Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-14
Gardner Lake Campers at Westerly
Brooklyn N. Y. Boys Loop the Loop-Machinery from Silk Mill to be Brought by Trolley to New Mill in Norwich-Suicide of Edward Higgins of Mystic Chauffeur Seriously Injured.

Five boys from the Central Brooklyn Xoung Mems Christian association camp at Gardner Lake are enjoying a sice trip and arrived in Westerly be- fore noon of Tuesday Theodore Cor lis, aged IS, is the leader and with him are Arthur Smith, Merrill LeVoy,. Eastwick Wood, all of Brooklyn, and Wilmot Townsend of Staten Island. The boys were coatless and each car ried rolled blanket in true military style, as it is not their intention to patronize hotels on this particular trip.
 The boys intend to walk from the camp to Norwich Monday, but in- stead they were given a free ride for nearly the whole distance by a Nor wich liveryman who happened to be returning from Gardner Lake with an empty carryall.
 The boys slept on their blankets on the floor of the Norwich Y. M. c. A. gymnasium Monday night and left early Tuesday morning on the Nor wich- Westerly trolley car and stopped over at Lantern Hill getting a view of the ocean and surrounding country drom the summit. They then came to Westerly and thence by trolley to Watch Hill, where they enjoyed bath ing, and went to New London on the steamer Block Island.
 Leader Corlis and his four associates spent the night in the New London Y. M. c. A. gym and will start this (Wed- nesday) morning for the camp at Gardner Lake.
 The boys went into camp July and will not break camp until Aug. Is. The expense of the eight leaders is paid by the Brooklyn r. M c. A., but all the other boys pay their own camp expenses. The ages of the boys in camp range from IS to Il years.
 The big box freight car and flat car of the Norwich-WesterIy trolley road were run over a portion of the tracks of the Pawcatuck Valley road for the w1rst time Tuesday afternoon. It was an experimental trip to see if the cars would make the sharp curves at High and Main streets; upon the result depended the contract to trans fer the machinery from the plant of the Westerly silk mill to the new plant to be known as the Norwich silk mill in Norwich
 Superintendent Cousins supervised the experiment. The turns were made satisfactorily and the carss were run down Main street to the silk mill.
 It is now planned to run these cars and an additional flat car down to the mil building after the suspension of traffic on the Pawcatuck Valley road Wednesday night, to load the machin- cry on the cars during the night and to haul out before regular resumption of traffic Thursday morning. It is be- lieved that all the machinery can be taken to Norwich on a. single trip.
 The silk mill building in Westerly is owned by Eugene Atwood of Ston- 1ngton. It is said that a branch of the Atwood Machinery company will be located in the vacated building.
 
 new four schooner win be launched at the Nats Point shipyard tn Stonington Aug. 4. The name of the new vessel will be Florence Howard and she will be commanded by Cap tain Farrow, now in charge of the com pany's four-master, Clara Davis. The new schooner is a handsome vessel of the single deck type, designed for the southern lumber trade.
 In the latest awards of the School Arts guild these Westerly school pupils are among the winners: Semild Boulet, Ethel Burdick, Alfred Ravens, Cath erine Howard and Lillian Young. Hon. orable mention is given to Ruth Barnes, Virginia De Rocco, Frank Co., mena. Frank Morenzoni. Evelyn New ton, James Nugent. William Owens and Frederick Randall.
 Harry Platt of New York, chauffeur for Mir. Dickinson, a Watch Hill cot tager, was seriously injured while at tempting to solder leak in the gaso- aine tank of the automobile in his charge Tuesday afternoon. MT. Platt had emptied the tank of gasoline, out the dangerous vapor remained When the heated soldering iron was applied the tank exploded and a piece of the metal struck young Platt in the face and in the left eye.
 It Is thought that the eye Is so bad iy injured that it's removal will be necessary. Mir. Platt has been at Watch Hill several seasons and is pop- ular with Westerly young men and there was general expression of sym pathy for him.