Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-09

renewer", which he vended from house to house and store 70 store He was tall curious figure of man, as we ] remember him. wearing his hair long l and possessing Stentorian voice, and i was for time, watchman at the old l c. B. Rogers sG1op, on Thames street, I flourish on his bugle, he once an- HoEnced one of the greatest Union l victories in the civil war.
 The Express Business.
 :; The express business in Norwich ] was not then so extensive as at pres l ent, and fewer teams were seen about l the streets. Probably the most pecu- l liar outfit of the sort, in the United 1 States was seen daily bllsily engaged l in carrying all sorts of articles to and l fro. A colored man, Treadway by
 name. and living on the West Side, 1 had a fair-sized bull, which he at l times led, at times drove to a small open wagon, and did quite a thriving 1 business It is not recalled that he ever rose to the distinction of having
 ( horse-drawn vehicle. The only pub lie express company than in Norwich 1 was the Adams, the agent being the late Elisha Siocum than whom no more genial gentleman or public-spir- l ited citizen ever lived in this commun- Il ity. He is remembered pleasantly by all 1sle older residents, and in his leis- ure moments delighted in fishing and
 kindred sports, as did his friends, the ,; late James Lloyd Greene, sometime
 the most delightful of men, as well ae his brother Wn. P. Greene.
 -t There was no more familiar figure
 of that period than Charlie" SpauId- i. ing, messenger of the Adams Express Go. and his fine horse Dan" MT : ! ic, -%fll ha10 |, his declining years, residing, as he al l ways has, on the East Side. CalviT Roath was later another of the mes sengers, afterward going into the rail way express service, and he too is stil living and residing on Laurel HilI. Tht fate James Tucker, at one time super. intendent of the Wm. W. BaclSus hos pital, was one of MT. Slocums assist , ants, as was ZAP Ieffingwen, who nov runs a rural delivery route from tn, local postofice.
 Il Only Three Dentists.
 II Norwich had but three dentists a this time, whom we remember. D1
 Torbush, Dr. Clapp, Ht1o for so loni i, a time had his office in the Fay build 1 ing on Franklin Square, and Dr. Gee1
 the site of whose office at this period a could hardly be found today; it hay
 ing been in the second story of f building in the rear of the Reynold . building, now the west end of the Bos $ ton store and was approached b
 walking up narrow lane which "a. between the Reynolds and Cook build
 ing, above mentioned.
 The doctor afterward built and re
 moved his offices to :Ile building O
 Broadway, which bears his name no1
 occupied by the New London Count
 Insurance Co. and the Southern N F
 Telephone Co.
 Mention of the Transportation com
 pany brings to mind the fact tfla
 Norwich had been prosperou
 steanboat-line running to New Yorl
 with at least four boats in commis
 sion. The City of New York and Cit
 of Boston though occasionally seen i Norwich, seldom came up the Thane
 but ttle City of Norwich and the Cit
 of New London piled regularly be tween the two ports carrying bot passengers and freight; the two fir. named steamboats being in their tin among the finest boats on the soun, The burning of the City of New LOT don, with it's tragic consequences. a matter of familiar history today. Later on. the City of Lawrence or of the first, if not the first iron boat run through the Sound, was added the fleet, and on the occasion of ht first sailing up tGle river to Norwie she was greeted royalty by our cit zens. She was a fine boat, and her il I the times, superbly appointed.
 Steamboat Captains.
 The steamboat -train. leaving Bo. I ton at about 6:30 or T p. m. was I through express and carried in add ton to its passenger coaches, sever fat-cars loaded with truck-like saf, 3 O. the Adams Express Compan (which on their arrival in New Iuondo ' were rolled from tine train directly (
 inc hoaf and daHIRarod RIo
 York. Among the steamboat captain
 of this period, were Captain WiIco
 Captain Lanphere, weighing son
 three hundred pounds, Captain Shirls w and later, Captain Wm. Ward, who f 1 Ia long time commanded the City ta Worcester" They were well know es to travellers and to their townsme vv and always except under special cf a Ecumstances, were in command of tl -a same boat continuously, a practA n. which has been largely discontinue 1d we believe, since the acquisition of u s- line by the New Haven Railroad. ts The Police Force.
 ag Norwich then boasted quite polio r. force not large in number, far fro ed 1t, but efficient so far as 1t went. WI v, at that time does not recall the T sil1 doubtabIe Captain Hawkey and lat e. Ton Captain Small If there we E. fewer arrests in those days let Us ho that the offenders against the lav ne majesty Wers flower still. A gre nd lawyer and adpocate who, retlr1l s- from practice. left his New York ( ss: f1ce@ and went to his ancestral hoT nd h Massachusetts, had in his employ, he kbrigIaf vDllg,e atforney sss inIe secrefas ed Ito whom ne paid <. liberal saiarv.- Q; being asked by friend why he ( he this he replied '-to keep me from GOT n- tndtting crime" There are 70 ma Ier criminal stafutas yearly added by
 Legislature seC our laws, that I shor
 be utterly unseoie to keep track
 them myself, 60 I employ my you he friend to carefully examine them a; ,r. so keep mo clear from the clutches he the law.
 hef This is by no means intended as ng reflecsfon upon or own general . Air Gemsoay. hnt it too, while meeting CT