New Britain herald., 1915-04-13
CONTINUE TO ATTRACT CROWDS
Trade in New Britain Week AraussS
 Much Interest in City.

! MIhere was q time in the history or sOriety when every man made his
 own hardware and fashioned all the
 implements necessary to his existence. New Britain would have been impos- sfble under such conditions and q
 Made in New Britain" exhibit would
 have been ridiculous.
 This city is product of the age of specialization. Manufactures here are specializing with the idea of mak- ing some one thing better than any body else. Success has crowned the
 efforts, as tho exhibits in the stores
 this week and the growing factories will testify.
 ,sThe factories have made New Brit ain peculiarly an industrial center. f Agricultures and commerce have few \ interests here The production of
 creation of finished products. products
 several degrees removed from the soil
 Many persons in the city have never known what things are manu- I fas4ured here and they are now so interested in finding out that crowds blocked traffic in front of several of
 the exhibits in the store windows last
 
 to be placed on duty to handle the
 crowds going out and in.
 |. The interest aroused last night, the first evening of the exhibit, has in it. self assured success for Made in New ETtain'' week The display of flags for the G. A. R. encampment has added a holiday touch to the city's appearance which will help make an impression on visitors here this week There is more demand than ever now for permanent manufacturers exhibit in the city. More care will
 be taken in. preparing such exhibits K and they will be placed together so
 that they may be studied to better | advantage.
 Secretary A. H. Andrews of the Chamber of Commerce admits that Q I few mistakes were made in prepar- ALing for this exhibit but promises that il will be repeated some time in the $ future. Then the exhibits will be on a pfgger and more complete scale and it is likely that more space will be devoted to the exhibits by the stores. & The Corbin Cabinet LOCK company
 las the big display window in Crowells drug store. The National
 Spring Bed company has displays in EYs A<. hs I Andrews & CO and I. Porter's stores. Raser Crona's window contains a dis play of Beaton and Cadwelrs plates, euages, and brassware. Landers, ! trary & Clark has no official exhibit, & but their vacuum bottles and a few I household utensils are snown in Dick iuson's window. The Hunter Brush A company has a display in Dickinson s I south window.
 JySerwear at $30 a suit sweaters at/$1S each, and socks that call for ! several crisp dollar bills are among # the articles exhibited by rhe Ameri-
 can Hosiery company In Besse-
 | 1eland's store. Parker shirts are also
 on display here.
 Butts and hinges from the Stanley
 works constitute the. exhibit in D.
 McMilfan's window. The New Britain
 RdsDrd has an exhibit at George
 ftapelye's store
 The varied line of articles manu-
 :actured by Traut & Hine is displayed
 n J. M. Hahorans window and has l attracted crowds at all times. Safety .azors, salad mixers, thumb tacks and
 suspender buckles are the things
 which attract most attention.
 A daily exhibit of the products of ! he domestic science department of
 he vocational school is one of the $ FcatSTes of the school exhibit in the
 ofiee of the United Electric Light and
 Water company. Today there were
 cakes, cookies, croquettes, baked beans
 and Saratoga chips.
 A chuck used on battleships is one
 of tho pieces exhibited by the Skin
 aer Chuck cont pany in Clark X Brain
 nrd'S store. A whole staircase is one
 if the features of the exhibit of the AMY Britain Flaming and Moulding
 Worl1s in Wilson $, company's store In the City Hall.
 Few art stores anywhere can pre-
 tent more attractive group of paint