Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-16

1 furnisheA He receives the pay of all
 his men at the contract price and he
 eae tG ths asreeS msn upon daily n Some
 instances the boss sells to- his men the food they consume while on the job. In this way there is always
 mix-up before final settlement IS
 reached and. as rule, the laborers are the losers, but through no fault
 of the general contractors.
 Monday morning a gang of fl men
 were discharged on the Pawcatuck weeks wages due them. They came to Dixon square in body and made their complaint to Policeman West
 and pleaded with him to go and get the money for them.
 They were informed that tie police department was not a collection agency. and that if they had been
 dress, but that it would naturally Sconle by the intervention of the sher- if armed with the necessary docu
 ments of procedure The spokesman of the party declared that they would get the money due them before the
 boss left town, and by legal methods if possible. At last accounts the boss was still in town and the mems claims were not satisfied.
 There is typhoid fever in the loeaIi
 ty where there was diphtheria less than a year ago, and Health Officer stanton IS attempting 10 Cneck lIO. spread of the disease. daughter of Alphcnze Quattromani. in Pond street is i'll with typhoid fever and is being cared for by the family physi- are reasonably enforced. The first case of diphtheria that resulted il several deaths was discovered in the same house, which gives cause for the belief that there is lack of proper sanitary conditions
 The second case of typhoid fever is daughter of Donate Venditi. in the same street. The afflicted girls are dfphtheria rage there was a general improvement of sanitation in that section. but there is much more need ed in that line before the community lis properly safeguarded.
 Health Officer an&on aided by the physicians and polie&dep apartment sue ceeded in keeping the diphtheria cases within the territory where it origi- mated and like precaution will De taken in the present cases.
 Capt. John F. Murphy of Woon socket is on visit to relatives in Webster, somewhat improved after a long siege of illness. He went out in the Spanish American war as lieu tenant of B company (Pawcatuck) Third regiment and was promoted 70 regiment. For the past two years he has been suffering from disease con tracted while in the service, and Is a deserving applicant for a pension. Before the Spanish-American War Capt. Murphy was for many years connected with B company, Third regiment, c. N G.
 Cyclone hose wagon was shipped to Providence Monday and is to be sup piled with a chemical tank of 25 gal Ions capacity, which with the addi- ti0naI hose and basket will add near 1y one thousand pounds to the weight of the apparatus. or a total of abont $500 pounds. The wagon was origi- nalIy built to carry one thousand feet of hcGe and was constructed for that weight Still men experienced in fire apparatus say that the conversion into a combination hose and chemical wagon is practical.
 It will be quite a load for pair of horses to draw at speed up Quarry hill and some other steep grades in Westerly, and a chemical wagon to be of any use certainly must be speedy as chemicals are of use after fire has attained headway that usually requires several streams of water to extinguish. The value of chemicals is in attacking fire before it breaks through a building, and is of no use after a stream of water has been applied.-