Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-26

erty worn out Tn pQD1lc service ana re- turn upon the actual value of the prop erty.
 Upon the return of the property by the Shore Line Electric Railway com pany the revenues on this line were ex- tremely low by reason of the intensive jitney competition which was largely fos- tered by cessation of service during the period of strike.
 This has resulted in revenues that have not only been insufficient to pay all items of cost but not enough to pay the simple operating expenditures. As re- suit of this condition of low revenues the service has been cut to the lowest possible point in order to minimize the recently over the line:
 The Connecticut Company is amply able as to facilities which it possesses, to render full measure of service to these communities, but it must be -ap- parent to all that all public expenditures for transportation must come to The Connecticut Company.
 Up to the present time we have been temporizing with the matter, but now that the bus is medium of trans portation upon which the communities can depend as long as those individuals that operate the buses are financially
 
 of the work it is time for The Conn necti- cut Company to frankly state it's posi- ton.
 It is matter of absolute indifference to us as to whether or not we continue | to operate the lines between Central Village and points north of Putnam, but both mediums of service cannot exist, either the competitive bus service must be entirely eliminated or the trolley ser- vice discontinued.
 There is no prospect of material prof | its to the trolley company even though 1 they are left alone in the field, but we recognize the obligation to perform a public service and are perfectly willing 1 to again render full measure of ser i vice if free from competition. We must bhave the option of either performing ser i vice with no competition or abandoning the field altogether.
 Wednesdays hearing, at which opera tors of bus lines were seeking permits 10 continue the service they are render lines-the Goodyear Mills service main- tained chiefly for the convenience of their employes and operating buses be- tween Goodyear and DanieIson. Alta waugan and Pomfret Landing; The Pel- Elett lines, furnishing service all the way from Moosup to- this city by way ot Brooklyn and from Danielson to East Killingly, and the Bayer brothers line operating buses from Putnam through Mechanicsville and the Grosvenordales l to Webster-an interstate line.
 Attorney Harry E. Back represented the Goodyear company at the hearing and made clear that the concern desired to operate buses chiefly in the interes of it's employees and members of theil families. They do. not compete at al with the trolley company excepting iron Dayville to Danielson They asked fo
 a permit to continue operation and nt one opposed the application.
 The best part of the long drawn -ou
 hearing was given over to consideration
 of the claims of the Pellett lines for per
 mission to continue operation and t
 hearing the opposition to granting suc
 permits W. K. Pike, DanieIson, a civil engi neer. was the first witness called an | explained a map showing the routes GOV cred by the Pellett lines. which parallt
 the trolley road from ,Moosup to Cen tral Village and from Dayville to Dan lelson and Elmville to East Killingly.
 (. H. PeIlett, owner of the Pellet fleet of ten buses testified that his ir vestment in buses is approximately s25 ? 900 and that. insurance on them cost | him upwards of 5000 year. The revt " nue of the Putnam -Danielson line varie s between s70o and $500 per week. he te. tified. Last week it was s79o.45. whic
 was very good week The Danielsor East Killingly line S140.s0 during tt [ san period. Mir Pellett said he COT . sidered the line of great convenience the. public, especially to the people |, communities reached by his lines an l not served by the trolley. He said ths = the service had been constantly mair s tained. with one brief Interruption du : ing heavy snows of the winter of 191! t 1920. since the trolley strike of Jul
 1s19; that there had never been an al | cident of any consequence whatever C n any of his buses. that his drivers al d careful and reliable and are required
 follow a running schedule that permi Q of operating the buses at from 20 = 25 miles an hour and not faster.
 Senator c. H. Blake. Brooklyn. d : clared the people of his community four e the buses a great convenience and wou
 regret their loss. He was no oppose
 to the trolleys. but, speaking for h
 own community, believed that the 'bt
 line served Brooklyn best. He venture the declaration that there would hay
 been no bus lines in this territory 1 the trolleys had kept running.
 Judgs Oscar F. Atwood, of BreokIy
 declared the bus lines to be gre
 convenience to the people of that cor munlty.
 Damase BouIais. former warden 4 Daniel1on, and Warden Herbert
 Reach of Danielson. were agreed tn the bus lines are a great convenien
 to the people of Danielson and of su h rounding communities not reached | fhe trolley lines. Warden Keech sa
 the borough officials consider the 'b
 lines a public necessity. Neither Vi
 opposed to trolley service.
 \ Agent c. H. Truesden of the Att I waugan company's mills, declared tn \ the bus lines were an absolute necessi
 to the convenience and comfort of | E people of the villages of Attawaugan al E Ballouville, which are not reached
 the trolleys and there are about IS ! people in these communities. 'I shou
 have my difficulties in trying to run t