Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 25

QNNCTICUT COLEGE FOR OMEN—GROUP INCLUDES A NUMBER OF NORWICH GIRLS RWICH TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM WILL ASK FOR NEEDED ADDITIONS. ation Ropms for Extremely Sick, Water Tower and Sprinkler System Are Quite Essential to the Institution. Che appropriation granted by the last legislature being limit- o #naintenance only, no construction work, aside fi r improvements has been done during the past y DR. HUGH B. CAMPHELL rt themselves and Valuable aid in ublic health nurse and it is through her, their dependents for an this work has been rendered by a few at the Norwich State Tubercu- losis sanatorium of which Dr. Hugh B. Campbell is superintend- ent. Progress, however, has been distinct along other lines. More #% pa- tients have been cared for than during any of the previous years of the institution’s existence, the daily average being 47 males and 37 females. The daily average for 1915 was 45 males and 34 females and for 1914, 45 males and 35 remales. In spite of the fact that a large percentage of the admitted are of the need type, many after a course of treat- ment have been returned to their former ocqupa- tions, and in most in- stances, as long as they continue to play the game right, will able to indefinite in the follow ork, that the sanatorium keeps in touch with those patients arged from the institution. Quite a number of the mem- of the staff are former patients whose disease has been ar- They are thereby enabled to secure proper employment » continue living under those conditions which are best for both from a hygienic and medical Standpoint. rick and the Rev. rough the kindliness and solicitnde-of the Rev. John H. Richard Graham, religious exercises are at stated intervals so that the spiritual comfort of thée pa- is well cared for. he present lezislature will be asked to provide for some - needed additions. tremely Among these are isolation rooms for sick and for emergency purposes. The number zsent, two for males dnd two for females, is woefully inad- so much as the privacy needed in spiritual consolation A1 as in medical treats and the: nts frequently has to be dispensed e ministrations' given in the open wards. o protect to a greater degree against fire, a Water tower prix ler system are quite essential. lass fromts or enclosurers, for the infirmaries are needed. would protect the infirmary porches from southeast storms aake them habitable at all times. sleeping porch for the staff,on the rear of the adminis- n building would be a vital aid in maintaining the good 1 of those employed. JENING OF THAMES STREET BIG IMPROVEMENT EOR CITY. Fathers Hope Work Can Be Completed So Tkat Walks and Pavement May Be Laid This Coming Spring and Summer. o Alivn L Evaudiani the other members of the city administration took office in June last much has been wplished 1 the way of improvements for the benefit of YOR ALLYN L° BROWN Norwich. The principal matters which the ad- ministration has taken up since assuming office last June, those which are perhaps a departure from the usual routine are embraced in the fol- lowing: The printing of the Council Journal, which for the past few years has - been costing the city something over $2,000 a year, was let out to the highest competi- tive bidder, with the re- swult that apparently something over $1,000 has been saved for the year. The forty-four tele- phones paid for by the city, instead of being listed wunder individual names as heretofore, have all now been listed under the name of the city and the official title of the t6 whom service is furnished. By substituting party for s lne service practically $150 has been saved to the city, it dny loss of efciency. | df the automobiles owned by s gebartments of the city gove f.fi e name of the respective department to which each be- e city and used by the ent have been labeled e new equipment purchased by thé public works de- ‘ent, the most important is the scarifier, which is practically ¥ plow which can be used in tearing up worn- + being drawn by the steam roller. ‘macadam After such' street has Jowed up in this manner, new crushed stone added as nec- and then re-rolled and finished with tarvia, a permanent has been effected. This method has been Yollowed during | the past séhson on West Main street, Laurel Hill avenue and Central avenue, with most satisfactory results. The permanent hassam and concrete pavement on Frankln street and on North Main street are a much needed improvement, as is the macadam pavement on Lincoln avenue. The street com- missioner is experimenting with tarvia on the paving block on Union square—to see whether it will be advisable to treat Lower Broadway and part of Shetucket street in this manner, rather than to expend the greater amount appropriated for an asphalt pavement. The results so far are promising. Perhaps the sreatest improvement made by the city in many vears will be the widening of Thames street. The plans call for a roadway 27 feet at least between curbs from Thames -square to the-southerly end of High street, and a sidewalk six feet- wide most of the way on each side. The appPropriation of $45,000 made by a special city meeting has been supplemented by a promised contribution from the Shore Line Blectric Railway company of $5,000 and the co-operation of the State Highway department i contributing one-third of the expense of the pavement. Part of the property required for the widening has already been deeded to the city, options are held on most of the other property. and there are but five or six which will need to be taken by con- demnation proceedings. Work has already been commenced in excavating for the widening, and during the winter it is planned to remove the ledge where necessary, set back the houses, de- molish those which are to come down, and get in the retaining walls. It is the earnest hope of the administration that this whole work can be completed so that the walks and pavement may be laid during the spring and summer of 1917. Substantial progress has been made toward repairing and renewing the defective sidewalks in the business section of the city. The walks on Main street from Ferry street to the Breed building, with one or two possible exceptions, have now been put into first-class condition, many new granolithic walks having been laid under the order of the court of common council and with the commendable co-operation of the abutting property owners. Material progress along the same line has been made on_Shetucket street, also Lower Broadway, Union street, Broad- way hill, and Upper Broadway. Some new walks have also been laid on North Main strect and many on Main street, east of Preston bridge. The improvement is perhaps the most satis- fying to the general public of any which has been made, and it is the plan of the administration to continue this work cn other streets as soon as the weather permits. Through the enforcement of the traffic ordinance a material improvement has been made in traffic conditions. By the placing of several silent policemen, of signs calling” attention to the ordinance, of standards showing a safety zone on Franklin square, and other signs designating parking places, conditions have been much improved. Obstructions maintained by private individuals contrary to the ordinance have been removed from the sidewalks in the bus- iness section of the city, particularly from the vicinity of Frank- lin square, where fruit stands, etc. encrouched upon the side- walks materially. Posts in the curbing supporting signs on the business streets have also been removed, and overhanging slgns, with the exception of those illuminated signs which are of such a nature that the benefit seems to outwelgh the detriment of the encrouchment on the public streets, either have been or will be removed in the hear future under the ordinance. PAST YEAR HAS BEEN PROSPEROUS ONE FOR THE TOWN. Highways and Bridges About the Town Are in Good . Condition—New Bridge Replaces Old and Weakened Structure Across the Yantic at the Foot of Sherman Street. Due to the careful administration of the affairs of the Town of Norwich by the board of selectmen during the past year the town debt was decreased $3,131,23. This was the figure st the end of the fiscal year. ~That this amount is smaller than in some previous years is principally due to the fact that a number of taxes which had been abated in previous years had to be charged off. At the present time the town has a cash balance of over $10,000, which is a gain of over $7,000, as the balance at the com- mencement of the year was but $3,243.89, Had it pot been necessary to pay several bills carried over from previous years, including one of nearly $1,800, this balance would have been larger. During the year the Board paid a two vears’ coal bill for the Almshouse. It has been customary to, buy in the summer, and have the bills come in after the fiscal year. This past year the board paid the coal bill for last winter and also for this winter. The coal bill amounts to some- thing over $500, so that the Town is that much alead for the year com- ing. This year the state tax is about a thousand dollars greater than last ‘which fact must also taken into consideratio: when one glances over the Town's expense ac- count. At the last city meeting ‘the Board asked and was granted a tax of five mills to cover the Town’s - estimated ex- penses. This was one- fourth of a mill less than n- asked and granted t year. This five mill tax /includes the state tax, the -lnklng fund, the payment to the city on scsoutibie t hizh- J was three items CASPER K. BAILEY ToRuthar Smouniing t u. % First Selectman - sum equal to about three % and two-sevenths mills. Consiasespie epimtion has been paid the various highways md they are in good condition at the vunnt of repairs quite a little work has Just been of the two bridges across the Yantic at that point. The condition of the old structure was such that it was impractical to even attempt repairs. Superintendent J. B. Chapman and his assistant have given excellent care to the inmates at the almshouse. The general health and conduct of the inmates has been Very good. As the board receives many calls during the year for firewood to be furnished those receiving help through the outside poor account 2 number of loads of cord wood were delivered at the Almskouse, where it was cut and split by those of the inmates who are able to perform manual labor. From the Almshouse it was delivered to those who were in need of it. The cost to the town was thus decreased and needed -occupation was given a number of the inmates. The work was willingly done by those called upon for service and their assistance in that particular matter, as well as abgut the farm and the farm buildings, is much appreciated by the board. 5 The erection of a tool house for thé storage of the Town's tools and apparatus and repairs to the stable meant an expendi- ture of about $250. Another improvement at the Almshouse has been the remodeling of the building vsed for patients suffering from contagious diseases, and as has been already stated the coal bill for the coming year at the Almshouse has been already paid. A certain amount of expense was necessarily incurred in providing quarantine guards, etc., owing to the epidemic of in- fantile paralysis that visited this and other nearby states. To sum up, the year has been a prosperous one for the town and the board is looking forward to even better results during 1917. NORWICH HOUSING COMPANY EXPECTS TO PAY DIVIDENDS THIS YEAR. Organization Now Has Total of Forty Apartments Over Half of Which Are Occupied and the Others Will Probably Be Taken in Near Future. The Norwich Housing company was orzanized in October, 1915, for the purpose of building heuses to accommodate the employees of the Hopkins & Allen Arms company. A careful investigation had shown that the number of vacant apartments in our city would not accommodate any material increase in our population and the investigation also showed that there had been little or no building of tenement houses in Norwich for a period of fifteen Years or more. The company was capitalized at $109,000 and a very earnest effort made by public-spirited men to sell the stock. The effort did not meet with very gratifying success. The Hopkins & Allen Arms company subscribed for $40,000 and the housing company was able to dispose of $18,100 of the stock among the citizens of Norwich. Land was purchased In different sections of the city and early in 1916, the work of erecting twenty houses of two apart- ments each was begun. Finished houses were delivered to the company in July, August and September, and the contracts was completed October 1, 1916. The company now has forty apart- ments, of which twenty-eight are occupied and it is hoped and. believed that ng twelve will be occupied early in theg year 1917. The directors of the company were confident that the investment would pay a return of five per cent. on the money invested and have had no reason to alter their opinions. It was not thought possible to pay a dividend the first year of the com- pany’s existence, as mo revenue was received unti] the datter part of the year. During the coming year, there is no reason, apparent at this tig§p, why dividends should not be paid and no reason fgF believing that they will not be paid in future years. The apartments now vacant, twelve in number, are located on Spring Garden avenue, in a section of the city that is developing rapidly at this time and that will require additionak housing facilities in the near future. 4 The present directors of the company are: Walter F. Lester, president; Daniel T. Shea, vice-president; Shepard B. Palmer, treasurer; Edwin W. Higgins and George S. Watgs, J. J. Corkery is secretary of the company. Y. M. C. A. NEEDS LARGER AN:- MORE ADEQUATELY EQUIPPED BUILDING. HovpeofDirectonmw-ytmdMo&AWfllBe Found Whereby Norwich May Have Fhor- oughly Up-to-Date Structure ForsAssociation Work. s The various departments of the Norwich Young Maen's Chris- tian association Work have been carried on in a very gratifying manner. during the past year. -Under the eficient leadership of General Secretary Edwin Hill, the several committees have suc- cesstully permormed the dutles assigned to them. As a result of a special membership campaign held during the year, our membership shows the very gratifying total of 950 members. The association ideal, “The development of the body, mind, and spirit,” has been kept constantly in sight, and many a lad has been helped. cheered, and encotraged as opportunities have of- fered during the past twelve months._ The need of a larger and more adequately equipped building is very apparent, and it is the hope of the‘directors of the as- sociation, that before another year has passed, ways and means will have been found whereby Norwich may have a thoroughly up-to-date association buflding. Those to whom the manage- ment of the Work has been committed fully Tealize their respon- sibility to the men and boys of Norwich, and they.are looking forward to the coming year, anticipating that 1917 will be the express my appre- ‘miles each d NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS HANDLED AT THE NORWICH POST OFFICE. Postal Savings Department Showed an Increase of Over 40 Per Cent. During the Year—Largest Increase in Work at Local Office is Shown in Parcels Post Department—Repairs and Im- provements Completed and Contemplated. Am ifcrease in five per cent. In the revenue from postal re= ceipts during the year will place the Norwich post-office in the next h‘gher grade, whereby it will be entitled to considerations, which it has not received in the past. The money order business shows a larger increase as compaxed with previous years. There ‘were 28,707 domestic orders issued, amounting to $228,640.26 on which fees were paid to the amount of $1,775.75. International orders issued numbered 945, totaling $12,676.26 with fees of $163.60 making a total of 29,652 orders issued for $241,316.62 with fees of $1,939.35. For orders issued at other offices there was paid out $163, .35, the money ogder department also handled $281,618.73 deposited here by thirty-eight offices in this section, making a total to be accounted for of over three-quarters of a m'llion dollars. In the registry dop”nent there were received and delivered 32,178 registered pieces 0 insured :.md 1 994 C. O. D. packages wer€ dispatched during the year, A Postal Savings Increase Was 40 Per Cent. The postal savings department shows an increase during the year of over 40 per cent. The number of open accounts are 1,261, again of 302, with deposits of over $100,000, a gain of $30,00C for the year. ¢ The pay-roll of the Jlocal office, including small incidentals, amounts to upwards of $60,000 each year, exclu- sive of the rural carriers who receive over $10,000 yearly. There are fifteen regu- lar and two substitute clerks, with twenty-one regular and six substi- tute carriers, an increase in the working force of one regular clerk and one regular carrier add- ed during the year, and with, the nine rural car- carlers, serve upwards of, 20,000 people. The ter- ritory covered by the rural carriers extends nearly to Gardners Lake on the west, to the vil~ lage of Glasco on the POSTMASTER JOHN P. MURPHY east, while to the north nearly to the village of Baltic, and to Allyns on the south; the carriers covering 212.7 Connected with the Mmain office there are ten sub stations, two of which were added during the past year, one branch station having one city and two rural carriers starting from same. Big Increase in Parcels Post. The largest increase in the work of the office has been in the parcels post department, requiring two teams eight hours daily to deliver packages. Since the change in the ruling the parcels are increasing in size and weight. A notable incrgase is shown in packages being received for special delivery. There were re- ceived and delivered 11,260 special delivery letters and parcels. Numerous and extensive repairs and improvements to the building have been made, with new terra cotta above the roof. The plumbing within the building has been improved, the working tables ang cases in the work rogm have been re-located, giving the employees better light, and vlans are now being drawn by the Treasury Department to re-locate the swing room for the car- riers, as the one formerly used in the basement was dark and unsuitable. It is planned to have a large room exclusively for parcels post in the basement, with a separate entrance to the east driveway, making the loading of the teams much more con= venient. NEW SACRED HEART CHURCH AT TAFTVILLE IS COMPLETED. Handsosite Structure is Ornament to the Village and a Credit to the Parishioners. e A few months ago the new Sacred Heart church was com= pleted and early this fall was dedicated. The raising of the church was started on April 15, 1915, and it is located at the cor- ner of Merchants avenue and Hunters avenue in Taftville. It is 124 feet long and 866% feet wide, and the average height is about 65 feet. The material used in its construction is wire cut Burlington brick with terra cotta trim, copper cornices, slate roof and steel frame. Granite steps on the front lead up to three main en- trances. The church windows are of rib glass and each is fitted with a veptilator. The interior is finished in white oak with marble, stucco and plaster, and the celling above the church au- ditorium is constructed of wooden panels. The corner stone of the Sacred Heart church was laid on Sunday afternoon, Aupgust 5, 1900, by Rt. Rev. Michael Tierney, then bishop of Connecticut. Bishop Tierney dedicated the chapel of the church on November 25tH of the same year. Rev. U. O. Bellerose the present rector of the church and at that time con- nected with St. Patrick’s church, Norwich, delivered the first sermon, which was in French, the language of a large portion of the congregation. The erection of the chapel was made possible gh the efforts of the rector, Rev. John Synnott. Father Synnott was only able to have the basement completed as the parish funds wers not large enough to warrant the eompletion of the entire.church. It remained for Rev. U. O. Bellerose, now n-dmb-p-; m wmnmmwmwuon. W-m&mmmummtwm