Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-23

teukin route east from Saratsen, % to
the Troy and Rutland road, and event.
ually taking advantages Of tho Hoosao
Tunnel
W. H. Tefft, Esq, OF Whitehall, also
spoke in favor of the road from White
hall to Fort Ann, and thence west Through
Glens Falls and the Saoandaga valley to
Worthwhile. The three objects 10 be 90
complished are, the Development Of local
interests, the furnishing Of an outlet to
the sea and to Europe for Chicago, Oswe-
go and the Lakes, and ultimately the ex-
tension of the road to the Pacific. The
main element to be considered is time
That route is most feasible which trans
ports merchandise in the quickest time
at the least expense Chicago is nearer
Portland and the sea by this route by two
hundred miles than by any other. The
question of an eastern terminus is there
fore confined to Portland. The speaker
then compared the respective merits of
the route to Worthwhile from Fort Ann
via Glen's Falls, Palmer's Falls and Conk-
lingville, and also from Fort Ann via
Saratoga to Worthwhile, showing by the
number of tanneries and other manufac-
tories in the wilderness, and by the bust
ness of Glens Falls and Fort Ann, the
great superiority of the former route.
The remarks of Mr.. Tefft were earnest
and effective, and in many respects may
be considered the most concise and telling
speech of The meeting
Gen. Goo. $. Batchelder of Saratoga,
again addressed th9 meeting He said
the citizens of Saratoga proposed to build
a railroad to the East, no matter what
might be the result of the committees
deliberations. Glens Falls might boast
of her business, but he would ask the
gentleman from that town what was the
fate of the Glen's Falls and Fort Ed ward
railroad. The General ridiculed the idea
of Whitehall becoming great inland
commercial city. Her harbor was only
about one hundred feet wide, and if half
dozen canal boats should happen to get
sunk in the channel the commerce of the
world would have to be suspended until
they were removed. He presented statis-
tics to show that the route by Saratoga
reached much larger population than by
any other proposed, and defended Sara
toga against the insinuations of the speak
ers who had assailed her good name and
reputation.
The sensation Of the day was the speech
Of Edward Carin, railroad gentleman of
Boston, who seems to be. to the railroad
system OF the country what Ben. Butler
is to its politics-an uncompromising radi-
cal. Indeed, there is a striking personal
resemblance between these two men of
Massachusetts,, both of them having a
marked cast in the eye. Mr. c. said he
was in Saratoga at the opening of the
Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad thirty
seven years ago, and since that time he
had been actively engaged in railroad en-
terprise-. The increase of the wealth and
population Of the country demands new
railroads. Our population to-day is 49,
100000; ten years hence it will be Co.,
100000. 1t goes on compromising itself,
and once in every twenty-five years it is
doubled. But railroads should be az free
TO the people as the common turnpikes
are, Railroad kings should be dethroned
the State should own every railroad in
IL borders and tho freight and passenger
tariff should be reduced 10 AZ 70 pay only
the rnnninY expenses and three per cent
upon the capital invested. 1t was an out.
rage that tho citileuA ~ New York should
BE- compelled - pay largo percentage IN
tho way of freight and passenger tariffs
upon tbs Wntered stoo. Of the Central
aud Etie railroads 20 80 into the pockets
- y few men 49, dirldcndnnpon this stock.
Tie railroads wcro m4dc for the people
and net the people for tho railroads. iis
WIS mortified 10 think that tho Lcgisla-
turc 81 Now York had sanctioned tho
operations ~ HEX and Gould, aid had
created sueh "a ru0ueyod power IN the land
as would bring the r. oplo into sutjec'ion.
Mass1elusctt- tho coming Winter would
take pssr-~ion Of the Boston aud
Albany railroad, and run IL by a
corporation Of thirty men, five Of whom
are 70 constitute the board Of direction,
II won't - to put the roads in the bands
Of public officers they are dishonest but
"a corporation 81 private gentlemen can be
found who will operate them with
honesty. fidelity and economy. The State
owns .23,UUD.0OO Of the Albany AID
Boston stock private individuals Sl7,-
0OO,boO. In nine years the people will
have tree road. Railroad kings, said
Mr. Cram, must be dcthro ncd If not
peaccably, then by revolution. 1t won't
do - place our great arteries al comrnuni-
cation ia their hands and give II few men
the control Of the commerce, the enter
prise and necessities OF the c, untry. Mr..
Grain did not favor ship canals First Sc
lect, said he, tho point on Lake Ontario
which l. To be the great distri bu'ing re,er-
voir % III" pr, dn"o of tho Wet. Then
blili ,aur -torrilou e.. H., -, ana the
Eastern merchant or minor can make IA
draft nPpn them a. lac may require his
grain - 4 ,ur, at slight c0st for storage.
Real crtate j. too valuable in New York
and Boston 10 bs u.od ia the storage II
bulky m4terial--tis comm lssio.I viii eat
them up, or 70 Increase their prices To
prevent All competition with tho grain
cpuntries Of EUROPE III the European
markets. H. would cali ttir ont.rp price
the Atlantic aud Ontario Rai,Toad and
Trust Company. Lay donbl" track
steel r4Irond ~. the IIup-ac tunnel, and
dedicate II, not III Dronzp 10 the genius Of
one man, bat ~ part OF a grand free
railroad system, Tor the benefit Of mo en-
tire people. Mr. Grain 'sradical sentiments
were loudly applauded by the convention,