Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-17

eriy Board of Trade meeting Tuesday
 night, and several interested business I men, attended the hearing on improving
 the Pawcatuek liver, held Wednesday af-
 terfoon in the town hAll. Major v. L. | Peters, U. g. district engineer of Provf- |
 dence; was in charge of the hearing, and noted the various arguments presented. | Charles J. Butler, the first speaker.
 said that the board of trade favored | ehanfiel IA feet deep As It Is now. barges are unable to safely navigate the 1 river. if they carry . full load, Most | of them have to play safe and carry | only three-fourths of their capacity. He l said that this favored 12-foot channel 1 should extend from Et6ningten te the ] deep the channel was hewi Re stated that 1 fit was supposed to be 10 feet and asked l Everett E. Barns to give his opinion en l the matter.
 Mf. Barns, who has had much e&peri. l
 efice ih the navigating of the tlgt0Rt l Westerly, said that the river Is ie feet l
 deep, for the most part, but that there l and where at dead low water a boat I
 would touch at feet. It Is necessary to |
 run by these places slowly, afd almost 1 impossible for stfahge shippers to ha&is 1 gate up the river safely. In reply to question by Major Peters, MT. Barns said 1 that at high water these rocky places
 would sound as low as feet inches. file said that when a heavily loaded
 barge is to be towed up the rivef, 1t Is necessary to wait for an extra high tide, . and this often causes long delays. Major Peters asked whether 1t was the opinion of the board of trade that the ! ! channel should be ~idehed, and Mi But ;aI ta& ,,nrr- and that there was no desire to have it ] made wider. The Engineer then asked what class of boats>fs in the habit of coming into
 Westerly. Mr Barns. produced chart that had all cargoes tabulated for the past eight years. Coal iron lumber, , brick and stone were few of the com , modities listed by MT. Barns
 R. B. Meikle. manager of the Lorraine
 Manufacturing eompany's plant on Me
 chanic street, said that all the lumber . . used in making the new addition to that 3 mill had to be brought by rail, because z it was impossible to get boats to bring it up the river. For the past year his company has had to bring its coal by rail because 1t Was cheaper. He said ], that very few cofnpahles wanted to bring 7 three-fourths of a load here when they : cafi bring full loads everywhere else T Mir Butler again took the fnof and : stated that the freight rate between New = London and westerly differed by 10 cents ,, a ton. At present the rate by rail is 5 2 cents cheaper here than 1t Is by Ratef II He maintained that If an adequate
 i channel was dtedged, freight by boat z would be 35 cents cheaper than 1t would $ be by rail. lie figured that the town VI would save about g. s4esOoo a year In . freight rates, if the desifea petition is a granted In the past year, over 800 cars C t-R kG A-E E...
 come into Westerly by Fail, According
 ito Mir. Smith, the local freight aeeht. no
 coal ever came by rail if previous years, :. and now 1t ceities that way becaAss the ' water rates are 50 high.
 II At present there Are no public Xhat3es < on the liver front but there are Is Or 1 more private ones. Thomas MeKenAie, y head of the water department. explained .< that the town had recERhy acquired 15u E feet Of water front on Margin street .1I and was contemplating the erection of I coal Bins there to Keep the supply Of coal E needed for tho pumping station in White IL IL Rock Thus. he said. the town was ih- e tetested in the project also.
 ie The state engineer declared that in his n estimation, the worR would cost at least n s25O.oeO, and asked if the town would be .h jn wiling to Dear any of the expense. Mf is l-Butlef Informed him that such a mat 1 ter would have to be brought before {
 financial town meeting.
 'a F. N Wilcox, and TnofaaS Hope ot is Ashaway also showed the need for [ le deeper channei Mi Wilcox even &eh
 further than the bfeeeding speakers b, q' saying that the rates by water wollt T. be even lower than was /pfedittd by MT re Butler
 ol Arthur NJ Cottfer, representing tn re C.. B. Cottrell Sons Co.,, said that tha 10 eoncern has 1900 feet of dock frontage al and would be willing to pay for tn, ls dredging in front of it's sworks, if thu ss rest of the river was deepened. He eail
 that thousands Of tons of material woul, nt be brought to his plant if the channe m m were made deeper. "' All of the speakers seemed to presen similar arguments. Ali fsel that West Of erly win be greatly beneftted # tn rs. channel is deepened. All the speaker -st said thnt no boats fully loaded Can coin up the river now. and that sofiie cofn e- panies will not allow their boats to fa Ter the chance of landing on the rocks. ry The arguments were aIl7noted by Ma us jor Peters. apd will be sent to Washing ne ton. where it will be decided whether th hs river shall be deepened or not.
 on The focal committee of the AhAerita a committee for relief in Ireland met Tue. . day evening at the K. of C. rooms in tn
 Batrows building. and outlined plans ft ,a. the drive that starts in westerly Moi rs day, Feb. 22 1t was decided at tn
 meeting that the town of WestNfiy an ent Pawcatuck and vicinity will be divide m. into five districts. with a team to cai
 vass each. The committee will hold al lay other meeting Friday night and then u hia captains and personnel of these tean ira, will be announced.
 Efie Bates, eolofed, whe was afTestt ter in rltnpus Monday afteFhoon by Ofic, George Champlin, was before Judge ol ieh yer H. Williams in the Third distrl
 court Tuesday evening" charged with i eb- toxication. She pleaded guilty Seaten lel. was suspended npohN payment of cost of amounting to sS.Se.
 At . recent meeting Sf the Mestsf - Board of Trade, Representative Satnu = H. Davis was requested to look up ieSi
 latien believed to haSe been secured, q
 ing authority to the town eoNneIl @ frame a building ordinance. After Fl lvestigating the matter, Mi. Davis h & reported that he was unable to find al
 recent legislation giving such authori
 to the council. He said that such a ls
 was proposed several years ago, but V
 rejected in the senate
 R A cSliisioA Of two automobiles Se6ufs at about [ o'clock Tuesday evening Fl the junction Of Canal street and RA
 road avenue when the Ford sedan q 2& owned by Charles Mccarthy Of VII
 Rock collided with a fiVe passenger | 8 owned by Leroy Talbot, of High etre
 No one was injured, and the cars escar l eariorc daRaA6A