The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-30
WORK NEARLY COMPLETED
OF GAS MAINS TO
 UOODMONT.
Expected to bc Ready for Use on the Glorious Fourth Shore Residents JubtIant-Mnny Orders for Service.

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 Glorious Fourth Shore Residents
 JnbtIant-Mnny Orders for Service. i It will be very pleasing to the many hundreds who reside at Woodmont-by the-Sea and the several attractive shore resorts between that popular place and West Haven to learn that the new gas main will be completed in about week and that there will then be an opportu- nty to dispense with the old-fashioned means of heating their cottages and preparing their meals.
 Major Blakeslee was on Saturday last found by a Courier representative very busily engaged in experimenting the work in connection with the laying of the mains. For about two months he and his able assistants, together with a force of about one hundred Italian la borers, have been giving their energies to this work which, when completed, will furnish heat and light to many homes. Over four miles of excavation have been necessary that the connec- tion might be made, and the ground through which they have had to pass has not been of the best. In some places, particularly near the Colonial Inn, hard rock very similar to bed rock was encountered, so that an exception ally large amount of drilling and blast hoc O II been competed and the work of filling in the loose earth now alone remains. From point near Waverly Grove up to Cox's Surf houses for a distance of over three thousand feet it was neees- sary, on account of the exceedingly soft, marshy ground, to drive large number of heavy piles. Then large heavy crosspieces and blanks were laid down and this formed a suitable foun- dation for the heavy pipes. Another marshy spot was encountered at place northward of Savin Rock Hill. Only short distance remains yet where the pipes have not been laid, and it is ex- pected to finish this stretch probably by the Glorious Fourth.
 All of the pipes have been laid along the side of the road and the trenches carefully filled, so that there will be no danger to horses walking on the new earth, and no unsightly places should the ground sink in from the action of the elements Along the marshes the trenches were dug just outside the roadway, outside the railings.
 Up to this time there was a small main which furnished the supply for the residents of West Haven from Wards Corner southward. The laying of the new extension has made 1t prac- ticable to lay much larger pipes and in- cidentally increase the supply. Now there is an eighteen-inch pipe through the thickly settled part of the town, commencing at Wards Corner and ex- tending about q mile From that point clear into Woodmont q twelve-inch main has been laid. This will insure an abundant supply of gas at all times and for any number of cottages.
 The Gas company has been exceed inely busy for several weeks past sup plying the wants of many Woodmont cottagers, who will take immediate ad- vantage of the new supply. A large number of stoves and attachments have
  pipes put in, and there are many orders yet to be filled. It is thus seen that the people along the shore appreciate the advantage of this service, and that the company will reap immediate benefit. i In time the return will be quite remu- | nerative.
 Of the several men employed in re- sponsible positions by Major Blakeslee | is Inspector Cox, who, although seven- ty-four years of age, Is one of the best l men of his age in the coun try. He is very vigorous and extreme ly active man for his years. He was with the New Haven Gas company for | twenty-five or thirty years as it's super intendent His brother who is one of | the Gas company's foremen, has been in the company's employ for thirty-f1ve or forty years, excepting the time-four served his country in the war
 The Blakeslees expect to commence work on their $75000O contract for changing the tracks of the Consolidated road at Fall River Mass, next week. The work will consume several months.
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