Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-02
FOR NEW LONDON'S NEXT MAYOR

congress to succeed Congre sSrnan Richard P. Freeman of New London. Those that know the two men well. I know that Freeman is preferable to Hall with the masses. But that aside 1 the boom is not of democratic origin
 for the purposes of weakening the ton. Last winter politician high in l the council of the republican party, l probably outranked only by John He,~y, said the leaders would be glad to have Colonel Hall signify his de- i sire for the nomination, and that he l would receive the support of the state 1 machine. He said the political condi 1 tions would not permit the leaders l to ask the colonel to enter the con- gressional contest but he believed he was just the kind of man for the place. and his candidacy would tend to make the party even stronger. He said the colonel was not only wealthy. but he had unusual legislative experi- ence and would take just pride in be- ing a member of congress.
 This republican party leader also said that Senator Brandegees chances
 for reelection would <be made even
 stronger with Colonel Hall in the low
 CT house. He argued that there was
 party unrest in the congressior.rl dls
 trict, and in the state for that mat
 ter, by reason of the senator and
 New London. This leader ad7ed tha while not over friendly politically with Colonel Hall it would be a good party move to substitute him for Freeman. who did not seem to be able l to light the match to set the political i world af1re. The writer did not aeree with several thing said of Freeman. !! but in fact spoke of him in the high 1 est praise and as being far superior to Colonel Hall as representative of the 1 district in the house of representa- 1 tives. This shows that the recently | published reference to Hall is not Freeman for renomina ton and e1ec | tion. Instead of reading and laugh | ing'' it would be well for MT. Freeman | and his friends to be on guard.
 The police department is doing ex- cellent traffic work. especially in tke | business centre of the city that is on | State street and parts of Bank and i Main streets, not far distan. from | State. But they seem to b , confined | to that section also in the arrests for | violation of the automobile laws, while 1 the most fragrant violations are natu- | where usually more care is exercised | by the drivers of motor vehicles. Still | the larger number of arrests in that | prescribed district will serve as an | indicator of what is going on in that | line in other parts of the city. Take | Ocean avenue, for instance. There are i probably more violations on that thor | oughfare in a single night than there l
 
 There are no cases or excess vc :=peel | of the reckless driving class. iu the | centre, but out Ocean avenua. the au- | toi11obiles are few shat do nUr travel | oyer thirty miles an hour from ore | ep! of the long nv ,nie lu tiI" otEer. | So much so that peopie who are oroSeing from onc side to the other are taking a chance even rlo",- pe--I- l GUS ttan the chance that made Steve | 3ls ie a housene Id word, :i.e .oun'iy ove..
 There are automobiles and automo- piles racing up and down the avenue without any regard to the public safe ty and many of them are without the required lighted tail lamp. One night 1 this week there was q big truck. q great big one. groping in the darkness II with no light, either head or tail, and in turning into Lee avenue it went to red light signal. and came within an ace of crashing into large touring car containing eight persons. Such conditions existed a season or two when it became known to the reckless drivers that Mel Smith the motorcy- cle cop. was on duty and that he was doing it >2 the queens taste. This man Smith is now a. police sergeant 1 and is assigned as motorcycle traffic officer. but he is missed after nightfan along the principal driveway to Ocean beach. If the sergeant's duties will lOl peTIllI OI IlSnl lldITOI on ocean avenue, it is suggested that some equally competent officer be assigned 10 that special duty.
 The naval hospital, the experimental station, the Mn Iron Works. the Memorial hospit4-. the new almshouse and other properties in New London ,aken over by the naval department IS war measures are soon to revert pack to the owners, and can be used for their original or other purposes according to recent orders of the navy department. The state pier was abandoned as naval rendezvous come time ago. but shortly thereafter for ten submarines and the mother ship. This does not signify that New London is to cease to be an import mt naval centre. Already large eo2- racts have been awarded for en- argement and farther improvement If the submarine base and extensions ave also ceen ordered for the coast