Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-03-27

. fair, but of brief duration, and a me-
mento OF the event is now in the Me-
mortal and Public Library building. 1t
is silk flag Of raspberry red, bearing
"A large five-pointed star in the center
composed of twenty -four smaller gold
en- stars, and was evidently a company
battle flag, as it bore no special sig
niffcance. The flag bears this designa-
ton: This flag was carried in the
Dorr rebellion by William G. Pendle-
ton, color bearer Of Westerly company.
Presented to the Memorial and Library
association by his sister, Harriet N.
Pendleton."
To meet the Dorr uprising. Wash
ington county put LOO men in the field
under command of Gen. John b. Sted-
man of Westerly, and three sons of
tile general now reside here. Westerly
furnished the regular militia company
known as the Westerly Light Infantry
company, of fifty men, under Capt.
John Perigo, with Henry c. Card as
adJutant. In the Civil war of 81 both
these officers went to the front In the
First Rhode Island regiment. with
Card as captain and Perigo as adj
jutant. Westerly also furnished a Sec
ond company of eighty-fve volunteers
in the Dorr war under command of
Capt William Potter THE companies
were sent to the vicinity of Providence
for a week and then returned home.
but they did home guard duty until
there was collapse Of the rebellion.
For a time Westerly was under mar
tIaI law and armed soldiers patroiled
the streets night and day. The little
academy building that stood on Cookey
HIN and now in part used as an ell
for the Woman's Exchange building
was used as the guard house and fire.
quently contained prisoners of war. To
,'suppress the local demons ira tons Of
fbn ,,v-f r>f in
quiry was held in the Benadam F'rink
hotel. on or near the site of the pres
ent Dixon house. Broad street then
known as East Broad street. Suisse
quently citizens suspected of treason,
or known to be in sympathy with the
insurgents, were compelled to bow to
General Stedman's sword as evidence
of their allegiance to the state. Then
came the imprisonment of Mr.. Dorr
and the political tempest soon subsid
ed in Westerly and in the state. 1t
was believed at the time that Dorr
adopted the wrong methods to secure
desirable results. In the end, how
ever. the Dorr war moved the law and
order party to adopt a new constitu-
ton for the state. and the old charter,
dated 1853. has since been given place
in the state archives.
The New England Granite works of
Westerly was not successful in the.
bidding for furnishing 275.000 granite
paving blocks for the city of Provi-
dence- The bids Were opened Wed
nesday, and on Friday the contract was
awarded Booth Brothers of Waterford,
of the Hurricane Island Granite COM
pany. The successful bids were $50
per thousand for one lot of 1000
bricks SCI per thousand on a second
lot of 0.0002 and s62 per thousand
on the balance of 10000 blocks. The
bid of the Westerly firm was a fiat
price of $50 a thousand.
a fire alarm was sent in shortly after
o'clock Saturday morning from box
3d. at the corner of West street and
Railroad avenue, for a chimney fire in
house owned by Mrs. Mary Roche
No. West street. Although the blaze
was confined to the chimney il was
stubborn one to subdue. The full con-
tents of the chemical tank of the Cy-
clones was emptied down the chimney
but without much effect. While the
tank was being recharged the portable
fire extinguishers of thet other COM
panies were used. Before the second
tank of chemicals was all used the
fire was extinguisbed. The prompt and
efficient work of the firemen prevented
| the fire from reaching the woodwork
and preventing any loss of conse-
quence.
At 4.30 Saturday afternoon the de-
partment was called out for. fire in
School street. the burning being con-
fined in an ash box in the yard and
section of fence.