The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-26
SHERRY BELIEVES
 ONE FARE PLAN
 MAY BE DEVISED

The Aldermanic committee on Streets voted last night to recommend the holding of . public hearing on Feb. to consider the petition of the Bridgeport G Danbury Street Railway Go. to lay its tracks in Main street from the present terminal of the lines of the Connecticut Co. at Terry Place to the Trumbull town line-
 A. W. Sperry. the engineer who built the Shore Line trolley road. appeared before the committee yesterday after noon. When the Aldermen said they were in doubt whether the line would be built or not Mir Sperry smiled and promises. but you will see good part of the road built next summer"
 The Aldermen wanted to know why he commenced at the Bridgeport end of the road to build. Ut is the logical nearest to our source of supplies
 Mir. Sperry made 1t plain that there ts nothing to stop the line being built ,at once for seven miles to Srepney. as the company's right of way Is over ,hikhways for that distance. Where the company has to purchase rights of way over private land Mir Sperry ex- peots there will be some delay. al- {, ,fhouKh he says the greater part of the Hand has been purchased already.
 Alderman Jackson wanted to know irower to operate the Bridgeport end fof its line before 1t has completed the iroad to Bethel and connected with the iDanbury q Bethel railroad.
 Mir. Sperry said: 'I would not care to divuixe that just at present. any the officers of the company are at this time" He assured the Alder men. however, that the company would operate a fast express service with vestibuled cars with smoking commandments in them for men, and all the comforts.
 As for the possibility of the com pany bringing it's customers into the center of the city without the cost of an additional fare. he said: '"The Con- of it's passengers carried a little fur ther north than it's terminal. and our company may be able to have our pas- senEers carried into the center of the oity. Up in New Haven our Shore Line cars run directly into the center ears run over our tracks. We can't promise you there will be such ar sranEement made in Bridgeport, but if there is not it will be the first in .etance where an arrangement was not perfected where two lines joined.''
 Mr. Sperry was accompanied by F. w. C. Jones of Greenwich. wfo is con- fnected with the financial end of the ,new company. MT. 6perry said that the casa of the Bridgeport & Danbury railroad was the first instance in Con necticut where h trolley road had started work within four years of the time that its charter was first granted and without a renewal of the char fer
 Asked for some assurance that his company is financially sound, MT. eper-v sald: 'The only assurance that we can give fs that we pay our debts and have spent thousands buying rfGhtS of way. making surveys, to say nothing of the money spent in prlr- chzsinE the Danbury & Bethel Street railroad The only reason that we did not commence before is that we ldld not ret possession of the charter until last October. John T. King held the control of the charter up to that .fiuDe. and being unable to finance the company he sold 1t to our company. We win operate the line. You must remember that it was said that we would not operate the Shore Line. but we are EfvinK the best service there today that there Is in the State. We carry people from New Haven to Guil- ford. i've miles beyond Branford. in hve minutes less time than the con- nscticut Co. carries them to Branford. Ws are competing with both the Con- nectfcuf Co. and the steam railroad"