Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-09

It is clearly impossible for financial 1 reasons. says President Lucirs s. Storrs of the Connecticut CO. for that company to think of building trolley trackage in New London tol connect with the trolley tracks laid across the Thames river highway bridge.
 This was his answer to a letter to .a committee of the New London Chamber of Commerce that has started out to see if they cannot get New London and Groton connected by way of the highway bridge. The situation is that rails for the trolleys have been laid across the bridge, there are rails extending about one fourth of mile on the New London side and about 100 yards | in the approach on the Groton side. l What is needed now is the laying of | two more links, one on the New Lon- | don side over the Crystal avenue | bridge to connect with the Connecti- | cut cotnpanys trolley tracks in New London, and the other on the Groton 1 side to connect with the tracks of the Groton and Stonington trolley line which is part of the Shore Line Electric railway system.
 
 the New London committee, Is now preparing to call special open meeting of the chamber of commerce at which he hopes to have 8 general
 discussion of the subject and he will invite to the meeting President Storrs
 of the Connecticut Co.,, Receiver Reb- ert w. Perkins of the Shore Line
 Electric Railway Co.,, State Highway Commissioner c. J. Bennett and the l of1 iolc nf .
 don and Groton,
 What President Storrs Says President Storrs gave the position of the Connecticut Co. in the follow : ing letter to Mir. Goldsmith: q have yours of the sixth, in relas ton to the possibility of connecting | tracks of the Connecticut Co. in New London with those of the Shore Lint Electric Railway Co. in Groton. Tt had always been the intention of the Connecticut Co. to make thi.
 connection when the steam railroad z bridge was turned over for highwa.
 purposes but the financial condition
 of the street railroads have becom : such that money is not available fo v additions to the property for aal casl
 obtained from the operation of tn s cars is required to perform the opera
 tions and it is clearly impossible t = borrow money fer any extensions re
 gardless of the value to the communi - ties.
 t T understand that certain rail have already been laid by the High r way commissioner and few length {. of rail were put in by the Shore Lin g Lduring it's operation of our propert, : All that expense. of course, woul
 have to be paid for by this compan ! n at hn posed.
 g T have been advised by Mayo , Morgan that the city of New Londo 4 has appropriated $10,000 for bridg # Estrengthening which will be necessar v but, in addition to this, the total co. v of this construction and payment 7 the state of money already expende
 would be in excess of $100.0O0. It 1 Etherefone, clearly impossible for tn
 Fcompa1iy to undertake the constru, tstion.s
 The, Connecticut Co. had nothir
 whatever to do with the trolley oper,
 tions in your vicinity since 1913 ar
 we are re-e1tering the field solely l
 reason of the Inability of the Sho M Line to continue as business vel " titre.
 We have every expectation that Y 2. will be able to continue service up,
 the tracks which we now have and
 realize fully from the standpoint the community the desirability for u 1 connection between Groton and Ne London.
 As the communities are so vital
 interested, it is quite possible son means can be found whereby the ne essary costs of construction can 4
 met and if this is the case, I will
 glad to have an opportunity of di
 cnssing the matter further with yo
 committee."
 What Highway Commissioner Say, Or Mir. Goldsmith addressed a letter on Highway Commissioner Charles it Bennett and has reply as follows: r ,,n T have2your letter of April 3 wi m- reference to the completion of t sia concrete road in Groton. We ha he hadsunder consideration for some til nef the Possibility of completing the trt