Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-15
Ex-Mayor Thayer on Norwich Charter
Renews His of Six Years go for Con-
solicitation of own and City Governments and the
Conduct of Affairs by Mayor and Eight Heads of De-
partments-Other Speakers Heard at Good Citizen
ship Meeting.

A series of monthly meetings to be
conducted under the auspices of tae
Norwich prohibition town comm ttee
was begun Monday evening in room 2,
Bill block, having an attendance If
about IS, of whom about 10 were wom-
en- A musical programme and dig
cussion of the need of a new charter
for Norwich filed the hour and a half
in an interesting way.
Herbert w. Gallup, who p'es.ded.
called the meeting to order a. 7-4o
O'Clock, and prayer was offered ty
Henry e. Anderson. Moonlight on tie
Lake was melodiously sung b. the
Willard Male quartette, whioh includes
George A. Turner, Stephen - Pe.ck-
ham, Arthur r. Parker and William A
Lund, with Roy c. Phillips as acro4n-
PIANIST.
Temperance instruction in Schools.
The Scientific Tenn erln,e Inst1lc-
ton Law and How It is Enfnrce1 was
the subject treated briefly and in
structively by Mrs Joseph J. Fields
She gave it as her opini IN ttl.+ tile
instruction was given "a the 81 hosss
faithfully and in the rig 1T spirit but
that the attitude of the >jffi,;iais whG
are concerned with enfor,i asy lie srt'-
tobacco law was no help to the teach
ing in the schools. If this law were
better enforced she said she thought
there would not be 50 many boys sent
to Brewster's Neck and state reform
atorieS on account Of cigarettes, of
which she gave Instances.
A bass solo, Big Ben, was well rem
dered by Prof W. E. Geary, for which
he gave There's Nothing So Good as a
Laugh for an encore.
What Norwich Needs.
The Present Norwich Charter and
Its Errors was the subject for an adj
dress by Orman E. Ryther, but he was
absent for some unexplained reason.
Ex-Mayor Charles f. Thayer was also
on the programme to speak on The
was presented by Chairman Gallup at
this time. MIR. Thayer devoted his talk
entirely to the kind of charter Norwich
ought to have, introducing his subject
by asking who could tell what consti-
tuteS the city of Norwich After sew
eral had offered answers tha- were de-
clared to be wrong, the ez mayor an
swered his own question by saying tnat
tors and living within the boundaries
of the city Such a corporation as the
United States Steel company or the
Pennsylvania railroad had more peo-
pie in it than constituted the city Ct
Norwich, and when suen irt.cepse
ness and do it successfully with from
five to nine people sitting around Il
table as board of direc.0rs Why 5 it
necessary for a city of this size 10
have such a cumbers me and "a sc
legislative system. We have to keep
our cumbersome siyst@ n because we
have a charter that req les it.
Boston Has New Charter.
Galveston. Houston, Tex, and CheI-
sea, Mass, were all instanced to show
how a big calamity sometimes makes
a city get down to business principles
and all these had reorganized under
the commission system Boston also
had recently adopted a new charter
along similar lines and is now to be
governed under the latest election by
nine individuals.
But Norwich, said Mr. Thayer, will
sit still until something wakes them
UP and will likely be the last city in
the country to get into line with the
modern idea of city government. Ev-
knows We are not doing bust
ness in the way it ought to be done,
for we are living under a charter that
is 125 years old