New Britain herald., 1922-02-15
NO FLU EPIDEMIC THREATENS TOWN Health Officer Bull Reports Mild
 Cases MRS. SARAH COOLING DIES
Bowling Notes Of tho Tr,imbu,l Lcaguc-t'cOrgc Bartlett Resigns From Bristol Mills After 10 Ycar.' ScrSicc-Othcr Notes.

Although the surrounding elites and towns have reported many in. fucnaa cases. and New Britain Is now reported as having an epidemic. ] Plainvillc SO far is considered free from any serious cases and those re ported thus far are Of mild nature Health Officer J, N. Bull said today that there is absolutely no cause for alarm in this town and with the co. operation Of the residents. plainyille will continue in its usual healthy con- dition. There are approximately 20 cases Of Flu" so far.
 The doctors have been kept busy attending to their patients and mak ing an effort to prevent a possible spread of the sickness and have been successful, No real Flu" cases have been reported from the school
 New Canal Data.
 Some new history, in regards to the railroads taking over the old canal line which ran through this town in lS25 has been compiled by Elsw orth | sheldon Of 53 LenoX Place, New Brit | ain. MT. Ellsworth has some excellent i references on the railroads which sue cecded the old waterway. Mir. Shel- don gives the, following information about the railroad lines which follow ed the former mode Of travel by | boats:
 ! Though the old canal itself is be- yond my personal knowledge. having passed out of existence a quarter Of a I pp ant hnf
 try, am under the impression that the data mixed with reference to the railroads that succeeded it is some what incorrect.
 The New York, New Haven X Hartford railroad did not take over the old canal at the end of it's days of usefulness as a waterway, for two per fectly good reasons: one of which was that there was no New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad The other reason I have forgotten. There was New York X New Haven rail- road and also a New Haven X Hart ford railroad, but the Consolidated, , which had it's beginnings in the con junction of these two, had not come into being. ...
 As a matter of fact the canal was not taken over at all, but a railroad was built upon it's own right of way as far as that was feasible, by the New Haven X Northampton Canal Co.,; which railroad was operated un- der that name as late as 1886. The word railroad did not appear in the name of the company and, though the property was obviously a rail- road, the cars and locomotives were all marked with the company's in- itials: N. H. X N. C. Co.,
 'The passenger cars were marked New Haven & Northampton Com pany' emitting, if my memory serves me rightly. the word canal Some time between 1886 and 1890, the New road company acquired the holdings of the old canal company, under a 99 year lease and the whole property has since been absorbed into the Consol- dated system.
 'The Hartford. Providence X Fish kill R. R. grew out of several short CT lines running in a desultory way somewhere between these termini in those days of railroad consolidation. Its right of way crossed the old canal at point midway between the pres ent station and the East Main street crossing: where traces of the old ditch may stiu be found if one searches diligently enough.
 "One of these shorter roads may have been called the Boston X Erie, though that name is a new one to me, for it was the custom Of those days to name railroads for points that the roads themselves could never hope to reach. For instance: the Boston 6
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