Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-02-11
Railroads..

RUTLAND ROAD. The Burlington Free Press
is not at all pleased with our remarks upon
the Rutland Road, and is so kind as to tell us
that they are very discrcdtabe to us-in bad
temper, vindictive and spitetul. Very well,
General: if all that is true, we have only once
initiated the temper and style of the papers in
the Rutland interest. May this reflection be
profitable to them.
Now to the Middlebury Galaxy, which says
that we have very graciously" asserted
That Boston had not furnished the 100000
subscription, required of her, and that the Fitch
burg corporation had not subscribed the $4,000
necessary for its completion If this is not
Roorback then the President Of the road was
guilty of gross deception when at the meeting
at Rutland he promptly asserted what is SO I'M
qualified deniedy by our editor. IT any further
evidence of the facts is wanting, IT may be found
in letter from director in Boston TO director
in Middlebury which we have perused, in which
the writer says that forty thousand dollars, the
residue of the two hundred thousand dollars sub
scrlption has been taken by the Fitchburg cor
poratlon
That will do Mr.. Bell: you say that we have
fbbed, and as witnesses you give us the Presi-
dent Of the Rutland Co., and also Director; but
behold in what deplorable position you have
placed your witnesses and the Fitchburgh Cor
poraton. In October last, at meeting of
theFitchburg Railroad Corporation, called for
the specific purpose of deciding whether they
would aid the Rutland road, it was decided
by an immense majority, on q stock vote, NOT
to do it. The next meeting of the Corporation
IL, loe f,yot hink
on the 10th of January-at any rate it was after
the pretended subscription of $4,000 had been
announced and series of resolutions IN Jaror Of
the SULLIVAN and CENTRAL ROADS was adopt
ed. 1t was proposed, by one in the r utland in
terest, 10 amend these resolutions so as to ex-
press equal favor to the RUTLAND ROAD but
this was REJECTED by a vote of more than five
TO QUE Such are the facts, we have them
from the highest and best sources. Now if any
body, in behalf of the Fitchburg Corporation,
has pretended TO make up the 5000, 900 by sub
scribing $4,000, it has evidently been done
without authority from the Corporation, and
must be nullty On the other hand # such
subscription has not been made, how stand the
President and this Director of the Rutland road
Mr.. Bell, we leave you to get your friends ou
of this bad scrape, wishing them an honorable
deliverance. Whether they have been them
selves bamboozled, or have hastily and unadvis
eddy excited hopes among their friends to be sad
ly disappointed, remains for you to show W.
have confidence in the integrity of the Fitchburl
board which cannot be easily shaken. The Gal
axy may be curious to know how we obtained
our information as to the amount subscribed il
Boston: it was from first rate authorization
one of the Rutland Committee. Hope you arr
now satisfied as to our veracity and authority
As to the contracts the remarks to which tn
Free Press, the Galaxy, and others have except
ed were made from the conviction that the Rut
land road never can be built under such con
tracts. Every railroad man who ever trayelle
on the line of that read, west of the mountains
will bear witness that the soil is very hard to b
worked, compared with that of almost any oth6
section of the State; and yet at time when ID
Dor, provisions, iron, and all things else are at
high mark, it is pretended that this road can
built not only far below the estimates of its Ell
gineer, but cheaper than any other that ever ha
been constructed at the most favorable season
as to prices, and on the most favorable lines
New England What shall give US faith?
we pass over the ground, the judgment is ayers
to any thing like AN easy work; if we consu
their engineers, all Of them show a line of mo
than ordinary difficulties; if we turn to the e
perience of every other road in New-Engan
the result is uniavorable. Within the last ty
years, we know of no less thans four roads ID
Central inclusve,) on which this scheme of lc
contracts has been tried; and in every one
them it has signally failed-in all instances d
astrously for the contractors and in some fort
na.eY not tha Ceniral.l disastronsy for the col