Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-16
RAILROAD MOVEMENTS.

Our readers have been appraised by ar
ticles in our columns of railroad scheme
in which our people are interested. W.
apprehend no harm to the interests Of on
State on account of whatever has been o
may be done in accordance with plans de
veloped. The managing power will hav
the means in their hands to improve on
railroad facilities. That they will do i
we have little doubt. The same enter
prise which has prompted them to the I'M
dertaking already entered upon will urge
them to make all Improvements necessa-
~ to public convenience. 1t will also be
for their interest to be liberal and pub
lie spirited in their management, so that
the people will feel that their needs,
rights and comfort are duly respected. A
selfish, narrow policy would prove disad-
vantageous to all concerned. The Maine
Central has done a great deal to improve
our means Of travel. 1t had difficulties to
encounter which will be removed under
the new management. With its opportu-
mites it did well. We hope that the new
arrangement into which it has entered
may prove one of the best measures of the
company.
But If it be as we understand the pur-
pose of the Eastern Railroad to remove the
offices and shops of the Maine Central
from this city to Portland we think it will
do an unwise thing. There are many
reasons against such change, some of
them OF the greatest importance to the
company. But they have right of course
to do what they please with their own.
New rulers make new laws, but it does not
follow that all changes are wise. Those
who have had the management and know
the history of the Maine Central would
never consent to such change we be-
leve.
The plan which the movers in the new
enterprise have in view has already been
Swallowed forth in our columns. The de-
tails of it are stated quite particularly in
the following editorial which appeared in
the New York Evening Post of Thursday
last, with other schemes OF conieclures
Ofthe writer
A correspondent Of the Evening Post at
Middletown. Conn, has several times referred
TO the negotiations OF certain railroad compan-
les for the purpose of securing new through
line between New York and Boston, and re-
ported rumors to the effect that the ultimate
object was to make further grand cOmbina-
lion for the purpose of securing an unbroken
railroad connection between New York and
Halifax. His conjectures seem to be con-
hrmed by the reports which we find in the
Maine and Massachusetts, newspapers.
The plan on this end Of the line is for the
New York and New England Railroad Com
pany, formerly the Boston, Hartford and Erie,
whose terminus was originally established at
Newburgh on the Hudson, to lease the New
Haven, Middletown and Williman,ic Rail-
road, which will be completed in a few weeks,
and establish an ''air line" from Boston to
New Haven. Beyond Boston there has been
much talk ofa consolidation Of the Eastern
Railroad from Boston to Portland, the Maine
Central from Portland to Bangor, the Euro.
pean and North American from Bangor TO St.
John, and finally the railroads from st. John
to Halifax, which are now rapidly approach
ing completion. The central figure in this
grand continuation appears to be the Eastern
Railroad, and the newspapers assert conf
IDENTIFY that in q few days the Maine Central
road win formally come under its manage
meat THIS Eastern We believe, IL one of the
moot ssccessful of the New England roads,
and II Il has taken hold OF this enterprise it
means business" II 10 said that cars will
run through without change by means Of =