The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-26
The MeddLer
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ny oiiclai Information IN re- |
gard TO proposed train changes has
yet been received locally it is under
stood that the schedule soon to be mt
IN effect by the Boston & Maine con-
tains practically no changes that af- |
feet this town. This will be good news
| to the local public, for while in these
days one hesitates to object to any
thing that savors of war necessity
yet it cannot be denied that train serv
ice in and out of Brattleboro at the
present time is about as abbreviated
as anyone wants to see it. A few
weeks ago there was considerable talk
that the Boston Maine railroad off
Gals were planning to take off the
train leaving here at a. m. for Spring
field, Mass, and returning around 9
o clock in the evening, likewise the
train arriving here from Springfield
at 9.35 a. m. and returning on its south
bound trip around p. m.
While if absolutely essential the first
named train might be spared through
the summer months, when the so-called
owl train runs pretty close to schedule,
it is obvious that the removal of the
morning train from Springfield would
have been little short of disastrous.
While passenger traffic on this train is
| light between here and White River
Junction, its northern terminus, the
amount of. mail Land express it carries,
to say nothing of newspapers, makes
it an actual necessity. Without it, in
] fact, local business houses that are de-
pendent in any degree on mail and ex.
: press would hardly be able to begin
business before noon. No doubt the
disadvantages of such a prospect were
pointed out to railroad officials by the
transportation committee of the local
, board of trade, to whom the matter
was referred, and it speaks well for the
persuasive powers of that body to be
told that the trains in question will
not be dropped.
While Brattleboro cannot help be-
! ing just a bit envious of Greenfield 8
? rapid yet apparently substantial growth
in population there are attendant dis.
| advantages. Throughout last winter
, the town suffered severely through
{ lack of coal, due to the fact that its
apportionment was based upon the
much smaller requirements of the year
!. previous, and its outlook for the com
ing winter is none too good Added to
/, Iths colfs tie StasesiiefNlt that the
5 town $ water supply, built TO take care
of the needs of but a few more than
? half of its present population, is like
ly to prove inadequate throughout the
!, summer months unless more care is
i taken in its use. These things, how.
ever, are merely the penalties that any
, town is only to willing to pay as the
q price of its growth, and Greenfield by
: reason of its pay-as-you-go policy OF
t municipal expenditures is in an excel
lent position to meet them
One cannot read the record of the
n Taft bankruptcy estate, which in -four
II years paid its creditors 100 per cent
II and interest and had $4,000 left over
II without wondering whether there wa.
Il any actual necessity for resort tt
II bankruptcy proceedings: If such ;
II showing could be made in the face Of
Y expenses that are supposed to ac
company legal administration what wa
2 to hinder an equally good one bein,
made under the usual methods of opera
!. ton?
Q Not long ago The Meddler expressed
- his belief that the county Red Cross
). chapter should take the initiative il
a establishing a course of training TO
young women with q view to helping
/ supply the need of nurses that is sure
u to make itself felt this coming winter
With the supply of trained nurses SC
+ depleted by war demands something
i should be done at once toward organic
e ing a force of workers who can be
!, line, and the value of having the worl