Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-01

, drives te the Pequef section by way Of Ocean, Montauk and Pequot ave nues and what is actually needed
 more than this alleged drive is an improveme of the s1,eets that inter, sect the avenues. nearly all of them being in poor condition and not in keeping with the avenues or streets of the city generally. These streets should receive the attention of the street committee before the opening
 of spring and provision made to put this and other needed work along that
 line is completed it will probably De
 time enough to shorten one of the
 drives to the Pequot by few hundred
 feet and make the drive more straight
 than at the present time In the
 meantime the public will not be in the
 least inconvenienced.
 The old time German lager beer
 saloon, the place of good cneer and
 where sandwiches and beer was the
 principal stock in trade and Where the Germans assembled and sang
 songs of F'atherland. and where there was never disturbance to mar the pleasures are now among the things that have gone in New London ana perhaps forever Even families gath = cred at these places Of pleasure and the commingling had tendency to hold together the old traditions of na- tive land and some of the customs and without lessening the love Tor the stars and stripes and all the nag represents. The saloon business was conducted on different scale than today and time has made no improve ment in the general conduct of the business. There were many thofpugh German families in New London Tn the years that have gone but now they are few and far between in com parison-
 In the days during and following the civil war and for few years be- fore there were many German fami- lies hero the heads of which were Of foreign birth and they brought some of the customs of their country with them and tried their perpetuation;; turnverin. their picnics in LeWls woods, now Riverside park, being the recreative events of the year A real ure was the athletic attractions which equalled a real circus performance, members of the society that had hold social times together and give gymnasium in Darts hall in Bradley street, Now there is German socl- ety here of small membership who a little picnic once a year but that IS about all.
 Here are some of the proprietors of the old time German lager saloons patronized when the Germans had high rating in the city: Frederick Ernmerich. Jacob Hammel1. Wendell Kopp, Joseph Schriever. Engelbert Sauter, Christian Golf, Gilbert Coos. Herman Kaiser, Theodore, John. and Charles Kunzelman. The only survi- vor is Engelbert Sauter, the oldest Odd Fellow fin New London and one of the bravest of men that served in the Civil war. He was color bearer in the Twelfth Connecticut and was among the first to step to the front and centre when a call was made for volunteers for the proposed Forlorn Hope expedition.
 There is encouraging prospect that there is to be hotel in the Pequot coi- ony to take the place of the old Pe- quot house that was burned several years ago and since which time there has been no strictly summer hotel in New London, which claims promi- hence as a summer resort. A summer hotel syndicate is to lease the May estate, short distance south of the old Pequot house site, and during the coming summer use the large house as an inn and should conditions war rant convert the house into a hotel by adding about seventy rooms. It is a most delightful location and the grounds are not excelled in that really beautiful section of New London. The house is several hundred feet back from Pequot avenue on the knoll of wayy lawn surrounded by just enough trees to add to the general attra ctiyenesS.
 The property comprises about seven acres of land with servants quarters and barns besides the big house. It is understood that the syndicate takes a lease with privilege Of purchase within a specified time.