Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-01

POSTS HIS WIFE.
Ex-Consul William H. Bishop. the Author, Now at Brooklyn, Claims Desertion.

William Henry Bishop, a distinguish ed summer resident of Brooklyn, and with home in New York, gave print ed notice Thursday that he will no longer be responsible for bills con tracted by his wife, Sheba J. Bishop, as she has left his bed and board
 Mir. Bishop is a former United States consul at Genoa and Palermo, Italy, and was at one time a ~rofessor of lit erature at Yale university, of which he is a graduate. As an author and journalist MT. Bishop is widely known in the literary world. Some of his best known novels, of which he has had nearly score published are ChOy Susan, which has been translat- ed into French and German, Detmold, Golden Justice, The Brown Stone Boy, Old Mexico and the Lost Province, A House Hunter in Europe and The House of a Merchant Prince. MT. Bishop has also been a, constant con- tributor to the leading magazines
 Among the many honors that MT. Bishop has received is a special dec oration from the king of Italy in recog- milton of the humane work that he did for the sufferers after the great earth quake at Messina, Dec. 28, 1908. For a time after the great disaster was first reported it was believed in this coun- try that MT. and Mrs. Bishop had per ished.
 When he was consul at Genoa MT. Bishop was instrumental in sending back to this country the body of James Smithson the great English philanthrOpist and donor of the Smith sonion institute at Washington, D. C.
 MT. and Mrs. Bishop first came to Brooklyn in September, 191o when they purchased the home of c. M. Gall lup at the lodges. This place MT. Bishop has since sold. They spent little time at Brooklyn during the Tt-. M. . Mrs. Bishop have been occupying the Bard house, near the center of the vil lage, and have been taking meals at the Putnam hotel, Brooklyn.
 This week Mrs. Bishop, who is said not to be particularly fond of life in the country, left Brooklyn, for vaca- tion in Maine, it was said. Her de- parture has been followed by the pub lication of notice authorized by MT. Bishop and to the end previously stated.
 Bridges Not Built for Autotruck
 Traffic.
 Incident to the filing of a claim against the town of Putnam by a New Haven transfer company on account of an automobile truck breaking through d bridge in that town on May g, there is considerable interest among officials of all nearby towns, because of the likelihood of similar accident hap pening in any town hereabouts. Most of the small bridges in outlying sec- tions of Windham county towns are wooden structures, not built to stand the strain caused by the passage of heavily loaded four-ton truck, for in- stance, and unless autotruck drivers use some care and discretion as to passing over these bridges town off, cials believe that the towns should not be held wholly responsible for such accidents as may occur by little bridges going down under weights that they were never built to withstand.
 The big autotruck is a comparatively modern means of transportation Its coming could not be foreseen by the ago, hence the bridges were not built upon them. Most of the bridges will stand up under the truck traffic. how ever if driver uses good judgment. but there are some that will not, and there are some truck drivers who pro- ceed so recklessly as to increase the danger of breaking them down. It is of this class that the town officials think when considering that town should not be held wholly responsible. "Jaokv Gerashtys Living on Woburn
 Farm.
 Mrs. "Jaei" Geraghty, whe was Miss Elsie French of Newport society before she eloped with q confessional chauffeur and was married at Central Village, is living with her chauffeur