Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-14
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BUILDING ImpRovEmENTs.

BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS. New Haven,s Continuous and Nota- ble Growth i'm Its Manufacturing Interests.
 One of New Haven's surest proofs of | is the continued growth and of her manufacturing inter- ests, and this rarely more pronounced | than the present. In all quarters of the. city may be seen some factory enlarge ment or new buildings that will soon be l teeming with industry. This. means, of course, no little addition to the oity's pop ulation and resources. In the eastern part of the city particularly is this notice able. The three large buildings of the Candee Rubber company, which have been alluded to previously, are now to be occu- pied soon, and their need is much felt by the company for they have been obliged for lack of room to find storage about the city, having used the upper part of the old rubber coat factory on Court street for that purpose and g portion of the Scholl- horn factory on Wooster street, also other places.
 The main office of the Candee company will be removed to the new bnilding on East street and the building in which the packing department is, will be extended out to the new one and it is proposed to add story. The shipping departme ment will be in the new East street factory and the remainder, excepting the office, de voted to storage. There are other addi- tions being made in this locality also. Among which are those proposed by the Quinnipiac Brewing company. They have received permit to build brick building at corner of Ferry and River streets, 25x60 feet, two stories and to move frame building from Ferry street to Chapel. The Damn Brothers are nearly ready to occupy their new large addition to their factory fronting on Franklin street. The new part will be ready for roofing the lat ter part of this week and is to be con- pleted by January 1. Among those in the near neighborhood who are to build greater are the Peck Brothers, who have lately fitted up and occupied anew factory building added to their already large estab- ishment.
 Down at the foot of Chapel street, just across the railroad, H. Webster Stowe has recently erected and put in operation a large sawmill, 100 feet long, 40 feet wide l and two stories high and equipped with | fire or six thousand dollars worth of the | most improved machinery for all kinds of wood blaming and saving, both heavy and | find work, from ripping out blanks down to artistic scroll and fancy mouldings, and bare boards for carpenters supplies. Mir. l for warding against fire. There is Q | thermostatic register which at certain | temperature of heat rings an alarm at No. l As engine house, and all over the mill | are the automatic sprinklers, which have prove so effective in many cases in quenching a fire just starting. | There are two kiln dry rooms of good size among the equipments. The engine is 75- horse power and is fed by the shavings, is shot up from the factory, wherever it is collected, by means of galvanized pipes | into tower outside, where it is separated and what is of use for fuel taken to the engine room. Since the Porter mill stopped work much saving is done for carpente, builders at the mill.
 The shop of the J. Gibb Smith com
 pany, 135 Water street, was illuminated last evening for the first time by cleo
 tricity.
 Another notable new factory of whicl
 mention has been made previously is tha
 of c. Cowles & Co.,, which the concern is
 to occupy about December 1. Interesting
 new facts regarding this important estab
 ishment are as follows: The factory hal
 been constructed in the best manner fo
 strength, safety, durability and commerce
 For security against fire, the whole sho]
 is amply supplied with automatic sprink
 lers and on top of the tower, above tn
 roof, is tank which will hold $500 gal
 Ions of water. The shop has two sources
 of water supply-Saltonstall lake an'
 Maltby park lakes-as pipes iron
 both those sources run past tn
 factory, one line on either side. Tn,
 entire factory will be we'll heated an,
 warmed when the weather requires it by
 heating apparatus of the best kind, and al
 immense fan will diffuse the heat equabl about the establishment. Another fact o
 interest is that for general use at the fac
 tory where fire is needed in the mechanics operations, crude oil will be used, tn same as has been done successfully at tn Brown factory out near the Wincheste
 armory. A tank sunk in the ground ths
 will hold (, ,500 gallons of the oil, has bee
 provided. It is tank similar to thos } seen on railroad cars in which the oil ? brought here. The factory has gravelle
 roof and is about near fire proof built ing as need be. The factory has passe, , ger elevator at the office end and thre
 ton power elevator at the other end. 3 A Gift to Meriden's High School. , Henry s. Wilcox, druggist in Meride, has presented the high school of that plat
 with a chemical laboratory worth $50l
 The thanks of the town were recorded fc ' this generous gift and an appropriation :. s1 ,00O made for fitting up room and tai ing care of it.