Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-25
WESTERLY Y MANAGER SEEKS REDRESS
Musical Comedy Company Offered Better Terms by Rival House and Breaks Agreement-Farry B. Joy President of Lincoln Highway Commission n-Local Laconics

It is said that Manager Smith of the Central offered Marcus lump sum | of $350 for two performances daily 1 for the present week, and the offer I was favorably received Manager | Kelly was given oportunity to meet l the offer of Manager Smith, but declin- | ed on the ground that Manager Mar l GUS had voluntarily agreed to have 1 his company show at the Bliven on l the same percentage basis as last week. When Marcus accepted the of | fer of Smith, Kelly immediately took | legal steps to hold Marcus to his agree | ment. He soon found, however, that the memmebs of the company were the individual owners of most of their stage outfit, and that the wardrobe trunks owned by the company had been removed from the opera house. MT. Kelly secured the services of Attorney John J. Dunn on the hope f holding Marcus to his agreement and l to prevent the company from appear
 ing in a rival play house. It was had no property to attack in a suit
 that was worth while. and the play CTS intend to entertain in the oppo- sition house during the present week.
 In the meantime effort will be made
 to find some reparation for the loss
 sustained by Manager Kelly.
 Harry B. Joy, of Detroit, who has
 spent more summers at Watch Hill than ony other cottager, is president of the Packard Motor company, and naturally has the very best automo- bile that his factory produces There
 fore his automobile attracts at tentlon and even a small upright plate abont an inch high and half an inch wide on the radiator cap was noticed.
 This plate was striped red, white and blue. with the letter L in blue on the white stripe. It was also noticed
 that the chauffeur wore a button in
 the left lapel of his coat of like de- sign. Upon inquiry it was learned
 that the little insignia on the radiator cap, as we'll as the button, was the design adopted by the Lincoln High way commission, of which MT. Joy Is the president.
 It is planned to build the Lincoln highway to the Pacific coast as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln. the work to be done wholly by popular subscriptions and donation Of labor The plan and route for the highway has been accepted and the work com
 menced and in the west there is in tense interest in the project, where days are devoted to road building by
 whole communities along the proposed | route. Already there is a substantial | cash nucleous and the promoters have no doubt of the success of the great
 movement. Along sections of the route the emDlerlS or the association is painted on telephone poles and oth- CT available places, and of regulation size, the red and blue stripes being three inches in width, while the white stripe with 1ettre L in blue is fifteen inches in width.
 MT. Joy has been coming to wester- ly for so many years that he Is we'll known by nearly all the residents. As a boy he came to the old Larkin house with his parents. and had among his
 playmates at the hill, those gray-hair- ed men of today, Frank Larkin, James Babcock, Wayland Lardn and Emelus
 Harvey.