New Britain herald., 1929-03-19
1, SUz|0 AWARDED
 SCHOOL CONTRACT
Mtriden Construction Company
 Submits Lowest Bid
ITS FIGURE IS SSt,S@
Lions Club to Meet This EveninS- Confusion During FYre-Case 0f Diphtheria Discovered Here PIainvilIc High Again Wins.

At a special meeting Of the school building committee held last evening at the office of Leon c. Staples. su- perintendent Of schools. the contract for the construction of the $95,000 was awarded to the L. Suzio Con- struction Co. of Meriden, the lowest bidder. Its figure for the general construction work was $S1,326. About nine general contractors sub mitted figures for the construction work.
 The Merider company will have charge of the sub-contracts, which include heating, plumbing and elec- trical work. The cost of this work is included in the Meriden concerns bid.
 With the awarding of the contract work will be started at once on the new addition and will be rushed along as fas: as possible. It will be modern in all respects and, besides the class rooms and the kindergar- ten. will include an assembly hall. Due to the figures submitted by i the Suzio company. there remains practically s14.000 which can be used for equipment for the new school addition. Prominent town officials stated this morning that they considered the figures of the contract very good and reasona ble for so large an undertaking.
 Confusion Over Fire
 z Due to misunderstanding con- corning the name Of the street, the | fire department was delayed for a considerable time yesterday after noon while answering a call from Box 13. The fire was in a chimney on the house of George Day on Camp street and the fire department. claiming that if understood the op- orator to say Kent street. went 10 i that street instead of Camp street Much valuable time was lost before the department located the real l place of the fire.
 After putting in the call. people on Camp street became puzzled when the department failed to re. spond 10 the call and. after waiting ! for fair length of time, appealed to the Forestville fire department which immediately responded. Both the Plainville and Forestville de- partmentr arrived at the scene 0. the fire at the same time. Only slight damage was done to the house By q quee" prank of fate, a chim, ncy fire broke out in the homes oI the Day brothers within day ot each other. The fire department wal called out Sunday afternoon to ex. tinsuish a chimney fire in the homo of Reuben Day Of North Washing. ton street, a brother of the George Day whose chimney was visited by fire yesterday
 COnside rable criticism was hurled at the department for it's supposed laXity in reaching the fire. but of. ficers Of the department explained the misunderstanding in the names of the street.
 Trial Tomorrow
 Wilbur Coons Of Mountain View and Andrew Morowka Of Woodland street. both charged with assault and breach of the peace, will appear for trial before Justice NJ. o. Ryder tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The cases were originally scheduled tc be heard Saturday morning.
 The two men were arrested Fri. day evening by Constables Schubert and Farrar after they had engaged in furious battle at the home Of Coons in Mountain View. Both men were badly cut about the hands in the melee. and Coons had to be taken to the New Britain General hospital. where it was necessary 10 take eight stitches on lis hands be- fore the flow of blood could be stop- ped. Morowko is the owner of the house in which Coons lives and the fight developed after he went there to collect the rent. He claimed that Coons owed him a month and a half back rent.
 Meeting This Evening
 At the regular monthly meeting