Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-10
CONNECTICUT INDUSTRIES.
Several Large Sized Additions are
 Being Made.

In the number of industrial and other building projects of moment Bridgeport leads the State just now. The La ReSista Corset Company is expanding and Is about to add a new brick factory building three stories in height and 142x50 feet in size The plant of the Bellamore Armored Car & Equipment Com pany on Fairfield avenue has been purchased by the Blue Ribbon Auto Company, which will make extensive alterations and ! additions and continue the manufac- ture of it's cars there,
 The FTisbie Me Company is en- larging its plant on kossuth street to 1 meet the demands of its wholesale
 business. A three story brick struc- ture is to be built as an addition and will be 50x100 feet in size. The Salts
 Textile Company. which has added largely to its plant of late. is adding to 1t further by the construction of a brick, steel and concrete power house S9x4S feet and with a wing 22x1S feet and also brick sanitary building one story high and 10x52 feet.
 In New Britain Landers, Frary and Clark are about adding to their al-
 ready large plant a tWo-story brick storage building, which is to be 42x260 feet in size and also a two-story brick addition to one of the factory build ings 2Sx68 feet and the Cremo Brew ing Company is adding a three story storage building S4XZ5 1eet-
 Waterbury has some industrial
 buildings of consequence under way. The Berbecker & Rowland Com pany at Waterville has awarded the contract for new casting shop of brick, steel and concrete 43x122 feet in size, and an addition to it's main factory building to be used for the dip department three stories high, of brick and bluestone. and 43x152 feet. The General Manufacturing Com
 pany is building new factory on North Elm street. in Waterbury, of
 brick, two stories high and 2Sx77 feet in size. The new office building of the Southern New England Telephone Company on Leayenworth street. is
 to be built of fireproof brick and
 steel construction, four stories high
 and 42x135 feet in size
 The Hartford Drop Forgings Com
 pany is one of several Hartford man.
 ufacturing concerns which are en- larging. It is to have a new forge shop of steel, frame construction and corrugated metal. one story high and
 56x40 feet in size. and a one-story storage building 40x26 feet. The Gray Telephone Pay Station Company is
 building a concrete coal pocket 20x50 feet as an addition to its new plant and also steel frame and stucco garage.
 Not far away the Royal Typewriter Company is adding still further to it's plant story brick and concrete building 5oxS3 feet. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad has awarded contracts for considerable alteration and enlargement of it's pas Senger station in Hartford.
 In South Manchester there is well underway an addition to the plant of the Orford Soap Company concrete factory building 50x125 feet and three stories high, and the company is planning another structure of the same size and style within a few months. The contract has been award ed for a new factory for the Ball Bearing Shade Roller Company in Naugatuck a one-s story building Ak 129 feet. and the Bridgman Webster Cut Glass Company is about to re- trict which was recently largely des-
 troyed by fire.
 Derby is to have a $60.000 hotel to replace thes burned Bassett House, a four story brick structure 76x130 feet on the ground.
 The old plant of the Henry Hooker Carriage Company in New Haven has been purchased by George G. Pownng and Is to be altered for an ice-making plant of large size. and the United Illuminating Company is building d brick storehouse on George street one story high and 36x55 feet.
 The plans of New Ravens new mill Hon dollar post office and Federal building are ready. The building is to be of limestone and granite, three stories high, with the main and meg Zanine floors to be devoted to postal matters, the second to the United States courts and the third to various Federal offices. The structure is to,