New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1924, Page 16

WOULD SEIZE LAND Electricity Makers Want Right 550 “ciaciy Souipmen. 16 mese | of Eminent Domain in State How a gigantle Inter-connecting power project 18 throughout New England was de- scribed last evening at the first din- ner meeting of the New Britain | branch of the Amerlcan Sociaty of Mechaniesd Engipcers, by Yerguson, president of the Hartford Flectric L president of the National tion. The dinner was held at the state trade school. A. H. Scott, the t associa~ new pre 1 time Mr. Ferguson explained how the and New York are plannit nd taking steps to pool their production capacities in order to render the service more nearly infallible and to | cut down the cost of productic companies throughout New nd im the Connectigut river, | wing & lump of gaid represcnted energy | He began by #oft coal w one poun le said th stored in a pe if it conld be released in its entirety, would op- | erate a 40 candle power ligh 2,000 hours. stead it operates it | {in payment of a debt, then wanted | a t effi- |000 for a small corner of the swamp. Jamp | Other propert 100 hours 1 of 15 hour hus |tion had given options at fair values. e |The company refused to pay the our hoa efficiency in this ¢ 45 only 15 per cent,” he said Mr. Ferguson cxplained that pow- er production has a long way to go | Lefore It ow to use the po- | tontial energy in a pound of coal to | the same degrec that the potential |meetings to discuss the situation, power stored in a pound of water is | now used years ago, four or five pounds of coal per kilowat hour was not un- i“w for the corporations to put up ago five pounds |power lines through the country, | would | Paying for land it uses at its value, heard of, five yea of coal per kilowat hour have been good, today power pro- | rs are looking forward to pro ducing a kilowat hour on 1% of coal and experiments made in the hope of bringing it & 1den and down to one pound per kilowat with a corresponding dcecrease in the cost |7 bound to be reflected in cost to |the ultimate consumer. of production, Mr. Ferguson explained how un- der the old custom of having indi- vidual power plants in each com- munity, production costs er and the service not so tory. Under the new inter- necting plan now in process of de- velopment, better service at lower rates is promised. This is done he said by buflding a plant larger than the demands of the immediate community. In or- der to give the customers the hetter service its circle of usefulness is ex- | tended to the circle of the power | plant in the adjoining territory. Roth Plants pool their loads and instead of each huilding a small and inade- quate station the pooled loads are rried on the larger stations through the inter-connection plan This situation, he said, gives greater efficiency but has not yet reached the point of maximum economy or reliability. In order to attain this end he said the radius of one circle must con- nect with the adjoining circle with a transimssion line of fficlent da- pacity to take up the def Jarger lines in case of an In the event of there he three such circles, all poolin - loads, hae said it is extremely unlikely that materializing |power on nights, Sundays and holi- | minute throughout the year, In- for |of one case where a man took in & He explained that a few |Plan can materialize he said the {plant, the Springfield, Chicopee and | He sata thers 1s represented ap- proximately $60,000,000 worth of machinery standing idle between New York and Boston when the power houses in that section are maximum loads, This represents 600,000 |nm~\.- power at $100 per horse pow- stutions were conmected he said, three-fourths of this could be put to work Nights and Sund I individual plants are operatin a new low load. There fs litNe demand for days, but there is some Hospitals need elevptor power demand. ice and every other plages require stead of running each plant at a low Samucl Joad and a maximum cost, by con- | formation acquired, but to prevent necting the plants, one unit would carry a p2ak load and supply all the demand. £l Several years said the | Bridgeport plants were hauling coal ago he , presided for the first | from Pennsylvania to supply their | which will be brought up again at a power while sufficient water to op crate the plant was running to waste Tells of Realty “Hold-ups” One of the difficulties in develop- ing this inter-connecting power pro- ct, he said, was in the fact fhat the power companics have no right of eminent domain in Connecticut such as the railroads have and they ire continually running up against reedy land owners who hold them up for prohibitive prices. He told | picce most useless swamp land o charge the power company $15, owners in the sec- man's price and strung its wires around the other gide of the moun- tain. The neighbors lost their sales through this man's greediness and now they are holding indignation Before this inter-communicating state must passa law making it pos- He described at some length plans w under way to increase the ca- pacity and service in the section in- volving New Britain which gets a startling reduction in rates, but that eventual economies He eaid there now are three cir- cles being developed under this the- ory. They take in the Hartford Turners Falls territory and the De- von and Stevenson plants. These three groups are the source of sup- ply he said. New Britain gets its power mostly from Devon, tha Wa- terbury plant being used now only as an anxiliary plant. | $100.000 Appropriated He said Hartford now has a new and efficient plant and an old and tnefficient plant. With the inter- connecting system the old plant need not be used. He also sald there are periods of the yvear when there is a surplus of water power going to waste in the Housatonic river, He said rights of way were being ac- quired farther east with the eastern | power plants, connecting with the | New Engiand power company in | Massachusetts and that at the pres- ent time seven companies, including | the Connecticut Light and Heat Co. have appropriated $400,000 prellm- inary work in getting the plants con- nected and to reduce operating cost. He further stated that a general connection of New England power plants, including New York and Bos- | ton, would make it possible to pool consumers g0 as to be enabled to an accident will happen on both of | yrine down Canadian water power. | the outer circles at the same time as on the inner cle. Thus an acci- dent to any one or two circles, or territories covered by the interc necting system would mean an in- terruption of service for less than five minutes, instead of the possi- bility of an Tour or more, as has happened in times past.’ Will “Eventually” Reach Consumer Thre will he a tremendous sav- ipgs in investment, which will even- tually reach the customer, he st explaining that in inte ness the c pany w the savings to the consu in other cases the regn ho Tn the ts, each of the state will rec ®ase of individual power p plant must have consid eapacity in case of breakdow hauling, etc. If the circles nected instead of each circle requ ing a plant for sp: unit will do for a nu WELLS EDDY FARM Newington, Conn ble spare He said power cannot be transmit- ted from Canada now, because it would raquire 850 miles of trans- | mission at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars. Even with this con- ditfon no manufacturer could abso- lutely rely on that service. connection is absolutely necessary | water power,” he said. He was asked some questions on the subject of tidal power, the Bay of Fundy with its §0 foot tides be- ing mentioned. He said this was fed out in France but he did not hink it had reached a very success- ge. He said the inter-connect- n is being adopted in France but in England where ! 1st be underground the arges are so siversal use of power as in America. He also sald there w considerable duplication of power n in London. S indi- vidual plan! 1 are carrying a 60 per cent reserve ca- pacity. Asked what he thought of the fu- tion of New England “Inter- | to make possible the absorbtion of Olir o A5y TP ' NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Sand Sold to City Is Found Below Standard STAN"AR“ l]", G“, weloper”and i lownsing otk t The advisability of establishing a city laboratory was discussed at the meeting of the board of public works last night, the matter having been brought to notice by the fact manufacture could not be patented. By its methods as a ploneer de- veloper and In licensing others to the trade opportunities of its com- petitors, instead of reserving all the that sand d cement being ed H . H benefits of its patent lusively t: ona “tonstroction contract: hero | 10SISIS 1t HAS Lived Up {0/iteir, wa 10wty ‘mignt have have been shown to be inferlor by a chemist's tests, Chairman F, L. Conlon and City Engineer J, D, Wi« llams sald the chemist who tested done tly same for this city's sam- Letter of Law the materials used by the state had [ By The Associated Pross. Jetterson City, §.—An jcompany, and none of done." The answer sets up that the White Kagle Ol & Refining company, the the Texas company are competing In Missourl with the Standard OIl them s ple and had found them far below |answer setting forth that the Stand- limited to the marketing territory. standard, in spite of the company's [ard Oll Company of Indiana had liv- | The patented process, it asserts, guarantee, led up to the spirit and letter of the [ produced an economy in the cost of Although this test cost the city | Missouri supreme court's order of gasoline and Increased the supply $10 a sample, the money 1s thought [June 1918, with respect to the [and “that the effect of the licenses to be well apent because of the in-|state’s anti-trust laws, was filed to- did not tend nor dld it give the inferior materfals being foisted upon the city, a municipal laboratory may Lo eetablished and structed to look into the later meeting of the hoard. A petition was received from | up on that street as on other down- town streets. No actlon was tak on the petition, TO GIVE TRAVELOGUE At a meeting of the Luther league [cOm | : of the Fi tomorrow night at the church |tional order Attorney General The answer pleads equipped. City | that the company has, by its licens- Lngineer Willlams has been in- |ing of other manufacturers matter, |1ts refining methods, aided its com- petitors in enlarged trade opportuni- | ties instead of restraining trade and | has served the public in such a way Lafayette street merchants, request. |that the price of gasoline has been ing that “white way" lights be set |Kept more nearly to the 1913 than prics of any other commo-, dity in general use, The proceeding begun in Septem- | | ber seeks to set aside the supreme court order of 1913 permitting the 03 " [campany to do business so long a4 | Dishursement of $30,000 That condi- judgment Lutheran church to be |it obeys the state laws, followed a to use lgvel of day in reply to the ouster action of | Standard’Oll Company any monopoly filed [Or power to restrain trade.” In 1913 and 1914, it states, the company did more than 756 per cent of the business in gasoline and other petroleum products in its | territory and in Missouri» and that there has been “a constantly increas- |Ing and Intense competition in the |sale of such products in sald ter- ritory,” so that as a result of such competition the company at pres- ent is not doing more than 45 per cent of the business in its territory and in Missouri. On Co-Operative Shares The directors of the New Britain arlors a travelogue will be given, [in 1909, in which the company Was | coopcrative Savings and Loan asso- tumes of each country represented: America, Miss Minnte Miss Alice Forsell; Gertrude Lundquist: Scotland, Miss Ruth Ohman; Russia, Miss Hildur | Lindgren; France, Miss Mildred En- tam. The principals will be accom- | panied by Miss Mildred Swanson, PROF. HUMPHREY TO SPEAK Protessor E. F. Humphrey lecture on “The Electorate and Par- |, ty Government,” at the Central|conld not lawfully exist except as|People desirous of d the use of |next spring are eligible to secure ries of lectures |its patent for such production, the shares in the assocfatlon, as are im the Columbia university extension | answer says in referenec to the Mis- | those who desire to start a savings Junior High school tonight at This is one of the product, other ¢ derived from rom the residue, after gasoline a extracted vocalist and Miss Anna Borg, planist | from petroleum under former meth- | 0ds, the company produced a new virtually Will | gasoline as formerly distilled. gagoline, or special product, 5. [the company authorize use {its was able to produce double \tage of gasoline previous- a barrel of crude I'l']\c following members will take held to have violated the laws and clation, at their semi-annual meet- part and will be dressed in the cos- | was ordered ousted from the state, ing last night, declared a dividend es that by Its oWn { o) 1o past six months of 2% per Zallgren; | processes the company through - | Mexico, Miss Laura Berlin; Spain, | censing Holland, Miss | pater cent, and recommended the dis- bursement of $30,000 on shares which mature this month, Loans to home builders were also approved to the extent of $25,000, This association directed by New Britain workingmen has been suc- cessful during its 37 years and holds real estate first mortgages in excess with | Of $424,000, Such A new series of shares is being opened this month and the working having homes ourse being conducted by the Rusi- |souri Attorney General's declaration | account and receive flve per cent ness and Professional Women’s club. | that “gasoline is gasoline,” and its compound interest or better, 35 HARTFORD HARTFORD s We Have These Trunk Telephone Lines Patrons may now call us direct on these wires without charge. Patrons in Windsor call 8300 Patrons in Glastonbury call 200, Patrons in New Britain call 2065 Patrons {n danchester call 1500 GOLD SEAL CONGOLEU ART-RUGS Gold-Seal Congoleum Sale Week All Newest Patterns Guaranteed Gold-Seal Merchandise h that there | Gold Seal Floor Coverings R. . PROFITS TEN BILLIONIN [2YRS. Clerks and Handlers Want 1920 Wage Rate Again - Chicago, Oct, 8.~~Rallroad profits totalled ten billlons of dollars in the last 12 years and are now running at approximately a billion a year, E. H. Fitzgerald, president of the Brotherhood of Rallway Clerks, Freight Handlers and Station Em- ployes, declared in opening the wage hearing involving the Brotherhood's request for a restoration of 1980 wage rates before the United States railroad labor board today. ¥itzgerald cited the increasing prosperity of the industry as ground for a reconsideration of present wage rates by the board. The rates established by the board in 1920 were cut by it during the depres- slon extending through 1921 and 1922, when, he said, the board stat- ed it would be able to ‘“give in- creased congideration to the scienti- fic adjustment of a living and sav- ing wage,” when the condition of the carriers was improved. The union president argued that in view of the fine condition of the rallroads today, the board should make good "the implied promise to reconsider the justice of wages set in previous deciflons. He quated statistics of the national industrial conference board and government figure in an effort to show that wage earners were close to or affove the 1920 level and contended that the employes he represented should be accorded the same measure of jus- tice. Their earnings, he said, fell more than ten per cent short of enabling them to obtain as good a living for thelr families as the wages of 1896 provided, After Fitzgerald's presentation, the railroads will present their side of the case; Seventeenth State Now Reached by Candidate Wheeler Speclal, En Route to Sae- ramento, Cal, Oct, 8.-Oregon, the 17th state in which Senator Wheeler of Montana has pushed his cam. paigning tour as vice-presidential candidate on the progressive party ticket, was belng left behind {pday as he traveled to fill speaking eny gagements laid out for him during AUCTION! five days In California, One stop, at Roseburg, Ore, Intervened to reak the jump between Portland, here he spoke last night, and Sac. ramento, where he will begin his ap- peal to the last of the three Pacific slope states which he has invaded. ¢ Itinerary changes approved t! week have added threo states to the already long list ahead or previpus. ly visited. Téxas, New Mexico, Call- fornia and Arizona, along With Ok- labomd, Kansas and Missourl will make his total reach 24 by Octaber 24, * There I8 a strict ordinance pro- hibiting the abuse of cats in 8t Ives, the famous Cornish fishing town, AUCTION! Bought of the United States Court the entire Bankrupt Stock of the Capitol Upholstery Co. The stock consists of 35 brand new Parlor Sets, made of Baker’s Cut Velour and Mohair; this is your best opportunity to buy a parlor set at your own price. Auction will take place FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1924, at 2 P. M. at 115 HIGH STREET, corner Church, over Goldie’s Garage, HARTFORD, CONN. S. TULIN, Auctioneer. The smoothest running and best cooking range on the mar- Ket. Perfecteven tothe smallest detail in labor-saving features. 513-517 MAIN STREET CROWLEY BROS. INC. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS * 267 Chapman Street Estimates cheerfully given on all jobs. —TEL. 2013 CINDERS FOR SALE A. H. 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Camp Real Estate Co. 272 Main Street Phone 343 Rooms 305-6, Bank Bldg, For Quick Results Use Herald Classified Ads THE OLD HOME ‘TOWN e flf'Vm Q@ s =\ P y j = : YA v NG BY STANLEY HOLD ER 7, NEWT SHES AREARIN ' S L, Cangoleum Week, right at the beginning of Fall House cleaning time, — when women are looking for ways and means to brighten up the home. Y | Ferguson stated that First Quality GREEN MOUNTAIN v a question of finance POTATOES FOR SALE. | YOUVE LOST Edwin Peterson | | YoUR TOBAUO PoOuCH? nd credit with the railrc Nothing will do that better than New Floor Coverings. The bargain prices during Congoleum sale W eek, which we offer through the coopera- tion of the manufacturer will help you to secure the needed new coverings This is the first time in two years that Gold-Seal Congoleum Floor Coverings have been offered to American housewives at these reduced prices. Here Are the Special Sale Prices attractive reductions ... 39¢ Gold Seal Congoleum By-the-Yard— Nationally advertised price 85¢ . 73c Nationally advertised price 26¢c ng those present were sever s and A Jourdon, lo- the Connecticut Tel. Valley 27 nd Power Co. eting wil SHUCKS | GUESS ED . FIGGERS HES LICKED AND # BETTER SAVE), e next n be on Oc tober 24 | York v | KENILWORTH CLUB SMOKER The Kenilworth club is to hold a r Thursday night for members a \eir fricnds. ‘“The “Corpora- tion" is to act as host and has prom- the entertain- e Studio Alp-to-date” | smok KODAKS AND FILMS Other sizes at Gold - Seal Congoleum 6 9 f Art- 0 ranging down to the t. Rug $7.5 15x36-inch Rugs Nationally advertised price $9.00 ertised price $11.25 jsed Clesson Parker. ment commiitee ¢ a boun- supply of refreshments. Tt ie John J. Tarrant |[rmorc re profta of the “Corpo S0 enormous ur Funeral Director and Embalmer | |52"° 281 E. MAIN ST | Tel. 221-12 | Upholstery and Repairing | | Residence 153 Jubilee, Tel. 1451-2 GARAGES Kranowitz has sti FRANKLIN SQUARE S FILLING STATION er t T ag t of Charles W Smedley that it has been forced in to this method of reducing them. Other attractions will be a radio t conducted by Dave Modeen the Noon-Day Gold - Seal Congoleum 59 ft. L, $11.25 Ivertised will take on all at which Yards wide ic champlons wil defend Square Yard . pool, in w Gold - Seal Congolenm it & $13.10 DR Smmis ;v|§<‘ $16.75 Gold-Seal Congoleum Rug-Border 24 ins. wide. . .49¢ per 1‘unn§ng yd. 36 ins. wide. . .59¢ per running yd. Gold - Seal Congolenm 912 ft. . $14.95 advertised price $18.00 B. & 0. REQUEST Washington. Oct. §.—The Bait DE! more & Ohio Railroad today asked authority of the interstate com- A. B. Johnson, D. D. S. L) LG Mot d oy T. R. Johnson, D. D. S. [565 of cquipment trust certificates | Gas—Oxygen—X-rays |to retire §5.720.000 of 7 s . prior llen certificates, and $3.81%.- | National Bank Zwdg. 333 of & ger cent deferred Hen , NURSE IN ATENRAPIE tificated Vi e Nationally Nationally advertised price 60c and 75c. E UNICNOWN PERSON SENT CANDI\DATE FOQ\ S RIPE, ED WURGLER. A BOX OF CAMPAGN anAES——AFTE\QéTRYlNG ONE, ED DECIDED To SAVE THE C\GARS — OPRONENTS TAKE THIS AS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS IN WURGLERS CAMPA\GA— These are the special Congoleum Sale Week prices which will be in effect until October 11th only Congoleum Section—Seventh Floor per cent |