Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-04

, Workers has been supported by vol untary contributions. and the long list of givers published annually, attests the hold it has on the confidence of i the whole community, as an example i of the best type of charity organiza- tion.
 Such is the tribute of MT. Gilmans book to this splendid organization. It might be added that it's alert manage
 ment is constantly reaching out for
 new opportunities of usefulness in the best most altruistic sense.
 Such branches as the Little Mothers | League, the Free Ice Fund. and the | like quiet but effectiye cooperation | Sanitarium in aiding certain cases, the Employment Bureau, members of which have devoted regular afternoons for long years to the preparation of | work to be taken home by needy wo- men who rely upon the payment 1 therefor as an addition to their slend- | CT incomes, the children's sewing | school, in a hundred ways this fine, unselffsh body of Norwich women is | working on, ever seeking some new | channel of helpfulness. Of late. it mas become custodian of that splendid fund left by the late Adam Reid for the aid 1 of Norwich poor, in families where there are no users of intoxicating ii- quorS.
 While other towns are dissatisfied "
 much of which devolves upon town of ficials churches and individuals. this now generously financed organization, continuing it's monistrations on a strictly working and practical basis, is a model which all cities might well copy.
 Indeed, it has been copied and with
 the greatest satisfaction by ono
 wealthy community, the town of Greenwich. When Miss Carrie F.. Rogers, a native of Norwich. now of Washington. D. C., and Mystic, was q member of the household of her uncle the late Robert M. Bruce. the million aire philanthropist of Greenwich, be- nevolent women of that town we're mooting the project of organized charities.
 By invitation of Miss Rogers a com nlittee from the town came to Nor wich, and was afforded opportunI- ty for thorough study of the system and business methods of the United Workers.
 On this committees return home. an organization modelled upon the Nor wich one was formed and received substantial first aid from generous MT. Bruce who a short time before had given Greenwich it's finely equipped hospital and it's magnificent 100-acre public park.
 Sc. Norwich set the pace for the systematic and satisfactory adminis- tration of charities to one of the weaIthiest communities in this or any other state.
 It is well to have these forms of practical benevolence reviewed oc- casionally, since townspeople, like re- publics are prone to be ungrateful principally because facts are quickly forgotten in 6, busy world, while new corners accept conditions and insti- tutions as they find them, not knowing nor seeking their origin.
 Jededah Huntington, John F. Slater, Lafayette s. Foster and Moses Pierce, these names belong to a generation which accomplished wondrous things for Norwich. but who remembers them now, or who pauses to weigh the full value of their generous service to their town?
 For that reason MT. Gilman's book is doub1y valuable; a volume to be pre- served by natives of Norwich and their descendants, by institutions which have benefited by these and other gen erous benefactors, and by all who would study the towns beginnings in the various ways which have made the name of Norwich one of such dis tinction that it's sons may say with the pride of Saint Paul. Indeed, I nm a citizen of no mean city,"
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