Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-19
NEW LONDON'S OPERATION OF THE FERRY

when the citizens in city meeting assem- 1 bled voted to take over the ferry and l paved the way for dumping the public :, money into losing enterprise.
 The Connecticut Power company that furnishes the gas and electricity for the city of New London, as all act of cour- tesy, probably, notified Mayor Morgan that there was to be an increase in the rate of gas to the consumers, graded in accordance with the amount used, which will mean to the ordinary consumers an increase of from 12 to If 1-2 cents a cubic foot A raise was made in the price couple of years ago, and without much protest The mayor in reply noti- fled the company that he did not approve of the increase, as he considered it an injustice to the consumers and entirely unwarranted He said he would make every possible effort to prevent the raise and that he would appeal to the public utilities commission and ask to be ad- vised of the proper method of procedure. And he did. He received notice from the commission that in order to haev public hearing the request must be by petition from the consumers. The mayor declared that the petition will be forthcoming
 And it will.
 The gas and electric company. through it's local head, came back in public print welcoming the public hearing and intro duced figures intending to show that New London was not to be asked to pay more than is being paid in many other places in the state. Nothing was said of the
 conditions in other places as compared with New London, or anything like that
 but the company was content with the bald statement. The city of Norwich was
 included ir the list to show that the rate charged in that city was five cents thousand less than was being charged, in New London. That may be so, as indi- cated on the face of the returns But Norwich is a municipal plant, and per haps the lower rate given to consumers
 is more than balanced in the increased
 taxation towards the maintenance of the plant.
 The Norwich rate seems to be lower than in New London, but that is a dues- tion that might be determined by investi- gation. It is quite probable that before the Connecticut Power company notified Mayor Morgan of the proposed raise the hew rate was filed with the public utili- l ties commission and tacit permission giv- | en for the raise. That may be just 8 little
 reason why the company seems to favor public hearing, so that emphasis could i be given the necessity for raise in the ] rate. It is said that some public cor | porations used to have considerable inf1u- l ence with the powers that be, in the long. | long ago, when conditions were a trifie
 different than at the present time.
 After plugging along uninterruptedIy
 for thirty-fve years The Morning Tele-
 graph is to suspend publication as a daily newspaper with Saturday of the 1 present week and will then become a
 Sunday publication. This action is very
 much regretted and the absence of a morning paper with all the local news will be very much missed. While The
 Telegraph may not have been a finan-
 cial success during it's long life, does not
 lessen the desire of the people to get the
 morning news while it is news, and the real big things. as a rule, happen within the operation of the morning paper. The | Telegraph was originally owned by foul
 men. One dropped out at time and the paper finally became the property of one of the original owners. This quartette quit the Telegraph without fl | nancial loss. Finally the paper was
 sold to the Day company and used tc bolster u1 that newspaper. with tho view ever in mind of finally killing tn, morning newspaper. When the Day passed the Telegraph
 over to another owner there seemed tt
 come with it a lack of management, O
 something equivalent thereto, and th'
 paper was tossed from pillow to post un
 til it became battered almost to the poin
 of death. Eventually Morton r. Plan