The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-27
NOT THEIR BUSINESS

fars and takes too little heed of those public affairs which also are, in a very real sense, "his business
 There who lived in a dwelling which at the beginning of Mayor Wilson's administration taxed at S95 upon which the man now pays ssO That man among who have been negecng the public of his private busl 
 This man was saunch defender of the New Haven road during the 1900 913 when the destruction of the property fairly complete but since he seldom travelled and stockhoder his failure to take interest in what went did not get into the front of his
 Neither did he view except with compacency the period from 1901 to 1eo when the great invention of electric trans portaon being manipulated and waered and tempered with until only part of its benefits could be realized by the public. ~-
 little later trolley began to rise and systems installed and the cost of getting to and from increased, and service poor, and sometimes missing especially winter weather friend got the that he and other not quite attending to their business when they neglected to attend to the pub lie business.
 little later it will into the mind of this American sovereign sleeping the job that the price of just such things have been going in Connec lieut. The New Haven not the only ruined railroad The Bridgeport trolley lines are not the only ones which are compete with automobile transport on account Of their gross mismanagement.
 Life presses heavily every day upon he and his friends did not appreciate the and tent of a mans private business.
 Comes ortutously opportunity to make fresh start transport If the city takes the steps for its protection it get it's again, free and clear to fit
 fact stands out very clearly is this fact If the stood they did prior to the advent of trolley nes neither tracks, wires would be permitted.
 object lesson is Instructive than much thinking theory alone perhaps for the who really under stands the art of thinking but for busy has been said, with strictly private affairs.
 Automobile transport is cheaper.
 It is faster.
 It clears up traffic obstruction.
 It is silent
 It is as we'll adapted to hours.
 is adapted the hours of slow traffic. The units small They just often enough to pick the people, few at tme great trolley seating hun dred must run infrequently and mostly empty.
 The automobiles nearly noseless.
 The silent has the dream of countless searchers after human welfare Nobody knows cost in body mind the roaring city streets It is that fourfths of the noise proceeds from the grinding of iron wheels often flat, against tracks.
 of jtneys constitutes the ideal service. If the streets clear and nothing in the they would be supplied with the automobile be procured elastic that could accommodate itself the valleys of af fife easily as to its peaks.
 what is what might carefully developed be?
 Bridgeport served with 1o single track, of dollars.
 service, swifte cheaper fic silent could supplied being sup piled in Bridgeport upon capital investment of less than million and a half of dollars.
 things together depreciaion obsoescence terest, maintenance and the annual through millions in automobiles would much, much less than the cost through millions vested in trolley lines.
 The troeys figures of their pres ent investment.
 They might they acquired at auction prices by progressive managers who would equip then with light speedy modern and the at four five minute interv.ls, for five cent fare
 A great experiment. being carried Bridgeport The stage coach meets the locomotive. The iron clad wooden ship The invention arrives in the nick of time to help the suffering city.
 Bridgeport leadership of carried the idolatrous worship of the road. Bridgeport too long has bowed down grave1 image with wooden head. The city is cut in Chimes wall Its highways full which impede ever the of their investments Freight passenger are Coal is unobanable because dow1 railroads cannot carry efficiently.
 The Connecticut Company has abandoned caousv imns cold d1ty