Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-20
PUTNAM.

BUS eefVfce on the Gagncn .IIneS De- tween this city and the Grosyenor dales is to be indefinitely suspended in about two | weeks, MT. Gagnon stated Wednesday morning. The owner of the line said that | he has found it improbable and that | he figures his losses to date at about s. l e00, although there has been consid erable | traffic over the line which runs through i Mechanicsville, serving the people of that village. and through West Thompson to the Grosvenordales. Another bus line that has been furnishing service between villages of the town of Thompson and Webster is expected to cover, the route that MT. Gagnon will abandon that >he may devote his entire time to his truck ng interests, which sare important and probable. His bus line tos North Gros venordale has been established about 8 year and a half, coming into real activ ity following the trolley strike during the summer of 1919. = ..,.- -s. --..'. The pending withdrawal of, the Gagnon | bus service furnishes another angle to i the difficulties of the urban transporta- 1 ton lines in operating proftably in this | territory. Between Putnam and the | Grosvenordales, it is now apparent. there has been no profit for either the buses or the trolley line, although the buses have appeared to be carrying the bulk | of the traffic for many months past.
 MT Gagnon says that in covering it's schedule one of his buses piles up a to- tai of 1s0 miles a day. Tires wear out i very rapidly under such dail ymileage | and heavy loads, there are various other tup-keep costs heavy assessments for reg. | istration and insurance. which must be carried by public service vehicles; driv- CTS pay, which must be liberal and oth- CT expenses He figures that the cost of keeping a bus on the line is at least $40 day, which is regarded as very moder- | ate. so that much money must be taken in i before any profit is available. On many i days this cannot be done.
 | The suspension of the bus service by Mir. Gagnon will not affect his contract for transporting school children in the l town of Thompson.
 | Sitting in the city court Wednesday 1 morning. Deputy Judge Archibald Mac donald imposed a fine of s25 and costs of $15.74 on Arthur Vanoose, who was found guilty ofareckless driving of an au- l tomobile which figured in an accident on Main street here, many weeks ago. -s
 Just prior to the accident the car Va noose was driving was following another l machine driven by Rev. A. Spencer Voorhees,, of Pomfret Center. Vanoose i sounded his horn as a warning that he desired to pass the Voorhees car, but in attempting 10 do. so the cars came into collision and truck owned by the Lom- bardo store which were standing beside the curb at the Bradley building, was all so struck and two youthful Lombardos who were sitting 2 in the truck were
 roughly tossed about
 It was stated on Wednesday. that nei-
 ther Rev. MT. Voorhees, nor the owner
 of the truck cared to press charge of reckless driving against +Vanoose, but ; the matter was finally brought into court hxyf Qfofn n1a Vanoose who is out of work, at the
 present time and who recently in court was ordered to pay s a week for the support of his child was evidently com pletely discouraged in court Wednesday morning and pleaded that he be sent to : jail, hacving no money. with which. to pay |, the fine and costs. and feeling that he f would be better off working out the as-
 sessment. He was not pressed for i'm
 mediate payment of the fine and costs
 and Captain J. H. Bulger offered his as. I sistance toward the end of getting the required money advanced.
 l Bowman Brothers Blue Grass Minstrel.
 of which George M, Fine of, this city is 6 part owner and manager, is to open al : Plainfeld. N. J., March [, MT. Fine an = nounced Wednesday. q The bookings of the troupe, made by = the Schuberts, will take the company f through New Jersey in the opening day! of its tour. then into string of Penn sylvania cities and towns, next into
 Maryland, where a number of booking
 have been made, then into Ohio, Vir
 ginia and North Carolina, the dates st
 far, made to keep the company occupied
 until Memorial day :.
 MT Fine who was formerly lessee ant i manager here of the Bradley theater ant
 latef operated theater in New London ] is delighted with the success he has me l with in organizing his new venture an, ] the booking house has written that the, l have had wonderful success in bookin
 the attraction. '.,-.t,-' .s-@.--,.. =
 The Bowman Brothers are among tn
 best known of .minstrels in the souther1
 states and are known as the Blue Gras
 boys. ..-r --..'-. -----a.--
 The car that the company is to use i
 being made ready at Jersey City. It va
 formerly used by, the interstate com
 mission for whom it was built by the gov
 ernrrrent
 There are to be forty people in, th
 troupe and they win travel and live 0
 the car, which is fitted with every mod