Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-10
JEWETT CITY

i One of the big New York daiIies ] last week called attention to the mag nldcent lily display in a pond just i above JeWett City. on the route of the l Bar Harbor express which passes
 through the town If these trains were i being operated on a schedule that
 made Jewett City in daylight. the beauty of this display would appear ! in the railroad folders as one Of the attractions of the trip. It is a fact 1 that at our very door is to be seen ev- cry morning a white field of water lilies over 25 acres in extent, on the surface of TadDolc pond. in many places the blooms are so thick that there is no sign of the water upon which they are borne. The rare beau ty os the lily itself is much enhanced by it's delicate fragrance. There are , today, as the result of a conserva tive estimate, more than two million lilies in this wide expanae. The breath Cf the lily pond is brought even into / heart of the cities where dark-cJ.. | little Italians Deddle clusters of the long stemmed fragrant flowers about the streets. In New York last week 1 they were retailing at five cents each and were brought over from small ponds Long Island and up the state. If the Tadpole product that is in bloom there this morning could be transported to New York and sold at nickel apiece, they would fetch one hundred thousand dollars. Maine is the only other state that makes any pretention to lily ponds of any extent.
 There is a postal clerk now running on the Bar Harbor who has run all over Maine. In daylight recently that train went through the pond (the rail road runs through it) he. said "tl nothing in Maine could hold C.ln. z. to it.' At the restaurant counter New London a woman passenger on the State of Maine was overheard to say to gentleman. T am so glad we are late this morning so you can see the lovely lilies near a little viI- lage called Jew" something. little ways up the line"
 Twenty eight years ago a party came here from one of the Adirondack lake colonies and took away twenty large bags of lily roots from Tadpole a young man who worked for J.sF
 Leonard & Son at that time brouG /
 the roots to the station in his team and they were shipped by express.
 A little farther up the line between Danielson and Dayville. is floral dis play almost as beautiful, but of an other sort and color. There is mea- dow Of several acres in extent. right beside the railroad track, and is a sol i'd mass of purple loosestrife. It is doubtful if such a sight is to be met with anywhere. It is so bright in the sunlight that the deep purple as seen from the car windows dazzles the eye. There is a small patch of this flower just below the old mill in the Aspi- nook pond here at Tadpole. where an eddy makes in from the main stream, doubtless the seeds foated down from the river above that runs through the Dayville meadow.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Marshall and family who are spending the summer at Groton Long Point were among the very few who saw the R-34 as she passed over the Sound. The big b1imp could be plainly seen by them at 7.30 a. m. Most of the summer colony had not arisen and missed this once-in- a. lifetime sight.
 In conformity with all the leading stores in Eastern Conn. Wechsler's will be closed every Thursday after noon during July and August.-adv.
 All names of persons who are will ing to take the Fresh Air Children on August sixth fC> two weeks, are to be given to Mrs. E. H. Hiscox, chairman of the committed before July 23. The streets and localities have been as signed to members of the committee to whom interested persons may give their names. These are: Sylvandale and Lisbon from Lisbon bridge to R. R. crossing and Anthony avenue, Mrs F. B. Cheney: from railroad to Tracy avenue and School, Railroad avenue to Mechanic, Soule street and Tanning court, Mrs. Mcdowell and Mrs. Mar