Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-24

devote 1t solely to the purposes and use of
the bank, and shall not rent any portion of
it. 1t will, all be required for the bank.
We have 68} feet frontage and shall erect
a building large enough for many years to
come, with light and air ON all four Sides
We had to pay good price for the prop
erty. but central corner properties are
scarce and come high, and we were fortu-
nate to secure q location on q corner right
in the business center.
''It was more than $500 foot for the
land that we paid-considerably more, but
1t was good purchase and we can never
regret it. We shall have the plans drawn
with every reference to securing q build
ing perfectly adapted to the wants of the
bank. 1t will take year to build 1t, prob
ably"
THE NEW FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
Another very handsome and admirable
now building to be erected is that for the
First National bank to be erected on Church
street, q sketch of the design of which has
already bean given. The plans for the
same are now in the hands of tho contrac.
tors. President WEIGH of the bank said
last evening that the contracts had not yet
been awarded, and might not bs for three
or four days yet. There was some expec-
tation among the contractors that the
awards would be made known yesterday.
NEW ROUTE TO SHORT REACH,
Said President Corey of the New Haven
Street Railway company yesterday after
noon: "Our line has made arrangements
for through route to Short Beach. We
have contracted with J. L. Nssbit, the liv-
cry stable proprietor, whose stables are on
Temple street across from the Malley,
Nicely & Co.. stores, and he Is having two
Gne large stsges built by the Heury Killam
company. These stages will run to Short
of cars at East Haven green. The work of
building the Ssltonstsll line will be
begun next week and the stages will
take passengers from our line to Short
Beach by transfer tickets. We have made
this arrangement with Mr.. Nesbit, and the
arrangement will be such that passengers
can buy for twenty five cents each through
tickets from the old green here to the East
Haven green, and vice versa. This will be
q great accommodation to people wishing
to get to Short Beach and great improve.
ment over the accommodations of former
years. Our connecting tracks are already
laid from the east end of the drawbridge
at Qutnnipiac river to the Four Corners,
where We shall connect with the Salton-
stall lake line.
All the outlying portions of the city
and town are looking up, owing to the
increase of railroad facilities for quick
connection with the center of the city. The
western portions of the town are looking
up. Improvements are constantly being
made at Yale field, and the Fair Haven
roads cars now run near the field and will
run direct to the gates as soon az the new
and much-needed wooden bridge is built
over the West river, in place of the mar
row, sntiquated affair that Ia now there.
just across from Yale field many improve
ments are being and have recently been
made by Mr.. e. N. Clark on his large plot
of land there, and among the new houses
soon to be completed there is one
for Perry avenue, near Yale avenue.
It was erected by Mr.. William james.
1t is in the Queen Anne style
q pretty cottage, and has been de-
own residence. He will occupy the
premises week after next. Another
lot has bsen purchased by Mr.. Lovedsy,
tho milk dealer. His is on Derby avenue
and he will soon have house built there
for himself and family. Mr.. Perry, who is
u travelling salesman for the business house
of the e. A. Chatield company, masons'
supplies and fire brick dealers of State
street, has also brought lot and has had
plans for a nice house prepared and will
Guild there soon. The new Yale st1est will
probably soon be extended to Edgewood
avenue, SO that it will be continuous
street from Derby avenue to Edgewood av-
enue, and thus Immediately accessible by
both the Fair Haven and Westvills and
Edgewood avenue car lines.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
The beautiful new house which DR..
Sturgis is erecting on Prospect street, next
to the fine new house which Professor Her
bert A. Newton is erecting, will be the
only house in the city lathed and plastered
externally. Instead of the outside walls
bsipg of stone, brick or wood, they will be
lathed and plastered walls, after the Eng
lish style. The walls will look very hand
some when colored Hastily. @. D. Kinney
& Son commenced work q day or two for
this new residence, and have had the col
lar excavated. The house of Professor
Newton il we'll advanced toward compile
ton, the interior finishing being now in
progress. O. D. Kinney is also putting In
the finishing thing work at the Handsome
new houss of J. A. Porter, of the firm of
Sperry & Barnes. This house is another
ine addition to beautiful whitney
avenue. G. D. Kinney has also be-
gun the work of erecting the fine now
house for DR.. D. L. Adams on Edwards
street, south aide, next east of the new
house erected recently by Mr.. Downes on
the corner of Whitney avenue. DR.. Adams
house will be In the old colonial style, but
with clapboarded exterior. Inside 1t will
have . handsome finish. The same build
era are erecting the new house for Sam.sl
Thalheimer, the wholesale cigar dealer. It
10 near the corner of Prince and Lafayette
streets. The same builders have this week
resumed work upon the $76, 900 residence
which they have erected in Ridge6eld,
Conn. for Mr.. Olcott, . New York million
aire. The finishing work will now b
done, Mr.. Olcott had work on the house
stopped when the panic storm OF last sum
mef burst upon the country, he desiIiEg~
to see how long the panic was going to
hold or how much of . shower 1t was go
ing to be, but seeing that financial skies
are clearing he has had work started up
again.
The Electric Light company is doubling
the capacity of its resources and plant BY
erecting large addition to Its works at
GAINESVILLE bridge and will also enlarge its
central works on George strest. e
The three big new dormitories of Yale
college are rapidly approaching compile