Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
DANLELsON

cent. in the water rates in Danielson is of special interest alike to prohibit | tionists and the antis, who are in the majority in this town. In this case the new rates will fall alike on the just and those who some like to de- 1 scribe as the unjust, who are always | ln the majority. fncIGen y: there | can be no water strike there isn't | anything else left to drink!
 Fully 500 operatives at the plant of | the Connecticut Mills will be Iempor- arily thrown out of employment as. the result Of the tyingup of transporta- | ton lines through the continued : storms. This big plant manufactures i no yarn at all, merely preparing it ] and Weaving it into tire fabrics at the i Danielson plant. The blockage of state highways between Danieison and Massachusetts textile centers, wfereI it's yarn nanufae eturing plants are To- catedAEast Taunton and Fall River and the almost total lack of deliveries by. the railroads has resulted in the cutting off of yarn shipments amount ing to nearly a quarter of a. million pounds each week.
 About 25 per cent. of the operatives were not working on Friday, and the prospect then was that the whole plant will be shut down the first of the coming week ualess the railroads manage to get some yarn through to the big concern. There is no hope of overland deliveries, as the Chepachet route-Providence to PNtnam-which the big motor trucks use in getting to ,, Danielson is absolutely impossible and will remain so until warmer weather comes to melt down the great banks 0 fsnow that are thrown across it. A thousand men couldn't open it in a week over it's entire length.
 At the plant of the Goodyear Mills, Inc, at Goodyear much the same con ditions as the Connecticut Mills Com pany was facing plagued the manage | ment. This mill does manufacture some yarn, but not enough to meet its weaving capacity. A large percent age or the employees are already idle 1 and until new supply of var comes | through from the Massachusetts yarn ; centerS only restricted number of departments can be kept in operation. l Other manufacturing concerns in 1 Killingly are feeling the Spinch of the 1 situation and some of these likely will ] be forced to suspend operations by the | first of the week. Still others that have ample supplies to keep their pro- auction up to somewhere normal are i handicapped by reason of their ina | bility to forward finished products
 which are glutting their storeroom | spaces an dtieing up their capital at 1 the rate of thousands of dollars a day.
 Truly this is period of discontent for
 the manufacturers in Killingly.
 In the past forty years no such pro-
 longed tie-up of transportation due ] to storms has been experienced, and
 the real pinch of the situation is just beginning to make itself unpleasant i ly manifest.
 | To add to the troubles of all whom the storm bothered another mass of
 snow came sitting down out of the
 north Friday. This last display by
 the weather man was really discour-
 agihg-but the flowers will bloom again sometime no matter how much snow there is today.
 I Considering the proposed advance in water rates from various angles and
 studying the situation of wide spread public interest from variety of view
 points many citizens were frankly
 puzzled on Friday as to why the Crys- i tai Water company has given notice to the warden and court of burgesses ; that it is toincrease it's fiat rate anG
 meter charges by s 1-3 per cent.
 A suggestion that seemed to holt ] idea that the = er company is getting
 ready to unio~I it's property on t. the borough. Just what ground ther(
 is for this belief is not established
 but that idea has taken root and i:
 accredited in some quarters. The be.
 lief seems to be that such an astound 2 ing advance in rates will exasperat l. many into agitating for public own
 ership Of the waterf system that sup , plies Danielson. and that if Danielsol does venture into public ownership : beginning with the water system, will find when it comes time to bu, , that the Crystal Water company re : gards it's properties as worth yer,
 considerable sum of money. If t1es |. i students of the situation are correc I ir their views-and there is nothin, i to be criticised in a-conceived pro < gramme of the water company to sel s out to the borough, Or any other pur
 chaser-it will be greatly admitte I that no bargain sale is to be locke l. for or even thought of.
 ;. The main supply lines Of the Crys
 tai Water company have been laid fo , more than 80 years. The mains hay f not improved in condition in that pc ] riod and there is the prospect t6
 1 be considered, if the borough is tempt : ed to buy, of being faced in the no n distant future with the cost Of renew
 ing much of the underground sys 0 tenn of mains. at a cost that will ad = very materially to the original pur
 chase price. It may be mentioned tha h the borough has right to buy tn
 plant of the Crystal Water company a Y any time it sees fit to do so, by com
 plying with certain legal requirement.! t Sentiment seemed on Friday to b r. chystalizing in favor of the genera o propisition that the borough of Dan d ielson neither buy nor pay the propos }. ed rates without a fight that will def
 initely determine much that will b
 of paramount interest to Danielso
 citizens pertaining to the affairs of tn e the matter of the proposed increase r rates before the Public Utilities Com $ mission it may be hoped to learn some C thing of the income of the water com l. pany, something as to the maintenane d cost, something as to what the com f, pany thinks it should have each yea $ for a depreciation fund and somethin # as to various other interesting feature
 of the company's business.
 n In making such an effort in behalf k. all of those who pay money into u v coffsrs of the water company, thel j. need be no feeling that its an e le fort to hecl1le the company nor to fir tt a means of expression of resentmei g against the officials who direct it t the persons who own it. The prc it position, it is pointed out, should l
 approached for consideration as shou
 any other business question of suC n very special interest to so many pet
 pie. They pay the bills and they a,
 entitled to know something of u = why's and wherefores of what they ps
 to public service corporation.
 The Crystal Water company has
 gravity system. Nature has done P great deal tO save if ayOanSe in oetfir