Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-04


 This town began to feel on Thursday that it had about arrived at the "do- your2durndest" period of the war. Af- ter fighting Arctic weather for a week and listening to tales of Shortages in this line and shortages in that line and of only little hard coal to pc had and wood scarce, the people woke up Thursday to be told all in one day that it is going to have two of It's lew passenger trains taken away, next week, that its trolley service IS NKeiy to be cut in half. also during the com ing week. and cars run only once in two hours: and that if coal doesn't arrive before next Tuesday the Dan. ielson and Plainfield Gas and Electric company will be unable to operate it's power plant to anywhere near capae: ity, which means that the Connecticut Mills company and the Goodyear Cot ton company, chiefly dependent upon electricity for power, will have to close down their plants, either partly or as a whole Also, that, if soft coal IS not hurried through within few days other big plants will be obli ged to cur l tail operations or close ooWn com pletely. And a few other stories of prospective hardships fully as encour- aging as the foregoing.
 1 A man may take his pick of the ca l lamities that are hereby threatened and get what comfort he can out of l his selection, but to the average man the whole programme looks pretty ! rotten" to use a descriptive phrase employed by one. man who talked on Thursday afternoon.
 l It becomes apparent at once. how ever, that the coal situation is to most serious with which this town has to contend Strenuous effort has been made to get coal in here and F. B, 1 Cunneen, member of the state council l of defense, has been hammering away 1 at the state fuel administration try ing to get some relief for the gas and electric company, which is on verf- l table hand-to mouth basis, so far as l it's fuel supply is concerned. This company needs B tons of coal a day for it's Plainfeld plant, and if it doesn't get it, and get it quick, the results will be felt by more than 1 900 mill op- eratives and thousands of others de pendent upon them. The Quinebaue company also needs coal and must have some at once though this con
 cern is doing everything possible te utilize it's water power to best advan' tase, but this power alone is not sui.
 
 capacity. Most of the mills that are
 threatened by the coal shortage ars
 working on government orders. | The Train Situation.
 As to train service, Danielson alsf
 will be hard hit The removal of tht
 trains due here at 3.05 D. m. and S.5; D. m. will leave the borough withou one passenger train, north or south
 between 10 a. m. and 5.42 p. m. It il
 held that these trains do not pay thu
 railroad company for the part of thu
 run between Norwich and Putnam, ant
 that they haven't paid for years. Thi
 is not generally disputed by those wht
 know something of the facts, but it i
 maintained that orphan asylums stoV
 no dividends either, yet are considered
 necessary institutions.
 What may be done about the trail
 situation was not definitely outlined
 Thursday but there certainly is goin. to be howl all along the line iron
 Norwich to Putnam. The trains tha supply connections for Providence
 Boston, Willimantic, Hartford, Nev . Haven and New York and their re moval will certainly impose what ar
 seemingly unnecessary difficulties ol
 the travelling public, it was being hell
 here Thursday by members of tn Business Mems association.
 If the trolley service is to be GU
 to car once in two hours. as is beinj
 talked. Danielson will be almost a
 isolated as is the Ukaraine. and ther , Is the outside chance that the war ma
 be over before the people hereabout 7, have chance to hear about it. As a happy New Year, 1918 is start , Ting out to make some record. Bu maybe the worst is yet to come!