The New England power conference

Last month a memorable conference upon power development in New England was held at Worcester. Under the chairmanship of Samuel Ferguson, more than 600 delegates from business and utility organizations heard Owen D. Young, Martin J. Insull and Dexter P. Cooper discuss the value of power pooling, of interconnection and of the engineering development of the electrical resources of the Northeast. Thus a new point of contact between power producers, distributors and users was found. The sound economic lessons set forth were broadcasted by press and radio and served effectively to explain to the public at large the meaning of active and important tendencies in electrical supply. Conceived in connection with a broad movement among state governors to unite New Englanders for the common good, the conference achieved a triumph in economic publicity and made no little headway against the doctrine of limiting power pooling by political barriers.