Connecticut western news., 1898-05-19
ST ED.


 The improvements on Main street in the vicinity of Hotel Winchester are about completed, and they have been so great that the street has been almost completely changed in it's appearance The stately new hotel building, the widening of Main street, the removal of the five big elms, the building out of the fronts of the Wetmore, the Adams, and the Stone blocks, all changes of recent date, have given the locality metropolitan appearance, and rounded up things in proper manner.
 The new Hotel Winchester will doubt less soon be open for business. notwith- standing it's numerous set-backs from causes not within the control of the new landlord. The stores are all very fine, and are occupied by large business concerns, aud being centrally located, will probably do large business. At the present writing all the stores in the hotel block save one, are let, and that will undoubtedly soon have tenant There is not, however, very great rush by the people, away from the west and east end business houses, as was feared would be one of tho results of remov- al of the post office to the center of the borough The fact is that the main residence sections of Winsted lie east and west, and where the people live there is the place tor the stores to be located. For that reason il Is safe to predict that the volume of business done in the ends of the borough, in former years. will not be materially les sened in the future.
 Winsted has quite a delegation of sturdy young men in the service of the United States. few are in the navy, and few more in the army. but inas- much as Company l, 4th regiment, Was not ordered to the front, those who went from Winsted were fewer than would have been the case had our mili- tary company been ordered to camp.
 The war has aff ,ctod business here to some extent. It has reduced business at the clock shop and at the Moore Bolt works. and perhaps in some of the other factories, while in some of the other concerns it has not affected the business. The New England Knitting Go. and the Winsted Hosiery Co. are very busy, and so is the Strong Mfg. Go. shops, where funeral goods aie manufactured. Perhaps the war will help out this line of manufactures
 The new letter boxes, red in color, have been placed about the streets, on the various convenient corners, aud they are certainly very handy and con venient. One very noticeable feature in the postal affairs of Winsted, Is th at under the old system, large crowds gathered at all the post-offices when the mails arrived. Fifty or seventy five people were always present when the mails were being distributed, but now that we have letter carriers, the ,lfices are deserted, and things look dead around the post offices in comparison to old times. Even the new main post | office does not begin to call together the crowds that used to resort to the old offices in East and West Winsted. | Perhaps it Is for the better. too, for many of the callers. especially in the evenings, when the last mail came, were young women, who took in the post office call, to help fill out the evening ramble, not with the expectation of ev- CT getting letter, but simply to have a place to loll aud gossip. This of course does not apply to all the female sojourn CTS of other days, bnt it certainly does to a good many young women who might better have been at home than hanging around the post-offices, osten- sibly searching for letters that never came. The letter carrier system has acted like the cuff w bell in the matter of keeping good many people away from the post offices at night, who nev- CT had any business there.
 | By the time this letter has been put in print. the weather will perhaps have settled down to something like decency For more than fortnight it has been SC mean that even tho trees did not have sand enough to leave out and risk the cold aod wet weather, and only now and then peach. cherry or plum tree had confidence enough in the season to go ahead and blossom ont.
 The Second Congregational church is going ahead, war or no war. to build their new church edifce. It is a de. cidedly good thing in the Second church that it manifests it's faith in the fact that the world is not coming to au end, even in these troublesome times, and is willing to do it's sbare towards keeping the ball rolling by going on | Wiph lbo WhL UT uO wal.
 In the matter of tue people feeling q little touch of wars effects, it may be noted that all the necessaries of life are rapidly advancing. Flour is from S9 to Sl0 barrel. sugar has advanced, pota toes are worth 25 per cent. more here ir Winsted than they were. and every thing else has advanced to a greater or less per cent. War has it's rawbacks, and these are only the very least of its evils.
 It is probable that the borough ol Winsted will before long erect a Bor ough building on Willow street, and sell it's old fire engine house where Del uge and Rescue companies are located on Main street If the new building ii built it will be large enough to accom- modate the steam fire engine, Deluge Hose and Rescue Hook and Ladder company. and also the probability i; that the Burgesses. the various commis sioners and other department head, will have quarters in the building Il is estimated that the building can be erected for $8,000.