Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-24
PUTNAM

The Public Utilities Commission, in
 a decision received here, has denied the petition of the Grosvenordale com pany for approval of a method of con struetion of an electric transmission line in the, town of Thompson. The
 purpose of .a this spEoposed line was to transmit tse fsctrieify fraila a plant in
 Massachusetts teasthe AssJa Its gof4 the Grosvenordale company, in tHas town of Thompson, and the plan was oppos- l ed by the Putnam Light and Power
 company. The local light and power company did not specifically oppose
 the method of construction, but ques-
 toned the legal right of the Gros-
 Nenordale company in. the premises.
 It appeared from the plans submit ted to the commission that the pro- l posed transmission line was to be built largely over private right of way
 but at. places was to cross highways
 and railroad rights of way. and rights
 of way and wires of the A. T. and T.
 company, the Western Union Tele- graph company. the $. N. E. Telephone
 company and the Putnam Light and
 Power company.
 It also appeared from the evidence
 and facts submitted at the hearing before the commission that the Gros- venordale company intended to pur-
 chase power from the New England
 Power company of Massachusetts and to transmit this electricity over the
 proposed line.
 The Putnam Light and Power com
 pany contended before the public utilities commission that the Gros- to purchase and transmit electrical en-
 ergy over the proposed system in the way set forth before the commission.
 The points on which the commission
 decided against the Grosvenordale
 company were pertaining to it's right to construct an electrical transmits sion line across public highways and
 across the existing rights of way of
 other companies engaged by virtue of
 their charters in rendering public ser I vice. and. secondly. the authority to
 electricity generated outside of the
 state and transmit the same into Con-
 necticut to be used for power pur-
 poses.
 1 In passing on the petition the Pub lie Utilities Commission says:
 Whatever may be said of the wis dom, ie is unquestionaby the legis- Ia tive policy of this state to prohibit the state the purchase, sale and dis
 tribution for power purposes of eltc-
 tricity generated outside of the state. Tt is not tenable that a foreign corporation should have greater rights to invade and supply electricity in such local territory than a Connecti-
 cut company would have or that a To- cal manufacturing company. without special authority to generate, trans
 nit Or sell elecN~icity would have the right to buy, transmit and use for
 power purposes in q territory where
 achartered electric light company and
 power company is engaged in busi-
 ness. a
 1 We are of the opinion that the To- 1 cation, construction and utiliza ton
 of the proposed transmission line by the petitioner in the manner and for ! the purposes specified would he con
 trary to and in violation of the laws
 of this state. Holding this view. it is unnecessary 10 pass upon the par ticular type and method of construc-
 tion proposed. and for the reasons herein stated the petition is denied. # F. J.i Trinder, supervisor of. state trade schools, was a visitor in Put
 nam Monday. Mir. Trinder is to leave at an early date for Bermuda. where
 he will remain about three weeks for the benefit of his health.
 EIeazer Pomeroy, of Windsor, has purchased from John W. Law of this ;.! city the Law farm in the town of | Woodstock. The farm is about 150 7 acres and one of the finest in the town l of Woodstock, a town of fine farms The accredited statement of Cat , tie Commissioner Whittlesey, said to l have been made last week at hear ing before the milk regulation board at the capital, that approximately 3t , per cent. of the cattle of Connecticut , are tubercular is startling to many ir ] towns in this section, where ,dairying [ is an important industry
 J. Herbert Smith was reported Mon. day as seriously i'll at his home or Church street.
 t Throughout the state organiza tions T are being formed to procure from wo- { men their signed pledges to practice 9 economy in home exI< lditures and iI 3 dress and to report to local commit t tees Investigating as to the high cost 2 of living and how to reduce it all 1T
 cases of profteering that may come
 totheir notice. These committees vii ] cooperate with the Connecticut Fail ! Price committee. Miss Rosamont Danielson of Putnam Heights is g } men Der of the central committee di. ; recting the work of various sub committees in the larger cities ana towns throughout the state
 l There is rush on the part of many Putnam people to make out their in. come tax returns. which must be ] completed and returned by March 15 Heavy motor trucks. carrying beam. : of yarn and other, supplies for mill.
 in this vicinity, are again beginning !, to move over highways that has beer t impossible to them for the past thre, . weeks. There are very few of thes, 7 trucks attempting their usual worl t vet. however. and some routes tha ' they travel are still blocked to them s Much of the yarn that these big mo. l tor vehicles carried is now coming by
 freight and express.
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