The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-22
NEW YORK AND MONTREAL.

The New Route-Its Opening Excursion-In-
cidents and Observations.
The celebration OF the completion of one
of the greatest enterprises, and most i'm
portant railway schemes of the present Pc
riod--the New York and Canada railroad
was pleasant event, both to the partici-
pants, and the people who are to enjoy its
benefits. 1t is well known to the public
that the promotion, in fact the building of
this road has been a project of the Dele
ware and Hudson Canal Company, who
desired to extend their lines of commune
cation from the vast coal fields of Penn
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for a long period had in view. This line
not only makes nearer and easier route
between the commercial metropolis of our
own country and the Canadas, for travel, but
also aids in the development of the hidden
mineral resources of Northern New York,
which in extent and extensive value are not
surpassed if eQuslled by any on the con-
tinent 1t also affords the summer tourist
quicker access to the great Adirondack
region which is so rapidly becoming the
camping and sporting ground of so large
number Of the American people that it may
not appropriately be termed the National
Park.
The route. lying along the western shore
of Lake Chsmplain, is necessarily broken
and crcuitous, involving vast outlay of
money in its construction, some several
millions of dollars, which to the reader
may seem almost fabulous but one has
only to pass over its tressle work, spanning
bays and Observation-Disclosures filling val
ley and swamps, deep rock cut in some in
stances one hundred feet in depth, and
from thence through heightened tunnels,
passing under vast mountains, and all spec
ulation as to how SO large sum has been
expended is at an end and surprise takes
the place of speculation that it could have
been accomplished with even so small an
amount.
| The question is often asked how has all
this work been accomplished, with such
ease and attracting 30 little of the public
attention. 1t has been done quietly, ener-
getically pushed and successfully complet'
ed because of the strong, practical ability
| of the managers of the Delaware and Hud-
son Canal Company, and the ample means
at their command, for the ready perform
ance of the work. This has been work
not without embarrassment and difficulties,
for while the towns along the line, bonded
for large amounts, nearly every one has
repudiated its bonds with the exception Of
the gallant town of Plattsburgh. She came
up promptly to all her obligations and con-
tributed one hundred thousand dollars to-
ward the building of the road, the last fifty
thousand having been paid on the 10th in
fulfillment of the contract. No other town
has met its contracts to issue bonds, which
is far from creditable in view of the bene-
fits that are to come to them from its con-
struction. Nothing daunted the Delaware
and Hudson went forward without any at
tempt to force the litigation, by contracts
with the repudating towns, loan of five
millions was made in Epgland and the bal
ance has been provided for by the com
pany. This is the secret of the quiet man
ner in which the New York and Canada
railroad las been built The general fea-
lures of this enterprise having been so
fully presented to readers of the GLoBR
any further details Of the work would be
but repetition of what has already been
published.
| THE EXCURSION.
Tuesday the 10th having been fixed for
the formal opening Of the road, on the in
vitation of Thomas Dix on president Of the
Delaware aud Hudson Canal company,
some two hundred persons from New York,
Albany, Troy, and places the line and in
Vermont, made an excursion over the new
road to Montreal. The train composed OF
ten palace cars, two baggage cars drawn
by the locomotive l. V. Baker which was
gaily decorated with fags,-left Albany at
o, speeding rapidly to Saratoga, where a
delegation We're taken on board and then
of for Whitehall which was reached about
~ o'clock, noon.
AT Whitehall large accession was made