'and Real Estate Sales. The record of new incorporations for the second week of the new year about the same as last year, seven corporations, with a total authorized capital stock of $325,000 being formed year, against six, with capital stock of '$195,000 last yvear says the Commercial Record. Petitions in bankruptey were filed of six, with liabilities of favorably this week to the number assets of $6,762 and $19,660, which compares with the past few weeks. There is a decided falling off in the number of real estate sales by war- ranty deed in this State last week, also in the amount of mortgage loans. For the week just closed 228 sales are reported, with loans of § sales, with loans of $913,121 were re- ported. Building permits continued to show decrease. In the cities of New Bridgeport, Hartford, Water- and Stamford for the past week FILS—THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHOR Here we are at last at Marly-le Roi! Having climbed the hill opposite the | little station, we open the iron gate which encloses the pari of the master, | We have scarcely taken a step when we see Alexander Dumas com- ing toward us. He is dressed quite in the approved country costume, coat and trousers of blue cloth, a white waist coat and straw hat. “I heard you open the gate, and so I came out to meet you,” he said. The author of “Denise” looked the picture of superb health. When we told him he said: “Oh, whether I am In Paris or in the country, I am al- | ways very well. I have never been re- ally ill, and I do not know what it is to have a cold. I inherit it from my grandfather, General Dumas, whose Portrait 1 will show vou presently. He was of Herculean build; they tell now of his extraordinary feats of prowess. | My father was less strong: however | he had a vigorous constitution. “I re- | member when I was only a little bos my father and I came out of the the atre. It was raining in torrents: sud denly he saw a coachman standing be- fore the entrance and hailed him. “I am not driving,” said cabby dieffrently. “Not driving.?” exclaimed my father, and before our man had time to stir, he had lifted and swung him upon the seat: then turning toward me he said quietly: “This is the way to treat insubordination, little son.” At last (Juvenile reminiscences over) we arrived at a place of singular beau- in- ty. “This is my favorite corner,” Duma. There I pass hours, se on that bank dreaming. “You are a very early riser, are you mnot, Mon- sieur Dumas?’ 'we asked. “Oh, yes! as soon as day dawns, I imp from my bed and begin to exer- cise. 1 adore gymnastics, fencing, hunting and walking. I often walk to St. Germain and take the train from there, from purely hygienic reasons. I ‘was never born for a writer, it Is a | real hardship for me to sit down at my desk and say to my literary self, you must work. Quite the contrary. I believe I would have made a very good officer, a good diplomat or statesman “Do_you see much of Sardou.? hazarded. “Very often, every time I go to his house, I find him on the roof or scaf- 1 folding. He has a mania for building and his property is superb. You can see it from her Along the avenue leading to his house are the sphinxes which were in the Egyptian palace at the exposition. At the close of said exposition, Sardou, who was most de- sirous of possessing them, asked Charles Edmond, manager of the exotic part of the Champ de Mars, if he might had not thought of the, enormous cost of transportation from the Champ de possesses a unique avenue, but at the cost of much labor and expense. When T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing ROBERT J.COCHRANE | Protece GAS FiTTING, PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING 10 West Main Street, Norviich, Conn. | Ask for B. €. Bheet Packing o Agent for ; m 1% ao uvmfll-su:lgm Sardou does not build, he write: “What is your manner of working, dear master.?” I asked. “I have no hours, I work when the spirit moves me, which is not very often. I de not write a piece until I have thought it over a long time. To buy. them. “I am convinced,” replied Monsieur Bdmond, “that the viceroy will make you a present of them. ' “This was quite true, they were de- | lighted to give them to Sardou, and thus save themseives the expense of taking them back to Egypt. Sardou put it on paper is nothing, to create is everything. I start on ical subject, I do not tr a philosoph- to find my characters until my subject is thor- oughly thought out Do you find work easy, Monsieur Dumas?” 1 said “Yes and no. T generally spend very little time writing my piece, but I “scratch out” constantly. My father onee said of me: “My son does not write literature but music, in his man- uscripts one only sees lines and, from time to time, a few words underneath’ “I adore Marseille continued Du- mas, “and its I lived there once with Mery mused I there, as ever: inventing One day he this announcement the paper sell at once, a lion. Call at— No. * The next day the would be buyers flocked in, asking if it were here the lion could be found. “Certainly,” replied Mery: “only I have no time to show hLim to you. Go see him yourselves, he is on the fourth floor, here is the key, be sure and shut the door when yc in. so that he cannot escape. atura the curious comers left precipitate- ‘Come now.” sa take a look into m house has only one s ed by a pavilion with two stories, walls are of wonderfui thickness. the rooms on the ground floor, the par- lor, reception room and dining room, have no partition, and all open upon a_veranda which goes all around the whole house. In the second story of the pavilion we find Dumas’s’study, a large light room, simple and unpre- tentious, every space filled with bool Coming downstairs we stop in the li- make the acquaintance of Mme. Piersons’ arm. Our host ex- plains; “Because I found her arm beautiful and told her so, she had modeled and sent to me, inspection finished, we in comfortable arm ch. broad veranda. Our tour of eated ourselves airs out on the We asked Dumas to tell us of his work ch I will try and give in his own words. “In fifteen days I wrote “Monsieur Alphonse, “La Dame aux Camelias in eight. Part of Le Suppliced d'une Femme' 1 wrote in the carriage and Madame Dumas copied my work. How agreeable it is to be able to write nov- The house is to be of two stories with gambrol roof and sheathed porcfi wi all be of hardwood and there will be steam heat, bath, set tubs and electric A large living room takes up practically the whole front of the house are once | it | but 50 permits were costiug a trifle over the same week of last year 65 permits for work costing $157,000 were granted in the four leading cities alone. Contracts aw: during the week include apartment block and seyeral g | frame store and tenement buildings in New Haven, large garage and vat house in Bridgeport, business block, hotel and two brick tenement houses in Hartford, fine residence in Stam- ford, three-family houses in New Bri- tain’ and frame houses in Meriden and Middleown. \ ew projects for which plans are being drawn or estimated are: Resi- dence in Stamford, costing $100,000, theatre and business .block, store and apartment building, and fine residence in Bridgepor iny block in New Haven to cost $200,000; d an addition to the gas plant in the same city; frame resi- dence and brick church in Waterbury and an addition to church in Meri- den. Norwich has six real estate sales the past week to ten a year ago. There were no mortgages last week but a year ago $8,115 s put out in loans. lights. There is a large pantry, large SOUTH MANCHESTER. clothes presses off each of the sleep- s ing rooms and large coat rooms on the | Tewer buildings were erected in South Manchester during year than in 1912. Among the largest buildings erected the past and will include a fireplace. On the {were the Eighth District School exterior the second story will be shin- | which is yet incomplete, the new fac- gled and the first story finished in|tory of the Orford Soap Co., the new clapboards. The cottage will cost | factory for Willlam Foulds & Co., Mrs. about $5,000. E. Grube’s new block on Bissell street, Enlarging Tire Shep. and the new bathhouses for Cheney Bros. and the new almshouse for the The Baird tire shop on Franklin | town. street is being enlarged by the re- | S Emil Johnson has completed the moval of a partition and stairs at the | first floor of Aaron Johnson's new front of the building and a new steel | block on Main street. The super- structure will probably not be started until next spring. Edward J. Holl has completed the first floor of the new house he is to erect for himself on Main street. Work on_ the superstructure will not Dbe_started until spring. William Eneman is repairing the interior of the Cheney block which was recently damaged by fire. NEW ENGLAND BUILDING OPERATIONS. The statistics of Building Opera- tions in New England, as compiled by The F. W. Dodge Companyy follow: Contracus to Jan. T, 1914....53,318,000 ! Contracts to Jan. 458,000 Contracts to Jan. 3,507,000 Contracts to Jan. 1,944,000 Contracts to Jan. 7 3,874,000 Contracts to Jan. 3,656,000 Contracts to Jan 82 Contracts to Jan. Contracts to Jan. | Contracts to Jan. Contracts to Jan. Contracts to Jan. Contracts to Jan. 7, 746,000 Contracts to Jan. T, een 2,120,000 CROMWELL. A meeting of the directors of the WOOD ADVOCATE AN ARMY RESERVE. Four Recommendations Army Improvement. Makes for Washington, Jan. 13—Four steps of vital importance, essential to place the United States army in a state of rei sonable preparedness for possible war, were recommended to Secretary Garri- son today by Major General Leonard Wood in his last annual report as chief of staff. General Wood proposed: “irst—Establishment of a reserve of trained men, sufficlent to bring the regular army into full statutory strength, and to replace the losses of the first three months of war. Second—Prompt provision of the 1 maining 42 per cent. of the field art {lery project, including guns, as yet u | provided for, and the necessary ammu Inition for those now made or under manufacture. Third—Creation of the necessary or- | zation to give three complete | al infantry divisions within the tinental limits of the United States ‘ourth—Epactment of such person- | nel legislation as will eliminate ef- { fectively the unfit, and stimulate the efficient officer to continue efforts | through establishing such a condition | under’ which progress in rank and command will have a close and de- | pendent relationship upon capacity, fitness and accomplishment. UNDERWOOD PREDICTS UNUSUAL PROSPERITY. Democratic Leader Takes Optimistic View of Coming Year. | Washington, Jan. 13—An industrial | awakening “that will put the panic | preachers to shame.” was promised by | | democratic leader Underwood after re- | publicans in the house had painted | dark pictures of ruin and desolation as the result of democratic legislation he democratic party,” declared Mr. Underwood. “has achieved for the American people more than has been | accomplished heretofore in the histor: of our government. We have secured the results which the republican party struggled for in the course of {wenty years; the results which they their pledges to secure and which for term after term of congress were left undone. I look forward to unusual | prosperity throughout the country next % s e des & ic le: sai ela. if one were certain of preserving | Th® demecratic leader said the steel one’s incognito. I would give two or |go = M o8 5 Ang three plays a year to the theatre, & were this the case. Unfortunately, to- day one knows the name of the author a month before its first presentation. That is why I hesitate to give a come- dy at the Theatre Francais. is old, one does not care to write com- edies, or to play them.’ A few more reminiscences followed, 1 then we found we must leave. You have time enough, a quarter of | 13,000, When one STORIES IN FIGURES United States investors have $13 000,000 at stake in British Columbia. At the present time in all G Britain ther are 1,500 street hor whereas in 1900 there an hour before the train comes,” said -~ our host. “I will accompany you t0| Since 1857 there have been sixty di on, it will give me a little ex- rest of the conversation hap- pened to be about romancists and @ matic authors. Dumas pronounced la an extraordinary novelist. He sai “When you write a novel, you woman, Well, this third person is the public “The locomotive whistles. the train is about to leave. We shake Monsleur Dumas’s hand, thanking him for our pleasant little visit with him and we leave Marly le Roi. LUCY B. SAYLES. Paul Arene. After Yourself Grloldild 8} SENUINE 0= are and summon platitudes galore, ters in the collieries of South Wales, h a total loss of life of 2,908. The importation of India rubber into the United States during the yvear lended June 30, 1913, amounted to ’ alone, the public does not watch vou |1113,000,000 pound Mars to Marly. Do you know how | Weitc! At 'the theatre you are three much this sphinx cost him. _ From Loihmd o ey \ b 15,000 to 18,000 francs: Nt only were | tig Uthor. the Interpreter and the | rpe cable between the United States spectal cars necessary, but they were | bublic, ¥You are in a room with a wo- | 4,,q Honolulu cost _$20,000,000. The obliged to make corduroy roads all | venpn ol Y CATOW Reide les €on |iwo stations could be connected by along the Toute. It is true that now he | tome very comventional with Thic same | Wireless for $500,000. The output of beer in the Chicago revenue district during the fiscal year was sufficient t o furnish twe full barrels for every person in the city. During 1913 the people of Missouri consumed _ approximately 78,400,000 | barrels of beer, equal to 23.8 gallons ! of for every man, woman and child in the Showme state. During the last year a total of more than 100 companies have been formed to engage in the breeding of fur-bear- ing animals in the maritime previnces of Canada. 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No other preparation will do the work of Pinex in this. mixture, although strained honey cin be used instead of the sugar syrup, if desired. 3 Thousands of housewives in the United States and_Canada now use this Pinex and Sugar Syrup remedy. This plan has often been imitated, but the old success- ful combination bas never been equaled. Tts low cost and quick results have made it immensely popular. A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes with this preparation. Your druggist has Pinex, or will get it for you. If not, send fo The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. Children’s Home was held and the building committee discussed plans for the proposed new building. No architect has as vet been selected t is hoped that the work will b »d In the spring. The building committee consists of the foliowin Johnson of New Britain, C. By, Berg of Worcester, J. H. Ehn of Hart- recently ford, H. J. Lundquist of Brooklyn, Frank Carlson of Bristol, G. 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