Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-05
Improvements Demanded at New LondOr

gft for sservi<se sat tftes first &call and there
 are night crew S larger than would be: supplied if a. paid depa partu5eTt pre- vailed. Perhaps the insuEance men
 did not know hat he.y sure
 when they sugge es1ed ta signnent of thes apparatus, and lincluded zthe
 squad wagons that are not city prop
 erty. ssss. 8 ! K l H .ys III, M The ttreat Of the rePresentatives of
 no osones sin- the gefty of New Iond don.afad may sets them tox think tine matter
 over and appreciate the absurdity of the demands. SIt t would E be nice, and would please insurance scompanies if every other house in New London was
 asfire house with a crew and appara-
 tus ever ready to- protect from fire
 the house. next door.s :. It would be on
 par with the latest demands. New
 London .isa the smallest X city in the
 state in area, and the present modern
 fire apparatus could make the run
 from one extreme end of the city to
 the other in less than ten minutes, and the houses are so located now that any .efire in the city can be reached
 by. some apparatus within three min
 utess and in some instances much less.
 :. There. will be hesitaa ton and seri-
 ous considerat tfon before the people of New London will sanction the aban- donment of the present efficient and economical fire. department for a less efficient and much more expensive de-
 partment, and will probably never re-
 organize the department on the plan
 demanded by the insurance people
 F The Common people supposed that when the tire department was j. inn proved by, the addition of the very lat est in fire fighting apparatus there by, decreasing tfies fire risks; that there surafces rate but instead there vas increase. It would be good biIsiness for insurance companies to sroW with a large dfrnqnition ], fnse fire risk. but they will probably not be pernitted to ed fire city of New London.
 Some long headed chap may suggest afmunicipal Insurance company on a sort sof cooperative plan Pool ailsthe premiums spadds onE New London pro perties, and sthereby,s be: sprerared to lief that sconsidera ble more money is paid stos insurance companies .bys New Dondoaers than 4eoznes hack to the city in. fire losses. It is alright for in tfiairETisks,s but 7ti1esre.s,sfes is a limit. Tile citE- ofss4NewAzLoudon has some rights in thex mana cement of the .af- fairs of: the .citys ip cluding ,tthe water and fire departn srts: .s
 Ti4e night before sIle. Fourth, was simply that and nothing more, and ended half an hour after midnight It didn't use to he so. in New London when the gray and bald heads Of to- day ussfe the. sf1a tr-iotfe youth Of the ei.y9 Tosthsalss the might before ,,tiae. over ten who did not make a. night of ft+wasz not ,iliuc cff ora boy among boys. There was sprnethfng doingefronh si1ne set to- ssuHsets but the: real k noise. tine real sport pf that time. began with midnight : Men of mature age were out with the boy yss sz ia t1ers and sons together, and the night was all too slow: inepa ssing. Now, some men and some boys do remain. out until mid night expecting to see something dos ing but 1ffalf. hour after midnight of the night ofIdthn present 9WeeE; the streets of New London were no more noisy by reason of cclebrators than on any other night. I-ie
 n the days ef the long ago, July Fourth was sas great big day to Sthe whole peoplesofy New London regard less of age On July third. the. youth of the city were on State street scan ming the trees that lined the street, looking efor@t tlies Fourth of July notice issued by Captain Sam Jeffrey, The notice, read something like this: "The Hounds will be out tonight. Meet at the court house at 11.45 armed and equipped for parade and = all night denonstration." That was the signal that reached all. over New London. and was spread by the boys of that time. A large crowd would assemble at the appointed time and Captain Sam would, be on hand with sliis big Snare drunas and every other drum and drumzner of4the city would be there, too. '.:' .s =.
 f At the stroke, Of twelve on the old town clock there would be a discharge Of cannon and fire arms from in front of the court house that could be heard all over the city. Then there would be march through the city 1'tflI day light did appear The boys Of that .pe- riod are the old fogies of today, the old fellows who begrudge boys hav. ing a noisy time during the greatest of all national llelid4yss and insist on having what they term safe and sane Fourth. 5s5, .245= r