Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-09

dIlu IL OEty fGIlEailB TOT lle IO EOREtS q match to flicker and blaze for 2. mo- ment and then leave you to the com plete enjoyment of the delightful sen sations Chat always follow a scod din ne!', a good talk and a. good smoke, with the hope that you wiu all feel the morning after.
 I suppose I am called upon for g speech tonight because you have been good enough to elect me to congress. A congressman nowadays is Tlopularly supposed to know all things and to do claimed that ne carries aboQt with him a complete surgical kit, ready a.t a
 moments notice to perform a major operation upon the constitution, the courts, the railroads, the banks and all our other pld-tine friends. If in ad- dition thereto he can qualify as an after dinner speaker, then indeed do I realize more than ever tine truth Of the scripture: God works, in Q rayS- teri0u6 way, his wonders to perform" "
 I am glad to be with you tonight l appreciate tiIe honor and privilege of addressing you, the business men of Norwich. 1 delight to see and feel your get-tosether spirit. I admire your feeling of civic pride. I recall a story l nave heard of a citizen of Norwich who a few .,ears ago was visiting in San Francisco and chanced to meet on Market street a former Norwich man who for seVera! years had made his home upon the coast. "T don't see how you can stand it back home in Norwich with all it's hills and it's crooked streets. Just look around here, sec all these broad, straight streets 9 We'll said the Norwich man, T have only been out here a few days. but find that your mayor is in jajl your political ,,oss, Abe Ruef, is in the per7i- tentiary, your supervisors arc all un- der indictment. and you are having trouble to find q juTy of twelve hon est men to try Calhoun, your tra ction boss, and # have to choose between San Francisco with its straight streets and it's crooked men, I would prefer good old Norwich with it's crooked streets and it's straight men" I am glad as New. LondoneF to come to Norwich. Separated from you thirteen miles as measured by the ties of the railroad, we are close together as measured by the ties or our affection and hope the time may soon come when both sides of the river Thames viii teeu1 with manufacturing and commercial enterprises, when both cities win be united under one gov eFnment, when you in Norwich will speak Of New London as down town and we in New London will think of Norwich as uptown. Stranger things have happened. The last half century has seen in all parts of the world wonderful changes and still more won- derful achievements. The wild dream of today becomes the wonderful real ity Of tomorrow. The man Of vision dreams his dream of things that are not, and from the forge of his dream the man of work hammers into exist ence the wonderful things that are to be.
 Even in my day, and I am still a young man. notwithstanding it has been widely advertised I have been CtOTf1l2J1I T05~ i7af9 HR7T1lT7- ha< seen come into active practical use the telephone and the electric light, the airshlp and the wireless. As d boy read with doubt and wonder Jules leagues under the sea. Today across the river from New London they are working night and day building parts Of ships that really so down in the sea, and their number IS multiplying So rapidly that when we read of K 19 and L T we realize the different types haA c about exhausted the alphabet and the numbers are startling and appall- ing. As 8 boy I read with equad doubt and wonder the dime novel stories of Frank Reade and his steam wagon of the prail.ics Today motor vehicles that fl we were asked to define the difference between the quick and the dead VIC might he tempted to reply the quick are those that get out Of the Wa.- of automobiles, the dead are those who doa't.
 And now I feel that should tjatain you no longer. I don't STt2nt the repU- tation Of 2. bore, and II is 50 easy for q conSre ssnan to acquire bad repu- tation. Only the other day the young son Of Coagresshlan WinsloW Ras playing in Washington and had done something he ought not to do, where upon he uas reproved by one Of his neigll bors who at the end said. "D6D'f YOU want to grow up to be Sood 1nan?" The boy replied: No, I don't want to. I want 10 sroTy up to be g congressman like my daddy"
 Mir. Freeman closed with pleasant reference to the speakers from Massa ehusetts. who he said had furnished the substantial part 0? the evenings ad- dresses which every body had 50 much enjoyed.
 Three cheers for the congressman elect were proposed by T6astmaster King and were given with a will.
 Removal of LskevilIe ScheeI.
 After MT. Freeman. President Kins called upon Former President Mac matters before the gathering.
 The hrse WAS the possibility oP the location here Of tho state school for 1nraeciles new located at LakeVills. It has 500 inmates and s doctors, nurses and attendants, but has only 1-2 acres of land which is too small for it's deNelcpn1ent as it is proposed to ga into farming and build dorn.i- tories and other buildingS. TAe trustees have a site in prospecc in the western part of the state at a cost cf $16o,606, but the Board of Trade here has secured an option or the Winsio>v T. Williams estate at Tantic which mrr,llid hM MGnAare f1sr Atqsae,resS fAr rha