Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-16
A HALF DAYS PLEASURE

written Specially for The Bulletin
We should not leave it to strangers
to discover the natural beauty of. our
really lovely river. but we are apt to
do SO. The points Of view have been
seen by us so often that we fail to
appreciate them and look upon the
river as merely means by which we
can reach the end of our joureny
have seen people bury themselves in
book or paper as soon as they were
seated on the steamer and lift their
eyes only at each landing to note the
location and perhaps remark on the
number OF passengers added to or
taken from our number, or the amount
of freight cared for by the crew 9th
ers become absorbed in game Of
cards and give no attention to any
thing else till the score4 is complete.
and the victor announced.
Let us take the half-dayts trip on
the little steamer which has piled on
our river this season, and see if we
cannot discover something to remem-
Der with pleasure on some of the dull
days of the coming winter. Take
companion along, if you like, to help
you notice the many points of at
traction.
Even while waiting for the boat to
start, We cannot fail to notice the
beauty of our harbor. enclosed as it
is between the hills on all sides. On
the west rise one AFTER another the
various streets that command a view
of the harbor, and Laurel Hill on the
east side. Picturesque we call it. and
certainly a charming picture is OBJ
tanned if the view be taken from the
high elevation on the West Side. Lau-
rel Hill no longer proves it's claim to
its name, for the pretty residences
peeping from among the trees have
taken the place of the dense growth
of laurel bushes with their wealth of
pink blossoms in their time of bloom.
Laurel enough is left on our river
banks, however. to make it beautiful
in the earlier part of summer.
AS the steamer swings out into the
stream we look up the Shetucket and
note how fine a sweep it makes as it
joins the Yantic to form the Thames.
A lovely vista opens to our gaze as
we turn our look up the Shetucket,
but it's sister Yantic rs more given
over to commercial interests, and the
various warehouses shut out the
view of the stream. II you want to
obtain a look at the beauty of the
Yantic, coax one of the residents on
Paramount street to take you out on
his back piazza and look up stream,
and you will be paid for your trouble.
Meantime our brave little steamer
has swung out into the channel and
headed down. Before giving atten-
ton to the attractive points on either
bank, take a parting look at the city
you are leaving. and you cannot fail
to admire the slope of street after
street to the browning height of Jail
hill Laurel hill continues to smile
upon us, and before we realize it, we
are passing the Hospital grounds
with their outlook of the river. Green,
smooth slopes and wooded knobs fol-
low, and ere we know it we are pass
ing some charming little islands and
Kitemaug on the right. Then comes
Breeze Point with it's cluster of snug
little summer homes. We have noted
before this how the points of land,
jutting out into the river, seem to
make the Stream so land-locked that
we are almost convinced that we are
upon a lake instead of river. Now
we are gazing at one of the several
coves which widen out from the river
on each side. and beautiful they are