Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-19

vehicular traffic is more than trebled
 py the practically unregulated jitney service and, as a natural result, there IS public demand for an increase in
 the traffic force of the police depart
 ment in the intrests of public safety
 and for the extension of tour of duty
 or the traffic officers well into the night. There is urgent need for ad-
 dltlona1 police traffic direction at
 state and Main streets, Bank and
 Howard and the junction of Bank,
 truman and Shaw streets and Mon
 tauk avenue, as well as at Bank and State streets. These points are fully
 as dangerous as the railroad crossing
 at the foot of State street where two
 crossing tenders are on duty to safe
 guard the public and at the expense
 or the railroad company. As the jit-
 neys have made this extra police pre-
 caution necessary it has been sug-
 geSted that the jitney men come to
 the front and center and make good
 the expenses of safeguarding at the
 points here mentioned, either by di-
 rect contribution or indirect taxation.
 A tra1hc officer, or two, is also need
 ed at the trolley terminal in State
 street. which has been selected as the
 rendezvous of the jitneys. The con-
 gested condition not only interferes
 with general traffic but Is a menace to
 life and limb of those who get on and
 off the trolley cars.
 For the benefit of the officers of the
 fire department, Dr.. Harry M. Lee
 gave a demonstration of the lung
 motor recently purchased by the Ni-
 agara company at the company fire
 house, and incidentally told of the
 saving of four newly-born babes by
 this life-saving device, that can be
 operated by anyone and without dan
 ger to the individual suffering from
 suffocation of any kind, either from smoke drOvUninO nlaOfrin
 shock. Dr. Lee explained in detail
 the working of the device and demon
 strated how the device should be used
 in the varied instances of suffocation.
 Foreman Brown, of the Niagaras,
 stated that the lungmotor would be
 carried on the fire apparatus, and was Tor the free use of the physicians, the police officers or for anyone else in emergency cases, and also stated that
 the lungmotor would be delivered with despatch in any part of the city in
 response to call
 Dr. Lee stated that in cases of cleo tric shock, where the voltage was not severe enough to burst the insides and tear the heart, that prompt use of the lungmotor wuld save life. With in week younng carpenter work ing upon the roof of a house near the where a person is evidently dead re- two electric light wires and was cleo trocuted. It is said that the young man breathed for a short period af- ter he reached the ground, thus in dicating that his vitals had not been l torn aSunder. In such an event Dr. Lee said successful use could be made Of the lungmotor. Even in cases where a person is evidently dead res suscitation has been effected by the use of this simple and effective life
 saving device. He cited a case where
 man had been submerged in water
 for half an hour, the body recovered, and life restored by the use of the lungmotor.
 The street department has finally actually located Darrow and Orchard streets, two of the principal routes leading to the trolley line from Ocean | avenue and beyond. for this week these streets have been sprinlzled with dust-laying oil, and the residents | thereof appreciate the unusual atten- | tion. Now they begin to think that these streets are really a. part of the general street system and that they will be given the same attention in public improvements that is given in return for taxes in other sections of the city of lesser importance The | oiling of the streets is taken as an en- terinS wedge for increased improve | ment to the roadbed and in due time, | perhaps, the laying of sidewalks will l be given some consideration. There is but one vacant building lot in Or ehard street and some of the best two tenement dwelling houses in the city are in Darrow street, and both streets are practically without sidewalks New London is noted for its fine sidewalks, there being some forty miles of granolithic sidewalks laid 1 within the past three years, but these | two streets seem to have been among l those that have been neglected in ! I ies N been located by the municipal man. ] agement, prospects are fair for at- tention in the not to far away fu- ture.
 When that Harbor school building was erected less than ten years at a cost of $1o0.oo0, mainly through the efforts of Captain Thomas A Scntt