Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-15
SCHOOL BOARD WANTS S2O0,OOO
 BUILDING FOR MT. PLEASANT ST.

is5sSeoo profit the plant h re- turning to the city annually. Taking | all into consideration the myor said that l Norwich has today gas and electric plant worth million and half. The water department, has been a pay ing investment since 1t was started
 This department he said, has paid in
 net profits of $1.6s0,000 We have our
 fire department, sewers, sidewalks; etc.
 Our financial condition is in fine shape.
 Permanent Highway Improvements
 The mayor expressed himself in favor
 of permanent highway Improvements and
 went on to explain his plan for bonding | the city for s150, 900 for permanent road | work The programme he has in mind
 would extend over a three year period l When we get ready to do the work
 we have men here in need of employ
 ment and we can do the work ourselves,
 he said. The mayor said that if the
 bonding plan goes through 1t will be pos sibie to start road work April 1st, in stead of waiting until the city meeting in June each year which means that work I cannot be started much before July. He mentioned Boswell avenue to the city line, the death curve at the tannery
 in Greeneville, and Laurel Hill among the stretches of road which 1t is planned to
 improve through, the bond issue.
 Of more than passing interest was the
 statement made by the mayor that every : hard rain means city expenditure of l $500 or $500 for the cleaning out of
 sewer catch basins tht became filled up by stones and gravel, torn up from ma cadam roads.
 Revision of City Charter The proposed revision of the city chart , Ter was the next topic touched upon by the city's chief executive. The present charter he said dates from 1871. Since , that time part of East Norwich has been annexed to the city, in 1902 Fairview
 was enlarged, in 1904 we secured . paid q fire department, the municipal gas and @ electric plant was acquired, Meadow . Brook was acquired and Stony Brook e was built in 1911 and there have beer d many other changes.
 f Every general assembly has taken ( - crack at the charter and now there ar, k about as many pages 0f amendment g as there are pages to the original chart s CT. The mayor went on to tell of tn. l. proposed plan to revise the charter Tn, l. plan means the circulation of a petition d which will have to have ten per cent O # the voters signature on it's before thu l question of a, revision of the charter cal p go to the polls in June. Then if tn,
 election results in a favorable vote 6o
 revision, the charter will be rewritten by a committee or commission appointe, T for this purpose and will again go to tn, ' polls, in June 1922, for final acceptanc, or rejection by the yoterA
 !. Charges Advocated
 if Among the changes advocated by May 1T or Lerou are the creation of a board 0
 police commissioners, separate from thi L. court of common council with full con l. trol over the police department a wart Il system to take care of the great increas e in the number of voters since the adven d of woman suffrage and the creation O Q an apportionment committee to take car
 of appropriations.
 Is Mayor Lerou spoke very highly of tn, a splendid cooperation given him from th J. corporation counsel down through tn e councilmen.
 Referring to Jltney Drivers
 Speaking of his recent war on the fit
 ney drivers, Mayor Lerou said:
 - One condition Norwich should nevv :. have tolerated was thes jitney conditio - Dt on Franklin square and in Rose ale, :. (Applause.) We got rid of the Rose d = ley nuisance and then got rid of tn m Y, practice of circling around Frankli ', square. They came back under privat ,. numbers. We stationed an officer the1 lS in private clothes and believe me, thel . isn't any of them there now.
 There is room for only one commo ~. carrier in this city. That is the or S LL that gives us the best service-the tro Js 1s ley car. Don't misunderstood me. " don't own any trolley stock and nev,
 did. am glad I don't just now, u
 mayor added as an afterthought to u to amusement of the audience.
 G G For the Salvation Army. fr' Touching on the matter of obstrueti. ,,d of thoroughfares, which 1t will be r m membered came into the limelight la rt fall through the activities of local socis q ists, the mayor said: believe the stree
 are for the many and not for the few. I ur said he had been asked why he allow -szv the Salvation Army to hold street met an ings. The Salvation Army build up r re ther than tear down. Their war reco ,iv alone entities them to the little spa mi they have.
 elp On the volstead Act.
 The Volstead act was the next tor r touched by the mayor He told of h,
 his attention had been called numb of times to existing conditions in the m a,s quor line in Norwich and of how he U i cided to go ahead and clean up. . I { .Ii satisfied that there Is considerable st I sold in the city, but, believe me, tn ose know we are going to get them VI, In concluding his talk, Mayor Ter o@ said that he has tried to do his b, ,p without fear or favor and that he is " ing to continue to do the same throul per .' out his term.
 en Mayor Lerou was greeted with thu aIu .-. derous burst of applause as he broul u'" his very interesting talk to an end. Before the meeting adjourned tn was more or less discussion on the: aIS question. One member of the audiel . .-+ expressed himself pretty plainly when s;s said: The gas is rotten poor, the pr is high and nobody knows anything ab
 it. From what was brought out at |. =, meeting the main trouble with the
 seems to be a poor distribution syst
 . which results in considerable leakage. Several new members were voted 1 ,an+ the Brotherhood before adjournment , =. taken at g o'clock.
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