Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-06
r1ovING pAY1 COMING.

MOVING BAY IS COMING. HOW People Are Preparing For 1t In This City-Many New Houses Built. Hut NOt Very Many Changes other. wise-LandI0rds Do Not Raise Their Rengs-More Building Per- mIGs-A Slight Slacken1ng I'm Build Ing As Compared With Last Year. People are looking for rents, landlords are looking for tenants and general eommotion seems to begin to prevail just at this time of the year, may be expected. But, all though rents are plenty, there is certainly nothing more difficult to do than to find a good house that suits all who want to make the change.
 Some say that there is not going to be very many changes made this year, but one to look over the boards of real estate office would be inclined to doubt this statement. Houses are being built, houses are being torn down and people are getting dissatisfied with their humble abodes and are anxious to make change for better or worse, as 1t may perhaps be. And amid all of this hubbub it is evident that people are moving, or pre- pairing to move, just as much as ever.
 fsMoving day" will undoubtedly be celebrat- ed with it's full quota of family processions
 
 The number of new houses built and to be occupied about the first of May this year is quite as large as the number of last year ,and probably larger. Family cottages prevail, and but very few block houses in compari- son have been erected. The great part of these new family residences are cozy little dwellings upon the outskirts of the city, where one may rest in tranquility, free from the noise and tumult of busy city life.
 The changes in the immediate center of the city will not be so numerous as in former years. People who have good houses are of course opposed to any change, and those who are not completely satisfied have decided, in a great number of cases, to make the best of bad thing, for at least another year. A well known real estate dealer said last night that so quiet a spring in the matter of removals in house. holds, except to new houses, was seldom seen. The business removals, however, have been many, aRd great many changes will soon be made in business centers. Everybody seems to notice one important fact, and this Is that the price of rents has gone up somewhat on houses that have stood vacant or have just been built. This is one great reason why people do not decide to
 move as they have done The price of vacant houses has gone up in almost every case. Very few landlords have raised upon the rent of their tenants, however. They seem to think that it is better to have a good paying tenant than to get, perhaps, 8 little more from someone not so reliable. Then there is always risk in 8 change. Many tenants would alse leave their houses if the rent wss raised, and then another risk to the real estate owner would be presented in the possibility of securing another good tenant. It is said one great reason why more changes are not made, is that landlords have learned that it is not we'll to raise upon the rent of good tenant. In this way peo- pie who are already satisfied are apt to re- main so. As will be seen by this, although there will be about the same number of re- movals, they will chiefly be from old to new~ ly built houses. This argues much for healthy growth of the city.
 Builders say that not as many new houses will be built this spring as last. Last year was an uncommon year for new buildings, especially homes in New Haven. Still good many are to be erected this spring.
 Fire Marshal Kennedy has issued permits to build as follows:
 James E. McGann frame dwelling 26 by 4s feet on
 Joshua Davis, frame addition 12 by 20 feet at 45O
 William F. H. Hewitt frame dwelling a1 by s7 feet with wing 36 by A feet, on Cedar Hill ave- nue.
 Jeremiah WoIcotr, brick dwelling as by ss feet on Crown street.
 William s. Bescher, brick building 40 by 45 feet, two stories in George street near Park street
 Mrs. F. Fresenius, brick dwelling 50 by 60 feet on Congress avenue near West street.
 Charles L. Dwight, frame building II by 9 feet at 273 Blatchley avenue.
 Michael 0'Keefe, frame house on Liberty near
 George B. Hanover, frame dwelling 2e by 70 feet
 Robert Lutz, frame house 24 by 48 feet on Arch street.
 Jacob Hahn, frame house 36 by e feet on State street near Warren place.
 J. S. Bodley, No. 76 Cottage street, frame addition IA by 31 feet.
 The neat and stylish brick dwelling which MT. Comstock of Yale, is erecting on Trum bull street corner of Lincoln street, next to MT. Whites house on the corner, is another tasteful addition to Trumbull street. It stands on part of the fine plot which was formerly of the John O. Anderson ground. will be handsomely finished inside and equipped.
 The fine new residence of President R. A. Brown of the New Haven manufacturing company is beside being quite costly, very tasteful in design and finish and while not plainness, it nevertheless presents handsome outlines and proportions. The front steps and foundations for the ample piazza in front are of stone and quite massive, lending dignity to the approach. The house is quite an ornament to Whitney avenue, which so justly ranks as one of the most beautiful of all our approaches to the city. It is being shingled on the sides, front and rear in simi- lar style to that of MT. w. E. Downes fine residence next above.
 Thomas Dorcey is to build a three story frame house in Hamilton street near Wallace street.
 0. T. Driscoll is erecting one story brick building. 21x44. on Water street near Meadow.
 John Lowe, the builder, Is erecting snoth- CT frame house on Ferry street, Fair Haven, near Grand avenue, rear of the James F. Babcock house. This with the one next door and the two new ones across the street make four new houses erected of late on this street near Grand.
 MT. BuchholE, the restaurant and saloon keeper on State street near Court, is erecting three houses on Cedar Hill avenue about 1000 feet from State street on land he has held unoccupied for about 12 years. Some of the ancient cedars of the old Cedar Hill "sest of Happiness" stood on the Bucholz plot and had to be cut down. Very few are left of these old cedars from which CedarHill derives it's name. Twenty-Five or thirty years ago this whole section was thickly covered with cedars and pines and was @ picnic ground frequently used by churches and Sunday schools. With MT. Bucholz's three new houses Cedar Hill avenue has thirteen or fourteen more houses upon it than it had year ago-quite a boom for one year. Two of the new houses were erected by the Con- cordia society of Germans, two by Lawyer ! Julius Twiss and six by real estate man W. H. H. Hewitt.
 At Howard Avenue Church.