The best thiDg for the urban and interurban transport of
Connecticut would be that the trolley monopoly should pass
into receivership or its equivalent, thence into the hands of
new managers at its sales value, and by them be operated on a
bed rock basis, for the benefit of the people.
- The only contrary interest is the stockholding interest
There is only one stockholder of the Connecticut Company, the
New Haven Railroad. By the reorganization of the trolley
property the New Haven stockholders would be little affected
or not at all. The recovery of their stock, which never can
take place to any considerable degree, rests upon other princi
ples and issues. Under reorganization they would be shut off
of the million dollar rental which they pay to the Connecticut
Railway & Lighting Company, for the use of a part of the lines.
Everybody would be benefited, and nobody injured, exftepting,
perhaps, a few officers and employes of the upper grades, who
would probably be replaced under a new order of things.
Mayor Wilson's message contains this pertinent and truth
ful statement:
You will note that The Connecticut Company is insistent upon
fie elimination of Jitney competition. Personally I believe that the
matter of transportation is evolutionary, and that just as the trolley
ar was the outcome of the horse car, so the motor bus will in time
supplant the trolley car.
