Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30
The New Railroad combinations.
THE CENTRAL VERMONT. AND THE PORTLAND
AND oGDESsBURG.

CENTRAL VERMONT. AND
AND oGDENsBuRG.
The organization of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company at St. Adams the other
day as the successor and executor oil the
Vermont Central, is an event of considerably
more Importance to both Boston and Ne"
fork than at first sight appears. The con-
trolling interest in the new company Is held
by the same parties who compose and con-
troll the New York, Boston and Montreal
Railroad Company. and the management oil
the two companies will doubtless be hence
forth practically one if not actually identi-
cal. The latter corporation is largely New
York in its composition and purposes, and
the addition to it of the Vermont Central
system of roads gives it great advantages
and important Advancement toward the
realization of the plans which have been So
long and so frequently detailed ofits lmPor-
ant and extensive operations. The Gilbert
Elevated railway Is one of these adjunets,
and for several months we have been look
ing to the New York, Boston and Montreal
railway to give the metropolis, among its
other blessings, the greatest of all, rapid
transit. The company has extern
sive waterfront and navigation facilities
on the north side of the Harlem river, and
with the annexation Of the lower portion of
Westchester will be in position 10 develop
Mt once its property under the city charter.
With the acquisition of the Vermont Cen
trail system of roads by the New York in
terest. the new Portland and Ogdensburg
road now building through Vermont and
New Hampshire becomes to Boston a work
of the first interest and Importance. 1t i
now going on prosperously and with every
prospect of early completion and successful
operation, and when it is finished will more
than supply the place of the Vermont Cen
trial. Its distances from Montreal to tide I
water are less, its grades easier, and its |
local business promises to be larger. Nearly |
all the grading of the Vermont division Is |
completed, and the expenditure of a quar-
ter Of a million more will open the entire /
line from Champlain to the Connecticut. |
East of the river, a few miles, at Whitefeld, |
direct connection with Boston Is made,
while at North Conway, on the other side
of the White Hills, another connection viii
be made to the same point, over the Boston
and Maine. From Swanton, the lake
terminus, two routes will be opened to the
West, 50 that the facilities for bringing the
produce Of the prairies over this line will
be ample Since the New York move on
the NermOnt roads, the Green Mountain
towns have become solicitors for the ad-
vantages which the new line promise them,
and Burlington offers 10 double itssubserip-
ton provided the Portland and Ogdensburg
will build an Independent line to its gates,
instead Of stopping as has been intended at
Essex. six miles distant Should this be
done, Burlington would have new and direct
connection with Boston by route shorter
than anyhow existing, and all the towns
of the upper lakes would share in its adTan-
tages. The business prospects of the Yer
mont division for the coming sumner are
excellent Fairbanks Il Co, the 81. Johns
bury scale manufacturers, who are also
largely interested in the road, will supply
it at least forty thousand tons Of freight
from their own shops this summer, and the
fertile towns Of the Lamoiile valley will do
heavy freighting in both directions.
Through some inscrutable process the road
is being built for nearly one thousand dol
lars per mile less than the engineer 5 e>ti-
mates, the bonds are meeting with rapid
and favorable sale, and there Is every reason
to expect that before another winter Boston
will be provided with a new and better
route 10 the west and north. and one which
New York will not be able 10 control or take
away from her.-N. !. Cor. Boston Adrsr-
iser.