The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-26
PRESIDENT MELLEN
 SPEAKS IN WATERBURY
PRO MISES CITIZENS THERI THROUGH NEW KORK-BOS-.
 TON TRAINS.

central StntlOn -- Cannot NOW ne
 HeIped--Sltuation May Grow Ever
 WOrse--COrporation Here to Stay
 The Envious Critic--Bryan and Hearst
 A Recent Incident.
 Waterbury, Oct. 25.-President Chas. S. Mellen and First Vice Presi- dent Timothy B. Byrnes of the New Haven road were the guests of Director James E. Elton of this city to-day and tonight and both delivered addresses to the members of the Waterbury club. MT. iMellen and MT. Byrnes both spent considerable time after the addresses answering questions raised by mem bers of the club. In about year and a half, President Mellen said, he ex- pected to see through express trains running between Boston and New York via Waterbury.
 MT. Mellen said: My first visit to Waterbury was in the spring of 1892, when as general manager of the New York and New England road was making an inspection trip over the property. was then shown real estate acquired for union station, and there was outlined to me in brief way the improvements contemplated.
 1t would interest you greatly were I able now to show you that plan for comparison with the Improvements in your city now rapidly assuming form, but suffice 1t to say the real estate pur- chased in the last two years has been double in amount the whole original outlay contemplated by the plans of that date.
 So, while you have waited long, and perhaps your patience has been sorely tried, you are gathers in having the subject treated in no such narrow way as was first contemplated.
 If contracts now under way are ful- filled within the specified time, it Is my hope and intention to see running through your city by the time the im- proyenlents here are completed through trains between Boston and New York that will give the prosperous Nauga- tuck valley the service without change of cars to which it's business and pop ulation entitIe it. and this without re- ducing any facilities now enjoyed by other sections of the territory we serve
 I must beg your indulgence in one matter, and that Is the delay to which our service is subject between Wood lawn and Grand Central station. It is just and proper to hold our manage nent responsible this side of Woodlawn for all that occurs, but we suffer with you for the vexatious delays beyond, and it seems to me the situation can not improve very soon, and not improb- ably it may grow worse.
 Those in charge are apparently doing all in their power, but the volume of business has outgrown the facilities, and much time and a great amount of patience on both your part and ours must be consumed before relief is in sight.
 At time when it is so prevalent to Indulge in much abuse of successes, corporate and other wealth (which are but the evidence of it), to criticise, malign and tear down that which but few have shown capacity to create or build up; when hatred, malice and un- charitableness draw their inspiration from those in high places, and when as a result we are confronted by the pos sibility of an election to high office of those whose claim to distinction is more their ability to incite the powers of unrest than to accomplish amelora- tion of conditions which have been ad- | mittedly unsatisfactory since the be- | ginning of the worlds it not wise to pause a moment and consider whther we are drifting, and whether the prom ises of those who seek preferment are made in honesty and good faith, and whether the makers of those promises | have demonstrated in their own walks | in life thus far such pre-eminent abil- ity to justify in them that degree of expectation, whether they are other than the same character of self-seek- CTS who have imposed upon humanity an the same old way since the beginning of time.
 Whether we will or no the business of the future will be more and more han dled by corporations; several individu als may accomplish with their means and brains in combination more than in any other way and what will return uil6 ldIB6SL reWdIQ VIII uAOliiiS'NOiJ PAS- vail, even though we in our ignorance, fear, and envy seek to hamper and re- strict, and do for time hamper and restrict, to our own ultimate 'detri- ment, the operation of natural laws.
 What confronts us to-day is not ma terially different from what has been met, and successfully, many times in the past. Some have profited by their intelligence in greater degree than oth- CTS; others have attached themselves to the successful ones and been carried to greater measure of success than their deserts; others have inherited the results of the work of their forebears and are protected in the enjoyment of the same by the love and forethought l of those gone before.
 Some have excited the envy many the hatred, all the uncharitableness, of | their fellows, and the spacious prom | ises of those in power and those who | would supplant them, like the nostrums of the quack physician, are seized upon as means of relief without consider ing that the remedies are not those of l experts, but are prepared without 1 knowledge, administered without intel ligence, and may produce worse con ditions than those they are expected to relieve.
 Why is it. then, that men unable to