Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-05
High Authority Speaks of Work 10 Be Done By inc C0nsOIi-
 dated Railroad Managers
NOW FOR ECONOMY
More Satisfactory Distribution oI Power By Concentration on the
 Great Street Railways Just Acquired.

New Haven, Jan 5.--A high rail- road authority here to-day referring to the acquisition of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting and the Rhode. Island trolley systems by the New York, New Haven & Hartford rail- road company, states that since the properties were taken over on the goth of December, there has been a reduction of $100,00O in salaries as result of the central control, and that under the consolidated man. agement there will be considerable scope for economy in the same di- rection
 The same authority outlining future policy with reference to the management of the great street rail- way system of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad company, said that opportunities for efficient and profitable management lay in several directions, as follows:
 First, more satisfactory distribu- tion of power in the way particularly of concentration, so that the power for operating the railway system could be more focused and probably some power houses dispensed with. In this connection he emphasized the fact, that at present, there were a much larger number of applications for power than could be supplied and that this feature of selling power was to be a very promising source ofrev- enue in connection with the Housa- tonic system;
 Second, opportunity for securing much lower prices of supplies and of equipment, this feature being es- pecially marked in connection with the smaller subsidiary companies which could obtain prices en whole sale basis;
 Third; economical use of equip ment enabling continuous car ser vice where in the past. particularly in Connecticut it has had to be di- vided between different lines.
 Fourth, and probably most inn portant of all in the line of econom- ical operation, the harmonious inter- working of those steam and electric lines, which parallel each other, and which in some cases in the past have been in acute rivalry. In this con- nection attention was called to the and Canaan on the Berkshire division and Cinnamon the Berkshire division, between Larchmont and New Ro- chelle on the New York division, and the line between Norwich and Gen. tral Falls, in the eastern part of the state, there are now either in opera tion. or soon to be opened new troll ley lines, under the steam companies control. so closely operated with the steam road that they use the steam company's right of way. This situa- tion. foreshadows at an early date the fulf .hent of plan of the com pany's of using its trolley service al- most exclusively for local business and disseminating the whole or a large part of the local service of the parallel steam lines and using them for an express Or sub-express ser vice.
 II is stated on the same authority that the operation of the Connecticut Railway & Lighting company sys- tenn for the four months up to No- show net profit to the lesses of s71.000 over the rental. In the case of the Rhode Island sys- tenn the five months ending with De- cember 1, showed an average increase of seven and three tenths per cent in gross receipts. where the calcula- tions of the new awnings corpora tion provided for but five per cent increase. The Rhode Island and Con- necticut Railway & Lighting sys- tems together have shown thus far returns $20o,000 better than the es- inmates upon which the recent "dear' was based.