Putnam patriot., 1908-07-31
 A Trjp to Watch Hill.

running the Pomfret street market. and the first man to run Il to the satis- faction of the public and profit to him. self.
 The party consisted of Mrs. Ham, mond, Dr. Neil Mscphatter, Miss Sara Holt, of New York, and Miss l.au- ra Todd, of New York, formerly of ohio-who followed in Joys Red Wing auto, both arriving about the same hour--a compliment 10 the machine and especially to the owner and driver, than whom no superior can be named.
 As all rooms in the Ocean House were occupied, we were given suite in "Ninigret Lodge,' where we are com fortably housed in connecting rooms parlor and hot and cold water baths.
 Saturday morning il was raining very hard, and while we are but block away, we had carriage sent 10 take Us 10 the hotel, being driven over the lawn to our very door, and when we reached the lawn of the hotel were dri- ven tip the broad asphalt walk over a portion of the lawn 10 the steps at the main entrance.
 We informed MT. Roberts, the genial clerk that there was bus one thing lack ing. And what may that he 9a'i he asked. 'sSimply that you had taken us direct te the table in our private dining room, we replied.
 The Ocean House, as well as the Watch Hill House. is under the man. agement of MT. Champlin, of the we'll known "WeIlington, in New York. Every attention is shown the guests, making Il more Of home than ho- tel, and the sers ice in the dining rooms is especially good, the cooking more nearly approaching the home table, with everything desirable--fruit and vegetables fresh in season. Situated on the quiet portion of the Hill, excursion ists the daily visieorsl are never seen here.
 fAstVth hllp Yale College with s50,00o, the income of which Is to be applied to assist wor. thy Nindham county young men in pursuit of their studie~--is spending the season here with lis family, Lieu- tenant Governor Lake aud family are also here for the season. The 0Ineys and the Elliotts ste hes frem Thomp- son: and NC may mention the Pfesi- dent of the Ph9niX Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford.
 With clans and lobsiers, the great variety of fish fresh from the waters adjoining, and huekleberries, there is little else 10 be said. All these wehaVe with much more.
 Friday afternoon there was spirit ed game of base ball beiw the Watch Hill House Club tBlaek9 or Colofed?l and the Westerieys. Score { to 3 in fa- vor of the diamond weafers--w walters.
 Senator Ghafiee, wife and son Ar thur and his wife of Willimantie, spent week -end at the Hill. senator Chafiee' $ son is the fourth generation of the most noted family of silk manufacturers in this country with the sole exception Of Cheney Brothers, of Manchester, Conn.
 We called on John N. Gonant, of Westerly, where he k running the Westerly silk Co. Al the age Of 20 he was placed in charge of the Atwood X Richmond silk Co, Brooklyn, Conn. He k n cousin Of Senator Chaiiee, and son of John A. GonanI, for over forty years perintendent ef throwing de- paftment for Holland Manufacturing Co.,, of Nilimantic. His son, John M, was recently called to siraighten out q little throwing plant in tionnectient at a salary of Fl ,seo year, for man who had assumed the management, but had accumulated the worst case of cold feet ever known in the business, and, by the same token, the laughing stock of the three large silk concerns in which his father had held the most confiden- tial relations for forty years-and the very three concerns who were the great est competitors of the concern which paid young Conant's salary. Truly a case where assumption never ruled so completely, and where the performance was never so slight, being largely by proxy as every manufacturer in the country understands. You can fool some men all the time, and he did, but never so much as he fooled himself
 Speaking about Cheney Brothers There is a monument of what it will do for family of three brothers and their sons and grandsons, to keep to- gether and bunch their accumuia- lions. They arei certainlyi kings in the silk business of the United States, and in flush times il is estimated their sales aggregate sl5, ,0o0, ,oo0 to so ,00O 900 annually. Col. Frank W. Cheney is we'll known and his advice is sought by all the large business interests in the country.
 Me were met by an auto al Gfoion and dined at the Gfiswoid, erected by Morton Plant, who, in addition. spent a million dollars on his Italian Villa and gardens, 0n the most eastern point of the peninsula. No better summer hotel building, fIom Maine to south ern Florida, exists. nor any having higher raies. but simply in skeeping with tlle service rendered. With the costly building, the furnishings, and the table. where bright. intelligent wo- men are waiters, many Of them teach