Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 12, 1913, Page 7

PLEA BY STATE HOSPITAL WORKERS Women Won’t Made Before Legislative Committee by Norwich Committee —Shorter Hours Would be Simple Justice They Say— —Work More Arduous Than That of Mill Operatives. e A committes from the employes of the Norwich State hospital, appointed at a mass meeting on Monday even- ing, and consisting of Messrs. Allison and Arnold, Misses Gilbert and Whalen, appeared in Hartford on Tuesday afternoon before the legis- lature committee to present their re- quest for shorter hours of employ- ment. Feeling that hospital employes occupy at present an altogether un- just and anomalous position and that more is exacted from them than from any other class of public ser- vants and, at smaller pay, the meet- ing gave instructions to its delegates ! which were embodied in the address they presented to the committee. Their statements were not meant to apply only to the Norwich hospital, but ap- plied equally they claimed to the 30,- 000 employes in insane hospitals in the United States. The following was the text of their plea before the committee: Gentlemen of the Committee: The employes of the Norwich state hospital respectfully urge upon you the following reasons for shorter hours, believing that when vou once ha your attention called to the present situation, you will see that what we ask for is simply fair treatment, sound business policy, plain justice. In almost all other employments the short-sightedness and injustice of long hours has been recognized. We know that long hours have driven boys from the farm. and degraded the status of farm help. We know that servant girls have been unjustly treated in this respect—with great injury to them and also to their employers. No factory is now allowed to work its help for any such time as is exacted from us. We are kept in the rear of the procession of human progress—the belated suf- ferers from old-time ideas as to work- ing hours—almost the last victims of notions that society has practically abandoned. Need of Relaxation. No man or woman can do justice to himself or herself without a proper amount of time for rel ation self- culture, pleasure What time is left after fourteen hours of steady duty? We are not machines that can grind along stolidly and unfeelingly. The wisdom of English and American law- makers has laid it down as a fixed principle that it is an economic and social blunder to permit that any per- son shall work in a mill for fourteen hours. Yet what is the strair on~a mill operative, tending his machine, compared with the strain on a hospi- tal attendant trying to serve the pit- iful needs of thase unbappy fellow- beings whom God has deprived of their reason? Trials of Hospital Work. To do our work ideally sell would tax the head ang heart of the best of human kind. We must feed the help- less and clean the filthy; restrain the violent, cheer the despondent, lay out the dead. We must be patient under torrents of profane and obscenc abuse, observant in watching the sick, ready at any moment to be investigated, suspected, cross-examined, often for accidents’ in_which we are wholly blameless. We must be locked in, for fourteen hours out of every twen- ty-four, with idiots who are helpless as babfes, cranks who would drag Job down from his pedestal of patience, human beasts with whom our lives under certain conditions would not be worth a moment’s purchase. We are asked to combine the courage of the soldier or policeman, the skill of the physician, the gentleness of the nurse, the self control of the philosopher and the self devotion of the saint—all for the wages of a day laborer. 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But much of the old cruel ignorance and indifference still lingers. Society is uneasily rubbing its eves; but it must wake fully to what is needed for the just and hu- mane treatment of the mentally af- fiicted. 2 Something for Nothing. The unjust policy of the past has alike injured society and us, the ser- vants of society. The effort to get something for nothing, or to get it for less than it is fairly worth, is al- ways a failure. You cannot get bar- gains in purchasing the services of men. We ask fairness, not favor. We want to cooperate in making tne hos- pitals of the state what they ought to be. Our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, may come here. Yours may. We ourselves, you | yourselves, may. Who knows what the future holds We want to do our duty, to weed out the unworthy, the unde- sirables who have in the past brought insane asylums into disrepute. But we are worthy of our hire. Do not work us as farm hands used to be worked a century ago. De not ask us to expend our own resources in carry- ing burdens that ought to rest on the state pf Connecticut at large. Reputation for Humaneness. The Norwich hospital has an en- viable reputation for humaneness, in- telligence, progressiveness. There are many among its workers who have earnest zeal in their work, who try to do their duty, who want to see their vocation elevated to the high plane where it belongs. If you want high grade employes, you must treat them in a high grade way. We have a club- house nearly compléted, the pioneer of its kind in the country, whose use- fulness will be enhanced tenfold with more time at our disposal to enjoy its benefits. Thirty thousand empioyes in insane asylums in the United States ought to be a picked body of intelli- gent, devoted, self-respecting men and women, who take pride in themselves anl seek ever to elevate their calling, instead of being, as they have been in too many cases, vagrant time savers, drifting from place to place, indiffer- ent, unorganized, careless in life, speech and deed. You cannot induce clean, inteiligent, ambitious, self respecting men and wo- men to take up such work unless you treat them right. You ought not to ask from them the strain of service and ceaseless vigilance during hours that a digger of ditches would balk at. We are proud of the work we are doing, loval to the Norwich hospital, ready to do our duty to our cnarges and to society, but we do feel that the state should do its duty by us in giv- ing us reasonable hours We are ready and willing to do our part. We ask vou to do yours. GOLF CLUB GAINED 118 MEMBERS IN YEAR Grosvenor Ely Reelected President at Annual Meeting. Monday night the annual meetings of the Norwich Land company and the Norwich Golf club were held in the clubhouse at Trading Cove with many of the members in attendance. Willis Austin presided at the meeting of the land company in the absence of the president, General Edward Harland. The meeting was called to order at 5.15 o'clock and the reports of the sec- retary and treasurer, J. Ralph Howe, were accepted. The board of directors was reelected as follows: General Ed- ward Harland, O. I.. Johnson, Grosven- or Ely, Willis Austin and J. Ralph Howe. At a later meeting of the board the officers of the company will be elected. i The meeting of the golf club were then held with the president, Gros- venor Ely, in the chair and the re- Ports of Treasurer Martin E. Guensen were submitted. The membership of the club is as follows: Active 116 men, | 143 women and ome youth, a total of 260, which is an Increase of 118 dur- ing the vear. Eight resignations have been received since the first of the year, change of residence beiug the reason in each case. The growth of the club during its two years of ex- istence at its new site has been very gratifying to the officers. The mem- bership numberea only 30 members when the change was made from Mo- hegan park and indications point to another big increase in membership during the coming year. Spent Over $5,000. The treasurers report showed that a little over $5,000 had been expended throughout the vear, leaving a bal- ance in the treasury. 2,100 was taken in by the restaurant. Proposed changes in the constitution, drafts of which had been prepared, were announced by President Ely. 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They arc entirely harmless because they have absolutely no effect on the system one way or another except to do just the one thing—digest food. Every drug store evervwhere sells and recommends Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at 50 cents a bex. tennis committee and a winter sports committee changing of active members to men over 18 yvears of age having a winter or summer residence within 25 miles of Norwich, and adding to the associate membership men over 18 years having both winter and summer residences more than miles from Norwich, this for the purpose of open- ing the non-resident membership to men initiation fees of $25 for men and $10 for women and raising the dues of the active members from $20 to 3$25. The changes were approved and ordered incorporated. Subsequently part of section 1 of article IV was altered to read as fol- lows: The green committee shall a range all tournaments and competi- tions and elect a captain who' shall have In his charge the arrangement and direction of the club team, on motion of Willis A. Austin who sug- gested the importance of providing for a club captain. Money for Pipe Line. Chairman A, H. Case then made the report of the special committee that was appointed to raise the sum of $1,500 among the members for the pur- pose of equipping the course with a pipe line to water the green. The re- port which was accepted showed that the sum of $910 had been pledged, and the committee consisting of A. H. Case, C. D. Foster and J. D. Moulton was contlnued with power to solicit sub- scriptions from women members. Pres- ident Ely was authorized to name a committee of ladies to assist, and Mrs. Willis Austin and Miss Ada L. Rich- ards of Norwich were appointed to the committee. A member from New London will be appointed later. The report of the house committee was given by Chalrman Lueclus Driggs and showed among other things new lockers provided and other additions made to the equipment at the club house. Election of Officers. The election of officers for the eom- ing year then took place with the fol- lowing resuit: President, Grosvenor Ely; secretary, Edmund W. Perkins; treasurer, Charles D. Fester; assistant treasurer, Raymend B. Shermai chairman of the greens committee, .J. Ralph Howe: chairman of the house committee, R, C, Jones; chatrman of Tolerate CATARRH | They know Booth’s® Hyomei will Cure and they use it intelligently How many women of refinement do you see parading disgusting symptoms of catarrh pefore the world? Not one in a thousand. Women have patience; a great deal more of it than men. Most of them know that HYOMEI will banish ca- tarrh if used properly and they use it regularly because they realize what a genuine blessing it is to be rid of such a vile disease. i People don’t contract catarrh in a day; they can't expect to get rid of it in a day. If you really want to free yourself from the power of persistent catarrh microbes get a HYOMEI outfit to-day, breathe regularly and kill the germs. There is no stomach dosing: the directions are simple and easily fol- lowed, a complete HYOMEI outfit in- cluding pocket inhaler $1.00, extra bot- tles of HYOMBI if afterward needed 50 cents at druggists everywhere. Guaranteed for catarrh, coughs, colds. Mail orders filled, charges prepaid by Booth's Hyomei Co., Buffalo. N. Y. Booklet on catarrh free. The Lee & Osgood Co. guarantees it. —_—e tennis committee, John L. Mitchell; chairman of winter sports committee, Edmund W. Perkins. Dr. Rush W. Kimball, Willis Austin and Lucius Briggs were appointed to serve with the officers of the membershiy com- mittee. NAPOLEON’S GRANDSON WAS BORN IN NEW LONDON William Gordon the Man—Now Work- ing in Los Angeles Lumber Yard. Los Angeles, Calif, March 11— Search by the Crittenden Memorial society of San Francisco for a reputed grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte end- ed today in a Los Angeles lumber yerd. Willlam Gordon, a workingman, is the person sought. William Gordon was a son of the late John Gordon, a San Francisco jeweler, who according to the Crit- tenden soclet, unquestionably was a son of the “little corporal.” ~The re- mains of John Gordon rest in a cem- etery near the Golden Gate. William_Gordon is 65 years old. He says his father was not born on the island of St. Helena, as has been as- serted, but near Edinburgh, Scotland, on Nov. 11, 1818. John Gordon's moth- er was a Scotch woman, matron of the hospital at St. Helena when Napoleon’ arrived there on the Bellerophon, and he was given his father’s family name. John Gordon married Amelia Jones, a Welsh woman, in London, in 1845 and they came to America, setiling in New London, Conn., where William was born in 1847. Having the blood of the great em- peror in my veins has never excited me,” William Gordon said today, as he turned fo his task of piling lumber. SEEN AT THE OPENINGS. Colors, Fabrics, Designs and Combina- tions Favored by Fashion for Spring of 1913—Pointers by the Way. The weather was bad, the light was trying and conditions generally were unfavorable Tuesday, but there was no diminution of interest in the spring openings, and those stores announced displays of seasonable hats and apparel were crowded ail day. There is a distinctive note of novel- ty in the verna] fashions, due to the adoption of Balkin ideas. Blouses, sashes, embroidery, the gay coloring, are repeated in a score of ways. Several really new colors are also offered for popular selection, and some old ones do duty under new and catchy names. Coq de roche, a warm orange, Nell Rose, a new cerise, sand brown, peony pink , Wilhelmina blue, onion, myrtle, ash, cafe au lait, ma- hogany, dove. maize, are shades in highest favor. Black and white are more popular than ever and coral holds its own. In garments, while two plece suits were never nattier or smarter. odd coats are big leaders, three-quarter lengths being favorites. The most popular materials are ratine, eponge, silk and Canton crepes, sillc_poplins, French serges, and the heavier Angora cloth, and smart checks. Looking over the hats Tuesday, at- tention was directed to an old gold hemp Georgette sallor, with three rich Prince de Gal tips, shaded from light gold to dark bronze. A Continental with black satin crown had king blue edge, the favored cog de roche ribbon about the crown, and shaded impian wings. Nell Rose brald was emploved in developine a_London round hat of hemp, with Bulgarian spangled band, and heckle fancy of Nell Rose shade at_the back. Most of the smart models have their feather ornaments, fancies, plumes, etc, rising in stiff modishness at the back of the crown. An especially springlike' model in maize braid had a graceful plume of brown and maize and was finished with Bulgarian ribbon and tiny roses. The time to see hats, coats, suits, waists, street gowns, etc., is today, while the showings are at their best. Many of the choice offerings were pur- chased Tuesday, so those who desire exclusive models will wisely buy now. A correct guide to where the choic- est in apparel iand hats can be found is furnished by The Bulletin's adver- tisers. NORWICH ELKS WINNERS. Took Majority of Events in Play With New London Lodge Members. The members of Norwich lodge, No. 430, B. P. O. Eiks, traveled to New London Tuesday evening, where they were the guests of the Whaling town Elks and defeated the latter in the fourth meeting of the series of games between the two lodges. About &0 Jocal Elks made the trip, arriving home by epecial car at 12.45. The visitors were royally entertained with musical numbers and an excellent banquet was served. The local plavers won three of the five events, but in a special private match R. C. Plaut and D. J. MecCormick of this city were de- feated by two of their pupils, Freemaa and Donahue of New London, at rum- my, 601 to 591 At pool, Dondero of New London de- feated Boylan 50 to 20, M. Connor of Norwich defeated Sullivan of New London 50 to 28, Carney of Norwich defeated Rudd 50 to 17. and Caron of Norwich defeated Flaherty of New London In the closest match of the evening, 50 to 42. At eribbage New London won seven to five. At pitch the score was Nerwich 40, New Lon- don Norwich won at forty-five, 49 to 21. but the home team captured the pinochle mateh 5495 to 4465. The games now stand two and twe and the New Lenden players are com- ing to this city the latter part of the mon.n to break the tie. Hartford.—The banquet to be given ir. honor of Hon. Thamas L. Reilly by the clerks and carriers of the Har .- ford_pestoffice will be held at the Ho- tel Garde Baturday evening, March 1. which had | Messaline ~ Petticoats A Rainbow of Shades SPRING OPENING SPECIAL Wednesday and Thursday only $1. 194 Main Street, Wauregan Kouse Bleck 69 WATER STREET LOCATION BEFORE EXCISE COMMITTEE. Norwich Condition Makes Law fot the State. Among the veral matters heard by the excise committee Tuesday aft- ernoon at the capitol, at Hartford, was one of general interest in all sections of the state, but especially. applicable to the city of Norwich. The title of the measure was an act concerning granting of liquor licenses to certain places, presented by Representative Craney of Norwich. The liquor laws as amended in 1907 provides that no liquor licenses shall be granted for any place within 200 feet of a church or schoolhouse, and the proposed act leaves that point discretionary with the county comminsioners. In Nor- wich there is property in the rear of Trinity Methodist church, and located on Water street, that is used almost wholly for saloon purposes and is conceded to be a proper localty for th business, and. being on another street, was explained that ihere were other tions exist. The proposed act permits continuance of the 200 feet limit, but gives the county commissioners dis- cretion in special cases similar to that which exists in Norwich. FATHER DESERTED WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN. John J. Maloney Left Providence and is Located in Putnam. At a special session of the juvenile court in Providence Monday the cases of Mary, Edward, Thomas, James, Elizabeth and Belia Maloney wers heard by Judge Byram. Owing to the disappearance of the father, the fam- ily was left destitute. The mother claimed <he could su~nort the young- est and oldest children, and the other four were turned over to the stafe detracts in no way from the church. It | citles in the state where similar condi- | | THOMAS 6. BROWN AMONG | SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS. Elected Presenter for Class Trinity College. Day at The senior class of Trinity college lat Hartford Tuesday night elected class day officers. John B. Moore of Geneva, Y. was chosen president. ec were as follows: K. B. "Case of | Hartford, treasurer; Thomas G. Brown of Norwich, presenier, and W. P. Bac- ber of Hartford, statistician. THE FREE BORN. Citizens of God's Kingdom Destrve Connecticut students who were honor- | The Porteous & Mitchell Co. Formal Si)ring Opening . Ses Exclusive Millinery WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, . MARCH 12th and 13th A formal presentation of the authoritative and ac- cepted Paris and American models, including French Hats and exclusive designs in Gage Bros. & Co.’s Smart Tailored Hats. Formal Spring Opening WOMEN'S and MISSES’ Spring Apparel WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MARCH 12th and 13th Exhibiting Authentic Styles for Spring, 1913 Featuring particularly dijstinctive designs in Tail- ored and Novelty Suits. Fashionable Coats. Together with an extensive representation of cor- The very latest styles in rect fashions in Silk and Lingerie Waists, Evening Wraps, Skirts and Apparel generally. We invite your attendance and inspection. | A WEEK OF SPECIAL FITTINGS OF THE | Broadway - Congregational church, spoke upon The Free Born at the shop | meeting held under the auspices of tne v noon at the plant Silver company. howed the scene in which Paul asserted himself as born ! a Roman citizen, and told of the sig- | nificance of Roman citizenship. said that we are free born citizens of la kingdom far greather | the Kingdom of God, and that we | should appreciate and pride ourselves on our inheritance. Mrs. Charles T. Bard rendered Je- rusalem and The Palms in a pleasing manner, accompanied by Miss Annie Taft. TEACHERS’' TRAINING CLASS. {Held at Home of Miss Annie Mac- Dougall with Twenty Present. Monday evening a meeting of the teachers of the Sunday school of the Greeneville Congregational church was held at the home of Miss Elizabeth board of charity. As a result of the [and Miss Annmie MacDougall of Sixth publication of the case, the father, |street relative to the formation of a John J. Maloney, has been located by | teacher training class. There were the Putnam, Conn., police. Chairman | about 20 present and a gr t deai of J. V. Curran of the oversecrs of the |interest was shown in the class organ- poor has sent on a warrant for his |ization. Rev. Mr. Ricketls was the arrest. leader of the meeting and following — the business session a social hour Naugatuck. — Arrangements have |enjoved. Graphophone selections were been completed for the celebration of | heard. the 13th anniversary of the Naugatuck | The class intends to hold a meet- fire department on the evening .f |ing every two weeks and the next one | Wednesday, March 12. will be held with John McWiiliams. G USE right every time, but Jand$ BAKING WDER —— D AND ENDORSED by the best cooks for more than a generation. Good enough evidence for any housewife. 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