, 1870-07-04

enssck River whore l.: .oonnecte1
With the New Jersey Railroad running Ma
NoVafk, through the Bergen tunnsl: ~ TINS TINS
irzWn Ii mitiDs the right to this particular 4;
road. subseq iently, and before completing
bis road to H7ckenFac',, Mr. Stevens sold hia
charter to the Morris L Essex, now ths Dels
ware, Lackawanna d Western Road, wlueh;
instead Of completing tue one conten enP4evu 4on.
ming their trains through the funnel, IS they
sssisnsd to them 1ies by sterens Tho
ayers Of Eric claim never 70 nave 1ecos
nized that right inssmpch ~ ~ ~ amned Hits
and have already Unlisted that the MOTIFS
Essex, and the Succeeding Deia"are, hacha-
wanna & western Road, aha1l pay the rates
and tolls fred by the law of NeWyefsey Pae6Ti; PnnEi;c
h;riswar men to Ill railroads, but for the use
Of which they must Erie 15A cents per pas
senper md Il per ton Of freight transported:
In accordauco with this act. the PreadenS o.
tbo Erie Road did. on the 18th o. tn1s montn'
demnnd Of the President oi ms .oennnt ne.nme.i ~
fne number Of passengers and amount o.
fre;cht which have passed through the tunnel
on lie trains Of the latter since tho tfack was
first laid there. No response to tins aemana
has yet been received At the Esae "sspna o.nce ~
t;ep ri, submit tho matter to. arbitration or
abide BY the decision Of some court OF co"pe
tent jurisdiction. fh,.
III t-sirs ~ other lines shall be 80 started.
cnndncted. and run that they shall not ~ any
w,v ;nterfaro With the Erie Roaa. Ih!s tha
Erfe managers complain ls not done', sno tnaS
ihe Morris l. Essex trains rnsh in 1ew aGc-
onds or few minutes ~ eaeahSs fSsrebv %
tained from five to eight minutes. wherefore
the following notice was Issued on Saturday,
md sent to the Superintendent of the Della
ware, Lackawanna 4 Western Line:
'A'A t5 OFFICE, !, NEW YoRk, June q, ls7o-]
To he Morris and Essez 1ar9oa @ ati,r Ps;7rond
We herewith scEve upon you copy Of s9e
present timetables Of trains OF the Ecie
| hallway and its leased lines running thtousn t4
! tic tunnel; also copy OF 4 general o1ue. er,s
| OF this company for the eulaanSe =, n,,s1a., e
| ploses in running trims through tne n'lsea
| tunnel.
Tho tino and manner in which yon run
| trains at present seriously interferes with, OBJ
structa, aud delays tho running OF trains On
tie Eric Railway.
train should enter the tunnel, on the aana
track, before the preceding train LAS emerged
| from the tunnel, and experience las slown
that no train should follow . passenger train
sooner than five minutes, or freight tram
sooner than eight minutes, alter 1t hss staftea
your company III well ~ by the Erie Hallway
We cannot have our trains delayed these five
OF eight minutes simply because the trains on
your road happen to aIrlve At tue tunnel low
seconds or q few minutes before our trans.
We are entitled to use our OWL property Will
nut being iuterferetl with, obstructed or delay
ed by yo1r company, and this genera! ordel
must be observed and enforced to enable us tc
do 30. -.
= upon the President or Superintendent OF the
Morris Essox Railroad, or Of the Delaware
Iackavana d Westoln Railroad, wo must IN
gist that YOU accommodate your trains ant
. business to OUT time tables and this order
I Nothing in this eonmnnleasl9n, Is 70 IN y.
q through the tunnel at all, except upon tn
payment Of tho legal tolls demanded OF you
The Erie Railway Company, BY o,;oo,+
a JAnEs FlsS, JR-. Vice proaloent*
l. Essex supposed that the Etis 1nanagcmen
!: would tako to enforce their order eau only 2 2
inferred from the fact that they immedintol
procured the services OF 150 men, whom tue
had sworn in BY the Governor q H. Now ,;.sno setso
to be the preservation OF the peace and to
dignity Of TINT portion OF the State Of Ne
,e Je1sey lying within the jurisdiction OF tn
bergen tunnel And thus the matter t!Anua
the time of running has not been change
on the Morris 4 Essex, nor has ~
one On behalf Of tho Erie done aught to i
woke martial deeds on the part Of the special
Erie maintains that she will assert her right
but whether in tie forum or the tunnel it
mains for time to develop.
in tho Twss- with the Central, tho Erie par
Claims to have vanquished it's foes completed
md therefore refused to treat with the eneu
On 1ny other basis than unconditional sure
der They say they have checkmatod Vaude
bilts every move, and carried the warto 81
| cessful termination without serious intefT1
ton to the general business Of the road
uiminution Of its earnings that when Il
Commodore reduced his through rate for Ct
tic from S1G0 to $40 car, ho imagined that
had reached point beyond Which his Q
ponents dared not follow him and when,
learning thnt Erie was carrying cattle at ce
head, he reduced his rates to 81 car, hef
into the tran of Which Mess1s. Gould and II
now explain they had been engaged for sor
time in the construction, for as soon as Va
derbilt's laet reduction was announced, t
Western agents Of tle Erie, acting under
direction Of the managers here, succeeded
: shipping {, coo head Of catue to New York,
way Of the Central, before tho trick vas q
covered while The Erie in the meantime, +
caring to carry more than it could help at 50
hi. rl1inons rates, confined its cattle traffic to
:. ~ shipments of its regular patrons.
A'o Fisk and Gould arc inbilant over this Ii
OF "stock" speculation, having, they claim, re.
der cd large profit at the expense Of their opps
he cut Vanderbilt, on discovering for whom
Nil. was running his trims at such low pr1c
~. lae again raised his rates to $40, and it ia
'cn opinion Of 1l1ose who profess to know that
ZEN rfices viii 60 back to the original figures
oti- 10th roads before long.
at In the caBe Of The E1ie Railway Compal
ce ! James Fiak, Jr.,aul Justin D. White agt, 10
- q. Benjamin Heath, jay Gould, charles By
es' rnd others, in which Judge Barnard appoint
1Ir James Il. Coleman, Receiver, on Frl!
he'd last, Mr. Coleman Las nado demand,
but las received $4,000, 900 worth OF stock. to
c.,- strsin the tranRfer and stamping Of Which
~ ~ injunction waa at tue game time issued,