Norwich bulletin., 1909-04-03

don located here, believing this city
was the best location for their BUSH
ness, are the Brown Cotton Gin Co.,
the Brainard and Armstrong silk mills,
the C. ID. Boss & Son cracker factory.
the Palmer quilt mills, the L. Il. Whit
on Machine company, the Hopson &
Chaplin company, the New London Ma
rine and iron works, the New London
wash SILK company. the Thames ship
yard, the w. d. Forbes company and
others. These concerns sought no
backing" from the board Of trade or
business mems association and were
not offered special inducements in the
matter of free buildings, or building
sites, exemption from taxation, or any
of these sort of things. These con-
Germs are the real business life of the
city and are entitled to proper consid-
GRAFTON. II is well to do all that is
reasonable to induce prospective indus
tries to locate here. but IL is not ad-
visable to permit scheming promoters
to do the people.
There is no dearth of mayoralty ma
terial in New London and as the time
for harvest nears new candidates crop
up and all but one viii be eventually
weeded out and cast aside Naturally
the candidates named are republicans,
as there Is not a ghost of a show to
elect true blue democrat to succeed
Mayor Armstrong.
The latest candidate is Theodore Bo-
denwein, nominated by a paper that
is circulated Sundays. Mr.. Boden-
veins political career is given I'm de-
tail. and his fitness for the place IS
Vividiy portrayed. IL is an open race
and Mr.. Bodenwein is entitled TO en-
try, and if this nomination is approved
by the party he would surely be elect
ed.
Still, there are some in New London
so blind TO the real political situation.
that they have the nerve to state that
Mayor Armstrong will be succeeded
by a nominee of the democratic party:
to which one on the inside or rather
who was once in the ring hummed
merrily: But they don't know Nellie
as L do, said the saucy little bird on
Nellie's hat" He then said in
whisper: Hon Theodore Bodenwein
for mayor of the city of New London;
he's all right"
The other candidates named to date
are Senior Alderman stephen J. Dow
ney, Charles II. klinck. jeremiah d.
Cronin Thomas A. Scott. Alexander
Campbell and p Leroy Harwood. on
the republican side, and Bryan +. Ma
han and James Moran by the demo-
Gratis. Although over six months away
the mayoralty campaign Is now on.
Austin Rice, who has probably been
in more ring fistie encounters than any
man alive, and for the money there
was in it, is one of the few fighters
who never drank intoxicating liquors
or used tobacco in any form, and saved
his money Austin is a handy. indus
trious chap and when not In the ring
is willing to do almost any kind OF
laborious work with carpeRtering as
a specially. and is therefore always in
fit condition.
At present he is supervising the mix
ing of cement in connection with i'm
provements on the Mohican hotel and
ers. In order to complete necessary
mixing, Austin attempted to hurry the
trio In order to complete the mix be-
fore the arrival of the quitting hour.
Angry words resulted and one of the
fellows struck Austin and the other
two joined in. In the very first round
Austin had two OF his assailants down
and out and was sailing into the third
in Whirlwiud style, when fellow work.
men interfered and stopped the one
sided fight.
Austin was the smallest man OF the
quartette yet he disposed Of his as
sailants without much difficulty.
There is nothing of the bullying ma
ture in Austin Rice's makeup, and he
would not have struck the first blow,
much preferring TO settle difficulties by
reasoning when outside the ring. He
was not slow. however, in resenting the
blow he received. and now the Italians
are wondering how the trick was
turned They took him for an easy
mark and fully realize their mistake.
Rice is the owner of several fine dwell
ing houses in Waterford. just over the
boundary line