The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-14
MT. GriswoId's Plan.
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< company has proved one of the stron- gest opponents to the plan of doing away with the cut, and with good req son, because it would necessitate seve- 1al miles longer haul for their coal, material and merchandise; 50 long as they conform themselves to the use of cars not too high to pass under the bridges after they have been reduced to grades, they will be fully as well ac- commodated as at present.
 Throughout the main cut there is at present room for three tracks (two for the main traffic and one fcV sidings.)
 am told that it costs one firm in State street over two hundred dollars per week for carriage of it's freight to and from the railroad station That in itself would amount to a large divi- dend. The saving by having their freight delivered to platforms under meath would be enormous, not only to our manufacturers and merchants, but in the wear and tear on our streets and the congestion of traffic.
 If the Northampton cut should be done away with the planAof Professor Chittenden in reference to his new mining School building near Mansfield street would be sadly interfered with, which would not be the case if the present plan is carried out.
 Not only should space be reserved for a central market, but for an industrial building, similar to those already loca-, ted in Hartford, Norwich and many other cities. which contain well lighted, clean rooms of a convenient size for small manufactories where not only room, with power, could be rented, but with light and heat also supplied.
 Nearly all manufacturing enterprises are at first based on a patented inven- tion and capital is shy of being experi- mentally interested in an unknown quantity in shape of rent and expenses, and much more in investments in real estate. Such building would become 3 nursery of new enterprises and Is sure to have the strong backing of the committee on new enterprises appoint- ed by the Chamber of Commerce. Tn conference with members of this com nlittee it transpires that they are often discouraged, because other cities are able to offer to projectors of new enter prises facilities which are not available in New Haven. With this plan carried into operation do not hesitate to say that no city in New England would be able to offer advantages at all com mensurate with New Haven, and that this city would soon be outstripping even Bridgeport in percentage of growth, and the Chamber of Commerce would have every incentive to work for its up-buiIding.
 I must not forget the central market. Nothing has been more missed than the market, small and poor as it was, that was burned on Chapel street a few years ago. This new market should have both a wholesale and retail story. The retail floor does not need any ex- planation. Such a market exists in ey- cry city in Europe and in many of our western cities and is usually owned by the city and stalls are rented to retail merchants. The wholesale market is of modern growth The cut under meath the market should be widened out and have several platforms each connected with an elevator to the floor above, and to the street or yards where drays and wagons can be loaded.
 The Manufacturers railway should open on to all the suburban electric railways so that market gardeners in Hamden, Westville, North Haven, etc., could load their own cars and have them drawn during the night to their leased siding underneath the market, where during early hours of the morn ing they would be unloaded by means of elevators either into the retail mar ket above or into the market wagons belonging to the city grocers and mar ket men. ts.
 I leave it to those wiser than myself and more experienced in business and railroad matters to devise the method of carrying this plan into execution, but this is the opportunity of a centu- " for laying the foundations of won- derfuI expansion and growth of New Haven, which, if it escapes us at this time can never again be available. TctxxT%er