New Britain herald., 1924-08-01

lo HsHiioFa dsaleFa Ills daily report shaAs shoul s,eaa la,sl hotties saihr rIfA snd returned ts theiF EigAifal onRerA all Of which the dealers ciaim would hs iosi without lhs ca, lehangs,
 ia a further effort ta protect them seNes the dealers have taken ta the uss Of registered hotties, This has i helped t0 a large extent te da away aiih tha practice hy nRscHnpaleus small dealers of usRg plain bottles IneianEing i9 others, One man now sill not accept another maR's bottle, . Mr, Howard maintains an auto truck and has 8 storage warehouse al IA Dwight street where crate after crate Of saNaged bottles Is dumped and sorted every day, h his first month to New iisiiain he picked up an,0h0 bottles, worth about ts,70a, which would have been lost other, wise, according tN dealers,
 They NeseF Come iiank,
  loses over ia,aa0 a year on bottles which never come back,
 "lf l sell 0ne auart day to ane family and two bottles q week lail Co come back, ] have lost the entire weeks profit on that daily quart" said another dealer siill another dealer stated that recently he went around ta some small stores and in one week in five stores he found s50 af his bottles which had been thrown aside,
 What do they do with the bot tles?" Mir. Howard was asked.
 nlt's hard 10 enumerate the many uses 10 which they are put. Men who carry their lunches sometimes use them for coffee bottles. Auto tourists use them for water bottles. | People throw them onto their ash | piles and they Ind their way to the dump, Some people use them for kerosene bottles. Many people per- init them to accumulate in their | cellars and when they move they | leave them there. The new tenant | moves in and, not knowing for what | purpose the bottles were used last, | immediately throws them out. Peo- pie even use them for flower vases | on graves in cemeteries. Many wom- en use them for preserves and je- | lies"
 ''lf people returned all their bot ties would milk be cheaper?" was asked one dealer. Certainly, the | price of bottles is what keeps the price of milk up," was the emphatic ! reply.
 Another trouble which the milk dealer who uses plain bottles is up against is the custom on the part of | some people of selling his empty bot ties to junk dealers. Registered bot ties cannot be sold. In fact Mir. How ard says it is violation of the law even to put coffee into a registered bottle and the person so doing is lia- ble to prosecution.
 Tramp Bottles Travel Tar.
 A Herald representative was shown the delivery slip received by one deal CT yesterday showing that the ex- change had brought to his plant 30s bottles within three days, which would have been lost otherwise.
 Now that the automobile has come into such wide use," said MT. Howard, "our problems have multi piled. Tourists use them in packing lunches and then throw them away wherever they are. We exchange bottles with other exchanges every day because of this. We ship fre- quently to Tait Brothers in Spring. field, We cooperate with the Somer- vile. Mass. exchange which handles bottles for Boston and we. handle them in New Britain for Kensington, Berlin, Plainville, Southington, Hart ord. East Hartford, South Manches- CT, Bloomfield, Tariffville, Windsor, south Windsor, Glastonbury and oth- IT places. Every once in a while the pig Borden concern in New York 'ends a man up to check up with us md we send him supply of Borden bottles. Sometimes travellers leave bottles in hotel rooms and after certain amount accnmulates they lotify us and we take away few at time"
 And thus is Mir. Ultimate Milk Consumer shown up as the black heep of the Ultimate Consumer fam ly and responsible for his own roubles.