Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-09

bienn1alIy as against the Massachu- setts general courts annual sessions, way of law-making in quantity. if not in quality.
 Probably no section of the city has undergone greater change than have Franklin Square, East Main street, and Franklin street, at it's lower end. While many of 1ele old buildings on the square still remain, many of these have received new fronts, and one who saw the place thirty five or more years ago and looked about him now, for the first time since that period, would hardly recognize it as the same place. The square itself was mud hole and on several occasions at fresh et-time. could be and was nayigated in boats. The old Franklin street brook had a way at high water of backing up into it1e cellars of the stores, set flooding the lower parts Of the stables on Bath street, to the terror of all the rats in the neighbrhod who could be seen swimming about for their lives
 Franklin street, widened as it has been, with its new and ornate build ings and substantial pavement, has so altered in appearance and in business importance as well, that there is hard ly space to tell of ire marvellous changes that time and intelligent ef- fort have brought about, The Hallett block, the Converse block, both erected by the late Col Converse, and the new Bulletin building and Sunlight building are a few examples of what has been done to bring Franklin street l to it's present condition as a business I thofoughfare.
 East Main Street Transformation. But East Main street has undergone
 the greatest transformation. Mir Burke 1 easily recalls 1t in his driving about | the city as one Of the muddieSt streets l encountered by t1iT1 in his travels, and | in no location in Norwich has there been greater change in the charac- | ter of the buildings. Changing from
 a residential to a business street some ! of the best structures in Norwich add | to its beauty and utility. The Chel- l sea Bank, the Post Office the Mar | guerite and Marion buildings and the Elks Home are examples. Where the 1 old East Main Street Methodist churItl once stood, is now the commedioua and handsome store of J. P. Holloway the building so transTnogrifed that
 one could hardly believe it was not en- tirely new. The Hubbard and Slater residences were the most imposing on the street, one of them giving way to the post office site it being at thai
 
 Avery Smith, and the other becoming
 the EEkS Home. East Main stree1
 possessed for long time the mos
 beautiful avenue of large and stately
 elnls in Norwich. and loud was iIlt cry when an intelligent city admins tratfon removed them, to make way for city rather than a country road The laying of the modern pavement
 which is now to be found there pu
 on the finishing touch, and now witE its new buildings in process of cree. ton, 1t is confeSsedly one of our fines , streets in every respect It has, O course, lost it's title East but to oul older inhabitants it will always bi known, if not called, by it's full nam. Fast Main" street.
 Some of the Doctors.
 Among the doctors of the old tim recalled by MT. Burke, and all O ElIom he knew were Dr. Ralph Farms ] worth, who lived on East Main street
 In the house now occupied by DR Lewis, Dr. "Joe" Fuller, on the sam street, Dr. Paddock, then residing il 1.-the large brick house, with the for a midable lions at it's approach near tn , present Chelsea Bank building, Dl Elijah Kinney, famous in his time, thel living in a large white house on low
 CT Washington street, which stil !, stands. Dr. Charles M Carleton,
 gallant soldier and the leading sur 6CO4A Ol G@c1SlS AOnAOCbHCQIg Halle. of Broad street, the father 0
 Mrs. William Camp Lanman and oth
 CTS whom he does not recall as this i . written.
 a All of the older attorneys. who's . careers were mentioned at length i l the Bulletin of January 1st, of tn s present year, were known to MI [, Burke. and many of them have mad | use of his hack from the station ( n tAleir homes and on other occasions, a V well. as he may have been needed s During the time that he has serve ', l the public he has seen many change e in our city and town governments, an y it's officials no less than fifteen mayor I'll having held offices in that time, man f Iof them for more than one term, froI n the Hon. James Lloyd Green, who re i. tired in 1366 again serving from 117 = to 1875, to tBle present incumbent Hol e Allyn l., Brown. If the reader sfouI e take the directory and look over th l, names of the gentlemen who have oc e cupied fhe office of mayor, from th
 incorporation Of the city in tTS4 to th
 present year. he would find anon
 them the names of distinguishe : statesmen, patriots and solid busine< men Of their time. z At the Four cornens.
 r Another notable change in the ar e pearance of our city is in the sQua1 e occupied by the Wauregan House an 6 Boston Store, the shannon bufIdinl It the Buswell building and the super g home Of the Norwich Savings 9ociet, F For a long time, the Wa.uregan stoc Ie in solitary grandeur, below it on VI a same side Of Main street, being tf ?, candy -store Of "Jake' Anaes aaoo1 n mentioned, afterward the store i'd John c. Perkins, who erected the bloe l. now standing on the site of Elas ol v store, afterward the block occl1pie le by the CosgrCve slloe-tCre was bull Id and beyond that were stores for u 1f sale Of fruit, candy and the like, lg low buildings used by Oliver Tuba d and John Truennan, the only fruf 1f stores which we recall as being in tl
 city at that time, beyond these on q Q Franklin street side were a grccel J. and the Kelley shoe-store-
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