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THE TIMES: WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1920
THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES '
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1920
THE LAST STRAW
AMONG THE mingled, complex tasks of modern civiliza
tion that of carrying on communication is nearly the
most important. A public service, such as that conducted by
the Connecticut Company, is of the same nature as a service
rendered by a police department, a fire department, or by an
educational system.
The suspension of transportation in the streets of Bridge
port would be more immediately followed by inconvenience
and paralysis than the suspension of either fire, or police or
teaching service would be.
In place of police the militia would come in. In place of
the regular fire department other means might be readily ex
temporized, and a suspension of teaching service for a period
would be no more than an accentuation of the summer vaca
tion. The sudden suspension of trolley service could not be im
mediately rerdedied. There would be a considerable period
of dislocation,, inconvenience and positive suffering, before the
void could be filled.
