Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-16
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 l As our readers we'll know, the JOURNAL AND COURIER is not in the habit of blow ing its own horn, but some of our esteemed contemporaries are doing so much in that line that we feel moved to try to keep up with the procession. This is an age of progress, and as they are seeking to spread the idea that the best clans go with the | loudest horn we must make little toot l ourselves. We do not expect that at first | onr footing will be much more than fee | ble imitation of theirs, but so far as 1t goes | it will be an accurate imitation.
 1 In the first place, we politely assume that the people of New Haven, among whom we have lived for so many years, don't know anything about newspapers, I and that they will have to learn all they ever can hope to know from the clear and confident notes of our self-blown horn. For instance, they don't know that we have what our contemporaries call ''the best location" in the city. We are on State | street, in the heart of business. There are 1 more groceries, beer, rum, fruit and hard. ware sold on State street than on 1 any other street in New Haven. There Is more "cussing" by truck drivers and others than can be heard on any other street. There are more baby carriages on the sidewalk than can be found I on the sidewalk of any other street. The street is torn up oftener than any other. It is the only street of any importance that has the sweetly perfumed sea breeze from the mud fl .ts blowing directly through 1t. We know that in mentioning these advantages we are giving some of the l benefit of our toot to one of our esteemed contemporaries, but we will do our best | to nullify that by mentioning that that contemporary is Monticello Club Demo- cratic and is on the wrong side of the l street.
 So much for our location, which all can see Is unsurpassed, in fact unapproac he'd. | Now word as to what our horn blowing | contemporaries call facilities" Our fla | cilities are all right. We have press and a folder and an engine to run them. The office Is lighted by daylight during the day and by gas and electricity during the night. In the morning, large numbers of more or leas unreliable boys assist us in | supplying our patrons. We have large force of typesetters who can feet" copy in as many different ways as tn 'se of any | ,&h sn& &ha 1or1 of the typesetting machines. We have type enough 80 that we do not have to mix in Italics with Roman, or use plate matter at the enormous expense of fifteen cents 6 mile.
 Having thus shown that our "location' and our facilities" are all right we now
 most earnestly call attention to what ou1 esteemed contemporaries call timprovs
 ments." If there is anything we do really
 pride ourselves on 1t is our improvements.
 They are worth the careful attention of all
 who want to know about them, and w
 hope the desire to know about them is as
 fervent as some of our esteemed con
 temporaries think 1t is. We can lead tbs
 procession in improvements. For in
 stance, a month ago we had fiv'
 office cats. Every one is now dead
 and the improvement Is manifest
 We have also a new office boy and he i
 gifted with many improved ways of doint
 things wrong. We have bought ne7
 broom for him and feel warranted in an
 nouncing an improved version of an olt
 saying, to wit New brooms do not sweel
 clean unless the sweeper who uses then
 makes them. Wehave lately made anothe
 conspicuous improvement. We hay
 placed some new pens and some new blot
 ting paper within easy reach of advertiser
 who come into the office to write thei advertisements. We don't believe this ha
 been done by any of our esteemed contem
 poraries and we may be indiecreet In giy l ing them such tip, but they have so freel revealed so many of the secrets of their as founding success that perhaps 1t Is onl
 fair that we should reciprocate in par We can't stop to blow about an
 more of the improvements we have recen
 y made, for they have brought in 90 muc
 business that we haven't time to blow 6 |, much as we would like to. We csnnc forbear, however, mentioning that the in provements already made are nothing what are coming. Forward Is our motto \ and in the spring we intend to have or 4 windows washed and our back yard prettil decorated with large shells and whit H washed stones.
 s Our readers will perhaps notice that V haven't said much in this somewhat pr a longed toot concerning the stuff that V A print every day in the paper. We are tr ing to blow our own horn in the way son k of our esteemed contemporaries blow their is and we assume that our readers are great interested In knowing what we have : freely and boastfully told them. VI assume that they don't take a pap
 because they like what they find in 1t, b
 because they like it's location" its "fac
 ities" and its Improvements" If we a
 mistaken, and if any of our readers dor
 lie awake nights thinking about our "loc
 tion," our facilities" and 'improv
 ments" and do pay attention to what ,
 print we should be pleased to have the
 notify us, and we will promptly send # them a gentlemanly agent who will in O a name beg their-pardon for our fault S assuming that they would like to he z3 such toot from our self-blown horn
 some of our contemporaries are daily g T ing>from their self blown horns.
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