New Britain herald., 1917-08-02
SCARCITY OF HELP
 DELAYS BUILDERS
School Addition May Not Be Ready to Occupy Before Oct. 1
ANOTHER TEACHER RESIGNS
Effort Will Be Made to Finish Two Rooms for Opening of Fall Term PToperty to Be Sold for Taxes October 6-Other Matters.

Property to Be Sold for Taxes
 October 6-Other Matters. That the new addition to the Cram
 mar school building on Broad street.
 will not be ready for occupancy before october l is now the opinion of mem
 bers Of the school committee arrived at from statements made by men in charge of construction operations. Because of a scarcity of labor the con-
 tractors have been unable to do the work IS rapidly as they had antici- pated and they feel certain that they will not be through by September l, the date originally set for the com pletion of the addition
 Anticipating large registration when school re-opens in the fall as the
 result of the considerable increase in
 population made by the town during
 the past year the committee will make
 an effort to have the contractors get
 two of the four rooms in the addition
 ready for use by the time the fall term
 begins. The Torrington Building Go. and other contractors have been un-
 able, to give definite promise as to
 when they will complete their work
 but they will try to comply with the boards wishes in the matter The outside work has been finished but the
 installation of plumbing and the heat ing system as we'll as other interior
 operations are yet to be attended to,
 and 1t is doubtful if the addition can be turned over to the town within eight weeks.
 During the spring term the attend ance was so large that the children
 were in cramped quarters and many +1a4 their care than they could efficiently handle. The situation is expected to be even worse in the fall unless the contractors can finish at least two
 rooms when the term begins congested conditions are bound to exist. Owing to the excessive heat and the fact that some of the members were out of town, the school board omitted its August meeting scheduled for last night.
 Members report that the teaching force is not yet complete. Vacancies
 were caused at the end of the spring
 term by numerous resignations and
 while a number of new teachers have
 been engaged contracts have yet to
 be made with others. The board has
 number of applications and it is ex
 pected that all the vacancies will be
 filled this month.
 An additional vacancy was created
 this week by the resignation of Miss
 Ruby E. Lepper. She had accepted
 the salary increase given by the board
 at the close of the term and had sig
 nified her intention of returning here in the fall. She has changed her mind however, and the board will have to secure another teacher. Sell Land for Taxes. Twenty nine parcels of land are to be sold for taxes on lctOber 6, &C., ] cording to the announcement made to- day by Tax Collector w. J. Heming-
 way, who is preparing to advertise
 the auction in compliance with the
 law. On the collectors books the
 names of a number of taxpayers who have not paid claims on their holdings
 for from seven to ten years appear and while the town is protected by liens
 filed on the land annually, MT. Hem ingway proposes to close the accounts. The land is described for the most part as building lots and the where | abouts of the owners is unknown in some cases to the collector The ] auction scheduled for October
 will be but the first of g series 1 of sales to be held during the next few months to satisfy the tax | claims of the town unless the owners l settle the bills.
 The property to be disposed of in | the coming sale ilcnudes building lots l in Grist Mill park owned by Louise 1 Hynack, Christina Hynack, Charles R. Bunnell of Bristol; R. F. Hunt, J. D.
 Krom, John L. and Catherine Gardner 1 of Kanoki, Ill.,; Elford L. Clark, Annie 1 Charnaik of New Britain; Annie l.. 1 Parsons. New Britain. Agnes F. Par l sons. New Britain; Margaret B. Par sons, New Britain; James Heath, New l Britain; Anna Solomon, New Britain; 1 Harry Solomon New Britain; Walter l Davidson, New Britain and Bernhardt | Emerick of New York.
 In the New Britain Plaza district { land owned by the following is also to l be sold: Mary L. Storms, New Hart 1 ford Nathan Salotrof of Waterbury; l William H. Pardee of Meriden; Louise l Silver of New Haven; Clifford W. l Woods of New Haven and Henry L.
 Storms of New Hartford.
 Mountain View property to be sold
 under the hammer includes holdings l of Eliza beth M. German of New Brit 1 ain and Ellen M. Goodwin, also of
 that city.
 Lots in the Ensign tract to be dis 1 posed of similarly belong to John J.
 Nolan of New Britain; William M. Yale of Waterbury; Charles H.
 Francher of Bridgeport; Dexter W. | Hill of New Britain and Marian l Keith.
 The Hartford Building and Loan
 association owes taxes on land bound l ed by property owners by Richarl
 Allen on East street and that too will l