Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-19
ANNUAL MEETING, BOARD OF TRADE
Edwin A. Tracy Elected President the Ensuing Year - Committee Reports Show Activity During Past Year-Retirng President, Frederick w. Cary, Ke- ports Outside Poor and Schools with Statement of the Accomplishments of the Board

assortment is no larger or better The report was accepted.
 Seattle and Norwich.
 President Cary called upon pr. r. | P. GulIiver to tell of his recent trip | to the west. and he spoke in particular | of Seattle, where the large hills are being taken down for the betterment
 of the city. Houses and hotels are removed and many millions spent Tn
 regarding. He showed seven views or | the work under way there, all of which he saw. What is being done at Seattle.
 powerful streams of water, is apph- | cable to Norwich. A year ago he sug- | gested the advisability of filling in the l cove to provide for the future growth l of Norwich. furnishing suitable busi-
 ness sites. He showed a map of the
 city with the streets laid out. Two
 main avenues should cross 1t. one.
 Rockwell avenue. i,ic which will in h time tim park, through the present Rockwell | street, crossing Broadway to Washing | ton street and crossing Washington l street on long gentle incline down to
 a point some g feet above high water l level and thence ascending southwest
 ward up a long gentle incline to the 1 corner of Asylum and Colt streets, and l then by the lower part of Asylum to l West Main street, out to the East l Great Plain, which should be the great industrial region of Greater Norwich. | At right angles to this street would 1 be a street leading northwestward | from Washington square, over which | the trolley line from Norwich to Col | chester and Hartford should extend.
 It would be possible even now to plan i a temporary structure for this trolley which we all hope will be built in the | future so that the street could be built | later at the same grade.
 If the money which has been used 1 in the past twenty years for the aid of | the poor had been spent on some such l general improvement for the city and | town of Norwich, we would have some l thing to show for the large amount of | money paid out to help people out of | work. and those who are out of work would prefer to have work of such | character to do rather than to simply
 receive help from the town or charita-
 ble organizations or from secret so- | ciety benefit funds.
 He closed amidst applause, and the | pictures were looked at with interest | later.
 Secretary Tibbfts' Report Secretary H. w Tibbits made a re- port of the years activity, referring to i the satisfactory business done, a large
 amount of work in the building trades,
 and referred to the comprehensive showing of the industrial. building and banking interests as made by The Bull
 letin January 1st- Besides the many
 the new houses Of Telly Babcocl1, F. w ! Browning. F. W. Cary and J. Dana | Colt. There have been four deaths 1 Nathan L. Bishop. James H. Welles. | Augustus Colt and Charles H. Pres | ton. Quite a number have moved away l but the membership has been kept up 1 so that it is still at the 300 mark. He | spoke in particular of the valuable ser | vices of the president during the past | two years and his untiring efforts in i behalf of the board.
 President Cary Heard President Cary stated that the com
 n1ittee on statistics had been preparing
 it's report, but it was stated Saturday {, that they were not able to make a full | report. He had, however prepared a | hurried statement himself covering the
 outside poor and the schools, which he
 made part of his report. He had pro-
 ceeded but a short way in his report on the outside poor, showing Norwich to | De giving ont money as charity in larg- | CT volume than such cities as New Ha- | ven or Denver. It caused much surprise ! m the gathering, even window weight ] breaking away from its fastening. He
 said:
 The Outside Poor. | The object of this report is to com. | pare the conditions existing in Nor | Wich and elsewhere in reference to | the outside poor. It is not the in-
 tention to criticise the administration of the law in any way or any public | official. When the public treasury is ! open to those who feel poor or com i paratlvely poor or call themselves poor, the result is easy to predict w hO- l ever may be in office
 Section 3296 of the statutes of the | state of Connecticut provide that "aIl | persons supported by any town shall be supported in an almshouse or other l place or places. provided by such town ! but nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent towns from -giv-
 ing temporary aid to any persons in | need of partial support
 | Neglect of the law is chiefly respon-
 sfble for outdoor poor existence Town | and organized charities, ecclesiastical | societies and clubs are together car | Ing Tor an ever increasing number of | people willing to be made benefIciar- ies. Without going into details at great length as might be done with the facts at hand it may be stated that the re | suits of Investigations and reforms | made in various cities of the state demonstrate clearly these two facts. First: Outside relief should be dis | couraged and dependents should be | cared for at the town homes or aims | houses Second: Public charities 1 should be dispensed by a non-politicaI | cooperative commission and not by the selectmen and various missions | acting independently.
 In the year ending September I. 1909 | the town of Norwich raised the sum | of $50.53z.0S or equal to a 3-mill tax. 1 for charity. The sum was expended | as follows:
 Amount. No Aided. l Outside poor $24.0949O 400 Almshouse ...... 12,749.07 95 1 Neglected and de-
 pendent children. 4S47s5 g | Sheltering Arms - 44eoO 6 Insane S,366.12 III l Taxes abated ..... 3O14 9