Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-01


&C N. D." seems to think that the true
way to obtain facts is to ask questions. Fol
lowing his method let us have the privilege
of asking him a few.
/. Win &c. n. d. in form US if any person in
any way connected with the starting of the
Brattleboro Il Whitehall railroad, ever gave
any assurance that the Centreville route
should be selected farther than to say that
that route should have careful examination
and that the road would be located by the di-
rcctors in the best place If yea, who was
the man
. How much bridgingandtr estle work would
have been required to have located the road
into Brattleboro via Frost's meadow, crossing
the street in front of the Brattleboro House
and landing passengers upon the top of the
| rocks in front of our present passenger sta
tionI What would have been the grade per
mile out of Bratteboro by this route, and if
such location had been made would not the
terminus of the read have been in the hands
of the Central Vermont railroad
| 3. What would have been the distance from
| Dummorston station to the depot grounds at
Brattleboro via Centreville Esteyville and
Woods farm Was hot the terminus via
this route on trestles, and what would have
been the whole length of bridge and trestle
work via this route also, please give us land
damages via each of these routes?
| 4. Is it not afact that the first attempt of the
friends of this enterprise was to build a road
with gauge of three feet, but fearing that
their resources could not be made to do this,
they held second series of meetings and
| agreed TO have twofeet- gauge road? Is it
not still farther fact that when the surveys
and estimates came TO be made it was ascer-
tained that a three-foot road could be con
structed for the money and bonds of the com
pany, and that this three-foot road was con-
sidered far preferable by all judicious railroad
managers Has there been any increased
expense to this corporation by reason of the
gauge being made three feet?
>. Was there ever a contract made with ana
party to construct a railroad into Brattleboro
via Esteyville and Centreville ? Was not the
contract that the corporation attempted to
make which looked to that route for an en-
trance abandoned by the parties proposing to
take it,
G. Is there a Judicial decision in existence
that would justify any person or town in re-
fusing to pay his their subscription to the
Brattleboro a Whitehall railroad If so,
where is it
:. Is not every laboring man about here
who wishes to work, receiving employment
on this railroad, if he is steady and compe-
tent, at the same wages paid on other public
works in New England for 1879?
s. How much more than $50, 600 is the
road to cost when finished and equipped?
Cash subscriptions of 5000 600 and $3.50 600 of
bonds which sc. N. d. assures his constit-
uents and clients are not worth over 10 cents
on dollar, only makes S3O5, 600, and out of
this all that enormous amount of land dam
ages must be settled and paid for besides
building, finishing and equipping the road.
If this estimate, based on Mr.. Davenport's
figures, is correct, wherein did President
Thompson falsify in his representations?
8. How is the Brattleboro ~ Whitehall
railroad in any way dependent upon the Val
ley railroad corporation, when the Valley road
has conveyed to the Brattleboro a Whitehall
a good and valid right of way to pass over its
road bed from the West river to the southern
terminus of its road, without any restrictions
whatever, and to pass out of and off from its
premises without let or hindrance?
10. Was the contract with the Valley road
bad one for the Brattleboro a Whitehall,
when the sum of $500 annual rental does not
pay one per cent. per annum on the cost of
the land and road bed over which the new
road passes
II Al 4, oh,
my" railroad is Webster and Worcester
both fail to define the word in any form ap-
plicable to the construction of a railroad
That the road is cheap" every one will ad-
NIT when 81 miles of railroad are construct
cd, equipped and put in running order for
$500, 600 III cash (and all land damages set
tled)-Rnd this is all the cash which Mr. Dav-
export proposes to allow the contractor. That
it is poor may however, be matter of
doubt until the contractors have been allowed
to finish their work, and then ask to have it
accepted
~ Is it not fact that rail weighing 80
pounds to the yard of good iron, is said by
the best authorities to be heavy enough for
the rolling stock and equipment of a three-foot
road to pass upon and over economically?
10. Will 20. N. D." tell us the weight of
locomotives for three-feet- gauge railroad
and how their traction is distributed upon
their driving wheels Also the weight of en-
gines, freight and passenger cars, when load
ed, for this class of roads, as compared with
the roads which he says use 20, CO and 81
pound rails, and how the weight of the en-
CINE is distributed ON the latter class of roads