Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-07-08

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to this characterization is equally
strong, Norwich enjoys the marked
advantage. attaching to the long con-
ued use Of it. And indeed 1t deserves
some such name, for it is a fine New
England town, rich in memories and
in present-day attractions, with that
peculiar quality of age and dignity
that an old New England town ought
to possess. There are few residential
streets in the state of Connecticut
more beautiful than Washington street
and Broadway-wide, shaded thorough
fares whose colonial houses and great
elm trees have a beauty quite unat-
tainable without the touch of time.
Norwich, was settled by an exodus
from Saybrook at the mouth of the
Connecticut river. The original pros
prieters bore the good old English
names of Adgate, Allyn, Backus, Bald
win. Bingham Birchard Bliss, Bowers,
Bradford, Calkins, Edgarten, Fitch,
eager, Griswold, Howard, Huntington,
Hyde, befingwell, Mason, Olmstead,
Pease, Post, Read Reynolds, Royce,
Smith, Tracy, Wade and Waterman;
and the original deed from the In
dams, signed in June, 1863. gave these
Anglo-Saxon pioneers a tract ten
miles square for the sum of seventy
pounds-f10t an extravagant price,
even as prices went two hundred and
fifty years ago. The first settlement
was at what Is now called Norwich
Town; the center of the present city is
a mile or two away, at the junction
Of the Yantic and Shetueket rivers,
which unite to make the Thames. The
first houses were log huts the city
today is typical American town Of
substantial construction. 1t is by no
means a boom" town, being off the
main roads of travel; but it has large
manufacturing environment, which in
sures it's material prosperity, while it
has lately become trolley center, with
lines stretching far into Rhode Island
and Massachusetts.
Norwich manufactures firearms, cot
ton and wooden goods, silk, ironware,
leather and betting, stoves, furniture
and many kinds of machinery 1t is
the seat of famous Free Academy,
and has an exceptionally good art
museum, a library with thirty thou
sand volumes and a half-million dol
lar hospital 1t has been the home of
a number of well known Connecticut
families, and prides itself upon them,
and. indeed. upon all it's historic past.
Providence journal.
Deserves State Praise.
Norwich, for what it has done and
fo- whet it is doing, deserves all
praise from the rest of the state. Cap
tain John Mason, one Of the warriors
of the feeble settlements in Connecti-
CIT, was one OF her founders, and she
gave to the state its war governor at
the. time of the rebellion. She has
had long list of divines. and. wlthal,
she does her full share to keep Con-
necticut in the front ranks of the
manufacturing states of the Union.
The shipments of cotton goods from
Norwich and her suburbs are valued
yearly at millions of dollars and her
people have a right to say as they
think of their hill town tina tthey are
residents OF no mean city.
Wherever one goes in the city of
Norwich today he sees some hint of
that redoubtable Indian, Uncas. Hhosa
name the residents of the city per-
petuate in Various ways, ana with
good reason, for that copper finished
man had mu1h to do with the early
history of Norwich. and. in fact, he
contributed not little &c xard keep
ing the. life of his kindred in the vi
cinfty from being duh for several
years before the first white man set
tied within the limits of what is now
Norwich.-New Haven Palladium.
The New York Herald on Sunday
devoted page to Norwich and the
celebration. by A. F. Howe, while the
New York Saturday Post had two
column story by J. DIN Howe.