Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-27
saArrLEBoRo's BUILDING BOOM.
Mauv Business Structures and Dwellings in
the Process Of Erection Others, Will Prob
ablv Be Started in Short Time.

Brattleboro is fairly launched upon
a nice little building boom which mas
for its foundation the requirements OF
several large enterprises recently start
ed. Among these are the plant OF ..
Souto & Co. IS furniture factory, fully
described in another column; the
brick store and tenement building on
Elliot and Flat streets to be built by
II. L. Emerson and the big, high class
APARTMENT house which G. 0. Robbins
is building at the corner OF OAK ana
High streets. Plans are already ar,
ranged for new dwellings to be erected
by Chief of Police Hall and his broth =
err. L. E. Hall, with sites respectively
on western avenue and Guilford street,
and ]. Gilbert Stafford has laid the
foundation for house on Guilford
street near the creamery. Another I'M
portapt work, the addition and enlarge,
ment of the Home for the Aged ana
Disabled, has already been described
in the Reformer. r.
s. A. Smith, +. L. Smith and G. ii.
Smith who we're in New York city last
week as the representatives OF the o.
a Smith Co. at the meeting OF the
manufacturers interested in the forma-
ton of the National Novelty corpora
ton, returned Saturday, and D. a.
Smith informed Reformer reporter
that there is every reason to believe
that the proposed corporation VIII De
organized soon: D..
Owing to the proximity OF BRAT
tleboro to the great New York and Dos,
ton markets, and the favorable local
facilities for the obtaining OF the va
rIous wood materials that are USED ID
the manufacture of these novelties,
Brattleboro was regarded by the mem
bers present at the meeting as a par
ticularly desirable site for the indus
try, and the Smith Co. IS plant Will un-
doubtedly be one of those purchased by
the syndicate. In this event building
additions to the present plant will IN
all probability be made. A larger force
of men will thus be necessitated than
have ever been employed there.
The air is full of rumors OF other
business industries soon to be started
and the passing of the new dam char
! ter bv the New Hampshire Legislature,
expected every day, will make the es-
tablishment of many of these enter
prises, practically assured. A repre-
sentative of Hayward Bros. chair man
ufactory at Gardner, Mass, was re,
Gently in town looking over the heid
for the establishment Of branch fac
tory here, and has secured an option
for the purchase of an acre OF land on
Hunts meadow below the village for
site for the proposed factory, II TINS
proposed enterprise is carried out II
will give employment to several hun,
bred men. The report is in circulation
that the Boston Il Maine railroad com
pany intend to construct some exten
sive new repair shops and that they
will be located in Brattleboro.
To provide homes for those employed
in the new industries already assured
is bound to mean the construction OF
many dwellings and tenements and the
possibilities are vastly greater in this
regard, if the founding of these Other
prospective enterprises are realized. ;,
Messrs. G. X. Crosby and l.. +. Ad.
ans have not yet fully decided about
building on their recently acquired
Main street property, but the chances
are that nothing will be done for an
other year at least.