Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-01
NORWICH GETS WRITEUP
 IN TELEPHONE BULLETIN

Under the title of That Town Up the River" Norwich is given a "writeup'' in the April issue of The Telephone Bulletin which proceeds to tell few things about Norwich and some of it's leading citizens, now dead"
 The writer uses a dozen illustrations of we'll known Norwich buildings and says in part as follows
 In New London they refer to Nor wich as being up the river.' When you hear that identical expression in New York city it means Sing Sing prison Any one who is up the river' to a one who is up the river" to New stone walls. But, while New London CTS refer to Norwich in the same ex- pression that underworld New Workers use in referring to the "hoosegow'' on the Hudson, there is absolutely no other similarity in the two places. The writer has seen both staying but a short time in each, we hasten to assure you. Understand, there was nothing enforced about our stay in either place. While Norwich is fully entitled to be called The Rose of New England, we'll omit testimony on the beauties or lack of them in the village of Ossining, as the other place is known in polite society Norwich is one of our older settle ments.
 ! Old Chief Uncas was the mayor of the tribe settled thereabouts when some of the hardy Massachusetts folks gave UT 1 their codfish business and decided tc trek southward to the Thames river val. ley. They breezed in upon the some 1 what, but not always, peaceful Moheg gans, or Mohicans if you prefer it that way, and having made friends witf Uncle Uncas they proceeded to striI him of everything but the wampum tha 1 girded his copper-hued loans. You see the market for wampum was very linn tied at that time. It was hardly saleabl, | and it couldn't be eaten so the generous settlers allowed Unc to keep it. Nov if the wampum could have been sold a a good profit Unc's Joins might hav been chilled when the wintry winds roll ed along.
 These kindly white men pigeon-toe, their way to the banks of the Thame along in 1859 and they gave the plac it's present name. taking it from Nor wich, England. Norwich IS. really white settlement about year later an, it has been a growing community eve | since
 
 mess. It is connected with New Londo and other places by steam and trolle lines and is connected also. with NYatc
 Hill and Block Island by steamboat line in the summer months It contains
 large number of busy factories and il inhabitants receive telephone servc second to none in the state. J. N. Wey mouth, one of the leading citizens of tl1 town, admitted that fact when we aske him about it.
 There are factories in which pisto and firearms are made; cutlery, sil
 velvet, paper, and lots of other usef1 things come out of Norwich, too. Bl if you ask New Londoner the prime pal industry of the town "up the river he will say, "Dyeing," only he doesn spell it for you. Dyefng is really one the businesses carried on there, course. but the New Londoner will lea you with the impression that dying" one of the chief occupations of u brethren up the river An awful lot folks have died there, but they ha' never succeeded in making real bu
 mess of 1t.
 ' Certainly lot of the folks who help, 10 make Norwich famous are dead. o For instance, there is Ben Arnold, u z best little traitor American ever d veloped. He was born in Norwich, 2 T though the town can hardly be blam . for that. Neither the town nor B could help it.
 You know that he torched New Lo
 don nearby his home town and Grot . folks are well informed of the visit y paid their ancestors one September mo Q in 17S1. Ben it was who led the Britt F. upon Fort Griswold. The forts garris o surrendered. as you probably recall,