The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-13
THE HARTFORD LETTER.
BUILDING OPERATIONS IN THE
 STATE.

straining Needed Structures--heturn
 of Colonel Cone to Political Afairs-- Holland County Has But One Senator
 Some Candidates Throughout the
 State.
 Hatrord. ocft. 1O.-Advances in the cost of labor and building material
 during the last dozen years have not
 stopped necessary building operations
 throughout the state. Major c. B. An-
 drus of Hartford, who has had half a l million of building work on hand dur l ing the past twelve months, says the | price of labor has increased upwards
 of thirty per cent. in ten years. The major has just completed the new Un-
 iversalist church in Hartofrd and is
 building the new dormitory at Wesley
 an university in Middletown. He has 1 the contract also for building the first story block which the first National | bank of New Britain is putting up in 1 that city at a cost of one hundred and | fifty thousand dollars. Major Andrus ! has the contract for building the new i forty thousand dollar library in Bris- J tol, and work on the structure will be f well along by the time snow flies. The l building work at the State Hospital
 for the Insane in Mddletown is anoth-
 CT of Major Andrus' big contracts. | His opinion with regard to the increase
 in the cost of labor and material is ] oa AI IA or Is tc
 of the largest and most successful
 builders in northern Connecticut. Only
 one-half of the Travellers new building
 in Hartford will be contracted for the I present. It is six stories in height and is the most pretentious life insur- ance building between New York and
 Boston, The block is located on Main street near the new Aetna Insurance company's building, which Is model of modesty and solidity in the building
 art The Hon. John R. Hills, who has
 been one of the foremost builders in
 the state, retired from the business
 year and a half ago. He is, however, on the bpilding committee of the Trav- elers Insurance company, and his ex- perience has been of great value in the
 erection of the new structure for the company, work of great cost and structural elegance. The H. Wales
 Lines company of Meriden,, which has
 the contract for the Connecticut build- ing for the Jamestown exposition, will
 utilize the Virginia markets for the material, Southern lumber can be. ob- tained at less cost than the prevailing prices in the north. The Connecticut building is to cost eighteen thousand dollars and the contractors will have the place ready for the Connecticut visitors and exhibitors when the expo
 sition is inaugurated. The H. Wales Lines company built the Connecticut
 building at the St. Louis exposition, which was the object of admiration not only to Connecticut people, but also to visitors from all parts of the
 Union. The founder of this great
 building company, Senator H. Wales Lines, has impressed his personality uon the state in a score of ways. He
 has not only been great builder, but | he has also been a great participant in
 public life and interests, He is a man
 who has built well for Connecticut and
 whose public career has been an hon
 or to the state. He is chairman of the
 Platt monument commission, holding
 the position by reason of his close ap- plicaion with Senator Platt during his public life. Senator Lines was in
 Hartford Wednesday, comforting with Colonel Frank w. Cheney of Manches- ter, chairman of the Hawley commits sion. Professor Farnham of New Ha- ven Charles Noel Flagg and Charles Hopkins Clark were at the conference. St. Gaudens the designer of the Platt and Hawley memorials, was not pres ent, It has been several months since he has met with the commissioners It
 was given out some time ago that his
 health had given out, but this was de-
 nied by St. Gaudens personally.
 The return of Colonel William F.
 Cone of Hartford to political manage
 ment in the republican party is a
 cause of genuine satisfaction. Colonel | Cone, who was republican office-
 holder in the city for twenty consecu- i tive years or more, won high reputa-
 tion as a leader. He was also a popu- l lar railroad guardsman, rising step by
 step to command of the First regi-
 ment. Afterwards he was member
 for years of the military examining board. In that capacity he had deci-
 ded influence in raising the tone and
 esprit of the national guard staff and 1 line, making grade of officers worthy
 of the national guard of any state
 He is veteran of the civil war and A. man of high political ideals He has
 always stood for clean politics and
 upright civic life, and his influence in
 the republican town committee of
 Hartford will be of steady benefit.
 1 Holland county Is the only one in | the state having but one senator. The 1 county Is strongly republican and the | senatorial nomination Is equivalent to
 an election. This year the republicans of the district have nominated Marc
 Keeney, brothed of General George F. l Keeney, president of the Hartford
 Life Insurance company and of Charles
 R. Keeney formerly superintendent at l the capital. MT. Keeney belongs in 1 Somers and is a manufacturer. He is
 8 man of large business connections and is not a stranger in any way to l politics. One of the most interesting ] senatorial nominations of the week ia 1 that of Representative Charles B. sWaller of New London, who has been
 selected by the republicans of the Eighteenth district. Mir. Waller is the
 son of Governor Thomas M Waller i the old democratic war horse and has
 not taken his politics by inheritance