Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-23
NEW LONDON TO NOTE BRIDGE OPENING

dred or more m assengers and auto
 mobiles for twePty miautes
 This change was mRsle during the
 present week <apd it's purpose ts not
 understoods by those who bave bes:l
 accustomed to make that early trip if
 there iS Any valid reason why the boat
 should make that first run to Groton|
 without passengers and automobiles,
 an explanation might appease the dis
 satisfied.
 s Evsr heard of the Colonel Lsdyard
 stride. applied to the employees of
 the New London municipal ferry?. Se- that name and the herois dead soldier
 for whom the ferryboat was named. One who has occasion to watch the every move of almost everybody con
 nected with the business. has noted
 their slow method of action in walk.
 talk and work, from the head to the
 foot of the working force.
 In explaining their methods he said
 nearly everyone of the bunch had the
 Colonel Ledyard stride. Tn explaining
 he placed his hands behind his back and with stopped shoulders and bow
 ed head he IseS walkea like like the oldest Of
 while in the mimic act said This isl
 what they remind me of: They have the Colonel Ledyard stride" Tn part ing. he fired this query: Why is there
 job? Say. they're a lot of foreigners so to speak: this ferry is now a New London city> institution. and there is no reason why New Londoners are not holding down the jobs. the best of them; I mean native New Londoners: 4 some fellows that we old New Lon doners have known fir at oleast ten or dozen years.
 Frank A. Munsey has added another big yacht to his fleet in the purchase of the Sun building in New York. the deal being put through by a Norwich man. Charles F. Moves now head of nf hn hrIS nf orfo to cerns in that big city. Several years ago a newsgatherer in New London had the nerve to suggest to MT. Nun ] sey that he was extravasafit in the ] expenditures made in extensive chang es made in the Munsey building, and the only reply was: This is my yacht!" It sure is some yacht, whole 1 fleet insofar las goes the cost.
 The Munsey building is easily the | biggest thing in the city and now Mir. ] Munsey is getting some return for the cash he expended and in addition 1 has the satisfaction of having what he 1 wanted. MT. Munsey and the city is 1 mutually benefited.
 The move to extend Main street l through to Bank street. connecting !! near lilly street. has evidently been | checkmated, meeting the same fate as did the extension of. Washington 1 quot avenue across the inner cove to Division street and thence to Tru- i man street. Perhaps the latest pro- position will materialfzes Perha ps. ! The Chamber of Commerce. has a | plan that provides for highway from | the state pier to the business center [ of the city direct by tl1e way of | Bradley street line. This project | for the widening of that l street to zseyenty-five feet and also for the widening of Bank street as far | as. lilly ~4r sI
 This proposition has met with the ! r.. <zf lI n pected the matter will be considered l. at the next meeting of the council. fl In the opinion of the 8ayor this great II can. be made without II teh benefits would be far in excess of the damages. But that is only the opinion Of the mayor.
 Governor Marcus Holconb has pro- ;laifaed and has designated Saturday, September 6, as Lafayette Day and recommends it's celebration in every place in the state His ExceHencyl that it can be made a double as that date is not only he 165th anniversary of the birth of Lafayette but it is also the fifth an- 1iversary of the battle of the Marne As far as goes celebrations on the ,ixth of September. New London can % the other places in the state one ,etter and have triple celebration. fver since the Revolutionary days he sixth of September is day of in Groton and New Lon lon.
 The governor suggests that the stars { md stripes and the tri-coIors of ] Trance fly together on that day. New london might add the English flag for hat day will mark the 1Osth annivers- Try, of the battle of Groton Heights nd the burning of New London The ocal celebrations Of these events have ,een in honor of the heroic defense ather than a marked victory. You { ,nOw.
 The out t-of-town union plumbers, fShteen of thnm. who came to New london and finished the plumbing for : he United States Housing corpora ion in the Jefferson avenue colony l fter the local union men declined to i f 10 the work, are in a bad box so to I, I peak. if current report be true. IL is aid that each of these plumbers have ( nd also s3 for each day they work d on the job. This they must do or 7, hey will not be granted clearance ards from the local union. With ut these little certificates, 1t Is said, l . he men cannot get work as union nen in any place where a union ex- ] sts.
 It is claimed that these men were warned not to do the work by officers If the local union, and it is stated rthei l warming was not needed Nothing of icial can be learned of the situation It the present time, but it is under tood that the work was done ac-i .ording to the union scale and the ! york being open. the penalized men To not believe they violated any { IT for laundry purposes Is corruga- ' ed SD it caD ba llSed q a Uaah l<rsa