Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1912, Page 15

NEW LONDON'S TASK NOW TO BRING MANY NEW PROJECTS TO FRUITION. Suture All Bright for the City—Work Will Be Undertaken With the Confidence Born of Recent Success. bright for New London. splendid action of her citi: The benefits ns last February in ted flow fr the Wom. not ye t fully realized or apprec will be felt with increasing force in the to come. The ac- and energ r mayor-senator has brought us many things, g ks, This will hasten forward the New London will be used for ocean he people of Ne ects tha re London is It is not confidence born of recent ms eertain, CAMPBELL, lon Business Me; under way. with th 's Assoclation. MANUFACTURING PLANTS ON FULL TIME AND WILLIMANTIC MERCHANTS SATISFIED. People Have Had Fairly Steady Employment—Take Cheerful Outlook Present Year in Spite of Unrest of National Politics. past year, as a whole, has been fairly well employed. on full time and the next Ithough vear, being pre- kering with the tariff, and uncertainty and no doubt eful for prosperity in our b We, \ session, t > cheerful view BRICK, siness Men's Association. BANNER YEAR OF ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR THE CITY OF WILLIMANTIC, New Manufacturing Industry Secured—Board of Trade a Safeguard for Merchants—Fresh Renowed Hope For 1912 Courage and well feel proud of its achlieve- s been m: a year since s invaded Willi- and some credit esirability ned and grown past even for this, ner one for accomplish- rd of trade and through its en- Willimantic's citizens with which 4 the mill now occupled by The Rossie rough its was committee also tha chiet above named company. of Willimantic, ocation here of the a co of the slze more good can, anad does ke the board of trade than many peopls realize. come fr: rganiz atio It has a steadying influen, u the people, prevents unfair methods g rot, acts o relief court from unjust conditions, and riginates and moulds to an extent public sentiment in favor of needed vic improvements and healthful gonditions. ts efforts als are directed 1o keeping out undesirable and purely % heme ing presented by Individuals and firms looking o flee ens, through securing their estn and o ndustries, reasonable foundation for thefr ex- intic's citizens can rest tone unturn assured its d that will ensure the loca- y co-operation of our people we fa rage and renewad hope, W. B. KNIGHT, Willimentic Board of Trade. Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce, Manufacturing and Other Interests. HOW BUSINESS MEN SEE LOCAL CONDITIONS Presidents of Boards of Trade and Business Associations Review the Year—Good Twelve Months for Manufacturers and Merchants—Promise in the Future—City Improvements Suggested for Norwich—New London, Having Started Big Things, Has Big Things to Finish—-Willi- mantic Experiencing Industrial Gain and Prosperity. STEADY VOLUME OF BUSINESS HAS BEEN RECORD FOR NORWICH. Better Than Some Census Boom Towns—Optimistic Outlook for New Year—United Action to Promote Interests of City and Citizens. The Norwich Business men from their vocation are in a situation to inform them: on the business outlook of the eastern states and while the recent season has not been so faverable in weather condi- tions as the colder December of a year ago we find that our city by comparison is more favorably situated in regard to steady volume of business done than many of the census beom towns of 1910. To our vision the new year seems to be coming with level carefulness; there seem to be no e with either the manufacturer or will lend us an early lead in the v ‘Wae stand for honest competition and promotion by commen action ¢ and its citizens. headed accumulated stocks generally and we trust our optimision pal supremacy. s, the welfare, growth, nterests of Norwich bber ly race for muni in pric he busine: CHARLES FAIRCLOUGH, President Norwich Busine: Men's Association ATTRACT BUSINESS TO NORWICH BY MAKING THE CITY ATTRACTIVE. Improvements Begun Should Be Continued—Better Paved and Better Lighted Streets—Make the Future Equal to the Past We Boast Of. 1 do not deem myself competent to report from actual facts and figures, but from what I can see 1 am pleased to write: That business has been good here. We have had no spasmodic rush of trade, but good every-day business. No failures of any amount and no desirable stores unoccupied. Norwich is sometimes called slow, but better be that way than be of the “Flash in the pan” style, up today and down tomorrow Anyone seeng the crowded condition of our streets and sidewalks during business hours, could not call our city slow. v cities in the state can compare with us in this or in any respect, Hartford and Worcester are larger than we are, but neither have the natural ad- vantages that we have, to make a large cit We have just commenced improving our streets with brick pave- ment. Let the good work go on as fast as good business judgment will permit. We might consider our sidewalks and make them better. Good lighting of streets is another feature, we might make them brighter and more modern. Parks and children’s playgrounds have been started, the work done by those in charge having added much towards making our city attractive. The civic side of development and beautifying should have still mere attention. Trees can be planted, ugly billboards removed, less rubbish lying loose, rocks covered, trees trimmed and elm beetles fought. Norwich has had a past that we are proud of. She can have a future that we will be proud of. If we will it, and we will. I can give no better motto than the one I lately gave the board of trade; Attract business by making our city attractive, J. D. HAVILAND, President Norwich Board of Trade SPENT ABOUT $80,000 UPON STATE ROADS IN WINDHAM COUNTY. $65,000 For New Roads—$25,000 in Repair Work—Connecticut-Rhods Island Trunk Road Nearly Completed. Approximately $80,000 in state road work was expended in Windham county in the past vear, about $55,000 of this estimated amount being in new state road construction and about § 0 in repair work and olling. In the new state road work there was one plece of macadam and telford road through Brooklyn street, 5.050 feet, and about 4 1 miles of gravel road was built in the town erling to the Rhode Island line. This latter leaves but about 3 miles of bad road in Rhode Island, which the authorities of that state say they will build next season, completing a state road all the way to Providence. From Plainfleld street towards Jewett City about 3 miles a new piece of gravel road was constructed, and there is now under con- struction another piece of gravel road from South Windham to Frank- lin. When this completed there will be a state road nearly the whole distance from Willimantic to Norwich, In New London county the three road construction were the highw the road at Gales Ferry, and the Es I principal from Je pieces of new state t to Voluntown, yme to Old Lyme road. NEW LONDON WAGES ACCOUNT GAINED $226,072 IN PAST YEAR. Silk and Quilt Mills, Machinery Makers and Ship Building Account For the Big Gain. A gain of $226,072 in wage distribution and of $1,399,547 in value of manufactured product was the record made for 1911 by the manu- facturers of New London over the preceding ye Total wages in 1911 were $1,444,700, to $1,218,628 in 1910, value of product $7,724,900 to $6,324,453. The gains were in machinery and ship building from $471,178 wages, $1,136,663 product to $660,000 wages and $2,002,000 product. Mills manufacturing silk and bed comfortable increased their payrolis from $460,000 to 0, their product from $ 00 to $4,7 Ironworkers made a slight gain, wages rising from $71,200 to 200 and product from $159.200 to $1€5,500. Those classified as metal goods manfacturers showed a slight decrease in wages, $32,000 in 1911 from $33,190 in 1910, but their pro- duct gained from $141,000 to $151,000. Industries classed as mis- cellaneous also dropped off, the wage account falling from $182,060 to $151,600 and product from $L,136,5563 to $643,000, NORWICH FACTORIES PAID $225739 MORE IN WAGES IN 1911 THAN IN 1910, 8ilk and Velvet Mills Impertant Contributors—Big Gain in Metal Goods and Beilers. Norwich mills and factories inoreassd both the value of thelr dise tribution of wages in 1811 over 1910, from $3,262,451 to $3,488,190, gain of $125,739, while at the same time the value of manufactured product shows greater , $12,749,821 in 1910 to $13,027,057 in 1911 In reaching this result the silk and velvet mills raised their wages from $303,497 to $306,844, their preduct from $2,166,287 teo $2,890,000. Manufacturers of metal goods which include a varlety of bright ware increased in wages from $112,000 to $163,100, and gained in product from $480,000 to $484,000. Among the iron werkers, and boller makers there was a good gain, wages increasing frem $129,- 950 to $156,500, and product from $45 In those classed a8 makers of paper and belting a diminished figure was shown, wages dropping from $184,869 to $167,126 and prodnct from $1,275,205 to $1,147,740, Cotten mills, which are the hig wage distributers in this city showed 31,360,011 pald in wages in 1911 against $1,209,427 in 1910, but the figures for value of manufactured material show a falling off from $4,623,200 to $4,343,951, Woolen mills paid slightly less in wages, $306,834 as compared with $308,056, and their product was less, $1,376,760 in 1911 to $1,418,500 in 1910, A ‘gain from §428,400 to $432,900 in wages ameng the manufacturers of firearms, cutlery and files was reported with inerease in product from 8850750 to $866,760. Miscellansous industries SBhowed larger rising from §497,252 to $594,020, product from $1,481,259 to $1,875,356, WILLIMANTIC INDUSTRIES INCREASE CITY’'S WAGE DISTRIBUTION BY $403,602. Cotton and Silk Industries Pay Out More—Big Gain for the Year Is in Miscellaneous Class, Close to a Half Million, Close to & half million was the increase in wages dis Willimantic’s mills and factories in 1911 over 1910 and the incre value of manufactured material was placed at $1,389,480. The figures compare as follows: 1911 wages $2,011,450, product $10,013,700; 1910 wages $1,607,830, product $5,624,220. The gain in thus $403,620. Cotton mills contributed te this result by showing $201,500 for their wage accounts for the 1910 and $781,500 in product to $730,000, Silk and silk throwing industries accounted for an wages from $180,000 to $200,500 and in product from $1,124,000, Industries classed as miscellaneous contributed largely to the big gain, their payrolls growing from $1,123,60 to $1,507,450, and product from $6, to §7. Only in one class was there less wages shown in 1911 than in 1910, machinery and makers of iron goods showing slightly but greater value in product. Their. figures for 1911 were 102,000 in wages, $335,000 in value of product to $112,370 and $531.245 for the corresponding items in 1910, wages last vear against $191,600 in advance in $991,000 to less payrolls, ~ THE PAST YEAR WAS A GREAT ONE FOR ADVERTISING OF NEW LONDON. Secured the Woman's College—Morgan Has Said, “Watch New Lon- don”—An Excellent Start Made. 1911 has been a normal business year for New London. been a temporary set back in one line of trade the adjustment of which should work for bette erally. As a yeat of advertisement and preparati it has been a record breaker. There has due to cbvious causes, credit conditions gen- n for future business We have secured the Woman's colls and have unanimously taken the first steps toward the development of our great resources. A great, good start has been made for better things. New London’s advantages are coming to the attention of the financial world. Already, a Morgan has said, “Watch New London.” There is no occasion for impatience or doubt. been made, New London will fellow it up. WILLIAM A. HOLT, President New London Business Men's Association. An excellent start has GROWTH IN PRESTIGE AND ACHIEVEMENTS FOR NEW LONDON IN PAST YEAR. Plans Have Matured to Benefit of Eeastern Connecticut and the State In General. Once more the New London board of trade extends a cordial and hearty New Year's greeting. Ne London has not increased its ter- ritorial bounds during the vear past, but in influence, and prestige, and achievement, has certainly made great progress. General bus has continued fairly good throughout the year and very few, able and willing to work, lack employment. One year ago we were pleased to note that there were very few vacant tenements—now it is becoming quite a problem where and how to satisfy the increasing demand for mod: up-to-date houses and apartments. The several projects successfully advanced since Jan 1st, 1911, give great promise and encouragement for 1912 and succeeds ing vears. We extend our most heart; surrounding townships and cit and by their influence and support, carrying forward of plans, which, bene: appreciation and thanks to those in )y their splendid contributions, o materially isted in th s fully developed, will be of great t to Eastern Connecticut, and the state at large J. A, ALLEN, President New London Board of Trade. REVIVAL OF SHIP BUILDING Greton Plant is Occupied—New Yard at Stonington—Noank Company Starting. ‘When the New Londen Ship & Engine Comvany took over the de- serted plant of the Eastern Shipbullding Company at Groton early in the year, another era of prosperity for that village Was inaugurated, the promise of their coming have been mere than fulfilled and the hum of industry at this plant has added several hundred thousand dollars to the volume of business in the town. With New Londen's expected rise into importance in the maritime and steamship trade, a future full of promise seems in sight for the shipbuilding industry in the town of Groton. Stonington also sees before it a revival of shipbullding through a lease taken within the last month by the firm of Richard T. Co. of Boston of the Nat's Point shipyard. The lease is taken for vears, and the company has started work at once to equip the yard with new marine waye. They will be built to accommodate vessels up to 350 feet in length. The firm plans to construct both wooden and iron vessels at the Stonington yard, having contracts now for three vessels to be built here—a yacht, a pilot boat and a schooner. Dredging for the accommodation of big vessels will be done when necessary. Electricity will he used for furnishing power for drills and boring machines, and both steam and electricity will be used for plan- ing, hoisting and other work. The firm that is to take care of the Stonington branch of the big concern will be know as the R. T. Green corporation of Connecticut, and 1s composed of about the same officers that are in the Boston Company. A meeting of the directors was held and the following offi- cers elected: President, W. R. Green of Stonington; vice president, An- drew C. Lane of New York; treasurer, R. T. Green of Boston; socre- tary, J. C. Harringtqn of Boston; chairman of the board of trustees, which comprises the officers of the company, R. T. Green, Sr. At Noank the Neank Boat Company Is preparing a plant for boat buflding, expecting the machinery to arrive soon to enable them to go ahead with the construction of water craft, Americans Who Bave Millons For Philanthropic Wark in 1911 The men {n this country who gave most largely in 1811 to public causes were: Andrew Carnegle, chiefly to education and general F'rederick C. Hewitt, to medicine and infant nursing research. 4,000,000 Joseph Pulitzer, to journalism, music and art 5 3,000,000 John D. Rockefeller, to education, religion and medical research... 3,000,000 James A, Patten, Chicago, toward fighting tuberculosis . 2,000,000 Michael Valentine, to hospitals and homes 2,400,060 John M. Burke, to relieving distress. 2,000,000 Henry J. Braker, to asylums and colleges . 5 1,500,000 Mrs. Mary Rhinelander King, to church charities . 1,500,000 Morten Plant, to found @ woman's college 1,000,000 Jaceb H. Schiff, to found a university at Frankfort, Germany 1,000,000 . A. Long Kansas City, for a new hosp'tal ....... 1,000,000 Edwin A Abbey, to the Corcoran art gallery at Washington 1,000,000 Armeur & Ce., Chicago, for empioyes’ pension 1,000,000 Ernest Densfore, to negro education. .. A 1,000,000 Gustave Mehringer, to Hebrew hospitals and homes vermeaase 1,000,000 Mrs, M. C. C. Wilson, homes and asylums aeveees 1,000,000 Theusands ef Americans denated leseer amounts than thoss above to the public welfare. The gifts referred to Tanged from 3$10,000 to. $75,000 aplece. $40,000,000 | IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1911 SEEN AT A Jan. 18—Eugene B. Ely, Curtiss aviator, flew from the Sen aviation field to the deck of the cruiser Philadelphia, 13 miles, back to the starting point. 24—Twelve Japanese anarchists under conviction for comspiracy o Kill the mikado and his family were executed at Tokio. 28—A rush of waters following upon the eruption of Mount Taal, in the Philippines, destroyed several villages; 300 deaths reported. ‘b, 4—Gen. Piet A. Cronje, Boer leader in the war with England, died in Klerksdorp, Transvaal, aged 75. o—General Orozco's rebels beaten in all-day battle; government trosps entered Juarez in Mexico at night, 24—United States senate ratified new treaty with Japan. Aappropriating ~House $3,000,000, upproved fortification of Panama canal, March 7—President Taft accepted resignation of Richard A, Ballinger as secretary of the interior; Walter L, Fisher of Chicago appointed. 19,000 United States soldiers, 15 vessels and 2,000 marines ordered to the Mexican border and gulf coast for mimic warfare. 17—Insur; 0s' “Decree Ne. 13" guaranteed protection to lives and interests of foreigners then in Mexico and reimbursement for losses “as soon as the triumph of the prowisional government will have become recognized by the capture of Mexico Cit; 18—Colonel Roosevelt opened great Arizona dam bearing his namd, April 4—Sixty-second congress convened; Champ Clark American-Japanese commercial treaty ratified, speaker. 10~ om L. Johnson, former mayor of Cleveland, 0., noted for his fight for 3-cent raliroad fares, in Cleveland, died at the age of &6, The Sixth United States cavalry ordered by president to protect Americans along the Mexican border. 28—Taft's proposed Anglo-American arbitration ratified in the Guildhall, London. trealy unanimously 30—$2,500,000 fire loss in Bangor Me.; 2 dead; business part practically wiped out, May §—China adopts cabinet form of government, with Prince Chiag premier. 10—Mexican revolution; Juarez was surrendered to the insurrectos sft- er several hours' fighting; losses 180 killed, 250 wounded; Mwdend established provisional capital. i—United States supreme court ordered dissolution of Standara O company within six months, 21—Peace agreement signed. between Mexican government and insurrectos ~House of representatives voted to admit Arisena and New Mexice to statehood. —Porfirio Diaz resigned as president of Mexice. June 4—$23,750,000 terminal, world's second largest for use of oné 1, opened in Chitago by Chicago & Northwestern. railro: 9—Carrie Nation, temperance champion, died in Leavenworth, aged 66, 19—President and Mrs. aft entertained on silver wedding anniversary. 22—King George V. crowned in Westminster abbey; Jobn Hays Hamls mond represented United States as special ambassader, July 4—Thermometer 103 in New York, 106 in Topeka; hoitest July ¢th known in New York. Heat most oppressive in Paris in years; thermometer registered 104 in Berlin, 27—Haitlan revolutionists in pessession of all cities on island but the capital; United States warships ordered to patrol coast, August 1—Edwin A, Abbey, American decorative artist, died in London, aged 59. International permanent bureau of peace apemed land. Berme, Switmer- 10—The British house of lords passed the famous “vete bill,” virtwsdly surrendering to the house of commons. 14—Maj. Henry Reed Rathbone, a military aid te Linceln, who grap- pled with Booth, the president’s assassin, when latter fired hiw fotal bullet, died in Hanover, Germany, aged 78, Sept. 5—Food riots in China due to fleod, which drewned 196000 peopls and destroyed crops. 10—Revival $2,000,000. of volcanic activity in Mount Bina caused & leww of 14—Premier Stolypin of Russi the 18th. shot at Kiev by an assasein; died om 21-anada rejected reciprocity with the United States st its asmual election, 24—Italy called 112,000 reserve soldiers into field to imveds Tripedl. ~—Bogroff, who shot Premier Stolypin of Russia fatally en the 1ith inst,, hanged for the murder at Kiev, Oct. 1,—Monarchist uprising in Portugal. Francisco I Madero eleoted president of Mexico. 2—Rear Admiral Winfleld Scott Schley, U.S.N, retired, haro of the Arctic and of the naval battle of Santlago, died in New York, aged 7. 2—The Duke of Connaught installed as governor general of Camade at Quebec. 9—California voted to adept the initiative, the referendum, the reeail and equal suffrage, 30—The throne of China ylelded to the national sapembly’'s demend for constitutional government. Nov. 2—Fleat of over 100 battleshi:s, crulsers and auxiliary vessels reviewed by President Taft at New York 6—Madero was inaugurated president of Mexico, §—Hon. A. J. Balfour resigned as leader of the British conservatives. 19—A wireless message was transmitted from Coltane, Italy, to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 4,000 miles. 20—Russia sent an ultimatum demanding the diemissal of the Persinn treasurer general, W. M. Shuster, and indemnity for war movements within 48 hours, / Dec. 4—The Persian national council appealed to the United States for ald against Russia. 1—James B. and John J. McMcNamara pleaded gufity, to dygamiting in Los Angoles, e §—J. B. MoNamara sentenced ta litadngrisonment and J.3 Sictfemare to fifteen years, ; % 1—Russia ordered an army advance upen Teheran. $—The Malne wreck naval Invest{gi¥ligBoard reporteds “THSMiues fes to the bottom of the Maine were cansed by the axplesien ef & charge of adow form.of explosive extertor 1o the ship® e 16—The fur seal treaty between the Tntted Btates, Rassie, Tupastntl Great Britain went into effect. 4