Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 7, 1913, Page 4

and svanii;if.‘ ¥ ‘117 YEARS OLD. 120 a week; 50c a Subscription price month; $6.00 a y-- e Entered at the Postoffice at Norwieh | Conn,, as second-class matter, % Telephone Callsa LR Bulletin Business Office, 480. Bulletin Bditorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Office, R nupnan’:g‘lg’. Norwich, Friday, Feb. 7, 1913. | 1ne Circulation oi Ihe Bulletin. The Bulletin has the largest elr- culatiom of amy paper in Easterm Cemnecticut, and from three to four times largor tham that of amy im Norwich. It fu delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 lhouses im Nox- wich, and read by mincty-three per cent. of the peopic. Im Windham it fx dclivered to over 900 houscs, in Putaam and Daniclsom fo ovex 1,100, amd im all of these places it is comsidered the local daily. Basterm Comnecilcut has forey- nine towss, omc humdred nnd sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free dclivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and om all of the R. F. D. roures in Eastern Coumecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average Murray e 4412 -5.920 CUT GARMENT BY CLOTH. The Ansonia Sentinel, which is an enthusiastic advocate of good roads, from the standpoint of the automobile, says: “It is hard to understand the course of reasoning which those peo- vle and papers pursue, that are forced to admit that waterbound highways will not stan present-day traffic and vet are in favor of retaining in office a commissioner who is loath to stop building this kind of roads and give the state something permanent for its money.” Highway Commissioner MacDonwd has always stood for the best there is in highways and does so today. He has dome conscientious and faithful work in the construction of good roads within the borders of Connecticut. He has had regarq for the funds which were entrusted to him to make the best use of and in the adoption of the policy of doing, in road work, the greatest amount of good for the great- est number of the residents of the state of Conmecticut he has divided the ex- Denditures between gravel and mac- adam roads. FEvery section can testi- fy to the benefits received. He has made experiments looking to greater permanency and the use of bituminous binder. . He has not built a vitrified brick road at an enormous expense for the bemefit of a small portion of the state, because the demands for better roads come from all towns and the farmers are entitled to the same consideration as the auto drivers, though it is the auto which is kick- ing out and infuring the ordinary mac- adam. The highway commissioner has cut his garment according to the cloth ang should he be provided with what it is desired to give the highway com- missioner 4n the future there is not the least question but what he would then give an excellent account of his stewardship in the construction of more permanent roads. 1005, average DIVORCE AND HASTY MARRIAGES. Many are the efforts being made for the correction of the divorce evils and the overcoming of the hasty mar- riages and they are steps in the prop- er direction. The records of the di- vorce courts, particularly in some of the states have long showed the glar- ing need of reduction. This is not alone confined to Nevada, but exiets in any state where people carry the idea that the courts should grant di- vorces because thev do not wish to continue their marriage relations. The efforts deserv to succeed. Connecticut is at present figuring as the state for hasty marriages for couples from Massachusetts and Rhode Island and legislation to overcome this sort of practice is being sought. Other states have found it advisable and it has been advocated that New England states adopt uniform legislation in this regard, The need of it heve his been manifested more since the nelghboring states have found it necessary to change their marrfage laws and re- quire a deftain time to infervene be- tween the taking out of the license and the marriage ceremory. Such leg- islation is receiving support mnot as a discouragement to marriage but un- der the belief that hasty marriages make business for the divorce courts and everything possible should be done to cheek that. The best safeguards are desirabie for curtailing the abuses which result from the almost ridicu- lous ease with which persons are mar- ried and divorced, or have their mar- riages annnled. The Bridgeport Telegram wants to know why Congressman-elect Mahan is not in Washington minding his own and his constituents’ business. There'll be another month before he assumes the duties of his office, but in the meantime the district is receiving ev- ery attention possible under the pres- ent incumbent. The inquiry is out of order. From the confession of Policeman Fox of New York the greater part of his time must have been occupied in searching for graft with the Incentive of ten per cent. of the proceeds, and then it is asied how policemen ocan retire with so much wealth.” Tt is not strange that Semator Me- Neil 1s having trouble convineing his rellow senators that he is advecaiing the repeal of the New Londen harbes bill on its' own merits, It 15 an = ton bearing all the earmarks of o po- litical dodge, The large amount for medical and District At ,thflt:élm-n?; from such sourves that they cannot surgical attentipn which the veung Czarewitch of Russia is receiving in- dicates an inclination to follow the Chinese eusiom gf requiring the des: tors tokeep him from golting sisk. CLEANING It 1s a mest successtul service whicl ( R siving . city of New Yerk: In his prede- censor the city had an aggressive ‘but the present incumbent in by-no falling_shert. He is Going sfmple handea what the entire pollee department should be engaged im, but the causé of the police failure 18 being brought to light by the dis- Closures o (heir collusion with vice as exists In all forms In the great city. evelatlons are foliowing on (he heels of revels in such numbers and ‘be doubted and make it apparent that crime dnd graft have a st hold upon the city ‘which it s golng to re- quiré a determined and persistent ef- fort to-.dislodge. If it is possible to 4o so the city has in District Attor- ney Whitman the man, who is not only qualified, but who has manifested the disposition to accomplish the hercu- lean task. Long before the confessions of the policemen it was evident that there was ‘something “rotten in Denmark” but the difficuity came in gettinz hold of the proof of it. Those engaged there- in were banded together, as partners in crime. They had a perfect organ- ization until they failed to frighten Ro- senthal. He was feared and was put ot of the way. That developed sit- uations which no investigation could have touched. It has continued to bear frult ang the end is not vet. Whether New York is cleaned up as'it should be, it s evident that before the end 1s reached it will be better then 1t has been for a long time and it will be under obligations to maintain it. CLEANING THE SIDEWALKS. The securing of good sidewalks and clean sidewalks are problems which bother every community but bad side- walks and uncleaned sidewalks are 8 combination which ought not to be tolerated. There are those who con- sider it is their duty first to make and maintain a safe path for their fellow citizens and they have a right to expect the same in return, but there are those who never give the least concern to clearing the walks of snow and ice, or in sanding them. In maintaining that the Golden Rule should apply té the cleaning of side- walke and referring to the lax enforce- ment of the law the Bridgeport Tele- gram says: “Which is better—to break yvour arm and get damages from the city, or to save your arm and forego the cash? All citizens In favor of breaking their arms, or their legs, or possibly their necks, ara earnestly requested to join the ranks of those who do not remove snow from their sidewalks. This bus- iness of cleaning some and leaving others untouched, is too haphazard to be approved by a methodical mind. “Under the circumstances, the law requiring the removal of snow from sidewalks becomes more or less of a farce and it is impossible to walk more than a few blocks without find- ing flagrant violations. The eity is going to considerable expense in mak- ing block maps, showing the location and ownership of every bit of real estate, and an intelligent use of these might aid materially in locating and punishing offenders, if anyone wants to punish them. But then, perhaps the citizens prefer to skate and slide and | tumble and let the city pay the freight.” EDITORIAL NOTES. Happy thought for today: Lent like the New Year always starts off with plenty of good resolutions. s | Adrianople is undergoing a double bombardment. with the allies on the outside and hunger and disease inside. English suffragettes are warming up their campaign a bit by sending red pepper in their mail to members of the house of commons. The bill which is being urged in the New York legislatur to drive fake dentists from th: state shoull have| good sound teeth in it. The Baltimore young matron who declared she mnever kissed her hus- bang or parents confessed lo the dis- card of an effective means of peace. Now that early resumption of work on the Southern New England rail- road is promised, nothing will satisfy | Rhode Island but actual work and a bond. The gullibility of the people knows | no limit. Think of the people in the west listening to the lecture on the discovery of the north pole by Dr. Cook. The r 11 of judges is being tried! in Rhode Island and New York In one instance he is to be a senator and | the other chairman of the public ser- vice commissio Louis infants born in the same flat and affianced by their parents may in a couple of decades from now be earnest advocates of the recail of that decision. The two St Efforts are being made to have the regulations of amateurism revised, which prompts the inquiry why have rules which need. to be revised every time someone violates them? | A ¥rench inventor has devised a machine for causing squalls and there- | by offering 2 menace 1o the aeroplanes in case of war. Ordinarily it doesn’t take a machine to start a squail. The thugs who shot the wrong la- bor leader in New Jersey have operated | the way Gov. Blease of South Caro-| lina would have the Iynch law ap- plied—do the job and identify later. Where New York has saved a third | of a mililon this' winter because there | has been little snow other cities have | algo saved mora or less. Will It show in the balance at the end of the year? Benator Hurisy of Waierbury is right in resenting amy bribes, but what is going to be his attituds wbeut voting the gratuities te the newspaper rep- resentatives fer doing their work “faithfully,” After a trial of & vear and a half Maine hus & bill for the repeal of | the diret primary, After carrying wut the will of the people reluctantly they evidently (hink the people don't Limow whe they weani, A pill befere e lssislatvre seeks | #2006 dor the aamual grange fadr in North Bieningien, T gathering eomes prevty elese (o belug the old tme fair waich the department’ of ageleulture Wanis revived Phe senate is jusiificd in its de- termination to imvestigate the bribery | charge made bLy Senator Hurley. It s the ouly preper thing to do and whatlexer (ks report is there is a duty imvelved which should be met | amination, showed material . OsderForTapDay for its sixtieth year reumion. Edwin Rogers, Embree, alumni registrar, has been busy completing arrangements for the reunions of commencement week and has just given out a preliminary statement of the plans. 5 Edmund Clarence Stedman, the banker poet who in early life made Norwich hig home, is one of the mem- bers of ‘53 who afterwards ne well known. Others were Hiram Bing- ham, missionary to the Hawaiian is- nds, Randall L. Gibson, senator from ississippi and a founder of Tulane university; George H. Watrous, former president ‘of the New Haven road; Henry Corneliug Robinson, a promi- nent Hartford lawyer. ~Li mem- bers of the class are former Attorney General McVeagh, Andrew D. White, founder of Cornell university, and Col. J. Stoddard Johnson of Kentucky, Civil war veteran and literary man. These names give an idea of what Yale has meant to these men and to their com- munities during the three score years. 1858 will hold a regular reunion. Its secretary, Col. Willlam Plumb Ba- con, has the unique record of holding that office ever since elected by his class 55 years ago. He has been largely responsible in developing the present thorough publication of the records of every Yale class, thereby keeping graduates in close touch with the whereabouts and activities of their classmates. Fifty-two of the 129 men who grad- uateq from Yale in 1863 are living and many of them will be back for the semi-centennial, customarily the chief of the older reunions. Ex-Dean Henry B. Wright will return with the class of 1868, of which he is secretary, for the usual fifth year reunion, and Pres-_| ident Taft will be among the '78 grads who return. TIn all, it will be a re- markable gathering of the older Yale alumni. A movement to fornt a confedera- tion of the rge number of Yale Alumni associations Ncattered about through New England was broached at the annual banquet of the New Ha- ven alumni held in Yale dihing hail this week. Norris G. Osborn, '80, was the toastmaster, and A. A. Thomas 01, secretary of the Alumni Association of Rhode Island. brought up this inter- esting topic ‘of the unlon of New Eng- land alumni, the idea of which, he said, was conceived by the Boston Yale club ang the Rhode Island association. He believed that it is the height of folly that these alumni do not get together and do something. The Western Alum- ni association has proved a great suc- cess, he said, and our idea i8 to form something here along the same line. Judge Samuel O. Prentice, '73, recen Iy appointed chief justice of the Con- necticut supreme court, and professor of pleading in the Yale Law school, spoke interestingly on Reminiscences. The new baseball cage is proving an invaluable part of Yale's athletic equipment, and for track athleticg and soccer football as well as for the base- ball squads. Indoor track meets are being held regularly this winter for the first time and two of the series have been helg with excellent results in the way of keeping the men in training and of stimulating enthusiasm during the winter. The gymnasium itself is to be equipped with electric lights in the immediate future, replac- ing gds. A Yale tradition was sadly shattered when the Yale Daily News appeared on Wednesday morning in its usual form, but with decidedly different con- tent. For example, one notice read “Dean Jones requests all those who desire to take short vacations, to see him immediately, as he plans to make this a feature of the winter term.” The whole front page, on closer ex- of the same importance, and an editorial on the next page gave the explanation, the 1913 board ‘had vielded their chairs to the editors of 1914 with one final rousing edition. The broadcast levity N Feb. §—The famous| Secretary Stokes and J. H. Philbin, clasg ot 1553 will B Of the | 1913, wers New Haven men who spoke Yale men back in New Ha in June | at the annual banquet of the Buffalo By Edition Py ~ Yale Alumni association Saturday night. Mr. Stokes gave a history of the growth of departments at Yale and did not believe that the university needs a gonsolidation of Yale college and Sheff ag much as a clear-cut di- viding line between the two depart- ments. 4 The present athletic situation was treated by Philbin, hinmself a present “Y” man in football and crew, He said that track athletics have taken a decided brace, and the spirit is bet- ter, and the chances of success more certain. In baseball the new system of picking out a -working university squad of 30 men and the other candi- dates kept on class teams until they deserve promotion, was commended by him and he considered the outlook bright. 7 i Philbin® spoke of the criticism of Yale rowing by graduates and of the | openly expressed doubts of victory, and e urged strongly alumni support. He | Ppleaded for more support and less crit- icism in footbal With the return from across_the ers and Capt. Snowdon of the 1913 university crews, a rowing meeting was helq Tuesday evening and the crew situation again is uppermost. The three men went abroad six weeks ago to study the English stroke at Oétq_rd, They report that they are pleased with what they saw and learned in England and that they consider good the pros- pect of mastering and obtaining good resuits from the English stroke. The stroke as started last year will not, however. be radically changed, stated Coach Harriman. At present the men are working in the gym, in the tank and on the machines, although a num- ber of times during the recent warm weather they have been faken out on the harbor. In the spring two of Eng- lan@’s best crew coaches, Harcourt Gold and H. Kirby, both of Oxford, have been invited to visit Yale, not, however, as professional coaches, is stated. To reduce the spectacular features of Tap day, which ave grown to con- years, Dean Jones issued this notice this week: On the afternoon of Thursday May 15, during the senior society elections. the college campus will be closed to all except alumni and members of the uni- versity. Students are requested -not to invite visitors. i This official notice is taken by some as a step in a rather well-defined movement to curb some of the unde- sirable external evidences of the Yale senior societies. In one of the most thoughtful and forceful treatments of the secret society question, the Yale the secrecy of these three organiza- tions. The writer, B. T. Webb, 1913, says: “The object of our senior so- cieties is that a definite number of men may be selected before the eves of all who care to look, that they may subsequently gather on fixed nights in noticeably specified manner and garb, and that they may be eternally cryp- tie—about what? About the interior furnishings of this resort, about What they say to each other there, and last- ly about the name of their organiza- tion, which is cried aloud over the country.” The writer condemns the atrhosphere of blind acceptance of things as theyv are, of the conditions “which the in- coming man accepts as divinely ar- water of Coaches Harriman and Rog- | j; it} siderable propertions in the past few | Courant of the past month condemns | at an architecturally’ conspicuous place | Cottolene is Nature’s shortening — a American Thermos Bottle com- There is only $25,000 remaining to be paid out by the Norwich Indus- trial Improvement corporation. To publish the list of those who have not paid their subscriptions in full would, in my judgment, be improper at this ‘time., and an injustice to many who have requested an extension of time. The annual meeting of the Norwich | Industrial Improvement corporation will be held next month, and this in- formation will be placed before the subsgribers at that time, if requested. The American Thermos Bottle com- pany have frequently affirmed that the benefits that would come to them by removal to Norwich would be great. They agreed to begin to move one month after the building was complet- ed. Until they are established here they will receive no benefits and they have not received one dollar of Nor- wich money to sdate. Every check drawn from the Thermos fund has gone to the contractor employed on the building, upon bills approved by our lo- cal building committee, the architects and engineers. Regarding the reduction in the price of gas, I can only v that the present rates in Norwich are as low as in any city in New England of the size of Norwich of which I have statistics. If anyone has any other information, if be will hand it to me I will be glad to use it. In my efforts to secure other «<concerns for Norw I have sought | information from various authorities, ifl.nd have been assured, among other | things, that a per cent. reduction | in the price of gas would be made next summer. This information has already appeared in print, and the reduction | would be made today if the capacity of | the gas tanks were large enough to take care of the increased business that would ult. There are men in the employ of |the Ame: an Thermos Bottle com- | pany in Norwich at the present time, { and the company has already expend- ed $25,000 in cash in this city, although they did not agree to employ anyone ranged and later helps to perpetuate; because fortv-five fine intélligent up- perclassmen are foolish —enough and selfish enough to parade about saying Hush!” “The senior societies,” he concludes, “are in a situation not only ludicroxs and unworthy of their members, interests of the college.” Courant and this change of attitude of the News really stunned the col- lege. The New Haven railroad afld its new station were scorched in one a leged interview and athletics were co ered as thoroughly in another column. on the part of the senior societies is | understood to have other powerful !champions. It would, therefore. not | be surprising to see some change in the system at Yale within a few years. LETTERS TO A Progressive Age. Mr. Editor: I rather liked the way Investigator talks. Mrs. Taylor meant all right, and [ think her name not be- ing on te as much as some that were ad- sed as boomers. You read in the local papers quite frequently of President Walker com- ing to town, and the railroad from New York to New London seems to | work all right, but from New London to Norwich it seems necessary for some of our prominent men to 8o i after him in an awtomobile. Is the railroad service from New London to Norwich not quick enough for him? Perhaps Mr. Cary can explain that, also how much of the $25000 Mr. Walker said they had at the board of trade panquet to help new industries has been used. There is one thing that is booming above all else, and that is the Movies; and they are not like our merchants who feed and ciothe the peoplc and do ihe repairs, You have to pay cash t get into the Movies, and you have th butcher, clothier and grecer put it on the bool, This is & pregressive age. If yeu don’t believe it, just look up the poli- tics in the harbor improvement at New l.ondon, and then the bill to appropri ate 35,000,000 for a rosd for automo- biles. How “about the poor workmen that has to pay taxes to support town paupers, whe get drunk in the poor- house and are sent to the county jail, and pay their share of the 35,000,000, and court fees? According to Bridgeport MeNeii, east- ern Connecticut is no good, but west- ern Connecticut is all to the mustard. About Mr. Coliing® hammers, he might go to the state house and eel- lect a few up there, and drop them inte the Connecticut river, with the omes that are using them. “The situation is abeut like the farm- er who whs knocked down by an au- tomobile. Before he could get out of the way he was kuod! by a meturcyele, which came rushing along behind. A friead of his om jhe si@ewalk pelled to bim: “Why dow't you get out Of the way 7" “How the dickens did I kaow iz had a colt?” was the augry response. A POOR TAXPAYER, who doesn't own an automebile, and is having a bard time to keep ouf of the way, but is thankful he has a street ailroad fo use, when he has the nick- el, and Delieves that if the hoard of trade could zet free trolievs it would Be a greal boon to the poor manm, whe the Thermos fund was worth | d down augain | THE EDITOR [ does not have the nickel and has to | walk, and also to the one that walks. Norwich, Feb. 6, 1913. Give Them Plenty of Rope. { _Mr. Editor: I think sometim | Editor, as I peruse the columns o valuable paper and read the doings, | undoings and misdoinas of our demo- tate senate that it would be a vestment for intellizent Con- | necticut to start up a couple of rope- | walks, make up a few hundred coils of | the strongest hemp and ship balf of it | to McNeil, half to Mahan, and if any | Slops over semd-it to Landers and Hurly. The great lamented Grant never said a truer word than that spoken election night, 1874, when told that the demo- crats had swept the country in the congressional elections. His words to Marshal] Jewell were: “All right: we should be thankful, for nothing will kill the democrats so quick as giving them rope enough to hang themselves with.” There wanst wase two democrats brooke loose. Each thought the other was 2 geose. One's name was McNeil, | the other Mahan, They fought and they bit, and théy peited and banged, 80 in n few months, in spite of their gall, the demaerats yamoused bull moosers und all, and the peopls came back to their own, ¢, B, MONTGOMERY. Packer, Conn., Feb. 6, 1913, Mr. Cary Replies. | Mr, Editer, I have read the let- ter signed “Investigator” in your issue of today. Inasmuch as none of the matters are persemal, I am uncertain why I should be burdened with the answers te all the questions contained therein, many of which are misleading and seme of whieh .are maifestly im- proper te discuss in the public print. I have ne interest in this controversy other thamn any other broad-minded citizen of gur Nerwich should hay Facts and figures > requested to shew that the remodeling of tenements in Norwick (ke pasi year has been on | an unusual scale. This information | has come tg wme first hand. In my own iline of busimess the sale of hardw: and the installation of elecicic work in 0ld buildings has shown such an in- crease as to atiract atteniion. Further more, twelve more bulldings were im- proved in Norwich in 1912 than in 1911, and the total building ations in Norwich wers $352,115_ more than in 11911, Of this amount $82.000 was ex- pended on new dwellings and §12,370 on repairs. 3 It 'is mot true {hat $17,999 remains but | which is also prejudicial to the best | Complete | openness is the solution urged by the | or expend a dollar until the building was completed. Lacking time to go into further de- and trust that “Investigator others will do me the jus my reply in a not expect impo: {ter of letter writing anonymous queries. tails, I and 1eplies to My experience is that letters without the writer's signa- | ture do more harm than good, and any- | one indulging in them does himself an | injustice. ’ FRI YDERIC W. CARY. 1913. Norwich, Feb. 6, Allcock’s PLASTERS For Coughs and Colds }Irlut one on chest and another between shoulder blades. It breaks up the conges- tion (the cause of colds) be- fore it can reach the lungs. 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