Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-13
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS OF
 NORWICH PEOPLE NOW IN CALIFORNIA

In letter just received by Julius W. Gladden. from Rutherford C. Plaut of the pIsut-Cadden Co. who is now in Los An gelos, MT. Plaut tells in his characteristic breezy sNie of meeting a number oG Norwich people who are now in the Paci- fic coast state. He has seen many Of their homes and met their families, pro viding material that will be of much in teres: to their friends here.
 MT PiaEt's letter is in part as fol- lows:
 You know one of my familiar and fla vorite expressions taken from Robert Services Trail of the Yukon "A prom ise made is a debt unpaid" well l prom ised you in my last letter to write you a letter Of -rhe Norwichites that are bask- ing in the California sunshine. Now you can gamble your last dollar Lou, and you will be perfectly safe with it, that I would like to squeal out of it, as it means burning off a lot of midnight oil and loss of good sleep and I know just what you will say, that I am better off in my room writing than out walking the streets or sitting in a picture show, and say, Lou--talking about streets
 | got into Los Angeles in ample time to go through tho streets tearing up pc ricd You know, there is something pc culiar about this, and it sure is a fact. just as soon as winter comes, Los An geles begins to tear up it's streets from one end to the other. They say all sum mer long when there are not many stran- gers in town-there Is nothing doing but just as soon as sunshine weather comes, there is an army of greasers tMexicans) march forth and procede to dig up every blamed busy street in the burg. It's just the same year in and year out, and the town would not look natural to us tourists, if it were not so. They will finish putting down a nice ma cadamized road one day, and by jingo, during the following night, I'll be hang ed if another gang has not been around and dug it up. But they do the work So slick, all done by ma. hinery, and what a wonderful outfit they do have to work with. It Is so interesting that I have found myself standing and watching the operation for quite some time on several different occasions. This applies to boulevards too. and Lou, they have more varieties of Bully Yards around L. A than that man Heinz has picllles-57 va rieties wouldn't cover them all. Tell me Lou, where on earth could you travel los miles for 100 cents-nowhere but Los Angeles, and it is the most for your | money you ever thought you would get 1 too
 And let me tell you. some of those miles are worth dollars Instead of cents to any one on earth. Some of those miles along the glorious Pacific makes you gel mighty quiet all of a sudden. and before you know 1t, you are thanking God fol being allowed to breathe into your moth l eaten old lungs, such air as only Califor mia is blessed with. This 100-mile ride have been telling you about is a secont | cousin to the balloon trip, another trol 1 ley ride that takes you all over the coun try and brings you home in time for din ner Why they call 1t the Balloon Tril ] gets me for it's all on land, nothing III | in the air about it except the female tha 1 sat next to me in the car and growlet all the way down and back. I tried to los her after the first 10 minutes but sh
 stuck to me like a, porous plaster be l cause she said I looked so much like he first husband-no wonder he died-an' 1 talking abolft trolley cars Lou
 I got on West Pico street car. ant | the conductor looked pretty familiar t tme. and after satisfying myself that
 was correct saiG torhim "Let me off a i Franklin square'-he gave me gooC look and said What do you know abou ! Franklin souare?' I said T wish I wa | there now" and then he gave me tn | once over and said You're Plant, ain 1 you?" said You're right the frs guess" and his retort was I'm goinl back to Norwich in October" He wa | no other than Gus Jahn, brother of Emi
 Tahn, the veteran letter carrier. Well he didn't have much time to talk as h is on very busy run, but I happenet to get on his car again last Sunday an we had quite chat. He said that Eln ma Wenzel, sister-in-law of Bill Balcon
 of the telephone office. was here in To Angeles, but he did not know her ad dress. We'll today I had dinner wit Emma Wenzel Gardner and she look and feels great.
 Since I took the Balloon Trip I foun out why all the tourists that go bac1 east have to pay excess on their baggage | "rloonstones" is the answer. One of tn sights we took in was Moonstone Beacl and I'll bet the only time I really eve
 get what you might all loaded" was O
 n1oonstones. I carted around more tha 15 pounds of them in the hot sun fo
 more than two hours and all the time
 kept wondering what the devil made m
 so tired.
 When you buy your ticket for the Bal
 loon Trip. they hand you out little blu
 silk ribbon to pin on, to advertise tn
 fact that you are a rube to everyone wh
 takes the time to gap at you. After pin
 ned mine on. felt like W. c. T. U. ou
 for an airing on the water wagon. an
 the only thing that reconciled me |
 wear the blamed thing was the fact tha
 the stops we made on the trip to tn
 ocean were dry ones. The conductor tol
 me the only way I could even get a sme
 of here's hoping" was to go in bathin!
 be taken with a cramp, holler Help
 and when they dragged me out if lai
 still enough for them to think I was dea
 they might pour some of the awful stu down my throat to be sure about it
 had a good mind to take a chance at but our time was short and the gu6
 said ke tried it once himself. and all I : got was some Jamaica ginger-and tall Ing about the beaches
 It was at Venice that John servit l spied an old man selling hot frankfu ters on the board walk. John said. know that old man. "Go on" was sa
 to John, "you think you know everyone