Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-19

When the ambulance came along he was picked up carefully and taken 10 the hospital where with skilled treat ment his life was saved Had he per-
 mitted the label to remain he would have undoubtedly died before the sur geons made the next visit of insoec- ton and give attention to those who had been seriously wounded and with slight prospect of recovery. While the wound was the most serious nature he managed to survive for forty-siX years after he was practically num- bered among the dead on the field of battle.
 Some old fogy, who evidently ante dates this writer, and who had no par ticular love for the late Hiram Wiley an ex-mayor of New London, who re- gently died in Hadlyme, writes very interesting letter to a local newspaper in correction of an item in this cor respondence last Saturdal, which re- ferred to disciplining the editor of the New London Evening Star for his sup posedly copperheadism. He states that the mayor who turned the trick was Mayor Harris and not Mayor Wiley and that this correspondent confused the two mayors in this particular in cident. Such a mistake, after so many years, would seem reasonable. but when he says that Mayor Wiley took no part in any such movement against the newspaper editor, the critic is mistaken even If he is a native New Londoner and was active on the scene of action at the outbreak of the civil war.
 He is correct when he says that the war was well under way when MT Wiley became mayor for 1t was then when the incident related in this cor respondence last week occurred, Tor the writer was then an apprentice in The Star office, and heard sthe con versation between the mayor and the editor So it is evident that the first of lasting enough to suit Mayor Wiley. In the later incident there was no waving of flag out of the window 10 assure the populace of loyalty to the union, and the office boy. or devil, who was your humble servant. was not sent out to buy a flag for that special nur- pose. as stated by the critic The '-native of New London" no doubt gives a true version of the Mayor Har- ris incident. but there is another chap who came to the town from Providence when baby who ~iVes true version of the Mayor Wiley incident, even if that other old fogy does not happen to be a native of New London.
 In order to make himself plain the critic sent a second communication to the local newspaper by way of correc- tion of his first epistle, wherein he gives the exact words used by Mayor Harris to the spokesman of the in- furiated crowd of citizens and even the exact reply made. but he cannot recall the spokesman, although he IS of opinion that he was Capt. Lemuel Jeffrey, a retired sea captain. As matter of fact there was no sea captain of that name in New London at that time nor since. There were in the Jeffrey family John. Joab. James, Samuel and Charles, the two latter were whaling captains and the others may have been whalers but they never captained a whaling ship. As the ffo ia f.oiS a n instance may be possible that he may be slight ly mistaken in the case in point
 He states as a reason that the Mayor Wiley episode is not correct, that he had never heard of it until it was brought out by the Bulletin cores pendent. Perhaps there were few happenings in New London as late as forty-six years ago that escaped his of interest to state what led up to the interview between Mayor Wiley and the editor and proprietor of the New London Evening Star.
 A that time the paper was printed in the third story of the building at the corner of Bank and State streets, and not in the Smith building as he states. having subsequently been moved from the Smith to the Beckwith build ing adjoining, and then to the Stafford building on the corner.
 At that time Major Phelps had charge of the mechanical department of the newspaper and Lewis cass Mum was in charge of the Job print ing department. These two men usual ly wrote the war bulletin boards that were placed on the sidewalk against the posts that supported a wooden awning. When these men were other wise engaged, the marking of the bulletin boards was left to the devil" this correspondent. For reasons that could not be explained then and can- not be explained now. the "deviF got into the habit of bearing hard on the brush and bringing into prominence rebel victories, the union victories be- ing made very light in comparison, thereby indicating sympathy for the Gn,,tI,nrrn ca irza fc fhe sIIsnininIIs mind