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Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
TELL HOW THEY BOUGHT new AUTO

One third of s1490 from each OF
three accounts, West Thames street
improvements, street repairs and oil
ing street furnished the money to buy
a new automobile for the street de-
partment. This was part of the an
swer that the public works commit
tee made in the common council meet
ing Monday night to a petition pre-
scented by George f. Pitcher at the
February meeting, requesting that the
public works committee account Tor
the expenditure of s2,557.64 on the
West Thames street account, when no
work had been done. Furthermore,
the committee said they had been un-
able 10 discover where $2,557,ol had
been spent on the West Thames
street account, as that had been spent
as far as they could see was st.934.65.
The committees answer to Mr..
Pitchers petition was given in the
following communication:
To the Court of Common Council:
The committee on public works, to
which communication was referred
at the last meeting requesting infor
nation and explanation concerning
charges made against the Appropriation
allotted to the improving of West
Thames street, begs leave to report
that, in preparing for this improve
ment the committee and the street
commissioner made such contracts
and performed such other duties as
seemed advisable in view of the OBJ
ject to be accomplished.
Some items of expense were the
following:
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
LEASES MORGAN DOCK
FOR STEAMER CAPE COD

Raymond Iiadley Co. of New York
city, has leased the Morgan dock on
Central Wharf as q Norwich terminal
for the new beat line that hey are to
establish between this city ana New
York with the steamer Cape Cod. This
dock will require some repairs and
buildings for housing of freight and
work will be begun on these during
the present week.
The Manufacturers ASSOCIATION held
a meeting recently and nlcdged their
support to his new line. agreeing to
bear a considerable part Of he expense
for making he terminal rp9dv for use.
The steamer Cape Cod. which is to
be put on this line, is a splendid boat,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
LIEUT.. WALDO DAT HAD
SHORT FURLOUGH HOME

Lieut.. G. Waldo Oat U. S. n, who
for the past nine months has been
stationed in Alaskan waters spent a
"a hour furlough at his home on Cliff
street on Sunday. Lieut.. Dat arrived
at Norfolk, Va, on Friday after u trip
from San Pedro, Cal, on the U. S. S.
West CanifaX, on which he was exec
utive officer. This was the ships
maiden trip, having been recently bull
on the west coast
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
Westerly Fire Chief Dies Here

Samuel Cottrell, 70. chi { of the
Westerly fire department. died in this
city on Monday morning after a ling
erinS illnesss. He had oacn in failing
health for ONE time and had been a
patient at tn Backus Eosl1tal. He
was born in Westerly. September 8,
1S4S and was the son CT Russell Cot
treIl and Hannah Simmonis
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
John Petty Gettlna Better.

Encouraging reports are received of
the condition of John Fetty. trouble
man for the gas and electrical depart
ment, who received II severe cleo
trio shock sast Wednesday morning.
He is showing much improvement un-
der treatment at the Backus hospital,
and his recovery seems TO be now only
a question Of time under the expert
care and attention he is receiving.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04

In getting ready for said work,
about the prosecution of which no de-
lay was expected in the beginning,
and to go about attending to other
important items of this departments
service, it was necessary for the street
commissioner to have some means of
conveyance and consequently an auto
mobile was purchased after consult;
ing His Honor, the Mayor, and secur-
ing his approval of the purchase, and
the expense, s1400.0e0 was charged in
practically equay amounts to three
funds $4,000 to the fund for the
West Thames street improvement, and
$4,000 to each of the other two, these
funds covering the projects which, it
was thought, were to receive most
particularly the benefit of this pur-
chase.
The other two projects against each
of which the charge was made of
practically one-third the cost of the
automobile were street repairs and
oiling street, the three matters being
such that attention to them would
naturally require the committees and
the street commissioner presence
in many different sections of the city,
all sometimes in the same day and
frequently in the same hour.
1t will be remembered that no APP
preparation was authorized for the or
binary repairs on West Thames
street, as it was thought at the time
of the annual city meeting that the
special Improvement would make the
usual expense for ordinary repairs IN
necessary; but as the special improve
ment has been delayed, some expense
for ordinary repairs was unavoidable
and, again with the mayors sanction
the fund for West Thames street was
resorted to, labor costing s355.92. OF
the items first set forth, railroad
freights and trap rock particularly
were necessary for the temporary
repairs. The matter of some tenn
porary improvement had to be con-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04

1877 feet long, and equipped with well
appointed staterooms, sprinkler sye-
tenn, and everything necessary for pas.
senger service as well as freight.
The old organization of the Nc&
York Propeller company. including
Local Agent Knouse New York Agent
Fuchs and Captain Goldberg, are going
to be identified with the new line.
Installation of a sprinkler system
on the steamer Cape Cod is now being
made and the boat may be expected
here in the early part of this month.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
Members of esth Come Home.

Local boys of the 6Sth regiment
who have been overseas for the past
seven months are arriving daily in
town. Among the latest arrivals are
Sergeant Fred l.. Plante of Mulberry
street and Ernest Freehette of Taft
vile. Sergeant Plante has another
brother who is now in France await
ing embarkation orders.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY

Miss Rosalie Bennett entertained tho
Saturday Afternoon Bridge club.
The Monday Sewing club met this
week with Miss Isabel Mitchell.
Mrs. Joseph Moves of Stamford is
passing several days with Norwich
relatives
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
The Chelsea Savings Bank

Norwich, Conn, Feb. 3, 1919
The Board Of Directors Of this Bank
have declared dividend for the cur
rent six months, at the rate of four
per cent, per annum paNa3e on and
after the fifteenth OF Marcn.
FRANK HEMPSTEAD,
Treasurer.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04

Every mother knows that coughs and
colds, neglected, may lead TO the most
dread diseases. Group, bronchitis, pneu-
monia and consumption often have their
BEGINNING in a slight cold.
The wise mother gives
Foley's Honey and Tar
at the first signs of a cough or cold. She
knows it stops coughs quickly, puts
soothing, healing coating on an inhamed
and tickling throat, and gives feeling
Of warmth and comfort TO the sufferer.
=. Mrs. NJ z. schlsrb. Ashland Penn. writes
Fcley's Honey and Tar is the best cough and
cold remedy have ever tried. With my little
fh Get, cold on her chest, I dive her 9 few
doses, and it relieves her right away"
Lee G. Osgood Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04

Of
to s
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04

City Treasurer Charles S. Avery's
summary of receipts, from May 16,
1918, TO February IS. 1913, is as fol-
lows:
Cash on hand
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04


Cash on hand
May Is. 1918 go. S6,576.44
Water works ....S257s0 IS
Dept. of Public Works
Rents l, 4b".9J
Oiling and sprink-
ling ...... 49,. 3,163,24
Outside account E. 1925
New sewer ..,. 2,1S0.17
Department of Cemeteries
Ordinary receipts 3.220.4b
Police Department
City court .,.. 7,012.S1
Licenses go. $3.50
e. & E. Dept, .....33s, rocco
Finance Department
Temporary loans. .1l5, 100000
Temporary loans
account G. & e.
department go. 100000
Loans for G. & E.
department i'm
provements ...220,C coo 60
To be raised by tax 224,3i0i:
Other licenses go. I2.So
-- 987,SS1.04
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
Qlla Duustin.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Norwich, Tuesday, March 4, 1919
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04

sidered in a practical way and action
could not be long delayed as the
highway had to be kept open, but
nothing in this whole matter was done
without first making an appeal to the
chief executive of the city for advice
and approval. He could appreciate
the fact that conditions governing
public works were unusual and trying,
and he frequently had to realize that
the rule of common sense must be ap-
piled without delay, in order toavoid
great public disadvantage or serious
loss.
The sums above stated, s1112,73,
$46600 and s35592, make a total of
s1,934.65. The sum of $500 was re-
ceived for the departments old auto
mobile, which had long been source
of serious trouble and expense.
The committee has made diligent
search in the treasurers office and
elsewhere to find other items with
which to build up the grand total of
S2,557.64, mentioned in the said COM
munication, but could not find such
items.
Respectfully submitted,
M. c. HIGGINS,
T. G. AUBREY,
n
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

General Pershing said it would not
be possible to send home the 77th
(New York National Army Division
before April %, unless German ship
ping became available sooner than was
now anticipated.
General Pershing did not indicate
whether the 42d or the 26th would be
started home first. The former is at
Ahrweiler, Germany, with the army Of
occupation, while the New England
troops are at Montigny-le- Roi The
77th is at Chateau William, France.
Plans for the reception of the Rain
bow and New England divisions in this
country have not been announced, but
the AID, which is composed of guards
men from twenty eight states, probably
VIII 60 to oneof the camps around
New York. and the Goth to Camp Dew
ems, Mass. The 42d may appear in New
York City. The Rainbow unit probably
Will arrive home while the Victory
Loan campaign is in progress, and
Secretary Glass is anxious that il
should participate.
Troops returning from France during
the week ended March ID numbered So,
a54, the largest total for any week
since the armistice was signed. Fig
ures made public to-day by the War
Department showed that up to March
Ia 4l4,27S men had been brought home.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
W ar Discipline
To Rule 9th
In Big Parade
Official Order Prohibits
Greetings to Friends or
the Wearing of Flowers
Line of March Announced
Massed Formation To Be
Used With Equipment
of Hindenburg Drive

An advance party to arrange for the
Homecoming of the 77th metropolitan
Division is on its way to New York
and is due some time next week, ac-'
cording to a cablegram received yes
terday by Major S. Fullerton Weaver,
Of the 77th Division Association.
Lieutenant Colonel Douglass Camp
bell, division machine gun officer, is in
command and with him are Major
James A. Roosevelt, 302d Supply Train;
Major julius Adler, 3O6th Infantry,
and Captain M. Lindley, 308th Infan-
try Their headquarters will be the
rooms in the Biltmore Hotel now oc-
cupied by the advance party of the 9th
Division, which will leave the rooms on
March 27.
The earliest arrivals of the division
proper are expected the latter part of
April. "The entire division will be
landed within week after the first
units come" the cablegram says. "Ef-
forts are now being made to embark
the greater part of the command in
one convoy
The advance party will bring with it
complete and up-to- date roster of the
division, designed as a guide to rela-
tiyes and friends of the men. The
division is now resting at Sable Sarthe,
in the LIE Mans district of France.
1--WE intend to keep alive the spirit
which the men learned in the war"
said Major Weaver, chairman of the
executive committee of the association.
"Men formerly of many countries have
found out that they are Anne ricans,
and the association will not let them
forget it,"
The objects of the association. as
described in its constitution, are:
To organize members of the division
and to foster loyalty and democracy
among them; to give aid to, the de-
pendents of dead and disabled: to
mark graves in France; to maintain
. club in New York and to publish
a complete history of the division.
Word was received yesterday of pro-
motions of two officers for bravery
during the Argonne fighting. Captain
Gilbert H. Crawford, 302d Engineers.
who built bridge across the Vesle
under heavy machine gun and artil-
lery fire, has been made a major.
Captain Arthur NJ. Wolff, adjutant Of
the 306th Infantry, who, although Sc
verely i'll, helped direct the attack on
St. Juvin, also has been made major.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

eliminate the question of transpor-
tation, and add to the comfort and
convenience of the wounded men in
the Greenhut Hospital at that point
We find that at the Grand Central
faiace, where there are about 5000
men, 1900 of whom are able to wit
ness the parade, that they would pre-
ter to have Fortieth to Forty second
Street reserved for them, on the east
side of Fifth Avenue, and that the
other hospitals would prefer arrange
ments in the stands, which we have
done. That statement has been made
papers know that. 1t is very strange
to see The Tribune mention that no
provision has been made for the
wounded soldiers, and we had writ
ten request from the assistant ed
ltor for twenty tickets. AS far as
tickets for the Board of Aldermen
are concerned, we felt that, after the
relatives of the men in the 9th Di-
vision, their wounded, heir dead,
were cared for, if there were any ad-
d'tional tickets, we could not find
any better way of distributing them
than through the members of the
Board of Aldermen, and if the COM
mice overlooked any one in he dis
the members of the board would be
able to reach them. We felt that
we would distribute them to the
Aldermen only after all the members
OF the 9th Division and the wounded
men and those relatives of the dead
were cared for"
The Tribune's application for tickets
was routine error. 1t was not signed.
as Mr.. Whalen says, by the assistant
editor, but by the assistant city editor,
who, on receiving verbal request
from the Mayors Committee to apply
for tickets in writing, together with
word that the other papers were to
have twenty each. dictated note ac-
cordingly. He did this without con-
sulting the city editor. The Tribune
had previously made no request for
tickets, but had steadily insisted that
all the wounded soldiers should be pro-
vlded with seats, no matter at whose
expense. That was what started the
row. On Monday ne Mayors Commi-
tee. as reported in the news. met the
superintendents of all the hospitals and
agreed upon he additional and supple
mentary means by which the wounded
are at last to be taken care of.
Mr.: Whalen's attention was called to
the fact that the request for tickets
was sent at the suggestion of Daniel l..
Ryan, secretary to the Manhattan Bor-
ough President, who is handling the
publicity for the Mayors Committee;
also that the same suggestion had been
made to all the newspapers of the city
and that the majority of them had
complied, in writing.
II know that" Mr.. Whalen said, "but
none of them, with a single exception,
has published such unfair and untrue
statements about our not taking care
of the wounded"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Half Price

SO pairs blankets, $6.25 or.
We're $12.50-double bed size.
70 81 inches, wool and cotton
filling on cotton warp; white,
with pink or blue borders, bound
with silk.
rs pairs blankets, SO pr.
We're $16-double bed size, 20 X
81 inches; wool and cotton filing
on cotton warp; white, with pink
or blue borders, bound with mo-
hair.
80 comforters, So each.
Were $6-well-filled with cotton.
covered both sides with figured
slikoline IN variety Of colors.
184 bedspreads, 1925 each.
Were $4.50-white crocheted
hheemmed, extra large size; SO
SO inches.
Note
we have received from blanket
manufacturers price of blankets
for next seasons delivery. Some
OF the prices are the same as last
years quotations. Some are u
fraction higher. Some are
Traction lower. It amounts to
this-that blankets with any ap-
preciable quantity of wool in
them will continue high for at
least a year.
Fourth Gallery. New Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
ARMY Bonus Rules
Changed by War Board

WASHINGTON, March 19.-Dis-
charged soldiers seeking the $50 bonus
authorised by Congress are not
required to send their discharge certifi-
Gates to Washington to receive pay
n1cnt In the future under new repula.
titts announced by the War Depart
melt.
'lne n,w regulations follow:
Disc :arged officers and enlisted
ntn enaItled to $50 bonus under the
act OF Congress approved February "a,
1919, who do not wish to forward their
discharge certificate to the Zone FL
nance Oaicer, Washington, may furnish
certified copy thereof under the fol-
loving cor. :tions:
"'rh' copy will be a literal, full and
complete copy of the original, and will
contain both printed and written mat
Ter OF every nature and description of
both sides of the original discharge
certificate. This complete COPY, TO-
gether with the original DISCHARGE - d
a letter addressed to the Zone Finance
officer, Lemon Building, Washington.
stating the soldiers service since April
3, 1917, the date of last discharge and
'neir present address to which they de-
sire their bonus check sent, will be pre-
sehted TO the nearest recruiting officer
OF the army, who will make and sign
certificate in the margin on the back
Of the original discharge paper in ink,
OF stamped with indelible ink read
ing as follows: "A true copy of this
discharge certificate has been made and
a.tested TO by me to enable soldier to
obtain bonus
Officers signing certificates will
show sis rank and station. After this GER
uhcat. has been made the original
oiseharge will be returned to the SOL
der and all other papers will be for
warded by the recruiting officer to
the Zone Finance Officer"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Whalen Says Aldermen Neuer Made
Heauy Demands for Parade Tickets

The row over providing tickets for
wounded soldiers to see the parade of
the eth is now closed. The last chap
ter was published yesterday by the
Mayors committee on typewriter
fiimsies, as follows:
cat the meeting of the special COM
mittee of the Board of Aldermen held
to-day to discuss plans for the parade
of the 9th Division, Alderman Ken
neatly, among other things, said:
SIT has been stated in the press
by cartoons and otherwise that the
members of the Board of Aldermen
were hogging all the tickets for the
parade of the 9th Division. want
to say right here that the members
of the Board of Aldermen do not
want any tickets for the parade if
they are going to interfere with the
seating of the boys in the various
base hospitals, no matter whether
they are from New York or any other
state; we want those boys taken
care of so far as tickets are con-
cerned. We also want the veterans
of the Grand Army taken care of, as
we'll as the Spanish American War
Veterans. After this has been done.
if there are any tickets left for the
members of the Board of Aldermen.
we'll and good
"Mr. Grover Whalen, Secretary to
the Mayor appeared, and among other
things stated:
u"I want to say that the Mayors
Committee has never been embar-
rassed by and request made by the
Board of Aldermen; the board has
shown most friendly spirit of CO.
operation at all times with the
Mayors Committee. The statements
which have recently appeared in the
pfess with respect to the lack of
arrangements and accommodations
being made for the wounded soldiers.
are absolutely false and untrue in
every word. Arrangements for the
seating of the relatives of those men
Of the 9th Division were given first
consideration. The wounded men are
being given consideration; provision
IS az al times maze at the stand, but
IN conference which was attended
by the members Of the Red Cross
organizations and the various super
intendents of the embarkation hos
pitfalls, it was decided in some cases
that it would be preferable to have
the men in the immediate vicinity of
the hospital, such as in the case of
the Greenhut Hospital. in which
there are about 5000 men, $500 of
whom are in condition to review the
parade. Their suggestion was that
we set aside seats on Fifth Avenue.
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Streets, and provide benches for the
men; men in rolling chairs could be
rolled up to the corner; this would
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Assembly Breaks
From Its Leaders
To Aid Soldiers
Staff COryespOudcnc

Staff Correspondence
ALBANY, March 19.-The Assembly
chamber resounded with verbal fire.
works this afternoon, when members of
both parties broke from the control
OF their leaders and passed by vote
OF 9o to 28 the proposed constitutional
amendment, giving civil, Spanish and
worid's war veterans a preference in
civil service promotions and examina-
t'ons. Majority Leader Simon l.. Adler
insisted that the measure was not
properly drawn, while Minority Leader
Charles u. Donohuc declared it was
un1alr to those who through no fault
OF their own were unable to partici-
pate in the war.
Assemblyman Charles c, Solomon,
Socialist, of Brooklyn, started the
trouble when he declared that the
amendment was unjust and he was fol
lowed by Assemblyman William w.
Pellett, Republican, Of New York, who
insisted that it was opposed by the
policemen and firemen and that It
would break down the states civil ser
vice.
Assemblyman Martin G. McCuc, of
New York, whose son is a sergeant in
France, jumped to his feet and, point
ing to Mr.. Pellet, shouted:
Don't you dare on next Tuesday
cheer our boys as they march in the
victory parade! Don't you dare to
cheer General Organ! Any man who
is against this bill is an unprincipled
scoundrel!"
Several members declared McCue was
unfair.
Assemblyman Earl A. Smith, New
York Democrat, gave the patriotically
surcharged feelings of the members
another twnge when he said the bill
would Include all the peroxide
blondes who worked in the War De-
partment and quartermaster's corps
during the war. ano would give them
preference over married men with
families"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
SALES
Fine Silks
Quarter to Half Less

15,700 yards, ten groups,
81 to $3.50 grades-5Sc to
$3.50 gard
Skirt, coat, suit, dress and
waist lengths, at a quarter to
half the yard prices of the
same grades of silks in our
regular stocks. And there's
such a variety! All the de-
sirable colors, and black, and
white-plenty of navy blue
and flesh tones.
The exigencies of war made
it desirable, in some cases, to
weave a thread of cotton with
the silk, to give desired weight.
This does not detract from the
wearing qualities. Where cotton
is used it will be so stated. Four
grades of silk of this character
are in this sale. Find them in
the Downstairs Store.
None to dealers. None C. 0. D. No
So to So grades-$1.38 yd.
1000 yards 4o-inch crepes, chiffons,
voiles.
$3.50 grades-$1.95 yd.
1000 yards sport silks, khaki-kool
grounds.
1926 grade-$1.55 yd.
1000 yards 36-inch tub satins, very
fine.
1886 grade-$2.5O yd.
1000 yards 4o-inch blacl. satins
S1.75 to $2.85 grades, $1.50 yd.
l.sool yards S6-inch imported white
habutai.
Main Floor, Old Building.
81 grade-58c yd.
1000 yards 36-inch mixed plaid silks.
$3.50 grade-85c yd.
1000 yards 26. 27, 2S-inch printed
Jap. silk and cotton.
$2.25 grade-$1.25 yd.
1000 yards 36-inch roller-printed silk
mixed jacquards.
$2.25 grade-$1.25 yd.
1.5o0 yards 36-h ch colored silk and
cotton poplins.
Downstairs Store. New Building.