Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-23

William Carroll, foreman of the posing room of the Providence Jour nal, gave an interesting and instruc-| tive address, based on personal ex- perience on the subject. The Make up of a Newspaper, before a. large audience of Royal Arcanum members in Providence Monday night. MT. Carroll told of his introduction into newspaper work as devil in the office of the New London Chronicle, at the age of 12, of his subsequent work on the New London Evening Star and the Norwich Bulletin, half century ago, later being employed on the New York Herald and then going to the Provi- dence Journal. MT. Carroll when a young man was classed among the fastest of compositors in Eastern Connecticut and sustained that reputation in New York, being in the class with Aren- burg and Chris Wall.
 Mir. Carroll in his introductory gave a short resume of the early newspapers, told how they were gotten out and the vast number of handicapS as com pared with the present day publica- tion. To better illustrate the types of papers printed, several old copies of a rare collection were handed out for inspection. After explaining how the copy is set up on the linotype ma chimes and corrected by the proof readers MT. Carroll exhibited a matrix made from the page ef type on a olOdii pCo. WlilCii 6OCS LO IIC SUI CO- type room. ,ghere the cylinder is made for the press.
 A description of the earlier presses, and those used from time to time, and especially from the Washington and Peter Smith Patent lever presses with which he was familiar, to the present modern perfection presses, and the improvements that have been made, were explained. He said that in get ting out a newspaper in large cities a,,r i,, ,.l occupations have their part to per- form. The work in the mailing room, getting the finished newspapers to dealers and trains, were also fully described.
 There are three residents of New London who were associates with MT. Carroll in the printing trade half a century ago. They are Tax Collector John Dray, Edward A. Colby ad man on The Day, and Walter F'ihznaurice the correspondent of the Norwich Bull 1etin.
 Ninety.nine years ago Tuesday oc- cured the "Great September Gale" and was to the residents of this sec t1on for many years a sort of work ing period for subsequent events, just as was to the Irish "The Night of the Big Wind in Ireland" which occurred at an even earlier period. This ref erence to the Great September .Gale'' is from Westerly and its witnesses:
 Westerly shared her proportional part of the strike of the terrible gale of September g, 1915. The heavy part of the gale struck the coast in the forenoon, from the southeast, and spent its force in a few hours; mean while veering in it's course till it reached the southwest. It affected the coast chiefly between New Bedford and New Haven. Nowhere was it more severe than on the Narragansett shore. The ocean wave, raised by the gale, rose ten feet along the coast, rolled over all the beaches, swept cat tie from the pond islands, sticks from the shore meadows. and swelled the tPawtucket river nine feet above its usual height at the head of tide water. Two porpoises were driven up into the village. The spray of the sea was borne far back into the country, so that salt was collected on the window back as Plainfield, Conn. All the for ests on the coast were sprostrated; the house of Samuel Bliven. in the Maps was washed down; the house of John Cross was partly unroofed; the Hill meeting house was wholly unroofed; barns and sheds were overturned; and small buildings in the village were floated over the dam. The heavy for est occupying the land where now stands the foundry, machine shop and dwellings. on the west bank of the river, in Pawtucket, was prostrated hurricaine was of short duration. abat- ing before the close of the day.
 The bronze statde of Noah Webster, which was fitted to a granite base at the Smith Granite works. was taken back Tuesday to the Gorham plant in Providence, to receive the finishing touches. The statue is in several