Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-25
PUTNAM

This CWednesday) afternoon brings the hearing in this city before the public utilities commission relative to granting permits to bus lines to operate in com petition with the local trolley lines of the Connecticut company. The hearing prom
 ses to be lively one.
 Tuesday morning a meeting of the chamber of commerce of Putnam was called to meet in the organizations headquarters here to consider the local transportation problem as it will be con sidered at the hearing About 35 were in attendance.
 At the close of the meeting, at which there was a general discussion of the situation in it's varied aspects it was an nounced that a vote taken to determine whether the chamber should support troll ley or bus transportation lines was unan- imousy in favor of trolley service. It was made very clear, however, that this decision in favor of trolley service was based fundamentally on the proposition that the trolley company will agree, be- fore the public utilities commissioners at | this afternoons hearing, to furnish at least hourly regular service between Put nam and other points hereabouts reach ed by the Connecticut company's lines. Business men who attended the meeting made it very clear that their decision in l favor of trolley service contemplates real service and not the utterly inadequate service that the Connecticut company is l rendering to Putnam and surrounding 1 towns st the present time-a service that l has been almost entirely abandoned dur l ing the greater part of the week by the | tra yelling public because of it's frequency during the greater part of the day and it's total absence during evening hours
 The city and town will be officially represented at this afternoons hearing
 and the chamber of commerce also will have representation there.
 | The keynote of the whole situation, in solar as Putnam is concerned and as it's interests will be represented by town and city officials and by members of the chamber of commerce, will be service In word. Putnam is willing to give the trolley company one last chance If l the trolley company, being freed of bus l line competition in the territory, fails to make good in the fture Tn the way of rendering adequate service which means at least an hourly service from early morning until late at night seven days in the week and throughout the year then | Putnam. in the interest of it's business enterprises and manufacturing industries and the need of the travelling public, ISt
 obliged, as a town and city, to turn to other than trolley transportation to find means of meeting it's transportation
 needs through local territory. It would ! be difficult, it is apparent from inter
 views to find a responsible person in 1 Putnam, who would not deeply regret to i witness the passing of the city's elect ric
 road service. But Putnam expects some 1 thing more than promises of real service from the Connecticut company-it expects | a demonstration of the corpora tion's abil- | ity to serve the public adequately-and this point very likely will be impressed
 upon the public utilities commissioners
 this afternoon.
 As showing the support that the bus lines have gained in their competition with the Connecticut company in this inn mediate territory, it may be stated that
 Attorney J. Fred Carpenter, representing I the French River Textile company of Me
 chanicsivlle, told the business men gath cred at Tuesday'e meeting of the Put
 nam chamber of commerce that the man.
 ufacturing concern he represented favo,
 bus line service in preference to trolley service. Attorney Carpenter told the meeting that the corporation he repre. sented considers bus line service betweer
 Putnam and Mechanicsville as indispens iolO' thdL tIES dNdtldDIlltY Ol Necna nicS
 vile as a place of residence for man! people who seek quick and convenien 1 transportation service to surroundin, communities is either enhanced CT handi | capped for workers by the transportation facilities. Attorney Carpenter will rep resent the Pelett bus lines. furnishin;
 service all along the line between Put { nam and Moosup and the French Rive
 Textile company at today's hearing. l Attorney Archibald Macd3nald, rep