Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-04-04

ION hallrOhu 'nmpany, ana durng tnab
p-ri0d had been OPERATED by them 10
connection with their road from the
State line 10 Troy, before mentioned.
The Western Vermont road hsf always
been rival road 10 the ROLAND a.
Washington and the Rensselaer, a. Sara
toga roads, until the month OF February,
1886, when written contract was en-
tered into, TO continue In force for ten
years, between the Rensselaer, Il Sara.
toRa Company and the Troy & Boston
Company, by which twas agreed that
no through business OF any Kind should
be allowed 70 pgss over the Bennington
g. Rutland road the Troy & Boston
Company binding itself not 10 deliver to
or receive any through freights from
saidB enniDgton q Rutland road, and Ia
order that passengers might be eiivctu'
ally prevented from travelling over the
Bennington 4 Rutland road II was fur.
ther stipulated by the Troy 4 Boston
Company that but one train per day
each way should be run by that company
to connect with the said Bennington &
Rutland road, and those trains were run
at such hours as would not allow trav-
elers TO connect with the trains of other
roads. This arrangement for dverting
the through business from the Benning-
ton & Rutland Railroad, was carried
into effect during the period OF the lease
of the road to the Troy 4 Boston Com
psny, and said company, in case it
should ever again connect with the Ben
nington & Rutland road, is under an
obligation by its contract to continue
1t for about niue years longer.
In the meantime two of the citizens
OF this State, John Gregory Smith snd
John b. Page, had become lessees Of the
Bennington & Rutland road, to COM
mence at the expiration OF the before
mentioned lease to the Troy & Boston
Company, and had made preparations for
operating it, by sending engines and cars
to the State line TO connect with those
Of the Troy & Boston Company. No
| such connection was however made, and
| although the lessees are DESTROYS of max
ing such connection, and have applied
to the managers Of the Troy & Boston
Company for that purpose, they utterly
| refuse 10 agree upon any terms OF con-
| nection, or to run their cars to the State
| line; and since the said 10th Of January
last there has consequently been no rail-
road outlet to the South and West, there
being break of about Ave miles be-
tween the State line and Hoosick juno
ton, from which latter place cars are
running daily to Troy, distance Of
| twenty-six miles This intermediate
FIVE mile of road is stated to have been,
since the 18th OF January last perma-
nently leased to the Rensselaer, & Sara
toga Railroad Company, thus placing
all the avenues from Rutland to the
South and West under the perfect con-
troll of that corporation.
The manufacturing interests that have
| grown up on the line Of the Bennington
g. Rutland Railroad are very extensive
and important, probably more so than
any other section of the State of equal
| population, embracing those Of cotton
and wooden In their various branches
| Of paper; Of iron by blast and cupola
furnaces; Of ochre for paints; OF ma
chinery for cotton, wooden and paper
| mills; tanneries; establishments for
making chiseIs, carpenters squares,
chairs, bedstesds, doors, sash, and many
1
The railroad transportation required to
furnish supplies and to send to market
the products of these establishments
must be very great. That portion of the
State Is also very rich in marble and
timber, many thousands OF tons OF each
| being annually sent away by raelrOad.If
these business operations, and others
connected with them, are to be perma-
nently shut of from railroad Communi.
cations with the outer world, as they
are at present, it is easy to see that all
must seriously suffer, and that very many
Of them, which can only prosper by
cheap and speedy transportation, must
be utterly ruined.
This appearing to be the situation of
affairs In that portion OF the State, and
believing that every considerable portion
Of the State, when suffering or in dam
ger, Is entitled to the sympathy and pro-
lection of the residue, and that the
whole State, and particularly the whole
Western part of 1t, is deeply interested
10 having q free and untrammeled out
let for freight and travel to the South
and West from Rutland; and feeling
that any remedy for the evil complained
Of in order to be effrctual, must be
prompt and speedy, [ have felt it my
duty to call you together on this occa-
sion that you may take into considers
tion the whole matter, and adopt such
measures in relation thereto as you shall
deem right and proper.
1t is understood that the excuse for
breaking the railroad connection before
mentioned is founded on a complaint of
the Troy g. Boston Company against the
proprietors (aot the Iessees) of the Ben.
nington & Rutland Railroad, and that
the officers of the company publicly de-
clare that as long as the road is owned
by the present proprietors no connec-
lions shall be made with 1t. Whether
this complaint is we'll or I'll founded.
does not seem worth our while to en-.
quire, for whatever may be Its character,
1t is difficult to conceive how it can
form any justification for iDficIIug In
discriminate, and perhaps irrepsrable,
Injury on an innocent public.
| 1t is understood that the Rensselaer,
T. Saratoga Company, owning the two