New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-27
IRON BOSTON TO CHICAGO.

PROGRESS UPON THE NEW LINE-ITs srfEDY OPEN
INo-rHE BUSINESS IT WILL TAKE.
lFECM A. OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIRrNEl
Bo-TOS, Feb. 25.-Thc Boston I0oSac Tunnel
and Western RAILROAD Company, Whose Offices are III Bos
ton, - making such rapid irogis rs with ITS ne" Inc I"
connect NoTth Adams aud Schenectady that the line
WILL Dee open about May !. This company. including
leading of.c,r- 90 tic Delaware and Hudson, aud Erie
EgiltuaI and Pullman Car CoDpaucs. ORGANIZED last
wear of The puIJo-. Of opening rev line from Boston
10 Chi,aso. The Troy and Boston Railroad Company
md Ayur,d to prevent their enterprise by getting ou' an
Injunction against then using portion o the abandoned
rosG-lcd oi tie Old Albany Northern Company, leased
rs the Troy and Boston, between Eagle Bridge and he
Hudson RyDr Eut t.o injunction has bccn rtmoy d,
and the new company viii probably meet no legal obsa-
,c to prevent tuor paAiag III, road rapidly forward
70 complexion
About SEQ men are al work. and the lice from Eagle
Er dcr 10 Mtclaucs,ic. wLc'c crosses the IluI>'u'
/. all ready the rails, aud mile and hat 81 road'
from Nt,hanIc-Ne to TIE bridge, Is IN running order
The bridge here viii be 1900 eot long, with about so
feet more u rcslc work TIE west side OF the river
and Wi! DE one II the finest and strongest railroad
bridges I'm the country. II viii have eight SPAN, ana
Will co-t ahoy, tho piers about 100000 The road i
being Land with tho best quality of steel rails sxyeYcn
pounds 10 tine yard Tic officers 81 IA" company re-
Gently voted unanimously consruc. the line eastward
from EicIs Bridge 10 the Vermont state line at
-
land damages are being seti"d II remains I"
be- seen whether the Massachusetts, Legislature
Viii compel tie Troy and Boston Road 10 1t the new
cofutfv ill.,. thr southern Vermont Road now held by
the Troy and Bo-oe under perpetual lease from hassa-
eau,,tts 81 $1,000 var lrc new company viii un-
dot.ifct con tiuet . PARALLEL road ct once from The
vermont State lin e. Norm Adams II they cannot use
tho southern vermont Road. and tAc L"gi,.sur"
ma, f,pj.rr TIE IroS aud io-ton otpaucs "a share
a., gl,', 81. Tie t,-r.sr toio.l.,lly of tie
...fr "a. Nh do rcd
L.r a. l,tu. 10 bc uscG On Lhc iol-sHie principe Is
CO., crtued
yfU tn lf.r and Delaware aud Hudson Roads, -iH Tor
rur van vim thr T'chnurg Road FOR the trn.pnrta-
lion 81 tncis respective ~" gAt Gud l"s'ruEta bound
east ard vest through IN IHhh IT, itI t-r I'" 'on-
pauJ may /. Calcd tliDp' c"mbHdi I'll O. 'i'fo CON-
me-. 80 oug held by tie New York Central Road. TIE
new lime la. cyciv advantage "l distance g"I.- ana
it, stock IL The mark. C., Tor II = %. such nntur" tnai
public al, not necessary. The contracts Win the
Others. az II quite likely that before the f"hI
yct'' ar I-s thu, VII! ne S , ,', rr, t,J
10 Bo-,nu. Tue rod - crooked ana has some
EotSy p'c- and SHARP Gu Nc' ttai A. an .J.''h 10
II a. main Inc from Bo'tpu :" the " It a'" proo
.on Is use tnc Boston "nd AIDany Road ms an ~ "s
luohLcid and lien col.-'t new me- III co.c''.pu
funnel. 1Ai- would give very hur rlutr. Then the
-dchtsrt- Central may lee completed before INC t&-
ftrburg route d. .rctcd thc other contracts compel
the other companic send their business lHt D "ha'
line the Boston, iOosIc IuihcI ana western O''h
Tie chef meyers this scheme are business men OF Bos
on 800 The need ~ doing something - Acci ~ te
bu ,ncs- oi ia" city. and the couan IS mh'io'u "Cn
send any bsn. ~ iIto n" inHiIu Dectse 'He
New YorA niia controls tie hrd-cS .ycr i!c Hudson
"A Albany md Troy. TINS New England business Is OF
much m9Or 66 per - NJ OF ali thht 'ors over e
N,w-Yugk Central beng SAID to come nj" W III giant
When Completed throu ia cars VIII ne run over lo ne"
line from Bo-to- CncasO and all ie other arYr cities
IN the West and Southwest General W L. buit s fItSt
dent OF the ,onpany ami he rapid progress OF the
enterprise Is due largely to his activity ana energy