Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-07-02

Some time ago Mayor Mahan gave
Police Captain Haven orders to issue
no licenses for the sale of fireworks,
so when the regular dealers called at
the captains Office for license, TO say
that they were surprised would be
putting il very mild, as they gave ex-
preston to their feelings in the most
natural way as they had invested good
money i'll replenishing the stock in
anticipation OF a good Fourth of July
trade The mayor was appealed to
and he declared that the orders to
Captain Haven were simply to delay
the issue of licenses so that what was
considered restrictions necessary for
the public safety could be properly
framed. The MAYOR says he was too
much of boy himself TO prevent the
boys of today from celebra ting a little
out of the ordinary on Independence
Day, and that licenses TO sell certain
feworks will be issued to proper APP
plicants. It is his intention TO pre-
vent the sale of death dealing i'm
plements that are classed as fireworks,
but not to deprive the Young Ameri-
can of today from celebrating the
Fourth in noisy way as did his for
bears.
As men grow old they apparently
join the ranks of the Safe and Saners,
and are liable to go to extremes, even
more so. perhaps than do the boys
whose pleasure and patriotism they
seek to curtail by prohibiting the use
of anv kind of fireworks or noisy
demonstra ton. AS the Fourth draws
nearer and expression is more free it
is very plain that some of the ex-
tremists would not even permit the
of fire. crackers because of the noise
that was in them, not the danger.
These are the kind OF people that OBJ
ject to children hesitating in front
of their residences while on the way
or coming from school. To certain
extent. Councilman Flynn gave the
spike a fair blow when he said:
When man gets too old to light a
match, or too mean to buy one, he at
once becomes a leader in the extreme
safe and sane Fourth of July move
ment"
The local police authorities and the
general public was surprised to learn
that the state police had been at work
in New London securing evidence of
the Illegal sale of liquor in alleged
places of ill-repute, the proprietors of
some of these places having been
hailed into court and fines imposed.
So secretly did the state policemen do
their detective work that the first the
police knew Of their visitation, which
Was nearly two months ago, was when
the warrants for the arrest OF Of
tenders was placed with them for
service. Other arrests are TIC follow
IN the near future from this same class
of Offenders and some are puzzled to
ascertain at whose request the aid of
the state police was sought to enforce
the law in well-policed New London.
The discovery of places of ill-repute
demonstrates that the work of the
Committee of Fifteen while effective
at the time was not lasting in regard
TO this special class Of offenders. and
it was perhaps these committeeman
who discerned that there was work here
for the state police. 1t is said that the
state policemen have also gathered
evidence against certain drinking
clubs in the city and that the arrest
and prosecution OF the proprietors will
soon follow ami that on the side the
state detectives have a half hitch on
some of the gambling places, which
includes fruit stores where shaking
of dice and other forms of gambling
constitutes the main part of the bus
mess 1t is common, even on Sunday
evenings, to see gambling going on in
the open in these fruit stores and the
wonder is that this had not been