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Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
BUILDING AND REALTY.
Cnditions Reflected Throughout the State-Many New Contracts

 Sales of real estate during the pass week in the towns reported by The Commercial Record numbered 366,
 against 320 for the same week of last year, while mortgage loans were S9S7,- 357 against $1,0s9,209. The record of new incorpora tienE
 this week is larger than any cor responding week for the previous four years, the record showing fl with i authorized capital stock of s3T4 Last year for the same period there were l $ incorporations, with capital stock of S156, ,000.
 Five. petitions in bankruptcy, with 1 assets of $12.589 and liabilities of $1o.191 were reported during the week 1 which is about the same as year i ago.
 The racord of building permits granted during the week in the cities l of New Haven. Bridgeport. Hartford, Waterbury and Stamford numbered 115. for buildings costing s441,747, which is slight. increase over the same week of last year. Among the new contracts awarded during the week are two fine houses in New Canaan. theatre and business block in Bridgeport and factory addi- tions in New Britain. Hartford. and l Bridgeport.
 The number of projects for which plans are being drawn or estimated continues to increase. Plans are be- ing figured for two factory buildings in Bristol, clubhouse, brick school
 house, and factory in Waterbury, fine
 residences in Middlebury, high school in Hartford, besides an apartment
 block and factory in New Britain. and several fine houses in Stamford and New Haven.
 Plans are being prepared for large factory buildings in Hartford. fine residences in Bridgeport, Naugatuck, Waterbury. and Meriden, large office building in Hartford, schooIhodse addition in Waterbury, and school house in Fairfield The usual number i of smaller one and two family houses are reported in almost all the cities of the State.
 Norwich had fifteen sales last week to four last year and mortgage loans : of sS,600 and s6.100. for the respective years.
 There were in New London five for both weeks in the last two years with mortgage loans totaIling s14,700 and
 s4, 500 respectively.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
ADDITION TO FITCHvILLE MILL
Palmer Factory Greatly Increased by the Change Now in Full Use-Resuming Work Shannon Proper ty-Dweling Changes About the Ct.r

plumbing contract and six for the heating contract for the Park home. Williams Bros. of this city were the lowest bidders and were awarded both contracts by Architect Preston
 Work on Shannon Property.
 The work of widening and straight ening the Shetucket street sidewalk in front of the J. B. Shannon property at the corner of Water and Shetucke 1t streets on which the new brick build ing the Majestic is to be erected, was started on Tuesday.
 Work on the building has been de- ure of brick to arrive It had been planned to start the work some time ago and the brick was shipped from Ohio in March. The consignment was held up by the floods and has not as yet put in an appearance here. As soon as it arrives work on the new building will be begun in earnest.
 Mahoney House.
 The two apartment house of James Mahoney on West Main street oppo- site the Pierson stables is moving along towards com p4stion. The roof has been shingIed and the sides of the building from the roof down to the first story have been finished in green shingles. The clapboards have not been put on the lower story as yet. The house is of two and half stories with bay windows extending to the roof on the south side. The Norwich Electrical Company has the contract for wiring ii.
 Cottage Raised.
 The story and Q. half cottage house of Mrs. Charles ChampIin on West Main street near the corner of Ann
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
MIDDLEToWN.
Plans Completed for Several New | Buildings About City.

Middletown, April 23-Plans have been figured for a new cottage on Highland avenue for Mrs. L. Hall of the Durham District. It will be of frame construction and will contain six rooms with modern conveniences.
 New House Planned.
 Work is to be started soon on the erection of new house at Saddle Hill for Salvador Intravaia, 103 Col lege street It will be a two-story frame house. 2sx60 feet, and will con tain two tenements of five rooms each
 Salvatore Mazzotta has been ward ed the contract for the mason work in connection with the alterations to August JohnSon's stores on Main street.
 The new residence being erected at Murray's Corners for George F. Red ford is now all roofed in.
 Denis OBrien is finishing his new nine-tenement block on Spring street.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
GRoToN.

The Monument street school build ing was sold at auction this week to Charles Marquardt for S155. The building must be removed from the site it now occupies. according to the terms of the sale. by the 1st of June. The sale is made at this time that the building may be out of the way and the grounds may be seeded to grass that will be grown during the sum mer vacation
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
FISHERS ISLAND.

There are more applica tions for cot tages than can be filed. If it were possible to have 20 more they could be rented. It looks now as if it would be a record season for the Island
 Superintendent Hine is adding to his
 working force nearly every day. There Is great deal of painting and paper hanging to be done The ma son work is quite far advanced
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
NiANTfC.

A. H. Gilman of Hartford, who re- gently bought part of the Manwaring farm near Black Point. has let the contract for the erection of three summer cottages on this tract and work on the foundations has already started. This tract, though somewhat distant from the water, has an unob- structed view. and its height should make it an ideal summer place.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
SOUTH MANCHESTER.

The H. Wales Lines Co of Meriden has been awarded the contract to build a bath house at the plant of Cheney Bros. It will be one story high e5x7s feet. of brick. mill con- st1uction with a gravel roof.
 Work is well under way on the new residence being erected at Greenhurst for Mrs. Samuel Johnson
 Thomas Trotter has the contract for the plumbing and heating in Hen ry Sanderson's new cottage being erected on Edgerton street.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
GUiLFORD.

Franklin D. Spencer of this place has been awarded the general con tract for the large shore residence to be erected at East River for Howell Cheney of South Manchester. It will be of frame construction. with shin gled sides and roof.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
EASTERN POINT.

Two large cottages are in course of construction at Eastern Point Mar quardt Brothers are building them. They are to be summer residences of the most approved type. Their own ers MT Henaenway of New York and Mir Heublein of Hartford. are to oc- cupy them as soon as possible. The foundation of the Heublein cottage is nearly completed, and the foundation of the Hemenway building has but recently been started
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24

street has been raised up on stacks of ties and another story is to be added beneath the present structure. Noth- ing, has been done as yet beyond rais- ing the present bailding.- When com pleted the building will be two apartment house. Elmer A. kinne has charge of the work.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
ROCKVILLE.

Plans are being figured for the new rectory to be erected here for the Rev. M H. May. It will be built of gray pressed brick with Kent lime stone trim. and will be 40x70. with a slate roof. hot water heat mantels. fireplace, etc Louis A. Walsh of Waterbury is the architect.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24

frame addition and alterations to the summer residence at this place of Prof J. J. McCook of Hartford. New plumbing will be installed throughout and a new passenger elevator and water supply system will also be re- Quired
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24

No Confidence in Name. The people of Waterproof, La. are afraid 1t isn't. At least 500 men are reinforcing the leeves. - New York World
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
An impressive Lesson.

Tha arrival of George F. Baer. of Reading. Pa, in his s10o, 900 private car, will impress all New Workers who consume coa1.-Brooklyn Eagle
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING
% v NOW

Plumbing as it should be done IS the kind we do. Open, every joint tight, sanitary and latest style plumb ing.
 Best of bath tubs. latest devices in water closets, sinks. and everything you can think of in the plumbing line.
 Call us up on the phone. write O. see We will fix you up in good shape at a moderate price.
 A. J. WHOLLY & CO.,, Telephone 734 12 Ferry Street
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24
BUILDING OPERATIONS
 IN NEW ENGLAND.

The statistics of Building Opera tions in New England as compiled by
Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-24

The harnessing of a waterpower near Yorkshire, England, will give that district it's first electricity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
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POINTED PARAGRAPH

From the Chicago News.
And cowardce makes liars of us all-or
nearly all.
People who talk the most disseminate
the least wisdom.
A well bred child never reproves its pa
rents in public.
Just because a man doesn't drink is no
sign he isn't thirsty.
Occasionally we meet people who are al
most as smart as we are.
The greater the cost of living, the cheap
er it is to remain single.
Love Will push a man into matrimony.
but it takes a lawyer TO pull him out.
Scarcely any mans veracity is unim-
peachable after he acquires the fishing
habit.
Occasionally a man is SO lucky that he
gets just what he wants without even
wanting it. =.
Once IN a great while you meet a woman
who thinks her husband really appreciates;
her.
Some married men would be only too
glad to settle down If their wives would
quit stirring them up.
II man is in love with a woman she
can make him believe black is white
until he discovers that she is in love
with him.
The packers shouldn't be discouraged,
even II one can't make a silk purse of a
sow's ear. They may eventually be used
Tor hat trimming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
CHOKING A TIGER TO DEATH

writer in the November Wide World
Magazine gives the following interesting
account of a Chinese soldiers plucky fight
with tiger. I'm the mountainous prov
ince of Kirin, formerly one of the three
provinces of Manchuria, dispatches are
conveyed by soldiers. who ride from one
district to another. One day last Novem-
Der a soldier was on his way back to
kirin City, the capital of the province.
when he espied large tiger coming too
ward him. Dsmounting, he aimed as best
he could, with a rifle not of the most
modern pattern, and fired The animal,
though wounded, was not disabled, and
sprang in a fury toward the soldier. For
tunately for the man, he kept his head,
and, with the rifle tightly clasped and
supported against his chest, awaited the
oncoming of the animal. Just as the tiger
was read for the final spring, with his
point OF the rifle with all his might
through the mouth, against the base of
the skull. The force of the animals s
spring as he rushed forward no doubt
helped to end the struggle, for in "a few
minutes the tiger was lying on it's side
and breathing his last. The pluelAy soldier
rode to the capital. so miles away, and re-
ported the incident to his commander.
Half a dozen other soldiers then accom-
panied him to the spot. and between them
the animal was carried home and photo
graphed in front of the commander $
house. with the damaged rifle in stu'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
SIC EN-.

From the New York Telegram.
Speaking in Chicago, Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst is imploring the women of
Illinois to vote.
IF you fail here in Chicago" she said,
ut will be blow to the whole suffrage
movement. If one set Of women fall" she
continued "all women fail together. But
il you succeed, as 1 hope and believe you
will, you will give a great impetus to
the woman's movement all over the world.
The world is watching the newly enfran-
chised women of America and particu-
larly of this great city. You are on trial.
The women of Illinois asked for and
We're given the ballot and are using it as
they see fit, voting in school and such
other matters.
If anything is calculated to induce nor
NAL women to refrain from voting it is
the frenzied appeals of an arch disturber
like Mrs. Pankhurst, but of course, the
militant one can't realize that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
Road nui,d,pr in the south

while there has been marked prog
ress in good road building in the south,
much yet remains to be done" said
member of the Alabama Good Roads as
sociation.
president John Craft of our. asso-
citation has been wonderfully energetic
in working up sentiment in favor of
good roads, resulting in many coun-
ties issuing bonds for building first
class highways. In the next two or
three years good roads in Alabama will
be doubled or more in mileage.
sThe Alabama Good Roads associa-
tion is sending out an illustrated book
let which makes striking comparison
between good and bad roads in the rural
districts No better form of presenta-
tion of the situation can be devised
than this practical method The booklet
referred to should be in the hands OF
every farmer in Alabama. Addresses and
articles written in favor of good roads
are not quite so convincing as these
illustrations from real life. In the wake
OF good roads there comes improved
educational conditions and nearly every
other sort of improvement and uplift.
AS Alabama is in the public view as a
good farm state, no county can afford
to lag in providing hard roads in the
place of the old mud highways"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
..,7oRAI. PLAYS

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Male. Deslys, the French dancer, is
headed for our shores with a moral play
let She will give it on Sunday evenings
in towns that do not permit Sunday
dancing. It is called, SHOULD a Woman
Tell?" and has to do with a girl who, on
the eve of her wedding, Is asked by her
fiance for the story of her life.
A moral play. like moral novel, would
appear to have become, by general con-
sent, one that contrives to end with con-
ventional decorum, no matter how long
and boldly it may have skirted the edge
of evil, nor how many intimations and in
situations OF improperly, or worse, it
regarded as ray Of light undergoing
refraction; this is held to come from the
direction in which it finally enters the
eyes, all intermediate divagations being
overlooked or forgiven.
But readers and spectators are as much
influenced by the course taken in the
handling of a theme as by the end
reached. Or even more so. Too many
plays and stories are hypocritically try
ing to settle moral points by means un-
settlingly immoral. Somehow we do not
welcome the aid of Mile. Deslys and in
cline to believe that the most moral
plays are those which do not bring up
questions of morals at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
The Iron Trade

The local iron market remains quiet.
Rogers, Brown &c Co.'S Cincinnati cir
cular says in part:
'sWhile an optimistic feeling is pres
ent. the pig iron market is dull and
quiet in all districts. Furnaces for the
most part have their output well taken
for the balance of the year and con-
sumers are ordering their tonnage up
to contract specifications. The outlook
is promising, as2very little iron has been
bought for 1914 and there is still great
reluctance on the part of furnaces to
quote for next years delivery except at
an advance over figures ruling on this
years business.
THE undercurrent of thought that
conditions must soon change has had
no appreciable effect recently. The sit
uation in the iron market has resulted
in the reduction of output and some
irreg gularity of prices in the north. In
the south production is reported to be
somewhat less than consumption.
Stocks of iron at all furnaces are i'm
mensely reduced and continue to shrink
each month. y birds eye view of the
market indicates 4 waiting attitude on
the part of all concerned.
Furnaces are still a considerable
distance away from being troubled
with any hand to mouth policy in NOV
ing their product, as orders previously
taken will permit of shipment of their
product for sometime to come without
the addition of new business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
Heanessy Presses Charges

John A. Hennessy, the fighting ed
itpr," who took the most spectacular
part in the campaign which has just
resulted in the overthrow of Tam
many, announces that simply because
Charles F. Murphy has been shorn of
his power the charges of graft and
corruption against the chief and 9th
ers will not be dropped. Hennessy
claims to have in his possession evil
dence sufficient for the obtaining of
indictments, and says that much more
can be found if it is searched for with
due diligence.
Governor Martin H. Glynn has prom
ised to do all in his power to root out
graft from the various state depart
ments if any exists, and to assist in
bringing to book all persons who might
be responsible for crooked conditions.
Only too often Investigations begun
with beating of drums and flourish
of trumpets come to sudden and in
glorious end. If half of what Hennessy
has charged is true, many men are
now walking the streets Of New York
and Albany who should be behind
prison bars. 1t is not case of jump
ing on the tiger just because he is
down. The tiger was on his feet with
all claws in splendid working order
for a number of years.
Ii Tammany has so far been able
to conceal any questionable methods,
NOW that the opportunity is afforded
for complete probe, it should be un-
dcrtaken. If Tammany is as clean as
!. it processes to be, it should have no
trouble in vindicating itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
UNDERWOOD's VISIT

From the Talladega Home.
Hon. Oscar w. Underwood will be in
Talladega Friday. No political signif-
canoe attaches to his visit here, as he
comes simply to participate in the one
hundredth anniversary OF. the battle of
Talladega, and TO be the guest of honor
of the city. He will be the orator of the
day and In his own peculiar and pic
turesque style will pay tribute to those
pioneer heroes who battled in the march
of civilization during the dark days when
mems souls We're tried.
Mr. Underwood's record in the national
House of Representatives has stamped
him an eloquent and forceful orator, and
this, together with his magnetic per-
sonality has gained for him Worldwide
prominence. His influence In national Leg
islation has been of tremendous proper
tions and every Alabamian, whether he
be for or against him in his political as
pirations can but admire him for his
achievements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
SYLVIA ON PARADI,

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A dispatch from Duquesne, a center of
population in Iowa to which the slit skirt
idea seems to have penetrated after the
falling of frost on the pumpkin, is as
follows:
Miss Sylvia Pendleton was the cause
of 5000 mill.men quitting work, two freight
train crews refusing to move q wheel,
and a near riot here today when she ap-
peared in a slit skirt and swept down
Grant street. exposing her shapely legs,
only partly stockinged, In fact, she wore
socks.
when the young women reached a
point alongside the Duquesne plant of the
Carnegie Steel company thousands of en-
ployes began swarming out on to the
street, leading off the unabashed and un-
afraid young women.
1.-THE police were finally compelled to
charge the crowd several times before the
streets were cleared.
1t does look unfair 1t was Sylvia Pen
dleton's show If the spectators were to
be charged the charge should have been
made by Sylvia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07

bane of the tropics. 1t has infected
thousands with disease germs, and its
elimination was necessary before
North Americans could stay in Pan
anna with any degree of safety to
their health. Colonel Gorgas had al
ready cleaned up Cuba before work
was started in the canal zone, and he
was prepared for the big job cut out
for him. The health and sanitation
department in Panama might be
taken as a model. Conditions that
once were a terrible menace to life
have been rendered as ideal as it is
possible for man to do SO.
Colonel Gorgas today is the worlds
best known sanitary expert. Colonel
Sibert has made a name for himself
that will live long in the history of
engineering. In them Alabama has
two sons who reflect honor upon it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
A PoET-PUGILIsT

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
The story that Oscar Wilde is still
alive is no longer fresh enough to thrill
but its latest revival brings forward an
interesting type-the young man who tells
The tale anew This is nephew of the
aesthetic resident in Paris and described
as following the professions of poet and
prize fighter.
Such a combination nowadays would be
difficult anywhere except in the French
capital, where the more genteel manifes-
tations of pugilism have lately come into
favor, and where poets, always in order,
have DEVELOPED fiber and stamina in the
course of their pursuit of veritisw and
other isms calculated to promote strenu-
osity in literature.
The French are fond of calling them
selves the modern Greeks--or at least dn
moments of self critical abasemenD the
modern Byrantines. The Greeks We're sue
cessful in combining athleticism and aes-
theticism, and it may be that Mr.. Lloyd
las he is known in the first field, or Mt.
Cravan (as he calls himself in the sec
ondD, may be a legitimate continuer Of
great. tradition.
As for the story itself, our poet-athlete
may have been caught on his less ma
terial side; looking upon the absintile
when it was green perhaps brought on
Authorizations Yet the significant facts
remain that he versifies in his own period-
ical and has been amateur champion
heavyWeight OF France-an arresting COM
hination and n possible harbinger of the
| coming union of force and grace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
business Mems Lunches

within the past few years 1 have
but when it comes to midday luncheon
mans lunch about once week, and
aSn glad to note the Improvement in one
respect--economy of time" said mem
Der of the Chamber of Commerce.
When we are attending a banquet
at night where speeches are to be made,
we expect to be at the table from three
and a half to four hours. Three hours
is not too long for a banquet, perhaps,
but when tcomes to midday luncheon
one hour is regarded as reasonable
limit. 1t used to be that the one hour
lunch was stretched out to an hour and
half, but now the chairman or toast
master keeps his watch before him and
Is careful not to allow the affair to
run over an hour, or an hour and five
minutes at the longest
"Culpepper Exum, who has been pre-
siding at the free dispensary commit
tees lunches, is certainly model man
from the time-saying point of view. He
arranges for several short speeches and
a discussion of practical details and
gets through in one hour. The Rotary
club affords another instance of the
modern business system at the social
board. The members of this now famous
club lunch together once a week, and
they are seldom at the table longer
than one hour"