Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-19

A total of s3e shares, representing $ss.soo in stock subscribed for. was re- ported on Monday at noon when the team captains and canvassers for the Norwich Housing company held their meeting and luncheon at the Board of Trade rooms in the Thayer build ing. It was the final meeting of the campaign by the joint committee of the Board of Trade, and the Chamber of Commerce. and as an outcome of the meeting it was decided that the organization of the company should be effected at meeting at Il o'clock on the morning of the next day. It will be formed under the name of the Norwich Housing company, as it was found that the name first proposed had te be changed for the secretary of states office informed the local men that at some previous. time there had been a company incorporated under the other name
 AS soon as the organization has been effected, the company can take some steps towards the purpose for which it has been formed, the supply ing of dwelling houses to help out the situation that will be upon the city kins & Allen Arms company come here to work on the $4,600,000 rifle contract that the company has from the Bel gian government.
 The meeting on Monday was full of enthusiasm and towards the end of it for John J. Corkery the hard-worlxing and efficient general chairman, com mandatory mention of the way the general public had responded to the appeals that had been made to them, and personal thanks from Mayor T. c. Murphy to each of the workers. $SS, 900 Subscribed. After addressing the 25 men present, when the half hour devoted to lunch nounced the new subscriptions report ed since last Frida .yThey brought the total to 339 shares and were as follows:
 w E. Manning shares, Charles S. Eaton 1 share, Porteous & Mitchell Brothers shares, H. F. Dawley 2 shares, c. B. Bromley & Son 2 shares, Thomas F. Burns 1 share, Smith Pre- scription store 1 share George Green berger l share. c. Morgan Williams l share. Charles W. Gale shares. Chairman corkery Speaks. Chairman Corkery spoke to the gathering as follows:
 In our effort to raise a substantial l sum for the purpose of organizing a l building corporation we have made an appeal to the people for support on l every ground that we thought might accomplish our purpose, and we have met with some success.
 l Today feel that our thanks are due to all those business and professional men of our city who have been public | spirited enough to help us financially | and our thanks are also due to another class of people-those who have not been able to help us financially but | who. by the good will expressed in kindly words, have given us enoour- agement at, times when many others
 were yielding their hammers. | There is not one of us who has any 1 feeling of resentment in this cam | into this work with any selfish mo- 1 lives; and success means no more tc | us than 1t does to the rest of the peo- pie of this community.
 If we have been building castles ir | the air, our work need not be lost;
 that is where they should be. Now let us put the foundations under them | No city or community will grow while | its individual members sit still or fal
 asleep. I remember the story of the fisherman who caught a large fish, but
 who fell asleep before he carried il
 home. While he was asleep someone stole his large fish and put a smal
 sinner in it's place. When the fisher man awoke he exclaimed: Goily. how
 dat fish am shrunk!" Change a worC
 or two, and the story will apply tt
 many community.
 Can a community grow and hay,
 continued prosperity if there Is nt
 building activity in it? Can any com
 munity be better or more prosperou
 than the average of its individua membership?
 Starting Something. l During my school days I was in restaurant one evening; we were cele } brating the victory of eur footbal