Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-03
JUNE MEMBERSHIP LETTER
 BY CHAMBER OF CONNIE

commerce discusses several pertinent l matters of much local interest. It Is as 
 Equitable Taxation--H. H. Richards of l the Richards Map company of Springfield 1 has agreed, to spend a week in Norwich i with an assistant engineer, and prepare a section of a tax map as q sample cr his work The Richards con13any's spe- cialty is the making of atlases and tax maps. The. firm was established in 1872 and Is fully competent. The estimated cost of a real estate assessment map Of Norwich, covering 8 little over twenty six square miles, is s10,0O0. Tha exDer- fence of cities that have any kind of system shows that the first essential is the acquisitnon of tax map, for with out the necessary tools the best CT work men cannot do satisfactory work. The map itself must be fairly accurate and it is proposed that that Norwich needs and should secure this essential tool. Every piece of real estate. whether it is acre age, residential. or business property, in the city and town of Norwich, must be accounted for through the map. Our members are again reminded that this effort is made for the sole purpose of es- tablishing an equitable system regardless of whether the tax rate is high or low. 1t is safe to say that the people of Norwich are more interested in the fairness of the tax rate than the question of amount. Your directors have authorized the com mittee in charge of this matter to incur the expense of $100 to the Richards com pany for the preparation and submission of a sa;1ple of their work, as it would affect Norwich, so that the people can visualize the idea.
 street-Your committee on streets, with the approval of your directors, pc titioned the finance committee of the city council that the expense of rebuild ing part of Asylum street. Mechanic street, Shipping street and South street, be inserted in the annual budget. The finance committee approved Asylum and Mechanic streets and Shipping street was later included at the city meeting, Your committee believes that systematic eff fort should be made each year to rebuild poor streets, especially those approaching our industries and also those that are inn portant thoroughfares. The necessary ap- propriations. were made for Asylum. Me chanic and Shipping streets at the city meeting Your committee also believes that permanent repair crews should be constantly engaged in repairing good streets that are in need of minor repairs. This method would proling the life of the street at minimum cost.
 -HoL af $ kNl3s 3sEEifLs i&s
 Road Signs-The community advertis- i ing committee and the streets committee, with the approval of the directors, have recommended to the public works com mittee of the city council that suitable road signs should be erected at the city limits on the five important highway leading into Norwich These road signs would indicate that travellers were en- tering or leaving Norwich. This GUS tom is rapidly growing in favor through out the country. The public works com n1ittee have, the matter under consider ation at the present time.
 HOusing--The housing committee have investigated the costs of building modern six-room houses and have pictures taken ! of houses recently built in Norwich for 1 s5,000, exclusive of the tprtce of the lot ] These houses are modern in every re-
 spect. Pictures and plans of these l houses, will soon be exhibited in the mer- i chant windows. Slides have also been
 made which are being exhibited at pres l ent in our theatres. It is hoped By tlis
 means to encourage more house building | in Norwich, by the use of these samples. 1 built at a moderate cost, and seconded 1 by the efforts of the chamber to do ev-
  i gages for the builder at fair rate of in i terest.
 Building and Loan. .Association-Your i attention is called to the splendid efforts of this local association It is helping in no small way the building or buying of homes in our city and town Its efforts are curtailed only through lack of suffi cient funds, to assist all those who Mist
 to build a house or buy one The re quests for financial assistance at the present time are greater than the f1nan.
 ciaf ability of. the association. This as sociation is under the direct control o
 the state Its funds are invested ir first mortgages and yield, on the aver age 5 1-2 per cent. interest to the share
 holder. It is empowered to loan up tt
 seventy per cent. of the value of a build
 ing or lot. Its functions on the cooper ative plan and those in the management
 are local men of integrity. The associa
 ricn has the fullest support and coopera tion of the chambeh. We recommend t
 our members and their friends an inves tigatiop of the purpose of the building
 and loan association; believing that tl : result of their investigation will en courage you and them to become regula
 savings depositors or shareholders in tn ! Association.
 solicitatIons-You attention Is agai
 called to the matter of solicitors of ever
 description who circulate so freely a certain periods of the year. At the pres ent time when colleges have closed thej , classes for the summer vacation hun dreds of students employ this time to SC
 cure subscriptions for various magazines By this means they are afforded an or portunity to earn enough .aoney te-,1;l | md
 books for the whole or part of the nes
 year. These are deserving the kind cor sideration of those who wish to hel : them. Like all eommendable efforts c ', the part of the ambitious, this means ( securing money has been seized upon b those who are wholly unworthy of th
 consideration spoken of above. Your ol | ganization is ready and willing to hel r the community ad safeguard from frau
 the unwary or innocent victims of bogr solicitors. But we cannot cooperate wit f you unless there is reciprocation on yo, o part, We urge you not to consider an : solicitor who does not show you an al 7 2 proval card from your chamber This al
 proval card does not endorse any solici n ing proposition. It does show that 2 e earnest effort has been made to leaA o kthe genuineness of the solicitor S right f solicit and so protect you from fraud h Your officers will do their part if yc
 will do yours Do not, under any consit Q eration, give money to a strange soli | itor until yous;learn the facts concernil . him or her.
 o Playsrounds-The playgrounds con r mittee with the approval,of the dire e tors, recommend that s1,OnO be inserte : in this years budget to put in prop, s condition the Lake street playgroun
 F{g.4 \ city meeting, Also petition was fit
 with the city council that rhA | I.alSa sire.