Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-07
MADE BORDER RAID
ON WATCH HILL.
Bostonians Claimed CIergyman's Cook
and Maid as Brides.

This is to be a, story for cooks and
for farmhands, but not absolutely ex-
clusiVely. But the person who is dex-
ferrous at milking d COW, is fond of
pitching hay or can do plain cooking
and perhaps a, little fancy, is the one
to take notice. For at the Norwich
office of the free state employment bu-
reau, which seeks and fills jobs all over
this congressional district, Superinten-
dent George L. Cheshire has lot of
work waiting for such.
Around IN the vicinity of Norwich
largely there are bertkS waiting for
&c farmhands and 81 cooks, if they
will report and exhibit their state of
preparedness, can go to work this
morning. A dozen general household
workers are needed in homes at the
beach, and there were demands for
wooden WeaVers to the number of "a
as late az Thursday afternoon. A lot
of labOrers can find work on the new
pier at New London and on other jobs,
and indeed there are lots of chances
not herein mentioned whereby a man
or a woman can keep the wolf from the
door. But apparently there are no
wolves, for there seems to be an eX-
ceptiOnal number of places that need
filling, and remarkable difficulty in fill
ing them.
The precise and fundamental reasons
why farmers can't get hands to help
with the haying, and hOUsehOIders
cooks to preside over the destinies of
their culinary outfits are not herein
to be stated, but this is the
true, sad tale of a Watch Hill summer
cOlOnist who wandered rather discon-
SOlately into uperintendent CheSbrO's
office Thursday afternoon. If he hadn't
been a clergyman, and a BOstonian, his
demeanOr might not have been SO gem
tie and restrained. But this was the
SJSt of his STORY, as the newspaper
man listened to it with sympathy-aS
much as a chap UnaCquainted with do
mestiC problems could simulate. He
and his wife had taken a cottage at
| the Hill and they brought down with
| them from Boston two most excellent
young ladies, one a fine cook and the
other an exceptional maid. These had
young men in Boston, but Watch Hill
seemed remote enough to be safe. War
clouds gathered, however, a border
raid was daShingly perpetrated, and
two happy Boston young men returned
to that city, with two blushing bdies-
! our cook and our maid. That was only
two weeks after the season opened
] and the gloomy prospect refused to be
, Ightened until it was decided yeSter-
| day to try the resources Of the Norwich
| employment bureau.
| As fortune would have it. the clergy
| man encountered in the Office a young
| lady from Philadelphia who had come
! here from PHILADELPHIA as faid and
! now was leaving. She didn't know
where and what Watch Hill was, but
! the description was a glowing one and
! the offer tempting. 1t was close tC
! BOstOn-proven by hard experience
/ and to New York and Philadelphia, but
when she learned it was 80 miles and
an hour and a half from Norwich, the
| rosy visions faded. He asked her il
! she could do plain cooking. She sai6
! yes. Could she bake bread? She
| said no. More visions faded. The ar
| bitratiOn of the superintendent yielded
| no result, and having lived through
| this and one or two other attempts t.
! fit people to jobs and jobs to people
| the unmarried newspaper man escaped
| with a long drawn sigh and voicing
! of Mr.. ChesbrO's sentiment that run
ming an employment bureau is a rea
! propositions proposition, however
which the superintendent has beer