Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-22
NEW LONDON'S TRAFFIC ORDINANG E
Change Likely be Made in That Portion Which Permits Vehicles Stop But Fifteen Minutes Certain Streets Efficient Work by Motorcycle Cop-Soldiers' and Sailors Monument.

forcement, while minimizing that feat ure of the jitney nuisance, still serves as an injustice to the merchants, as it places too short a limit for those who come in automobiles to patrOnlze the stores. There is a general com plaint on this score and effort will De made to have that clause eXpunged from the ordinance, and one substi- tuted that will refer direct to paSSen- ger carrying vehicles for hire. At the outset if the licenses of some Jitney drivers had been revoked there would have been no occasion for a standing time limit. But there were jitneymen who insisted that they had the right to stand along the cuI1bs wherever, whenever and as long as they pleased and were not obliged to move to make way for any other vehicle. In order to avoid what might be termed by some to be unjust discrimination that clause of the ordinance was made gen. eral.
 Recently 8 writer for a local news
 paper TidicuIed the architecture of the soldiers and sailors monument on the parade, and by way of no harm, added that a stroke of lightning would be welcomed that would demOlish the monument. That is the opinion of one man publicly expressed. It is well that he does not represent the whole people. That beautiful monument was pre- sented to the city of New London by the son of Joseph Lawrence; the same who founded the Joseph Lawrence Free hospital, made possible a new alnlshOuse, and semi-annual big feeds for the unfortunate inmates and did many other things for the lasting ben
 eft of the people of New London. In
 honor of the volunteer hrenlen of New London, and as a special tribute to his
 friend, Frederick L. Allen, a former
 of m
 pany, chief engineer Of the fire de-
 partment and mayor of the city,
 erected q granite monument in front of the county court house, which is suJmounted by a statue with striking
 likeness of the late NIr. Allen. This
 later monument was preseu ed to the
 city with great formaIity some years
 after the city was given the monument
 on the parade. The firemen's monu- ment is to be moved from it's original location to a position in Riverside
 park, a part of which was donated to the city by the Lawrences.
 There are some New Londoners who ] hope that the soldiers and sailors mon- ument will be spared from lightning and that the talk of the removal tc another site be silenced until the last New Londoner who served in the civil war has answered the final TOu-call That monument was erected to per petuate the memory of the men whC Tisked their lives that the country
 might live and is entitled to the prom inent position it now holds. If there is more room required to accommodate | the increased vehicular traffic, there IS a parkIet near the monument, but which has no connection with it, and could be removed without any senti- mental objection, but to remove the | monument would be an insult to all 1 who went from New London to serve the country in Ehe Civil war. It would l also be a breach of contract with the ] the representatives of the city, wher 1 the site was selected that the monu- ment should remain there forever, o1 as long as the granite stood out against time.