Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
EVIDENCE oNRooKE
 REGISTER PRESENTED

The continued hearing on the com- piint of the local trolley car sadue- tors before the board of arbitration consisting of Hugo Memm, chairman; John c, Ellis and William C. Fox,
 was held in New London Monday.
 Axei Swarin, a conductor on the
 Shore Line trolley cars testified that
 conductor is in danger of falling off
 the running board while carrying the
 register, also that many lost fares re-
 suit. He claimed that with large
 load of passengers he will go from the Parade as far HIS Thames street before he is able to collect all fares. Under the former system he could collect the fares in oae=half the distanye. He claimed that on one trip a passenger teld him he had lost 3s fares. People have told him that it is a great joke 10 get free ride He said that the eompany's order to keep the public from riding on the running boards has turned ont to be a dead issue. He tried to enforce this rule himself but it was not generally en- l forced,
 He said that the register jumps, which costs the conductor extra mon ep when he settles with the company 1 He has had to pay from 50 to so cents 1 for shortages on account Of the inae- eurany of the Roeke register. One 1 conductor told him that he had had i to pay $te in, shortages
 i George Batting, conductor for nine l wears. testified along the same lines as | MT. SWaria. He showed to the com l mission a. finger with big callous 1 where he was obliged to carry the reg l ister. He said there was sore there before there was a calleus. He said | that the running time from the Pa rade to Shaw street was about six minutes and with a load of 125 pas i sengers he could get about talf the fares in that distance. He said tha he had invested his own money in z eentrirance to enable him to malS,
 change more rapidly and thus ge
 mere fares, incidentally helping tn l eenpany
 1 The delay in handling fares make the time slower and frequently he ha : overlanned alNther mans time on trip. He says that with the money fo l making change on one hand and tn , register on the other be has two fin gers on each hand remaining to han . onto the car. He and Air. Swarin bot i claim that the nicllles drop from thei hands as they come through the reg 1 ister that passengers complain c having to use them. He said that on
 man refused to put his nickel into tn $ 1 register but threw it onto the floor 6
 the ear.
 sl The old clock register never jumpe t but the Reoke registers do and witnes t 1 says he has turned in several whie s were inaccurate and he thought tha s during the past eight weeks some 1 f of them had been sent back for re t 1 pairs.
 ai Joseph Ross. another -conduete
 I testified along the same lines. @ The hearing was not concluded unt e 6.9e Monday evening. In the afteFnee ' the trolley company presented test S ,nony in support of the register. The e 1 had representatives of the company S, New London, trolley officials frol : Providence, an expert from the con . nany making the, register, tte supel 0 intendent of a New York bus liI = which uses the register and Mir. Res.
 himself, the inventor of the register
 The special committee is to me
 soon to weigh the evidence ana u F | arguments in order to give a decisio