Putnam patriot., 1924-03-14

Lawrence Perkins
 Charles Seder
 Philip Faucher
 President John Reardon of the Put nam Rotary Club
 Otto F. Wnlf
 Alphonse Dumas
 Attorney John F. Carpenter
 Byron D. Bugbee
 Charles Richard
 Warren s. Ames
 Joseph A. F. Gagne
 Armand ]. Lizotte
 Arthur Perry
 T. II. deGoudres
 Ralph C. Jenkins
 :. Diamond
 John J. Whitehead. Jr.
 Warren W. Averili
 E. C. Rogers
 John A. Dady
 Samuel Rich
 k. II. Williams
 0. r. Bancroft
 Alexander Gilman
 John E. Byrne
 F. X. Iueier
 Peter Gardner
 C. Harold Gilpatric
 Samuel Reynolds
 A. Newton Vaughn
 J. Otis Fox, Jr.
 There were also present five repre- sentatives of the town of Thompson and two from Danielson.
 Save the Trolleys"
 Aroused by the effort of the larger cities to persuade the Public Utilities Commission that the only way ia which the larger cities could gain the benefit of reduced fares was by clos ing up or definitely curtailing the ser vice in the more remote country dis riets, Putnam citizens last week decid- ed that the trolley artery running this section of the country was not to be closed and abandoned without sturdy and emphatic protest. Through the Chamber of Commerce., the Ro- tary Club and through the work of various individuals. Putnam people were aroused to the danger that con- fronted them. Hence the splendid showing of Putnam men at the hear ing.
 J. F. Carpenter Speaks
 Desiring only that the protest should he embodied in the records of taAf A'fNftfHs fftiNAAtNf HUNA ffaI- penter was chosen to speak for the city as we'll as for Thompson. When Chairman Higgins of the Commission. soon after the hearing opened, sug- gested that the Putnam protest be heard at once, there was a distinct rustic of amusement among the we'll shaven young gentlemen of the larger cities counsels Who were these Putnamites? What right did they have to protest?
 They called recess and over in one corner of the chamber the young men with perfectly parted hair gathered in brief but excited conference. It was decided that the protest should be challenged and Robert F. Butler, corporation counsel of the City of Hartford was chosen to cross-examina Mir Carpenter who made the protest for Putnam and Thompson.
 Mr. Butler Cross-Exsmines
 MT. Butler asked Mir. Carpenter if he had information concerining in- ereases in operating costs of the Con- neetieut company other than the wage increase, which Mir. Carpenter said had been iti5 per cent since 1914. Mir. Carpenter said everything had gene up. he understood.
 Mir. Butler questioned Mir. Carpen- ter as Co whether lines from Putnam Co Norwich and various villages near Putnam were considered within the general Putnam population center, or were long interburban hauls. Mir. Carpenter said he considered them within a single district.
 Mir Carpenter said he thought in- creased operation costs of the Con- necticut company should be borne by the state as a whole rather than by any certain district.
 Mir. Carpenter said the point was not that Putnam objected to paying a higher fare, but that 1t did not want a readjustment of fares throughout the state as a whole that would pre- vent or in any way impair the service given Putnam. He said he was not to say that Putnam would be willing to pay higher rate.
 Mir. Buffers questioning of Mir. Carpenter over, the hearing then be- gan it's long and argumentative way. It will be weeks and months, perhaps, before any decision can be made by the Commission Meanwhile, on the books of the first day of hearing is the protest entered by Mr. Carpenter and signed by over forty of the eiti zens of Putnam.
 MT. Caspenter's Protest
 Mr: Carpenters formal protest was as follows: To the Hon. Public Utilities Commits sion of the State of Connecticut: Gentlemen.
 The City of Putnam by the Hon. ' ietor chapdelaine, Mayor, and the Common Council of the city. and a committed of citizens representing the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotar- ans, and the Town of Thompson rep by it's Board of Selectmen and by John F. Reardon, agent for the 5r0syenordale Company. one of the largest manufacturing corporations in sasteTn Connecticut. and by Walter N.
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