New Britain herald., 1916-01-18
PlafDvflle News BREAK GROUND FOR
 ROCKWELL FACTORY
Company HustleS for Laborers to
 Work on Structure
WEDDING SECRET LEAKS OUT
Force of Fifty Men to Start on Ex- cavatiOns-Expect Boom in Real Estate-Manufactur and Book keeper Married New Years Day.

keeper Married New Years Day.
 Breaking Of ground for the factory building to be erected for the Rock Well-Drake company on land east of the Trumbull Electric company's plant is scheduled for tomorrow, according, to an announcement made this morn ing by representative of the con- cern, and by the end of the week it is expected that at least fifty men will be employed in excavating and doing other preliminary work. Surveyors were on the land today making meas urements and stalking out the site and in the morning the digging of the eel lar will be started.
 Difficulty is being experienced in getting laborers and a representative of the company went to Merden to- day to make an effort to get men to come here. Plainvi1le and nearby cities and towns were secured and promises of employment at fair wages were given to all able-bodied men who were willing to use pick and shovel and do other laborious work attend ing the erection of factory buildings.
 A. J. Brault, the company's con- structlon man, who is to personally supervise the work, said this morn ing that he wanted fifty men to start on the job tomorrow The company has rented a building near the old freight depot to porvide sleeping ac- who may be unable to get rooms in Plainville.
 Prospective employees are promised two month of steady work, the com pany planning to hurry the construc- tion that the building might be ready for occupancy before the first of April
 While the plans call for a build ing but LOOK 13O feet, it was said to- day that they are subject to change and the surveyors laid out their stakes this morning for a structure nearly three times as large as the original drawings indicated.
 That the addition of the factory to P1ainville's growing industries will mean bigger boom, particularly in real estate, to the town is admitted and prices on land are already advancing, the owners anticipating that within g. year the Remand for building lots will be such that property will double in value before great while. The Mountain View section, it is believed, will be the first to benefit by the
  we'll property will make 1t most de- sirable for the workrnen.
 There is a scarcity of vacant tene- ments here at the present time and IT the Rockwel1-Drake, employees are to make their homes in Plalnville it is apparent that there will be consider able building activity here during the next few years. ..-
 Keep Wedding a Secret.
 The return of the marriage license to the town clerks office yesterday gave to Plainville its first information regarding the wedding of George William Bartlett, secretary of the Bristol Manufacturing company, and Miss Minnie Althea Buell., daughter of Frank Buell., which took place in Ellington, Conn.,, on New Years Day. The news was a big surprise to friends of the young couple as up to the re- turn of the license they managed to keep it a secret. Even their most intimate associates declared that they had been kept in the dark.
 The ceremony was performed by Rev. David F. Jones, pastor of tho Congregations church in Ellington
 Mr. Bartlett for years has been one of the managers of the knitting mill here. His bride Is employed ln the local office of the company as book keeper While the couple were re- garded as warm friends their asso- ciates in the mill were not aware of their betrothal and consequently their surprise over the marriage announce ment was great.
 After returning from Ellington the couple returned to their respective homes Mr. Bartlett having apart ments in Miss Delaney's boarding house on West Main street, and his bride making her residence with her theria was reported as improved this