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Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
NEW LOnDON'S MONEYED FRIENDS
How A. Munsey and M F. Plant Have Contributed Up building of City Newspaper Plant in New Building Last Survivor of Old Time Smackmen.

The time was when there was a forest of smack masts along the water front, but today not a fishing vessel of that class halls from this port. Sergeant Ben Beebe, of the New London police force, the Slate brothers and few oth- CT harbOr boys were among the last to abandon smacking and engage in oth- CT business. Large vessels and mod ern methods that made smack fish ing unprofttable was the cause.
 MT. Sheridan left New London about forty five years ago and has been con nected with the New Haven Fire de- partment for forty years, part of the
 time as assistant chief He was the
 first to attach clock to a steam fire
 engine and the first to invent a shoe, so arranged with the rear wheels of
 the engine, that connection would be
 made with pipes leading to a hot water tank when the machine was backed onto the shoes and would shut 1 off when called to fire. By this | method the water was kept warm in l the boiler and would steam quickly when the fire was started on the run in response to the fire alarm MT Sheridan also invented a device for testing hose and was for years con- ! sidered one of the most valued men in ] the department.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
A SQUARE DEAL Is DEATH TO MOST
 POLITICAL PROBLEMS

fresh beef is now being imported, without any duty. from South Amer ica. It is coming in by the shipload. IL is coming from Argentina and Brazil and some other countries. One cargo, last week, consisted of twelve thousand quarters of beef besides 9 lot of veal and mutton. It came int } New York at d cost of about eight dollars a hundred.
 Have you. personally, noticed any marked reduction in the price of your morning steak or your Sundays roast of beef2 1 guess notl That cargo which l snention never got an inch outside of New York city,-nOt one ounce of it. Indeed it was hardly enough to supply the demand of that one city for one single day. New York City's daily consumption of beef is something over twelve thousand quarters. The receiving of such a 'lot once in a fortnight was hardly a drop in the bucket. It didn't even reduce the retail price of steaks and roasts in New York City by the fraction of e min.
 AlIit did was to swell the bank ac- counts of a dozen or two men who bought it cheap in Argentina and solo il dear in New ! Ork without having to pay anything for the privilege. They have made some extra money by the free meat tariff; the other ninety nine millions of us have neither made nor saved anything.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

Mrs. Sarah 4. Woodward is visiting relatives in Pemberton, N. J.
 Chairman of Committee.
 Mrs. J. E. Sheppard has been ap- pointed chairman of the entertainment committee for the Christmas tree ex- ercises at the Congregational church
 Mrs. J. J. Williamson is spending a week with relatives in Hartford and Manchester.
 Miss Mary Lester, Miss J. T. Me- Clellan, Mrs. William M. Gallup and Master Lester Gallup were in Worces- ter Wednesday.
 Miss Mary PerIey left Wednesday for Philadelphia.
 Keen Competition at Poultry Show. The Woodstock poultry show on Tuesday was a success. The number of entries was larger than last year and among the popular breeds the competition was keen. Prof. w. F. Kirkpatrick of Connecticut Agricul- tural college acted as judge. In the afternoon the hall was well filled to listen to the address by pr. Sanboru. who told of his experiences in the hen business. Professor Kirkpatrick also spoke briefly
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
GILEAD
Sunday School Names Christmas Connmittee-Suppe Follows Grange Election.

Charles D Way is visiting his son Dr. Cassius Way In Harvard, Ill.
 Mrs. A. II. Post is i'll with asthma.
 Mrs, b. IT. Hodge Mrs A w. Ellis and c, w. Hutchinson were appointed by the Sunday school to arrange for d Christmas entertainment,
 Schools were closed Tuesday after noon and the teachers attended a teachers meeting at Hebron.
 William Herold is at home from Mt Vernon for a short vacation.
 The Laides' Aid Society met with Mrs J. E. Ellis Wednesday after noon.
 William McCaney of Westerly, R. l.. was at w. $. Ellis on business the first of the Meek~
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
WOODSTOCK VALLEY

Mrs. Ernest Lyon is in Boston this week.
 Henry Vroom has returned to Rochester.
 The funeral of Miss Ruth Bloom was held Sunday Burial in Kingston, N. Y.. her former home.
 Mrs. Etta Smith, who has been at Harold Blooms the past few weeks, returned home Saturday.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
Holland County
STAFFORD
Sunday Afternoon Services Tn Or cuttvIle schooIhouse-Rev. L. 8 Wickershan1's Visit Memorable.

Wiokershano's Visit Memorable.
 William Walbridge is confined to the house by illness,
 The meeting of Stafford grange comes next Tuesday evening.
 The Hospital Aid society is to hold its monthly meeting next Tuesday afternoon.
 Raymond Hall of Saybrook Is the guest of his aunt. Mrs. Cummings.
 Services In SohooIhcuse,
 A religious service in the Orcuttville schoolhouse will be held next Sun day at o'clock by the evangeIistic committee of the federated churches. Favorable reports are received of the condition of Miss Blanche Shippey who is ill at her home in Woodstock. Rev William Gaskin will preach Sunday morning on The cause ahd purpose of Christ's coming"
 Many Heard Evangelist.
 The visit of Rev. L. B. Wickersham to this town will be long remembered by the good audience which came out through the storm to hear him,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
JACKSONVILLE

MT and Mrs. Charles Webster were Worcester visitors Wednesday.
 A number attended the funeral of Mrs. Bixby in Webster last Thurs day.
 The fourth entertainment at the TOurtelotte Memorial was given Thursday night. The usual number from this place attended.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

This reminds that the plans for the Connecticut College for Women have been adopted and that specified tIons are being prepared for the con- slderatiOn of contractors and that the actual work will be commenced as quickly as possible. This work coupled With the buildings already named, and the ordinary building work. means muGh for the building trades and labor of tlle city. But that is not all that is bright for the future development of New London and which means 8 ma terial growth in population ana i'm portance. The T. A, Scott company home concern, has just been award ed the contract to build the structure Of the state pier for which Connecticut appropriated q million dollars. The city has voted S10,000 for a bridge in connection with the state pier work. and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company has al ready commenced the necessary pre- liminary work for the construction of a bridge across the Thames and within fOWiing piece range of the state pier. With all this work in progress at the same time, and the natural after re- suits, means that New London is destined to take it's proper place as one of the largest cities in the state New London's prospective was never brighter than it is just at this minute. And there is always that adding to what you have got makes just q little bit more
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

ocratic government by nation wide town meeting," is that a small body of specially qualified and representa- tive delegates ought to be able to act more. speedily more wisely and more effectively for the common veal than a cumbrous and often unmanageable mass meeting of the whole Of us. That's the way it ought to work. Bu. that's not the way it is actually werk- ing.
 Instead of devoting their wisdom and their energies to the welfare of the whole big menagerie, our leaders spend their time listening to the yelp- ings of few coyotes and trying u quiet the barking nuisances
 Now, this isn't "politics;' it Is sim ply non partisan indignation that Pm blowing off. I don't care whether you're a democrat or a republican, q progressive or a prohibitionist, a so- ciaIist or suffragist; if you're a de- cent fellow,-and the most of US are. at bottom,-you want such laws so administered as to produce the great est good for the greatest number You waht the country governed and man. aged in the interests of all its people not for the advantage of any class or special interests. You want a square deal for yourselves; and one for ev- eIybody else. too! You want the laws 10 be made and administered in he half of the cattle on a thousand hills and the sheeps in ten thousand val
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

Thomas Sheridan who died in New Haven and was buried in New London this week, was among the Iast sur NiVors of the hardy set of New Lon don smackmen who engaged in fisher ies on Georges Banks and on other fishing grounds, many years ago, and when fishing was one of the main To- cal industries. Hundreds of fishing smacks sailed from the port of New London and their speciality was sword
 c0d,sand halibut fishing, with sea bass on .the side, and an occasional run into Southern waters for red snapReEs.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
Just for two or three instanoes:-

We've at last got new tariff law. after years a. ad years Of yOwlings and veIIings that have kept the political atmosphere ia q constant QuiVer of execution It was going To do wonder fui things F. specially was it going f..
 reduce the hig gh cost of living" Most especially and particularly, it was go suE tn break down the meat trust by ReT1nitting the free importation of Aesh beef from South America Well
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

There are many residents of New London who can readily recall when State street was about evenly divided with residences and business places, so within the memory of the living this aspect has entirely changed. But of comparatively late years the street has not only become devoted to business, but there is marked improvement in the general character of the buildings and there is a bright future for in creased Improvement in that line. The new Manwaring building is now com pleted and fully occupied, the munich pal building is nearing completion and the new Munsey building is already showing it's dimensions and general character. The people who love the city and feel proud of it's advancement, had hardly ceased congratUlating each other on these changes, when aloRg comes Morton F. Plant purchases the Chew property next to the Thames Club building and immediately orders plans for an up-to -the-m minute five story building to be devoted to offices and stores, and a newspaper plant for good measure.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

e&FE4traE specially Tor The BuIleLln.)
 Gen. Grant vsed to tell, while he was Fresideut little story of one early experience on the plains, He had just graduated from West Point as second lieutenant and had been assigned to "a squadron at a western frontier pos To soon after. the squadron was sent on Q scouting trip few hundred miles Rut into the then unexplOred country, One night. just as it was getting dark kh and even the sage-brush began to tuok UuCanuy, there rose ahead of ahem a startling cIamor. They were hong miles from any human haDitalon And ir was clear that the noise was A1ade by wild animals. IL was ! RI-hLfll sort of noise too. It was a Aombiu2tiOn of barl1s and bellows, Ol slarls and shorts. Gf boWls and gToWls- Young Grant was riding near the head of the little column. and the Outbursi not only startled him, iC made him dl lstiuC-lF nervous. He began to loosen up his holster and make preparation for an attack by Q troop Of wolves or a dozen or two paltlers. lie nOucei tlal rhe men and the older Officers who had had experience on the plains didn't seem to pay much attention and he began 70 feel a little reaSsured- The rIcrlgD continued how ever and ETeW 1l volume as the column au- xauced towards }-. Tc filled the air, in front and on both sides. At last, when rae s-rair had become no longer tl4- erable and he was about To edge in towards the captain and ask what ,nea=-res they were going to take for protection, they came upon the source of the hCIabaloO,-One s0li- tary cyote- sitting on the edge of his hole and bowling,
 One lesson that this little incident teaches Is tEaI the volume of noise tS sometimes ouL Of proportion to the slze ot the ys8rmint that enits 1t.
 That lesson was perfectly inteIli- Ei5le 10 the young second lieutenant. Once he had learned #, he didn't need @ have tt taught again ThenCefOrtn be knew a coyote when he heard l. and yaued -t as it's true inslgnihcance
 But # is lesson which seems ab- Eolurely iucomprehensib5e to most of the -stauesman' whom we send to congress and the legislature, or make presidents and governors out Of
 They cant ever seem 10 discover the difference between the real. deep, per vadiug undertOue Of a wide popular need and the striGsent caterwauling cf a u iserable little group of cOyete- Eraf.srs- Nine times out Of ten, they pay more heed to the latter than TO the fETner They are influenced much more l1y the beilowings and brayinss Of a few euTta- p-ercha- thTOated ear FpIftrera close alozrnd them than by any really staIesEnanliEe idea of find ing OgIt and ser05ng actual popular wants
 I thnEz r. a safe estimate to say that fully nine-tenths of the legisla- ton enacted 1y congress and the vari- ous state legislatures in the recent past has been Legislation fn the inter- ests Of some noisy class rather than for the benefit of the great silent mass Of the pc 1ple.
 Our law makers seem good deal more afraid of one clamDrouS cCyerC, sitting on tgne edge of his hole in the semi -darknelss. than of q whole army Of less nois.T bzEt much more powerful and rally q hnserols grizzlies. crouch-
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
Foc another iILustratlon:

For another illustration:
 Just now both houses of congress are catciawing each other and tae newspapers are damned full of in
 -omDrehensible gibberish about a
 "cuIrenCy biII' It is a matter in which the bankers of the country dOuptIess
 have some interest, though they seem
 utterly incapable of agreeing upon
 what the various proposed bills mea !
 or what they would do If made law. 1 am not a. banker nor are any of my ueighbOTs. ] have not vet found 3 single man ramOng my farmer friends
 who understands the bills,-Or cares a
 darn about them. I don't believe, out
 of the hundred million of our people,
 there are a hundred thousand who do
 either understand or care. But con gress is spending more time and
 breath over the janglings of this min
 ority than it has spent in ten years
 over the real problems of the big ma j0riJy. The only reason 1 can con-
 ceive of is the coyote reason. The trouble with the most of us is
 not the kind of currency that is given
 us. but the difficulty in getting hold O. enough currency of any kind!
 And now President Wilson, in hls
 latest address to the congress, calls on
 that body to do something about far mers credits. For some years a small body of men have been trying to work up a. fictitious excitement about this. They have at last succeeded, it seems, in getting the president a little nery-
 Qus over their noise.
 Will you tell me what on earth the farmers of this country want of any special legislation about their credits We know. you and l. that the farmers of the United States don't want to be picked up and molIeycoddled with any special class legislation. What they need is not different system of credits, but a square deal in business which shall enable them to get the cash that's fairly due them and keep
 their honest share of it.
 At present, as has been aptly said
 by a setter spokesman than I, the middleslan gets the apple, the farmer the core and the consumer the skin. What we need is not new laws giving us any special "puil' on bank credits, but a square deal which shall enable us to have half the apple we grow. ! and permit the consumer to have half he buys.
 The fundamentaI and basic reason why we have a government by dele gated representatives in congress and 1 legislature. rather than a purely dem
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

Can't our statesmen" ever under farmers want is not special favors for ourselves but the stoppage of special favors to smaller and less important classes, ultimately ands always at our expense?
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

The fundamental and basic reason why we have a government by. dele gated representatives in congress and legislature, rather than a purely dem
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

leys rather than in behalf of one Of two or a dozen coyotes, sitting on their hindlegs in the desert and trying to scare the moon into cenni2tien fits.
 The problem of living is constantly growing more difficult, as the mass of special laws and special court de- cisions in favor of class interests in- creases. The biggest enigma which now confronts our civilization is the question how to enable one-half of us to produce with fair profit what the other half demands; and how te en- able that other half to buy for con- sumption that which we produce without being forced to pay more for tolls than it pays for the goods them selves. That question once settled, practically every other economic ques- tion would solve itself.
 And yet congress spends years tink- ering tariffs; and months fussing over banking rules; and now President Wilson wants it to use up another session in framing special legislation for farm mortgages and crop liens!
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

Our law makers seem a good deal more afraid of one clamDrous coyerC, sitting on tine edge of his hole in the semi -darknelss. than of a whole army Of less nois-T bzTE much more powerful and really hngerous grizzlies, crouch ing silently along the trail ahead
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13
Windi1an1 County
WOODSTOCK
This Years Poultry Show Even More
 Successful Than That, of 1912.

Mrs. Sarah 4. Woodward is visiting relatives in Pemberton. N J.
 Chairman of Conor7ittee.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

story building to be devoted to OfnceS
 and stores, and a newspaper plant for
 good measure.
 This building will be located d-
 rectIy opposite the mammoth Munsey building, a monuments to it's builder,
 and perhaps the greatest aid to the busineSs-like appearance of New Lon- don than any thing in it. It gives to
 the city that metropolitan appearance
 that tends to development of other centrally located property When MT. Munsey came to New London and caused the erection of that building,
 there were no places of business in State street above Union and now it is all business on that side of the street, barring the Y. M. c. A. building The Munsey building has the tendency to spread the formerly limited business centre and it is growing gradually up the street, especially on that side of the street and is growing on the other side. Mr. Munsey declared several years ago that the building was his yacht, his source of pleasure, and the result is one of the finest hotels in New England in one of the very best build lnSS in the state. MT MunSey SubSe- ! quent}y erected a siX-story annex to the rear of his eight story building ! and Is now connecting the building in course of erection, fronting on State street, to the main building and it will -C 4tI AGC AJ4llS WlLl4 tue general NeSlSu of the original building. Mr. Munsey
 has done much towards the general development of New London.
 It can be put down as fact that the new Plant building will be in keeping
 with the present and prospective sur r0unGlngS. It will not De as large as the Munsey building, as the site will l not permit of so large a frontage, but in design, material and workmanship, it will be second to no building. While the real purchase and transfer of the 1 Chew property to Mr. Plant was ac- c0mpIlShed on short notice, the pur- chase was rot made without careful consideration, as MT. Plant i S a i thorough business man and an accom- plisheQ fnancier. He Is a rich man l and mighty good citizen and one who does things with his coin that is | Of benefit to the whole community. lie has given employment on his estate l In GrOton and in East Lyme to a small army of workmen, skilled and unskill- ed so much so that some of the em- pIoyes believe that Mr. Plant is mak-
 ing the vast improvements on his holdings partially for the purpose of giving employment to the men.
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 The ndiVidual cannot be found, who
 IS familiar with the conditions that en-
 Vies) MT. Plants riches, for they de-
 clare that he is the style of man that should be possessed of great wealth.
 as 'he does much public good with his
 money. He gave the town of Groton
 a town hall built roads in that town
 and in East Lyme, gave a million and
 more to the Connecticut College for
 Women, and a couple of buildings be-,
 sides, and also gave to New London
 league baseball team, which last act
 did not lessen his popularity with the
 people.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

One lesson that this little incident teaches Is ti1zaJ the volume of a noise tS sometimes ouL Of proportion to the slze ot the N=8rmiut that emits it.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-13

That lesson was perfectly intelli- rible t0 the young second lieutenant. Once he had learned #, he didn't need Co have it taught again ThencefOrth be knew a coyote when he heard l. and vahed it as its true insigninCanCe
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1913-05-09
STATE NEWS.

The Rev. ]. F. Schneid der has resigned
the pastorate of the South Congregations
church of Danville to accept call to the
Old South church of Windsor.
The officials of the Rutland fair asso-
citation were present at the fair grounds
| Friday, April 25, and in observance
of Arbor day overlooked the planting of
| LOG young trees.
f. S. Payne had a hard time at first
in getting grass fire started at his home
in Woodstock, but when it did get started
it burned over 20 acres before it could be
stopped
Mrs. John A. Mead, of Rutland, has
been appointed honorary vice-president
of the Daughters of 1912, at the convention
of that patriotic organization at Whining
ton, Del.
7 w. B. c. Stickney and his daughter,
Mrs. Robert A. Lawrence of Rutland
who have been to Alexandria, Egypt,
and many European cities, are expected
in Vermont about May Is.
Undoubtedly the largest single ship
ment of maple sugar that ever left Will
mington, was shipped April 10 by w. S.
Brown, there being nearly so tons, max
ing four carloads, part of it going to
NoW lOIh w nc uSeu Ill CdHuy anu pdrJ
to North Carolina to be used in tobacco.
There are about 90 cases of measles in
Middlebury, the larger number confined
to the young lady students of Middlebury
college. Several cases have developed
in the graded schools All have been
quarantined and it is hoped that the dis
ease will run out in time so that the school
ard college may close at the regular time
in June
A cablegram announces the sudden
death from heart trouble of the father of
the Rev. +. G.. Guthrie at his New Zea-
land home. The Rev. Mr.. Guthrie is
now on his way to his home in Burlington,
having left New Zealand April IL. While
he was visiting his old home his brother
was killed in an automobile accident
Arthur G. Whitcomb of Montpelier,
found an Indian arrowhead while play
ing on the bank in the rear of the public
hoscol. The arrowhead which is nearly
perfect was covered with clay when found,
but the boy, having enlightened himself
upon Indian relics, appreciated
the rarity of the find and took it home.
The property of THE Oxford Linen Co.
in North Brookfeld, Mass, will be sold,