Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-07-23

Bradley street dogs, like other res
ldents Of that thoroughfare, have no
| special respect for the policemen
whose headquarters are in the same
! street, for last week two different dogs
| sunk their teeth into the calves of the
legs of two different policemen. One
| OF the dogs is dead and the other is
| doomed. So far as known these dogs
were never known to bite a human
belng before, and just why they should
begin on policemen is perhaps best
known to dogdom. 1t is said by one
one who has for years been a close
observer of dogs and their habits, that
the CANNES are more likely to make
trouble for men in uniform than for
others. He said that he has known
vicious dogs to lay for letter. carriers,
policemen, soldiers, and even the COL
ored walters on the New York boats,
one of these animals meandering over
from East New London to the railway
station just for the purpose of getting
growl at the black men in uniform
who are lined up to carry the baggage
and act as escort to passengers from
the station to the boat He says that
the dog started on the trip just once
too often, as he got in the way of one
of the fast moving trains of the Gen.
trail Vermont road and was killed.
Once upon a time there was law
enforced in the orderly city of New
London that required that dogs be
muZzled if allowed to roam at large
during such a heated term as recent
ly experienced, and all other laws that
worked against the dogs were looked
up and made effective. But since then
New London has a solitary dog officer
and he is supposed to see to it that all
dogs are registered and officially tag
ged, and that vicious dogs are kept
on the leash or confined ON the prem
ises of the owners. Then, again, the
dogs of today seem to have become
more tame than their ancestors and
do not bite man as did their daddies
and mammies of long ago. at the
slightest provocatfon, or none at all,
hence the passing away of muzzles.
According to an item in a local
newspaper New London is overrun
with tramps, and in state street
Migrants perch themselves in the DOOR
ways of vacant stores until the police
man comes in sight. and then they get
UP and walk away" Aside from its
thing about the item that does not
augur well for New London as a pro-
gressive city, and gives readers
wrong impression of the principal
ter of fact. there are no vacant stores
in the section named for the tramps
to perch themselves" in the door
ways and If there is an army of
tramps there they must, according to
the traffic squad on duty at the sta
ton, be of the invisible species, and
of the. kind that can walk away with
out getting up.
The police officers declare that they
have endeaVOred to keep the section
named clear of the free travellers and
had supposed they had been successful
in their endeaVors until informed to
the contrary by the news item refer
red to. One of the blue-coated guard |
ians of the peace remarked if he had |
not read to the contrary, that he would |
brand the statement as a fabrication, |
but as he read it in a newspaper, IL |
must be So for were it not true it |
would not have been printed in the |
newspaper. See?
Attention has been called several |
times to the actual need of physician |
at fires prepared to act in case of |
Within a year at least |
two firemen, the kind that go right |
into the fire to fight it, have become
were resuscitated with difficulty, there /
being someone present on |
both occasions who happened to know
just what to do in such cases. Dur
ing that same period other members
of the fire department have received
injuries that required medical atten-
ton, and unnecessary suffering was
endured for the lack of that first aid
10 the injured that could have been
given were a physician at the fire for
that purpose. The men of the de-
oartment are volunteers who freely
give their service to save the proper
" of others, and 1t would seem that
)ne or more of the many young phy-
;icians of the city would volunteer to
attend all fires and render professional |
service when required to the disabled |
iremen injured in the performance of
iuty. OF course, it could not be ex-
1ected that the physicians would con-
inue in the care of the injured on the
,ame terms, but that first and essen
ia1 aid should be purely voluntary,
md given as freely as the firemen
give their service for the benefit or
,thers.
In the village of Westerly two ply
ficians make it rule to respond to
III alarms of fire with all possible
ase of emergency. and one of them
las presented a rolling stretcher of his
'wn construction to one of the COM
,anies. which is nodded into such a
mall compass that it is carried on the
lose wagon without interfering in the
east with the regular equipment of
he wagon. These physicians have
lso seen to it that each fire apparatus
$ provided with a medicine chest, sup
lied with the necessaries for first aid
o the injured cases.
In New London TO provision is
nade for the immediate care of fire
zen who are injured in line of duty,
kept that one or two companies are
uplied with emergency medicine
hests. but there is no volunteer ply
ian at hand to apply the remedies and
elieve the sufferer. II there are no !
MUSICIANS in the city who will step ,,
D the front and center and volunteer :
D do that special fire duty. then the /.
re department committee of the court ,
{ common council should provide the
'ays and means.
The industrial store of the Saliva | !
on Army in New London, which has e
cen doing business I'm Bank street o
pr nearly three years. is now dispos- q