New Britain herald., 1917-10-20

never been replaced, although many. many months have passed since 1t was broken and many many com
 ments regarding the same have also been passed.
 Action of the council Wednesday evening in passing an ordinance pro- hibiting the erection of large bill board signs on the tops of buildings
 was taken just in the nick of time for, 1t Is said, already a large sign
 board firm was negotiating for space on the top of. at least fifteen Ideal buildings. While the illuminated electric sign may be somewhat of an asset by helping to make the city
 brighter at night, :kcre is no doubt that scores of billboards on tops of
 buildings do much to mar the skyline. LOOK at Hartford, for instance, where
 tnere are upwards of fifty such signs. certainly they are not thing of
 beauty.
 From the Herald of a quarter of century ago this week:
 October IA: The Young Mems Tenn perance society celebrated it's eleventh anniversary last evening. The races
 e-Ao attracted a large number of gam ble-s and others and one man reports hav- ing $126 stolen from his pockets. A south end merchant visited New York recently, the second time in 40 years; needless to say he noted many changes. Yesterday Judge Carpenter of the supreme court apointed Marcus H. Holcomb of southington one of the committee on condemning land Tor the west canal.
 October 15: The Herald's new
 Building and press room is open for public inspection. Berlin is growing; man bought lot near the depot for
 $3O0 year ago and has since sold little over half of the land for $1,- 4oO. Potatoes which were plentiful and cheap early in the season, are in creaslng in price: only a few weeks ago the price was fifty cents a bushel and now 1t Is eighty-f1ve.
 october 16 Sunday-no paper October IT: Ground has been broken for the new German Lutheran church on South Main street The New Britain Institute is now ready to occupy it's new rooms in the Russ
 win building. George H. Grimes complained loudly today because let ters were not collected from some mall boxes in the fourth ward yester- day. The present depth of water at Shuttle Meadow in the middle is but three feet.
 October 1S: The different courts of Foresters in the city have refused to assist Court Pride in obtaining a
 charter and the members intend to apply to England for one.
 October 19: /The police .commis
 sioners met last night and decided to discontinue the duty of special police men for the rest of the year. October 20: The boys of the First Baptist church organized society last night with Herbert Johnson pres ident and Harold Damon vice pres ident. Henry Kellogg of Newington claims the city of New Britain will ! fully continues to pollute Piper brook and demands damages of upwards ot $1,1OO. Thomas Grace had the thumb of his right hand badly cut while al
 work at Humason & Beckley's yester day. Street Commissioner Byrfe say. that $1O,000 a year would not hire him to be street commissioner fol another year; he says it is a thank less job.
 @Aiiu l'o" we nave introduced to us the dehydrated egg guaranteed by local merchant to be the equal Of the variety fresh from the farm. Briefly, it is a powdered preparation. put up in cartons containing the equivalent of three eggs and costing a dime. The producer claims to evaporate eggs and reduce them to the powdered form exhibited While these may prove all right for cooking purposes. it is hard to conceive of how a dehydrated egg can be fried boiled or scrambled
 The lure of the guarantee has be- come so dear to the fair feminine bargain hunter that it is almost the second question asked of the de- partment store clerk, the first, of course. always being the price. On Wednesday a fastidious young thing futtered into a Main street estab- lishment and halted before a counter whereupon was heaped a large as- sortment of what the advertisement said were robes de nuit, but which some of the more facetious are in- clined to call "nighties.'
 "Oh, how pretty" gushed the f. y. t. Do you guarantee these?"
 Absolutely" responded the clerk glibly, you can't wear them out.'
 The lack of noticeable and definite guide signs on the principal corners of the city to direct out of town traffic is being freely commented upon by visitors. Where in other cities the principal roads are plainly desig- mated and at confusing corners signs n Ia or,lx fn points New Britain has hardly any.
 It costs more to make an American soldier in some parts of the country than others and those from New Britain have the distinction of being sent to the most expensive camp in United States. Figures recently given