The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-23

not nutil MT. SeymoUr's nomination was sent to the senate that the expec- tation was shown to have been un- founded, Governor L. A. Cooke pursued a similar course in nominating the suc- cessor of George M. Woodruff of Litch- field on the board. MT. Woodruff was recognized throughout the country as one of the ablest railroad commission CTS of his period. It was one of Cover nor Cooke's great mistakes in dropping him from the board. Ex-Commissioner Bacon has spent his last years in Dan bury, residing nearly opposite from the Congregational church on Main street, and within a few steps of the Savings Bank of Danbury, with which he is of ficially connected. He is far along in life and but rarely visits his alma nla- ter at commencement. His presence at Trinity has always been as benign as that of Thomas Gallaudet of Bishop Niles, and will be missed as much by and by.
 The name and fame of Dorrance At water, who saved the death rolls of the Union prisoners in Andersonville, was nobly defended at the annual encamp- ment of the Grand Army in Meriden on Centennial week by Francis Atwater, president of the Meriden Journal Pub fishing company and manager of the Journal of that city. He was admitted to the encampment by the delegates, in itself a high honor, as President AtWa- ter is not Grand Army man, and made an elegant and forcible address | in support of Dorranee Atwater's s claims to justice, Gilbert W. Thompson Post of Briston having made an attack on the honor and reputation of the An- | dersonville hero. President Atwater is | the brother of Dorrance Atwater and has been interested in the public tribute paid by the town of Plymouth, town of heroes in the civil war, to the man who made it possible for Clara Barton, at the end of the war, to exact Fourteen thousand head-boards in the Anderson Vile cemetery, giving the names and regiments of the soldiers buried in the trenches. Soldiers like General Bray ton Ives of New York, General Bras. tus Blakeslee of Boston, and the late Judge Augustus H. Fenn, of the Su- preme Court, went to the war from the old town of Plymouth, and it was inn possible for the town to be wrong in honoring Dorrance Atwater.
 The address of President Atwater in the Encampment bore fruit promptly. The ill-advised action of Thompson Post will be rescinded and the imputa- tion left by it removed from the records. Mir. Dorrance Atwater is now in Cali l fornia. His services in saving the names of the dead at Andersonville from total extinction cannot be honored too highly.
 The Southern New England Tee- phone Company has broken ground for a new exchange in Danbury at the cor ner of West street and Terrace place, the site being especially suitable for the Company's work. It is on a residen- tial street within short distance from the main thoroughfare in the city. The new exchange in New Britain Is sim ilarly located and furnishes the ad- vantages of quiet with business cen ters easily accessible The new eK- change in Danbury will be erected by the Torrington Building Cobpany. IA new common battery switchboard has been ordered for the Danbury service and is now being manufactured by the Western Electric Company of New York. Its installation will probably take place the last of the year. The new exchanges at Norwich and Stam- ford will be completed this year and the new modern switchboards installed The completion of these enterprises will
 make big year in the progress of the Southern New England Company. Al
 New London and South NorWalk com. mon battery switchbOards have beer installed since January. The new ex- change at Clinton has been opened this
 month, covering the town of Killing.
 worth, which was the last town in tht state that was not able to be reached l by the telephone service. It Is inter. esting as showing the ripeness of Xii. | lingworth for the telephone that 45 sub scribers contracts have been <nade 1T the past month or so There will soor
 be a new exchange at Deep River, con meeting that section withe Lyme. The underground and submarine cable worl is going forward at rapid pace ant the year in that direction will be fal ahead of 1905. New conduits are beins
 laid in all of the cities. The conduit work here has been in progress for twt
 months and will not be finished unti September The extensive conduit con. struction in Meriden will be taken III as soon as the Hartford extension is 1 complete.