New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1918, Page 10

20, 1018, L4 ‘ Here for the Benefit of WarWorkersWhoHaveRecently Come o This City, a Statemesrit of the Aiims and Business Principles of This Great Home Furnishing Institution er in the city finds it extremely difficult to judge between > This store has only one price for everyone. ot knowing anything about their business principles. This store stands back of everything it sells T'his store pledges itself to absolute truthft ilness in its advertising, by both word and picture, This store does not use trade names such as “Art" leather for artificial leather. 3 Wi reason we publish a complete statement of our business principles This store’s credit system is as dignified as a charge account at your dry phiich vou can judge this store. These business principles in comparatively goods stor years have made this store onc of the strongest and most helpful mercantile Our entire organization is pledged to support our government in every pa- fistitutions in the city. triotic activity. There are no pitfalls in this store to trap the unwary. “No tricks of the in thhi?gr:u the sound business principles that protect every purchase madew 3 ‘ rade” to guard yourself against. In other words, these business principles are your insurance policy against 4 Every article is marked with plain figure prices that anyone can read dissatisfaction. i (S Bple buy here and there until they find the store they like. Quite the experience thus gained is very costly, particularly when furniture joh 1s woeful- | ere o & other reasons for | (o8 ; — - Pwnvery of soldiers’ mail We Wish to Announce That We Have Taken the Sales DEllVEl'ed FOI‘ $1 ihnot be avoided by the mili- BDBAIA] service any more than it | B8 Agency For The Celebrated Kitchen Cabinet iy s oo B |t , Steet Office Furniture ONLY 64 TO BE SOLD The Hoosier Company has just served us with a notice of a gen- ifficient to give rise to a very if unjust, iticism of the rmation as to the loca- | e now, @ sure, | K8 I = i < " 5 5 2 . . eral raise in the price of Hoosier cabinets, wholesale and retail. We ormation I ; T Realizing the growing demand for steel, and in line have exactly 64 Hoosier Cabinets in stock which we bought at the old- e e st — - B with its policy of securing for its customers the best mer- time price. We could put the new price on them and make an extra profit tho owlec 3 o \ = 3 al ~ M < on cvery one. 1 without knowled t 1 A chandise the market affords. But instead of that, we are going to give our customers this unexs were to be sent. Military i et e s s The Arte Metal Construction Company not only pected saving. .We have lined up our entire stock of Hoosiers to go on ion | facilites Wi 2 d £ i i i * sale omorraw at the old low price ! Sn A Rl R e the largest and oldest manufacturer of ~Metal Office » we open our doors, the first 64 women who come in and pay ‘& ) L | T it g Equipment but it is the leader in i fi.eld. £1.00 whl get thom. Then—the min ute that thig allotment of Hoosiers is et den it 1y i TR, S R You can’t afford to put another piece of furniture or o AT fter it reach port in S ot b e One oven does it all, Gas or fi]ii‘:;.;‘ equipment into your office until vou know what Art Pay only $1.00 when you pick out your Hoosier, Pay the balanoce if the safet and Coal or Wood. Step in and let LoT & > iy $1.00 weekly——only 5¢ a meal. Your money back if you are not delighted. P i i e us demonstrate this wonderful Metal will do for you. Let us show you. Rale ends the Instant 61 Hooslers aro gone. Doors open at 8 a. m. tos Others can | woided Range to you, morrow—close at 9 p; m. No Hooster orders accepted by telephone. ps to that end which were im- ible under military strictions | g, o ot o | Visit Our 5 Room Model Apartment Tomorrow at New Britain’s Greatest Furniture Store Only in \wm.,m cases, and un- | er circumstanc hich will be ex- | plained, does it ke more than threc | [ weel a properly addressed letter | g & 3 ) reach a soldier in France who is at ! « « ta an organized unit of the arm Most of the mail reaches its | i I ion in less time than that. The W : nass of lettars to and from the % 4 @ 5 o ® onary forces go and come on | time | exceptional circumstances may | Bl w soldier’s mail as much as two ce months, or he may not get In the extreme wher al soldiers of the same because his I ave | ddressed and has | sct the condition Telle = proper address. Therc| nengs in the United States to see that | would some further but in | surplus, twelve hundred ba would | reason for restriction to one port is | tion of every man is noted up to date. |are sent to certain ports and other lays, or at most nonc : nail addressed to him at the canton- | none of these cases is the eat. | have to lie over, being included in the ; that the military authorities regarded | Where a man is sick or wounded and | classes of mail to another, so that few days, when the soldier| . o1+ s properly endorsed. for for- [ The hos authorities are required | mail accumulating for the next | it as inadvisable to furnish the civilian | the orderly has no record of his|letters may be in no way interfered with the anized forces varding to France. It is equally im- [do notify central post office as well | steamer Such an ecxcess of mail | postal authorities, to whom the mail | whereabouts, mail for him is ;\\'rh by mail of less importance. tter is properly addressed. | U0 S o LS B idier to no his [ as his company commander imme- might occur several times and some of | is turned over at the port of em-|“sick” or “wounded,” giving the date.| Warehouses have been built at parts duplication of names | ' " 40 nec immediately upon his | diately on the arrival of the soldicr | the bags missing the first mail might | barkation, with the sailing dates of | The letter then goes to the centralof deharkation for sorting bags of 5 afore snment to a definite unit in | there for treatment, and mail is sent | also be among those left over from | vessels from other ports. This matter | post office at Tours which is furnished | mail as they are received from the b neid ace to him at once There is no delay | the second This situation will be | has been adjusted now so that the| by the hospital with the names of ali | United States On approxifrately )UL casual or re | Delays in the delivery of mail r from the war | postal officials may take advantage of | those under treatment, identified by \""“ miles “]’ "”"““'”Y“ ia France, Ailpntetiag iy S e aetvers A i of the unit to which ' American railway mail servic y of mail. Thou- | which cannot be avoided are liable ! in operation, and regular pc cars 1 o 1. addre d to him that may be slightly | in advar soldiers are Deing sent to|to occur at any time during a period 3 hort of embarkation as | toL the | mail [ formed' aiso of every removel of a|in charge of American soldiers actiny ery month from this coun- | of wreat ; ecret movement | 1¢I5 number of sacks to be handled, the| - A complete postal system corres- | s from one hospital to another |as rallway mall clerks. are = seyg LEplacen eRURDURD 0SSy ot o ODE Yihare LD G 0 SEE { entire volume shall be cleaned up at | ponding to that in the United States i hospital long enough to es- | through form the port of debarkation various cantonments— | troop movement on the front de s two vauscs of delay has > Sl now in operation fn France with a | tablish an address A perfect. card | daily to certain points where perma- Humphreys, Lewis aad | upon secrecy mail cannot be sent to ed at the port of embarkation i - Siadet . . { contral post office located at Tours. | system is employed to keep track of [ 1ent post es are established. Sol- ind are usually designated | members of a mobile force until they | @his country. One is the posting of | e possible delay that L e ervice in Mrance. except tho dis: | all who'are ln Hospitals) and thera ia|diers In‘tHe military postal! servics st Automatic fshed at the selected de { the letter just too late 1o ma unavoeidable, though unu in the Hotlonara a I of mails to the | no delay in the delivery of mail unless | D2ve beea placed at all imporgant or Fone similax ;g Whatever delay is involved | transport, when a we might pass | (ransportation of a letter from New | United States entirely under mili is that of & svounded: soldier \in (iUnction Poihts fons thess lines ito; ack nd part of that particu- | ;) ther 24 hours or several | hefore another ng The remedy | york to a divisional post office at the | tary control, the director and Ll g htly wounded as to he | I8 transier clerks. When boats arrive, be sent to one relace- ust be accepted as a military | for this does not lie with the postal ! jront in France might be 21 days—one | ant directors being commissioned | discharg yre a letter could reach | fUll carloads of bags of through mail France and part to an- i ,» same is true when icc The other is the limita-| qay in tributing ‘in | New York: | asmy officers and ithe entire foree | him | made up in Chicago and New York now forwarded to these| | : munitions, | tons placed upon ocean t orta- | seven days on account of just missing | hoir part of the military service The central off et e rel| oo i neaRteR combeNioedand shakiarinn have becn scattered as to make [ tion facilitics and lack of information | a boat; three days on account of Nearly all of these officers and sol- | game R 1 - u’;’ e nt to destinations in France i lelays, however, are|less fhe military port officer at the |l transportation from the port of de-| formerly employed in the postal ser- | fant general's office where is kept a| 1 nder zn,um:\v uvn!l)fl\. 111 chgnges Tehi e 8 Gl : et 5 T 1 ]‘m“l hampered W\ most, When | American port of embarkation knows | barkation in Irance; seven days on | vice of the United States, former rail- | card-index record, up to date, of the with t umula- endorsed Y whatever in mail sent home by or tor 2 odied by an orc £ k the wounded man It is only that|department that. upon proper notice | the opportunity afforded by sailings | the designation from the postal officer at | from other ports for the dispatch of | they belong. The central office is in- delayed prior to his permanent loca- | the obile post offices are sh€y moved in | that an outgoing steamer is to land | account of secret troop movements ay muil clerks being employed in | whereabouts o ry man in the ser- | code (“y ths .,l,mdm\u;h'mu‘yl;.i ll»o‘\‘mm " Ll roop move- L Frentch port rized to handle | and, in case of severe fighting, a hold handling of mail on postal trains, ! vice, whether R Toon Tt ver t Rl ba e n e haBel (v Ten 0.000 Rl Ricaih be excreis- > mail it cannot be sent this { up of trains carvying mail of perhaps | and others acting as distributors, ete. | on detached dut in the hospital of | withholding {his iaformation when om tiis causa. This N . cven to the army postal | steamer, as she might ound for | three days. This exceptional delay | Jrancoe is divided into three postal dis- | wherever he m ». The mobile post | the service was under civil contrel wil not oceu 1 t permitted rconcernit v port where there is no American | would increase the normal time of ts, 1 district in charge of an ofces which arc > of twenty- | sometimes resulted in a delay of as ich hove just t b} novement until the | post office ¢ no postal employees | from two to three weeks for the de- | army officer who was formerly a |l seven men, the equivalent 1o : Dost | much as thres weeks: but with the “\L replacement u tr ° b located it leaves camp 1 1€ to pern sending of y : these conditions a | Partment order which directs that|to three days to deliver a letter at the | at the central post office at Tours, | each company is received with the | post. of 2 seldom occasion the delivery of mail | this infomation be furnished the mili- | front after its arrival i a Irench | Ljeutanant Colonel T. D. Howe. Per-! pations at the and distributed | for delay very terial saving of tary post officer | port | manent post offices are established at | 4¢ the P e arter vy the|time in the delivery of mail will be One of the most puzzling things to Delay that has occurred in the de- | numerous points, and mobile post | najl order 5 ] | acomplished aiso by an order having 5 3 £ i the public has been the frequent |livery in the United States of soldier offices are right at the front and move | tends right into tl ghting trenche the approval of General Pershing un. on men. | th S ed men in hospi- | | o\ o e both as to mail delivered | letters mailed in France is sometimes | with a division to which they are at- | The central office at Tours der which the postal office H\ unit will | tals. I'he only d y in the deliv in France and mail received in this| due in a slight extent to the censor- | tached. They are frequently under ring any mail that neil ed States have t of such mail 1s that which is abso- [ country, of u letter of a later date |ship. Usually the delay from this | fire. The commar s of cach |y, \ : promptl ler the seal of absolt camp In | Jutely unavoidable. A wounded man | peing received before one mailed per- | cause i at, but there have heen | compa. or military establishment is!| yyna 1en arc plc d|a dir of the location of the | may be sent from one I an- | haps a week or more earlier. One under eXceptional circum- | required to detail from his company a | constantly for nothing rch of oof nce and all who are on lished, | other and even to several hefore | explanation of this is that the post- | Stances. where it has been as much as | mail orderly especially ed for the | adare , and the superiniendent of | wa3 With this information the posg.. oldier | reaching a permanent base 1 . | master at the port of embarkation has | three weeks A cause of delays in | purpose of receiving handling | (his is furnish ily with tal authorities will be able to distpid unit | and if detained a h | been assigned Ly the war department 11l coming this Way s that the | mail. Wherever possibl man with e the Jocatic troops bute and sack for delivery at jtg of the hospitals T i > | a definite limited space for mail, and | € an postal officials to whom this | former postal expereince i drawn estimated a million - | proper destination much mail whiel passes in transit his ma - { when the ameunt of mail has ex-|mail is delivered at the French port | from the nks for this purpose. | ter 3 lay arrive Fran or | has heretofore gone in bulk having i o 1 Seededfnis thaeiis < had to he | have had but one Port of embarkation { Fivery mail orderly is required to keep ! members of the American Exy on- [to be so i distributed qp’ ite The dispatching of mail | an urate record of officers and men | ary Forces. There is also arrival in France ;Wi formerly attached to | yvolume of mail for soldiers—a ut Tt is believed that by making aliTecord Mol third asl much as thot froml home militar information and militapy perma- | to handle the mail. This difficulty livery of mail, ]!‘v from five to six | postal official; and these districts arc > for 30,000 people, keep right | formation immediately available ag has just been cured by a War De- | weck Normally it takes from {wo | ynder the supervision of the director | along with the troops and the mail for | it now g s to the military 1 in expediting camp | enough for it to re f he| held over un Ey for all mail Heuldling s 5 : Tl oy s ; ags | 18 therefore limited to the sailing time | attached to ndiately notify his| being at the hospit g enough to | ready for shipment the of steamers from that port wheres vig unit and to keep ¢ o2 h6 hislcotra e s e G master was notified that only elght|steamers are sailing from other port 1anged addres 'This record is | mailed locally ia France. In dispatch handled the Which also might carry maj) "he abe 8 € loc g ma ) ed Sta etters ' (Continued on Eleventh Page.) various ca n- | e a ne gan 7 hundred bags could be