Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-06

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 Before Coroner Weight Weighing !!
 1000 Pounds Drops from Church
 Clock.
 What may develop into an organized effort by the Eastern Connecticut 1 Chamber of Commerce to bring about the double tracking of the New Lon don Worcester branch of the New Haven road had its inception here Tuesday. The single track line referred to is one of the busiest on any part of the congesfed lines in the eastern states and along it's route of approximately 70 miles from tidewater at New Lon don to the busy interior city of Wor- ceeter there is a chain of manufacLur- ing concerns that are turning out | tremendous amount of war products for the government. Throughout the winter this line has l'been plugged full of traffic and the condition is TO different now than it l has been fur moatils, nor is there likely to be any change while the wal
 lasts unless something is dc1s lo make l possible the speedier moving oesEsei ight
 and the moving Of greater quantities of freight The double tracking of the road, a project that has heen talked of for more than quarter of cen-z tury, is now urgently needed, and, kthrough the Danielson Business Mems
 association, an effort will be made to | Chamber of Commerce and the Wor ' cester Chamber Of Commerce and other such organizations in the plan. | with a, view to having the government l make what is a very much needed iTl- 1 provement
 Just how sorely the extra track is l needed is indicated by the fact that I great manufacturing concerns, some of them devoting a very heavy per-
 centage of their efforts; to turning out
 war orders, are today depending ex-
 clusively upon cordwood to run the Il boilers from which much of tho power
 from the plants are developed-ne coal
 to be obtained This fact. which is
 only one of series that might be mentioned to show the handicaps un-
 der which big concerns are working,
 because the movement of freight is so congested, means that the rnanufae- \ turers are Vitally interested in having the extra track put through without
 delay.
 Tt has been announced that a spe- cial director of railroad improvements and extensions of the war Industries SOl14lhlrtkC6 lDl LllC 6OtCIllA11SlllF HAALCL now controls, and operates the rail- roads, has been appointed, and the proposition made here on Tuesday is
 that his attention be called to the pressing need of eastern Connecticut so far as railway extension is con- cerned. It has been suggested that a committee representing all of the
 business organizations and manufac- turers' associations and the people who live in the cities and towns between New London and Worcester be organ ized and delegations sent to Wash ington to take up the matter of double tracking the Worcester New London
 branch with th4 representatives of
 the government.
 The double tracking of the Ii line would not present any difficult en- gineering problemss4it is held. SAs big things are done these days, the extra track could be put! through in a com paratively short space of time Inci- dentally, the improvement suggested would be of immense value after the I war, for it would connect with double I track systems at Putnam and Wor- 4 cester, making possible. much freel movement in traffic through all this s part of southern New E ngland by making it feasible to divert mucf a traffic from the Shore Line and othel
 routes that are heavily congested. There is nothing new in the propo, sition to double track the New London z Worcester route, but there never wa a such need of doing that thing as ther, 2 is right now, and it is believed tha H the government can be convinced O s that fact. The value of war produeti T made by concerns along the rout, 5 runs into hundreds of millions annu s ally and the normal peace time busi
 ness is; more than sufficiently large t, . warrant an improvement which tn :. New Haven road has not been inan ! clally in 9, position to make during tn,
 past few years.
 The improvement, if secured, vii
 mean much during and after the wa to every system along the line and tn, ' government it is held, can make n, !, more valuable extension of lines il 7 southern New England than by au , thorizing it's construction The gov : ernment is well able to make the n1icl needed improvement and the sentimen 5 here is, t6 ssa:e fsl of eastern Connecti 5 cut to join in advoca ting it.
 The need of extAa transportatio . facilities is so great along the rout o that thousands of people, a few year k ago, were led into supporting the gro Il tesque proposition of a New Londo,
 man to biliid "politscaP' canal fron {. New London to Worcester.
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