New Britain herald., 1927-08-27

Tn line all afternoon and they were
 driving oil the fourth tee when
 darkness fell. Eighteen clerks
 female) decided to 60 shopping,
 but found there were no places to shop. (Moral: Do your Christina.
 shopping early.)
 l Having been asked by an over-
 whelming number of friends to con. tlnue with our auto tours of New England without further extraneous interpolations. We have succumbed to this effective majority and ap- ! pend herewith full directions for reaching Bennington, Vt., where the town is celebrating the 15oth an. niversary of battle, which. by strange coincidence. is also known l as Bennington. So:
 Leave New Britain on West Main street. barely avoiding dying of { fright in the belief that Black Rock bridge is about to collapse under you. Pass stone quarries on left 1 and right and strewn around the i roadbed, and take first right, bear ing right again into
 Pennington. Stop at town line and purchase windshield wiper if you haven't one already. Then pro- ! ceed to center and turn left. NX-Detour. Pennington Avon road is torn and in almost as bad condition as the detour over which you must now pass. After crossing trestle. take cowpath to riRht and hang on for dear life. At end of road turn left. soon passing the fam tastic new-old Avon college and coming into
 Avon. Straight ahead over ratl- road tracks and on through Weato- que and Simsbury to -..
 Granby. Straight ahead aSain. and pray that your gas holds out until you reach the state line where you may buy refills for your tank without paying tax. Then on through Southwick to
 Westfield. Turn right to
 West Springfield. Turn left al- most to
 Holyoke. XXX-More detours- aren't these growing tiresome? Still, we can't omit them in either our di- rections or our actual trip. This one leads in zigzag fashion through the center of the city and. If prank sters haven't torn down the signs or turned them around. finally brings you back. dizzy but happy, on to northampton avenue. Turn right and on, reaching
 Northampton. Speed laws are very 1unny here. so get out and push. Northampton, you may remember is where the presidents son spends his time That's all you can or have to spend there-we've doped out a. way to get the latest fiction at i've cents copy here and may let you Tn on 1t sometime. Anyway, straight ahead through Whatley-What-ley? yes, Whatley-and South Deer field to
 Deerfield. The field is still here but we have been told the deer died last year. Because of the ancient and wobbly condition of the build- ings, speed laws are strictly en- forced. If you should jar down a colonial mansion. stop for a quar- ter of an hour and pile it up again, then on, reaching
 Greenfield. If you can get out of here on the right road the first tr;p you are better than we are our selves. Anyway. you go up an auto blocked hill to the center, do a. left and right, and if you have been a good Boy Scout and done your good turn and said your prayers for week, you may actually be on the road to
 Northfleld and East Northhe,d The curves and grades are 50 sharp here that it is wise not to attempt to negotiate them in a car with a long Wheelbase unless it bends in the middle. Pass Mount Hermon and Northfield academies and arrive at
 (We've forgotton the name of the place, but we distinctly remember that 1t is not Hong Kong) Turn left. Shortly you will come to a. bridge over the river. If this has been repaired. cheer. If not, turn right up hill through rolling prairie Ideally suited for spring repair sta- ton. Do not turn left off cliff into river or right into sandbank. After two miles of this, turn left across loose-planked bridge and come back down west side of river to
 Brattleboro. where you realize 1t was very fortunate for the colonial cause that the patriot soldiers going into battle did not have to exhaust themselves on detours.
 We shall not tell you how to come back again. for we are afraid that you might succeed, and we know what you would do to us for sug- geStiDC 3 ride like fhis