Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 9, 1909, Page 6

WATERWAY IMPROVENENT POLICY| Feee ‘Washington, Dec. 8.—Strongly en- dorsing the policy of waterway im- provement President Taft caused much enthusiasm during the opening hours of the sixth convention of the National Rivers and Harbors congress here today. Hundreds of delegates, representing every section of the United States, filled the great banquet jhall of the New Willard, where they sat under their state banners. Upon being presented to the assem- blage by Joseph F. Ransdell, president of the congress, President Taft spoke at length, dwelling upon his interest in waterw: improvement and offered advice to the delegates upon methods #or attaining the ends they seek. The Issuing of Bonds. After referring to various water- way projects in detall, the president continued: “A year ago President Roosevelt and I were together on a platform before the conservation of re- sources’ convention, in which we both advocated the issuing of bonds in or- der that a project improving water- mways when begun should be completed in a reasonable time. I am still a consistent advocate of that theory. I ielieve that the zovengnent is s en- titled to as rapid a methiod of devel- oping an enterprise and putting it through as private corporations, and es they always issue bonds, or gener- elly do (some of thenr are fortunate enough not to have to), in order to expedite the completion of these pro- geets, it would seem wise for the na- gion to do so where it will accomplish the same result. A Word of Caution. “But I want to suggest a word of ecaution. You are going to emcounter in congress great opposition to the licy of issuing bonds right out of g:.nd‘ You are much more likely to et from comgress a declaration of pol- oy in the shape of a declaration that s certain improvement ought to be sarried out and spread upon the min- utes of congress in the form of a res- olution or‘a declaration in a statute. ‘What I advise you to do is to get that declaration: Then, when the time comes that political exigency shalll prevent the appropriation of sufficient from the current revenues to,put the proper part of the project through the coming year or the coming two years as economy requires, thén the ques- tion of issuing bonds will arise. I would get the declaration first and not the bonds first, for the reason that you will encounter the objection of con- gress that the issuing of bonds and the receipt of the money will develop a desire to be extravagant. Will Encounter Opposition in Congress “That may not meet your views, but I have thought it over and’' I know something about congress, I know where you are going to enocunter op- jposition and I believe the best way is the natural way with those gentlemen. You lead them on to declare in favor of the Missouri improvement, in favor | of the St. Louis to St Paul improve- ment, in favor of the Caifo to St. Louis improvement, ail of which have been approved by the army egnleers, and get them recorded in the statutes of this country as declaring that those things are to be carried out and let them make their first appropriations from the revenues of the country and then you have them where they must issue bonds, unless the revenues afford a sufficient amount each year to carry that project on economically and with due rapidity.” The president was frequently inter- rupted by applause and left the hall amid renewed cheering. German Ambassador. Spoke. Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, spoke of the waterways of the German empire, arousing the utmost interest by the graphic way in which he showed their importance to the commerce of Germany. BRIEF STATE NEWS Middletown.—The estate of the late George H. Bishop, as shown by the inventory, is valued at $70,149.58. Deep River.—Capt, David R. Post, aged 73, died at his home on North Main street, Tuesday, after an iliness of one month with kidney trouble. Stamford—Secretary Weed of Stam- ford Y. M. C. A. was in Greenwich recently for the purpose of interest- ing, if possible, young men to become members. Meriden.—Irving Bacheller, the au- thor ,read from his own works at Curtls library Tuesday afternoon un- der the auBpices of the Thursday Morning club. Westport.—There is said to be a never-falling well on King street, which even the recent drought has not affected. It supplies a dozen fam- {lies with water. 8helton.—For three weeks the ag- gregate amount deposited in the local savings bank from the school savings bank system is $341, or considerably over $100 per week. Easton.—The degree team of Easton grange has been invited to confer the fourth degree upon a class of candi- dages at Housatonic grange, Stratford, Baturday evening, December 11. Portland.—Dandelions have blossom- ed in several localities about town and In the quarry yard the latter part of the week just closed several Italian women and children were digging them. Norwalk.—The Norwalk Towing Co. has recently secured a contract for towing a bridge from Bridgeport to @len Cove. The bridge will be placed In sections on barges and taken by way of water to its destination. Torrington.—Senator Isaac w. PBrooks of Torrington. president pro tem. of the senate, will act as govern- or during the absence of Governor ‘Weeks in Washington to attend the meeting of the National Waterways eonvention there. Bridgeport.—The December term of the criminal superior court, Judge Iph Wheeler, presiding, was opened sday afternoon by the Rev. Charles M. Lynch of 8t. Charles' church with prayer. Of the 45 prisoners put to Pplea, only two pleaded guilty. Watertown.—Mrs. Horace D. Taft, who went south a few weeks ago for her health, has returned to Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore. Mrs. Taft's condition is not as encouraging @as it has been. Horace D, Taft left ‘Watertown Tuesday for Baltimore to visit his wife. A Grand Trunk Terminal. ‘The Providence Board of trade has adopted resolutions encouraging the Grand Trunk railroad to execute plans providing for an entrance into Provi dence. The road is likely to find se eral serious, though possibly not in- surmountable difficulties in carrying out any scheme for the establishment of a terminal in Providence.—Hart- ford Times Taft and Aldrich in 1912, Mr. Bryan predicts that Senator Al- @rich will be on the republican ticket fn 1912. That sounds as if Mr. Bryan was going to run himself, and was willing to_make his way as easy as Possible—Washington Times. Alone in Sawmill at Midnight, wunmindful of dampness, drafts, storms or cold, W. J. Atkins worked as night watchman at Banner Springs, Tenn. Buch exposure gave him a severe cold that settled on his lungs. At last he thad to give up work. He tried many remedies but all falled till he used Dr. XKing’'s New Discovery. “After using one bottle,” he writes, “T went back to work as well as ever.” Severe colds, stubborn coughs, Inflamed throats and sore lungs, hemorrhages, croup and whooping cough get quick relief and mpt_cure from this glorious medi- ine. 50c and §$1. Trial bottle free, aranteed by The Lee & Osgood Co. Rich Men’s Gifts Are Poor side this: “I want to go on record as aying that I regard Electric Bitters as ne of the greatest gifts that God has ade to woman,” writes Mrs. O. Rhine- wault of Vestal Center, N. Y. “I can ever et°what it has done for me.” ?hll florfou- medicine gives a woman ovant spirite, vigor of body and jub- lant health. It quickly cures nervous- sleeplessness, melancholy, head- backache, fainting and dizzy Soon builds up the weak, ailing wnd sickly. Try them. 50c, at The Les & Osgood Co.'s, A Policeman’s Testimony. J. N, Paterson, night &lcemn, of Nashua, Iowa, writes: * ‘winter I »ad a bad cold on my lungs and tried at least half a dozen advertised cough medieines and hed treatment from two it would ho! tite to 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. An Electrified Tower Clock. Mr. Editor: It may not be known to all readers of The Bulletin that the steeple cl f the “old uptown meet- ing house lluminated by electricity until 12 o'clock every night, thanks to the worthy suc s in the “first parish” of the founders of Norwich who do not hide thei ght under a bushel, but let it so shine that men may see their good worl The 9 u(!ock curfew was long ago relegated to “innocuous desuetude”—to borrow Grover Cleve- land’s ph , which would have aston- ished his ancestors not less than the abolition of the time honored custom. WILLIAM C. GILMAN. Dec. 8, 1909. Norwich, A Word in Defense of Benedict Arnold Mr, Editor: One of your amusement halls has presented this week a series of moving pictures entitled Benedict Arnold, ete. In the preparation of matter in illustration the writer or allows his own feelings or prejudices to color his work. In the case above the general has been shown on his dark side, but not a word for the great work he did. Allow us to say the good word here: 1—His first entrance into military life, as shown in his march from New en to Boston. —His gr ervice at Crown Point and Ticonderoga and his gaining there the first naval victory of the Revolu- tion. 3—His Canadian expedition, his part of whioh has been conceded the most admirably conducted of any American expedition and never hig been ex- celled since. 47—1“, service about New which de- k the enemy and advi ton tc n at Trenton and Princeton has becn credited to him. The British annalists of the time concede him this honor. Had not this move been made, and had the British general crossed the Delaware and fought a battle, he would have crushed the cause he represented. saved the arm) The complete and utter rout of Clair and his army before a battle is a matter of history. The general is credited as peing the only general of that war to have gained this honor, 8—Saratoga has been credited by Washington and Arnold there several eminent aut the great decisivi Here was lighted the glorious Light of Freedom that led town, the way to York- charge in this Had this battie us, the fate of that have heen different. Fate had ‘decreed that this man should again save the arm: In this charge the general was wounded and 8o for a year he hardly left his room. His great nerve and will alone pulled him through a year of intense suffer- ing. 9—Congress placed him in charge of Philadelphia, where his great s B was the means of again cause. In brief, T believe we owe our ex- istence as a nation to this son of Norwich. So far in his career there is no mili- tary hero of that immeortal struggle for independece that had performed so great, so signal a service. How was he rewarded for all his great rvice by congress? Yes, at the time when he was an invalid and yet suffe ng great pain, and when his military life had sapped his iron frame and weakened his powers of endurance? It wag at this time that took to do’the black: heartless deed that stains in that glorious struggle. It was then the most cowardly blow w which wounded the hero of to the heart. Like all the rest of -the race, Bene- dict Arnold was human, and his pow- ers of endurance had reached their The gener won the day struggle might saving the congress ruel and heir record Whatever he did from this time for— ward, the glory or the shame, with all its infamy, ought to rest more on the shoulders of those who caused it than the victim of such a catastrophe. The general has been made the Scapegoat of the Revolution. All the dnfamous deeds of that band of con- Spirators that so stain our annals at this period has been placed on his shoulders, and the pen has so taught the future nation. So long as this farce can be kept up, Gates, Conway, Lee and such ilk are safe from the discern- ing eye of history. A great wail has been set up over Andre. Had the plot succeeded, and hundreds of pamate lives had pald the penalty, b ndre and his life an qnv.ther s? And % he knew his medicine before he took ‘Where has the encmy shown the sympathy like this for the gallant Hale, whom+they hung in New York as a spy? Did Andre show more hero- ism than this true Connecticut son, who said at the last: “I only-regret I :.lr.y“ but one iife to lose for my coun- 1 will contrast the great case of the Duke of Marlborough, whose last years of life was a perfect blotch. It cer- tainly is a contemptrble mind that these yenrs of the duke’s to infamy. Rather « A3 YYYPYVPPPFPPFRPERITITIPIRTRRRMMITIVIVENYFYTYY 'Yb‘\%’\'\‘\%’x_\" It will pay you to buy most of your gifts here--in safety and comfort, in saving of strength and nerves, in the assurance of quality and value. 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Aside from the question a tear should be dropped over such a dreadful catastrophe as was his. So with the General Arnold. Let us be just—Ilet us look well to his great service and concede him his just due. Three times saving his couniry when in full vigor of life of brain and will power and th manhood’s prime should condone and cover his errors and his unfortunate part of life from view, Let his good deeds plead for him. Let his name be spoken of with sympathy and pity when his life powers had become dim and a heroic fight was no longer his to maintain. to authorize the formations of corpora- tions. That will become a function of the national government. — Port- land Oregonian. Has Them Guessing. Naturalists are excited over the ar- rival at Atlantic City of a big bird of the crane variety. There is some TAMES N. ARNOLD. [as to whether a man with a seat - Norwich, Dec. §, 1909. should yield that seat to any woman | Go't, Yether It ought to be referred GO-CARTS and DESKS for the Children. who chances to come into a car, there | gi¢0 department.—Washington Star. : J ‘ 2 in-a Crowded Street Car. can be little disagreement to the propo- ¥ o Our Furniture is all first-class, latest designs, and every plece sitio nthat this courtesy is due from the young and the strong to the elderly and the weak. And yet it is not com- mon to see a young person offer a seat to an older one. Sometimes the effect is rather amusing, as it was one day not long ago, when an elderly man offered his seat to a considerably younger woman, while half a dozen boys and girls sat with a perfectly ob- vious air of defiance against the idea that one of them should have rendered the courtesy. Possibly, somewhere, at home or at school, a gentle hint to some of the young people concerning the fundamentals of a kindly polite- ness might serve as a valuable lesson. —New Bedford Standard. guaranteed, and our prices very low. Here is where you will be treated courteously, henestly, justly and fairly. Come and look. To Be Grateful For. As may have been suggested already, the country should be grateful that Uncle Joseph did not accept the presi- dency of the United States when it was offered to him.—Chicago Tribune. One rainy morning lately two long of high school pupils—mostly s—occupied substantially all the seats in a car in this city. When the car stopped at a corner, a passenger, a little woman, old enough te be the grandmother of any of these children, and obviously not physically strong, got in. .The conductor started the car, and she tottered along about half the way the car's length, where she stood evidently in danger of falling as the Gar jolted along. On either side of her, comforatably seated, and by no means erowded, were the high school girls healthy, wholesome-looking creatures, some of whom might have been proficient in such athletics as falls to the lot of their sex. The dis- comfort of the woman was apparent enough, but none of these girls moved, either to make room for her between them, or to stand and proffer hér a seat. A man sitting at one end of the car, discovering her plight, rose, and with the help of other standing pass- “The Big Store with the Litfle Prices” Schwartz Brothers, “HOME FURNISHERS” 9-11 Water Street. Bryan’s Aspirations. Since Mr. Bryan shows an inclinatien to mount a hobby and try the water hurdle the expressien of hope that he may fall in amounts almost to a chor- us.—Philadelphia Ledger. A Poet’s Happiness. A popular Georgia poet when asked why he always ended his peems with an exclamation point, explainad: always darn glad to get there! lanta Censtitution. P Brown & Rogers Telephone 582. 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' | STEEN Tou N B e Do e | MHISRE 18 5 saverrisime medi T oy e | B S T | T R ling, recital of what to many persons may seem a trivial occurrence. So perhaps it was. These young women, having paid for their ride, and having been forutnate enmough to secure seats, may be considered as having had a perfect right to retain them. The woman was nothing to them. If she selected a crowded car, and had to stand, that was her lookout. As for the man who came to her rescue, it is the role of men to be courteous, and why not let him? If to an observant eye, there was nothing to show that the high school girls would hame Linings, Etc, at prices 11o to 31c per yard LCWER than any “l'." 8tore prices. A guaranteed saving of frem 10 to 30 per cent. Agency for LeWando's Best Frénch Dyers and Cleansers. With Norwick Cir. 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