Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-28

 front of which it now owns not one foot.
 1 Mayor Murphy Makes Announcement. The presidents brief introductory remarks concluded with the introduce ton of Mayor Murphy to respond to the toast Our City.
 Mayor Murphy was greeted with ap plause as he extended a welcome to the out of town guests and went on to |, speak forcefully of local business and civic interests.
 We all know, he said, that the main object of the Board of Trade is to pro-
 mote prosperity to the people in gen.
 eral, and I'm sure you will all agree with me that this is what this organ ization is doing.
 As far as I can judge from statistics that 1 have recently looked over, Nor wich has done a business during the
 past year of BPS. 900. .000, which is about one-half as much as the amount done in one year by the whole of New Lon don county. The wages paid annually in Norwich manufacturing plants amount to s3,541,S64. and in the whole county $7,277 0O0 From these statis- tics you can see that Norwich earns in wages almost one-half s much as is it in percentage, Norwich earns about 4S 1-2 per cent. of all the wages paid
 in the whole county, to say nothing Of the large financial banking business 1 that is done in the city of Norwich, which in my opinion will always re- main the financial center of eastern Connecticut.
 We may all well feel proud in the completion of Stony Brook reservoir which was completed during the past year within the appropriation granted 1 for that purpose, it being quite un- usual for any city to accomplish such an event, and there is no litigation of any kind now pending against our city
 water works department. If the city of Norwich were to sell it's water de partment tonight it would receive money enough to pay off its entire in debtedness. not taking into considera- tion the gas and electric department, which the city owns and maintains, and which in my mind is today and will be for years to come one of the i greatest assets any city could possess.
 Not to Sell City Gas Plant. | While speaking on this subject, I | would state that there have been ru- 1 mors going about that the gas and i electric department was being fnf1u ! enCed by capitalists who would like to ! you all ought to know by this time | that the city of Norwich cannot sell or | give a deed to any of it's holdings l without the consent of city meeting i duly called and advertised. I sincely | hope in the future that the citizens will | ] mors that are being circulated from ! time to time by these malicious people i who are always trying to make trou- l ble.
 The mayor urged all the manufac- | turing and business men of the town 1 of Norwich and surrounding towns to ] give their support to the Connecticut | waterways movement to be held In i New Haven April 1st.
 ! Max Gordon Go. Makes Proposition. | In closing, gentlemen, I wish to make an announcement of public in terest.
 i I have been authorized by the Max 1 Gordon corporation to state to both the | Board of Trade and Norwich Business | Mems association that they are willing | to erect a new building that will cost : $50 900 to S35,000 on the lot they now | own, and will occupy it as a new in | dustry that will employ at the very least from 200 to 300 hands, providing | that the town of Norwich will build a l drawbridge on the east side of the river. They further agree to pay to | the town of Norwich the sum of S2,000 | towards defraying the expenses of a | drawbridge
 i This question of a drawbridge on l the east of the Thames and Yantic riv- | CTS was discussed very extensively a l serves me correctly at a town meeting i it was defeated by less than ten i votes. Since that time our city has l grown enough in my mind to warrant l this improvement. The city has many l acres of land that will double in value | if this improvement is carried out. | This offer, made by a corporation ! with the financial standing that they | have, is worthy of great consideration
 by the people of the town of Norwich. | I hope that this matter will be taken | under discussion by the new indus tries committees of both organizations. 1 Read Company's Letter. l Mayor Murphy's address and the of | fer of the company were received with applause and at the suggestion of the
 mayor, President Macpherson read the ! letter of the Max Gordon corporation i in which they offered to give S2,000 l towards building the bridge and show
 building proposed. As far as the Board | of Trade was concerned. he said. they l should do all possible to forward this project.
 Ex-Mayor Henney. l Hon. William F Henney, ex-mayor 1 of Hartford. was the next speaker in l troduced by President Macpherson. | who referred to the admirable record i made in Judge Henneys term as mayor | which was making him talked of as 1 the logical candidate for the highest | office in the gift of the state.
 In an easy, graceful way ex-MayoT Henney referred pleasantly to the fame | of the Rose of New England and to l some amusing experiences which he | had had with two of her distinguished sons in the legal fraternity-Judge | John NJ Thayer and Judge Gardiner | Greene.
 Business and Politics.
 ] Business and Politics was the sub- | iect which the speaker took up in an Illuminating way.
 Judge Henney said at the outset of
 his address that he could not subscribe
 mess and politics will not mix and
 | that it was an ill-starved combination inevitably doomed to disaster
 It is to be hoped. he said, that the 1 the business man will become increas- ingly active in politics, that more and ! more he will yield himself up to ser vice in political life; that he will real ize the dire consequences of abandon ing the field of politics to the self seeker and the demagogue; that he ! will understand that by shirking his political duties to exploit his private ! fortunes he is selling his birthright for
 a mess of pottage. Let him measure | the value of that brthright by its | fearful cost. Let him exercise his right of suffrage. remembering by what | tolls and sacrifices it was secured to 1 him.
 Business and Politics Do Mix.
 Business and politics do mix and by reason of the social compact into which we were born, we are all mem bers of one body, so that if one mem Der rejOiCe all the members reiOice