Connecticut western news., 1911-04-20
The Wurra Wurra Club

of business, promptly on the appointed l time.
 1 Brother Vosburgh said he would like to hear from the special committee ap- pointed by the Club some time ago to collaborate with the committee on fire protection appointed by the Business Mems Association. to formulate some plan for the installation of some kind of a system of fire protection. Chairman George Ford, of the special committee, got up and sad his committee had insti- tuted a thorough search for the Busi- ness Mems committee but had been un- able to find hide or hair of a single mem Der of it, or to find out if thelr inten- tions were honorable. The report of Chairman Ford was accepted, and on mittee was ordered to keep up the search.
 On motion of Joe Parsons the secreta- " was ordered to draw his order on the treasury for $l ,O00 for the purchase of flowers and hire of automobiles for the use of the ladies during the Bridge Gel. ebration, in accordance with the sug- gestion of "An Enthusiast" in last weeks News. This brought Deacon Stevens to his feet with an inquiry as to the probable date of the institution of the Wurra Wurra Woman's Relief Corps. The secretary reported that the arbitration committee was busily at work trying to reconcile three or four pairs of wranglers who had withdrawn their names from the charter member ship list to spite one another because of various society and other disagreements, and that it was hoped the Corps would be ready to take its degrees at the next meeting. Hen Ives said he had his doubts that the Corps would be organ ized in time to show off at the Bridge Celebration, and the fat member said he would "second the notion" e-..f-.
 Chairman June Rhoades, of the oom- mittee on plan and scope, on Bridge Gel ebration, reported that he had received the first competitive "poem" on the cele- bration, submitted by Dan Sweeney, the we'll known author of "Hiawatha, '' Beautiful Snow" "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight, Laugh and the World Laughs With You" Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" and other Latin hymns. Chairman Rhoades proceeded with much feeling, to read the "poem, Y" as follows:
 Should you ask me, Why this tumult Why this restless, seething, surging, Pushing, jostling host of people
 Why this multitude of strangers, This conglomerate assemblage,
 Congress of all earthly nations
 Yankees, French, Italians, Dutchmen, Swedes, Chinese and Scandinavians- This astonishing commIngling
 Of all social castes and classes,
 Of the top crust with the bottom
 I should answer, should tell you lis the great Bridge Celebration
 That commemorates the finish
 Of the stately, solid structure
 That has joined the east and west shores . Of the swiftly flowing waters
 'Twixt the Rosses and the Campses.
 Should you ask me, What inspired it What significance is in it;
 This alfred big demonstrations
 What is at the bottom of it?
 I should answer, should tell you, , Tell you truly. lis a tribute
 To the trio of selectmen,
 To the Board of City Fathers
 Who, with patriot devotion, } Watched and bossed the work of build ing
 From the sinking of the caissons
 To the gliding of the tablet
 Which their work immortalizes
 Watched with critical attention
 Every motion of the builders;
 Tested every brace and girder,
 Every bolt and bar and bracket,
 That no bum or patchwork might be ) Foisted on the Town of Canaan
 Under their administration.
 should answer. should tell you
 That this popular outpouring , Is in honor of that trio,
 Hardenbergh and Reel and Smith, whose Monument this splendid bridge is.
 And whose names are blazoned on it
 To endure through all the ages That the floods shallroll beneath it. That's the purpose of thls blowout; That is what the crowds are here for; Why the horns and hurdy- gurdies
 Foot and squeak and drone their loudest; Why the bands and drum corps proudly Lead the martial hosts with banners; Why the town is decorated With a maze of flags and bunting;
 Why the air is filled with music And lit up with big sky-rockets Why the"
 "Why the why the !'' broke in the fat member, "why the blazes don't ye send it back to him and tell him it's rot? don't see no sense into it. 'Tain't wrote in verses an the lines don't match. I make a motion that we ad, journ." They adjourned