Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-27


 William H. Shields has received from Norwich England. copy of the Weekly Press of July 10, which has two references to the 50th anniversary celebration. Including the impressions of Walter HanselI on his visit here.
 At the beginning of the story. which is headed Hands Across the Sea. is the invitation to the celebration. sev- eral of which were sent to norwich. England. and it otherwise says:
 IL would have been an interesting mission for some representative citizen of this older Norwich to visit the new CT Norwich upon such a felicitous event in it's history, more especially as the two towns are officially known to each other, and have on varlous oc- casions exchanged compliments So far as we can learn there is only one citizen of Norwich, England,f MT. Wal ter Hansell, who has ever visited Nor wich. Conn.,, and he for unavoidable reasons was unable to accept the in- vitation. MT Hansell would have been just the person to perform compli
 mentary task of this kinds He would have been able to renew acquaintance with many highly agreeable people. And there would have been this ad- ditional element of fitness about his misSlOn-he is Jas everybody here abouts knows, one of the working hinges of the Playing Fields and Open Spaces society, which organization was instrumental some 15 years ago in opening up negotiations with the Am erican Norwich, and paving the way for those postal friendships which have been maintained ever since. The card of invitation to the anniversary cell ebrations is headed with photograph ic view of Norwich Conn. which shows the town nestling in the valley of spacious river called the Thames, apparently about as wide as our own Thames at London bridge. Docks, wharves and warehouses line the river front. for Norwich Conn, is naturally a port. Not the most stupendous scheme that ME. Botterill ever dreamt of, could give Norwich. England a port like it. Upon either side of the river runs the railway, and pleasant woodlands rise above it in a gentle slope. The rear of the town is covered by a line of distant hills.
 I called upon Mir. Hansell on Mon- | day writes our representative, and asked him for a few of bis impress sions.
 Tn the first place. said he, .'you must not pronounce the name of the place English fashion, as if it rhymed with porridge Norwich, Conn. is pro- | nounced phonetically Norwich, with
 the accent on the first syllable
 T vas crossing America in Novem- Der, 1900," he continued when it oc- l cured to me to see what our American namesake was like l travelled thith- CT from Boston by way of New Lon- don, famous yachting center, where 1 the Yale and Harvard, boat race is rowed Arrived at Norwich I drove | to the Wauregan hotel. The manager | was immensely interested on noticins my name and address in the visitors book, and said he did not think ht had ever before welcomed anybod, from the English Norwich. Aftei lunch I went for a stroll to see tn,
 main points of the city, and the firs person I called on was MT Jonathan l Trimbull who is the librarian of tn, Otis public library. Mir TrumbuH. lik
 many other people in the New Englan, districts of America, is wonderful,
 English-like in speech and manner. H 1 welcomed me warmly, spoke with en thusiasm of the friendship which ha,
 been set up with the English Nor l wich through the Ainstrumentality O the Playing Fields and Open Space l society. and mentioned with pleasur
 the correspondence he had had wit
 MT. Edward Wild, MT. T. s. Breese. Nh Agas Goose and others. He took tn
 afternoon off in order to show m