The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-15
OF NEW YORK EXPLAIN
 TO PARISHIONERS BAN ON DANCE
 REITERATED BY POPE BENEDICT XV
Advertising Contract Of New Haven Road to
 Net Quarter Million

The Interstate Commerce Commis- | sion and Commissions generally have pointed out to railway managements that they should not ask for increases in rates until they have exhausted all efforts to obtain revenue from every available source in order to increase the efficiency of operation. The New Haven has been able, in the last two years, to increase some rates, but many rates, particularly passenger rates, are far too low for the service rendered under present conditions of wages and heavily advanced prices of railway material. The company is trying to increase the efficiency of it's operation, but is limited in that respect by inadequate facilities, and these can be improved only by the penditures of large sums of money.
 After a years careful stigation and thorough discussion of the matter the company found it could obtain from $15O,O00 to $25O,OOO a year by renting. the advertising privilege. EThe company is frank to say it did not want to avail itself of this method of getting money, but beggars cannot always be choosers. The subject was laid before the board of directors, who are unselfsh1y working to try to inn prove the New Haven property and put it in better Condition for the use
 of the public. While they did not want to adopt this method of getting money, on the other hand as trustees for the public as well as for the se- curity holders, the officers and direc- tors felt, that for few years, they
 ought not to ignore this sum of money.
 l The company can get out of this ad- vertising privilege enough money to buy each year ten a1I-stee1 passenger ! tives; to put rock ballast IS | miles of double track; or to put in 30 miles of the most modern automatic l block-signa1s; or to pay 6 per cent. on | $2,5O0,00O of money to be spent for l betterm ents and improvements; or to
 pay 300 men for working on the main l tenance of the track; or other inn | proven ents.
 | The New Haven is not 8. pioneer
 in this method of obtaining money. It
 is used in Europe very generally. It | is used by the Long Island Railroad, | which runs through a thick1y settled
 suburban district, by the Reading, by | the Erie, by the inter-urban electric
 carriers everywhere. by parts of the | Pennsylvania system. and by the city l lines in Chicago, Boston,. New York | and other cities.
 New England needs to prepare her l railways for the future because it's | OuS1n0SS, leaving out or cOnS1OeraG1On the so-called ''war trade,'' increases
 at the rate of per cent. year. The population of New England increases | 6 per cent. a decade. Railway faci1- l'ities are inadequate at the, present
 time to give the service New England
 should have, and the New Haver should work fast as possible during | the next five years to add to it's facili- I ties. The only way the company car
 do this is by spending money, and the company proposes to do so out o1
 earnings as far as possible and bJ
 the sale of property. when they car get buyers, and, if possible, by new borrowings, if the company'si credit can be sustained. The situation is difficult. It would be much more satisfactory to the of fcers and directors if they could do 3
 great many things they want to dc
 in the way of perfecting the service beautifXing station grounds, adding 1 to the property, etc, but they cannot
 do these things with the resources
 within their control, and, in the in
 terest of the future of New England Il they believe they should exhaust, every
 means of getting revenue in order tt T go on with the work of preparing the | road for the future. EDWARD G. RIGGS.