Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-27
NEW LONDON'S MUNICIPAL ExP PENDITURES

straw to protect from the frost.
 Then came the zero weather, but the
 work went right on. As a result the walk that was laid on the the section of the street nearest Montauk avenue,
 and extending all along the front of the Mono property for a distance, per- haps, of five hundred feet, the surface of the walk is now sealed off, and is on a par with 8 walk made of cinders.
 This section of walk must be relaid
 and the city must pay the extra cost.
 It is bum job, and the end joining
 property owners cannot justly be re
 quired to pay for half the cost of that
 sidewalk as at present constructed. Nearly all the property in Orchard
 street is owned by industrious citi-
 zens of Italian birth who pay full
 proportion of taxes to the city. They
 are therefore entitled to equal con-
 sideration of property owners in any
 other section of the city. They are; not fault for the laying of concrete sidewalks at a time when work of that kind cannot be done satisfactori- ly. It is the intention of Mr. Mono, the largest property owner in the street. to insist that a proper walk be laid along. his premises before the
 cost of the present apology for a walk | is taxed against him.
 | With the sidewalks Of that street 1 made good, it is the duty of the high
 way committee to put the street prop
 CT in pasSahie condition. At the pres ent time, while the sun warns the earth, the mud in that street, by actual measurement is fourteen inches deep, and a temporary plank walk is nee-
 essary for people to get across the street. Such conditions do not pre- vail in any other street, so thickly
 populated as Orchard street, in any other section of the street. Nearly every house there is owned by Italians and are in good respectable condition. 1 Those people are entitled to at least a
 passable highway along their prem 1 ises.
 "Who is the oldest printer in New .London?" That is the query put up
 to this correspondent, but just why l the question is asked the deponent knoweth not, as there is no doubt on | that point. Edward A. Colby, the vet eran band master, is the oldest printer ! in the city in years, and in service, i too an done of the very best at that l He has been trained in practical job ! printing as well as newspaper print ing. It is so long ago that the details
 cannot be readily recalled, and MT. 1 Colby is not at the writer's elbow to 1 be questioned on that point. If memory l serves correct, and perhaps it does. 1 MT. Colby began as a printers devil
 in the office of the New London Daily
 Evening Star when the office was l0-
 cated in what is now known as the
 Bsr~er and May building in State 1 street.
 Before the Star office was moved to
 the corner of Bank and State streets
 Mr. Colby secured employment in the
 Starr and Farnham printing office at 1 Main and State streets. He worked 1 there for many years for that firm and 1 later for George F.. Starr. He then l Telegraph. perhaps tflirty-five years | ago, setting the advertisements. He ] subsequently, went to the Day, and so l far as the writer kows. he is still in
 that employ. On a guess I would
 say that MT. Colby has been in the l printing business about fifty eight
 years. Another question asked: How old is the oldest printer?' l Please ask MT. Colby is the answer. "Tail<ing on the subject Of old print CTS" said the querist, tell me, if you 1 can. the names of the mornings pa [ pers that have been printed in New i London since MT. Colby began his life !! as printer" Let's see. There was I the Chronicle. the Morning Star that shined for two weeks only, the Day that switched from the morning to
 the evening fold about thirty-six years ago, or within a week after the ex- | piration of the Evening Telegram, and | just before the first issue of the morning Telegraph wasN printed. Some | of the printers who worked at the case or press, or both, before MT. Colby
 was out of the customary apprentice ] period were: Isaac c. Sistare. Patrick l J. Lawley. Charles T.. Burr, Robert $ i Hayes. William Carroll now with the l Providence Journal, John Dray, Lew
 IS c. Mum, Major Phelps, Perry