Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-26
". IRVING BULLARD BADLY
 INJURED AT RIO JANEIRO
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 Danielson, Oct 25.-Rio De Janeiro press despatches published Wednesday told of the serious injury in that city of W. Irving Bullard, director of q number of corporations in Danielson and vicinity, where he formerly was a resident, and vice president of the Merchants National bank of Boston. An Associated Press dispatch under a Rio Janeiro date 1ne says:
 1 Washington Irving Buliard, vice pres | ident of the Merchants National bank l of Boston, and Frank NJ. Garcia, repre- 1 sentative of several export companies, were gravely injured Sunday when a cable of an inclined railway leading to i the home on a hilltop of Col. Chauncey w. Crawford broke.
 l Colonel Crawford, who is the repre- sentative of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and his young son, were less se- riously hurt.
 Car Takes 2oo-Foot Drop. l When the cable snapped the car was precipitated 200 feet down the incline to the street Carrying the wives of rfle members of the party, it had safely as- cended the precipitous hill to the front of the home of Col. Crawford, and had returned and was re-ascending with the party of men. It had just reached the top when the cable parted.
 Richard P. Momsen, member of the
 United States commission to the exposi-
 ton, jumped from the car and escaped
 injury. Col. Crawford threw his son
 out of the car and himself leaped out
 His injuries were sustained in rolling
 down the precipice. MT. Bullard and
 MT. Garcia were unable to jump and
 were in the car when it crashed at the
 bottom of the hill
 Both MT Bullard and MT. Garcia sus- tained broken legs and possible interna
 injuries. MT. Bullard is the officia
 representative of Massachusetts to tho Brazilian centennial exposition.
 ". Irving Bullard probably one oi
 the most widely known of the younger bankers and manufacturers of Massa chusetts, went to Rio de Janeiro earl! , this month as the official representative of the National Association of CottoT , Manufacturers. the National Council .
 American Cotton Manufacturers and tn
 American Bankers Association as wei as the official representative of tn l commonwealth, to the Brazilian inde pendence centennial festivities
 In 1904 he became vice president ant Q general manager of the F. H Jacob A Manufacturing Company of Danielson e Conn. Eight years later he was mad | assistant treasurer of the Goodyea cotton mills, handling the finances . the organization. Tn 1915 he organize , the textile department, which later be came the Industrial service department
 of the Merchants National Bank :i $ Boston, and five years later was elect t ed a vice president Of the bank $ He is a trustee of the Andover Theo l. logical Seminary, a director of the Bos trT, rs- N1r,,1 | Chase Export Company, the Danielso
 Building and Loan Association and tn d Daniefson Trust Company, trustee c It the Day-Kimball hospital ofS Putnam 1t Conn. vice president and director an U general manager of the E. H. Jacob n Manufacturing Company, director of tn si Federal Mutual Liability Insuranc j. Company, the Massachusetts Safet
 Council, the Transcript of Danielsol d Conn.,, and the Waltham National banl l. treasurer and director of the Nations r. Association of Cotton Manufacturer = assistant secretary. and director of tn a Quinebaug company, treasurer and d d rector of the Reconstruction hospita IS assistant secretary and director of th a Wauregan company, joint treasurer Id the world cotton conference, trustee ;e the Little Wanderers Home. and Id member of the board of managers { 10 the Y NJ c. A.
 e. MT. Bullard and Mrs. Bullard an m their son and daughter, Edward an 70 Barbara Bullard, sailed for Sout
 America early this month on the S. ar American Legion, expecting to be al in sent from this country about six week le cablegram relayed by telegraph ar ut received Wednesday noon at the offic, SC of the E. H. Jacobs Manufacturir at company here brought news that NJ y 'Bullard's recovery is assured. IT of message read; Left leg and should " broken in two places; badly bruised
 recovery assured.