New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
THE OBSER YER Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People

l Lower rentals for shore cottages
 are expected to be inaugurated nex 1 season as a consequence of the lack
 of interest shown in them this past 1 summer. Reports from the beaches indicate that cottage owners lost heavily and that the ''To Rent" sign tackled on the outside remained there from the dawn of spring to
 the coming of fall.
 Many people are Of the opinion that rentals for places along the
 Connecticut shore are too high.
 They are beyond the reach of the
 average man, who cannot see any
 advantage to be derived from hiring
 a vacation cottage for his family
 at $50 a week. This is especially true
 when owners will not rent the places
 for less than a month. A rest at the
 shore is delightful but $50 will buy
 a lot of recreation at other places.
 The cold season was a factor in
 keeping cottages vacant and the automobile was another. But high
 rentals was the chief deterrent and
 in numerous instances, owners who
 wanted $50 a week at the begin
 ming of the season were gleeful at
 renting their cottages for half of
 that when summer began to take
 wings.
 City employees and workmen sent
 out by the telephone company suc-
 ceeded this week in solving the mys-
 tery of the missing man-hole, but
 only after 8 hectic day.
 When the West Main street paw
 ing job was completed at a point opposite Walnut Hill park, members of the public works board rode over it's smooth surface and congratulat- ed the workmen. The new highway was in use only a few hours when telephone service Interruption brought worllmen to West Main street. Failing to locate the trouble in the house "set'', they started promptly for the subway. They were sure a man-hole had always been near the park entrance, but to their there was no longer any trace of it.
 City employees were called but they professed to be at loss to know what had become of the man. hole since, they said, care was taken to cover no subway entrances or catch basins. Determining upon a point in the roadway dictated by the telephone mems best recollec- tions, picks were sent into the and concrete, and sure enough the man-hole was found un- der its solid roof of road materials.
 The public works department is Of the belief that a load of amiesite was thrown on top of the man-hole 1 and was spread before workmen learned what was underneath.
 Fall, Is the most active season of ! the year and the most attractive and l of all of them. Summer, ! brings the seashore, but it also carts l along heat and mosquitoes and radio | receptions that land perfectly good | radio sets in the little grassy plot l behind ths ash can. Spring, heraldcd ! by poets and automobile statesmen, 1 is ushered in by syrup-sweet breezes ! and fragile blades of timid grass but | with it comes mud and hysterical | rains and spring fever that has lost i more jobs than correspondence 1 courses can ever supply. Winter, ! brrrr, let's not think of the cold i weather and the coal bills and the i narrow escapes from death that ! come with the sudden and informal | descent of the icy front steps on | January mornings! Fall, alone, i stands with very few faults to it's discredit.
 In the first place, football opens , up in the fall and the boy next door | places a neat drop kick through | the dining room window scoring a | complete goal on the Ming vase that | family while they are in Europe. | mouth game and as we are Yale | graduates, We can always be sure | of getting a seat in the middle of | the cheering section-the only trouble being that it's the Dart ! mouth cheering section. Therefore we must sit in silence at the risk of our worthless lives when Yale i gets away for long end run and | we must suffer hard glances be- | cause we do not rise and cheer l noarsely when the Green and White gets first down on Yale's IS yard inc. We go to the High schools big game and are showed into the mid He of fierce off-tackle play by ager onlookers behind us, losing a piece of our top coat and our left hoe. We lose S10 on the Army Navy game and resolve once more lever to take the advice of that tall ellow that hangs around the cigar tore.
 Then too, the first cold chilly n norning we hold up the three-sea on article before LIS and say irmly, We must get new over ,oat before it gets real cold!" This ,ame continues until approximately he first of April, when the coat yoes back into the mothballs for the lext round. The game continues early until the plaid underlining 'hows through the elbows of the ,oat.
 Fall also brings leaves to be burned. From early morning until lightfall every street will look like our seconds before the third llarm. The man of the house rakes he leaves into small piles and sets ire to each one, screening his eyes rom the smarting smoke as the wind merrily takes the burning en- ,ers through the windows of the ourth house down the street. It is 'eported that one house actually burned down in midday without he occupants noticing any change n the atmosphere. Fall makes fire