Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-06

EX- Governor Waller remarked early one morning of the present week that although Mayor Mahan was at the Baltimore convention he had not seen his name or his picture in any of the newspapers The remark emanating from that source was certainly signi- ficant but not surprising. But what the governor said of the mayor could be made applicable to hundreds ot other democrats at the convention whose political regulations are more widely known than that of the mayor of New London His name or his pie ture may not have been in the news papers but that did not lessen his in fiuence in the convention nor was It reflection upon his ability to represent in part the democracy of Connecticut and to perform his duties as delegate to the full satisfaction of the great ma jority of his constituency, able, too, to take part in debate of any magnitude and with credit to all interested.
 Had the governor been delegate, as he should have been, there is no doubt but that his name would have appear ed in the papers and his picture, too, for he has a knack of accomplishing such results, and is backed by na- ton wide reputation as an orator, gained by real merit and an experience covering many years and which start ed when the mayor was in the cradle. Compared with the governor the mayor has still ample time to become as widely known as is the eloquent and popular former governor of Connecti- cut.
 But the mayor has returned to his native city of which he is the official head and is busying in gathering in the odds and ends of matters of public in terest that have been lying dormant while he has been serving the dem ocracy in national convention. When the governor was mayor of New Lon don he did things and the mayor and his fellow workers for the public and almost everybody else in the city are doing so now
 At the regular meeting of the court of common council last Monday even ing, Acting Mayor Charles C. Perkins presided and there was but little bus mess outside of the routine transacted. The mayor was in Baltimore and there were more absentees than usual only a bare quorum being present. The members knew that the mayor would not be present and they realized that no attempt would be made again to do anything out of the ordinary in his absence That was attempted at a meeting a few months ago. but when the next meeting came around there was some drawing in of sleds.
 Alderman Samuel Prentis, the most Outspoken member of the council and who has opinions of his own that he freely expresses, was not among the absentees. He is chairman of the committee on new buildings and he made report against the petition for the privilege of erecting a one story wooden store shack in the residential section of Ocean avenue that would be an eyesore to all who passed that way, and a serious detriment to real hold ings in that vicinity. If the building was to be in keeping with the sur roundings there probably would not be such determined opposition against the petition, but the petitioner intended to erecte on the corner of the avenue and Orchard street a little wooden build ing sixteen front and about twenty feet in length, to be occupied in part as a cobbler shop and also as fruit and peanut stand.
 Alderman Prents' action was ap- proved by his fellow committeeman and endorsed by the court of common council as whole. This action is satisfying to all residents of the sec tiOn and to citizens who have proper consideration of the interests of oth- CTS. However, the action of the coun- cil has been subjected to adverse criticism by communications in the lccal newspapers. It is evident that the writers are far removed from li- ability of damage to property by the existence of buildings such as the one projected One of the writers claims that the owner of property has the