New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-31
RAILWAY INTERESTS.
NETWORK AND BOSTON RATES EQUAL.

NETWORK AND BOSTON RATES EQUAL.
AN ADJUSTMENT or TIE DIFFICULTIES WITH THE
GRAND TRUNK AND VERMONT CBN1BAI~DE1AHS
NOT YET ARR,NGED-A BASIS or 10 CENTS ON
FIRsT-OLAss FREIGHT To CHICAGO.
The result of the final meeting yesterday
between officers Of the Grand Trunk Line OF Canada
the Vermont Central. and the New-york Central Rail
roads met the highest expectations OF New-York ana
Western railroad managers. An amicabe adjustment OF
differences reached and hands shaken over what
the night before. seemed an irreparaole broach
consultation meeting was held early IN tho
forenoon at tho st. Nicholas hotel AT ii O'Clock
second and preliminary meeting was held at william H.
Vanderbilts office In the Grand Central Depot There
present w. II. Vanderbilt, Vice President ana
F. Ruter, General Freight Agent OF tho New-i OK Cen
trail VIM Bliss. General Manager of the Boston ana
Albany; Thomas A. Scott, President, and A. j. Cossdtt
VicoPresdent of the Pennsylvania John King Jr' wee
President OF tho Baltimore and Ohio; John Newell
General Manager. and Addison Hill, General Freight
Agent of the Lako Shore and Michigan Southern John
MoCullough Vice-President OF the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago; j. f. Joy, President, and
W. B. Strong, General superintendent of the Michigan
Central Railroad An active discussion OF the relations
New-York and Western interests to the great conro
very Of uniform freight from Bosom and NewYok
continued until the arrival of Joseph NichsOn, General
Manager of the Grand Trunk Line and L. Mcli', Iaho
superintendent of the Vermont Central THESE gentle.
men took part the discussion, and in short time
and the Boston and Albany Railroads TO an Interview at
the Brevoort House The meeting at the Grand central
continued until O'clock and at that time no sallaao
tary solution of the difficulty had been reached
Between and o'clock Mossrs. Vanderbilt, Bntler,
and Bliss OF the York Central and Boston and AL
bany roads, Messrs. Hckson and Mois at the Brc-
wort House. After a short and earnest discussion al
matters OF interest affecting westward rdtes were
amicaby adjusted tO the Satisfaction u all pdeS' ~
basis OF equal freight rates from noh
COston and New York, ana as soon as the tdin ue's
can be arranged westward rates VIII 10 adaaceu 10 -
cents per hundred rsclass freGhts Un Boston anu
Ncw-NOik to Chicago. .,--,,
Railroad officials remain rcticent to the minor de-
settlemenJ and the motives Whch nndencou
me Grudd Trunk and Vermont Central roads III acceimg
10 demands of the NewIOrk Central are matters Oh
conjecture. It whispered among railroad OFFICIALS ON
Wednesday that Mr.. Vanderbilt all other means illhS
wound generally consent poor the through llrleht
earnings of The rival roads the basis OF tne rghJ
earned by the roads during the past Two or tnTee
years; also, that possible adjustment would be ny
turning over part of GrOugn Boston freisht OF me
the Nsw-York Central the Grand Trunk road at Inc
ni.rn. al Rridge 1t is asserted good authority,
however that thore is to be pooling vi earnings ana
that tao .tude OF the NcwTOrk Central 10 thc ur1Au
Trunk and Vermont Central remains the same as before
the laie Quarrel and reduction O rates Commence IL
felt that thus settlement which raiy affects the inter
estS Ncw.YOrk merchants, as wei US the raOaus III
vOlved, viii last