Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-22
NORWICH ILLUMINATED
 TO HONOR EDISON.
Ss7 Houses were Counted by, the
 Committee = Pr.zes Announced.


 The general illumination of Norwich on Wednesday. evening in honor of Thomas A. Edison went way beyond the expectation Of those who were in terested in the celebration. of Edison Day, which fell on the s5th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent electric lamp. It is within the truth to say that no such similar universal immumination of any city was ever made in this country. Quite a few homes were brilliantly lighted by gas lamps and while they were noticed and included in tfe competition for the prizes offered by the Eaton Chase Co. for the best illuminated homes.
 The judges of this unique illumina- tion and contest were Supt. $. J. Ke- hoe of the Gas and Electrical Depart the Auditorium Theatre. and Fred ericl> w. Bliss. Of Providence, R. l., one of the staff of experts on illumination connected with Edison's Lamp factory. These three experts left the Waure- gan house Wednesday evening and barely succeeded in covering the city in the two hours from z to p. m. when houses were to be illuminated.
 The city seemed to be. fairly eblaze with light. The difficulty of judging who were entitled to prizes was in- creased by the variety in the dis
 
 all 297 houses vera counted which were illuminated sufficiently to at tract notice. The judges however made a list of 125 honles etss thet were lighted to their fullest capacity and among these it was difficult to select the prize winners.
 List That Judges Made.
 The. names placed on the list were as follows: --~5
 vI. les Home, R. M. Powers, J. H. Hankins. M. !. Cummings, Rev. J. IT. FitZ- maurice Dr. E. J. Bropl1y, Mrs. Cath- erire Murphy. Richard ,Berkoff, Charles H., Raynes. George E. Stevens, Mrs W.P. Greene, John McWillians, John A. Morgan, Loais H. Geer. "A. Gilchrist. W. w. Armstrong, o. w. Carpenter James Purdon. Buckingham Memorial. D. T. Shea, pr. N P. Smith, George R. Ravens. Mrs. c. A. kuebler. A. w Deneffff, T. F. Burns. s. Lambert. F. B. Manning, F. J. sRitchie, George !. Palmer, J. l.. Smith, James l.. Case, W. Lester, Dr. G. A. Comeau, Albert H. Chase, Archibald Mitchell, James B. Shannon, Julian L. Williams. c. M. Williams. E. E. Bullard, c. A. Saxton. Miss Annie E. Waters. Arthur c. Brown, Edmund W. Perkins. Charles D. Moves, F. H. Patrick. Herbert B. Cary, Nelson V. Porter, Frederick w. Cary, Mrs. c. W. Prentice. Mrs. M. Charming Huntington. W. H. Shields, Col. c. W. Gale. Dr..W. K. Tingley, Joseph Hall, J. ". Gladden.. Charles p. Browne, Allen l.. Brown. Mrs. F. s. Camp, Mrs. George D. Colt, Hon. E.. w Higgins, O.. L. Johnson. c. H. Frisbie, Miss Annie Lyons, Charles 5. Holbrook, JJohn H. Powelson. Gill bert S. Raymond. Mrs. [. A. Gallup. Norris S. Lippitt, A. F. Williams. Miss Sarah Young, Mrs. J. C.: Perkins, Ho- ratio Bigelow, D. J, Mccormick, A. B. Simpson, $. E.. Machette, l.. O. Smith, W. $. filling. Mrs. Amanda B: Spauld- I'M. C. A.. Otis Library, James .Sher- idan, Walter H. Rogers, Frederick J. Huntington, B. P. Bishop, Charles Mo Namara, L. l.. Chapman, Wauregan Hotel Auditorium Hotel Everett Hall. Plymouth Hotel Otto P. Wulf; George R. Chamberlain, John Trank.a- H. A. Wulf. T. J. Cerkery. Dr. H. B: Higgins. Je,1r Forteous, T. C. Worth. M. l.. De Monte, T. T.. Jolirson, Fred q. Naples. F. ;. Freeman. R. ?: s. Washburn, Charles '. Ealdwirs s,dgar I1 Dennis Bill, John E. Post, Miss A. '. Wood worth, L. T. Crandall, Don Houghton and E. R. Hornig.
 Prizes Awarded.
 The prizes contributed by the Eaton Chase company were as follows: First prize, portable reading lamp; second prize Thermos bottle. After carefully weighing the merits of all the alluminatiors noted above the prizes were awarded as follows: Central District.
 First prizes. Col. Charles W. Gale and Dr. c. R. Chamberlain; second 
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