Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-01-26
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Had Villa been able to work with
other men and had he been able to
keep up a normal balance of things
instead of allowing his egoism Dob
literate all sense of proportion, he
might have been potent factor in
restoring Mexico to law and order of
leaving it in a state of rack and ruin.
-Meriden Record.
At this time when the sidings are
crowded with loaded cars and when
it Is impossible for the railroad to
find a SUFFICIENT amount of rolling
stock to handle the goods they are
asked to transport, every individual
should do his utmost to improve the
situation. Don't delay unloading goods
from cars a minute longer than is
necessary and don't above all things
ask the railroad to let you use for
storage purposes a car which your
ship goods elsewhere. Cooperation
of shippers and receivers of goods
with the corporations which furnish
transportation will end the present
congestion in short order-Hartford
Post.
The unprecedented rush of freight
into New England has taxed the fac
ilties of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad to it's utmost.
annoying one to all concerned and
is productive of much anxiety, es-
pecially on the part of manufacturers
who are unable to get sufficient sup
| plies of raw material and coal. The
railroad officials are making strenuous
! efforts to improve matters. 1t should
| be borne in mind that the trouble is
not with the motive power. With its
| own locomotives and those borrowed
| from a number of other roads the New
a hn ont ~ M
| operate. The greatest problem is to
| find sufficient yarding and side track
| ing. There is not room for the cars
| One day last week a train, every car
of which was consigned to Hartford
| reached that city only to find all the
yarding room occupied. 1t was there
| fore obliged to go to Windsor Locks to
! find siding. At Maybrook a few days
/ ago 10000 loaded cars were waiting to
! be brought into New England Facts
/ like these explain the remarkable
| state of affairs.-Bristol Press.
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Keep your eye on the thriving hust-
! ling city of Newark, n. J. 1t has q
| population of 347,4 to-day and Is
| rapidly growing. 1t is already the
| 14th city in this nation in point OF
! size, ranking next to Cincinnati and
ahead of Los Angeles, Washington and
Jersey City. Within a generation il
! will probably have over a million. The
| junction of Broad and Market streets
| in Newarks shopping center is rated
| as the busiest corner in the world
Newark's traffic congestion problem is
very much like Bridgeport's. In New
ark the City Plan commission has
| just rendered a report which looks
| ahead so years. Adequate provisions
| are laid out for the city's growth and
expansion, and every loyal Newarkel
is DESTROYS of adopting the recommen.
| dations of the commission and aid.
| ing the city in every manner. Bridge
port to has a city plan commission
and it has striven to look ahead fol
the city. 1t cannot get very far, how.
ever, so long as its recommendation.
are coolly set aside for the dictates o
greedy little partisans.-Bridgepo
Not for the first time has a position
of national bigness' and opportunit.
comes to Connecticut seeking the man
When the trustees of the Nationa
Congregational Home Missionary so
ciety, desiring an assistant secretary
sent up to Willimantic and called tn
Rev. William S. Beard of the FRS
Congregational church they made n,
error in judgment. 1t is such a cal
as may well take a man from even s.
important a work as he is doing there
And he is such man as will fill wei
the important position which he ha