New Britain herald., 1916-07-22

to make himself appear SuCn nypO-
 crite that he would thus publicly de- clare his preference for Judge Gatf- ney and then a couple of months later lend his aid to movement to Oust him.
 There recently appeared the fol- ] lowing editorial comment in a state paper regarding New Britain's neigh boring city of Meriden: "Meridcn feels that it has landed a new in 1 dustry, now located in New York, to fill a vacant factory. The task in i volved raising $3,OO0 and Meriden | raised the amount in six and one 1 half hours" Which, upon due re- 1 flectiOn should make the New Brit l ain Chamber of Commerce swell up 1 with pride. All the Chamber of Com merce has done is to let little Meri- 1 den beat New Britain out. New Brit
 ain has only two large, modern fac 1 tories lying idle, so why worry? Let
 Meriden have the new factory. New Britain has two vacant fac- l tory buildings, modern in every re- 1 speCt, yet there is no reason to be- 1 lieve that any attempt is being made 1 by the Chamber of Commerce to have 1 one occupied: and although 1t has 1 1 taken over, there is no reason to be- 1 Iieve that 1t will. The buildings in 1 question are the one erected for the ] Hartford Auto Parts company and the 1 old COrbin Brothers factory, recently l the Trade Shop and now abandoned. l Both of these buildings are located right on the railroad track and in 1 district where additions could be
 made easily and where there is ! enough vacant land for the erection of new homes for employees should l the occasion demand.
 New Britain has long since lost all 1 hope of having the Hartford Auto Parts company come here and al | though that concern is said to be paying rent, and a Milldale concern ! is reported as intending to move here l 1t is results the city needs If the l New Britain Chamber of Commerce
 is to do for the city what a real 1 Chamber of Commerce ought to do it | should get busy at once and at least 1 try hard to get both of these fac l tories occupied.
 Maybe it is because local manufac- 1 turers are a little too timid that l New Britain has not profited moro ] by the European war trade but the Tfact remains that aside from sub l contracts, New Britain's industries as
 a whole have not been featured by ! war orders as have such cities as 1 Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven. l It is said that New Britain could 1 have had the lucrative war business l that is going to some of the Water- 1 bury concerns had the manufacturers | been more aggressive. It is said that 1 when foreign representatives first 1 came to this country at the outbreak 1 of the war to arrange for the manu- l faCtUrc of munitions a delegation of local captains of industry met them in New York and discussed pOssibli- ties. It is furthermore said that the European men looked with favor on New Britain and offered to finance
 the building of factories, as they have done in New Haven, Bridgeport and Waterbury, but that the majority of
 the New Britain men refused to sane
 tion the project, alleging that they
 were afraid of labor trouble. As
 result Waterbury has reaped the profits and New Britain's position in
 the manufacturing world is hardly
 any in advance of what is was two
 years ago.
 Some means should be taken by the
 board of public works to .prOhiblt
 heavy dray teams from backing into
 and driving over the concrete curb
 ing on Bigclow street between Chest
 nut and Church streets. This stretch
 of concrete paving and curbing was
 put in by the City at a big expense
 and while it is very durable it will
 not stand everything. There is hard
 ly a day passes but what some heavy
 wagon drives over the CurbiNg or
 backs into it. Some day the turb
 will begin to break down and the city
 will be the loser \ little more eau
 tion on the part Of tcamsters wonId
 help a lot.
 Several new and important traffic
 systems have been installed under tho
 direction of the board of public ,a fe-
 ty of late and all arc good ones. Tn
 addition to the creation of new traffic
 posts a "silent Oficer' is being tried
 out at the junctOn of Main and West
 Main streets, Just north of Church
 street. This is a wide, sweeping curve
 and a dangerous one for traffic nnd
 pedestrians alike. The sign post,
 made prominent by a red flag at day
 dlu e1 lGu IallCSl Il ct llSnI, warns all traffic to go to the right. With a lit tie watching and several possible ad- justments of the final location of the post, this will be a good thing. More of them should be procured. Then too, as a protection to all, no west bound trolley cars stop between the TYceum entrance and Washington street and in bound cars do not stop from WaShn gtOn street until +hcv round the corner into Main street. A similar rule is true on Church street
 Aisles of safety are beginning to work