The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-13
SMASHING THE BETTER MACHINE

HE JTTNEYNEN proponents of the trolley
= opoly in two places, last night got very the
Deter OF the argument but much the worst Of the leg
lation
common council following the advice of Mayor Will
son. passed ordinance which probably without legal
force in which the neys the right
tally any upon which there is trolley line Under
the guse of regulation this ordinance attempts
the five cent vehicles which carrying the part
OF the urban passenger traffic.
In spite of the facts which given currency in
The Times and in spite of his ante election pledges Mayor
Wilson believes or preends to believe that the Connecticut
company would suspend SERVICE reaching
the best position into which the city might be placed decided
cut off the mass of the cy people from five
cent swer
which the jitney affords.
The trolley monopoly was exhibited in it's usual mpudent
and cynical roe threatening dire things promising nothing
speaking the truth where would serve half truths they
better deliberate falsehoods appeared
deception would better
At the Chamber of Commerce meeting, held the ball
of the Sratfield hotel attendance
mostly sympathetic with the tneys The speakers for the
neys had the best and indeed all of the their
side They giving cheaper fares frequent service
of the people, and moving at faster rate
from place to place.
trolley monopoly
if the city fails to drive out the ney He admitted that the
United circuit charge
the have received order of authorize
them suspend the operation of the Bridgeport lines of
other lines without which they would scarcely take step
likely plunge them into contempt and perhaps
their removal if this sought by stockholders other in
terested persons.
1t had been expected proceedings disclosed
erent condition. that the trolley would offer the
program laid down in the socaled Lashar report which
competition declared possible if the would
frequent service and five
No such offer made The proposal to the city was
jitneys The company agrees do
nothing o which it be held.
not the quarrel between these competitive interests
with which the merchants the manufacturers and the people
Bridgeport concerned city,
the of ordinary fair play between the city and its c
To throw the city back into the clutches of the trolley
monopoly injurious consequences everybody
trolley company will materially aided.
egement past injured grievousy the
of the compelled to take
place of swift infequen in place of Frequent and
costly place of cheap transportation.
Housing upon which the manufacturing group has
pended millions of dollars would be set back ten
workers would make demand upon employ
additional
would be put Good feeling would be impaired The
munity filled with belief, that power
of decayng monopoly had been exercised
interest.
Merchants be deprived of would nor
may them Bridgeport would be deprived its
urbs and the city reduced to of isolated communities
Independent group, as it was thirty years ago.
The effect of throwing transport into the control
strcted and incompetent trolley monopoly would be injurious
to the city in and grevous that the attempt
should be resisted to the last ditch
The best thing nterurban transport of
Connecticut would be that the trolley monopoly should
receivershp its equivalent thence into the hands
its sales value and by them operated
bed rock basis, for the benefit of the people.
only contrary interest is the stockhoding interest
There stakeholder the
Railroad By the reorganization of the trolley
property little affected
or ALL The of their stock, which
place any considerable degree rests upon other prnc
pies Under reorganization they
of the million they pay Connecticut
Railway Lighting Company use of part of the lines
Everybody benefited nobody injured excepting
perhaps employees upper grades who
would probably be replaced under things
Mayor Wilson'S contains this pertinent
ful statement:
elimination ttney competition Personally
of the in
Intelligent intelligent communities try to assist
evolution They try to ascertain what