Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-07-07

and type From this source Norwich
was drawing, and had long drawn. not
only the material advantages of trade,
but also, what was of infinitely more
value, constant reinforcement of the
best sort of its business, professional
and social forces.
Fifty years have passed They have
been eventful ones, and have Witnessed
great changes in the business, indus
trial and social life of this country.
Material prosperity has abounded; the
spheres of business activity have won
|derfully broadened; industrial growth
and expansion has been marvellous, and
populations have multiplied and CEN
tralized as never before in our history.
Many centers of population have in
creased in numbers and been trans
formed in character so as to be scarce
ly recognizable Riches have been
amazingly multiplied, and have fallen
to the lot OF very many who had not
been trained to their use Extrava-
gance and display have set their allur-
ing examples in many quarters, making
simple and transformations living hard
er and less common than it used to be.
New standards of various sorts have
come to supplant the old, and former
ideals have given place TO others. The
changes which have taken nlace, how
ever, have been by no means~uniform.
ILLUS nave DTOSpGTGQ' ana luCIedSeQ,
where country has not to the same ex-
tent, or not at all. Some cities have
thriven and grown almost in spite of
themselves, where others have had to
plod their way to larger things. Some
communities have found wealth drop
ping into their. laps with the minimum
of effort. while others have been
obliged to win their achievements by
persistent endeavor. Natures bounty
hno0 a fn al
the advantages of location have not
been uniform; and the facilities of
transportation, which have played a
large part in industrial and business
history, have not been shared in equal
measure. Norwich has not found it
self the beneficiary of some great nat
ural deposit of coal, iron ore, oil. gas,
copper or gold to contribute to the
expansion of its industries, the in
crease of its population and its ac-
emulation of wealth. 1t has not found
itself the center of some great indus
trial development. 1t has not been
favored by exceptional transportation
facilities. The great lines of railway
passed it by on either hand. 1t has
thus been left without those aids to
growth which certain other places have
in greater or less degree enjoyed. and
it has been compelled to rely for the
most part, upon the resources and en-
ergy of its people for what it has at
tanned. The situation, however, has
not been without its compensations.
Success Won by Effort.
Success won by effort is blessed in the
winning. 1t is blessed in the character
it develops, and in the type of man.
hood it creates. And there has been
success. OF this there are evidences
on every hand, and the fact that the
population has practically doubled
within the last fifty years amply attests
it. But the conditions have not been
such as to invite HETEROGENEOUS pop
ulation of all sorts and kinds to the
extent and of the character found in
some other localities. Sudden wealth
has not come to many and to many
unfit to use it. The new rich do not
infest it's streets and knock "a the door
of it's society. What has come has
been earned, and in the earning the
stability, the solidity and the strength
of the old days has not been dissipat-
ed. The dignity of the sironle life in its