Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-24

They are returning from the Pacific
coast, having taken in the exposition
Mr. Prentice writes that he is getting
excellent use from his tires
DR.. James ]. Donohue has purchased
new hVe passenger touring car and
he with Prof. Frank L. Farrell, Ber-
nard Ring and Edward DTiscolI. drove
the machine here from Hartford Fri
day.
The bridge commissioners gave the
following report to Governor Holcomb
concerning the Saybrook bridge: The
total receipts Of the Saybrook bridge
from Jan. l. 1915 to Aug. l, 1915, were
S16,O09-SO- The expenditures amounted
TO S1S,643.63. The bridge has been
used by 25,375 two seated and 6.053
one seated autos. by S64 trucks, 1454
motorcycles. I,213 one horse and 500
two horse vehicles; 81, 604 people pass
ed over in vehicles and 3,160 on foot
The new bridge over the tracks at
Lords Point was opened to travel on
Saturday, in use with the new road
built from the Mystic highway to the
! Point by the town
Vermont 10 universal in it's appeal
to the motorist and sportsman Fine
lakes with fishing boating and YACHT
ing and many famous golf courses are
located on this route For the stu
NCAAl AACA inc many scenes HnkGQ
with our early history and for the
nature lover a variety of mountain,
lake and valley scenery that more
than satisfies the most exacting. Many
| tourists from this section enjoy the
Vermont pleasures.
II may not be generally known to
the public that the road to Black Hall
1 through the avenue of eIms is a pri-
waite road. both that and the sidewalks
being kept up at the expense of the
people living there The owners would
be very glad to have the drivers of
/ automobiles and other vehicles re-
spect the privilege they have enough
not to drive on the sidewalks, which
involve so much time and expense in
keeping up
| The road that runs through the vii
/ lage of Jordan, known as the North
road. has received a coating of oil
| from Jordan through to the New Ha-
ven turnpike as the constant travel
| of the automobiles through the vii
lage kicked up a lot of dust The
| travel has been heavy for the past
| week, and will be for the next few
weeks, heavier than usual as all of
| the automobiles that generally travel
/ the turnpike are now coming through
Jordan village and making a detour
| over the aforementioned road, while
/ the bridge west OF the cemetery on the
New Haven turnpike is being rebuilt.
given a test in Mystic Saturday after
| noon was brought over from New
London Friday afternoon under its
| own power, just to timber up the mo-
tor bit On the way over the mo-
tor driver encountered William Frazier
Of New York, en- route for Boston, in
trouble on Fort hill He hitched onto
him and towed the disabled automo-
bile to the Mystic auto station for
repairs In Mystic the fire engine man
gave a demonstration of hill climb
ing. John F1ibbance, chairman of the
executive committee, Manuel Sylvia
and others of the leading citizens had
a ride with the apparatus up Rey-
nolds' hill, one OF the steepest in the
state Baptist hill was also dead easy
for the fire engine.
| From 9 o'clock in the forenoon until
s o'clock in the afternoon of last Fri
day, according to figures kept on a
counting machine by a person who was
right on the job. Just 3153 automobiles
and other vehicles considered as traf-
nc, not baby carriages, passed by the
junction OF Main and Broad streets,
Westerly.
An automobile ran down one of the
farm hands recently who Is employed
by Ezra J. Hampstead, and who was
walking along the main road near
Woodworth's mill Several who view
ed the accident said the pedestrian
was close to the wall and thought the
driver had lost control of the car The
victim of the accident was knocked
down. cut and severely bruised in a
number OF places, also his clothing
was badly torn In the machine were
three women and a man who immedi-
atefy stopped and drew up q paper for
the injured man to sign after which
he was passed a roll of money and
the party proceeded. None OF the peo-
pie who saw the accident was close
enough to get the number Of the car
his Is the first accident that has hap
pened in this part of the town during
the heavy travel on Sundays.
| Aviation on a scale never before at
tempted in this country Is to be in