The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-13
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NEW HAVEN, COMPARATIVELY
(New Haven Register.)

(New Haven Register)
 There's sound-and needed-com- liam A. Beardsley of St. Thomas ] church that New Haven is no worse than any other city of it's size. For its abounding sense one may forgive !; him his descent to the common error assuming that he was correctly re- ported-in saying that the newspa- newspapers simply print the happen ings and sayings of their community as they come along. If the appear ance of vice in New Haven is thereby exploited or magnified let MT. Beard sley remember that some of the un
 Justified sayings have been traced to is,e'4 VI %n4 PASS as naInastGrs' a34 Inat at New Haven's.
 Comparisons have a bad odor, of tentimes. It is not the whole of jus Gce to New Haven to say it is worse than any other city of it's size, any more than it is strict justice to other cities to claim that New Haven is better than they. We should have to qualify all around if we should go into comparisons. We should say , that New Haven is in some respects better than any city of any size, any where; that it is in many respects the equal of most cities of it's size and opportunity; that in very few if any respects is it worse than other cities of it's size and character.
 But what do we gain by compari- son after all? It is cheap way. to - New Hven has very few respects in which it could not be improved. It has a m multitude of faults. It has It's peculiar problems. The faults and problems we should face in the abso- lute, and seek to remove or solve them without regard to comparison.
 TWELVE MINUTES LOST.
 (Ansonia Sentfne1o
 The new train orders concerning cross-overs is reported to result in a 1~c.- ~f time between New Haven and: New York. It was expected that some time would be lost by the slowing process. It couldn't very well be oth- erwise. But the public was prepar- ed for this. Force of circumstan- ces have converted railway patrons sacrifices safety, it is high time to make haste more slowIy-and live longer.
 The railroad company, in all prob i for the attaining of the rate of speed which has proved in some instances series of years past has been for ; trains that would make the distance between population centers in the 1 shortest possible time. Commuters, ] their places of business have been 1 c1amoring for rapid transit. to cut | down the time they had to spend : demands, a minute has been clipped off here, few seconds somewhere else and so all along the line; curves have been strengthened and bridges constructed at immense cost 1 to provide for faster trains. The i very cross-overs which have caused i so much trouble were constructed. to i save the twelve minutes or more thai ' are now lost by the new order, conn i polling engineers to stop their trains l before taking them.
 Partly because engineers disobeyed i orders and took these crossovers at a ! nigh rate of speed instead of accord | ing to rules, and partly, perhaps, be- cause of faulty construction, the very means which the, road has provided l for the benefit of the service has now caused a reaction and the people | who were 1oudest in their demands for faster service. are now pleading that safety be made the first cohsid- eration. This is as it should be- What will a man give in exchange for his life?