New Britain herald., 1914-07-17
BRISTOLS BEAUTIFUL HARBOR,

We trust that the New Britain canal diggers. by proxy, have taken note of what has been going on during the period their attention has been taken up and diverted by their Mayor Quig- ley to sewer systems and municipal ice. While New Britain was other wise engaged Bristol has arrived and has a beautiful harbor on which the famous cup defender Resolute sails with all the grace and speed charac- teristic of the Herreschof creations. Possibly New Britain, being so en- crossed in pressing municipal affairs and so deeply concerned In getting it's league ball team out of the cellar, may not as yet have awakened to the fact that Bristol has been sailing circles around her and has her end of the splendid harbor while the Hardware city merely possesses as yet not even a blue print of the much-talked-of canal For proof of this we refer the Herald and other parties to the authoritative pictures that a New York concern has scat tered about the world showing the yacht Resolute swiftly sailing down the harbor of Bristol, Conn. the same being described in big fat type. That shows how New Workers regard Bristol. They accord her the place of honor and lovely harbor and do not even mention New Britain, which Is laudable and correct. They under stand relative values. We are sorry New Britain is not actively engaged in digging the ditch she aspires to be- cause if it were completed in time the Resolute after the cup races might come back to Bristol towing the Shamrock through that canal.-Bris- tol Press.
 The pictures have not yet arrived, but in. these days of uncertain mail deliveries they may come yet possibly before the day is over, and in the r7eantime we accept as true the state ment of our esteemed contemporary. It Is a pleasure to note that the fame of the new city is spreading. and that 1t no longer rests upon the marvellous feat performed by the dry gentlemen last autumn or on the attempt of "Jimmie' Cray to remove the bed clothes from the well rounded form of Noble E. Pierce, ct al., as they say In municipalities. It must have been great day when the Resolute glided gracefully along the Pequabuck with full sail set, causing the people to think that the canal committee was coming to look over things. So long, however, as the present parched con- ddtion of Bristol continues there Is no likelihood of Washington or Connec- ticut statesmen making visit for in the event of any of the gentlemen being seized by sudden illness or any other spasmodic contraction of the muscles that would not give exterior evidence of snake bite he would find himself in as unhappy state as did Colonel Roosevelt when he ran short of rations in Brazil. Of course New Britain with its multitude of various dispensaTies could be appealed to and we hope not in vain for the latchkey is always on the outside here, except on Sunday.
 That reference to the location of the ball team in the standing cuts us deeply. but then the season is not yet over and while the club may have emerged from the cellar by that time there is no telling where it may go.
 Bristol is making strong bid to be made head of the canal and for the time being 1t has obtained a strategic position, but while the Resolute has are patiently waiting for the report that it has come back If we are cor rectly informed it has, like some other things in Bristol, been bottled up.
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