The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-09
half Hour Sery.ce
 Between Bridgeport
 And Derby Refus d
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As all communities will be benefited, the idea is to have all. or as many as possible. join in paying the expense of the investigation and costs of tr3al- William Holmes, postmaster of Shel- ton is the leader of the movement to secure better service
 In response to the petition for half hour service the following letter was sent which Is self explanatory:
 The Connecticut Company.
 New Haven. Conn.,. Dec. '. 1909. Office of the General Freight and Pas
 senger Agent
 MT. William Holmes, Shelton, Conn:
 Dear lSir-Referring again to the matter of petition which you sent in to MT. Punderford with your letter of November 17th, requesting haf-houriy service between Derby and Bridgeport, beg to say that I would have seen you or written you before but for the fact that I have been going into this mat ter personally very thoroughly, and getting a statement of the riding on this division. I regret very much to advise you that the figures showing the number of passengers carried in both directions. and personal obser- vation of the situation, do not. war rant a more frequent schedule than we are now giving. l sincerely wish it did for of course. you understand 1t is to our advantage to run cars as often as the business demands. ana l do not think there is ever any hesi- tancy on our part to increase the schedule on any of our lines that show sufficient earnings to warrant it. While it Is true that one O. two of the trips occasionally show that the cars are well filled this does not apply during the whole day. ard Is not in itself suf- fc'ent inducenent to us to douDle the present schedule.
 am having daily records kept of inc riding on this division. and you may rest assured that when. in our judgment the business warrants more cars we will be only too glad to put Regretting that we are unable to grant your request. and asking that you will kindly explain our position to the other petitioners, with kind re- gards, beg to remain
 Yours truly.
 NJ. F. HEARY, Gen. Freight and Passenger Agent The view that is taken of this reply $ expressed in the following from the Ansonia Sentinel. which says:
 According to the above. unless the present system of running cars occa asionally and also the custom of increasing the number. whenever the company takes the notion, without any notice to the public, results in crowded cars on every trip. there will be no better accom- modations forthcoming. The let ter is one that certainly will not make the community feel any the more kindly towards the trolley company. but under the present conditions. the company probably cares little about this. as unless the trolley Is used the steam road must be- and the money goes into the same till. There will undoubt- edly he a hereafter wherein these matters will have due weight, and jud dging from the sentiment ex- pressed by all classes of citizens. this hereafter will not be in the very dim future.
 "Evidently the officials of the Connecticut Go. have a different idea of such matters than obtained with MT. Radel. of trolley fame MT. RadeI took broken down lit- tie line Tn New Jersey and at once doubled the service. and as re- suit built up the line until it be- came a fine paying proposition.