Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-12

l the public dumping grounds is a puz | ziIng problem, but they get there just i the same In some unaccountable way a. silver handled knife with the ! name Thomas e. Seabrooke nicely en- l graVed thereon was found by Darl- ing boy in the public dumps near Shaw street, On the very day that the | noted comedian who established his reputation in the comic opera Isle of | Champagne died. The knife has wire cutter and cork-screw and was probably presented to the great come dian by friend or group of friends and selected as appropriate to the name of the opera in which Seabrool1e starred. The handle of the knife Is bright and the engraving clear and distinct, but the cork-screw and wire cutter are rusted and the two blades formerly in the knife are missing. It is several years since Actor Sea,brooke played in New London and it is not known that he ever spent any time here aside from his professional en- agreements so the finding of the knife, especially at this particular dime is an interesting coincidence. It will be re- bladed and preserved by one who was an admirer of one of the greatest of comedians in comic opera.
 Some fellow with long head wrote in the long ago that none are so deaf as those who can but will not hear, and none so blind as those that can
 
 two men in the grand stand seated directly in line with home plate at baseball game will see the same thing differently, with one the ball was over the plate and with the other it should be counted as ball. They simply saw things differently, one would not see as the other saw. So it is on the railroad train two men are liable to hear things differently or perhaps not at all Here's the case in point. Some man who claims to be a member of the Connecticut general assembly, according to writer in a local news paper makes the claim that the train man of the 731 train in the morning from New London to Hartford does not do the proper calling when Say brook is reached but simply calls Say brook Station't and says no more, thus not giving proper information to passengers who desire to change for the Valley road. Now this is not strictly true and is an injustice to the trainman, and may result in some explaining to the officials of the road, who demand proper service from em- ployes.
 In the vernscular of the day, the uniformed man on that particular train Is surely on his job from start to final destination. One who has made the trip on that train every day that the legislature Is in session, and with perhaps more regularity than the m61nDef rSIorfod to. QOeS HOl HedI things as did the alleged complainant. Every morning when the train is at Saybrook. that trainman calls in clear tone: t'Saybrook Junction: change for NIfdd1etown, Hartford Springfield and way stations"
 Again, that special attention Is given to the call for it suggests the call in comparison with the calling of the announcer at the Hartford passenger station, who calls every stopping place on the entire line when the time for departure of an accommodation train comes. It suggested the thought that if the trainman of the 7.31 accommo- dation train from New London did likewise. when calling the change at Savbrook. that train would never reach New Haven on schedule time, and there would be delay in the departure of the Valley train for Hartford. If l Hartford passengers or those bound to way stations on the route are carried by Saybrook it is because they will not hear the trainman's announcement and will not see the adviSability of needing the conductors warning, when l his ticket is punched, to change at Saybrook.'
 James A. Wilkinson has broken ground for new house in Barrow | street and 1t is hoped this fact will | attract the attention of the city fathers to the miserable and unsafe condition l of that thoroughfare. Including the l corners there are now eight desirable | dwelling houses on that apology for | street. which has only about fifty feet
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