Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29

county and was a familiar and pfo1ai- nent figure at the annual fairs of the New London County Agricultural so- ciety, being usually one of the officials of the horse racing events MT. Bacon was eighty-One years of age and was remarkably active until he failed 1n health about three years ago, and was an earnest devotee of all clean sports
 He was one of the most expert of fan cy skaters in New England, leader in pedestrian contests. owned the fast est and best horse, owned and sailed the fastest racing sailing, boat, was an expert at billiards and chess, had the fastest sled when :coasting was the popular pastiIle on Hempstead street, was an enthusiastic adnairer of the game of baseball and a conceded au- thority on all that, related to, sports. MT. Bacon was born in New London. fhe son of William. Bacon, who with his brother, John l.. were managers Of the old Steamboat hoteITsof seventy years ago and subseQuentfE of the same hOste1ry on Bank street, under the name of the Bacon house. Then the New York propellors landed at Bacons wharf, which was afterwards known as the Mitchell and the Hamil- ton Powers wharf. and since removed to make way for the present steam boat wharf of the New England Nayi- gation company. This hotel WAS the terminal for the Colchester stage route tuS 1OuI AOISCS dA HE tl1c sOA0 stage coach being driven by Palmer Peck. Rheun Tingley and later George Childs. In this old hotel Morris ". Bacon received his first lessons in
 business as clerk. When a very young man he became clerk son the steam boat line between New London and New York, serving on the Connecticut and later on the steamer City of Bcs- ton Of the Norwich line. His love for steamboat life and realizing that there was money in the business, he became manager of the steamers Ce- ci,e, cygnet and Osprey. with route between New London Easter Point, the Pequot and Osprey beach, This business was carried on each summer until the beach was abandoned as 8 public resort. having >been purchased for private purposes.
 MT. Bacon erected the marble block in State street fn 1868 and invested largely in other real estate. At that time he resided in Golden street. He purchased the Marvin property at tfle corner of State and Meridian streets for residence. and subsequently, sold that property. to Frank A. Munsey, who erected the fine eight t-story build ing that gives New London a decid- edly citifed appearance and now util- ized as one of the best equipped hotel properties in New England. MT. Ba- con owned the building in Green street formerly occupied in part by. the Eve ming Telegram and the Morning Tele- graph, the building being erected and occupied in thirty days, establishing the building record in New london a three-story frame building with basement, erected and occupied with in thirty days after the contract was awarded. That was thirty light years ago and the building is completely occupied and in good order today for Mr Bacon was noted for keeping. his a,tx- in, frS ola sho lFo1 11zr years ago, while he was steamboat ing, he became interested in. the jew eiry business with John Gordon, with store at the corner of State and Main streets, under the firm name of Cor don & Bacon He never engaged in any other mercantile business.
 MT. Bacon leaves a widow, his sec ond wife. and one daughter. Lizzie, now Mrs. Henry Whittemore, of Pas adena, Cal He has the reputation of 1 being wealthy and it is intin-ated that l his will provides for a lasting memo MT Bacon informed a friend that it was his intention to found a Bacon school for the boys of New London, 1 but it is said that after giving this matter consideration it was abandon 1 ed, as it would be liable to conflict with the present Bulkeley school
 1 MuCn 0T Lhe C0fHHItt40 ItTNS 0T Iu . 1 Connecticut legislature has been con stunned in matters pertaining to New i London, giving the impression that the city within it's present limitations is ] complete in every detail in some re- 1 spects and in others only the finishing l touches are lacking; hence the needs ] of expansion, new park system, new l sidewalks, new municipal or rather i state wharyes. new methods of con ducting city business and almost a l new everything and new bonds with l which to meet the expenditures Al 1 of which is according to Hoyle so far 1 as it goes, but in all this progressive i ness there is just a faint Iinge of in consistency on the outer edge. Olc l New London is far from com plete- ness in that which it already has anC it would seem but proper that care 1 be given to present possessions before 1 others are acquired. There are street: ] and streets well within the city linn its that are barely passables and tho i wonder is that the city is not saddlee ] the condition. In most ofsthese street. l there is not even curbing. to ga. nothing of granoIithic pavement : ol | even soft coal ashes.
 Tn one of these streets mot many weeks ago the actual depth of thu 1 mud was eighteen inches and the mut | on the walks on the sides of thu street was over an inch in depth. Anf 1 this is street tllatsis used by a grea
 many people going to and from thu trolley cars. The three streets tha parallel were in an almost disgracefu
 condition. Some of the most populal driveWays in the city that were wei Inacadamed two years ago have, beer neglected and now are but little bet ter than the old time country road
 Take Ocean avenue, for instance. Tw, years ago as good a roadway as tfer, ! was in the city, now in need of re building almost from end to end ant all because the old saw of d stitch il
 time saves nine was totally ignored Some learned chap wrote in the Ionl ago that it was better to bear the ill
 we have than to fly to others we knoy
 not of, and some old fogy has de
 clared that the learned chap evidentl,
 knew his book.
 I The request of the two military com
 paniss with quarters in tho stat
 armory to use the armory for a poul
 try show. has been disapproved b.
 Brig. -Gen. George M Cole, the a7ju
 tAnt general of the state of Con
 necticut, which is taken as siSnificari ' that at the end of the present suInme
 the armory will be used only for mil itary purposes. By that time Ilaiiitar. equipment in connection with til
 coast artillery service will be install I ed by the general government. vii be of. a stationery nature, and en ernach materially on the present flao Il space of the armory Not only wi
 that fact lessen the general reques