Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 29, 1909, Page 11

This Uncertain Spring Weather Predictions and What They Amount to—Why —1he Weather Bureau Methods—They Should be Improved or Abandoned. ) (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) A year or 'so ago, I remember talking a little about the weather, and the ap- parent impossibility of our getting any dependable warnings, beforehend, Of what it was likely to be. This spring has = certainly been a striking {llustration of that condition. 1t is now the last week in May. Dur- ing the whole of the month I have watched daily the newspaper weather reports sent out from Washington. I have, also, a daily telephone forecast at noon, wired from the nearest eity L has a weather buréau station. and the difficulty of get- in crops so great that 1 have ting turned to these “straws” with almost feverish .anxiety Would there be any chance of getting ig that corn tomor- row? Was thre any likelihood of the bean fleld drying off enough to work? Was that low-lying patch in the South Meadow never going to get so I could plow it? And so I kept running to the “weather corner” of my paper, and listening each noon to the telephone Forecast, In the hope of getting some- thing encouragin In that desire | was not often dis- appointed. There have been plenty of pleasant reports and prognostications. And there have been - several really pleasant days. The trouble has veen that the few workable days have come when bad weather was forecast, while every single day in this month, thus far, on which good weather has been predicted has ed out stormy! When a fellow has¥a clear day to dry up the mud on a eertain fleld, and he works till dark in harrowing end fit- ting it, trusting” to the forecast that next day will be falr so he can plant— then he is apt to grow & grouch if he wakes up next morning to face a driz- zhing all-day rain. At least, that's the way it affects me. | don't know that the weather has been much different this May from average Mays. Perhaps it has; per- haps it has not. I have no adequate records te tell me. But it surely has ‘been, with me, a very uncertain weath- er, sellom holding the same mind for @ whole day, and mixed up with so much rain and mud that getting in seeds has been a mighty vexatious bus- iness. I've got tomorrow to re-sow balf my parsnip” bed, not. because the seed sown a month ago was poor, but because I had to finish sowing the bed in a rain which mudd{ed the loose soll, clogged the seed-drill and made it skip, sometimes a fow feet, sometimes a rod or more, sometimes a whole row And yet I fitted and began sowing that bed on a day when the Washington weath- er report and ‘the telephone forecast both advised me to expect “fair weath- er; no marked change in tempera- ture. The other day Neighb said to me: “T've got that East Medder plece harrowed and markad, and we'll put in corn tomorro “Lool feels like another rain,” T sal Buess not” he responded; his noon sald clear tonight and cooler tomorrow.” ‘Then,” I retorted with some bitterness, “that makes it sure it will rain.” And it did. It has rain- ed, more or less, every day since. His harrowed and marked field is already green with weeds. He has had no chance to plant it, and will have to harrow and mark all over again before he does. Another nelghbor, who began work with two teams on & fifteen-acre tato fleld the first week in May, has finished it Saturday, the 22d. I plan ed a few rows of extra early corn May 4th, and it was up on the 11th; some of the same sort planted on the 10th ien't pricking yet. = Difference In the weather at planting. The first was put in warm, dry ground, the other dropped Into ' cold, wet dirt, because the land was fitted and we wanted to get the job out of the way. In Everybody's Magazine for May, two_writers, Emerson Hough and Prof. E. B. Dunn, discuss with some vigor and a little disappointment the doings of the weather bureau. Mr. Hough ‘makes six definite and specific charges against the service, asserting, among other: things, that it is unduly expen- sive and non-progressive; that it glv no specific service, only general serv- ice which is of no value to individ- uals;, that it is evasive and Inten- tionally ambiguous, and that it offerg no . well-grounded hope of Improve- ment in local forecasting. He goes a Jong way towards proving these as- sertions, The enly earthly value a weath prediction can have for any farmer in # lling him, beforehand, what the weather is likely to be for him that day and, perhaps, the day following. Mr. Hough shows that this is not done by any service of the weather bureau, nay, more, that the bureau does not pretend or attempt to do it. It apenly Seeds Have to be Replanted states that it does not clalm to predict “local conditions.” Yet “local condi- tions" are the only conditions which in the least degree interest people in any locality, What on earth does the farmer of Lebanon or Woodstock care, this May morning, about the “generai baromegric curves” covering the New England forecasting district? What he wants to know is whether it is ly to be fair weather or foul in Lebanon and Woodstock, so he can plan his work. And, if what happens in Lebanon and Woodstock is anything like what happens in' my neck o' woods, the general forecast for “New England and eastern New York" is not half 2s apt to.be right, in those towns, as his own unscientific guess, made ‘at 5 a. m. from “the feel of the wind” and “the look of the sky.” The disastrously wreng prediction issued March 3d for President Taft's fuauguration day is fresh in all minds. The forecast was that March 4th would be “clear and colder” at Wash- ington. What really happened was the worst snow and slush storm of the It is recalled that the chief of the bureau, the day befors MecKin. ley's second inauguration, said he would stake his reputation that in- auguration day would be “fair and pleasant.” It rained, causing several deaths of people who, trusting the forecast, had made inadequate prep- aration for the storm. The forecast for the great Galveston disaster of September, 1900, was “high northeast winds.” The bureau's own definition of “high winds” is that the phrase means a velocity of from 30 to 40 miles an hour; something not unusual and hardly suggestive of the hurricane which blew so much more than a hun- dred miles an hour that no wind-, gauge was left to tell its actual speed. April 25 of last year Mobile g0t a furious haflstorm. The fore- cast was “partly cloudy, possible local showers, and coeler.” Two days later a hurricane did much damage at Mem- phis. The forecast was “fair and showers; cooler at night” May 12, same spring, the local forecast for Omaha was “probably showers to- night.” What happened was s storm which wrecked two villages, did $100,- 000 damage, and killed fourteen peo- ple. Etc, ete, The worst of it all is that the weath- er people seem to be perfectly satis- fied with the way they are blundering along: take great credit for every cor- rect prediction they make; ignore all mistakes until confronted with them, and then evade or palter with the facts. For instance, the bureau ac- tally claimed oredit, on its “high winds” forecast, for having predicted the Galveston cyclone. Yet for many eason of the year, it had, almost every week, predicted storms _in simflar language, none of which had done any damage and nine- tenths of which had never material- ized at all. If credit is due it once, then bundering must be admitted the nine other times, _Another little trick ia the definition of “fair.* If it driz- zles all day but the fall amounts to less than .02 inch water, the bureau calls a prediction of “fair,”. verified. On the other hand, if it is clear all day but for a sprinkle of a dozen drops near midnight, the bureau asserts that its forecast of “rain” has been ful- filled, This seems very much like try- ing to be on both sides the fence at the same time, year. The cost of the weather bureau for the present vear is somewhat over $1,660,000. Reckoning the population of the United States at 90,000,000, and the average family at five persons, this makes 18,000,000 families, each of which pays about nine cents a vear to maintain the weather bureau. This isw't much, to be sure—the price of two pounds of nalis or two loaves of bread or & couple pf clgars. But, for one, I'd gladly swap all the value I've gotten for the iast ten years trom its predictions, and all I'm likely to get for the rest of 1909 for a single cigar or one good, straight, new ten-penny nail! Perhaps the trouble is that we aren’t spending enough. Perhaps if, instead of eight forecasting _distriots there were eighty—perhaps if, instead of 200 meteorological stations there were 2,000 —perhaps if, instead of 725 observers there were 7,250—perhaps if, instead of spending $1,660,000 a year we spent $16.600,000—then, perhaps, we might get a service which would be able to include “local conditions” and to fur- nish loeal forecasts which would come true three times out of four. Such a service would be better worth sixteen millions than the present service is | worth sixteen’hundred thousand. At least it would e to this particular dirt-digger.and to all the other dirt- diggers in his neighborhood with whom he has talked about the present simply ridiculous “predictions. THE FARMER. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES. TOLLAND COUNTY. SOUTH_COVENTRY. Union Memorial Service—Driving Ac- cident—General News, There will be a unfon Memorial ser- vice in the Congregational church on Sunday morning. The soldiers’ graves will be decorat- ed this (Saturday) -morning. . Mr. and Mrs. Arthar Woodworth of Pisher's Island have been visiting at ‘Albert Woodworta’s on Wall streat. Lakeside park will open this (Satur- day) evening for the season. A merry- £0-round, has been erected. Automcbile Causes Runaway. While John Loman was driving his daughter, Miss Edna Loman, hom from work on Tuesday eovening the harse became frightened ac a pussing sutomobile and threw the occupants from the bugsy, Miss Loman receiving & sprained ankle and other injuries. Mr. Loman was not hurt. The wagon was wreoked. Mrs. Elizabeth Kingsbury entertain- €d the Ladjes' Missionary association on Wednesday afternoon. John Wood of Monument Hill is very all at his home. Rev. and Mrs. Light Return. Rev. and Mrs. Nestor Light returned Wednesday from Portville, N. Y., where they attended the burial of Mrs. Light's mother, who died here last week. There was' no service at the Congregational church on Sunday, owing to Mr. Light's absence, , ELLINGTON. Luncheon for Physical Culture Class— Grange Mseting. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bancroft and son of Southington spent Sunday at Joseph Baneroft's. The members of the physical culture ¢lass were entertdined at luncheon at the home of their teacher, Mrs. E. B. z‘\'n:be. in East Hartford on Wednes- ay. | Timothy Burmham of Hartford was at Harry C. Aborn’s on Sunday. The meeting of the grange wz on Wednesday evefing. Mrs, Mariette Warner Mrs. Leslle C. Charter. Thomas Stenson lost a horse this week; it dropped dead while at work. Mr. Kimball 5 clerk at H. C. Aborn's store. Richard Belden of Hartford is spend- ing the week with his aunt, Mrs, Geary. "GURLEYVILLE. Treatment Benefits Sight of Rev, J. F. Robertson—Social Planned. 1s visit Rev. J. F. Robertson, who has been recelving treatment for his eyes at a New York hospital, 13 doing finely and is expected home in a few days. Rev. B. F, Smith preached at the M. E. church last Sunday morning anl evening. The vesper service was led by Miss C. N. Turner. The ladies are planning for a soclal to be held with the Misses Canton at }Vnrmwo-)d Hill next Wednesday even- ng. Mrs. Martha Hicks, a former resi- dent of Mansfield, i here for the sum- mer. STAFFORDVILLE. Carder Cobb’s Place Taken by Niantic Man—Personal Notes. Daniel Leigh of Westford has been emploved about the village, papering and painting. John Cobb has resigned as boss carder fn the Garland mill. Thomas Prendergast of Niantic has taken Mr. Cobb's place as boss carder, Mr. and Mrs. Ellery M. Chamberlin and family have recently moved to Springfield. Mass., where Mr. Chamb lin is employed as agent for a life in- surance company. Mrs. Sarah West, who resides with her son Philo, is quite feeble. Raligious ‘and Peraonal .flm . v The season is late, and road work, farm work, ming and indoor work are all and improvements are mak- ing Maple Corner a busy corner thess d:%-. ’ o 'he music at the Baptist church on Sunday was, as usual, a marked fea- ture of ‘the service, the violin solo with organ accompaniment belng much eppreciated. X | The Endeavor meeting was led by Mrs. Preston in place of Mrs. Wilbur, who was with Mra. Clarence Eldredge who is ill with measles, Mr. Eldredge Who has taken his turn with them and was seriously ill is 50 as to be about again. ‘Adolphy Parasek, who has appe dicitis, ¥ in a critical condition. He has been il] for three weeks and sev- eral physicians have been in attend- ance. Much sympathy is expressed for the afilicted family. Rev. Mr, Darrow and Mrs. Darrow were in Northfield, Mass., most of last week. They have a summer cottage there and found many of the summer residents had already arrived. ‘The ladies met at the Baptist church for work Friday afternoon. There being no pastor at present at ‘Westford Hill, Mrs. Gilbert Amidon, her daughter, Miss' Lilllan, and two sons attended church in Willington last Sunday aftérnoon. Prayer meeting was held at Bap- tist conference room as usual Thurs- day evening. An item last week regarding a so- cial’ to be held in chapel must have strayed from some other batch of Items. “TURNERVILLE. Lower Village to Be Wired for Electrie Lights, Mrs. T. R. Prentice and children are #pending’ a week with relatives at Stafford Springs. Arnold Bomberger, now émpioyed by E. W. Bill, is moving his family to the house ‘recently yacatéd by Phil McMahon. Mr. and Mrs, H. C. Barlow of South Coventry spent the week-end at D, F. Jaqyith's. Superintendent Ptfatt ‘visited the schools of thig town the first of the week. Mr. Bruckman has hired a large farm at Leonard Bridge and will move his_family there soon. The lower part of the village, that from the Turner homestead to the station, i to be wired® for electric lights soon. EAST WILLINGTON. Mrs. Mary Lyon visited relatives in Hartford recently. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Amidon and family attend services at the Baptist church in Willington Sunday, there be- ing no sarvices at the Westford church, their usual place of attendance. WASHINGTON COUNTY, R. I. HOPKINTGN. Annual Financial Town Meeting—Ap- propriations Voted—Various Items. The taxpayers of the town held their annual financial town meeting Thurs- day, May 20, which was fairly well attended. The report of the town treasurer received on file and ordered printed in the tax book showed an actual Increase of tlie indebtedness of the town during the fiscal year to the amount of $2,528.96. The total re- ceipts for the year were $40,294.71. The report of the town council was receiv- od, recommending the usual appropri- dtions which were made without op- position as follows: State tax $3,000, public schools $6,000, text books and supplies $600, school libraries and ap- paratus $100, interest $2,000, highways and bridges $2,500, removing snow $250, town asylum $600, relief of poor not ‘asylum 3600, prosecution of vio- lators of the liquor law $2,000, Memo- rial day $150, Ashaway library $300, Langworthy public Hbrary $300, salar- ies and _ fees $1,700, miscelianeous $1,000. Extra width and approaches to’ state macadam road at Hope Val- ley $3,000. 2 The electors also’ appropriated $204.56 for a deficlency In the support of the poor outside of the asylum and $100 for a deficlency in payment of bounties, Reports were also received from the superintendent of the town farm, the overseer of the poor, the printed report of the school committee, the appraiser of personal property on the town farm, the committee in charge of the town hall and the committee on remission of taxes, The rate of tax for 1900 was fixed at $1.5 on each $100, the same as last year. Attended Ordination. Rev. E. P. Mathewson attended the ordination services of the new pastdr at Pendleton Hill Tuesday, Rev. J. Howard Adams. Brother Adams gave a clear statement of his conversion, call to the ministry and views of Christian doctrine, and with his wife seems well fitted to do_the work re. quired in that fleld. The day was fine, the attendance good and the ex- ercises “interesting. 3 Note Rev. L. F. Randolph made a brief trip into New York state last week. George H. Barber, town se was in this vicinity on business nesday morning, Farmers are improving the sun- shiny days by driving their delayed farm work. ESCOHEAG. t d- of Welcome Burdick Burned— Hou: A Total Loss—Personal ltems. Mrs. Laura Woodmansee has bec vigiting in Providence the past week. Mrs, William Lewis of Providence s at Mrs. Phoebe Wilcox's. L. J. C. Andrews is at his summer cottage for the season. Mr, and Mrs. Herbert Lewis spent Monday at Gardner Barber's. Dr. and Mrs, Hammond and friends, who came to their summer cottage on Sunday, went home Monday. Dr. F. I Hammond has & new au- temobile. William Andrews and Edward T. Mann were out here on a fighing trip this week. $2 IN OVERALLS POCKET All Welcome Burdick Saved When His House Burned. Wednesday .morning at an early heur, the home of Welcome Burdick, formerly the Gorton homestead, was destroyed by fire. The family woke just in time to get out @s the hous& was full of smoke. Mr, Burdick got into a pair of overalls, in the pocket of which was {wo dollars, all he saved. 1t is understood that he had_quite & sum in the housé. Mrs. Burdick and the children escaped only with their night clothes. Nothing was saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. Nelgh- bors came to their rescue and fought the fire until all hope of saving the house was over, ARCADIA. Highway Repairs—Rumored Removal of Dr. Beals to Wissconsin, Thomas Teftt of Pine Hill called on Benjamin Sheldon Sunday. The hlzh\vnll are heing repalrod. Benjamin Sheldon visited - William | Osaka Kenyon and family of Hope Valley on Monday. There are mauy cases of whooping cough at present. Miss Lottle Barber is emploved in the family of William Aldrich at Ash- Bertha Perkins attended the funeral _services of her uncle, George Henry Perkins of Pawtucket, Wednes- day of last week. 1t is reported that Dr. Beale of Hope Valley will soon remove to Wisconsin, The doctor will be greatly missed in ihis section, . MUSIC AND DRAMA. Moriz Rosenthal will make an Amer- ican tour next season under Loudon Charlton’s direction. , e “Constantinople” will be the title of a musical play that Cohan and Harris will produce next season. Klaw & Erlanger and Joseph Brooks are to produce In the fall “The Inner Shrine” and “Through a Window.” “The Greaf Divide” may soon be seen in London. There is talk of Mar- garet Anglin appearing in it there. One of the features of Joe Weber's All Star Travesty company which is to present “The Merry Widow and The Devil” on tour is a stunning chorus. Mrs.. Leslie Carter has announced that she will continue to be her own manager next season and will produce 2:0 new plays, both by American au- thors. . Dr, Camile Saint-Saens had the pleasure, at the opening of the sea- son at Covent Garden, of witnessing a full stage performance of “Samson et Dalila,” the first in London. Next . week Manager Charles Em- erson Cook will offer at the Hartford theater “The Girl of the Golden West," and Frank Keenan as the star. Mr. Keenan returns to Hartford after a week's engagement in Springfield, where he played in “The Warrens of Virginia.” Sunday afternoon, June 20, has been set aside by the committée of the National Sang and Music F ival for the New York school children’s concert which will be given under the’ direct supervision of the board of education, The children’s chorus will consist of of 5,000 voices, all of which have been selected from the _different _high schools and elementary schools of Manhattan borough. J. J. Shubert, who returned a few days égo from the Pacific coast, has made known the details regarding the series of alfanees with managers and theaters fromm Néw York to San Fran- cisco by which a chain of theaters has been completed covering every im- portant city from the east and over the Pacific coast, all under the man- agement and direction either of the Shuberts. or- of interests allied to the “independents® in theatri- The Eden Musee of New York cl portrays in wax historical personag and events, A beautiful group just placed on exhibition represenis the purchase of Manhattan Island in the early part of the seventeenth century by Peter Minuit for about twenty dol- The Indfan chiefs and their rol- lowers are admiring the gifts which help make up the purchase price, This is one of the many historical groups which dre to be instalfed in- the Eden Musee in commemoration of the Hud- Eon river celebration this coming fall. The Half Moon of Hendrick Hudson will be reproduced, as well as many scenes connected with the discovery of'the Hudson river. These attrac- tions, however, will only be an inci- dent,’ for the balls and corridors of the Bden Musee are filled with wax figures and groups representing great personages and events i history. Japan's knitting industry around has received a great impetus owing to the opening up of new mar- Indian and northern Africa Don't Merel herel yigs i Ask Fer Ask For W THE LONG AGO AND THE LATER ON (Continued from Page Six.) who, according to the legend, was a very obdurate woman, insisted that &ke, herself, should save her husband's life, ‘and the dutiful WMaughter released her hold and saw both parents droern, though she succeeded in saving both Lrothers. ' The dream go affected her that she told it to her neighbors aud they all remeimbered jt when the news came that the ‘unk had been lost and the two sons were the only survivers of the wreck. And #o she was made a_goddess for dreaming a dream which happened to come to pass—at least in part—all of whish goes to show that the Chinese require but small provocation in setting up something to_worship. We had made all our arrangements early, and our party of six started soon 'after noon, to make our way to the appointed place in the city from which to view the procession, but even at that early hour the streets were so crowded that we were obliged to con- | fine ourselves to @ back strest which | followed the wall for nearly a mix and then to make our entrance throngh a rear door. After fraversing many rooms and narrow passages we finaly found ourselves seated on a platform which had been erected where we could overlook one ef the principal streets, This street was about twelve feet wide, and the stores on each side, ranging from six to twelve feet deep, from which all goods had been pre- viously removed, were now occupied by privileged spectators. Of all the wonderful - exkibitions I have seer. none could begin to compare with that. T have never seen sueh solld masses of human belngs as I saw durlng the soven hours that I remained seated on tkat platform. As to the goddess her self, we did not ses her at all, for she dld ‘not reach our point of vantage on Ler triumphal way until two o'clock in the morning, and that was entirely too long to wait even for her exalted ladyship. 1 shall never forget my first sight o?, camels in Tlen-tsin. It was on a New Year's morn about five o'clock, and 1 was returning home from the resi- dence of a merchant where a congen- fal party had dined and seen the New Year in with all the honors. The din- ner had lasted from eight to eleven thirty of the clock, and then the host, whp ‘Was a Scotchman, prepared a hot Sodech whiskey punch in which the company were to drink a farewell to the! Old Year and a welcome to the New. It was the most delicious hot whiskey prnch I had ever tasted. A few minutes before twelve we all stood in a circle and with glasses filled we sang “Auld Lang Syae” At the mo- ment of midnight the glasses were drained as.a farewell bumper to the O'd Year, when they were again fille, and with'ar appropriate song and an- other bumper we gave a right royal welcome to the New Year, and from that time until early morn, song and dance and jollity relgned. On my homeward walk, as I apprcached the eonsulate, I heard the tinkling of bel's. The unusually musical tone of the bells attracted my attention. I saw a large, dark body coming ‘around the corner towards me. As it was a bright moonlight night,” or morning the whole thing had a mysterious look and in fact, was rather startling. Buf as the strange sight came nearer I fourld it was a drove of camels. I didn’t know at that time there was a camel within a thousand miles of Tien- tsin, and I wondered If §'hose hot whiskey punches could ca me to see camels when there were| camels. But while I was wondering | friend came along and I asked: ‘“What are those?” “Why,” sald he, “those are camels.” “Thank you.” said 1. “and now T can retire conscious that the dignity of the greatest government on earth ha not suffered y the indiscretion of one of its representatives.” There were over three hundred of the eamels. They had como all t way from Mongolia with a cargo of wool which had just been discharged and were then on their way to rest after thelr tiresome journey. Fvery | seven camels had an driver dressed in Arab, costume eager wore tho tinkling bell which T had heard, and each of th: other i a ring in its nose by which i tached to the oné: ah camels, 1 was told, ¢his season of the year, their ing very heavy. 1 had never | anything In my life that so forcibly reminded me of what I had read | the days of the Patriarchs in the Bib! times, as that scene on New Year's morning. ?Con«inued Saturday, June 5.) Defending the Consumer. And so the “ujtimate consumer is a myth"? The general idea retofore has been that he 1s the goat.—Wash- ington Times. Has Done His Wors Although Wu Ting-fang announces himself a suffragist, the cause has sur. vived even greater handic: thus far. —Philadelphta Ledger. “If I¥'s Made gf Rubber We Have 1L GO TO THE Rubber Store FOR YOUR AUTO TIRES Better equipped than ever be- fore to handle your trade. All new goody — fully guaranteed. We oarry all sizes in stock all the time to meet vour needs. Manuafcturers' agents for Good- rich, Diamond, k G & J. and Michelln Tires. Dealers in all other makes. Buy now while the prices are Low. Alling Rubber Co., 74-76 Main £t., Norwich. 183 State St, New London, Operating 15 Stores. BEST TEAS - - Ib. 25¢ BEST COFFEE - Ib. 20¢ BEST BAKING POWDER b, 120 BEST SEEDED RAISINS. b, 70 25¢ Size EXTRACTS.......bottle 16¢ BEST COCOA, 25¢ Size. BEST CORNSTARCH BEST BAKING SODA All kinds SPICES, 1-4 Ib. pkg., each 6c and 7c Write today for Free. Price List. ..bok 20e United Tea Importers Co., Franklin Square, up one flight, over Somers Bros. may4TThS Hoarseness, bronchitis and throat troubles are quickly cu: Foley’'s Honey and Tar, as it sos and als the Inflamed throat bronchial tubes and the most ob: cough disappears. Insist upon the genuine Foley's Honey and Lee & Osgood Co. other by hes and WHEN you want to put your busie ness before the public. there is no m dium bettér than through the adverth ing column= of The Bulletin. Hour SHBURN-CROSBY S LEGAL NOTICE. A g . To. Whom It May Cancern:— At meeting of the Court of Com: on Council held ‘at the oty R e e following T mittee on Finance was kurufl the resolution accompanying the adopted: ' . th (\'orwlc{x,ccon;.hu?_znlnéulw o Court of Com: : The Committee " on Finance present their estimate of the expenses of the City, and of each depariment thereof, during the year ending on the 15th day of May 1910 apd of the recelpts for. the same period, as follows ESTIMATED EXPENSES. Department of Publie Works— Ordinary street ex- penses ... . $29,000,00 Garbage and’ ushes = 4,006.00 Sewers and cateh Dasins ... . 4,000.00 Macadam repairs 2,000.00 Street sprinkiing 500.00 Parks and trees 1,060.00. Steam road roller 2,500.00 Crescent street séwer ... 2,600.60 Bchool streef sewer 400,00 Boswell avenuo e 2,900.00 r Taiman st reet 2,200.00 006.00 - oopy "v . City Clerk E.m i3y ? ! . Norwieh, .#con.. ey ai “e Just Arrived a Carload of Maxwell Automobiles. Can be seen at Anto Garage, No. 21 Chestnut Street. Free Demonstration. N. B—Automebile Painling, Trimming and Repairing. M. B. RING. marsd City Court 50.00 Street Lighting .. Health Department— Salarios % $1,000.00 Disinfectants, ate.. 3 i R 7 — 1,150.00 Gay and Kleetrical Department— Operating and gen- eral expenses .. $95000.00 Fixed charges (in- terest on bonds) 20,000,00 L $115,000.00 Tk Comminnton weee 5,000.00 mee Departmen aries and com .. $4,500.00 Court house ' ex- penses ....... 7,000.00 Sinking fund, gen- eral (3% milh) 6,209.13 Sinking Tund, gas and elsctr profits ... . 13,165.15 Reserve fund, Eas and elactric de- partment 14,260.28 Interest ... 46,000.00 Election expe: §78.00 | To repay loans (current year).. 60,000.00 Contingent = o x - penses . 8,860.46 —$160,756.11 $433,706.11 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS, May 17th_ 1909, to May 16th, 1010, Cash on hand "M th B e 7,883.64 Water Works . 43/000.00 Department of i Workn— sprinkling 18,000.06 ————— $21,300,00 Department of Cemeteries Ordinary receipts . $5.000.00 Trust fund interest 1,300.00 —— $6,300.00 Police Department— City 3 34,300.00 Licenses, eto 500.00 — $4,00.00 Gas and Electrical De; 0 . - 155.000.00 Tom| y loan anticipation taxes ... $60,000.60 Court houss 3,000.00 Sewers ....... 250000 Bank and insur- ance taxes . 4.000.06 To be tax .. expenditures called for estimates, a tax of 10 milis on last City list will be required, said list belng $12,598,247. In addltien to'the above estimated expennes for ordinary purposes of the { government, the Committes on Finance ave been requestad by petition, com- mittee reports, etc.. to bring before the ( next annual meeting for its action es- fimates of the cosl of the following improvements and expenditures prayed for, to wit: Celgbration of the 250th An niversary of the Town 125th Anniversary of the incorporation of tue City $2,000.00 Salary and expenses of Milk INSPECLOr . ..vvves.lens 1,800.00 Public eomfort accommoda tions “etsan 4 1,050.00 For macadamizing = Sacham street Por 2,000.00 widening West Main BEFeQt L...%.scusess For Cliff ‘street Improvement For new steam fire engine. 2,000.00 1,000.00 The sum of these estimates is equal to about 13 mills on the grand list The mittes recommend that the warning for the next annual City Meet ing include the last named estimates and a call for action thereon At a Cf held March 26, Councll was om the Clty t not exceeding ary to pay the a new dam and eoting appurte nces » dow Brook and of acquiring lands, rights and other property necessary fo tion of the water supply, b olution adopted at sald vide the method of ralsing the sum Necessary for wuch expend!ture Your ‘Commjttee’ recommend that in asmuch as sald appropriation is mads for a permanent improvement and:ad- dition to the water supply, the expense thereof should not he included in the ordinary expenses of the ourrent year. and your Committes recommend that the warning for the next annual City Moating shall Include a proposition a thorizing the borrowing of such fun upon the notes af the Clty payable four equal annual instailments and that the.same be liquidated from the recelpts of the water department Under an acy of the General bly approved June 13, 1907, Commissioners, the Mayor of t} and the Belectmen of the Town of No; wich were constituted a Board for the erection of the addition to the Court | House in Norwich and were authorized for the erection of such addition to execute notes for the sum no whieh note: and borrowed and obligatory up County of Ne London, the Town of Norwich and the City of Norwieh. Pursgant to law, such Board has ex- ecuted its note for the sum of $50,000 expended In the erection of such addi- tion and it is desirablo that the joint obligation s0 created should be re- placed by separate oblig: for th roportion of the expense which each nterest is to bear. The City's propor tion thereof has been determfned as provided in the Act to be the sum of $10.060. Your Committee therefore —recom mend that there shall be Included in the warning of the next annua; City Mesting a proposition ta authorize the exeoutlon and delivery of the obligation of the City for $10,000 for its propor- tion of the expense of Court House ad- dition upon the retirement of the joint obligation now outstanding. Your. that there be included in the warning of the next annual City Meeting & proposition to authorize the sale of the fre station property situate on West Main street and of the firo sta- tion property situate on Boswell av nue, the same being no longer roquired for ‘the purposes of the fire departmert, and that the moneys realized therefrom be appropriated for the fitting up the Thamesviile fire station, to provids for the installation of a steam fire en- gine and chemical engine for the pro. OLDMEDALFLO tection of that section of the City in Rcoordance with the recommendations of _the Committes on Fire Department, Your Committee further recommend the adoption by the Conrt of Common Couneil of the following resolution: Resolved. That the report and estl- mates of the Committee on Finance be aocepted and approved: that the Clerk Gause the same to.be published as r quired by the amended tar, that the Mayor. Or in his absence th Senfor ‘Alderman present, ba Airecte on behalf ‘of the Tourt 'of Common Counell fo submit the estimates 'em- braced in this report to the mext City Moeting. 1o be heid on the first Monday of Juhe next and to recommend that & tax of 10 mills be lald on the last pe fected grand list of the City. COSTRELLO LIPPFET, > borrow such sum as might be neces- | #hall be binding | Committeg forther recommend | we make the claim to be the best dry leaners In town—and dry Cleaning i8 now the correct way to cleanse gar- ments without doing them the slght« est injury. We are patrontsed by the most partfeular peopls, who have found to their satisfaction that our work is all we claim it to be, and that we are prompt and thorough In eme- cuting orders, and very reasonsble in our prices. Hence our popularity. Lang’s Dye Works, Telephone. 157 FrankMn St. may28d LAST CALL! Select Stock of DAHLIAS and Decorative. Garden and Farm TOOLS Mowers, Hoes, Rakes, Shovels, Keen Kutter and Swedish Hand- made Soythes, Scythe Snaths and Rifles. POTMEND Mends everything. STOVINK Prevents red stoves. Burns black, AVANARIUM CARBOLINEUM Preserves wood and kills vermin DRINKING FOUNTAINS for poultey. THE HOUSEHOLD, Bulletin Building, 74 Franklin St. Cactus Show Lawn {DR. . R, CHAMBERLAIN, Denta/ Surgeon. In charge of Dr. S. L. Geer's practios during his last {liness. Street, Norwich, Conn, | | MRSENATE | e | PARIS GREEN | HELLEBORE INSECTICIOES . SR04 0, 45 and 41 A. ROBINSON, C. LESLIE MOPKINS, 1 Comm| n“-nz senitly that inance, p— &3 Commerce Stresi.