The Newtown bee., 1890-01-10

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 Foundations for large new building are being prepared on Howard avenue, | just below State. It is to be 50xS0 feet, | three stories high and will be used as a hotel. It is being built by Anthony J. Rivers, who will, as soon as completed, lease it to practical hotel men, either from Hartford or this city. The hotel will contain 90 rooms, the first floor be- ing devoted to the office, parlors, restau- rant, etc. There will be no barroom, for the house is to be strictly temperance. Mir Rivers intends to finish the building by May l.
 When completed, the $12,000 parson- age now being built on Myrtle avenue for the Presbyterian society will be one of the handsomest structures of the kind in the city. The exterior is partly of stone, curving gracefully toward the | new Sunday school room, but few feet | away. The interior rooms are to be fit | ted up in hard wood, natural finish and all appurtenances are to be of the finest. Builder H. II. Nettleton is now plaster ing the walls and Plumber Lucius II. Mills is putting in the furnaces and the plumbing. It will not be completed for a month or so.
 Adam Hellman, who kept the saloon at the corner of Main and High streets, died of la grippe, last Friday, is years old.'
 Charles w. McCord can philosophize as well as sell carpets and his lecture, Monday night, on 1.-The Evolution of the Idea of Immortality" at the Scientific society, was learned and interesting. Frederick Hurd succeeds the late Al bert Flames as president of the Bridge port horse railroad.
 Alderman w. E. Bostwick, sometimes called the father of West End, is not at all disturbed by the activity of building loperations in East End or any other part of Bridgeport. When he came here, he says, he adopted the whole city as his home and his feeling toward all sections
 is that of the fond parent who says, with y
 ren." He has, of course, a special fond
 ness for West End and doesn't think it
 will ever cease its steady progress. ''We haven't what you might call boom" he continued, ''but new houses and build
 ings are going up right along. The de-
 mand? Why, there are not enough good houses to supply the constant demand. Now, Eve something like l25 to l50 tene- ments on my list; of those, only one is vacant and lady is just looking at that. At least 50 houses will be needed for the families whose support will be drawn from the Springfield Emery Wheel Co.,, whose large new factory is rapidly ap- preaching completion. The Pratt X
 Whitney Co. of Hartford is also thinking of moving and has been here to look over the ground. We'll sir, they can't find a
 better location than right here at West
 End. They will be well located if they get a site near the Emery Wheel Co.,, for then they can have railroad connect ion and water front too. I hope they'll cOme." Mir Bostwick, who, with k. c.
 Bassick and the immortal Barnum, made
 West End what it is, is as heartily in love with it as ever. Next Summer, he intends to build a handsome residence on Fairfield avenue, nearly at the end of the horse car line and will then remove from his present residence in Lesbia
 block, State street.
 One of l.. B. SteIling's horses fell or Arctic street, last week, injuring one ol
 its legs so that it had to be killed. Foreman o. E. Raymond of the Even ing Post has been sued for libel by Will liam Royce, who had the Bad Debt col lecting agency set upon him by Ray r mond. Royce was posted about the city . as fraud.
 The water company has agreed to sup
 ply water at the East End for fire pur
 poses free until September, the city no having funds enough at present to pa, |. for it.
 l. That greedy octopus, the Consolidate l. railroad monopoly, is now trying to bull if doze the Housatonic again. The Conso Il dated has leased the land on which pal
 of it's tracks run through the city fror
 the Housatonic at $400 year, but $60C u is now asked, the lease expiring, Satu 'e day night. The Housatonic prepared
 Sunday night, to lay a switch trac L. across the Consolidated line to reach in side track from which they had been ct
 of, bringing men from all along it's di
 ferent divisions, but the Consolidate = ran long freight train upon the spo ie until an injunction issued by Judge F. l " Hall of the Superior court could be ser
 ed. 1t looked as if a riot would occur " one time, but the battle will now l :" fought in the courts, beginning this wee
 Friday at 10 m.
 70 The frame for the new building whic y William c. Haight, secretary of the . F. Swords Lumber Co.,, is putting up o Y State street, near Lesbia block, We 's End, is already raised. It is to consi
 of two stores and four tenements an K will be finished as quickly as Builder I le II. Nettleton's men can do it. Mir Haigl
 also owns block on the corner of Stat m and Organ streets,
 1t Speaking of the defective plumbin E which exists throughout the city, Built k ing Inspector Isaac W. Day says: "I g six months, there have been 266 buildin P permits granted in Bridgeport and in e r. cry case the plumbing must be all righ r. just right; I won't have anything els
 But there are thousands of dwellin # houses and other buildings put up befol