Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-08
LAID CITY TAX OF 15 3-4 MILLS
Annual Meeting Lasts Four Hours - West Thames Street Improvement Is Only Extra Street Work Voted Police men and Bremen Put on Equal Daily Pay of $4-Town Officials Register Their Protest to Expectation That Town Will Pay City $40, 600 For Road Work.

items to be taken up in the order in which they occur in. the warning, but Former Mayor TIC. Murphy said he thought the item of ordinary repairs and macadam repairs under the pub lie works department might better be left till later in the meeting until the. amounts to be voted for some other items which might affect this had been determined. This was voted after con- siderable discussion in which remarks by Joseph T. Tanning and Herbert M. Lerou considerably clarified the revela- tion of these items to special items for new street work.
 Town Gives Notice.
 Before any. votes on appropriations were taken. Town Counsel Henry H. Pettis called attention to an item of $40, 900 in the estimated receipts, this coming from the town. Mir. Pettis said the selectmen had no knowledge of how this amount had been estimated and they disagreed entirely with the estimate of what the city would re- ceive from the town. The town ofh cials thought this amount entirely too high and Mr. Pettis warned that the obtaining of this sum from the town was a very doubtful proposition. The city could probably count on getting perhaps s22.000. but not anything near the $40,0oo.
 Speaks for Economy. W. S. filling addressed the meeting and said he felt this was very in opportune time to spend money for large new improvements. From what We can see it looks like a. IA, 15 or. 15 1-2 mill tax, and we have many obligations that we shall have to meet. There will be more and more calls from the federal government. We will do justice to ourselves and the town if we let these matters wait and be | conservative in our expenditures. Two Sewers Killed.
 Former Councilman John Barry of i Greeneyille, when the item of Golden swweet sewer for $500 came up, said ] that he lived on the street and every body was severed and he could not | find out that anybody had petitioned | for a sewer. Alderman M. c. Hig- 1 gins explained the necessity for pub | lie sewer in the street because the
 present sewer is in poor condition and
 runs across private property. T. c. ] Murplsy stated that this sewer had |, 1=.., coming up for years and would 1 be a burden on the property owners
 and he thought the appropriation for
 the sewer ought not to be made. The matter was laid on the table The appropriation of s1 400 for West l Thames street sewer was approved and voted
 Action on the appropriation of 1 $1,710 for Laurel Hill avenue sewer
 was indefinitely postponed after Al derman M R. Waters had inquired if
 the plan included the draining ot Rogers pond, to which Civil Engineer
 Chandler answered that it did not.
 Raise PoIicemen's Pay.
 The sum of $37, ,S2O was recommend
 ed for salaries in the police depart
 ment, and when this item was reached James P. Sheridan presented reso- lution making the amount $44,000 1 Councilman Edward Crooks mentioned that the recommended figure contem- plated a 90 cent raise in the daily wages of the policemen.
 Judge John H. Barnes spoke in favor of the increase in the appropriation
 because the police need the money, he said. The Norwich department is tht lowest paid in the state barring none
 They get less than the man working
 with a pick and shovel It will be
 better to pay the police than to spend
 the money for block and macadan ii pavements. Former Alderman William
 H. Allen supported the increase in tht appropriation, and Alderman M R
 Waters brought out the point that tht police had had a raise of 25 cents pc
 day two years ago. He thought al
 increase now of 5G cents per da,
 would be all the city ought to giv'
 now. The $44. 1000 appropriation mean
 an increase of $1 per day.
 | Thomas M SbinldS al eTon1yo fn the increased appropriation and Jamer P. Sheridan supported the resolution by saying that $1 a. day raise for tn , policemen was not too much to expec , to be just towards the policemen. Tn men are asking for s4 a day and n
 man with 8 family can live on les today.
 Joseph T. Tanning and Dr. J. J Donohue also spoke in approval an, the item was approved unanimously
 while the meeting applauded an many of the men in the meeting lief I the hall.
 l Women Speak for Sanitary Inspector When the item of $1,5O0 for healt ! department came up, Dr. J, J. Dono hue said that the health officer ha : asked for s600 more for a sanitar inspector. The doctor said there wer |
 wanted to speak on the subject of in 5 fant welfare as relating to this depart l ment.
 Miss Susan Huntington, chairma | of the local committee in the chil I welfare campaign, spoke a few word I for the appropriation, and Dr. E. I Brophy, city health officer, spoke ( Il the way the $500 could be used 0 the services of a sanitary inspecto $ It would be a pretty small sum | n expend for the protection of th e health of the community in this wa, Mrs. A. H. Chase, chairman of tt s women's committee of the local cour I cil of defense, and H. M. Lerou alf n spoke in favor and the item WE y made s2.100 for the health depart . ment.
 q Former Mayor Advises Economy. gI When the item of $S,O00 for tV e garbage motor trucks for the publ Y works department was reached. fol e mer Mayor Murphy came to his fe e and said though he had always bee if in favor of public improvements ar e had in past times asked for large sun n of money, the conditions hal It changed now and it is time to call t. halt He disagreed with the Chan d Der of Commerce that would put u e city of Norwich into debt in the su Il of $117, ,72750. There are notes unpa er of the city of Norwich at the Norwit
 Savings society of S140,000, and V
 don't have to have the credit of u
 city impaired. These are days
 economy and going slow on the e-