The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-01
W ITH STATE LAW MAKERS.
IHPORTl1NT MATTERS CONSIDERED
 BY GENER1L ASSEMBLY.

James D. DeWeIl and c. K. Bush ap-
 peared before the committee on rail
 roads in the matter of the extension of the West Shore railroad. They
 stated that they had abandoned all
 of their petition save a line to run
 down to the Woodmont shore and an-
 other short link to the Woodmont rail
 road station. The original petition was
 to extend the line from the present
 rerminus in Woodmont to Milford.
 s. Harrison Wagner, representing the
 New Haven Street railway, favored
 the petition to extend their tracks to
 Mansfield grove. He said the proposed
 extension was of only two miles. If
 the railway was located in the center
 of the highway there should be wid- ening sufficient to give eight feet clear on each side. MT. Wagner object
 ed to the provision by the authorities
 of East Haven that none of the expense
 should be borne by the town.
 The condition referred to was put in by Attorney Grove J, Futile, who isl employed by the town. Mir Futile said the town should not be placed to any expense in the matter.
 MT. Wagner replied that the company would not build if these unfair condi- tions were imposed, The company did not want to be imposed upon by every person who wished to come up here and put in these small conditions. The company had had not contention with that town, but if these conditions were insisted on the company would aban-' don the Mansfield grove extension. He then presented a petition from sixty five residents of that town in favor of building the extension
 MT. Futile replied that he was employ ed by the selectnen to impose the con- ditions, as they thought 1t was only fair that the railroad should bear all the expenses. He said not one-half the signatures to the petition were voters.
 MT. Wagner replied that the company would not have to go more than one quarter of the distance on the highway. Under the general law the town was compelled to bear part of the expense of widening the highway.
 President Corey also spoke against the conditions proposed, which, he said, were too severe.
 The committee at the morning ses- sion took up the bill concerning notice of claims against railroad companies for injuries, but Vice President Hall 1 of the Consolidated road stated that it was before this committee by mistake, 1 as it had been referred to the commit | tee on the judiciary.
 There was hearing on the bill re- lating to street railroads in New Haven | and the bill concerning issue of tickets | by street railways in New Haven were called. Attorney John w. filling rep- resentlng the Winchester avenue road, | was the first to speak. He said the bill | provided for selling six tickets for | twenty-five cents in New Haven andJ also transfer from one line to another. | MT. filling spoke of the experience in Massachusetts for issuing mileage tick cts for two cents per mile to be good | on all railroads. He said the law had | been held unconstitutional. That law provided that one road should carry | passengers on the credit of another road. He said that a similar law would be unconstitutional in Connecti- cut. The plan would work rather queerly in New Haven, where some of the roads paralleled each other. A pas senger could ride down on one line and obtaining a transfer, return home by the other line.
 General Manager G. A. W. Dodge of the New Haven Street Railway com pany read letters from several rail- roads on the matter. In Worcester the transfer system was put down as nuisance. Tn St. Louis it was stated that the system opened the door forI fraud. Kansas City did not transfer. Nashville transferred to continuous lines, but it was all one system. At Seattle Wash, the system of sellingI tickets at a reduction, was a source of loss, about $2O per day, as the conduc- tors turned in tickets instead of full fares. Of twenty-five replies received from cities, MT. Dodge found that trans fers to a. competing line were only made in Washington, D. c.
 Representative Lord of Killingworth favored the bill.
 THE HOURS OF STREET RAILWAY
 MEN.
 The committee on labor, Senator Day. ton, chairman, gave a hearing on the bill concerning the hours of labor of conductors, drivers and motormen on street railroads. The bill provides that they shall work not more than ten hours per day and that the ten hours 1 work shall be performed within twelve hours each day.
 Representative Wood, president of the Derby Electric railroad, in speak Ing against the bill said: Most roadst In the state run from seventeen to nine- teen hours in the twenty -four hours The hours are not continuous for the { men, but there is a. period of rest for them. The company in Derby differed rom the New Haven roads. Our men Ire paid by the month. In two weeks 7 he men get three days off. When thei pill was first proposed the men were { against the change. I e lad intended to put in a petition forl : hem, but understood they had put in petition against the proposed bill themselves.
 Colonel Wood was shown a petition ; " Chairman Dayton and recognized t as signed by the men of his railroad. Ie added that his men were perfectly Il accord with the present hours of F employment and there were plenty of nen to take their places where there