Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-09

slSinnier than they were at the time mentioned, for it would be against tradition to find well-fed horse or horses hitched to a charcoal al-wagon.
 Many Hotels.
 Norwich, at this time, had goodly number of hotels. Tn addition to the Wauregan House and antedating it. was the Merchants Hotel on Main street, now g, part of the Austin Block the American House, still in existence, the Thames, on lower Market street tsnding on ground now occupied by '. c. Worth & Co.,, and better known $ the Coffee House P and latef on the snion Square, on the site of the pres snt Y. M. c. A. building, and possibly others. The Wauregan House was a famous hostelvy in the days of From" Norris, as it is now, and numbered among its local patrons many of the famous men of itle city and town; and the Coffee House" was kept for a time by the late Captain Dan" De- laney, famous as re-fghter and an all around good-fellow. It is an in- tereSting fact that, in determining. the distance of surrounding towns and villages from Norwich. the Merchants Hotel was always the local starting point.
 In the early days mentioned in this article, the Bulletin was published on Franklin Square, in what IS now the Chapman block, aftertward removing to it's new building now the extreme western end of the Porteous and Nit .chelPs store. The Richards building had not then been erected, and Jake Gottschalk, a ramous shoemaker and repairer, had his little shop on a nest of rocks in that vicinity on the main street. The county court house was situated on Church street, where the | property of William H. Allen now | stands fo1anIleh if Uya finch h the street, and after its destruction by fire, court was held in the Austin l block, on the upper floor, the new and 1 beautiful Court House not then having been erected It was a dingy place difficult of access, and would now be regarded as entirely unfit for the use to which it was then put.
 The Carroll building was then un- known, and the present Washington Square had not one-fifth of it's pres ent area The Elevator building" a; it was afterward called, had not beer erected, and after it was built ant used as a mill and granary for a time | by c. P. Cottren & CO, was, as al know, devoted to other business -pur- poses,
 On Gre adjoining street Cwate Street,) were some of the famous mer chants. in many diverse lines, of tn, city. l.. w Carroll, Norton and Con
 
 ing the redoubtable William. who's lovely country home was in Franklin and who was a stauneh democrat when democrats were exceedingly rar l in Norwich, and to whom, while the: were fast personal friends, the lat Isaac F. Bromley, former editor of tn Bulletin, and afterward of the NeE i York Tribune, regularly applied dose 1 of his caustie wit, to the great de liGt:f of MT Converse.
 Farther down the street, were D. E Coon, the famous store of Rawson an, , Whipple, Albert T. Converse, and An drew and Nash. where a portion of tn Auditorium Hotel now stands. On Commerce Street. On Commerce street. the Shetucke Bank. long since closed, the ware house and office of Dr. Charles Os good, looking much as they do a present, farther on, the late Sam Osgood, prince of good fellows, wln F was succeeded by Rousseau and Dor rance and last of all. the old Joh
 Breed store, afterward Breed an Prentice and later still A. w. Pren 3 tice & Go, famous for years, tn country round as headquarters fc , hardware and the like. Nor shoIl z we forget the Barstow store, sti S standing and doing successful bus ness under it's present management
 Mr. Burke recalls some of the "ehal Z acters'' of Norwich at that time 2 z wildly as though they had lived bI yesterday 'sMish" Turner, whose onl