Putnam patriot., 1930-02-13
THE PUTNAM PATRIOT
PUBLISHED BY
A DISTORTED VIEW

DISTORTED view of the position a public utility holds "A community may the stumbling block in securing reinsated passenger baggage mail and service on the Norwich branch of the New York New Haven
 Railroad Until the people come to realize that public service corporation granted special privilege m the nature franchise only when it legal obligation 10 adequately public it's line of endeavor these cor porations will their ends first and the public will receive secondary consideration Such is the case in the present pronounced inadequate service on the NorWeh worcester branch.
 Here are one or views taken from news papers since committee of the Putnam Chamber Of Com nere sent out is auestonare Says the Moosup 'JOurnal
 Locally feeling that the attempt on the part of the civic organization Chamber of commeee k something oi public no longer supported the railroads like other business trying legitimate profit h not fair to ask the company
 man connected with leading industry in Jewett City. where travel with trunk as baggage unless they pay to have trunk hauled to the railroad company
 We can not see the justice expecting the railroad main tain an expensive passenger which patronzed and which
 patronized the free and movement between towns through privately automobiles and public buses
 Under Daneson date line, where again baggage mas to transported the to the main ne appears
 @pl has not become much aroused over the induce railroad company t Is almost the railroad company to supply it.
 expressions being voiced the citizens oi these communities experiencing inconvenience rom the late arrival mail being forced to transport their bag gage at expense their receipts and deliveries inadequate and uncertan and their business suffers he fellow citizens forget them and their troubles m ther sym athv for the poor railroad company whose common stock has scared from SIP S17 share and whose dividend rate has reached S6 a share
 The legislature grants a railroad company franchise to operate certain territory. In return the railroad company legal obligation to provide adequate ser vice territory the whole of h IL not skim the cream certain section because that section pay. It's railroad is entity and s proht must be based upon operation of the whole road loss in one section will by profits another section and the result be that the road whole makes money stockholders and provides satisfactory service to all
 It is conceded that the railroad should make money and it better the public that il do However to discontinue necessary to the convenience and we'll being of the community order that the may save money is not with the underlying principals upon which public service franchise is granted
 disputing that the early morning mail serVce is unsaactory Passenger service the branch mas been entirely discontinued Express matter is handled by trucks There is no baggage service whatever If the smith family ID Danelson wishes to go must at ts own expense make arrangements transport baggage Putnam Here the family may buy ticket by the roundabout route through Blackstone o it's destination and it's baggage w be carried free No citizen o any the Norwich X Worcester branch can move baggage point on the New Haven railroad or any railroad until provides it's own bag gage transportation main line at Putnam or New London
 These conditions will continue. The railroad company will serve ifs own unless the people wake up to what the obligations of railroad company really and demand that those obligations be fulfilled