Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-20
STATE HOSPITAL WORK
Good Progress Being Made on the
 New Buildings.


 The Norwich State hospital is a center of building activity at the present time four buildings being in the course of construction. The rein forced concrete work on the two new ward buildings has been completed and the steel work has been set on South Ward E and is being placed now on North Ward E. The roof planking is being laid the South Ward building. The ward buildings will probably be completed by May The new wards will accommodate 100 patients each and are connected by corridors with wards and c.
 6 The new dining room building is fast nearing completion, the plaster ing being already nearly finished. The terraze tile floor has been laid down stairs.
 The new clubhouse is attraetively located on the river bank about 50 feet from the main subway and from it cah be obtained an excellent view of the river. The building is now be- ing painted and finished in the inter for On the first floor is the bowling alley and three alleys are now being laid. On this floor is also located the billiard room. It is planned to install two pool tables and one billiard table at first but there will be room for an other table if it is considered desira- ble There Is a storeroom and soft drinks candy. ice cream etc will be on sale here.
 On the second floor is the women's par1or, a reading room. a card room, and the 40 by 40 gymnasium which extends uD to the roof. Over the oth- rooms with shower baths. On the front of the clubhouse facing the river are two spacious porches.
 Built by Special Appropriation.
 The house Is being built and equipped from a special appropriation of $10.000 by the last general assem- bly, and will be the only. one of it's kinds built through such special appropriation.
 The club itself is known as the River View club and the male em- ployees Of the hospital are eligible for mem bership. The government of the club Is entirely in the hands of the members. The following board of directors was recently elected te serve for one year: John Daggett, Arthur Davies, Prentice Chase, Fred Green way Charles Crowley, Frank Yerring- ton and William Wicks. The women employees of the hospital are to be made associate members of the club The clubhouse will be finished shortly and the directors are arranging for formal opening which will probably occur about the first of April There are 90 active members.
 Two New Cottages.
 It Is expected that two new cottages for the nurses will be built across the road from the administration building sometime this summer. They will be like those already built. There are at present 914 patients at the hospital.
 Handsome Two Apartment House. # Work is nearly completed on the and novel apartment house. owned by Emerson P. Turner and located on Elmwood avenue in he rear of the Slater Mansion. The house was formerly an ell on the that the part which formerly joined the mansion is the front of the new house. The exterior is being fin shed in cherry red with white trim or old English architecture, and is 65 by 30 feet in size, and two and one half stories high There are two sim liar apartments of nine rooms each besides halls and bathrooms One of -he apartments has been completed now occupying it.
 The interior is finished in colonial style the wood work being finished in white The materials of the interior ire of the finest. having been used in he old mansion house. The original of the house has been in the remodeling. The rooms on the lower floor are all hn- shed With the old fashioned Wafns- ,oting forty Inches high, and the 1oors are all of hardwood. The apart nents are equipped with all the latest plumbing, heating and lighting appH lnces and fixtures. The stairway eads up from the living room in each apartment and all the rooms on the ground floor are connected by French glass doors The second apartment will probably be completed in about ,ix weeks. The building is most in design and rrangenent and will be known the F:lmwood pertinent
 Ps4ustanuek sehsslhuss Eids.
 Thel Prest5n town school committee las awarded the contract for the new rane schoo!honse building which is . be erected on the Geer lot for dis riel No. I which includes Peque- Aauck There were seven bidders