Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-23

selling .iiquor without . iicsnse, is taken as evidence of good faith on the part of the prosecuting attorney and police officers to give attention to un- licensed sellers as we'll as to those who hold license and violate the liquor laws by selling on Sundays and at hours by law forbidden It has been known to the police for the past year and more that intoxicating drink was being sold in an unlicensed place at Fort Neck and that the big trade day was Sunday, but they did not seem able to get the kind of evidence that was necessary to bring conviction. Now that they have started in it would be gratifying to lovers of law and or der as well as believers in a. square dead, those who do not believe 1t fair to discriminate and raid the licensed fellows who violated the law and not modest those who had no license at all but perhaps paid government tax in order to escape federal prosecution.
 The prosecuting ondcer has said that anyone who had the price conld buy booze in the kitchen bar rooms on Fort Neck and that it was the inten- ton to put an end to that sort Of busi- ness in New London. It may be that the prosecutor had in mind the club rooms where the main business is done on Sundays and where anyone who is able to climb two flights of stairs, push the button, will be admit ted into bar room where any anount of booze can be purchased for a slight advance charged by the licensed liquor dealers who pay for the privilege of engaging in the business, and, who are required to except Sunday as a day to rake in the shekels over the bar or at the serving table. To be sure, 1t is not easy to get positive evidence of sale, but some one truly said in the long, long ago, that where there is d will there is way.
 It is understood that the police de- Iartment is soon to receive a list of I.CF Hvh ha ont tax as wholesale and retail liquor dealers in New London and a publish ed list would prove interesting read ing and give an idea of the number in the city who sell booze without paying for the kind of license that is issued by the commissioners for New London county.
 weights and measures became opera tive last Tuesday and during the year all weights and measures used in the @ users win viii be be- penansed - es if the m muche che needed ordinance is properly enforced, and if is up to the sealer of weights and measures to do the enforcing act. Up to date nothing has been done mand that the ofYfcisl be up and doing. If the delay is caused by reason of lack of proper equipment to do the work the sealer should immediately get In
 
 property and the required utensils win be furnished. At this stage of the game lack of equipment will be considered . himsy excuse, for the people wanted the ordinence, not simply as ieWai document but for its. strict enforce ment
 Alderman O'Leary succeeded fin hay- ing the ordinance adopted after over coming many obstacles, worked the matter up so that the whole public became earnestly interested and now there is general demand for its rigid enforcement. The alderman has done his part of the work we'll and ft ts time the sealer got busy, especially as the ordinance gives him all neces- sary power and police prosecuting assistance. The ordinance should not be classed as among the dead ones. SO near after it's birth.
 Although it has been published that building the now bridge across the Thames for the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad company of at least two years. as a matter of fact, aL gang of surveyors are already in New London and commenced taking sound ines and surveys for the abutments on Friday, which would intricate that the actual work of bridge building would begin in the near future, and that bS- fore the end of the two years much of the work would be completed. The sooner this work is commenced the better it will be for New London, in need of some project that will nSt only give work to those not now esn- ployed but will br-ing to the city many from other places.