The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-16
TROLLEY FARES AND ICE

A Iy before the people, One of these agtaed ers relates to trolley and trolley fares The other ap pertains to the price of ice. In a very large and deliberate O these agta ons in the nature of locking the stable door, after the horse is stolen. They represent very weakness in the American civic character Evils permitted to continue until crisis is reached and then the newspapers and the public make loud noises of regret and despair often of regret that Is ue
 During period 1900 to 1906 The Times-Farmer pretty steadily exhibited the by which the ruin of the New Haven system being accomplished From 1906 to the per od when the crash and the New Haven company pended its dividends, this newspaper let scarcely day without directing attention to the wrongs that were being com mited and to the inevitable consequences which must follow
 case preferred be inter ested Most of the newspapers or Connections preferred silly adulaon of Mr. Meen and his sort any honest steps for inn provement and amendment
 The New Haven Is humbled. organization bowed to dust Connecticut politician so poor spirit legislature meek, newspaper humble that it will not cast stone at this dcrep and footed system and it's roing subsidiaries.
 Presently trolley conditions fares, their unnad taxes and their poor service are directly due to the long sequence of events occurring through period in which the people quiescen newspapers serve legislatures sorry, and municipalities corrupt, careless
 The agitation rests upon similar foundation of public neglect In 1915 the people voted two to to build ice plant and for this purpose the General Assembly authorized bonds in the amount of $2OOOOO. city authorized construct, purchase, lease establish maintain and operate plant for cold storage and the manufacture of ice either of them to contract the purchase of ice and to sell or distribute ice in the City of Bridgeport and the towns immediately adjacent thereto"
 This wide authority ordered by the citizens, and granted by the legislature But from 1915 to this me the of the people has been deed upon that 10 be of fragile eXure short preeXs hatare bOdyI mpudent.
 again example of precisely the that the stable door, speak, locked there cry something that should long ago; agitation, futile noise and sound, to meet crisis and undo wrongs long nauguraed and long tnued.
 citizenship gets in the long about the govern and treatment it is entitled to- community it's rights has the disposition upon them when does know hem will be treated after the fashion indicated by it's civic intelligence
 Now that the ice question is up again, it will be better if
 
 if possible into of carefully considered.
 This fact proved The city has power to give relief has $2OOO0O of idle bonds which may employ capital any of a number of purposes. It may manufacture ice.
 Buy Build ice plant
 Lease ice plant.
 Buy ice plant already built
 may sell and distribute ice in Bridgeport and neighbor ing towns.
 a price ice if remain in private hands?
 Will it pay the people to have their distributed by the city?
 in orderly not with precision to the last " perhaps but sufficiently evidential thoughtful citizen have difficulty in making his conclusion.
 It is of proof of what Bridgeport ought to do that other community does something: proof of what Bridgeport ought Mayor Fitzgerald Haven something. Such helpful sugges- tive, but not conclusive.
 it o harvest natural ice?
 What does it cost to manufacture and distribute
 Such problems do not depend upon the say dvidual The facts have analysed that with notifications they may be brought cOnformed to the conditions of any locality.
 the problem has been raised it should wisely sdered, without prejudice.
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