, 1873-01-26

sidorably better time than it's rivals. Tho Cana
dian portion is about completed. The line
westward to this city is not 80 odyanced but ls
graded q distance Of 100 mileH. Tho new line
will be completed in time to shnre in the fall
grain movement. A majority Of its Directors
arc also in tho Directory Of the Rock Island,
Northwestern, and Wabash Roads, and control
their policy, thus assuring to the now line all
the business it can take from tho start.
Eastward from Buffalo, Vanderbilt proposes
to take care OF all the business. Ho intends to
put the New York Central in such superior con-
dition that no competing line can offer equal
facilities. It's freight capacity will be trebled
during the ensuing summer. It will thon be q
four-track railroad through to Albany. The
now double-track will havo the considerable nd
vantage OF easier grades, by running round
Rochester and Syracuse. These Increased 1acll1-
ties might seem to call for corresponding addt-
tions to the capacity Of the Hudson River HALL
road: but that road is now able to do four times
its present business. This is accounted for by
the fact-not generally known-that 10 per cent
of the business sent over the New York Central
is destined to points in New England leaving only
80 per cont for New York City and the River
Road The proposed increase Of capacity will
diminish the cost OF transportation. Two OF the
four tracks will bo reserved for passenger and
the other two for freight trims. This will allow OF
each freight train being run to its destination At
regular rate OF speed. At present, freight
trnins have to side-track out Of the way Of pas
senger trains, causing expensive delays, and CON-
pel1ing them to run at hazardous rates OF speed,
when they got the right to the road. Freight
will then have quicker and uninterrupted transit,
and there appears no reason why, when these
facilities are provided, trains should not be for
warded in as rapid succession as it is practicable
to load and make them up. Ware thia four
track system extended to Chicago, 80 that
freight trains could be made up and sent out
every hour, the problem that has so long per-
ple1ed Us would be satisfactorily solved.
The day Of deliverance is dawning. Tho Lake
Shore Road will soon hayo double track be-
tween Chicago and Buffalo. The Michigan Cen
t1nl is rcco~n;zing the came necessity; while,
eastward L~4l Detroit, tho work is progressing
fayorably. The Grand Trunk Railway has re-
Gently effected change Of gauge On it's line be-
tween Port Sarnia and Buffalo, which enables it
to transport through freight without breaking
bulk; and the Great Western "loop line, from
Glencoe to Fort Erie, opposite Buffalo, has just
been completed. When the international Bridge
is finished, next summer, the volume of business
that will seek the north shore outlet will doubt
less be trebled.
The Eric Railway Is also fraught with good in
tentions. Instead Of reducing its broad gauge
to the standard feet So inches, it is proposed
to lay third rail from New York to Buffalo, and
to add 400 locomotives and 1000 freight cars,
narrow gauge, to the rolling stock.
There are two other corporations Industrious
II working in the Same profitable direction. The
New York, West Shore l. Chicago Railroad Com
pany are engaged in locating line up the west
bank Of the Hudson River to Jaynes' Cornrrs,
twenty-five m1les above Ca1s6u, where it
diverges westward, through Central New York.
to Buffalo, distance OF 425 ni1ea from New
York. It will be parallel route to the Hudson
River 4 New York Central, with the slight nd
vantage Of being fifteen miles shorter. Engi-
neerB are ut work, and it is expected the line will
be in operation through to Buffalo by the 1st Of
May, 1874.
The New York l. Oswego Midland Railroad is
the other candidate for Chicago business. In
connection with the Lake Ontario Shore Rail-,
road, it win-when the short, intervening gaps
have been suppled-furnish through line from
Jersey City to Buffalo. The road has been built
in disiointed sections, but, by the leasing Of old
and the construction OF new lines, the whole
system between New. York and Osuego will
ehortly be in successful operation.
The foregoing enumeration betokens an activi-
ty in railroad extension that is warranted by the
demands Of the growing West. They will not
lnjre the existing railways. There is sufficient
surplus busindGs for all the projected lines;
besides, each new route creates local business
for itself. The West has long been c1amped be-
cause OF unsupplied communications but the
addition OF 10 many needed facili- |
ties will enable all parties concerned to endure
more patiently present inconvoniences and
losses, knowing that relief is surely coming.
DR.. STRAUSS "OLD AND NEW
The indication OF tho general scope OF DR.. |
Strauss new book, entitled "Der Alte und Der !
Neue Glaubo," has already been given in the
columns of TIE TcmusE- It is sufficient for
The purposes of .is article to recall the fact that
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