Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-26
HoUsAToNIC MILK TRAINS

To be Resumed an of Old over the Con.
sOlIdated Railroad Commencing To.
morrow-The Talk About a Big Rail-.
road Consolidation Seheme-NO Inn.
mediate Prospect of 1.-THE Console.
dated,s Directors Have Not Rroaehed
1.-THE New Depot at Cedar Hill.
There having been so many conflicting re-
ports regarding the Housatonic milk trains
an interview was obtained on the subject last
evening with Mr.. Ezekiel H. Trowbridge, one
of the directors of the Consolidated. Mr..
Trowbridge said:
"The milk train to New York which the
Housatcnic railroad took off from the Con-
solidated few months ago, shipping the
milk instead to New York by boat via Will
sons Point, will be put on the Consolidated
road again, as before, commencing tomorrow,
March 26. This feet will be highly crafty
ing to the dealers and consumers of milk in
New York"
The history of the withdrawal of the milk
train from the Consolidated and the change
to sending il to New York via Wilson's Point
is familiar one to the readers of the daily
papers. The notification to the Consolidated
by the Housatonic system of its wish to re-
sumo the old way Of sending the milk was
made Saturday and the Consolidated will
have the milk cars in readiness again for use
to morrow morning. The interior fittings of
the cars, which had been taken out, will be
replaced by tonight. The milk train is a
very important adjunct to the well being and
comfort of New Workers, as eight or ten car
loads of milk from the Heusatonic valley
should be received in New York daily. The
milk train under the old system aid under
the new which will be resumed tomorrow
gets into New York at midnight laden with
fresh milk, which is unloaded as soon as pos
sible and distributed in Gotham in hundred
different directions, SO that GUthamites have
nice fresh milk on their breakfast tables.
| The train bringing back the empty cans re-
turns early in the morning to be ready for
| the next evenings trip.
President Clark of the Consolidated road
has telegraphed that he will sail for home on
| the steamer due at New York April 15
There has been much said in the Massa-
| chusetts papers of late to the effect that
steps were being taken looking to a eonsoli-
| dation of the Boston and Albany and New
| York, New Haven and Hartford railroads, a
| report which was started owing to the fact
/ that thefe is a railroad consolidation bill
pending in the Massachusetts legislature. The
| Boston correspondent Of the Springfield Re
/ publican writes to that paper OF Saturday re-
| garding the bill as follows:
1 This forenoon Samuel Hoar, counsel for
4 the Albany road. was seen and asked the
purpose of the order which was pending.
| ITO enable roads to unite with connecting
| roads" was his reply. And then. in reply to
| a question as to what interest the Boston and
| Albany road had in the matter, whether it
proposed to unite with the New York, New
Haven and Hartford, he said: eff the law
for consolidation should go through it is very
Il oil yfr7l1 he Of tF,ir
pose" He also said: 81 am very DESTROYS
that the order should go through, and you
can draw your OWL differences. 1t would be
a great advantage to the Albany road to unite
with the Consolidated, and Boston ought t.
have line fits own, under one control, tt
| New York"
In conversation on the above subject with
a leading railroad man VINO is in position tc
know, regarding the matter he said: All this
| talk of O consolidation of the two roads nam
1 ed is matter for the indefinite future. dc
| not say it will never occur, but the subject
| has not even been discussed at the board
| meetings of the directors of the Consolidated
| road. What may be done in tho dim and
| uncertain future no one knows, but at pres
1 ent there is not ripple of agitation on tbs
| subject as far the directory of this railroad
| is concerned.
The statement that vestibule oars are being
| made for the Consolidated road, said cars tc
Il
| and New York to Boston which goes on May
| is premature and incorrect. The statement
has appeared in a number of papers and is
incorrect.
The ten great mogul locomotives which are
to be added to the motive power of the Con-
solidated road will be ready for delivery the
| first week in May. They are from the Bald
win locomotive works in Philadelphia. When
| coaled each of these ponderous locomotives
| will weigh ninety tons. These will be among
| the largest locomotives in the world.
The statement has been made frequently
| that the Consolidated road does not intend
/ to build a new depot at Cedar Hill, despite
i the fact that the foundations for the depot
| were laid last fall. Mr.. Trowbridge of the
| Consolidated roads board of directors being
| enquired of on the subject said last evening
| that the depot was to be built this year and
| that the work of building it would be begun
in very few weeks-just as soon as the frost
| Is out of the ground. The board of directors
of the road had voted to build it, and there
| was not the slightest intention of deviating
from the boards action. The statement will
be very gratifying to q large number of peo-
pie who reside either at Cedar Hill or in Fair
Haven, to whom such depot will prove q
great accommodation. The city is growing
fast in that section and 90 years from now
will no doubt bring as great changes for the
better in all that section as have been brought
about in the last twenty years. Twenty or
twenty FIVE years ago, before the State street
horse railroad was built, there were but few
houses on the upper end of State street and
in the neighboring streets this side of Neck
bridge, and the same was the case beyond
Neck bridge now in both those sections
there have been large additions to the num-
Der of dwellings,. to say nothing of the new
factories, new school houses and new church
es in those sections.
A prominent New York railroad man had
10 aH Cafn tn he ae
the use on large western roads of revolving
iron snow ploughs attached to a big car ahead
of the locomotive, the ploughs resembling
somewhat the paddle wheel of q steamer, the
blades of which scatter the snow on either
side the train progresses and enable a
train to make or 10 miles an hour even
when snow drifts 10 feet high are occasionally
met with He said these ploughs were very
serviceable on single track road, but We're
of little value on a double track
road, as the plough would
throw the snow from one track on to the
other: The only way to get rid of the snow
on double track is to shovel it off. Take
for instance the big drifts at Woodmont and
Green's Farms, the two most stupendous
and longest drifts encountered on the New
York road during the late blizzard aud the
most formidable ever seen on the New York
road. In these the drifts were in places so
high that man walking on top of them
would have to scoop to pass under the tele-
graph wires. There was nothing to be done
with these drifts except to shovel them away.
In the deepest parts the shovelers stood on
terraces of snow shoveling, the top gang to
the next gang below, and SO on. Photo
graphs of the scene and the snow mountains
were taken by enterprising photographers,
and copies have been obtained by the Con-
solidated road officials and placed in their
Offices here as mementoes.
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