The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-18
BUILDING NOTES.

Menzies & Menzies, of Pitlin lane have just finished the plumbing or Abner Hendee's fine new house or Whitney avenue. They also have the contract for plumbing Charles J. Rice's new house on Huntington street, and have just commenced the plumbing and steam heating in the kent Laboratory at Yale.
 James F. Todd has sub-let the follow ing contracts in connection with the addition being built to the Boardman Manual Training school: Painting, W. F. Wheeler; metal work, the Bradley Co. The contract for the gravel roof ing has not been let.
 The American Bridge Co.,, through their local contracting office, G. A. Lund, manager, have taken the con- tract for some of the new buildings of the National Wire Corporation in Fair Haven. These include boiler house, gas house and rod mill and will cost about forty thousand dollars
 Architect Richard Williams is receiv- ing bids on fine new residence to be built in Branford, near the new library building, for Dr. A. J. Penney,
 C.. w. Warner has the contract for the carpenter work and Charles Warner the mason work on the new school house to be erected at the corner of Whitney avenue and Davis street, Whitneyville. The contract for plumb ing and hot air heating has not been let. As has been stated, it will be frame structure, having two class rooms on each floor with a seating ca pacity of about one hundred and sixty pupils. The appropriation for the building is five thousand dollars. The plans were drawn by Architect c. F. Berger.
 Architect Richard Williams is receiv- ing revised plans for the handsome new residence to be built on Townsend avenue, near Fort Hale Park by I. c. Moran, New York business man who will make his home in this city. The house is to be built of red brick for the first story, the second story and ga- bles being half timbered It will be handsomely finished and heated by hot water. A first-class stable will also be built in connection with the house. The entire cost will be in the neighbor- hood of eleven thousand dollars.
 S. F. Dibble, of Grand avenue, has in the course of construction the plumbin and the placing of Hub furnace in Benjamin Kellers new house on Bas- sett street. He is also placing two Hub furnaces for T. J. Crogan on Mansfield street, and two Hub fur naces in the new house of Miss B. Cas- sion on Hilton street. He has the con- tract for the bathroom and plumbing throughout for A. c. Sessler's new house on Lawrence street, and is also fitting up a saloon, and placing Little Wonder beer pump for B. Schubert on Hamilton street.
 As has already been announced in these columns, J. N. Leonard & Go. have the contract for the erection of the new public library building in Dur ham, Conn. The building will be 25X35 feet, of brick trimmed with Portland stone, and will have furnace heat, slate roofing and copper gutters. It will be finished in brown ash, with Georgia pine floors, the book shelves being of oak There will be a reading-room about 23x25 feet, the remainder of the building being divided into a room for the librarian a store-room and a ves- t,bule J w Kennev of this city. will do the carpenter work and J. E. But