New Britain herald., 1930-01-11
0LDPAPER MIRROR 0F CITY IN 1893
New Britain Bee Printed Lively
 Items Of Local Interest

John F. Sherlock, the star eater of Talcott and Longs Hartford res taurant, has rented the rink for Fri day and Saturday of next week and will try to cover 130 miles in A hours. Mrs. Richardson. a lady Of color. will walk 65 miles in the same time.'
 The above paragraph was copied from the front page of the New Brit ain Bee, a newspaper published in this city in the Gay Nineties." The item was in the edition of August ,, 1893.
 Another snappy sports item in the same paper says. An artistic horse shoer is Thomas McCue of East Main street. He knows at sight the kind and weight of a shoe needed by any horse brought before him, whether it is a hard working tramway horse or a trotter. What he don't know about a horses hoof isn't much.
 The paper is a copy found by Mir. and Mrs, Charles Nichols of Park street. behind large picture of Shcrman's March to the Sea. re- gently taken out of it's frame. It is yellow with age and crumples when handled.
 The paper, even in those days, was newsy sheet. No large head lines were used, display type being devoted entirely to advertising. That the art of writing news briefly, tell ing all there was to tell in a few terse sentences, was not an unknown accomplishment is proved by the fol- lowing paragraph:
 John Waterman, q Colored man employed by W. T. Holbrook, took laudanum Thursday night with sui cidal intent but was discovered in time to administer an antidote.'
 That the invention of labor saving machinery was not hailed with dc light is seen in a paragraph headed:
 Labor Saving Machinery
 Three men have been employed at the Stanley Works turning out brass pins for brass door hinges The other day an innocent looking ma chine was introduced and now the machine and a boy can do more than the three men formerly could. They are idle"
 The days of David Harum and the Yankee horse traders are recalled by an amusing story of what happened to a New Britain man in an exchange of animals.
 Thomas F. McCabe, the gallant grocery clerk whose auburn locks are so much admired by the fair sex, is a very sad young man these days. Thomas swapped horses, and with q Berlin man.
 The equine which Thomas is now possessed of was for years owned | by circus clown ere it fell into the hands of the guileless Mir. Garlock of Berlin, and it's original master taught it many, strange tricks, such as rearing up on it's forefect, kicking, cking. etc.
 "Thomas didn't know this when he swapped the stylish steed he has driven on Sundays of late and he thought he was getting a genuin" bI dlll dIlu uoliS uH +ii N''Ai iDH4N'
 "Mr. G., with a great deal of caruestncss in his voice, ayers that he was done up, that the horse h" got from Mir. McCabe was driven 10 Middletown the day after he got tt and that it dropped dead on the way back,
 "McCabc'S friends laugh this as scrton 10 scorn, They want to see the clay cold corpus, but this has disappeared completely and is sup posed to have been carried of piece meal by crows.
 Tn the meantime MT. McCabc says it was no swap, that they just exchanged horses to give them d fair trial.
 He has fairly tried Mr. Gar locks horse and he declares it would be a base imposition on good nature to force him to keep it. Every day he and Mr. G. talk it ! over and the Berlin man says his confidence was abused when he l took horse that died so suddenly"
 High Fire, short Ladder A story also on the front page tells of difficulties firemen of En- zine Co. No. and The Hooks had trying to climb onto the roof of the Stanley Works, because the fire department had no ladders more than 10 feet long.
 Another story tells of the arrest for fighting of a man who was pres ident of the trotting park associ- ation and somewhat known to fame for his pugilistic proclivties' also in a somewhat hilarious mood and an cxpressnan,' most | peaceably disposed citizcn.'
 Completing the story of the fight the writer states, "Then Chief John- son appeared on the scene and at the solicitation of five hundred in diSnant citizens, arrested the bel ligerent and bellicose president Of the park association and escorted him off amid a chorus of approval. Mir. Hickey the cXpressman) has good grounds for civil suit and will probably take action in this direction
 Prohibition was an issue in those days, according to the paper, which says: There is no longer any doubt left in the public mind regarding the prominence of the temperance issue neat fall"
 Another concerted struggle must be made against the liquor traffic in the city, the article states far ther down the column, wherein the Bee reporter quotes "a reformed drunkard of considerable intelli- gencc."t
 Another article tells of q murder III Massachusetts where a man shot his wife, while "entwined in his arms" He told the police his wife | was 3 SrhO m n tho Dot orin,c