Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-07
NORWICH THE HOME OF THERMOS
Total of SIT 861 Raised nsure the Coming of the Company
$6,l49 Final Day-Wld Enthusiasm at Headquar-
when Final Reports Come In-Today to be Flag Day

Chairman Case called for Frederic w.
Cary to make a report for the commit
tee of three, Messrs. Case, Cary and
William B. Young, who had been APP
pointed to take up the next steps In the
Thermos campaign. Chairman Cary
reported the following recommend
tons by the committee:
Voted; That a meeting of the sub
scribers of $25 and over to the Their
mos Bottle fund be called for Monday,
Feb. -, 1912, at s p. m, at the town
hail. for the purpose Of organizing and
that the general chairman be request
ed to notify each subscriber by mail of
said meeting as soon as possible.
Voted: That a committee of three he
appointed to arrange for such a meet
ing,
Voted: That the committee of one
hundred shall raise funds sufficient to
pay all expenses incurred by said COM
mittee of one hundred during the pres
ent campaign.
The first two were passed quickly,
Mr. Cary. J. J. Cookery and William
f. Hill being named to arrange for
the proposed meeting.
Expenses Of The Committee.
The third resolution provoked a live
ly discussion, which Gilbert F, Hewitt
tried to end BY offering to pay the
whole bill of about $3.50 expenses him
self. The room rang with What's
the matter with HEWITT and there
was a rising and rousing vote Of
thanks, but the advice not to accent
Mr.. Hewitt's generous offer prevailed,
and the matter was finally settled by
arranging to have each team captain
secure SIS from his team.
vote 0f fba OlSs was Oa Ssad TO DON
Houghton for donation of 100 Boom-
er photographs, and they were ordered
placed on sale at so cents each, the
amount derived to be credited to Mr..
Houghten as a subscription.
While this was going on the dn-Ta
were opened so that the Boomers could
hear the bells and whistles all over
the city sounding at 7 o'clock in jolli-
fication over the victory
Mayor Thayer Says "stick Together"
Mayor Thayer was uproariously
greeted as he was called upon for
speech. He responded by telling the
men that he had nothing but con-
gratulations for the work that had
been done, and ever since the first Old
Home week he had known that for
Norwich nothing was impossible.
Now that we were together it was the
thing to do to stick together. He
said Amen to all that Rev. P. c..
Wright had said in his sermon last
Sunday, and now it was for the Nor
witch citizens to stick together.
Rev. P. c. Wright was also called
for amid rousing cheers Of He's all
/ right" and he responded by congrat-
ulating the city on its ability to get
together, and spoke of the far reach
ing significance in other lines than
business Of the present movement.
Chairman Case proposed three cheers
which were given with will for the
three men who were the original NOV
ers in this Work-W. F. Hill, F. ].
King, E. c. Jewett and F. w. Cary, and
then presenting Mr.. Hill, who was Civ
, en- an ovation before ne spoke.
General Hills Speech.
General Chairman Hill spoke as
follows
Ten thousand men marched up a
hill, but they didn't march down
again"
Napoleon was a great general and
his army were great fighters. but I
will prove to you that mine were
greater. The French soldiers were men
of great courage. but they didn't have
the brains. For, if they had, they
would have lodged the bullets and
gone up to the man who was shooting
and talked his gun away from him.
| That would have saved their heads
from being blown off. NY soldiers
marched up to the enemy, got his
money away from him and when he
retreated he not only had his head
but he didn't even have so much as a
black eye.
The FTenchmen might say that they
had greater cause to fight for and
one worthy to die for. But [ saw.
What's the matter with our cause
For we have been dead for twenty
five or fifty years and isn't that enough
to make great fight.
1t is very easy to train a lot of men
and make fighters out of them. We
are all born with an instinct for fight
| ing, but let me tell you, to start out
| to make man cough up Seven Fifty
| is something besides a fight And I'll
bet there isn't a soldier among this
noble band of one hundred that would
| not rather go out and fight a pitched
| battle than to go into a mans office
and insist upon him giving up that
| Seven-Fifty.
Boys, you have fought the battle and
| you have Won. / believe you will all
| admit that it is the greatest battle of
J your lives and l believe that time will
! show that it is the greatest battle ev-
er fought in the history Of this com
| monwealth. For the reason that |
| believe that the thunder of our guns
will ring down to the future genera
| tons and prove to them that the be-
| ginning of the great fight for progress
was fought in the year Of 1912 BY the
! Army of One Hundred. But, boys,
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| yourselves, for you were fighting the
bravest, the greatest and the most
| generous people in this whole world
This is not flattery, but it has been
| well demonstrated to be the truth. The
Rose of New England" stands alone
| today. She has succeeded in securing
| what cities five and ten times as large
were not able to get Take your hats
| off to old Norwich, the Rose of New
| England, the home of the American
| Thermos Bottle company and the best
people on earth.
| Boys, your general knows that you
are weary and footsore, for you have
| marched long and often, and ne also
| knows that the enemies are weary
too, and so it becomes his duty tC
part with the soldiers he has learned
to love. But the inevitable must pre-
vail, and that being so. the Grand Ar
my of Boomers are discharged from
! further duty at the present time.
But soldiers, remember that in the
hereafter, if you find yourself or you1
| citizens entering once more the lona
sleep, consider it your duty to at once
ring the old bell and prevent another
of our Rip Van Wrinkle reposes.
And also remeber that it is for vol
and for you alone to watch over
yourselves and not to be found asleeI
| at your post. 1t means death to a sol
der to be found asleep at his post
1t means death to a business man t.
be found asleep by a wide awake com.
| petitor. 1t is death to his city Il
be found asleep by wide awake cities
| But 1t is just as much your duty t.
| sound the alarm as ii is any Of unu