Republican farmer., 1919-04-25
TROLLEY FARES AND ICE

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 very large and deliberate both of ions in the nature of locking the stable door, Horse IS sloien
 character. Evils permitted continue reached and then the newspapers and the public make loud noises of regret and despair often of regret that is futile
 During the period from 1900 1906 The Farmer pretty steadily exhibited steps by Haven system being accomplished From 1906 to the iod when the crash and the New Haven company pended it's dividends hs newspaper scarcely day without directing attention to the that being med and to the inevitable consequences which must follow
 The citizens often the preferred not to be inter
 'LI 0'0P"iTi' ol P iE aduaon of Mir Mellen and his sort honest steps for i'm provement and amendment.
 The New Haven humbed. Its organization is bowed to the dust and there is nowhere in Connecticut politician so poor in spirit, legislature meek, newspaper humble that it will this decrept and footed system and it's rotting subsidiaries
 Presently trolley conditions with their high their unpaid and their poor directly due to the long sequence of events occurring through period Tn which the people quescent newspapers serviIe, legislatures sorry, and municipalities corrupt careless
 The ice agitation rests upon similar foundation of pubci neglect 1915 the people voted two to build ice plant and for this the General Assembly authorized bonds the amount of $2OOOOO.
 The city authorized construct, purchase, lease establish maintain and operate plant for cold storage and h manufacture of ice the purchase of City of Bridgeport and the towns immediately adjacent thereto.
 This wide authority ordered by the citizens, and granted by legislature 1915 time the people defed upon fragile upon pretexts boldly impudent.
 example of precisely the character that the stable speak locked about something that should agitation, futile noise and sound, crisis and undo wrongs long ago inauerated and long inued.
 citizenship gets in the long about the and treatment it is entitled community knows it's rights has the disposition upop them it will indicated by it's civic intelligence
 Now that the ice question is up again. it if the subject taken the camor brought if possible into the area of facts carefully considered
 This fact proved The city has give relief II has $000O of idle bonds, which capital any of number of purposes
 It may manufacture ice.
 Buy ice.
 Build an ice plant
 Lease ice plant
 Buy ice plant already built
 may sell and distribute Bridgeport and neighbor- ing towns.
 80 price remain in private hands?
 Will it pay the people their manufactured and distributed by the city?
 The Times Farmer will attempt questions in orderly not with precision the perhaps but in sufficiently evdental that thoughtful citizen may have difficulty in making his conclusion
 It is of proof of what Bridgeport other community does somethng proof hat Bridgeport ought to do that Mayor Fitzgerald of intends to do something Such facts helpful suggs tive but not conclusive
 What does cost to harvest distribute natural ice?
 What does it cost to manufacture and distribute ice?
 Such problems do depend upon of any in dvdual The facts have been long asceraned analysed that with notifications they brought date and conformed to the conditions of any locality.
 Since the problem has been be wisely con- sidered without prejudice