The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-02
STREET RAILWAY REPORT

ways.
 thousands czens each operat- ing litte bigger automoble engaged work and in keenest competition, with the other.
 The great monopoly, with it's millions capitalization the commission bankrupt and to it from the consequences of its own folly niquiy ill fortune made various suggestions.
 Its paving assessments should be remitted
 IL should receive its bridges gift the
 should be excused from the duty of operating its lnes at points where it would wish not to operate them.
 It should have the privilege of running tney in compet ton with the neys of the private citizens of Connecticut.
 The competing iitneys, the commission enjoying substantial but humble prosperity The citizen often making little money they carrying the public smaller are and they assisting the processes of indus try by getting the workers to and from their places of toll with swift certainty.
 The states monopolistic, bottle fed, incubator hundred n.lllon dollar baby grew up to be a failure.
 The competitive, citizen owned humble jney business useful and successful This child of the state enter prising, sefsupporting and useful.
 Confronted by this evidence commission decide to help the thousands of Connecticut citizens operate full and prosperous tney helping those help
 Did the commission suggest that the taxes the itneys be remted, that the ney might operate trolley cars if they wished to do Did suggest doing away with the unsuccessful trolley monopoly that the successful R neys might carry larger and better service?
 The commission did of these things It things entirely different suggested quite seriously state ought to regulate the tneys out of business out of business regulate them tro ley monopoly can increase it's gross receipts S9OOOOO year.
 The commission in it's good naured iova generous, thinking this proposal "FFGJLATION!" not regulation at all, but DESTRUCTION.
 Coolly and calmly this gentlemen in the state which to mankind the first written constitution pro- eoting in their enjoyment of fe liberty and properly get the rotten decayed and odorou trolley of their distress by crushing lot of honest working zsns who have invested few dollars automobiles with which they furnishing their fellow citzens with speedy and economical service.
 That there may be doubt of the icy deliberate purpose the commission, R. Beckvith and ithers appendage to the main report.
 After discussing the aims which the state is asked to give to the street railways the form of delayed ted contributions amounting to than million dollars Mr. BeclWlth continues as follows:
 "Other relief of somewhat prohematica in the shape REGULATION the iit-
 'Wheher that relief will be sufficient make up the ad- dona $j ,SO00O ($9OOO0O year) even at the end Of this time very
 And very much doubt also whether by way of tney regulation ought save as much as $900000 for the Connecticut company"
 The Beo1ith conscience sr The proposition jitneys to the street railways entirely appeal him. If the neys must be robbed away from them $90OO0O single year.
 The evidence addrced before seems to us to point very clearly to the ultimate dcsroby s1bst tuition of the tney the automobile omnibus for good many of the electric railway lines in operation.
 Having this in view do not think that jitney regula- ons so ced should be so drastic to prevent the develop of that of transportation by per of reasonable moral and financial responsibility
 Beckwith perhaps remembers the days when ignorant attempted to the steam engine being He has scrpes about completely crushing by legislative fiat industry that represents progress way He compromises by favorng degree stranguaion will permit the patient barely to live He ney owners, but not to death. He continues:
 But regulation such has been recommended in the commssions report necessary for the purpose avoiding sudden present means of sudden transition would extremely likely have the effect of putting the old method transportation before the method developed sufficiently to take it's place in those localities where change might prop erly and with entire convenience be made.
 Beckwth ct aIs depart sincerity as they employed The report franchise to the railways to abandon their electric lines operate t in their stead which clearly would have the of putting the ney business into the incompetent hands that the trolley business and would png