Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-27
EXPRESSIONS! 0F NORWICH
Given by Walter Hansel of Norwich England, After Re ceivine Invitation to the Recent cels brationWa' Unable to Come This Year.

around We boarded the electric cars and we, first of all visited what IS called Norwich Town. which lies aDout a mile inland from the town proper. This was the original settlement, founded 250 years ago. It is quaint, interesting little township. fronted witn a large village green curiousiy-resefnD- ling Mellis Common as you see 1t from the Great Eastern railway The houses spread out along the edges of the com mon in sort of zaree9a fashion. formation said to have been adopted as means Of protection against ln- dian raids. l was much struck with the beauty and profusion of the elms of this old New England settlement You may remember that Oliver Wen dell Holmes mentions them in his 4u- tocrat of the Breakfast Table
 Returning to the car, Mir. Trum- bull introduced me to a Mrs. Lane,
 who. curiously enough. had been vls- -iting Europe the year before, and had made a short stay at Norwich, whence she had driven out to Hingham in or
 der to see the tombs of her ancestors in the churchyard. We visited the Falls, which are in the middle of the city and mark the confluence of two
 tributaries of the Thames. They are not very lofty, but they are exceeding ly effective to view. and they are use
 full besides. for they have been har-
 messed to electric power mills. Then we walked by Broadway into the city. Broadway. like several of the other
 main roads, is lined with beautiful
 trees. With good class of residential
 houses in the background. The arch '-itectural style is quite unusually ef- fective. Trim gardens run right down to the pavement with nothing to screen them from public view. Hav- ing taken tea with Mir Trumbuil and his family. he and 1 in the evening went to visit Mrs. Lane and her sister a Mss Gilman and there also we met Miss Huntington. Mrs. .Laneis was a charming old house. as quaint and interesting as any you will find in the neighborhood of our English cities, and l 1t was rich with beautiful things, pic- tures. curios, chisa, and books. Mrs. | Lane had been delighted with the Eng l fish Norwich; 1; and she told me of sew eral other townspeople of hers who had also visited the mother city. and had l brought home equally pleasant impress sions."
 Summing up his recollections, Mir. Hansell said that for population of | only 5000. the city covered a large area of country There are various 1 signs of industrial life, but these were l by no means obtrusive. Having regard | to the extremely fdyOrable natural Slt- 1 u9fion of the town. he could not help wondering why it had mot developed into great manufacturing center, but he was told that the landowners there | abouts preferred quietude, and had l favored no such tendencies.
 l Norwich struck me- he added, -"as l being a reposeful old town of the best
 residential type. immensely refreshing l after the noise and chatter of other American cities that l had visited" Hail. Norwich, Conn. The citizens | of the older Norwich may not have
 been able on the spot to drink to the health of their namesake over seas but they do so in spirit. The assur- ance of compliment and deep good Ewill which they send to the younger Norwich is prompted not merely bs considerations of similarity in name but by something much more import. ant-a sense of the ever-strengthenins bonds of American sympathy.
 In recognition of the civic rejoicing:
 at Norwich, Conn.,. a flag was flying or
 Monday on the Guiidhan of our owr
 Norwich. and the mayor has sent tt
 the celebrations committee congrat ulatory cablegram.
 | The same paper also has reference t, the history of Norwich and with whfcl
 are pictures of John Mason monumen and the First Congregational church a Norwich Town.