Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-15

the subsequent transfer of the Four teenth to Camp Thomas in the Pequot section A soldier of the Fourteenth was murdered and then placed on the tracks of the New London Northern railroad in Water street directly op- posite sailors boarding house of which Matthias Lopez was the proprie- tor. The house was a large two-story frame structure and stood lengthwise of the street. Lopez was Cape de Verde Islander as most of his male boarders, but there was always a low grade of these blacks and whites in the place and it had decidedly un- savory reputation. It was generally supposed the soldier was murdered in afterwards believed that he was killed in place in Prison street, now Allan tic street, near the corner of Water.
 One evening fully five hundred soI- diers marched up Bank street, in solid body everyone of them armed with a pine cord wood stick taken from the Fitch woodward that was located near the end of. the Shaw cove bridge, which was generally used by the soldiers going to and coming from Fort Trumbull. The soldiers marched across the parade directly into Water street and halted in front of the Lopez place. Without much preliminary they proceeded to make raid. They went into the house drove the blacks and the whites out by a free use of their sticks. They demolished everything demolishable in the house, and threw much stuff out of the house to give vent to their spirit of revenge. Then the soldiers deliberately set fire to the building and stood by until nothing was left but the standing chimney, The fire department turned out and. were permitted to save the Boss bakery, then a small frame building, to the south of the Lopez place, and a dwelling to the north of the burned, building. The fremen were in full sympathy with the soldiers therefore there was no clash. There was a po- lice force in New London at the time fully as large as at present, and they. were warned to keep away and avoid trouble. They evidently obeyed the; warning.
 The New London board of school
 visitors acted wisely and well in rais- ing the salaries of school teachers, ! independent of any action on the part
 of the court of common council in re- gard to the recommendation of an ap-e propriation to city meeting to meet | the added expense. The board evi-+ dently retailed the statement of forzt
 mer president of the board, Dr. John. G. Stanton, who said it was fully with 1 in the provinces of the board of school
 visitors to spend any monies that the
 board considered necessary for school purposes and that it was the duty of, the city to furnish the money. While I there may be some objection to the
 method of the board, there is no sur
 face objection to giving the teachers a
 raise in these times of high prices,
 when increase is absolutely necessarx to meet current expenses. The in- crease will amount to. approximately
 s13,00 a year, not including the extra salary of Advisor Jennings, former superintendent of schools. The maxi
 mum increase for all grade teachers
 is $500. The maximum pay for teach
 CTS from the first to the ninth grade,
 inclusive. will be. sS5O, and for teachers
 in the seventh and eighth grades S950.
 The principals were given an in.
 crease of ten per cent, which makes
 the salary $1, 1920, while the salary of
 the principal of the Harbor school
 was fixed at $2O000, an increase of.
 $200. The salary of the superintendent.
 of the kindergarten will be $1,320, arf
 increase from s1,200. While the board made no mention of the salary of the
 
 stunned that his salary is at least $5, 900,
 the amount paid Ato his predecessor
 It is said that some of the younger ; teachers have now abandoned the idea
 of enlisting in the navy as first class; yeomanettes, even if the pay is more
 than given for teaching school, the:
 difference being more than balanced by the vacation period. ] Alderman William ]. Harrig9n, for. merly of Norwich, now serving his , second term as member of the court of common council of the city of New
 London as alderman from the Third . ward, is chairman of the important 1 committee on public health, and it de- wolves upon this committee to provide , a. contagious hospital of some de- 3 scription, none being available since : the navy took over the Memorial hos pital and with it the modern con- } tageous institution. The hospital I property has been taken over for a , period specified as during the war. t :, Therefore Alderman Harrigan's com- . mittee is planning to meet any emer-
 gency that is liable to arise at almost n any time. Houses and small farms 2 on the outskirts have been inspected : with view to purchase, but none S was found to meet the requirements. | ' n nounced that a portable building be f purchased and located on the aims I house lot, not far removed from the r present contagious ward of the navy.
 He estimates that this could be done
 at cost of $7.506, and form a unit il for more space if it became necessary . in the event of an epidemic In other l, words it would be an improved pest r house, patterned after the one or ]; dered erected by Mayor Tinker at his own expense to meet an emergency
 many years ago.
 | That old Tinker pest house was heat ed by a parlor stove and a range and = was made as warm as almost any | house of that time, as it was before the introduction of steamheat into alrnos;
 l every residence. In the plan out e lined for the portable courageous hos pital it is said that in order to "saye . the expense of keeping a fireman and Q carting the ashes" the place will be y heated by oil heaters! Yes. with all = the dangers and offensive odors, and
 in an hospital. even of the courageous
 kind. Perhaps there will be a change d in this particular when the heating e feature is given serious and final con- t slderation. While the health depart = ment has full power to use money re. e quired in an emergency when the pub. e lie health is at stake, the committed e cannot reach any funds just at th.
 present time to furnish an hospita = building as the health menace is noi n actually in sight.
 Therefore, the hospital matter wiI be cared for through the regular chan ]. nel. The health. committee will mak, |, report or the needs to the court o