. Electric railway journal . that as one of the first municipal executives to appreci-ate the value of safety car service he has not onlyco-operated to such good effect with the railway of his home town but has ad-vanced the cause of betterservice in many other citieathrough the hearty, un-equivocal way in whichhe has endorsed the prin-ciples of Terre Haute op-eration when questionedby the numerous civic com-mittees that have visitedthat city to study thesafety car. If MayorHunters record in otherdirections is as good asthis, he ought to be re-elected by acclamation. 210 Electric Railway Joukj
. Electric railway journal . that as one of the first municipal executives to appreci-ate the value of safety car service he has not onlyco-operated to such good effect with the railway of his home town but has ad-vanced the cause of betterservice in many other citieathrough the hearty, un-equivocal way in whichhe has endorsed the prin-ciples of Terre Haute op-eration when questionedby the numerous civic com-mittees that have visitedthat city to study thesafety car. If MayorHunters record in otherdirections is as good asthis, he ought to be re-elected by acclamation. 210 Electric Railway Joukjnal, Vol. 57, No. 5 The Public Utilities Commission of the Nutmeg State The Connecticut Commission Is Restricted as to Jurisdiction Over Rates and Securities — It Follows aConservative but Broadminded Policy — It Is Particularly Vigorous in Requiring Effective andSafe Operation of Utilities — Grade Crossing Protection Signs Worked Out in Con-necticut—This State Apparently Antedates Massachusetts in Utility Regulation. THE CAPITOL AT HARTFORD IS AN ARTISTIC GILT-DOMEDSTRUCTURE IN A BEAUTIFUL CITY THE State ofConnecticut hashad some sortof a regulatory com-mission ever since1849. In that yearthe Legislature pro-vided for the appoint-ment of three com-missioners for eachrailroad in the state,each to serve threeyears. Their dutieswere to examine theroads each year, tosee that the compa-nies observed thelaws and the provi-sions of their char-ters, to hear the com-plaints of selectmenof the towns, to ad-just land condemna-tion proceedings, is usually credited with having startedthe regulation idea, but she did not establish a commis-sion until 1864, fifteen years later than Connecticut. In1850 the law of the previous year was amended in such away as to provide that the individual commissionersshould constitute a board; at the same time the dutieswere somewhat enlarged. Various other amendmentsin 1853, 1858, 1865, 1874, 1877 and 1888 enlarged anddefined the s
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