Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 2, 1911, Page 9

MONDAY JAN, 2 CONDITIONS VIEWED THROUGH BUSINESS MEN’S SPECTACLES | Presidents of Boards of Trades NORWICH TO MAKE FORWARD STRIDES IN THE COMING TWELVE MONTHS. THE PAST YEAR A PROSPEROUS ONE—TROLLEYS ARE BUSINESS FEEDERS--RECORD BREAKING INCREASE IN NEW BUILDINGS ~NEW MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES EXPECTED IN 1911, The year 1910 has been a prosperous one for Norwich business-wise, retall trade has been good, our trolléy systems are comtinual feeders and are increasing constantly. In buildings Norwich has improved more in the last year than in any ten of ite existence, business blocks and office buildings, one new hotel, the Free Academy, bank buildings which are as fine as any in two new the state and possibly in New England 1 many other structures. The new census shows a gratifying increase in our population which e trast will keep up during the next decade. Through Foard of Tr improved, the trolley express will nfluence Franklin Square is being steadily be removed to the whart ths epring and and Business Men’s Associations See Bright Outlook for 1911 in Eastern Connecticut for Norwich, THIS YEAR TO MARK BEGINNING OF NEW ERA FOR NEW LONDON. CONSERVATISM AND LACK OF ENTERPRISE SHAKEN OFF—CIT- IZENS SUBSCRIBED FOR INDUSTRIAL BUILDING—LOCATION OF NEW SHIP AND ENGINE COMPANY HERE—BRIGHT PROS- PECTS FOR SECURING WOMEN’S COLLEGE. At the beginning of ca h year many individuals are in the habit of turning over a new le ch seldom stays turned, for the reason that any changes in character or make-up are much more a process of grad- val development than of sudden resolution. This is even more true of communities, but. as nearly as it is pe ible to fix & date for a change of spirit and attitude in a community as a whole, January 1, 1911, will ik the beginning of a new London. The process leading up to it, however, has been grad of the important points marking the way were the erectiton of dustrial building through funds subscribed by the citizen an In- the loca- tion therein of & most substantial and promising concern; then the loca- and tion across the river of the new efforts of several of ship and engine company, through the substantial and conservative citi: other extensions are heing plannec our most ns, a . © 4 s Z fact which in itself gives great promise for the future; finally, the unani- Wa feel that the influence of the Board of Trade on the citizenship of mous action of the citizens in city meeting assembled in voting to ap- Norwich has beem apparent, 1 meetings have been well attended and propriate money for a site for the proposed women's college, and the Jargely devoted to matters that concern the welfare of the oity, health, almest certainty at the present time that such an institution will be lo- rities, water, good government; the latter apparent In the very swocess. | cated here. The severance of one man is largely to be thanked for 2 | this, but he has ndidly backed by all the citizens of New Lon- ful efr. r elty governm Feiy which i ! 1@ people in 1911 i | Tt seems, therefore, that we are shaking e conservatism, indif- A g im has been done by the “New Indus- | nce and iack of ente e that have so long laid New London open tries it is Lo lefinite results can be announced very to just eriticism and even r soon. A. TRACY We have long been justly proud of New London’s many natural s e ent Norwich Board of Trade. vantages, but these amount to nothing if they are not made the most of 139,164 POPULATION FOR TWO COUNTIES Vew London and Windha counties together were reported by | shewed a loss of 30 people in the city of Putma oss of 88 for the * 0 to . @ otal population of 139,164, and by the town, the citizens of that town and ty are perfectly satisfled that same official Cony t i hown te have pussed the million eommunity eught to be counted on the other de of the tabl as they mark when the complet sturn the state wers anmnounced by claim knowledge of eareless enumeration in Putnam, which impairs the the cens: mrean at Washingion the thirteenth decennial count of ; ascuracy of the count, the population of the United State: ween 1900 and 1910 the popuia- | The two towns showing big gains, Windham and Plainfield, can point | directly to the location of important new manufacturing plants in their { midst as the facto in their growth, while on the other side of-the are the farming communitics, which ascribe their losses to the drift of OUR BEST EFFORTS FOR PUTNAM. | the younger people away from the farms to the centers of population yet Wind county people point to the fact that their farm land is sell. We feel that we have reason (o renaw our efforts and take fov our | | Y°f Windham county people point to the fact that their f i G | ing at higher figures than it was ten yvears ago. Frew Tear's motts: “Our bast siforts, our best words for eur belov A : » e PLAINFIELD’'S 41.07 PER CENT. OF GAIN BEST OF ALL. city, Putnam B. M. WHEATON, Plainfield, where the Lawton mills have been located since 1900, led Poailibent of Pririan IEiecal O i e ctation all the towns of both counties in percentage of gain, showing 41.07 per cent. om an increase of 1598 people from 4,821 to 6,719 in the ten years. #on of Connestiowt increased from 203240 to 1,114,765, & gain of 206,336, or 30.7 per sent, Which was one per cont. mors gain tian in the praced- fng decads when the increase was hut 21.7 par cent. Exeept for the ten years batween 1850 and 1360, wien the ratio of mcrests was 2.1 per cont:, fhe Mmereass In the last ten years in (he state has been more rapid than in eny other decade since a federal census has been taken. In Niting the gramd total of the state’s population to now figures, the two cownties of New London and Windham have hoth borns a share, each showing gains for the period, but New London county surpasses frs northern moighbor in percentage of gain. Population figures in New Lon- don county advanced from 22,75% in 1900 to 91,253 in 1910, a gain of 8,495, which is st the rate of 10.26 per cent. At the same time Windham county was gaining from 46,561 to 45,361, an increase of exactly 1,500, or .22 per cont. Windham will have to better these figures in the next ten years to pass the 60,000 mark, bul the same rate of gain for New Londen oounty wiN put it over the 306,000 point in the next ten years. STATE'S POPULATION BY COUNTIES, Fhe statve population consus was s follows: by ceuntiss as emumerated in the thirtesntn 1934, 1900, Neow Maven 269,163 Hartford 195,480 Pasrfield 184,208 New London .. 82,768 LiMetfleid €73 Windhaia 46,861 Teliand 24,523 THREE EASTERN CONNECTICUT CITIES OVER 10,000. Of fhe sixteen leading cities and towns of the state, those having over #9600 population, New London and Windham counties contain three, Nor- wich, New Lendon and Willimantic. N ich s seventh in the list, New London tenth and Willimantic fifteenth he last named city eame 1p into the 10,000 class in the last 10 years, while New London lost one place in the stending giving wp ninth piace to Danbury. Fhe figures for the sixteen leading cities and towns liows: New FHaven e . ceerrievecaseee.. 133,605 Bridseport ... . —wvossias 102,054 Waterbury 73441 Wew Britalnm ..acee..- 43,916 Meriden (town and eity) 32,068 Norwich (town and city) BStamsord . Denbory . New London .ece.... Porrington ......e.. veeem Ansonia . Nangatnok Middle Whlimantic . Walingfora NEW LONDON'S ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. The New London Hoard of Trade extends Yenr, oting and, winid® shomld be wery reassuring forward with great \ hearty and cordial N. the m: th this, an loek toward indication eptemistic fu From eve J. ARTHUR ALLBN, lon Board of Trade. President of New At the tep as a contributor to the percentage gain of New London ounty stands the borough wett increase was per stepping from 2,324 in 1900 to ain of 799. The city 1 Norwica showed an i e fro , & gain of 3,116, or 4.06 per eent., while in the town of wich the gain was 14.53 per cent., the count showing 28,219 1o 24,637 In enly two periods sines 1800 has Norwich gained more than in the last ten ears. From 1850 to 1860 the s 3,783 and from 1870 to 1880 was 4,490, NORWICH PASSED NEW LONDON. New London's 17515 1« which was a gain at the rate of on on the city’s records. 1 1900 had advanced to 19,639 per cent., putting 2,111 more London, where the city in 1810, popula- and town are co- extensive, startod the c with 297 more people than the city of Nor- vl h. but was passed in the ten yoars by its sister city which now leads London by 708 population. Norwich city and town combined now W corresponding terr New Lon‘on by 8,560 in population. exution of @ ¢ the town of Preston to the eity of Nerwich a const ‘ t in the new figures. Presion’s loss wa sain to the extor 2bout $90, which is shown te be Preston’s the decade, 1 t fur any town in the county. As shown in g table, § n of the twenty-one towns in the county wed & gain in popu tinst seven to show losses. FIVE TOWNS GAINED IN WINDHAM. naham coun five Plainfield, Sterting, Scotland Pomfret and Windhawm, which contalns the eity Willimantic, were the unes 1o contripute figures whieh showed s gain, but their increase was eneugh 1o counterbalance the losing figures of the other tem towns and turn the coonty gatnor on the total. While the figures returned For W { | ! Willimantic's gain was 25 increasi zain of 2,203, while t 24.33 per cent. As shown by the figures, Thompson leads the Windham o the losing side, dropping 628 in population, from 2,358 to 1,858, and Iyn makes a loss of an even 500. Thompson’s 5 per cent., 1z from town of Windham, including Willimantic ined s._on Brook CITY’S INTERESTS FIRST IN NORWICH Phe following motto or resolution is 1zgested for 1 In all matters pertaining to our duties as citizens First—of the interests of our city. Second—of the interests of Phird—of our personal interests. OWIN A. TRACY, President of 1 Board Boston and the installation of Grosvenorc The town of Killingl n it at the mills in the he borough of Danielson included LAST CENSUS RETURNS FOR 36 TOWNS OF NEW LONDON AND WINDHAM NEW LONDON COUNTY. Colchester . 1 ranklin e sriswold including Jewe Jewett City borough Groton incluling ¢ “Giroton borough Lebanon .. Ledyard ..... 1 Lyme - Mon o R , New London ....... 17 North Stonington Norwich, town ar Norwich, « d ci Off Tasie s 3 ot == 1 Salem 433 ue v : 551 tenington town, inc SR T s tonington Voluntown Waterford Totais for county Gain in 10 years Per cent. of zain in 10 years WINDHAM COUNTY. Towns, 0 0 Ashfor Brooklyn . Canterbury Chaplin Eastford LT SEED Hampton ... 2 S. § Killinzly incluc Danielson borough Plainfield . 2 Pomfret Putnam Putnam, town and city REALIZE OUR UTMOST POSSIBILITIES. Whereas rec the future prosper t developmer and well s resolve to de develo, farthe: n it wh s0 apparent at that our city its utmost possibilities in mater owth, BURR Pr ard of Trad Scotland terling ‘"hompson .. iding ine Windham town, Willimantic city . Woodstock Sk ‘Tetals for county . Gain in 10 years . Per eent. of gain New London, Putnam and Willimantic. Dby the citizens possessing public spirit, enterprise and perseverance, which have been lacking in the past. Tiie germs of new life are in the air. The signs of awakening inter- est and enterprise are to be seen on all sides. We are off with the old spirit of lethargy and on with the mew spirit of enterprise, and January 1, 1911, will mark the turning over of a new page in the history of the city, that, thanks to the nmew attitude of its citizens, will never be turned back. ALEX. J. CAMPBELL, President New London Business Men's Association. SPIRIT OF CHEERFUL OPTIMISM IS ATTITUDE OF WILLIMANTIC'S BUSINESS MEN. EXPANSION AND PROSPERITY ON THE WAY—PESSiMISM OF THE PAST IS BANISHED—GOOD THINGS COMING BECAUSE ALL PULLING TOGETHER. ‘Willimantic is entering upon 3 new era of business expansion and y. This is evident in the actual developments of the past year. evident still more clearly in the attitude of its business men. The pessimism which was the product of a period of misfortunes and reverses has pa A cheerful optimism is in evidence everywhere. Our mills are growing. New industries are coming in. Increased railroad facilities are promised. We are in closer touch than ever with the communities about us. Our institutions are flourishing. We have just finished a paign for a new Y. M. C, building which has dumfounded the eritice ind astonished the workers themseives. Best and most hopeful of all, we are pulling together. Good things have got to come because we are bound to have them. HENRY T. EURR, | President Willimantic Board ofTrade. BIG FUTURE AHEAD FOR PUTNAM WITH MANUFACTURERS IN MANY LIWES. FOUR CONCERNS HAVE COME THROUGH EFFORTS OF BUSNVESS MEN’S ASSOCIATION—A GREAT RAILROAD CENTER—PRESI- DENT WHEATON TELLS FARMERS TO STAY RIGHT HERE. Putnam wishes to send grectings to your paper, the Nopwivh Hulle- tin, and say that our Business Men's association belféves that Pusmnam, as a manufacturing center, has a large future before her. when we con- sider that within her borders there are about thirty different comemrns, all classed as manufactories in cotto ool, leather, lumber, irom. steel and silk. Of these there can be traced as the outcome of our assochation’s endeavors four different manufacturers that are doing that hase 1= cated here in the past two years; as well as drawing to our city same of the leading public men to speak to us. We have one of the best railroad centers. We have under commtrue- tion at present a sewerage system, a new $60.000 high school, & new eom- crete bridge, and the city is ahout to purchase the water works We express our belief in the continued growth of ern Commecti- cut, and when we compare business it is here now with what it was & few vears ago and look f rd to the nearby prospects for the future, we can see a decided srowt A word for the farmers of on a farm and always have liked farm stern Connectiout: T ng, so that it was brousht up is not strange that I have a farm of some four hundred acres, which is carried on in the lines of general farming, If I was asked what special line, | should say, registered Ayrshire cattle and thoroughbred Berkshire hogs. as I beleve that any young m ould start that way. Do away with the sorubs, feed only the best. I believe that the man with a family on a farm, with good work and improved business methods is the momt inde- pendent man that there is; and that right here in Eastern Connectiewt is just as good a place as any for succ . M. WHEATON, President Putpam Business Men's Asseciation. | | | THAMES RIVER MILL AMONG WORLD'S LARGEST Big Paperboard Plant Built at Montville by Thames River Specialties Company—Of 100 Tons Capacity—Will Employ About 125 Hands. i One of the largest additiens to {he industries of New fondon eounty | machine plant. It is expected that the growth of the business willsssen I8 e ithe Phimes iy casce inte being in the past year when the con- call for the second machine. struction firm on the contract compleled and turned over to fthe | LARGEST WET FELTS IN THE WORLD. ’ Thames River Speciaitiss company for operation the big nmew paper- | The big paper-machine, 290 feet long and weighing over 00 tons, is | bpard mill, one of the largest in the world, on the banks of the Thames | one of the largest in the world. It has six-cylinder molds, 14 inches io | river at Montville. A little over thirteen menths was occupied in the diameter and 134 inches wide, and no other machine in the wonid has wet I o 3 < e 2 * felts equal to it, the top w felt being 194 feet long by 138 inmches wide. { eonstruction work, and the mill was ready for its owners to begin turning 3 ; A There are 66 dryers in triple deck, an arrangement new to the eset but out their first product in the first week of October very successful in western mills, and there are two stacks of ealendars. | The beater room is built for 14 beaters, but at present thers are only « " EHEE ML O N 6 installed. When needed the remainder will give a complete squipment { Fhe. Thames, Rixer siddiicn compiigansyly incorported fn 190, of beaters, 54 inches by 65 inches. On the floor below the beaters are the | cured a most eligible site for the location of their plant; when they stuff chests. Here a new idea is embodied as they are built of comerete purchased a tract of 40 acres at Montville, including 1,800 feet of river instead of the us »d construction. i ntage just belew the Montville station of the Central Vermont raiiroad. THE MOTIVE POWER. lere the erection on the river bank of a fine new two-story mill property In the motive power of the plant are four Dillom boilers, prewidéng if concrete and steel eonstruction with brick walls was begun, the most 1,100 horse-power th room for deubling this to 2:208. The boiler stagk dern and improved paper-making machinery installed, and the whole is 175 feet high with an inside diameter of 83 feet. The engine equip- n comprises three Hamilton Corliss engines, one of 400 lunt laid out to accerd with the intention of the owners to make it dis- menticotine Ly L # e e g Borsmpewss, 2 the other two of 230 horse-poewer each, and a 200 horse-power turbine actly the “mill of quality,” both in construction and material turned | g0 SO0 (O T SR et generator. or it is the announced purpose of the company to produce enly the | The 400 horse-power engine drives the beater line. One of theiemalier grades paperboard and net the coarser and heavier grades, | engines drives the three jordans—one Majestic and twe stenbierde—and 1 general plan the mill buildings resembie an immense letter E, the | the other 230 horse-power engine drives the paper-machine ansl the | mps. The turbi is for the speclalities ctment. nachine roem forming the back of the letter, with nerth and south e fupine. 4 a 4 e A Saees; feature in the mill is shown In the placing of the shafting the matnytine res extending down towards the river to form the (op and bottom | .y yeing on concrete piers In the basement instead of ovefiiead, thius but the north wing is abeut 125 feet longer that the other. Ex- | avoiaing arip trom oit lent dockege facHities for freight and supplies are provided o e | t dockas cHitie: r ight and suppli re provided on the | COAL AND WATER SURAPAY. ter front, while on the land side run the tracks of the Central Vermont | | Coal and water supply are two impertant deparments whick/ are road With a spur to the mill preperty. | amply cared for. An unioading system for coal which is guarantesd for THREE ACRES OF FLOOR SPACE | 500 tons in 10 hours is installed. The makers claim a récord for i ff 309 ' | tons in ten hours. A reservoir has been built with a 20 milton gallen e e s e T gin with, capacity witheut the flash boards. An 18-inch pipe line condunts the | buildings conmtain about three acres of floor space, the whole sup- | water to the mill. It provides a monéi's supply in resesve, Fire geotee~ | on 1,800 cencrete piles driven to bedrock. The main machine room tion is provided by a modern fire pump of L300 gakons city per | 5 feet long by 109 feet wide at the north end and 78 feet wide at the minute and there is a thorough sprinkler systsm with over 1,360 heads. | | | end. The finishing reom in the south wing is 146 feet by T4 feet. SUBSIDIARY COMPANY TO BE ADDED. cater room on the secend floor of the north wing is 145 feet by 74 With the mill running at full capacity about 125 hands will Be-em- Jceupying the rest of this wing is the store room, 127 feet by 74 ploved and this number will be doubled when plans under way ere car- Al rosms have a general height of 15 feet in the clear. ried out. This is to bring here from Lowell, Mass., the Climax spm company, a subsidiany company of the Thames River plant. The EQUAL TO FOUR MACHINE PLANT. company mamufatures paper-mailing tubes and cones, and will be e i t is a twe-machine plant, one paper-machine at-present being in- | 3tadled in the south wing of the mill i e th fMicers of the T es iver Speciak 2 - | -1, giving a present capacity of 50 tons per dav. In every detai of | g t"’“m"“‘v“’ e the Ehames M pocialiten S | X pany: Munseli Van Renssaluer, president; Horatio Bigeinw, vice-presi- nery and metive power, room hus been previded for duplicating the | gone. D, 8. Greemough, Jr, treasuser: A. F. Bigtlow. secrem | hroughout. and with the second paper-maghine the capacity Will | Yaiter O.MPhitaker, superintendent of bourd department; Lo H. Seran- ) tons, their up-to-date machinery malkifig tHem the egual of a four- tom, sales‘mamager. A H '