New Britain herald., 1924-08-15
oNE,MAs CAR EFFORTS,

culture is quite wrought np, Ca
 riders, contemplating an increase |
 fares in recent memory, and lahorin
 under the deusioi that they are en titled 10 good service for their tokens
 don't know nnile what 10 make O
 lhis admitted plan Of tho conneetRu
 company t0 intiirt now form of tor
 ture,
 How the Connecticut company
 which Is no enemy to the renowned
 G, Q, r, political machine, has th'
 upper hand in tho state is reelected iI
 the announcement by Charles C, Fl
 we'll resident member Of tho Public
 Utilities Commission, that the street
 car m0nopolists can change to one
 man ears withoue obtaining permis'
 sion from the commission, IL seems
 to be nobody's business but tho conn
 pany's so long as the projected effort
 is in favor of the company: but
 whenever somebody matches plan
 which If placed into operation would
 inconvenience the august corporation | just a trifle--as In the case of the
 proposed changing Of switching ter
 ritory from certain congested corners in Waterbury--then' permission" has to bo obtained from utilities commis- sion.
 Ii Is beautiful syst em- for the company. All the poor. down-trodden municipalities need to do in nine cases out of ten Is to permit them selves to.be stepped upon some more; and in the remaining one case out of ten the company can kick their pros trate forms instead of merely stepping on them.
 Apoogists for the Connecticut con- pany profess 10 see a great light Said luminosity consists of kidding themselves into thinking that the com pany cannot make both ends meet unless it can operate one-man cars in city the size of, New Haven. This dream is so fmsy that it cannot de- ceive the hard boiled sons of culture in Yale's environs, however. They think they patronize the cars in suf- ficient numbers to make them pay in New Haven. They own to an old fashioned idea that they should not be penalized for what the company loses in Squedunk and the other lt- tie towns where operating trolley cars is on the Toonerville plan.
 But the Public Utilities Commis- sion. in it's omniscient and encyclo- pedical knowledge of transportation requirements, has ruIed--the right word.-that the cumbersome Connec- t!cut company is entitled to operate it's well-paying city lines and it's non- paying village junk lines as a unit, so that profits from the money making lines have to pay for the deficits in Toonerville. That's why the company wants one-man cars in New Haven they will provide fatter profits in New | Haven to squander upon the diminu- | tive lines in the diminutive metropoli | Of the COW pastures.
 The recent record of the Connect- tut company is this: In Hartford an attempt was made to change to one- man cars-without permiss:on--in spite of an agreement with the city council to the contrary; but this scrap of paper episode was hindered by an appeal to the courts. Then the com pany unceremoniously and on ehort notice discontinued trolleys un an Asylum street line and substituted busses largely in order to avoid the necessity of repairing between the street car tracks; and of course, no permission was asked of anyone, either the city or the utilities com- to make the change. In Waterbury the city authorities wanted o force the company to discontinue ising the main corners for switching purposes, when it was found the utli- les commission had to be asked for to change local traffic in 'uch manner. Now in New Haven hange to one-man cars, 8 plan that would have gone into effect ike a bolt from cloudless heaven lad not the New Haven Union kicked ,ver the pot of beans and aroused public opinion to face the impending Ianger.
 The change to one-man Toonervilles n New Haven would eliminate 300 the lines would be slowed ID greatly; service would suffer and , patronage fall off. New Haven be- ieves it is too big city to stand the tyle. Citizens are virtually a unit in opposing it. Yet the purblind man. gcmcnt ot the Connecticut company hinks il can afford to antagonize an- ';her large slice Of the public and cally gain thereby.
 It can't be done.
 DiItiitT PRIMARIES. |, It is perhaps futile 10 discuss di-