The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-13
WHAT'S IN 4 N.4ME.

but after awhile it disappeared. The trouble is over the revival in a Boston paper of the subject of re-christening the New York, New Haven and Hart | ford railroad. l.. M. Harris, a Boston business man, sent a communication to the Herald of that city advocating that
 the name of the road be changed to New York, Hartford and Boston. In
 his letter he says that he twas one of the two men who helped change the name of the Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad to the New York and New
 England. He adds that changing the
 name of the Consolidated road to New
 York, Hartford and Boston will, as he
 thinks, "cover the whole matter and
 be fully understood by the masses"
 "The road" he continues, starts
 from the largest city in the United States and goes through the beautiful
 and we'll known city of Hartford and lands and receives from the cleanest
 and best city in America, i. e., Boston,
 He condescendingly adds: But by all
 means the word New York should be used even if New York has but twen- ty-five miles of road as starter.'
 Another correspondent of the same paper favors the name New York and l New England, while another selects New York and Southern New England.
 The Herald is. however. doubtful if any change will be favored by the roads officials and overlooks the im- portant fact that the company's offices
 and headquarters are in New Haven The Providence Journal takes up the
 stitute proposed for the company's
 present name is New England South
 ern, adding that this concisely de-
 scribes the territory covered by the
 Consolidated. It is quite willing, how
 ever, that either the name Boston and
 New York or New York, Providence l and Boston be substituted
 The Springfield Republican after con-
 sidering some of the various proposed
 new names makes a brave effort to
 solve the problem and says: If great
 CT brevity and comprehensiveness were
 not the chief objects in making a
 change of title we might suggest that
 the most important northern terminal
 of the system ought not to be ignored.
 In which case, how would New York, Old Colony and Springfield do? Ridic- ulous? We'll then, just look at the present title with way station (poor old HartfordD for climax. Other wise, Southern New England" or : ''New York and Boston" are tolerable, the former being the more comprehen- sive."
 Whereupon the Hartford Times is l moved in Hartford's interest to take a hand in the discussion and says:
 ''The feeling of each of these esteemed ! Consolidated system will suffice which contains the name of it's own town | and does not contain the name of Hartford. It is a pity that something cannot be rigged up which will include both Providence and Springfield. It is too evident to dispute about that Hart ford and New Haven have been enjoy l ing "undeserved publicity" by having their names on the sides of railway l cars running into or through such l great commercial centers-regu1ar me- . trolopuses, in fact-as Springfield and
 Providence" The Times then with
 heartless levity proceeds to say: l Formerly there was a little railroad and Providence, but it was swallowed by the New York, New Haven and | Hartford railroad, and, since that hap pened, Providence has been heard ol
 by the great world no more, except as the resting place of that eminent intel
 lectual leader and financial freethink-
 CT, E. Benjamin Andrews, when tenn porariIy at home from lecture tour
 Springfield, too, once had its name or ! a lot of rolling stock, before that big
 trunk line, Springfield, Athol and l Northeastern, was gobbled up by the . Boston and Albany, and in those days . as we all know, Springfield was a much more famous town than it is now. But 6 | we fear that neither place will get
 mentioned in the new title. Hartford
 is already pretty we'll committed tc = New England Southern, although, as e our Providence contemporary suggests e almost anything will do that omits t Hartford and New Haven-'Province. It town, Olneyville and Coscob," for in. '- stance"
 If Probably owing to the conflict ol