New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1927, Page 13

SMALL RAILWAY LINES CHALLENGED FOR BUSINESS SUPREMACY BY AUTO In Rural Districts Busses Already Have Supplant ed Many in Northeast, Although in Cities the Trolleys Seem Supreme. New York, Jan. 6 CP—Small rail- way lines throughout the northeast are being abandoned and the honk of the motor bus horn is superseding the clang of the trolley bell ip many scctions. Where gthe two have challenged | each other for supremacy as public means, frequently the two have com- bined. A survey completed by the Asso- ciated Press today shows abandon ment of trolley lines has been par- ticularly noticeable in the less populous sections. But in the largest citics, the street railway systems, while here and there losing money, are still the most generally patronized means of trans- portation. But lines have become fornidable competitors of street rallways throughout New England in the last few years, but in most cases the trol- ley lines have met the situation by operating busses themselves on their busy routes. Trolley line officials there ascribe dwindling street car patronage to in- dividually owned passenger automo- biles. They say their profits re- cently have been meagre. Individually owned automobiles in the big cities, like New York and Philadelphia, however, in the opin- fon of 'Lucius S. Storrs, managing director of the Ame Railway association, eventually will help rather than hinder street cars. | Street Congestion “Street congestion, caused by the > in the id Mr. numbe Storrs, of pleasure “1s rapidly driving people back to use electric | line scrvice. Prospects for the fu- ture of the electric rail lines man- ned by progressive managements in Communities where service is war- ranted never were better.” New Jersey reports the Public Service Railway Co. operates 1,500 stroet and the Public Service grav\spor tion Co., a sister organiz on, opc more than $00 motor in 165 New Jersey Municipali- \ging from Newark, with nearly half a million inhabitants, to communitics of a few thousand. Six v ©of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., only sen electric railway companies in the United States were operating motor busses. In 1925, railivay companies to the number of 250 were using them. He belleves the deduction to draw Is the co- ordination, rather than competition, 1s incvitable. can Electric | In Philadelphia there are now sub- ways, elevateds, street car lines, motor busses and auxiliary taxicabs, “All of these,” Mr. Horton asserts, ‘should be properly coordinated with a view to placing at the service of the community that type of trans- portation which is bt suited for the occasfon.” Such coordination, on the greatest |scale ever attempted, has been sug- gested also for New York by the present operators of its two vast subway lines. 1 New York Situation | New York, with a very special and | complicated transportation problem, |is considering the suggestion with a | view to placing it before the legisla- ture just opening at Albany. The two subways, together with th» city's new one in process of con- struction, would form the backbone of a semi-public management corporation involving those lines, the elevated lines, trolley car lines and | bus lines. The combined transit trackage, it !laid in one straight line, would reach | from the Woolworth building to the | | ity hall as Hannibal, Missourl. Over Itheir lines, according to latest re- | ports, go more than two and a half | biflion paswengers a year. T New York city busses are used | mainly for short hauls, and are here and there operated for emergency | service, pending franchise grants, by | |the city. Iifth avenue is the scene |of the most ausplcious service, a |10 cent fare bus handling nearly {70,000,000 fare annually but only |one fourth as many are Landled on |the Third avenue elevated lines. | Up-state New York and the west- | ern sections are finding the busses | more convenient than New Yorkers |have found them. Buffalo, through ed an operating loss of $200,000 last year on all its lines. In Pennsylvania In Pennsylvania, automobile bus “feeder” lines have been placed in operation by city and interurban trolley companies in their efforts to meet the growing competition of in- idflnrn(lenl motor bus operators throughout the state. % Privately owned motor buses made such inroads into revenue of the trolley lines of Connecticut that in 19 gave the Connecticut company the right to operate motor busses and to {abandon non-paying lines, Sacrifices Her Fortune To Remain in Convent New York, Jan. 8.—(#)—The vow: that join Grace Minford to the Dominic#n sisters separate her from a share in the $2,000,000 estate of her father, Levis Waln Minford, it bate yesterday. Minford, who died December 30, 1926 at his home in Deal, Mom- |Grace in his will, but a proviso in its International Railway Co., report- | and 1925 the general assembly | was revealed in a will filed for pro- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1927. the will said: “If any of my daugh- ters be inmates of or domiciled in any Roman Catholic institution, con- vent or home they shall not receive rany benefits under my will." Miss Minford is domiciled with the Dominican sisters, a Roman Catholic order at Newark, N. J. SOCIETY WEDDING PLANS SWITCHED Guests Wait at Church During Ziegler-urphy Nuptials New York, Jan. 6 UP)—A sudden switch of plans that left a large crowd waliting at the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church while William Ziegler, Jr., young baking powder millionaire, and Miss Helen Martin Murphy, of Troy, N. Y., were mar- ried at the Hotel Plaza, remained unexplained today. The church chapel was decorated with flowers and many guests had for 4 o'clock vesterday afternoon when it was announced that the prospective bride and groom would not appear. Later it was learned Plaza with only the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Murphy, Mrs. William Ziegler, mother of the bride- groom, | Gertrude Ide, of Troy, attending. Nelither Mr. Zicgler nor his bride would comment on the change In plans. Mr. Pohndorft asserted it was due to “something that happened in Troy.” He declined to say what that omething” was. he ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Henry Howard, of the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church. Miss Murphy is a Catholic. | The marriage united two large for- {tunes, Mr. Ziegler, the nephew and |adopted son of the late William Zieg- |ler, founder of the Royal Baking | Powder company, inherited $20,000,- | 000 of the Ziegler estate. The bride's | father is senior member of the Troy law firm of Murphy, Aldrich and [Guy. She Is a granddaughter of the |late United States Senator Edward | Murphy, Jr., and the late Henry | Townsend Martin, Albany banker. This is Mr. Ziegler's second mar: |riage. He was divorced from hi | first wite, Gladys Virginia Watson, !in Paris on September 9, 1926. They | were married here on December 11, 1812, and have two children. Miss Murphy is an accomplished sportswoman, she er's love for hol |plan to sail for Europe Saturday. | They will return in February to Aiken, 8. C., where the bridegroom lowns an estate. The newlywed: A pair of turke gobbler hen, were shipped recently from the Manitoba agricultural college to Aus- mouth county, N. J, mentioned ‘tx'ulk\, where breeders aim to build nounced. The ja strain of the feathered bipeds. arrived for the wedding, scheduled | they had been married at the Hotel | Frederick J. Pohndorff, a | friend of the bridegroom and Miss hares Mr. Zieg- | and | Name of First Person to Use Service Withheld— Stop Watchés Used to Check Up Time of Those Filing Applications. New York, Jan. 6 (®) — The vic- tor in the race to be the first to use |remained a secret of the telephone company today, not to be revealed |except by the winner when he is connected with London tomorrow | morning. Officials of the American Iphone and Telegraph company |maintained that the name of the first commercial user of the trans- Atlantic phone was merely a mat- |ter of business between the com- |pany and the patron. Between 30 and 40 persons applied within less than two minutes yesterday for the | honor of belng the first to pay $25 {a minute for the privilege of talk- ing across the ocedn. Supervisors with stop watches recorded the requests as they came [in in an effort to determine who should be given first use of the line. | Stop Watches Used Although 8:30 had the company as the “zero” hour, Irequests for London numbers be- gan arriving on the “long distance trans-Atlantic"” switchboards carly as These calls scrapped on the ground that the would-be talkers had ‘‘beaten the gun."” Tele- been set by as One patron got “centr: phone at 8:29:30 — just 30 seconds before the start. The stop-watch was against him, however, and his call went into the discard. A sec- ond try by the same party is said to have arrived 45 scconds after the real commencement of the race. Sporting cvents have never been timed more accurately, it was said. Forty-seven operators we - |gaged In recciving calls which were \recorded on special form tickets {and held aloft. A supervisor—there {were five of them immodiately |snapped the stop watch and the [turn of the patron to converse across the Atlantic was established. Despite the rush for assignments |it was sald no calls arrived simul- |taneously. The time between the |first two calls was said to be one- ifth of a second. In Tondon calls for connections |began arriving at 1:30 p. m., which s 8:30 m. in the Amer |metropolis. Between 20 and 30 a |plicants were said to have been re- |ceived. Whether the {will be put York or London on the first unofficial eall through from New has not hecn an- first official talk wiil Walter Gifford, [be between NEW YORK TO LONDON PHONE LINE GOES INTO OPERATION TOMORROW |the New York-London radfo phone ! were | president of the A. T. & T. Co, and Sir G. Evelyn P. Murray, secretary of the British general post office, Looks Like Busy Day The opening day promises to be a flourishing one for the new serv- ice from a financial standpoint. For the 270 minutes between 8:30 a. m. and 1 p. m.,, New York time, the tolls, at $25 per minute, should amount to about $6,000, taking into consideration time lost in breaking one connection and setting up an- other. With the inauguration of the new service, other interesting “first” trans-Atlantic passages are recalled, |as follows: Sallboat — Leif Ericsson, 1000 A. D.; Christopher Columbus, 1402, Steamboat—1838, Great Western, Cable—City; commercially, 1866. Radio telegraphy—1901, Marconl. | Seaplane—1919, NC-4, Command- er Albert Read, U. 8. N. Airplane, non-step — 1919, Cap- tain John Alcock and Lieut. A. W. Brown, British. Dirigible, non-stop—1919, British R-34, Commander G. H. Scott. Radiophone, one-way communica- tion — 1922, Great Britain hears United States. CUDAHY CONTENT 10 STAY SINGLE | nd Bis Would-Be Bride Al | Satistied, She Assures Los Angeles, Jan. 6 (#—The mar- riage whirl which swept Michael Cudahy, 19, scion of the wealthy packing family, and Marie Astaire, 19, film actress, through three coun- ties in a valn attempt to obtain a marriage license, subsided today with the young millionaire high a dry in the home of his mother w his intended bride consoled herself at her hotel in Hollywood. Young Cudahy was returned to the care of his mother, Mrs. J. P. Cudahy, widow of Jack Cudahy, yesterday, following a night spent in the Santa Barbara jail after she had taken drastic steps to prevent his marriage to the actress. ‘What happened behind the closed doors of the Cudahy mansion when the would-be benedict returncd is not known. “I'll take care of Michael,” Mrs. Cudahy informed officers as she re- lieved them of their charge, adding Radiophone, two-way communica- tion—1926. Radiophone — First news story | —March 7, 1926, received by the Associated Press, New York, from | London. | NEWINGTON NEWS The rezular monthly meeting of he school board was held last inight at the Center school. Bills| {were approved and routine business | was transacted, Any person wishing to join the| Book club which the Woman's club | {of Maple Hill will start within the | Inext two weeks should notify either | [Mrs. A, S. Grant or Mrs, T. H.| | Cogswell at the next meeting of the | | Woman'’s club or before. A list of | new books will be submitted to each | nember from which to select their | | book at this meeting. | | Mrs. Richard Hulbert, jr., and |her daughter, Marguerite, are con- | |fined to their home on Stuart street {by Ay | "Mrs. E. B. Proudman entertained |the civic committee of the Wom- an's club of' Maple Hill yesterday | |at her home on Frederick street at | luncheon and bridge. The commit- |tee iy composed of Mrs. A. S. Grant {2Mrs, "A, P. White and Mrs. T. H | Cogswell. | The sccond of a scrics of whists | |was held at Grange hall last night. | A committee, with E i |liott, was in charge and the affair | was well attended. Y { mittee will hold a dance e {day evening at the hall during the month of January. Tues {ioned dance in ¢ Imittee. | an old-fas ge of this com- | +|mond | that she was going to put him to bed. Later she announced that she and the boy had decided to be “pals from now on.” “No. mother didn't scold me,” Michael explained several hours later. ‘“She just pointed out where I was wrong. I've been a fool. If I hadn't been drunk I wouldn't have asked Marie to marry me. 8he's a good kid, but I'm not the marrying kind, not when I'm sober anyway." Cudahy previously said he start- d on the marriage venture after a ew Year's celebration “The joke's on me,” M Astaire told reporters, “and Mike once told me never to lose my sense of humor. I like Mike and I think we would have gotten along fine as man and o N wife. But he seems to have changed | his mind, now that he's back at the end of the apron sirings again. So it's freedom for both of us. I've given up the idea of washing his dishes, and I think mother's cooking best. Women_of First Church Hold Annual Meeting Mrs. B. D. Radcliffe was elected president of the Woman's soclety of the First Congregational church at the annual meeting held last eve- ning: A supper was served at 6:30 lock and reports of committees and officers were read. A short ad- dress was delivered. by Rev. Theo- dore A. Greene. Officers were elected as follow President, Mrs. B. D. Radcliffe; vice-president, Mrs. W. E. P tre: chairman of visitors commit- tee, Mrs. E. C. Goodwin; chairman ot furnishing committee, Mrs. H. M. JUST RECEIVED From Large New York Manufacturer RACKS FULL OF COATS ||| WOMEN'S AND MISSES’ COATS Originally Made to Sell for $60—$75 “While They Last” BESSE-LELAND’S Connecticut’s Largest Ready-to-Wear Store | Bates; chai | | | | | """ Need More Stren enterta.nmeont ices Parker and chairmen of Fred W. Latham. committe Miss Gertrude Hine; flower committee, Mrs. Latham and Miss Dorothy BERKELEY DIVINITY 10 BE MOYED NEARER YALE | Trustees Feel Middletown Institution Will Benefit By Change. New York, Jan. 6.—(P—Berkeley Divinity school, at Conn., is to be removed to Haven, Conn., to a site close to Yale university, Henry G. Leach, chair- man of the Berkeley associates, an- nounced last night. In making the announcement, at a dinner in honor of the Rev. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, chaplain to King George of England, Mr. Leach sald: “For many years the trustecs have had in mind that the school ought to be established in New Haven, in close proximity to Yale. They felt this would not only be a gain for the school but for the church at large. The authorities at Yale university have welcomed the proposal and have generously said they felt that Berkeley might make a real contri- bution to the life of the university. Invention to Do Away With Tubes and Batteries Macon, Ga., Jan. 6.—(P—DMercer university announces the perfection by Dr. Palmer H. Craig, head of its physics department of a radio device which will replace batteries and vacuum tubes in receiving sets. The invention which Dr. Craig calls an “electric-magnetic detector and amplifier,” also will make the radio more sensitive and provide more range for smaller sets, the an- nouncement said. READ HERALD CLASSIFTED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS Middletown, | New | CLARK DEFENDS OIL INTERESTS Petroleum Institute Insists Mo Trust Exemption Sought | New York, Jan. 6 P—The ofl in- | dustry is seeking no exemption from the Sherman act and similar laws, E. W. 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