New Britain herald., 1925-01-09

T. Beiden conferred this morning on the matter.
 During the first blaze last night, 1t was necessary for Ire hose to be strung over the Terryyille road and ore careless motorist ran over one sestion, causing a union to snap. Af- ter this accident, Chief Hayes stop ped all traffic for q time.
 As & result of the fire, the Terry vile cars were delayed for a short time. ... ...-....
 The first fire was discovered by Contractor Cosmo Vacca, whose cement plant Is short distance away. He rang in the alarm at once and the iiremen were at the scene in a trifle less than three min utes. The second Are was diseoy- cred by Clarence Beckstedt, also a neightor. At the time of the first fire, the owner. Frank Broderick, was downtown and as his place was gutted, he did not remain there for the night, so that no one was in the house at the time of the second fire.
 Arnold Aroused.
 An article appearing in the local paper accusing the Chamber of Commerce Of stopping the sale of oranges and grapefruit from the fruit car that has been brought into this city on two occasions the past few weeks brought forth viz orous denial this morning from Sec retary Arnold of the Chamber of Commerce, who branded the story of the Press as being "an absolute faIsehood." The local chamber secretary, in his letter to the local paper, stated that it was a very pe- culiar situation where an attempt at verification of street rumors is not made by a responsible news papers.
 In conversation with the reporter of this paper. the secretary said it was very strange that a newspaper would print such statement with out trying to check up on same, es- pecially inasmuch as the local news- paper and Chamber of Commerce are within calling distance.
 The secretarys letter to the local paper correcting the reported inter; ference of the chamber with the sale of oranges and rape-fruit from car doors on railroad property. this said interference said to be at the insti- gation of local merchants Is as fol- lows:
 Editor, Bristol Press.
 In last evenings paper on Page I, the last item of the Press Briefs you ran the following article:
 ''The Bristol Chamber of Com merce, at the instigation of the local dealers, has taken up the mat ter of sale of fruit from freight cars in the local freight yards with the railroad company. and it was stated this morning that the prac. tice would be discontinued after the present carload had been disposed of"
 In the interest of accuracy and fairness, will you kindly permit me space to state that the article is a complete falsehood, absolutely with. out foundation or fact.
 It is a mystery to the writer tc realize why responsible newspaper should publish such deliberate falsehood, especially as the means o verifying such run1or was so very easy in this case.
 The facts are that, up to the time of your reporter writing that false hood, no local dealer had taken th' matter up with the chamber neither had this chamber discussed the matter with the railroad off ciaIs, Picking up street rumors without an attempt of verifcation is not generally considered gooC newspaper practice, but evidentl, such procedure was followed in this instance.
 Of course, you have probabl, learned by this time that. due 10 6 ruling of the Interstate Commerc' Commission, the bringing of thest fruit cars into communities in the future is barred.
 The Bristol Chamber of Commerce
 EARL J. ARNOLD,
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