The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-03
FROM BOSTON TO TIE WEST
THE SECRET RATLWAv BUTLDING
IN "a UPHIN COUNTY, "a.
What Commodore vanderbilrs Representa-
tive saws about 1.-THE Disadvn ntapes OF
Trunk Lines Made up of Local Roads.

Prom ne Philadelphia fTess.
HARRtsBURG. Aug. n The long projected
Mss, MnGh Is dsslgned 20 be great rival to all ne
Tie Rocky Mountains, j. grsdasny Working rs way
through Pcnnsylvania ~ eers Of links which are re-
ile iiaG bui sis6 when All aplsicd' VIII CON ttgis
does ho r t sfS sn ct trad s9d
gsrd,d AZ monopoles The principal operations arc
marrsourg to iIgmeurE ysry large force is en-
r portn ' OF weS Is a SBe' spscd
a., su,ycy , hn has. eccn made Tor an addltion,
STRIKE TIC bcrks and Lehieb RaiiroSd al a cca
x,nicni point and enee continue on g slatinfton
new roads Ia several portions Of Dauphin county, par
eneers have been petfectinS and iocstlng ine, and
wnere different pons Of observation have been taken
Farmers and business men are urged TO subscribe STOCK
frequently to assess damages where II IL proposed TO
run tnesc ROADS. year ago communicated the fact
ancw coal road from de centre Of the anthracite cos
,eabosrd, and have outlets which would give. It
q commanding inference on the trade OF the
enterprise are these same lines ana The day Is not lar
distant when the entire scheme will be uncovered re-
Ncang the most gigantic railroad corporation the
world las ever behcld ana confronting present exist
Pscinc and a bidder i5r the trade Of inaia and CHINA
II Singular too at Jay Goulds name + more or
Tue operation referred 70 i the building Of 50 many
comparatively air line from the East to the West
that ran through regions heavy ircghts uOst
@ n9fs intent sSH' Of r sfS AZ
agefs are greatly pcfpeAed 10 keep pace WITH the new
A RAILROAD MANS OPINION.
A suN reporter showed the above statement
to a railroad Official. who is supposed to he
thoroughly intimate with Commo dore Wander
bits affairs. The Commodores representative
said There can be nothing in II, and for
several reasons. First, no capitalists are now
thinking Of building roads. They are rather
aiming to get control of those already In exist
ence. As for jay Gould, he has enough TO do to
attend to Union Pacific. Secondly, capitalists
don't build trunk roads in that way. through
road made up Of local roads would have a hard
time competing with a through road which has
no primary local Hoilsstlons 10 Impede ils az,
different towns consent to aid road, as the
Press correspondent SAYS these roaos In Dauphn
county are being aided, they generally exact
conditions which are incompatible with a speedy
Reporter But was not the New York Central
made up OF local 70 adsY
THE NEW YORK CENTRAL.
Ayes, but they were not built with view
OF Although road. The great corporation which
has grown out OF the various roads consolidated
In the New York Central was not thought of
when those roads were built. And since this
corporation has been created. see (ponting to u
map) how we have had to build many miles Of "A
dlroct line, In order to avoid those crooked
local divergences To Geneva and other places.
now. II II were not for that turn on from Utica
to Rome. when the two tracks were added,
there was some thought OF having the trunk
road run from Utica To syracuse, leaving the
Rome traffic merely local. say this To show
tue infinite trouble which attends a through
road com posed OF local roads.
Besides. II capitalists commanding extensive
means were at the bottom OF such scheme,
they would not be asking aid from farmers and
town pumps. as the Pres CORES pondent says
these roads are doing.
An AIR LINE PRACTICABLE
Reporters such road, By way Of Dauphin
county. Pa. crossing the Hudson near New
burgh and connecting with the Hartford, PrOvi-
deDce and ftshkill pravticablef
A.-Certainy. One could he built, and would
he very direct road from Boston To the great
western maris. But as long a. there great
trunk roads terminating at New York, 50 long
an outlet here. Boston Is not New York. and
while more people ana more goods come here
than 60 To Boston, so long will railroads lead to
New \ Ork. Railroads are uult To make money,
and they can only make money by taking people
where people want to GO.
Hut then there ~ another fact Of grave inter
est to this city and STATE. While the pennsyl-
vania road and the baltimore anc Onto bring
IT nic here, ANA hcln e. promote the prosprrltv
of New York In that way. the don't employ
New Workers, and their profits are not expended
IN this state.
THE NEW YORK ROADS
on the contrary make the West pay tribute TO
New y Ork, and all our employees are residents
OF the sac. The New York Central empluys
about 1900 PERSONS all living ia this State. aud
they WITH their families would make little
commonwealth 50 you see why II is 10 the
interest OF New Workers TO support New York
railroads.
whatever IN this statement by the Pres corre-
spOndent
Nothing at all. The man wanted some
thing 10 write about. Great railways are not