Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-21

For the first time since the James Gordon Bennett episode in New Lon | don, the New York yacht club on | annual cruise gave this harbor the go- l by last season, and it was a matter | or sincere regret to all the towns i people, the summer visitors and those rom nearby places who come to | town annually to see the big fleet of | yachts, gaily dressed with flags by
 day and illuminated at night with electric lights. It was feared that this
 new departure would become per- | manent and that there would be no more official assembling of the yachts in these waters, for with the old Pequot house gone it was believed one yachtmen would lead to that regret table result.
 Commodore James announces that the fleet will come to New London on
 the afternoon of August and remain in port .oVer Sunday, departing for Newport on Monday morning. He will lead the fleet in his new flagship the Aloho which was designed by Captain BezanSon of New London and built under his personal supervision. So he is one of the few yacht captains who commands a yacht of his own design and build, and it will be pleasing to his many friends to see him and the new yacht here in August with a yacht
 that will be fully the equal if not the
 superior of any in the large fleet. New London now has the peculiar distinction of being a summer resort
 with no seashore hotel and there is no
 surface indication that one is to be
 built on the site of the old Pequot house, one of the most desirable sites
 on the eastern coast. But just across
 the river in the town of Groton and convenient to the anchorage ground
 of the New York yacht fleet Is the large, new and modern GriE WOld hotel, built by Morton F. Plant and conceded to be the finest summer hotel in the
 United States. So the yachtsmen will
 not lack a suitable place for any social event that may be connected with the visit and which necessarily must be held on shore.
 It was the custom of the Peauot house management to have a grand
 pyrotechnic display in honor of the
 visitation of the yachts and this fea-
 ture will now probably be supplied
 by the summer residents. in which the
 townspeople would gladly aid if per
 mitted. At the present time the Pe-
 quot hotel property is not occupied and
 the fireworks could be displayed there
 as in former years, while the yachts
 men would show appreciation of the
 reception by a general illumination.
 This is a matter that the local semi
 official local organizations, the board
 of trade and business mems associa-
 ton, might with propriety take the
 initiative and make the celebration the
 biggest kind of a success.
 Representative Lucius E. Whiton re-
 fuses to be eliminated from the list of
 probable candidates to represent New London in the next state legislature and states plainly that he is a candi- date for reelection. A writer in a local newspaper. evidently with editor ial sanction, stated that MT. Whfton was eliminated" and the gentleman takes exception to being turned down in that particular way, believing that to be matter to be determined by the republican party of New London.
 hot he .f opinion that his experience in the leg islature has made him better qualified to serve the state more efficiently than at the last session of the legislature. He truly adds that he became identi- fled at the last session with a number of matters, which are of much inn portance to the people of the state, and that he is willing, even at consider able personal sacrifice. to serve another term, if enough of his fellow citizens so desire.
 No representative from New London in recent years attained as much prominence in legislative work al did Mr Whiton. and his colleagues were constantly reminded that there was such a place as New London in the 1 state of Connecticut. He is the head l as he says, it would be a sacrifice for ! him to neglect that business in order | to serve the state. He is a man of 1 more than average ability, a good | citizen and a thorough republican, so 1 thoroughly honest in politics that he probably is not sufficiently pliant | to politicians who serve the party for | what there is in it for them. There | are men in the republican party. be- l sides the scribe who wants him elim- | mated, who have made endeavor to | kill him off as candidate for re- election. and use as d lever that MT. | Whiton was defeated in the nayoralty | contest by Mayor Bryan F. Mahan, | who was nominated on the democratic l ticket and elected chief magistrate of | a dem ocratfc city.
 There were conditions in that city 1 election that will not prevail in | the state election, and many who | voted against Mir. Whiton for mayor will be early at the polls to vote for him as representative in the | general assembly. In fact there are many men in both parties who are of opinion that Mir. Whiton is better fitted to represent the district | in the state senate than any candidate that has been named to date. The | people are beginning to realize that all | that goes to make up a competent, honest legislator is not confined to men | who have studied law and used it as a leverage for political advancement.
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 The interest account of the city of | New London is quite an item, fifty six | thousand dollars or more and prospects, | of an almost immediate increase. But | a little matter like that will not in the least deter the carrying out of the gen. eral plan of Mayor Mahan for the improvement of the city In order to better the general conditions it. is | necessary to spend money. and if there | are no spare funds in the city treasury the money must be borrowed, or rather hired. and for the use of the money interest must be paid. So there you are. There is to be city meeting to- day Saturday.. to act upon the rec of the court of common oil i31 ions i'm | SI4 900 in addition to the regular ap- for streets, that amount To be hired at rate of interest not to exceed live per cent
 It may be necessary for the city of New London to pay such a rate of interest, but the town of Westerly can get all the cash required for the expenses of the town. for three and one eighth per cent. interest, which is evidence of a superior hnan- cial condition