The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-13
Meaning of the Agitation Against the New
 Haven System

from freights to flyers The that the state attorney of Fairfield county is preparing warrants making criminal charges against esicers of these roads,
 The trolley lines in contact with Bridgeport Fairfield avenue where of the most important thoroughfares of the city in all impossible d1tion, has been for months The service the subject of criticism during the term of Mayor Ed ward Buckingham. A committee of the Common Coun- c has within few months been assigned to consider the conditions of the service in conjunction with
 ttee raised by other ce prepared legislation look ing reasonable fares, to the prevention of crowding and to adequate taxation.
 The steamboat lines charging a higher rate for service than charged in the days of competition
 All transportation facilities owned by the New Haven Railroad system, which is really trolley company, and these things together comprise transpor tation monopoly by land and sea-
 The sole means which Bridgeport has of getting in of the city in any modern fashion combined in this single monopoly.
 The condition in Bridgeport is the condition through out the coast cities of New England.
 Providence other Rhode Island cities troleys steam seaboats also in the sole control of the Haven system
 A little while back Massachusetts, New Hampshire Vermont Maine had freedom in transportation by the that the Boston and Maine in dependent system; system in fact embracing more miles of track than included in the New Haven tenn When these lines taken over by the New Ha- keenly the pinch of monopoly and the whole of Massachusetts seethed with revolt.
 Recently the Grand Trunk, great railroad system in Canada, sought entrance into New England. The Massachusetts opportunity to have railroad competition charter was granted Southern New England which is tributary to the Grand Trunk, and that system solemniy agreed with the two state governments to build ne and begin competition with the New Haven system.
 Work upon the proposed line, a-link which would be than hundred miles long, begun and rapidly pushed toward completion.
 Suddenly work upon this line stopped. The news through that traffic agreement had been tconsummated between the New Haven and the Grand Trunk that the competitive line would not be built
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island their hopes of free traffic with Canada through the great Larentan valley, vanish mist. The two states shaken with indignation and their and other officials relief.
 I They sought the department of justice and invoked the Sherman the theory that the violent sion of competition by agreement for traffic sions was violation of the civil the Sherman law. They besought the Interstate Com Commission to exert the not too ample ident in it. which the commission is doing.
 And these two branches of the executive side of gov seeming to have power enough to probe the situation thoroughly George F, OShaughnessy repre- Rhode Island, introduced resolution for thorough probe into the relations of the New and the 20 subsidiaries with which is related and their relations with the Grand Trunk and other tions.
 proposed to inquire through a special committee Congress into the various with other ne the wrec that have occurred into the condition of the New Haven road bed and equipment into it's monopoly steamship transportation and in short into all the facts 1 of the monopoly
 Already of the conservative business inter in Massacsuhets have declared in favor of taking the Massachusetts railway lines by of eminent domain
 It is plainly within the power of Massachusetts and Rhode Island to build and operate the connecting links which the Grand Trunk has refused to build. | This determination upon the part of Massachusetts was voiced by Representative Murray of Boston, who however desired go upon the record saying that NATIONAL. OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS is the only