Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-18
New London's Committee of Fifteen in
 Active Service
A NEW BRASS BAND PROBABLE
A Suitable Testimonial to be Presented Mayor Mahan The Building of New Walks For 1911 End New London Needs Standard Time.

ing rich man, as rich men go now adays. and when the old song that began with If l had but a thousand a year, what sights would I see and
 how say would I be, if I had but thousand year. as applied to pres ent times, is ridiculous. concluded that
 return for a part of the cost he ex-
 pended would not be very much out of Elace, and, with the resolutions. would be about what the contribut.E3 cit
 izens would like to have presented to Mayor Mahan.
 The committee has raised purse of S5,000 and So quietly that it was hard ly knCw wn outside the committee mem bership and the contributors. This substantial testimonial will be given
 the mayor just as soon as the en- | grassed testiai onial is completed and effort will be made to have the pres ! entation informal and in quiet a
 way as the testimonial was made a
 reality
 The end is near for the building of
 new sidewalks in New London until highways begin to bud, and then the | good work will be carried on to com pietion of the present contracts which provide for the laying of over thirty ! miles of granolithic sidewalks. In ad- dition to this, many of the sidewalks
 pf other material in different sections of the city have been placed in good condition, and before the end of next summer New London will probably be among the best sidew5lked cities in
 the state. if not in all New England. It will be q wonderful transformation, :. s for wears the ordinances relative to sidewalks h;lve not been enfoI cc.i and as q result the sidewalks were in ex-
 tremely bad condition
 IL is noticed that in the laying of the new sidewalks there was no deStrur
 tioE of shade trees, which is in marked contrast to the wholesale destruction
 of trees in Bank street when the yit- rified brick pavement was being laid The sections of that street which were shaded by stately elms is now as open as the busiest thoToushfares of the larger cities and the cosy homes on the lower end of the street are no long
 CT shaded in the good old summer tIme-
 There is not a tree along the street now from State to Shaw streets, and all on account of the reasoning of the city authorities who declared that if the trees remained the Vlrr1ned Drlck paTement would be pushed out of place by the roots of the beautiful elm treesl It is evident that the city fathers of
 today are Of different opinion in that respect and believe in the saving of the shade trees, and have no fear of the destruction of tke new walks by the roots of these trees. It is d pity that the trees are gone, but they can not be replaced in their former gran deur. The milk has been spilled; so whats the use?
 There are all kinds of time in New London nowadays and as 2 result those who depend upon the public and the semi public clocks do not always make train and trolley connections and are not at work a- the appointed time. This NarIaulOn of time is the cause Of much annoyance and many believe in no time at all than time that is far from be- ing correct. Last Thursday morning at 7.30, the town clock in the steepIe of the First church of Christ read 7.19, the clock farther down the street in front of a jewellers read 7.23, and the clock in front of another lewelry store said the time wss 7-33. There IS no ex- ( use for the wrong time given the pub- lie by the clocks of the jewellers and they were given place on the sidewalk with the understanding that they should be given care sufficient that would give the correct time. If this is not done the clocks should be de- clared nuisance and their removal ordered.
 But what of the town clock, the one owned by the city which is the most inaccurate clock of the trio2 over year ago, Alderman James F. OLeary chairman of the public property com mittee, r~-.lizine the importance of a correct public timepiece, advocated a new clock to replace the enc that had worn itself out in over siXry years of continuous service. By persistent ef- fort he re-..ntly sec led an apI.rnprisa- ton ample to install T new clock and this will be done soon as practica- ble. When Alderman OLeary's at tention was called to the inacrura.y of the town clock, last Thursday. and asked concerning the new clock, he replied:
 Clocks = ne haracter required are not kept in stock as there s not muci: demand for them, as they do not have lhe sale of the average Waterbury watch. These clocks he said. '-are made special and the order cannot be Ilaced JuficioTsly without just lit tie consideration and examination lie wanted to get the very best clock ob- tainable, one that would be guaran teed for at least twenty years. The matter had been taken up with clock manufacturers, including the installa- Jion and lighting and will be placed in position just as soon as is possible, consistent . ith nature judgmont for the best inter sts of the city We have been putting ID with the irregu- larities of that old clock for several years and the public should be sa;is- fled to bear with the committee a Ht- tle longer, for good things come to those who wait. There's good time coming to New London and with no rnore delay 1han is absolutely neccs- sstry and cannot be avoided