Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-05
SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION PROBLEMS
Presented Board of Trade by H. FossSuggestons For Improvements in the City-Smoke Nuisance Bettered and Progress Reported Little Water Street Widening

When the December meeting of the board of trade was called to order at eight o'clock by President Joseph D r Haviland. at the Buckingham Memo \ rial, on Monday evening, about fifty members were present.
 Secretary Henry w. Tibbits read the minutes of the last meeting, which ! were accepted, and two new names. Frederick R. Starhey and Frank B. kiler. were proposed and accepted for
 membership.
 Secretary Tibbits read a. letter from the Central Vermont railroad in re- Fly to one sent from the board com
 .neDding the road for improvements
 made at the Central Vermont railroad station
 Smoke Nuisance and Second Track. John D. Hall, chairman of the com
 mittee on public improvements, told \ of a letter received from the Censoli- dated road regarding the smoke nuis- E ance on Shetucket street, ana MT dall
 said that merchants said that there had been some Improvement in the smoke nuisance. He told of writing to ton for another track, enabling the read to do their switching at other 1. than the business mems hours. MT. Hall recommended that the matter be
 left in the hands of the committee for . further effort to bring about the de-
 sired change
 Little " ster Street Widening. MT. Hall also reported on the Little Water street widening, saying that he believed a city meeting was imminent on this subject anl would be called for Ire. future. He said he thought the plan. outliT.ed i;l-~ths newspapers took more property than Was neceS- sary and he thought the street could be vvidened accept3bly by taking only about a third of what it had been pro- posed to take from Mir. shannon, but to take all the Cassidy property He thought that what it had been re- tad Mr. his property was a very fair figure MT. Hall said he could not see the ad- vantage of having the street wider in the middle than at both ends.
 President Havilapd stated that a pe- tition signed by over twenty-five cit 1zeas had been handed the nlaYor ask ing for a public meeting on this sub Ject-
 State Board Meeting.
 When President Haviland gave op- portunity for any of the members to report on the meeting of state board of trade recently in New London, Fred ericx w Cary made brief statement of the meeting. speaking particularly of the plan adopted by the Hartford chamber of commerce for the indus trial development of that city, which as to be accomplished through the erection of a factory building, for which subscription for the stock were received from the public MT. Cary also mentioned the discussion over the Sherman antitrust law and of Mayor Mahans talk on the growing industrial importance. of New London. New Lon con doesn't expect any great trans atlantic line to be established there, but if they could get the business of the tramp steamers they would be satisfied.
 President HaviIand spoke of some of the pleasant social features of the convention
 Consolidation Of Schools.
 Acting School &r Frank H. Foss | was next introduced to speak upon the 1 application of the law upon the con | sClidatfon of schools in city and town. l
 Norwich, he said was distinct in the 1 conditions which confronted it upon | school consolidation We have ten dis 1 tricts under town committee, two in | corporal ed under Specta l acts. and | three other under the general school l statutes. Altogether it has been said l there are 77 school officers in the city | and town. Two *ery similar acts have | been passed direetins+ school cornsol- 1 that the town has voted under the old 1 act and that will apply
 In the makeup of the new town school committee, the first thing for l the selectmeu to decide IS how many | there shall be, whether ,, g or 12, with ] 8 three-year term. or three with a two-year term. The election is the first Monday in June and they take office in July. If there are to be 12