New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1929, Page 18

MAIL MEN COVER (30 MILES DAILY Postmaster Erwin Provides Sta- | tistics on Local Delivery Service, Britain mail ance of more than 130 y .uccording 1o state- New on foot a dis miles each ments made by Postmaster H win at the Rotars club luncheon to- day at the Burritt hotel Mr. Erwin’s address was entitled, “Some things people do know but should, about their post offic The postal official explained t the city has gular clerks 4 five substitute 31 foot rier: trucks, five special deliver messenger making a tot Receipts $ not nd two mail takers, substitute carriers ngers, or and Al of 90 employe 0,000 Ann: s average ing in $850, ) annually. r th ally $420,000 000 or a total of § Each busines: post office writes 250 1 Tegisters 360 picces of m sures at lea A hundred C.O. led every day. There ar every day except days, and 45 times a day n ceived. Ten clerks spend th Sunday preparing incor XMonday delivery, boxing Sunday ceipts and dispatch deposited mail Every night except Saturday the post office has three clerks on duty preparing 1y morning withdrawals and deliveries, The post office has a “star route” messenger, who makes two trips each night to Berlin, connect mail trains which do not mal nections with New Britain trains. This mail is brought to this city and *worked uy the night crew for early morning delivery In the carrier section th foot ro . two 11 four parcel post routes, Foot aver: 800 picces of mail per ¢ carriers deliver 1100 piece each day. In post mail and ¥e d in- D. items are hand- ours each re- wre 31 es and s than Rural mail e the s day, delivor the parcel post section ice handles 4,000 picc and out every bu th parcel trucl arcels each every day. 31 foot carriers average s around the city every day on first trip. Additional trips in certain locations brir the total mileage per day up to 130. Rural Routes 30 Miles Long Each rural route is 80 miles long Rural route No. 1 stops, while route ssible stops. There are 125 collection boxes in the city from which from one to seven collections are made each day. On holidays and Sundays all box: on main arteries have two collec tions daily, one in the morning and one at night. All collections in the business sec- tion of the city are scheduled to connect with regular dispatches, There is one main post office and 10 sub-stations. win Praises Personnel Mr. Erwin told the Rotarians that after having visited other post of- fices and having noted the work ing done there he feels free to stat that the clerks and carriers in New Britain compose the most efficient crew in Connecticut. He said people go through lobby of the post office and h men whistling and singing. “Don't think they are not working, they are working and I'd much rather have a man whistle at his work than have a mournful face,” he added. “Besides that their singing and whistlifg expedites the service. They work better and are more cheerful.” He paid tribute to T Aloon, who he said, trips to Berlin every day for 14 years and has never missed a train. Giving some idea of what a rural mail carrier has to do, Mr. fllustrated by asking his audience to jmagine a trip by automobile from here to New Haven. “Now imagine making that same trip and making 549 stops on the * he added Asked if he favored an airport for New Britain, the postmaster re- plied, “Do 17" We ought to be on some kind of a map. Towns like Rome, New York;Belfonte, much smaller than and cities like Pittsb land, no larger than have airports.” Among the visitors was Dr. Welte, the mew Normal school director: Harry H. Smith, state Y c secretary, and four, year old son of Harold Clark. Billy formed the third of a three g tion group, which included hi and his grandfather, R. 0. Clark stood on a ir and acknowl the greeting of the club with a Scout salute post the r the dward P. Me- s made two New Britain Belgium, with a territory of 11 square miles, h 0,000 8,00 m population POOR PA BY CLLAUDE CALLAN <>\ “Ma feels sorry for our son Joe because he can't find carriers travel | car- | four parcel post carriers with | ,|THE NEW | the arwin | | a job, but Joe manages to stay cheerful in spite of hav- in’ nothin' to -do but run around with the girl ‘Copyright 1929 Publmners Byndic WHO IS HE? | Gla of here, from being destroyed by a fores cated in the town mediate equipment | bifildings and loaded on freight c | to its were 40000 gallons of Peterson of whose WSPA- HER- Nobody gu Economy i Auto silhouette ran in those flames, it up to THE BURRIY SAVINGS BANK where he will get R CENT, a most generous terest in which the board directors up that way take a ble pr The editor just say too much in the glorifica- tion of the progressive bankers up way and takes this opportunity | tulating them in public. As Jack Peterson, it's too bad that nobody guessed him. The h were broad ecnough to be but it was planned to Jack's many friends cash in on the do to THE BURRITT instead of the editor. The of mice and men ay, so cverything was lost in- ling a golden opportunity to give the like of the silhouette the much coveted free advertising w « he and his place of busi deserves judging from repo received by the reportorial se- It is conceded that letter published is the best form £ advertising, it works out best for like of the silhouette, but |} what could the editor do cven if he ed to give the E Autd Supply a dandy boost via the best ature local newspaperdom fo moons? Well, anyway, here goes for a gallop to— not sure, ve some chance : laid | best often g9 onomy « in many THE BURRITT SAVINGS BANK |} Once more THE NEWSPAPER— | BRITAIN HERALD— | offers for your consideration a maa very prominent for years in automotive world, and one talented mecha [ a desperate battle tod fic on fhe pended. homesteads Local Lawyers Engaged ulonis of the Paul Faucher aged 12 years, their perior J will be torneys in the ¢ v | suit can be brought for the death | of | | month school, the othe | he | work in pants of the car are being held as ||, has i NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1929, 22, Mother Collapses; To Be Hanged Tomorrow Montreal, Aug. (#) — Mrs. MEN BATTLE FIRE | eight children, today was in the . jail at Hull, Que., where she will Every Available Resident of f e sisse mcrio e i Town Helps With Fight collapsed yesterday, when she was removed to Hull from the Columbia Falls, Mont., Aug. 22 (® Every available man of the Great Fullum street jail for women where she had been confined for Northern railway and the United States forestry service was fighting three months awaiting execution. Philiberg Lefebvre, convicted y to save the of Belton, on the border of with Mrs. Viau as her partner in ier National park 20 miles east the crime, was in the same jail, also under sentence of death. town fire. | Park administration buildings .o- were in the im- path of the flames. All was removed from the rs continues Weddings ZINK—KELLY of Miss Hleanor Catherine , daughter of Mr. and M s H. Kelly of 73 mington avenue, and I nk, son of Mr. and Mrs. I Zink of 155 Washington street, was solemnized this morning at 9 o'clock in church. Miss Greene attended maid of and Michacl Lyons was best Iollowing the wed- |ding ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Zink left on an unannounced wedding trip and on their return will reside at §1 Hayes street. | Mr. Zink is employed at T drug store and Mrs. Zink In New Hampshire Suit [teacher in a Berlin school The law f past two this city nd Mrs. Leo Far is bringing suit a »y of Hudson for it an automobile, endant, stduck be moved if the fire advance on the town Tank cars of the Great Northern into to carry om Cram the water The ma pressed servic of ar here to supplement \ply. Residents who were of the remained town except to fight the taken from fire one on special frains, Regular toaf- | Great Northern was sus- ary Doris honor man. the as A number of logging camps and have been destroyed was a for the PFOPLE OPPOSING TARIFF INCREASES P for Mr her of Hudson, nst Wilfred $7,000, charg driven hy | and Killed | ng son, in Hudson last month. | The will be tried in the su-| court in Nashua, N. H., and John R. Spring of city ssociated with the local at- | se. The sum of §7 )00 is the maximum sum for which case \| - Congressmen Surprised af Pop lar Interest in New Measure Washinaton, A This last | used to be full of people who thor Paul IFaucher was pro- | there woldn't ever b an afternoon sion of | iff fie roy automobile, driven | The pre )y the defendant and carrying five | Demaoc passengers, struck the boy was crossing the street. omplaint states that the automobile was traveling al an excessive »d because the party 1 The othe a minor. to The complaint alleges that ,as any more tar- g to ling theory was that the ic party had ¢ high-t the issue was no lov between it and {1 ne lieved that so nators had in- stries in their own states demand- protection that any tariff hill the epublicans cooked up would not be | *d by as much It was commonly T democratic, s a factor Aus A\ th cha naterial witnesses while been indicted on a manslaughter. The local firm was ause of friends Attorney Charles W seen in New Hampshire driver > of R oppo as a corporal's retained be- p of 1ilie amulonis for the ce days investigating the @ It was also an ac tion that the coun t large was so thoroughly sold on protection that aviff bill, no matier how le of duties, would be ; spted supposi- h i matter. new d of him that he you what's the matter with your car | when he sces you pa g in the al- ley just North of the City National Bank. Now, if you don't know him ask any of the Mag boys, the Fin- negans, or those who work in the bank. If you happen to catch E1i Dennison in town, he’ll tell you who | h as will Mr. Bol of TH h SPAPER—THE :iEW BRIT AIN HERALD. It wouldn't he fair to ask Mr. Bolger until after the contest closes, however. Now for likene success o s N h a pioneer combustion Who is he? in RULES OF SILHOUET CONTE | 1.—Identify likeness. 2.—Describe how he makes livell hood —Address communications to “Silhouette™ Editor, *w Britain Herald 4.—Contest closes at 2 p m. fol- lowing insertion—Saturdas | 10 a. m. 5.—Answers may be mailed or bronght to the Herald| oftice. | 6.—Credit given for neatness. | 7.—One dollar awarded daily for | | best answer according te rules, 11 | T PRCGRAM gion band will 7:30 o'clock to- Irancis hos Director Vito Di repared the following | America, “Poet and of the Old overture, ‘Sempre “Barber of Seville,”” “Stars | Stripes Popular hits | BAND CONCE The American play a it on the lawn of S ord.. I'ronzo has p prossam concert at and will be Forever.” ed for encore JOYFUL . 22 (UP)—The latest E which skirts will | > four in will increase sales of American mills by 3.- | 100,000 to 4,000,600 durtag comir . ac to an v v iation of \ COTTON HEADS Boston e edict, ger, yards ording v by the style mal Assoc changes of change | Ash | de | West Main | clude No from the house- giving t- ed by hosannas tops and public thar ings at the town pump Sky Was the Limit confident that all thesc true, the rulers of the | Representatives jammed ff bill with the slog s the limit and no rther trouble the hard- on th would further NOTICE = he Board the follow on September 4, ty Hall Bu of Adjustment wili petitions for zone Wednesday — evening 1429, in Room at 7:30 o'clock. etition of Stephen Robb, et al. change of one from Residence to Industrial, on the it “herry Street below Ellis stre Petition of Minnie 1la of zone on the ea! ot from Residence renel; things were House of through a t that the sky theugh it boiled 1 nate committee pt a general program of elevation, Well for any was suppose publican finance majo already the Bill has been for some time in a terrible jam and when the finance committee’s hill hits the Senate floor it probably will A enter a period of maceration Church of Holy Cross—change of iman knoweth the final outcome, zone of all land on west side of |all sensible persons have had to re- rmington Avenue, north of Biruta [adjust their views about the tariff cet, from Dusiness “B” to Re: s an issue. " Tn the first Michacl Ginsburg for change ¢f has developed. zone on East Strect at corner of | In the socond p Florence from Dusiness “A” [as much a pari to Busine: | Demoe August E; ters has be ness “B" district on north side of |ting blast nst the House Street westerly to in-[hill and the Republicans of the 463, 465 and 467 West | finance committee for months. Most | Democratic senators have spon- | sored biting and withering denun- wtions of the bill and Republican Skelly, ¢ on South et al.—chang treet from rect to Strect from Business “B” to Residen place, a swell the tariff i it oy | was, rt—extension of Busi- |q uing unremit Main Street. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, Thomas Linder, Clerk JUST KIDS | showed nine out of ten newspape: | actually critical. | intentions in general. It acutally look s if the Democrats were more effictively united against the Hou bill or anything like it than they | have been on any other issue in the last several ye | Mr. and Mrs. John E. R. Keevers and daughter of V Main street, | und Joseph O'Brien of Stanley street Newspapers Critical I ]'_I,\(_":,7 ] st im. |&re on an automobile tour throug: f ; | Canada. | portant—the country not in any -ptive mood. By such means as | the country is able to prot been squawking steadily and som time word came from the White House that a study of clippin Miss Rose Senk, Veronica Pot- ash, Bronislaus Potash and Mrs. D Niczgoda and sof, Dominic, have gone to Southampton, L. I., where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. Stepnoski. The effect of this popular disap- | oval of many of the proposed in- ses is plainly to be scen in the atings and writhings of Senators Smoot, Reed. Watson and other Re- publican leaders now wrestling with the bill. he fight on the House provisions has comw from many sources—-from powerful corporations acting in self. interest and from the most altruist sources at the time. The Sugar made up principally of Americ terests in Cuba. led > three-cent sugar wstically by the boitlers, unsel- ovganizutions the Miss Mary O'Connell has returned from Bayview Heights, Milford, after | spending the week with Dr. and Mrs. D. W. O'Connell. rig of Burritt s spending two weeks in Pitts urgh, Pa. | Gerald Crean and daughter, | Mary Ellen, of Homestead avenue, e returned home after spending few days:with relatives in South- | ington. | Mr ust n in- oper the on the Hou aided enthu rhonated bever Tuals the Markie of Bassett N. G. Stephenson of linden street have left on an auto- mobile trip to Washington, D. C, Where they will visit with their s Pruning Under Pressure {eriisintol s fight Miss Gertrude street and Mrs and interests of con- Under this sort of combined pres- Smoot, Reed, Watson the others have at 1 in. Lately the hoy cold feet on wool and have reduc the House bill rate on that by three cents a pound. ) this bill look Park Superintendent and Mrs Clyde Ellingwood will leave Satur- day for North Paris, Me., where they will attend a reunion of the Elling- wood family. They will spend week's vacation touring New Eng- | land later. sure, a under just as swe it the plan as will Sen- hotter Housc hill look President Oon committee THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Quick r and ties than the will tend to and make the more like the measure - intended «it to he at the finance undoubtedly toss overboard guite ew of the tariff » resultant squawks Iy unimportant. Alphaberieally and Atraugea for Ready leference top will o 21 ] 1 line 1 lina 1 line 1 day .. 3 days.. 6 dvya., a seek terests 1t UL Count & words to a 1 to an inch Mintwum space 3 lines. Minimum Buok chaige. tine. 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