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Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06

on each eide of the float. whfcn wne prettily decorated with red, Whi<e and blue, the wheels being done In colors. with gold hubs.
 J. T. Young Boiler co.-This hand some float, decorated in colors. had single boiler on a pedestal, with streamers running to ft~from posts al each corner 1t made an attractive dds pIay of the cornpal1y's prodllcr.
 Stoddard, Gilbert & co.--Four horse float in blue and white. the Hermftage brand of canned goods being display ed on IS tiers of shelves arranged tank shape. The horses had fancy blankets and plumes.
 Northwestern consoIidated Milling Co.-The trademark of Cresota -four was inpersonated by George Harris, dressed in dark short trousers and cut ting a huge loaf of bread. He was seated in front of bag, back of which stood barrel of the flour. It was a tandem team, done prettily in yellow and white.
 The J. B. Martin co.-Manufacturers of silk velvets had an attractive float exhibiting variety of the kinds and colors df their finished products, dis- played on an A shaped structure
 E. Raphael G Son.-A two horse float, on each side of which was like ness of Ellis Raphael, with the signs, The Oldest Cigarmaker in the State of Connecticut Veteran of 1859 and Here Today, on the sides and rear. There were flag decorations showing
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
FIRST AIRSHIP ASCENSION MADE
Capt. Baldwin Got Flight Out of California Arrow
 Went Up Three Hundred Feet Successfully After Circling About the Grounds.

Capt. Thcmas Scott Baldwin. in his California Arrow, made tina flrrt air. ship ascension in the state of Con- necticut Monday evening on the grounds of the New London County Agricultural society. The night, although 6 short one. was successful in every particular.
 A strong wind Monday morning dis appointed the hopes of a large crcwd of spectators who had gathered to wit ness the novel sight of an atrship's flight. And the same circumstances threatened in the afternoon as shs time for the scheduled ascension drew nigh. At 6 o'clock Captain Baldwin made the announcement to the several hundred people who were present on the grounds and in tho balloon tent that the wind was too great to. enable his ship to be driven through the air. The airship, explained the captain, is not yet commercial success. but only a toy, and it Is impossible to ascend successfully when the wind iA Blowing ten or twelve miles an hour.
 "But if the wind permits will ma<c a flight tonight" This last was greet ed with applause.
 Half an hour later the wind began to die down perceptibly and Captain Baldwin's assistants began making the final arrangements for the ascension. The big gas bag. 30 feet long. 1e feet in diameter in the rear and 17 in front, was first given aafreEh supply of hy- drogen gas from the small yellow bal loon used for storage purposes and popularly known as the lemon" ill., ing 1t nearly to It's capacity of 11.00o feet. The ship was filled last Friday in preparation for trip Saturday, but as 1t leaks one per cent. a day it is necessary to fill 1t every few days.
 The steering apparatus was next looked after, the moter overhauled, the gasoline cylinder filled. water poured into the cooling jacket. At 6.35 the front of the tent was taken down, the bags of sand, aggregating 165 pounds of ballast, were unlocked from the frame and the airship was lifted from the ground and taken from it's house to the open space back of the main grandstand.
 Here Captain Baldwin stepped into his place behind the motor and for a few moment ewas engaged in adjusting and removing the ballast so as to per- feotly balance the ship. The motor was then tried out under the direction of A. L. Pfitzner of Hanlmersport, N. Y. representing G. H. Curtis. its de- signer and builder. The motor is a wonderful mechanism and though weighing only 90 pounds, s5 with the uiagneto. it develops 22 horse power.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06

William E.. Perry. cleaning gum son, Benedict c. Pullen. whiting; daugh- ter, Miss Henrietta Gardner, sewing; little girl. Miss Dorothy Jones. rocking the cradle.
 Broadway school = Revolutionary Soldiers. Depicting Gen. George Washington in conference with Gov. Jonathan Trumbull on the. lawn at the home of Jedediah Huntington at Nor wich Town, all in complete costume. George Washington, Theodore Havi- land; Jonathan Trumbull Edwin Sher- man; Jedediah Huntington, Charming Huntington; Washingtons body guard, Ernest Smith, Fitch Jewett, Carl Kin ney, Harold Robinson, Ronald Kim ball; colonial soldiers, Frederic Crow ell, Francis Forsberg, Everett Peck ham, James Stanley. Avery Gallup.
 West Chelsea school district-'Un- cas Signing the Deed" was pictured here, the float being trimmed with ev- ergreen, roses and the British flag and was drawn by four horses. The table was a trunk of tree and there was wigwam and a dog. The characters were: Major Mason, Leroy Swan; Rev. Mir. Fitch, Edgar Welden; Mr. Tracy, Tyler stanton; women, Eliza beth Evans, Rosa Beckley; Uncas, Bennie Weinstein; his sons, Clarence Whitaker, James Mulcahy; braves. Gedaliah Segol, Felix Debarros, Wal ter Newbury; Indian boy, Frank Lamb; Indian women, Fanny Schul- man, Jennie Swatzburg.
 Falls schooI-"Indian Life" A white birch tepee in grove of white birch, cedar and elderberry, with twenty school children in Indian costume chiefs, braves, and squaws, the girls doing beadwork, the boys making snow shoes, and a squaw grinding corn with an old fashioned Indian mortar and pestle. Red plumes on the four horses.
 Bridge district schooI-"The Rose of New England" A beautiful bower of pink roses within which on seats in pyramid arrangement was a group of thirty boys and girls. as The Rose buds" and at the apex "The Rose Queen" Lucy Blackburn. Fumes and rosettes on the harness of the four gray horses.
 Town street schooI-This float rep resented the old liberty pole and tent which used to stand on Norwich Town
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drawn by six horses, caparisoned in white and red while the skirt of the float and banners at the corners were of the same colors. It was made re- altstic and feature of the parade, and at the reviewing stand the singers stopped and entertained the president and crowd with songs.
 c. H. Davis & Co.-Two horses dr1v- en tandem, with white blankets, drew the float of this company, which had a pretty Japanese roof effect and dis played were barrels of pork, sausages and pails of lard.
 uncas Paper Co.-This handsome float attracted much attention, having, as it did. a. canoe on a Is foot float with material about 1t representing water. Elevated lengthwise of the float was a roll of newsboard four feet in diameter. At each corner was a roll of paper, the 5roduct of the mill, and on each side of the float were four foot circles, through which could be seen Indians paddling the canoe. The rings were decorated with roses ard foreign flags, representing export trade. snd at the, front and back were 6.Iwn by four horses and bore the s.gn, Uncas Paper Division American Strawboard Go.
 The UImer Leather Co.-A float drawn by three yoke of prize steers contained the forms of five large belts. the center one, the largest, represent ing four ply waterproof cemented leather belt, 180 feet long, 10S inches wide, 6,480 pounds, requiring $40 steer hides; capable of transmitting $500 horse power, with sign, "TShe steers will go faster when Ulmer makes them into machinery belting In each cor ner was a form representing a two ply leather belt 91 feet long, AS inches wide. weighing 2,912 pounds, and re quiafng 1S4 steer hides. There were plumes and flags. with a red. white and blue shield on each belt, with streamers leading from the nian foot belt to each four foot one. Therr were also cables of red. white and bluc. with small flags and plumes.
 Uncas Speciality Co.-Aig.o parts, such as timers distributors sren horns and nlagnetos, were shown on this float in two pyramids. There was a canopy top. the posts being wound with
 Reliance Worsted Co.-Thfs float was 16x1S, with the platform and posts decorated with red, white and blue bunting, and in the center of the top an American flag. Two bales of Australian wool were shown, bright colored wosted yarn on spools and in skeins, and about the edge was worsted cloth in various processes of manufac- ture. There were two oases of goods, one marked San Francisco and the other Portland, Me
 Bard Union Co-Representing illum- mum bronze on a four horse float was a huge union, such as is made by the company being eight feet high and seven feet wide. with the word Bard on one Stde and Patent on the other. Business cards of the company wars
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and turns the propeller at speed of from 150 to 200 revolutions minute, which in stiu wind will drive the airship at a rate of IS to 20 miles an hour.
 watsrpfpe on the engine breaking. Cap tain Baldwin took his position amid ships, graspe6 the steering cord and gave his mechanics the word to start tho engine.
 Inclining the steering planes upward the captain guided the Arrow grace fully into the air and at height or about 300 feet crossed the race track, circled about and returned to a point above the starting point and again his $50 foot cord, which is kept on board for standardization with the ground, and turning the steering plane downward came gently to the ground short distance from the judges stand. Still occupying his place in the frame, Captain Baldwin and the sirship were taken back to the tent.
 The California Arrow was in the air only about Ave minutes. The flight was safely housed for the night.
 There was not an especially large crowd to see the flight Monday even ing, owing to the lateness of the hour, but what was lacking in numbers was made up for in enthusiasm. There was only slight wind from the south west blowing and the big aerial craft obeyed every move of the steersman. It circled about with. the greatest of ease and Captain Baldwin was loudly applauded.
 Among the visitors of note at the grounds Monday wert. members of the Aero club, society composed of about 300 people, both in America and Europe, interested in aerial navigation. Among them were A. Holland Forbes Of New York, president of the Aero club: c. 1T. Curtis of New York. who made the motor used on the Califor- ria Arrow; Charles Walsh formerly a pilot on Captain Baldwfn's adrshdp Hoosier, at Indianapolis, and Arnold Crookrnan. aeronautical editor of the New York World.
 Edson F. GaIllaudet. and Winslow T. Williams are members of the Aero club, whose object it is to promote the conquest of the air in every possible manner.
 The captain was pleased with the success of his initial flight here and promises today. weather permitting, to sail over the city, starting from the fair grounds at o'clock. There will probably be another trip in the even ing.
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pletely covered with products of the greenhouse, garden and foresta all com- hirling to make beautiful display. This proved a feature of the parade.
 Totoket Mills Co.-Drawn by four horses and gaily trimmed with red. white and blue. This float contained two looms which were fin operation. One was 250 years old and was brought here from Germany, while the other was modern one. Several women from the mill were on the float and the goods manufactured were display ed
 The Ponemah Mills co.-Their float represented scene on a cotton planta- tion, way down south in Dixie, with the cotton plants in bloom, ,.satermel ons in the foreground and happy ne- gro cotton pickers with banjo and song in fhe aaldl ard q rer~n H~iy-e- lt r1,as
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shirt blue tis. straw hats. white gloves and black troussrs. The dr1vE n woodward's costume. and @ForetfeFs" on drop curtains around the wheels-
 Order of vasa, Lodge Oscar, No. 3o-- A viking ship with crew of nine fierce nor, weapons and flags. Blankets Of blue and yellow, the Swedish national colors, upon the four hofses and the same colors used around the float
 St. Anne's society Representing "The Spirit of Liberty" Seated m three tiers. with the club president, Miss Mary Foley, as the ooddess of Liberty. thirteen pretty young women in white, wearing gold crowns and of the thirteen colonies in gold letter ing. A little girl in red. covered w1rn roses representing the Rose os rew England Palms and national colors for decorations. Blue blankets with ~st- Anne's Society" in gold, on the four horses.
 The Ladies' Auxiliary, A. o. H., had an Irish jauntirg car as a feature and novelty in the parade. It was direct from the "ould sod" and besides the driver of the one horse carried six passengers, three on each side. in white gowns and wearing green sashes fair types of Irish beauty.
 ne fails Milie company Jiiustrateo their products on a handsome noat. The display was on two tiers, on top were shown rolls of red. white and blue cotton lap, and below them cot- tonades outing hannels, denims and flannelettes. The whole made a pleas ing exhibit.
 Plaut- cadden co.-This was one of the neatest and one that attracted a good deal of praise and comment along the line of march. It was drawn by six coal black horses, each equipped with an elaborate blanket advertising the Wasserman piano. On the float were three pianos all being played at one time by three young Norwich misses. Beautiful palms and flowers showed that a great deal of time and pains were spent on 1t by their dec- orator. Adelard Morin. The float also displayed the celebrated Victor Talk ing machine. which this firm makes a speciality. A representative of a monthly magazine took a picture of this float to be used by his magazine as a sample of the floats. The fioa, was in charge of H. Sears and E. C. Leavitt of the firms staff-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
GRAND DISPLAY OF
 FLOATS IN PARADE.
Designs Were Finely Executed by Schools, Manufactories and Business Houses and Added to Pleasure of the Celebration.

The two sections given over to the floats were well filled out, there being Al of these prettily decorated wagons and much time and expense were in- volved in bringing about thee attrac- tive results. There were many de- signs which required thought and pa tience to work out, but there was none which did not add to the attractiveness scription follow:
 Norwich Free Academy-"Co Home Life.' Complete colonial cos- tuning. showing the family, with fire place and big pot in which dinner Is cooking, the small boy. Humphrey AL my, turning the spit: grandmother, Miss Faye Newland. knitting. mother Miss Lois Perkins. spinning: father,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
OPEN HOUSE CLUB.

The reguIar lunch piH De omitted on Monday and Tuesday, July 5th and 6th. SGndUiches, Iced Coffee, Tea and Lemon ad e piH be on sale both days. Patrons of resf- nurant wishing No n da y Lunch wiH be serDed at the Halle club, Uhere from I2 to 2 o'clock on Monday an d Tuesday there wiH De lunch at fixed price of 40c.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
The Tariff.

The tariff is not only the mother oi the trusts. but she is mighty generous and indulgent to her children.-Wssh- ington Herald
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06

Green, there being tent and pole with four boys aboard in costume of the times. They were Walter Crabtree, John Hughes, Clifford Lathrop, Arthur Mullen The float was decorated with bunting and flags.
 Greenevile grammar school had reproduction of "The Little Old Red School House on the Hill,'' the place where our forefathers gained their scanty store of knowledge with patient toll, the time when men rose in spite of their lack of learning, in contrast with the present, when Git is said) men
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
The Empira Gown.

"The empire gown makes cripples and coquettes." declares the United Tailors' association. Also bankrupts and divorces.-Detroit Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
Delivered to Any Part of Norwich

the Ale that is acknowledged to be the best on the market - HANLEY'S PEERLESS. A telephone order will receive prompt Attention. D. J. MCCORMICK, 30 Franklin St.
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Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
.A Rryanie Job.

The Roosevelt gamebag in three weeks contains more slain lions than it did slain trusts after seven years of furious trust busting" = The Com monor.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06

Six hours after high water 1t Is low tide. which Is followed by flood tide.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
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Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
IKE WEATHER
 --~---~--@----- Forseast for TodAy.

For New England: Increasing cloud- mess Tuesday; showers Tuesday night and Wednesday,: winds shifting to moderate east.
 Predictions from the New York Her aid: On Tuesday partly cloudy to over cast weather and slowly rising tenn peratures will prevail, with light, ya- riable winds, followed by local rains in this section and on Wednesday partly cloudy weather, with local rains and slightly higher temperature.
 Comparisons.
 Predictions for Monday: Fair; cool; variable northerly winds.
 Mondays weather: As predicted.
 Sum, Moon ana Tfder.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06

The Bulletin should Do delivered everywhere In the city before ( am
 Subscribers who fail to receive 1t by porting the fact to The Bulletin co.
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Sum. Moon and rider.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-24
Chatterton and Stevens

HHATTERDON had been far less for
- -.na-e. succeeding II deceIvIng only
-he stupld merchants OF has native BTIS-
,d He had little difficulty IL imposing
OF pew-erer. who was glad 10 have a
redigree dug Cut q the old records IN St
Nary RedclI-fe Tor HIM; and N pulling
ne wool over the eyes Of another worthy
citizen. who was writing q ponderOus his
-o-v OF -ile -Own But he was soon found
out after he sent his supposed old English
poetry 20 Horace WaIpole The elegant
Horace had done much the same thing
with The Castle OF Otranto, which he
assured The public had been printed at
Naples. u The black letter, IN the year
I52o.' The novel was purely the work
Of MS ow- BRAIN. however This made
nm no kinder 20 Chatterton, Il appears,
and the unhappy boy. younger even than
Ireland, was driven 20 his last resource,
q bottle Of arsenic l. Is hardly just 70
group the -uo names. since ChattertOn' 5
decepciOns we're more eXcusable than
lrelands. and since his work IS as full
0f poetic power IS Ireland's IS beneath
contempt
One Ct the men Who first suspected Ire
land was the critic Stevens. who was
more or less of . forger himself He
played all manner OF tricks upon his
-Ivals scratching Arglo-Saxon characters
on piece OF stone. Tor example, and hug
SIng himself 20 see = learned antiquary
whom he deces-ed accept Il as q genuine
-ehc. His mosc famous hoax was The
Deadly Upas Tree Of Java, which was
described II . letter purporting 10 be
written by Dgrch traveller The public
We're astonishet 20 hear OF the effiuvia
OF thls noxious tree. which through a dis
,rlct OF twelve or fourteen miles had killed
al vegetation. and had spread the skele-
ions OF men and animals. affording a
scene Of melancholy beyond what poets
have descrihet and painters delineated." "
New-York tribune., 1909-01-24
The Wonders of Formosa

L ne most picturesque fakes OF modern
-. Cnnes belong 20 the eighteenth cen
IN 1908 there came TO London
-IIsee almost as i1npudent and quite as
ae9T as Ireland, who succeeded IN
ID. ,,iI-9.hlIg himself Jhe talk Of the town To
,,-- ~-s DAY no one knows what his name
60 out he called himself George Psal-
,,iL-e1I''1z1T, and maintained that he was
-T son oi nobleman OF Formosa. He
sSilly guessed that For1nosa was suf-
,-eeltiy remote and unknown to make it
te FosSiole 10 interest people in bogus de
- - lplioils Of It's wonders While still on
.-le Continent, he had scraped acquaint-
80 with = rascally Scot chaplain. who
- ,-ed entered into his schemes and given
- I'm u letter Of introduction TO the Bishop
l@ondon- Duly introduced by this dis
sulsled prelate, he became celebrated
~ immediately, was invited everywhere,
'lil treated with great consideration
New-York tribune., 1909-01-24
Golfers Discoveries "

IRELAND : successor n the nineteenth
century was q most respectable man,
o:e OF the mos learned and palnstaking
u the scholars ot ms time. John Payne
'oliler II his anxiety 20 offer con-
1lnutlons % knowledge. he apparently
youiq nor Hs1- 20 make discoveries IN a
legitimate way- His most famous I'M
posture Was the Perkins Folio OF
eilakeSpea1e. lie pretended 10 have dis
covered II this old volume marginal notes
yy d man OF The seventeenth century. who
--ao neard the plays IN the theater and
= ds ab-e 20 COr-ey- many OF the lines IN
ne published versions. But these mar
2-l-SI aIanotauons, purpOrting TO have
zen added by Thomas Perkins, were
'eGliy the work ot Collier himself
Ihe nlgn reputation OF Collier pre-
ten'ed suspicion Tor . considerable time:
=, .11 When the authorities OF the British
u1SepIn tested these entries under a
P0"SIIul microscope, the deception stood
-e'ealed. Underneath the ink there
%Elt 1a1rt traces ot pencil marks. which
Islo"eq how carefully The writing had
oSen sketched out beforehand. In order
% nave Il quite correct. and IN the man
~ ol the seventeenth century. Further
~ 'eSeigatlon showed that Collier had
:.-''ue forged entries and false references
- most OF his works dealing with the
ss-1ge s1,g history OF the Elizabethan period
M tbs did not become fully known until
.i - Qeath- His punishment has come IN
ne TACT thar nothing he ever wrote can
: trusted, and that his reputation Is that
81 clever forser rather than great
Come.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-24
Defoe. Master of Deception

GHOST stories have always had d pc
~ Culiar fascination for the public, and
the credulous eighteenth century was a
favorable era for them. One Of the most
plausible and entertaining was told in all
soberness by that master of deception,
Defoe He had the modern journalistic
spirit in a high degree Ever alert to
catch the public ear, he put forth, III the
most crrcumstantial way, imaginary ac-
counts Of subjects that he thought would
be Of interest at the moment. When the
news reached England, about 1921. that
the plague was spreading in France, and
people IN London began to be alarmed,
ne published his " Due Preparations for
the Plague, and " Journal of the Plague
Year" which purported TO be the work
Of an eye witness Of the pestilenCe Of
New-York tribune., 1909-01-24
The Poems of Ossian

OUCH efforts as these hardly belong 10
- literary history. but are rather TO be
classed as plain roguery. OF very differ
ent sort were the poems OF OssIan, which
created a tremendous literary sensation
at the end of the eighteenth century
The poems, really a sort OF rhythmic
prose. were launched upon the sea OF
books by James Macpherson, Scot
schoolmaster, who claimed to have gath
cred the material IN Scotland, from re
mains of old Gaelic literature Among
other devout admirers was the Emperor
Napoleon, who used 10 carry volume OF
" Ocean" (as he spelled it, around with
him on his campaigns.
But sturdy old DR.. Johnson, who hated
ScotSmen. would have none of 1t. He was
OF the opinion that anyone could write
such stuff forever, if he would only aban-
don his mind TO it Macpherson pre-
tended TO have in his possession old manu-
scripts, upon which the poems were
based But he was obviously tricky IN
the whole affair, and such originals" as
We're finally produced proved worthless.
But he found many supporters, and to
this day the exact facts IN the case are
not known Sad 10 say, he was buried IN
the Poets Corner IN Westminster Abbey,