The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-01-24

AMOUNT 81 tue TAI - 10 be
from the interest an those bonds when
due The comptroller is directed 10
Issue the state bonds provided for 10
such towns and corporations a. Gle 10
bis department their bonds TO the state.
After the bonds issued by the state are
paid by the sinking fund. the bonds
given by he towns aud corporations
are 10 be cancelled
TilE BnATTLKHuR0A WHITEHALL
RAILROAD.
Our friends on the other side Of the
mountain are bound to have a railroad,
even IL they are compelled 10 adopt the
two foot gauge. We learn that respon.
sible parties have offered to build the
road from Br4ttleboro to " Goshen =
ready for the iron for $4,000 per mile.
This very nearly brings it within the
amount voted by the several towns
through which it will pass and ought
10 ensure its construction. In regard
10 the capacity Of such a road we re-
print iron, the Ptoeair Of last week a
part Of its report concerning the Bed
ford aud BiIIerica road.
AS regards the safety of the road,
If any member Of tho party had enter.
tanned any doubts on this point, they
were most certainly efIectually dispell.
cd before the North Billerica end Of the
route was reached. Although the road
bed is new, and imperlectly ballasted,
aud, on the morning referred 20 the
track was in unusually bad condition
owing TO the frozen ground and the
heavy rain Of the night previous, the
cars rode firmly, steadily and easily,
without any exception, even in the case
Of the heavy grades and sharp curves.
alluded to. Upon this point it must
still further be said that in these mar
row gauge cars the motion was even
steadier and there was much less jolt
ing, oscillation and side motion than
is usually experienced in the larger
cars 20 the average reader this state.
ment may seem overdrawn and impos-
sible, but we can, however, assure him
OF it's perfect truth, and Of the further
fact that the experience Of every mem
Der Of the party will confirm our judg.
ment on this point-and the speed, il
should be remembered, was, during the
whole trip, at the rate Of not less than
20 miles an hour. To any person who
has riden over the Billerica & Bedford
road the idea that lis cars or locomo-
tives are 10 any greater danger Of leav-
log the track or tipping over, or in any
seuse less stable aud secure than those
of the standard gauge, seems little less
than absurd. The writer confesses
himself TO have received new light on
this point. and We can imagine no cir.
cumslsnccs Of danger or accident,
whether from high winds, as has BY
some persons been mentioned, or from
displacement or other injury 10 the
track, when a passenger would not at
soon trust himself ia the narrow gauge
cars as in the broad gauge-and per
hspa even sooner, from the fact that in
cases Of serious accident there would
be less weight Of material to pile upon
one or crash about bis head
Thus much for the safety, conyen
lence and speedof this two.feet gauge
road points upon which. as we have
already indicated, every member Of the
visiting party was fully satisfied, anl
more than satisfied II anything fur
Their need he said about the capacity Of
the road, it is only that il is perfectly
evident that any road whose cars car
each carry. safely aud comfortably
thirty persons at a speed Of from 20 /,
s. miles an hour. must in any event b,
sufficient for any possible demand 0
the West River Valley. As regards
the freight traffic. the box cars Of tai
road are ample 10 size Tor the CONVEX
lent transportation VI every Kind Q
merchandise lis platform CATS readil,
carry, 5000 feet o. lumber. each, anC
they are Ia every way as well adaptet
for carrying gralile. coal, and every
other like Kind Of heavy freight az at,
the platform cars Of the s,andaf,
gaugc-And ven better. because ID,
propouionaic dead weight 10 be car
ried Is more than 50 per cent lees
Upon non Of dese poil.ls. then, the
whole party we're agreed, can there b,
any Question AZ 10 the adsplAbility o
the gauge Of tuo feet 10 All or par
poses Of local trAhe,
Not : few u The gcsilepen eompos
Ing The party, earnest and out spokel
railroad men as lhey are, had 4