New Britain herald., 1921-09-09
DOLLAR DAY OFFERS
 READILY ACCEPTED
Local Merchants Interviewed on
 Success of Affair

New Britain people turned out In throngt yesterday to takn advantag of the big dollar day bargains by To- cal merchants. From carly In tho morning. long before the stores open cd for business. until the last clos Ing minute last night. local stores were besieEed with crowds of people look ing for tho advertised bargains.
 Buying opportunities such as pco- pie in this section have not seen since before tho war were found on all sides. Advertisements in The Herald and merchandise displays with price cards attached in store windows. com bined to draw hundreds and probably thousands of people from their homes during tho course of the day. Even the clements seemed to join in cele- Drafting tho occasion in proper spirit and the beautiful weather inducing purchasers from their homes. who otherwise might not have been out.
 Stores which sold merchandise far balow its present market price, sold not only the articles they wero offer Ing as dollar day bargains but sold considerable other goods at close to market prices. These stores, or at least few Of them arc said to have found it necessary to engage extra help to handle the crowds.
 Trolley ears and jitneys took on a Christnas look as people travelled homeward with their arms full of bun dies. Windows. which were we'll filled with dollar day displays in the morn ing. showed signs of heavy buying long before noon and late in the nf- ternoon many windows were nearly stripped and it was necessary to re- place tho articles sold with something else.
 It was generally conceded that the day was more successful than was expected.
 Tt was as large as any dollar day we have ever had and much better than we expected. considering the times. It was very satisfactory" | was the statement issued at the Fair | store this morning.
 At McMillan's, the reply to a query | as to how they liked the result was. Fine. much better than we expect cd. We did a very good days busi- ness"
 Although number of people Cropped into the filling Rubber Company's store for rubber goods. the days business was characterized as Fair. but not very rushing"
 Larger than we thought it was going to be-" was the reply at the Renier. Pickardt and Dunn establish mnet. ''It was fine. proba bly not as big as some we have had during better times but satisfactory to us. We are very much pleased"
 Fine, as much as we expected" New Britain Clothing Company.
 Great said Mir. Leland. of the Besse-Leland Company. "Dollary day in Hartford at the same time made no difference to us at all."
 At the Globe Clothing House busi- noss was said to be pretty fair and at tho D. Miller Company store 1t was characterized as good.
 Not a failure. but we have done better" was the verdict at tho Leona rd- Hermann store.
 Pretty good" said the voice on the phone at the Modern Boot shop.
 Very good-!ine-away above our expectations. was the enthusiastic response at the @iIhley-Babcock store.
 Good. we were damned all day. rt was tho third biggest day since we opened for business. We had a good crowd all day long and busi- uesa went DIE. was the encOufdg- ing report from tho Bootcry Shop.
 Fairly good. but nothing like other years" was the report from the Goldenblum Millinery Co.
 Pretty good, but not as much busi- | ness as VIC expected" replied the Will | son Clothing Go.
 "All right. very good, very success | full" the Outlet Millinery Go.
 "Fine." The Mar1owe General store. |
 Not very big" the Farrell Clothing | Go.
 Although wo did not make any | great preparations for the day. and | had no especial window displays for it. | we did forty per cent. more business | than we expected said Mir. Raphael. | Had we taken a week 10 prepare for | H, I think we would have done a lot | more business" he added.