Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-24
PROPOSE TOINVEST|GATEN. &W. TROLLEY

dule He mentioned that Judge Kel- iogg of the superior court had said he did not consider the spring time as any time to consider abandoning the road. If no solution of the problem is found within reasonable time said MT. McGuire, the receivers pet.- tion will be renewed before another judge.
 Mr. Mcclure further said there would be a cost for power in operat- | ing of over I 2-3 cents per kilowatt hour plus an extra charge of Il per | cent on about sSo,o00, which he could not exactly explain as he had not got that clearly in his mind from the ex- planation by MT. Perkins.
 Rev. G. F. Goodenough of Ledyard ! declared that he thought the receiver
 had taken over the profitable part of furnishing electric power but wanted
 to give up the unprofitable part of | operating the trolley. He said there | was all the more need of continuing | the trolley road now because road 1 construction would make the Highway partially impossible for year and half more.
 Charles B. Allen said he thought the meeting ought to have figures on
 the daily costs of the road before the
 strike, along with costs of running
 per car and the overhead expenses.
 Attorney Mcclure gave the deficits
 in the operation of the roads as Sl,-
 279 for October SS66 for November, $1,S99 for December, s2,S5S for Jam
 uary and s4,3SS for February. In 1915.
 he said the road had had it's greatest
 earnings, a gross of s7S,0oo, when the
 fare was half what it is now, but the
 cost of running now on a hourly
 schedule is s122,6S5 for the year.
 Appleton Main spoke of the partic-
 ular loss to the territory through the withdrawal of the milk car which is to be taken off, and pr. Thurman P, l, Main spoke of the poor service cut , ting down patronage. John F. Coo ley of Mathewson Mills suggested a !, competent engineering expert could determine whether the figures thai
 the management of the road gave
 were correct or not.
 W. W. Ives of Norwich made the motion for the appointment of a committee of invest. .gation which wa, ! ! ultimately passed. U E. Frank White of North Stoning. ton asserted that the people of Nortl Stonington don't agree with Mir. Per, kins or his figures. They believe tn, 7 road will pay under proper manage. f ment but never under the presen | management. The best paying car | y but nobody knows why. Mir. Whit , said he felt sure any figures givel !, would go back to July, the time of tn , strike. and everybody knew the uniol U had never called the strike off so tha
 union men were, afraid to ride on tn
 cars. This was cutting down passen v ger figures.
 t t MT. Mcclure mentioned to the meet u u ing that it might not take a grea amount of money to buy the road. a = he had been given to understand tha T. the Plant interests would take back a mortgage.
 u F. J. Aubrey of Norwich suggeste = that Norwich business men would b d glad to help all they can, and Attorne IS c. l.. Stewart asked if 1t would no a be possible to tide over this emergenc le by raising the fares.
 re After others had spoken, the vote f 'e appoint the committee was passed an 1t the meeting adjourned with a fe,
 words by Chairman Murphy, who sal g we had often seen examples of a sit Id nation where business under on le management had not been successfu 2 had been bought out and run wit 1T success by others. and he felt that th e. road could be made to pay.