Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-07-23
New London Would Get Into Step With
Modern Customs
FORT TRUMBULL OUT OF SERVICE
The Salvation Army Store Discontinued Military Vis
tors to New Lordon-Gentemanly Representatives
of the Marine Corps-A Veteran Band Leader.

were Objectionable to parties doing
| missionary work in other places
The claim was made that the articles
given to these collectors and sold for
the benefit of the Salvation Army and
| some of the beneficiaries in New Lon
don, should be applied to nome mis-
| sion work. Instead of putting these
| articles up for sale and dividing a
| portion of the profits in aid of the
poor, they could be more advantage
| ously disposed of by the missionary
workers in the places visited, by direct
donation to the poor and needy of
those places, and let New London take
! care of its own part of the communi-
| ty that is always with us.
! The article that were given in the
name of charity were put on sale i'm
a store that commanded fair rent on
| one of the principal business streets
of the city, the man in charge being a
| large, healthy looking, well-fed indi-
vfdual and of course had a clerk or
| two The salaries. rent, horse and
wagons and drivers all partook of the
| profits, and what was left for the de-
| serving poor was conn aratively small.
| So the passage of the Salvation Army
| industrial store in New London will
be no gerat loss to the poor Of the
| city.
The passage Of Fort TrunbuII no n
military post is certainly regretted by
the oldest inhabitant and his contem-
/
hood taken pride in the old granite
structure that in its day was consid-
cred a model in its Line, and they re-
call with interest the many pleasant
visits before and during the civil war
when the fort was the principal point
of attraction in New London, and al
most every resident visited the reser-
walton at least every Sunday when out
for the constitutional walk which has,
in these days of trolley cars and auto
momi1es, almost become a rarity.
Among the men that came from New
port after building Fort Adams to aid
in the construction OF Fort Trumbun
were the fathers of the oldest Irish
residents of New London of today, and
these have reached the three score
and ten allotment.
Already the last commend that oc-
cupied the fort has been transferred
to the island forts, leaving a detail OF
twenty men to care for the property
and fire the gun that regulates the
rising of the sun and the setting there
of, and to raise and lower the nag at
the same time with becoming cere-
mony in the last surviving fort in the
state of Connecticut. This detail will
remain until formal possession is taken
by the treasury department and the
reservation used as training school
for the revenue cutter service, which
is to be transferred from Arundel Cove,
Maryland. With the great majority
of troops being assigned to the island
IOTtS, ana with only one COLI any dL
Trumbull for the past few years the
change will be of greater benefit to
New London and bring. another branch
of the service to the Vicinity.
During the past week the regular
artillery, the state artillery and in
fantry and the regular marine and
signal corps have been fully represent
ed upon the streets of New London
and opportunity given to observe the
<f "a 1TnffnfyTy1eA
and there were sailors enough to take
into the comparison. No finer body
of enlisted men, in appearance and act
ion have been in the city than the
cIean-cut young fellows OF the marine
corps now stationed at the naval sta
tfon, and who compare favorably with
the gentlemanly midshipmen from
Annapolis. The regulars OF the army
and navy as a rule, are we'll behaved.
but the runaway troops of tho state
of Connecticut from the camp at Nj
antic are in the main a disgrace to
the state and the uniform. IL is we'll
that the few that come to the city are
not truly representative or the main
body of state troops so far as goes
behavior, or the good name of that
creditable body would be i'm order for
These uniformed chaps from Mantle
seem to change their general nature
when they get into the active service
of the state for a week. and no matter
now respectable tney may ne at Otner
times. when they come to New Lon
don they act like a lot of hoodlums
and are evidently away from home as
soldiers for the first time and seem
to have lost their self-respect.
"Incompetent leadership and un-
spiritual methods blocked the way for
a forward march, along the lines for
the one purpose for which a Sunday
school stands" is the public declara-
inn ~ Henry Francis Adams
the new pastor of the Montauk Ave-
hue Baptist church, in explaining why
lhe church had not progressed, and
he Sunday school given fictitious
been bestowed on the chiidren's social
side and but very itttle the spirit
Ial, and the Sunday school and the
.hurch were practically divorced. The
Sunday school enrolment showed 440,
nut when the new pastor cut out the
social side il almost Immediately
lwindled to 142. showing that there
vas absolute lack of real church work
n the Sunday school and in conse-
luence there was a standstill in the
membership of the church.
Rev. Mr.. Adams states that the three
asst pastors strove to unite the church
md Sunday school, but were antago-
lized by a self-assumed authority that
and hampered them in their
work.. He does not propose TO submit
o any such dictation and has sue
eeueQ III removing IHe cause OF the
disturbance. 1t is his intention TO put
cal Christian life into the church and
ave religion paramount 10 social en-
even If to do this IL will
e necessary to do considerable
Feeding in the garden of discomfort.
lie will attempt to do the church work
long the lines that have not prevail.
d in the conduct of that particular
hurch, he says, and will make a COM
lete change even to the name of the
HURON. believing that essential in
rder to make a fresh start on entirely
ifferent basis. IL is understood that
lev. Mr.. Adams public declaration IL
lined AT one who has been in the
hurch leadership since its organiza-
on. He is determined TO have his
wn way in the management OF the
fairs of the church. and that he VIII
e the pastor in fact as well as in
anne.
That veteran band leader, Edward
b. Colby, who has probably s~Ua0insd
lore bands from raw material ana
rought out more musicians than any
and leader in New England 10 No.
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