New Britain herald., 1924-07-10

H0lyoke, an removed from any main line trunk railroad,
 Troy. \, Ya the cellar center, Is of the main line of the New York Central Camden, Y, j., the canned music center, is on a branch line and in addition is separated from west trafie by the broad Delaware river
 York, Pa, is an branch line' and horde of industrial cities in Penn sylyania are on railroads that are not trunk lines.
 Hamilton, Ohio. "kRawn in the worlds markets" probably ihe great est manufacturing city Of its sire in the country is on a branch line-in fact. two of them,
 From the standpoint Of railroad service. Toledo, O., is better situated than Detroit But Detroit harhors Henry Ford and other motor mag mates as well as other manufacturers who have stamped the seal Of their enterprise upon inc growth Of their city. Flint. Mich, on a branch road, is mighty as an industrial center; so are other Michigan cities, including Grand Rapids. the furniture center.
 chieago's traders started the city on the pathway 10 greatness, and the railroads followed. Other points around the lower end of Lake Michi- gan were just as well situated as chi- cago but they lacked the caliber Of mon to make them great.
 Buffalo, N. r., is trunk line cen- ter and at the lower end of the great lakes, but has been eclipsed by De- troit and Cleveland. Buffalo also has Niagara power resources.
 Two great coastal liners plying be- tween New York and Boston were just completed at the Bethlemen Steel plant in Baltimore, so the dis patches read. An analysis however, shows that the Bethlehem plant is IS miles from Baltimore, on branch railroad.
 Our great railroad trunk lines did not make the great terminal cities: these existed before the railroads. al- though they built up the farming country in between. New Workers built the present New York Central as a gateway to the west; Philadel- phians built the Pennsylvania for ve same purpose; enterprising Baln- moreans built the Baltimore X Ohio.
 New Englanders who built the New Haven and the Boston & Maine made mistake, in the minds ot many, by confining their railroad ventures within New England. Had they pushed their rails to the west this section today would be served by one or more trunk lines to the west ern markets which in addition to hauling traffic would be concerned about the welfare of New England's traffic relations to the remainder Of the country.
 Dayton, O., of cash register fame was not a better city than any other for that business, but the father Of the cash register lived there and had the enterprise to build great indus fry. Had he lived In New Britain he would have built up the industry equally we'll here, no matter where the main line of the nearest trunk line happened to be.
 Oakland, Cal, has had an enormous boom, merely because several enter prising gentlemen there went into manufacturing radio loud speakers and their product is being sold all over the country, all over New England too.
 Lacrosse, Ind, is village of few hundred, or perhaps thousand, in- habitants. It is situated on four trunk lines and branch line. There are no manufacturing plants of consequence there whatever; it contains no citizens of initiative to take advantage of it's location,
 Because a manufacturing plant IS in a large city is not saying that 1t Is any closer to the tracks of a main l line railroad than 8 plant In New Britain. Large cities take up great expansese of territory, and many man. plants in them are not buddled around freight yards--in fact, many of them are miles from them, | and manufactured products frequent 1y have to be hauled by truck to the | freight cars. New York, Chicago ana Philadelphia are notable examples.
 In the case of passenger service 1t Is another story. New Britain suffers in passenger service by really having | two passenger stations, one downtown and the other in Berlin Its passenger | trade is divided.
 From a travelling standpoint 1t IS The main line should | run through New Britain instead of 1 through Berlin. |
 But strictly speaking the main line