The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-02
COMMISSIONERS WILL
STRIVE TO GET BETTER
SERVICE FOR NORTH END
Little Consideration For Public
Shown In Statements OF
Danbury and Bridgeport Co.'s
Counsel.

THE public be damned" appears to
be the attitude of the Danbury &
Bridgeport Trolley Co. if the COM
pany's counsel. Attorney G. c. w.
Jones is quoted correctly. According
to the report from Hartford he is
credited with telling Nicholas Tesiny
that the company cares nothing for
the good wiI4~of residents in the North
End and he also told the committee
from the North End Improvement as
ISOLATION to keep up their agitation
for better trolley service and they
would see what it would get them.
Mayor Clifford B. Wilson accom-
panied the committee before the Pub
lie Utilities commission in Hartford
yesterday. The committee consisted
of Jasper McLeVy, Socialist candidate
for Mayor of Bridgeport, Rev. Nestor
Light, pastor. of the Bethany chapel
Nicholas Tesiny, Joseph Stoehr, Fred
erick F. Whitehead. and Walter s.
Jones. The committee asked that the
Danbury & Bridgeport Trolley Com
pany be required to run double the
number of cars it now operates or
else the Connecticut Co. be allowed to
operate the North Main street cars on
ten minutes schedule to the city
line.
The Connecticut Co.'S cars now stop
at Terry Place, Terry farms. The
Danbury & Bridgeport Trolley Co.
cars which run from Bridgeport to
Long Hill are operated on an hour
and twenty minute schedule. John K.
Punderford, general manager for the
Connecticut Co. said that his com
pany was willing to operate its cars
to the city line provided the Danbury
& Bridgeport Trolley Co. would grant
permission for the use Of it's tracks.
Attorney Jones said his company
could not grant this permission except
at a loss and he did not think the
plan.
Attorney Jones said the road was
not earning any money and he
thought If it We're forced to put on
more cars the company would be
forced into bankruptcy. Attorney
Jones said the company intended to
extend the line three miles further to
Stepney and then another car would
be added to the service. Then he said
he thought the line would be more
profitable. He said that it would cost
$4,000 per year to operate another
car on the line while the receipts
from each car now were only $4,000
per year.
Mr. Tesiny disputed these figures
and introduced some figures of his
own to show that the number of pas
sengers using the trolley line far
as Thorme street was much greater
than Attorney Jones admitted.
Mr.. Tesiny said that cars furnished
by the Danbury and Bridgeport Co.
were second hand affairs and that
their condition was filthy. Messrs. Nc
Levy and Stoehr both urged the COM
mission to compel the company to
give better service.
Commissioner Richard T. Higgins
of the Public Utilities commission
then said that the powers of the COM
mission were limited to compelling
the company to give a better service,
but when it was shown that the com
pany was doing business at a loss iE
could not be compelled to add to the
service and lose more money.
Commissioners Hale and Ford were
also at the hearing, After the adj
journment Commissioner Higgins said
that the commission would endeavor
to bring about a satisfactory working
agreement between the two compa-
MES.