Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-21

hills of Norwich was one of the 1m- portant topics discussed Tuesday night at the April meeting of the Norwich Board of Trade, held in the rooms in the Thayer building.
 President Frank J. King called the meeting to order at o'clock, and after the acceptance of Secretary Henry w. Tibbits minutes of the last meeting, the following names were presented and voted into membership: Edwin Hill, J. w. Mallett, Fred R. Smith Rev, R. R. Graham, White Star Cloth ing Co.,, Martin E. Jensen, S. E. Machette, Frank w. Guild, Fred E. Rogers, N. Eugene Smith and w. c. Perrigo.
 Cleanup Week Coming.
 Report from the City Beautiful com- mittee chairman, Walter F. Lester, was made by Secretary Tibbits, who said that a cleanup week was in prospect for the week ending with Decoration day and that the treasury now had about $50 balance on hand.
 President King spoke with satisfac- tion of the get-tOgether spirit when had been shown in the opposition to the division of the town of Norwich and the gratifying result in defeating the measure.
 Mr. King also spoke of some news paper comment upon the Groton to Norwich road and the entrance to the city through Thames street which ad- vocated an improvement of both of these approaches to Norwich. He said he hoped that some day there would be some state aid given on this Groton to Norwich road.
 A vote of thanks to the New Lon don Telegraph for editorial articles upon both these subjects was passed.
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 MT. King brought up the matter of extending the five cent fare limit on the Norwich and Westerly road as far as Hallville. The limit is now the hospital station. The matter was left with the transportation committee. Unsatisfactory Railroad Connections.
 There has been complaint about un- satisfactory railroad connections, MT. King said, affecting early morning trains from here both on the Central Vermont road and the New Haven road, as it was impossible to get any farther than Saybrook on the ' o'clock New Haven train and it was also inn possible to get to Hartford in suitable time by an early Central Vermont train through Willimantic. The return train from Hartford in the late afternoon also made no suitable connections through Willimantic.
 These matters were turned over to the transportation committee.
 Secretary Tibbits called attention to fine large mahogany desk which had been placed in the rooms for the use of the board by one of it's charter members, Charles T. Bard. The desk was once used in the Thames National bank by the late B. N. Gibbs and was given to MT. Bard by MT. Gibbs
 A vote of thanks to MT Bard for the use of the desk was passed.
 Death of George F. Hughes.
 MT. King announced the death Tues day morning at 4 o'clock of George F. Hughes of Waterbury, senior member of the Reid & Hughes company, who had always been member of the Nor wich Board of Trade.
 William H. Allen and Frederick W. Cary were named a committee to draft suitable resolutions:
 Sunnyside Sewer Needed.
 MT. Cary spoke of the unsatisfactory sewer conditions in the Sunnyside neighborhood on Laurel Hill, where sewage is discharged into an open brook. He believed that a sewer ought to be built in the highway there and moved to have this matter referred to the proper committee. This was voted.
 MT. Cary referred to a bad washout through surface water which ran un- der the railroad tracks recently and
 
 to prevent a bad wreck of a passenger trainS
 The matter was referred to the pub lie improvements committee with the purpose that they shall take some ac- tion before the time for making up the city estimates in May. The committee consists of James L. Case, chairman, James B. Shannon, Frank A. Bill, H. G. Peck, L. M. 'Crandall and A. N. H. Vaughn.
 Fire Protection on Hills.
 J. D. Haviland made report for the committee appointed at the last meet ing to consider the fire protection for property on the hills of Norwich. MT. Haviland stated that at the present time we had had examples of losses of residences on the hills because of lack of water pressure. There is no critic ism of either the fire department or the water department in this, for both are giving these places all the protection citizens have voted and empowered them to give.
 Fire Chief Stanton.
 Fire Chief Howard L. Stanton was called upon and responded by saying that the conditions on the hills was the same as had been for 40 years. Our gravity system gives us pressure enough in the business sections, but on the hill in the vicinity of Mr. Havil- and's house there is only a 20 pound pressure. In recent experiment with motor pump this pressure was raised to 40 pounds and 80 pounds at the nozzle. The motor bumper would be the cheapest thing for any city to have and would not only solve the hill prob lem but help very greatly in all situa- tions. It would be the most advisable thing for Norwich to start on the complete motorizing of it's fire depart ment.
 Chief Stanton pointed out that half the cost of maintenance of the fire de- pertinent was in the maintenance of the 13 horses and the horse drawn ve- hicles, yet the annual maintenance cost for the autochemical is about s2OO which would not take care of one horse. Yet the autochemical has prac- tically put out 90 per cent. of all the fires before the rest of the appar- atus could get there. It would be fool ishpess to pay more money for horse drawn apparatus, but the best thing for Norwich would be to start motor izing it's department by buying the pumping engine and follow this up with more autochemicals. The auto pumping engine would not only solve the hill problem but take care of many other situations besides.
 To question from President King, Chief Stanton said that such pump ira c