Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-10

in which the chief of police is con- cerned and the chief desired to have the situation clarified and the only way it could be done was through the action of the town council. Hence the consideration of the matter in special meeting and the settlement in the in terest of all concerned.
 The council prepared the budget to be submitted to the financial town meeting next Tuesday and which will be somewhat less in the aggregate than the appropriations of a year ago. The council also met as a board of can vaSserS and canVaSSed the voting list to be in use at the town meeting These changes were made in the vot- ing list: Added to real estate voters, IA; transferred from real to personal, 1; taken off personal 1: replaced, 1 off of real estate, 13.
 Civil Engineer Thomas Mckenzie of the committee to establish a grade for Lower Elm street and Beach street which was to submit a plan at the meeting. reported progress, stating that more time was necessary in or der to get a complete report ready. The grading is quite a problem and will require much additional data The council authorized the committee to go ahead with the work and to en- deavor to have report ready at the next regular meeting.
 Druggist liquor licenses were grant ed to c. Leo Higgins of the Rhode Is- land Pharmacy, and to William J. Ban non for Main street and Watch Hill. A new method of breaking granite was referred to several weeks ago and now Franklin A Sullivan, president and manager of the Crumb Quarry company, furnished the correct details. He says: We 41ave discovered a way of breaking stone by steam. Since we have been in Westerly we have ! 4 granite is a particularly hard stone to break successfully, especially so in the winter time, and we found that the only way we could make a split of the large sized pieces when frozen was to deep hole them with steam drills, and before we put in the deep hole wedges we poured water in the holes and blew the steam into the holes We found this thawed the stone out between the holes, so we were able to put the wedges and make a break and get almost as good break as we could in the summer time.
 As this was long process, thaw- ing the stone out by blowing steam into one hole at time, we made an arrangement consisting of 1-4 inch pipe, tapped to take a IA inch nipple every five inches, which is the distance from the centre to the centre of the holes we drill in the winter time. To these nipples we attached 1-4 inch air hose and these went to about the bottom of the hole. We plugged one end of the 1-4 inch pipe and connected the other nd of it with the regular steam pipe. On turning on the steam and allowing it to blow into the holes from five to ten min utes, according to the size of the stone we discovered that the stone would split in two and be an abso- lutely true break from centre to cen tre of each hole, without the use of any wedges, although on an irregularly shaped stone we set the small wedges on the outside and driving them very lightly
 with the deep hole wedges and gives a clean break every time where the deep hole wedges tore the stone and left a ragged break. We have broken several hundred stones this way and are using it every day and have never failed to get an even break. Before we had allowed four inches on each side of the hole in order to be safe in breaking it. Now we do not have to allow any except for the diameter of the hole, as we are sure to get a perfect break from the centre the hole to centre of hole every time.
 This is not only a saving in stock, but is always great saving of time and labor as on a large stone it took considerable time to set the deep-hole wedges. We are not only using this method of breaking stones on the bank, in deep -holing, but we are also using 1t in cracking the stone off of the ledge and we find it works equally successfully there. This will be of interest to every quarryman who has Is frozen. There is no doubt but what they can break stone as easily with steam as we are doing"