The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-19
CITIZENS MASS MEETING.
INTEREST IN COOPERATION
 AND CIVIC BETTERMENT.

Two Thousand People Attend nt Wool
 sey Hall and Listen to Addresses by
 Mayor StudIey, Colonel N. G. Osborn,
 Dean Henry Wade Rogers, Rev. Wat
 son w. Phillips, John IT. Gunshanan
 and Mrs. Sara T. Kinney.
 The citizens mass meeting held at Woolsey hall yesterday afternoon was largely attended by a representative gathering of New Haven men and women, fully two thousand being pres ent During the assembling of the large audience Professor Harry B, Jepson played selections on the Newberry or gan, which were greatly enjoyed.
 At PAS Professor Charles F. Kent, who presided, stepped on the platform, accompanied by Mayor John P. Stuc- ley. Colonel N. G. Osborn, Dean Henry Wade Rogers, of the Yale Law school; John F, Gunshannon, of Hartford; Mrs. Sara T. Kinney and several other la dies; Rev. Dr. Watson L. Phillips, of the Church of the Redeemer; W. w. Farnam, ex-treasurer of Yale: Judge Jacob B. Ullman, Colonel Theodore H. Macdonald Rev Francis T. Brown, Alexander Cumming, Rev. Frank R. Luckey and Judge Mathewson, of the city court.
 Professor Kent, in opening the pro- ceedings, explained the objects for which the meeting had been called, and concluded by reading letter from President Hadley expressing his regret at being unable to be present. The let ter expressed the presidents sympathy with the movement and wished it every success.
 Colonel N G. Osborn was the first speaker to address the gathering. His subject was What Has Been Done in Other Cities" Colonel Osborn began by saying that he was not there either to congratulate or criticise the city gov- ernment of New Haven, but only to speak of what was being done in other cities in regard to the betterment of civic government. He congratulated the workingmen's club of Hartford for the part they were taking in the re- form movement. Speaking of New York, he said that city was not a type to follow. It was one of the great finan- cial and commercial markets of the world It was not city of homes, and for that reason civic lige as it ought to be was not to be found in New York. After speaking of what was being done In New Jersey to lift up the community he referred to the great revolution that had taken place in Philadelphia. It mattered little, the colonel said, who accomplished the reform, republican or democrat, as long as it was eccom- plished, He pointed also to what was being done in Buffalo by Mayor J. N. Adams,N for many years one of New Haven's business men, and congratu- lated him on having the backbone to take a stand and right wrongs, no mat ter what they were or what it cost. Cleveland, under Tom Johnsons rule of suggestion, had done more to improve the moral tone of that city than any other method that had been tried. He counselled the people to watch closely interests in the city, in the same man. ner as a shareholder of a large corpor- ation would, and reminded them that there could be no good government where the officials in power were not cooperating for the welfare of the city. (Applause.l
 Mayor Studley was down to speak on What the Present Administration Has Done" The mayor. after few prelim- mary remarks, read an account of the many improvements that had been car- ried out by the present city govern ment of New Haven and gave figures showing how much money had been disbursed and how well it had been spent. He spoke of the difficulties they had to confront regarding the sewage system, remarking that when the en- gineers planned the present system