Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-09
There is Likely to be Monumental Proof Mahan
 Has Been Mayor.
HE IS A MUNICIPAL PROMOTER
Something the Society for MaInq City Beautiful May Do-New London Slow in Adopting a Fair Deal Ordinance But O'Leary Wins Credit for the Achieve ment-. he German Societies.

he became the owner of the same Crocker house. Since then he has ! built large and beautiful annex tO the hotel building, and the e1cavatlon of solid ledge of rock and the build { ing of the foundation was under his personal direction, he having awarded | the contract for the work to himself. and he accomplished it fin quicker tine and at less expense than could any experienced contractor This only goes 10 show Mayor Mahan's characteristics and demonstrates that he does things
 He was elected mayor of New Lon- don last October, about n week after n city meeting had turned down a. re- eonneinlddsstion for appropriation for lie has called a city meeting and bad ans appropriation made for building side walksf and also for paving Bank street from State street to HOWard. a dis tance of over half n mile. Not only that, but he has awarded the contract for the work to responsible contract ors,' the work has been commenced and will be completed SO as not to mate rially interfere with the increased traffic in the good old summer time. True the contract for the paving was not awarded to the lowest bidder but according to the belief of the mayor was awarded to the most responsible bidder, to one long experienced in that class of work and who has furnished a completed and to the full satisfaction of the mayor and his street commit tee at a specified time, and in this job , time is of considerable value The mayor probably took this feature under consideration in the awarding of the contract.
 Yes. Mayor Mahan certainly does things and in a way sometimes thac evol1es unfavorable criticism, but hH doesn't mind a Title thing like that, SO long as it results in city improvement and provides what is considered a public benefit, for with him the end justifies the means and he seems tn take stock in the old saw that "Alrs well that ends well"
 That success crowns persistent efS fort" was clearly demonstrated aft tho common council meeting Monday eVen- ing, when the ordinance regulating the duties of sealer of weights and meRa- ures, introduced by Alderman James F. OLeary five months ago, was unan- imously adopted. At the outset the matter was not even given a reRpectful reception, but received in ridicuie and derison. Then attempt was made to pigeon hole the ordinance and other tactics resorted to fin order to. defeat it's adoption But the Fourth wand alderman from Montault avenue per- severed, Knowing that it was a good thing. and pushed 1t along to final passage.
 For years there has been no sealing of weights and measures in New Lon- don. and as a result there hhs been every opportunity for the dishonest
 
 and for others to cheat themselves and their customers unWittingly. With the new ordinance properly enforced there will be a, square deal in the matter or weights and measures fin New London in the future.
 Alderman OLeary has succeeded in furnishing a method for fair dealing and now it is up to the council and the prosecuting officer and tho sealer ot weights and measures to make practi- cal application. IL is an ordinance that was wanted by the general pub- lie and should be Immediately put Into practice.
 The German societies of Now Lone don have already commenced ar ranuements for an old fashioned picnic fin the early summer of the same order as annual events of this nature were given half a century ago, when. so it is said there were as many German residents in the city as there are to- day one important old-fashioned feature will, however, from necessity be omitted, as the latter-day Ger mans do not seem to engage in tha picnios of the long ago. There will b@ no ground and lofty tumbling. no hu- man pyramid building or parallel ana horizontal bar contests for prizes.
 The time was when a. society on Germans indulged in this circus liltg exercise. with gymnasium fin the olM Dart hall in Bradley street, and theim feats excited wonder and admifatlou at the German picnics in thls sections Locally the Germans were leaders Tn all the field sports. but nowadays baseball seems to have the call and alA athletic sports of the old days are al- most unknown about New London