Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 8, 1915, Page 8

e umbered | A. Pion:to Rebuild on- rporations _with authorized cap- tal stock of '$632,000. In the wcitles of 'N':v Bk;;_l; d “last weei 135 bullding have been issucd for: struc ures costing, $828,867, the T 5 of the work betwig.for, new fac- tory buildings in, Bridgeport. . Last year 85 permits for structures- cost- ing $170,885 were issued. } The 'most important contracts 'awarded last week are for a.new hos- ital ‘building in Greenwich which will cost $200,000 and for factory work in Bridgeporf, Ansonia and Water- ury, contracts for nearly a million dollars® worth of work having been awarded in these cities during the . Fine residence work has been reported in.New Hayen, Bridgepor s and Hartford and estimates are being received for mew buildings the college in Storrs. | ow womk roported mmcludes:apart- !ment bufldings in Bridgeport, New and Hartford, one and _two- frx houses in New Haven, Hart- iford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, ~Stam- ford and Meriden, public garage in !New Haven, parish house in West {Haven, new bdank building in = New {Haven, and much smaller work 1n all iparts of the state. i” Norwich had six sales of Teal es- i tate last week to four a year ago, the 2 A mortgage loans for the same periods being $975 and $4300 " ely. In New London there were seven sales of realty last-week and three for {the same week last year. ~The loans 0 and $6, were $10,25 1600 for the Te- Jpective weeks. | BUILDING OPERATIONS IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT. | __Statisties of bulldl ' New England as comp! Dodge company follow: Contracts o June 30, 1915..385,111,000 Contracts to-June 30, Contracts to June 30, Contracts to June 380, operations in by the F. W. ANOTHER BLOCK FOR T OMd Site on Hunter's Avenue—Plans Drawn by Norwich Architect—Floor Plans for Railroad ton Shows Ninety Permits Granted the Past Year. . Plans: for -a- new brick block for A. Pion, the furniture dealer, Who was burned out in the recent fire in Taft- ville, are being prepared by WArchitect Preston. The building will be 40 feet by 80 feet, three stories in helght; there will be one large stors on the first_floor for the business conducted by the owner, and the second floor will be used for apartments. The third story will be for furniture display. in connection with the store. The build- ing will be placed on the location of the ‘borned building, the lot having been cleared of ell debris, new levelings made and new grades established. The different owners have jointly agreed to build @ new street sewer for the || different ~properties interested. The new Pion block will have steam heat, electric wiring, open plumbing = for bath and kitchen demands, hot and cold water, hardwood floors and Pitts- burgh plate glass for the store front. Estimates will be obtained immediate- 1y on completion of the plans. Floor Plans Completed. - Finished floor plans and elevation of the New York, New Haven and Hart- fora railroad shops on North Main street, also for Max Gordon & Bros. building on the corner of Willow and Chestnut streets, have been finished and sent to the Hopkins & :Allen com- pany office in Springfield, Mass., for arranging the machinery, and plans and elevations of ' the C. B. Rogers company plant are now being prepared for the same use, all by Architect C. H. Preston. Levels have been obtained for a connecting bridge across Willow street between the present plant and the proposed new. Two Story Cottage. Gustave Lambert has just started on the foundation work for a new two story cottage on School avenue, Occum. The house will contain six rooms with toilet and bath and will have modern improvements. The carpenter work ‘will soon be sterted. Finished and Occupied. Gilbert Bowers has completed are erection of two new houses on Water- cress avenue and both are now oc- cupled. A description of both build- ings was.recently given. Nearly Completed. The .remodeled building on Oneco street, owned by Oscar Dugas, of Glasgo, and formerly owned by W. 000 S. Fleicher, is now plastered and. the 000 | interior work is daily advancing. The Gontracts for % Contracts for June, ! Contracts for June, Contracts for June, | Contracts for June, 11,929,000 1,986,000 10,899,000 600 | New frame buildings Barkhamsted—Mae W. LeGeyt has received her commission as postmis- at Bar) ted and Mery E. a5 postmistress dt Bethlehem, old store has been changed over into @ tenement and a new piazza is now ‘being built on the front of the building. Building Permits For Year. During the past year 90 permits 000 | Were granted for new buildings and al- terations to buildings, in Norwich by Fire Marshall Howard L. Stanton. ‘This does mnot include the building operations of the town beyond the city limits. ‘The following list of permits shows the number granted each quarter: Quarter Ending September 30, 1914. 15 New brick buildings. New cement buildings Alterations to frame b: Alterations to brick buildings . Quarter Ending December 31, 1914, New frame bulldings { Total Quarter Ending March: 31, 1915, New frame buildings .... viama18 New brick buildings .. o ‘Alterations to frame buildings...... 8 Alterations to brick,buildings .... Erection of steel Ol tankS..ceeseoes 4 Total ., Quarter Ending June 30, 1915, New frame buildings New brick buildings . New'cement buildings Alterations to frame bufldings. Total . Total number of permits granted during year, 90. 'he number of ‘permits the past fifteen years, follows:, 1914-1915. s vepesnvesesbenBl for H. R. Douglas, Inc., has started the construction of an addition to the New. London Ship and Engine company plant. This addition will be the same dimensions as the addition which has been under way ‘several weeks which' is mow nearly completed. The addition which is nearly com- pleted is that on the south end. It was hurried through with a day and night shift at work. Contractor Doug- las expects to finish the work July 16. The extension of the plant is made necessary by tremendous orders which have come in recently. The buildings being erected at the plant call for an outlay of about $100,000. This_construction work was unique in the history of building in this vicin- ity, as the men who worked at night did so under strong arc lights. The immediate demand for the mew build ings made these ex visions necessar: HADDAM. 53, The County Representatives cently made an inspection -of the Middlesex county jail and county home at Haddam. They have approved an expenditure of a.sum not to ex: ceed $5,000 for the purpose of provid- ing adequate water supply for the two institutions. - The plan is to ' drive. an artesian well and install a pump to send the water to. a reservoir on the hill a few hundred yards away. Charles B. Bacon is one of the com: missioners. They also contemplate interior alterations to the jail and will possibly install new cells in the jail and have electric wiring installed in the county home. who has a little lot, a and a little money, and ously utilizing the roof lines, all unite in making a most pleasing appearance. The sides of the first story are of patent novelty siding, and the roof is of shingles laid 4 1-2 inches to the weather. The entrance is through a vestibule, rather than into the living-room di- rect, a great advantage in cold or stormy weather. The living-room is of good size, 17.6x14 feet, the prevail- ing tone being brown. At one end of the room is a projecting fireplace with wide brown-stone hearth, on both sides of which French doors lead to a pi- azza, 10x15 feet, floored with brown tile. ~ Directly opposite the main en- trance is a commodious seat, finished in brown and upholstered in Spanish leather. This seat serves the double purpose of a luxurious resting place, and at the same time‘masks the en- trance to the stairs leading to the second story, . this entry also being reached doorway from the: idtchen, at the Tear ‘of the = house. Group windows:extend nearly“the en- tire length of this windows sas , Ay tLe “treatment of this apace. A built-in chima closet, :| plate rail, “and center light for. Be ¢ drawers and closet. ‘| kitchen, 12x9.6,_as before .noted, also communicates through.an entry with the chambers upstairs and with the living room, while still:another. doo: leads to a platform outside the back door, and from which the basement stairs open. Space-is also provided in this entry for an ice box. The base- ment stairs are directly below the others, thus effecting a material econ- omy of space. Upstairs are three bedrooms, one 16.4x146 feet, having two piain wine dows and two dormer windows with flower boxes: on to a balcony, good-sized closets, and other cham-~ ber, 9.6x0.6, which may be vaed as a spare room, maid’s room or den..’ bathroom is aiso on this Hoos 0O ‘ArTengements havé ‘been-madeswith o Scommn p, Tommian of construction or an: - formation desired regarding the o ilustrated. - They ealso invite our readers to’make suggestions for:plans Which they” would like illustrated in the future. Address:all correspond to-Bulletin- House- Department, XM C Louls Bachert is having a store front added.to the house at 20 Pearl street. Samuel Antls has had s store front edded to hig houss jn Bauk street. Terrace Avenue House. Thomas B. Donahue is to erect a house on the site of the one removed by him from Terrace avenue to Rose- mary street, two-story, eight rooms, Contract for Block. Lubchansky Bros. have been award- ed the contract for the brick dlock on the corner of Bradley and Douglass straets for Max Meyer. The plans call for a four story building with pressed brick front and sides, The first “ficor will be arranged for two stores and the upper floors for three seven-room apartments. M. B. Payne is the architect. MIDDLETOWN, Contractors have been awarded the general contract for the new dormi- tory to be erected at Cross and Mt. Vernon streets for Wesleyan Univer- sity. It will extend 172 feet on_ Mt. Vernon street and 56 feet on Cross street. The central section between the extensions on each end is 40 feet wide. It will be four stories high, and | constructed of brownstone, with slate ToOf, concrete foundation and floors and’ hollow block partitions, _stone cornjce, steam heat, electric wiring, etc. Wells & Wilcox are building a frame garage 22x24 feet, on Court street for W. E, Terrill. The Joseph S. Annino Co. have com- pleted the contrete foundation for the house on Pearl street for S. Messina and have started the concrete work for the new house on Spring street for Vincenzo D’Elia. The Joseph §. Amnino Co. have completed the two-story brick garage for 7. J. Hodgson in the rear of Court streef STORRS. Contract for Four Dwellings Let to Willimantic Contractor. The building committee of Storrs Agricultural college met Wednesday at ‘was firsf ply steam heat lowest bids for the W leaving a balance on purposes. - The contractors formed the work must be started a once, and they promised to start early next week. SOUTH MANCHESTER. modern conveniences. The contract for a new house to be erected on Edgerton street for Albert Johnson and Carl Anderson have been let. It will be of frame construction, 28x44¢ feet, and will contain two | °8E tenements ~with furnace heat and electric lights. EASTERN POINT. At Easten Proint, the bungalow be- ing built for Commodore Morton F. Plant {s going along steadily. The concrete is now being poured into the foundations. - This bungalow will rep- Tesent the acme in bungalow construc- tion. Its appointments will be remark- able for convenience and comfort,while the furnishings will be the finest made. The bungalow is intended particu- larly for the winter ‘when the commodorels Emstern Point mansion, Branford house, is closed. WILLIMANTIC, will be two stories high, construction. ‘The first story is to be used for & school and the second floor or a hall, ® used as a meeting place for ‘the warious French . organ- |1u|ttionl. ®Bew, L J. Papillon is the pastor. County Improvement League Data By County Agent F. C. WARNER Activity of Agent. During the past week the County Agent spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday ‘in Lebanon, returning Farm Survey Records and teking new Tecords. Sixteen farms were visited in this work and 4 new records taken. Thursday morning advice was given on Dairy Barn plans in Taftville and in the afternoon, the school lens in East Lyme were inspected with Mr. Farnham, supervisor of the gar- dens in that town. Fridey was spent in Colchester looking over that terri- tory and meeting men interested in farm bureau work. Plans wers dis cussed for a canning demonstration to be held in Colchester or some of the outlying districts in the mear future. Next week Tuesday will probabdly be spent in New London working in National Achlevement Club work and in the evening he is planning to hold a meeting in Preston, giving an op- portunity for dairymen interested in cow testing work a changg to join the Dairy Herd Improvement Association. Wednesday morning will be spent in Mystic with Musser of Storrs on the organization of Mystic Valley Creamery Association. In the afternoon he expects to be in Taft- ;la]le. Thursday and Friday are open tes. Electricity In Rural Life. Work on the farm has come to be more and more of @ machine process, as it is termed. In this e ove: from manuel labor to machinery animal power has given way to steam gas and electricity as the ., driving power. Over 90 per cent of the population of our cities arc served with ~ electric power, W scarcely one per cent of the rural pop- ulation avail themselves of its man uses. But the is steadily growing. Once used always used, is the natural result of the economy, ef- ficiency and enhanced returns from' the electrified farm. For lighting the farmstead and surroundings, for night work and. trafic for electrical de- vices in the homestead—cooking, washing, Jaundry work and sewing, for pumping and irrigation, for power, wherever & wheel is to be turned, worth of electricity operate a 16 candle power lamp for:five hours; or a six-pound flatiron for’ fifteen minutes; or an washer * with capacity for sheets per washerful, long enough to wash out. twenty sheets: or a pump to raise one hundred gelions of water one:hundred feet, or a sewing machine for two_hours; or bring to a boil one } quart of*water. Color of Milk. Color of milk has no rolation to the ‘emount - of buttertat contained, al- thoush -thejcontrary has been a well established’ belief for rcany years. In , the average cow gives milk of a higher fat tcst u winter, when the milk is of lightsr. colox, than motive, { of fat. Efforts to raise the fat con- tent by feeding large quantities of carotin-rich feeds -bave in the statements that it is well to eat very sparingly in the summer time, and, that very little or @o meat should be such as fat meats, rich gravies, pas- tries, and fried foods. Because meat contains in large pro- portions proteln which is a quick fuel, it is reasoned that therefore meat should be eliminated from' the diet. The emount of meat may well be cut some, yet 1s is reasonable to @ssume that there is need for its tis- sue building value in summer as in winter, and it has not yet been shown that other protein types of food ade- quately take the place of meat. Lusk in his Human Nutrition makes this statement: “But if a cool cli- mate, there is no strongly tial argument why one should mot follow the general custom of a medium amount of protein in mod- o accordance with the dictates of ppetite.” our eagerness to trim the corners = not forget that the ill effects ~“er eating are no less to be than those resulting from ting, and that the edvice of Means, “Get a plenty while you're ing” is a safe dietetic maxim for most of us to follof Cookery of Strong Flavored Vegetables. The many people wWho belleve they cannot eat cabbage, caulifiower, onions and turnips without suffering from in- digestion, and the many others who do mot like these strong flavored vege- tables, which are very valuablein the diet, should chapge the! cooking them, susgests Miss Oberiin, of Colorado Asticultural Collega. se a large quantity of wal portion to the quantity of v mx‘l"’.; be cooked. To prepare Creamed Cab- bage cut the cabbage, not too fine, with a knife. Have two quarts of slightly salted water boiling rapidly, add_one ! quart of coarsely cut cabbage. Boil Iuncovsred. until the:cabbage is tender when tried with a fork. Drain at.once and add one cup of Medium 'White {Sance. The mixture may then be placed in a well buttered baking covered with buttered crumbs, browned in a_moderate oven. Onions, caulifiower, and turnips red in the same ‘ be prepa; 7y onions should be boiled ones cut in guarters; caulifiower may. in|be left in the head or broken into urnips and ti should be in the house is not vor is much better, snd the food more easily digested’ than when ered kettle-or firejess cooker -is “or v o substan- | tarred B f?i § g H ] Al | [ i é : | i : : i £ | 7 | § j i | and es- the early fall and win- ter, and with so meny birds in the flock, it is very difficult to observe the start of a disease use of the ab- cing _every pecially al:r.ing poultryman As a result egg production, and it is com- mon knowledge among en that hens must have careful attention, and this attention must be directed toward the individual rather than toward the flock as a unit. when a bird cannot find her regular nest for laying her egg and her regu- lar position on the roost, she is not contented and will not do her best in production. Birds kept in flocks of 10 to 50 will give much higher ez production because of closer attention to detall on the part of the poultry- man. This increase not sufficient to pay for the increase in the cost of labor and housing, ex- cept during the breeding season, when eggs have an abnormal value. There is a happy medium between these ex- tremes which will result in the largest possible profit, and that is the flock of from 100 to 300 hens in one pen, in which there is a saving of labor and cost of house construction, almost equal to the larger units, and an egg production and close attention to in- dividual hens nearly as great as that in_the very small flocks. The nearer square a bullding is the cheaper its cost of construction and with the open-front house which is so generally advisable, it is most desira- ble that birds on the roosts be re- moved as fer as possible from the front of the building, as a protection from- drafts end cold winds. These are very good arguments for a house 16 or 20 feet in width and there are no logical reasons why a man should build a narrower house. The old argu- ment of lack of sunlight in a wide house is a fallacy and it has been proved by experiment thet in a_house 20 feet wide with windows six feet in height, facing the south, the sun will shine within 18 inches of the rear sill during the months of December and January when it is most important that it should. On the other hand, in the summer, when the sun is high there is a considerable amount of space in the house which is always cool, because the sun does not reach it, and bird: in houses most of the time or that do not have shade out of doors, certainly require comfortable quarters inside and it is just as important that the house should be cool in summer as it is that it should be warm in winter. PROTECTION FOR PEACH TREES. Disc Closely Fastened to Tree Will Keep Borers From Crawling Dewn. Peach tree borers have been the recommends, is paper different sizes being used for different trees, with a special type of paste to seal the protector saugly to the trees. ' SQUASH VINE BORER ——— kAT il § 3 § L8 o L Danish experimen its, 400 Ppotatoes proved equal to of corn is worth four and one-half bushels of potatoes for fattening pur- poses when cooked and fed with corn meal” experiment stations have ‘with meal; at the Utah station, 445 pounds roots mads the same gain as 100 pounds meal. ‘ In the light of the foregoing experi- ments the farmer m.loyt ‘well conclude total eaper feeds, such as alfalfa rape, roots, etc., than it is to buy gain. feeding of less grain and more forage and root crops result in producing pork at a reduced cost. The cost of pro- duction is always a viial problem to the farmer. Shallow Cultivation of Corn. comparing deep and shallow_cultivation of corn were con- ducted by Prof. Hickman of the Ohio Station for nine years. For the deep cultivation the old-time double shovel that are kept confined |Was grain and stover. The four bushels of grain of stover. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND EGGS LAID IN CONTEST Average Yield Per Hen at Storrs Will average gain is and 213 pounds for the 35th week amounted to 3,887 or 91 eggs less than for the preceding week but rlatively 54 more than for the corresponding week last year. All the leading pens for the week proved to be White Leghorns, Bran- ford Farms, Groton, Conn., won first honors for the week with 59 eggs. Redding _ Ridge, third place with 55 eggs each. For- ty-five _individuals, including Py- ‘mouth 1s- eggs each during the week. In the second contest conducted at Hen, No. 13 23 and 25 Water St. - STETSON & YOUNG Carpenters and Builders: Best and materials at right ! Fiievhone labos i 30 WEST MAIN-ST. Manor Farm, Ellicott City, Md., has| lald for 64 comsecutive days begin- | Conn., whose Leghorns second for the month with 245 8. N. W. Hendryx's White Leghorhe: | from ‘New Haven, Conn. won third for the month of Jume with a yield | of 237 eggs. This is the second con- tinuous month that all awards have gone to the orns. The ten leading pens to date are as St Vt, Rhode Island Reds, 1,382; Barron, Catforth, near = land, White Wyandottes, 1,378; Tomi Barron, Catforth, England, White Leghorns, 1,324; A.- P. Robinson, Cal- | ten leading Connecticut. pens : to_date are as follows: F. M. Peasley, Cheshire, White Leg- horns, 1,321; Windsweep ding Ridge, Whi Branfc A. J. Wholey & Co. Is as essential in medern house o} electricity is to lighting. We guaran- | tes the very best PLUMBING WORK 4 by expert workmen at the fariest | Ask us for plans and prices %aEJ F. TOMPKINS 67 West Main Street . Robert J. Cochrane GAS FITTING, PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING, 10 West Main Street, Norwich, Conn. Agent for N, B, O, Sheet Packing. * T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing - 92 Franklin: Street « |