Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-20
COMMUNICATIONS.

Concerning Free Public Library in New Haven.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The Mayors suggestion that the old State House be utilized as a free public library building should meet with the favor not only of the gentlemen of the Court of Common Council, but should find a hearty response from the public themselves It is surprising that city with so much of literary taste and culture as New Haven boasts of should have been so long without free public library The times are ripe for it, and the gradually increasing manufacturing interest in the city, drawing large numbers of operatives within her limits, would seem to render such an in- stitution positive necessity. Many of the free public libraries in the New England cities including the great public library of Boston owe their establishment and existence to the liberal donations Of private individ- uals Worcester, Mass, with population of some four thousand less than New Haven, has a magnificent free library, for which she is indebted in large measure to one of her pubIic-spirited citizens whose name the H- brary bears. If the Mayors proposition is acted upon favorably by the gentlemen of the Court of Common Council and the old State House is repaired and fitted up for the pur- pose, doubtless there many warm-hearted and public spirited citizens who will at once donate liberally, both of books and money, for the furnishing of the library. Let not the noble proposition of His Honor fall un- needed but let his administration be distin- guished by the establishment upon a firm basis of free library in New Haven. M. The Voting Place in the Eleventh Ward. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The utterly unfair and indefensible action of the Democratic Police Commissioners in selecting 8 voting place for the Eleventh ward for the special election for an Alderman on Wednesday next is eliciting from the fair minded voters in the ward of both parties severe condemnation, and is by them freely characterized as an outrage. Since 1877, with one exception, the polls have been held in clean, convenient and decent locality on Ferry street, but now, with the expectation that many Republicans would so dislike the locality as to refrain from voting, the Demo- cratic Commissioners placed the polling place not only in the last street in the extreme west side of the ward, but in the midst of nest of liquor saloons Very naturally this compelling of respectable and church going voters to cross the entire length of the ward to cast their votes in the midst of a lot of barroom hangers on Is looked upon as a gross insult to such voters, and if the daily discussions going on here is any indication, this latest piece of very small partisan mean ness will be fittingly rebuked.
 The clique of politicians who crowded this scheme through the police board have since shown their hands in still smaller piece of business. They visited the owners of eligi- bIe apartments near by and suitable com- mittee rooms on election day, and endeavored to make arrangements to prevent the Repub- lican ward committee from procuring room, but in this they were foiled, as they will be in the interruptions and desperate ef- forts which they are now making to carry the ward Let every Republican vote next Wednesday, and this last game of the Chapel street club room will be handsomely defeated.
 FAIR HAvESER.
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