Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-27

under the auspices of the Chambers, of Commerce, withithe big lake. with the staggering Indian namet at Webster, Mass, as the objective, In theA out skirts of Webster-Dudfey the recep-a tion committee from the Webster Dudley Chamber of Commerce met the arriving caravan from Connecticut and escorted it through the main street of Webster to the lake. which was reach; ed at l1.30. i&
 Everybody who went had good time and the 75gmen and women who listened. to the speaking program at the pavilion at the lake heard a a9cen-i structive program for the Mohegan Trail suggested by Joseph T. Crutten-l den, who proposed that the Trail be given distinctive beauty and .clarac- ter by planting memorial trees along it till it became a veritable avenue whose fame would reach, to the Pacific coast.
 The Norwich automobiles that start- ed on the Trail from here,at 9.05 a.. m. were the cars of Clinten AE. Lane, the general marshal. William; F. Hill will L. Stearns, Charles. A. Chamberlain, Raymond Girard. Elkin Smith, James S. Sweet Arthur Lambert, Philias Dion E. Cote, John O.. Johnson and The Norwich Bulletin. Mr.rsCotet had | his car attractively decorated. In the | line with the Norwich cars were the cars of HartweH Baxter and Reuben Prottas, each with al party.
 | The Norwich men, wore redzs white and blue caps and the New London cars carried cards which read l"Over l Mohegan Trail. New London Chamber | of Commerce. 1 The local marshal, W. Russell Baird, | had the Norwich cars lined up in Washington street. just north of | Washington square. for thes start. and gave the word Go" at 9.05. Then en- sued road race for rthe lake. with. de- terrnined drivers at each wheel bent l on making it in good time. Past 1 flags at various points all along the i line through Greenevilhe, Taftville Jewett City. and points beyond the machines Whirled on their way, with several tagging members slowly. slip | ping to the rear. Charles W. Pearson general chairman of the! day, rode with MT. Lane, and at the northern end o1 Putnam the rear guard caught up witf the advance division as the leaders
 took a detour over a poor road that slowed them down considerably.
 The whole procession reached tht
 state line together and looked around for the welcoming committee of the
 Webster Dudley Chamber of Com nerce, but it was missing, as the Webster marshal had mistaken the road by which they were to arrive | However, a score of children from the
 neighboring houses made up for lacl
 with a cordial waving of flags. ane after short wait the parade proceed
 ed on for a ways into the outskirts O l-Webster- Dudley, where the marsha found them. The welcome committed consisted of H. E. Smith, 2d, presiden
 of the Chamber of Commerce, who hat
 a bugler in his car. C. P. Doane, a di
 rector, who is superintendent of th' Slater cotton mill. Harry L. Nado
 secretary of the Chamber of Com
 merce, A. F. Peterson. Clarence E
 Hewitt and H. F. Sherwood of tht
 American City bureau.
 | Welcome cards for the day were dis
 played along all the telegraph poles ol
 the route through Webster which o1
 the return trip bore the cordial invi
 tation to Come Again
 Upon arrival at the lake refreshing
 orangeade was. served to the thirst!
 and dusty Trailers and the cars were
 parked while their occupants walked
 around to admire the beauty of tn,
 spot and then opened their lunch bas
 kets.
 Program in Pavilion.
 , When it came time, after the baske lunches had been disposed of, to carr
 out the program in the lake pavilion Judge Joseph A. Love of the Webster
 Dudley Chamber of Commerce commit
 tee presided as toastmaster, first ex | pressing a cordial welcome to tn guests of the day and remarking tha it was evident they made up in enthu siasm and spirit and enterprise wha
 they seemed to lack in numbers i , | taking the Trail. He interpreted tn , multi-sylla abic name of the lake
 mean boundary fishing place" in tn , Indian tongue, and said it seemed bu
 natural that the present day success
 ors of the Nipmucks. Mohegans, Pc
 quots and Narragansetts should unit
 here in a spirit of anity as the Indian
 Of other days had been in the habit C 2 doing, though they trod the Trail Ia l boriously in moccesined feet while tn s present company came in fire wag = ons."
 t He referred to the common interes S which the people of the whole valle = from Webster to the sea had in putin e the Mohegan Trail on the map. H e enlarged upon the beauties of the Ne r England landscape and the historic; l setting of the Trail and closed wit = some warm words of commendatio ; for an eloquent address made e Webster the night before by Rev. ' . A. Keefe of Plainf1eld, upon whor
 Judge Love said. no Webster audlenC : Memorial Trees Along Trail. = Joseph T. Cruttenden of New Lo1 S don, a former president of the Easter e Connecticut Chamber of Commere o and the Father of the Mohegan Trail "a was called on and responded. with
 short talk full of, suggestions to e1 e nance the importance of the Trail. ,s He pointed out that this sease "a would see more western tourists the N ever before visiting New England al o he enlarged upon the Mohegan Trs " as something that would be mo ,- inexpensive means of giving publici y to this section. attracting tray through it. with the resultant cor |. mercial advantages to all places alol 'l the Trail. He spoke of the eommuni l. interest in the Trail which would
 a powerful lever with the state hig way commissioner to obtain innprov
 ments for the route and said that ly time we ought to have such a concre at road as is now laid at it's southe = eHu eAleHulnS the lull ulSldlee ol U
 Trail and on to Worcester. Ke
 pounding away on these two words = Mohegan Trail-he said., for you G
 find no cheaper publicity for this SC
 ton.
 Then he took up a suggestion tn
 the attractiveness of the Trail cou
 be increased to the tourist by CT
 bellishment. This is something tn
 the ladies can give much help in. The
 are 55 miles of the Trail. Why T
 have memorial trees to our soldie
 planted all along the way, each wi
 a suitable name plate on it? Plant M first two trees to each mile. whi 'sa would mean 11n trees and later