Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-28
WESTERLY GRANITE TURNED DOWN
Government to Have New Post Office Built of MarbleAnv body Found Lost Cistern?-Funeral of Natoa Balar- da-Superior Court Adomns Without Day-Wood- mems Installation.

With the active work of the com uaittes of the board of trade repre- seuting the wishes of the people of Westerly. and the cooperation of Postmaster Charles J. Butler, that the proposed new postoffice building should be constructed of native gran .C. aud with the positive assurance Cl 1g.@ressman Utter that granite wc 1e the material used in the lc. there was general expression Of -a. when it was learned Tues day aa, the building was to be of mari a. and not Westerly or any other Rranlo, except the underwork or up Co ,hc first and only floor, to the water table.
 Postmaster Butler received notice to aHk for bids for the new building, the ni6z Co be opened April s, 1912, for construction, including plumbing, gas piping, heating apparatus, electric con- duits and wiring The building is to be approximately 4,4oo square feet ground area, &nd one story with base nent, with granite facing to the first floor and marble facing above, with tiie and copper roof, and the build lng to be of hreprOof construction.
 The work in the temporary post ofice building on High street between he Brown and Willard buildings, is progressing. and it will probably be ready for occupancy by the first of April The windows and sashes of the nnEr story of the present postoff1ce building are being taken out and will be used in the construction of the so- csned temporary structure. While thtb building is to be of wood it will he two Etories in height and the upper story is already partially leased. The rcEfofdce will be located in this build InE while the new postofice is being arfit, which will occupy about two years. IL is believed the alleged tenn porary structure will not be razed at that tine. but win remain as a profit bearing proposition, and with large return for the money invested
 William A. surdiek who ferty-nine ysSru ago married Miss Alma r. Slo- cum of Westerly, died Monday after noon at his home in East Greenwich, In his sirty-1ifth year. and was there fore only fifteen when married. In rhs civil war he enlisted in Company 1. First Rhode Island cavalry, at the axe of fourteen. After the war he engaged in the jeEelry business, but for the past twenty years his health nag been impaired, and he had done but little work He is survived by Mrs BlIrdiCk and two daughters. Mrs. Florence B. Massis of Springfield, AIass-. and Mrs. J. Frank Sheridan of MiddleSOvn, Conn.
 loha 3. Brown of Westerly was elected a member Of the executive committee for Washington county at inc seventeenth annual meeting of the Association of OYerseers Of the Poor of Rhode Island. The other Westerly members are Ethan Wilcox. the pre- decessor. and E1lery c. Barber, the successor Of Mr. Brown as overseer of the poor of the town.
 The association voted to indorse hil now in the state senate, which has been passed by tho house, pro- vldins compensation to families when the husband is in jail the funds to be distributed under the direction of the state probation officer.
 Congressman George H. Utter of Westerly is to stand pat for Taft, and In an interview he said: T have been an admirer of Mir. Roosevelt since. as a young man, he made his stand for what he believed to be right in the New York legislature. Person
 
 which has led him to take the present position. ] am pleased, however, that his Columbus speech permits those who have been his supporters in the past to change their allegiance be- cause of his own changed attitude to- ward the fundamental principles of government.
 Tt seems to me that the issue from now untu election day will be one, not of personalities, but of fundament- al principles"
 Before the introduction of the mod ern water system into tho village of Westerly. there were five cisterns To- cated in different sections of the town and these cisJerns and wells, the Paw catuek river and convenient ponds, supplied the old time hand engines in case of fire. These cisterns were taken over by the Westerly fire dis rrict and were to be used by the steam ire engines in case of emergency.
 Chief Engineer Samuel c. Cottrell is expected to make an annual inspec- ton of these cisterns. but on his trip this week he was unable to find cis- tern that he had located in former years in Pierce street. The chief is Of the opinion either that the cistern had been filled in by order of the town authorities, or that a house has been built over the cistern. and the chief believes the latter to be the case.
 The funeral of NstsIa Balarda, who shot himself through the head. Sun day evening at his home in Dover street and who diad fot,r ho1rrs later