New Britain herald., 1927-10-15

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 chestra and the atmosphere" of (
 night club, it would draw bis
 crowds.
 But, again, it may be just the q"
 sire for something new. However
 according to the orchestra leader
 New Britain is not the dance towl
 it used to be. and that's all ther'
 is to 1t. as far as he is concerned
 The news bulletin has been II
 the front window of the Herald Of
 flee for four years and one can al
 most tell the time of day by notic.
 ing who is reading it. Shortly aftel
 the morning bulletins are printed
 faces appear from the window.
 across the street and people bob oU'
 of doors. From then on. trucks E.
 by slowing up to get the latest ang.
 to the news. There are about 5u
 of these regulars" who while driy-
 CTS have to go down or up Church street anyway, so they are expected to get the habit. Many Main street merchants find time to drop around to see what goes on. One can al
 most tell the size of the mail a
 merchant receives by the time he
 shows up to take a "squint' at the
 bulletin. It's a fact that Monday morning. when the mail is much larger than usual. the regulars are a bit late. If a few of the boys don't appear on Friday morning. you'll know that they are in the fish busi- ness and cant get away. and so it goes.
 The most interesting spectators are the ones who are called to the
 bulletin because they are interested
 in certain event. Last Thursday,
 the Herald bulletined the finding of Ruth Elder by a Dutch tank steam- CT. All morning long, there were strange faces looking at the bulle- tins and as there was no news at that time on the board their faces
 showed plainly that they were dis appointed. Strangers talked with each other saying they hoped that Ruth would make it, and that they Were hoping against hope that she wasn't lost. Then would follow general exchange Of ideas, between ministers, truck drivers, business men, factory heads or anybody else | who happened to be around Noon hour witnessed the "ragulars" who come this way from all the factories and thousands of others who were interested in the flight. When it WIS printed that Ruth was safe, they ran off 10 tell their friends. It would be ideal if good news only were printed on the bulletin, but accidents also have to be put up for the public to read, and many , times a tragedy is enacted by a per son reading about his friends or relatives who have been in a mis- i hap.
 II is a strange thing that every
 reader is "a self appointed watch ] dog of the spelling on the board. 1 Two minutes is the average life of a mistake on the board, anybody 1 from a policeman, to a taxi driver has his keen eye upset by word
 not spelled correctly. It's all in a spirit of cooperation and the Herald appreciates it.
 On the statistical side of 1t, guess work would place the amount of white paper used daily at 17 feet, l then allow 14o0 publication days in
 the four years which would make ! 23,S00 feet used. Extra bulletins.
 such as late reports, football scores.
 election returns, etc. would bring i the total well over SO,000 or almost six miles. To take a rough guess
 at the number of people reading it
 yearly would look like the census of
 the state of Connecticut. As time
 goes on, more and more citizens are | joining the regular class, and
 friends are being made daily by the Herald's bulletin service.