The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-06
LOCAL TROLLEY sERYTcE.

Even allowing for the confusion, which we take to be more or less in- evitable to movement which has for it's purpose the organization of such an immense investment as the Con- soIidated trolley system. it is ques- tion if all is being done which the gen. eral public has a right to have done in it's behalf to keep the standard of service high. The travelling public in this city, as in the city of Hartford and the city of Springfield, has been patient and long suffering, and will continue to be so, if signs of an awak- ening in the management are given. Having in its steam department won enviable success as mover of persons and things, a failure to record a sim liar success in the trolley department justifes the conclusion that a more alert management is needed and needed at once.
 The residents of the town and city, together with those who have estab- lished their homes outside of their limits, are more dependent upon the trolley than they have ever been be- fore. That thing has occurred which was clearly foreseen by the experience of other cities with electricity as mo- tive power. Outlying and hitherto un- improved property has been taken up and converted into homes, their own CTS relying exclusively upon the troll ley to carry them to their places of business. Any Interruption of the traffic is more than an annoyance: it is an injury. When the Interruption takes the form of regular unreliability, when schedules are schedules only in terms of speech, when cars are punched and passengers overcrowded, when no attempt, which can be seen of human eyes, is made to relieve the congestion at the business corners of the city, when the whole endeavor of trolley management seeks popular favor by suggesting that the grant of the cen- w t6rs'of tiaeA Green, be made for switch ing purposes, when in fact there is h aoa-s t., 4Nn l1oH Ia ;frr which characterizes the steam service, the management of the trolley becomes a menace to the welfare of the city and It's surrounding country. Should the telephone company suddenly fall down on its service, and compel it's sub scribers to get along in a manner hap hazard. the whole business conditions of the city would suffer and suffer materially.
 It is because the trolley has become U the city and It's immediate neigh bcrhood what the steam road has be- come to the towns and terminals it connects, that further acquiescence in the best that can be done under the circumstances is pure folly. The troll ley is given the free use of the streets and enjoys practically the right of way over all other forms of transportation. It's business Is cash business. Every AasreefVable condition which warrants
 ore scientific and persistent man.
 mt than could possibly exist in ther form of business enterprise
 -ent, and because it Is present sTA company should spare neither la Dor nor money to rectify errors in man. agement which have become intoler- able The Journal and Courier printed in its issue Saturday morning story of the experience of a prominent busi- ness man of the city, who for good reasons of his own desired to change cars at the corner of State and Chape streets, but who in order to do so was s-ecn pelled to snatch transfer from the conductor, who was under orders to withhold such transfers until point had been reached which had been ar. bitrarily determined upon by the com. pany officials. Orders of that nature which can have but one outcome ant that the indignation of the public, are not intelligent The only intelligen policy for public service corporation to follow is the policy which make. friends for it by constantly improving the service rendered and by accommo dating the public in every conceivable way.
 We are quite ready to accept the ex planation of the company officials tha the corporation is still in the process of organization, and that in a shor while the desired service will be given and we are sure that the people of thi city and surrounding country are will ing to exercise such patience as is fai under the circumstances, but the par tieular evils in management of whicl one hears constantly, are evils whicl do not require a more perfect bushes organization to correct. We do no pretend to say what the exact step arc which evidently must be taken |