New Britain herald., 1914-08-02

has long been a resident of HarW1n- ton but he still keeps up his ac- quaintanceship with New Britain peo- ple. They are naturally interested in him and note with pleasure his in- crease in prominence throughout the state. It is not only possible but probable that the New Britain dele gation to the republican state conven- ton will support him for governor and it looks at present as if it would go uninstructed.
 Chairman Burckhardt of the board of assessors says he has been sur prised to see so much building going or in New Britain and adds that if every other city is doing as we'll as this that all the factories in the state should be working full time. He says that the greater part of the new buildings are tenement houses with only & small number of blocks. Mir. Rurckhardt has noted that the build ing business started earlier this year than last, so that between those structures which were not finished on October 1, 1913, together with those which will be completed on the same date next fall, which is the close of
 
 value of property, the sum to be added to the grand list will be quite large. Last year the additions to the grand list by reason of the factories were not large as they were prac- tically confined to small buildings while this year Landers, Frary & Clark are finishing q seven story building and the Stanley Works has started on another which will be about as large. Readers of the Herald must have noted during the past week the large amount of taxes which are paid by the factories, almost one half the entire sum paid into the city treas ury, and the payments are increasing, not because of any increase in taxa ton, but because their property is growing and becoming more valuable. The factories at present are of enormous size, some of them cover ing entire squares. It is only natural that there should be an increase in the number of dwelling houses being erected because there is such de- mand for them by people seeking tenements. Mr. Burckhardt says that in addition to buildings to be used for this purpose that there are also many of the better class of houses being erected and between them all he looks for substantial increase in the grand list this year. This is good news because an increased grand list means more money for improvements without any increase in taxation. If this increase could be made to bring enough money into the treasury every year to meet all the expenses of new improvements it would be great benefit to the municipality in several ways. There are small stores spring ing up all over New Britain evidently necessitated by the increase in the foreign population. These people ap- parently like to do business with those who speak their language, thereby relieving them of much em- barrassment when making their daily purchases.
 It appears from the attitude of the Rev. F. l.. Grant, pastor of the Con- gregational church in PIainville, that the New Britain baseball team will not be permitted to play games on Sunday at Electric field, which is In the town of P1ainville. It has been tried under different management, but without success, and there does not seem to be any such change in the situation as would warrant the i'm pression that games could be played now without interference. The local manager has certainly shown courage in keeping his team together under discoura ging circumstances, and the average person would no doubt be glad to see him have the financial success that would probably come to him if he could play games on Sum- day That, however, is impossible in the present state of feeling in P1ain- vile, It is true that it is the same law in that town as onerates in cities