The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-08

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Joseph r. Manning, the next speaker,
thought that the court of common
council should declare in favor of gen.
eral transfers and that the moral effect
of so doing would be. beneficial. He
said that the street railroads were a
source of expense to the city in many
/ ways and that the city received not one
dollar in return.
Alderman j. j. Walsh thought that if
as Mr.. Punderford had said the Fair
Haven & Westville company desired to
give transfers over the recently ac-
quired Winchester Avenue lines it could
do so, acting as trustee of the Winches-
| ter Avenue road. He said that because
the company was acting as trustee and
/ handling the business so well that it
was prosperous was no reason why the
trustee should be liable for damages.
! He thought that transfers would be
beneficial to the interests of both roads.
He said: ''They manage the Winches7
ter railroad in every other way, but
they say that they can't touch tha
financial point. 1t is a great inconven-
| fence and expensive to the public not
to have transfers. The people have
some interest here and must receive
some consideration.
Captain Morse of the lower end of the
| Fifteenth ward, near Morris Cove was
| the next speaker He said that it had
Eeen represented there that the Fair
Haven company was anxious to give
transfers over the Winchester avenue
lines. "There is line" said he. That
hntmanyo tbie. oi+Jy lI,I To OF
ven East Haven people had been try
ing for five or six years to get a five
cent fare. They carried it to the legis-
latre and were beaten, but fortunately
for the East Haven people the Fair
Haven road people wanted something
and wanted it bad and so last summer
they granted a five cent fare" He
said that a passenger coming from
Lighthouse Point could get a transfer
to East Haven, but if he wanted to go
up the other way on the Belle Dock
line or to the center of the city he must
pay another five cent fare. That might
be business policy, but 1t looked to him
to be short sightedness. He spoke of
the large stretch of vacant land be-
tween Granniss Corner and Morris
chased building lots there and erected
houses and now were permitting their
houses to lie idle and were boarding in
the city because they could not pay
double fares to go to and from the city.
People who had children could not af-
ford to live there and pay double fares
for their children to go to and from
school. He said that the people of the
Fifteenth ward must pay ten cents in
fares to get out of their own ward
while they can go from the center of
the city into other towns for only one
fare.
Mr.. Punderford called attention to the
fact that the five cent fare charged
from Granniss Corner to Belle Dock
also entitled the passenger to ride five
miles to the end of the Dixwell avenue
line and to the end of the Whitney |
avenue line.
Alderman j. Edward Miller, the next !
to be heard, said: 1.-THE only thing that
we can do, it seems. is to look to the
officers of the Winchester Avenue Rail-
road company and who do we find |
there? The directors of the Fair Ha-
ven & Westville road, directors of the
Winchester avenue road. There is no
reason why the Fair Haven e. West
vile company cannot at the present
time grant general transfers. They /
have taken radical steps and especially
the financial affairs Of the
avenue road as trustees.
They have reduced the pay of the men
employed on those lines, they have
expended large sums to improve the
lines. They are preparing to double
track College street and received per-
mission from the common council to do
so, as trustees AS trustees they pur
chased Savin Rock. Now as trustees
they can give us transfers. We can
bring in report in favor of transfers
and tack it on as a proviso to any
which they ask from the COM
mon council"
Daniel Kelly said that the managers
If the Fair Haven and Westville road
lid not allow the moral effect to pre-
vent them from taking all the earnings
hat the Winchester avenue road
throws into item. If the citizens could
At compel the company to give trans
'ers then their representatives in the
common council can compel 1t. He said
hat the company wanted privileges,
and the peoples representatives in the
common council should look after the
peoples interests when considering the
for such privileges. He said
hat not long ago he saw the president
IF the Fair Haven and Westville Rail
'oad company jump aboard a Winches
.er avenue car and order the driver of
he car to take him up the Fair Haven
md Westville tracks to where he desir-
ID to go. Ie the president had that
power Mr.. Kelly thought that officials
If the Fair Haven and Westville road
rad power to order transfers over the
avenue lines. He said that
here were in the Fifteenth ward chill
lren of workingmen who never heard
he Word of God because it costs so
much to go to hear it. The Fair Ha-
zen company was receiving the revenue
# the Winchester avenue lines, and he
new no company receiving the revenue
rom property unless it owned the prop
rty.
Mr. Punderform at this point took oc-
aston to say I'VE don't decay that we
re running the Winchester avenue /
DAD If transfers were once granted it '
would be impossible to take them away
rom the people again. (Applause). We t
eel that it is not right to put these t