The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-09
BANGOR TALKS TO THE SENATORS.
Prospective Prosperlty.from the New
Canadian Pacific Line.
The city's Interest In the Case sImI-
lar to Portland's.
A Lively Half Hour with General
Manager Furber.

BosToN, July S.-The United States Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce. which has
under investigation the relation of the Ca
| madam railways to the interstate commerce
| law and the United States railroads, re-
newed its sessions at the Office of the Massa-
chusetts Railroad Commissioners, 20 Beacon
street, this forenoon. Among those present
was delation from Bangor, Me. This con-
| sisted of Hon. Z. B. Nealley. president OF
the Bangor & Tiscataquis Railroad, Corpora
ton Counsel Charles P. Stetson, Director
Benz. B. Thatcher and Hon. j. P. Bass. The
delegation also represents the Bangor Board
of Trade.
Chairman Cullom raped to order at 1O15
a. M, and announced that the Bangor dele
cation would first be heard. President
Nealley was first given an opportunity to
present his views.
President Nealley said he represented the
Bangor Board of Trade, and filed with the
committee the resolution adopted by the
Bangor Board of Trade. Mr.. Nealley ad-
ded that it had been thought best to have
the views of the Bangor & Piscataquis Rail-
road and the Bangor Board of Trade present
ed by the corporation counsel of the former,
MI. Charles P. Stetson.
Mr.. Charles p. Stetson.
Mr.. Stetson, addressing the committee,
said that the Bangor & Piscataquis extended
to Moosehead Lake, distance Of about 90
miles, which road connected with the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad. Continuing, Mr.
Stetson said: We are interested in the con-
nection with the Canadian Pacific Railroad
in this manner. Bangor is on the Penobscot
River, and the principal city of Eastern
Maine. Many years ago it embarked in the
enterprise of building the Bangor
& Piscatasuis Railroad In northerly and
westerly direction. to Moosehead Lake and
put into that enterprise. in all more than
S, ,OOO, 900, between 81 100000 and 81, SOC, ,OOO
One object of building this road was to form
a connection with contemplated route west
terly from MooSehead Lake to the Western
States cOnnectinglwith the railroad system of
Canada. But Bangor had not the ability to
carry out this scheme, and it lay dormant
for considerable length of time. They fin
ished their road to the length. The charter
granted to the International road by the
State of Maine provided that 1t shall deliver
to and receive from connecting railroads pas
sengers and also cars with or without mer--
chandise loaded thereon. and shall afford
reasonable facilities at its connections with
said railroads for exchange of said pasSen-
gers and cars, and said company shall deliv-
er passengers and freight to and take freight
and passengers from connecting railroads
without discrimination, and shall make and
maintain their rates with all connecting
roads in the State pro rata and according
to the distance carried on the railroad of
said corporation.
Afterward the Canadian Pacific railroad
became possessed of the charter which had
been granted by the State of Maine for
building the railroad from Moosehead
Lake to the west line Of the State,
and they have just finished the con-
struction Of q line Of railroad from the
head Lake., about 70 miles, thence in
southerly direction, connecting with the
Maine Central railroad, which is the princi
pal railroad system Of the State of Maine, at
that railroad to the city of st. John. Now,
the city Of Bangor was interested in its con-
nection with this road in this manner-that
1t gives them short route to the West. The
distance over this line Of railroad and its
c:oennectionss, especially the road called the
800" road, is about the same distance
Minneapolis to Bangor-as Minneapolis to
Boston by the American routes and about
the same distance, within 40 miles as short
distance. as to the port Of Portland by the
Grand Trunk. And we are interested may
it please the committee, in leaving the inter-
course and the connection with this Cana
dian Pacific road free from restrictions as
much as possible. The city of Bangor, as a
distributing point Of the eastern part of the
State and the Bangor and Piscataquis road
are interested In a connection with the
Canadian Pacific as free from restrictions as
may be, free from any hindrances to free
passage of the freights to Bangor, and we
mainly appear in that view, our position
being very much the same as the position
and our views very much like the views of
our Portland friend who was before you on
Saturday. will not occupy your time fur
ther. We believe that it is for the benefit of
our road, our city and our State that the con-
neetion with the Canadian Pacific should be
as nntTd%meed by any laws OF regulations
was built was via the Maine Central Rail-
road Company to Boston and New York.
The road of which speak has just been fin
ished, and our advantages are yet in the fu-
ture prospective. rather than judgement
from what has taken place. The Canadian
Pacific railroad is lately completed and
has commenced running its trains this
spring. We anticipate that 1t will benefit
our road from Bangor to the lake, and will
give us cheaper rates on all the Western pro-
Mr.. J. q. Bass.
Mr.. j. P. Bass next addressed the COM
mittee. He said that if the pro rata arrange
ment referred to by Mr.. Stetson as contained
in the charter granted the International
Railway were enforced upon the Canadian
roads, those roads could not work to the in
jury of the American roads. He would pro-
vide that the Canadian roads should not
carry freight of the same class through any
section of the United States for themselves
if it was Canadian freight or American
freight, at a less rate per mile than that
freight could be taken off and delivered to
ftx,fr rotlr Arfan oh in
pers should have this freight carried at just
as low alrate per mile, and.passengers should
be carried at just as low rate per mile
through our territory, as the Canadian roads
carried it through their own territory.
Mr.. J. m. Devereaux.
Mr.. j. M. Devereaux of Bangor next ad-
dressed the committee as the representative
of the Castine Railway and Navigation Com
said that the principal point he wished to
make in regard to Castine was as terminus
and that point might, perhaps, be as well
covered as in any way. by quoting the fol-
lowing from communication from the Sc
lectmen of Castine to the committee:
Should our government grant to the Canadian
Pacific Railway the privilege OF operating fast
Maine via Halifax to Europe, and grant the bond
ing privilege through Maine on all freight the
fnaf destination Of which is in the maritime pro-
ynces, and on all freight originating in the mari
time provinces the final destination Of which is be-
yond the western limits Of our State?
We think our government should protect our
interests and encourage the development of
our section by demanding that all European
bound freight originating on United States soil
should be shipped from United States terminus.
We want the privilege, continued Mr.. Dev-
ereaux, of our natural advantages, which are
great. / do not think the pro rata provision
of the Maine charter is quite so effective as
some do, because the Canadian Pacific Rail
way is in reality a railway system from Hall
fax to Europe, and the rate Of freight will be
the rate made from the point Of the origina-
ting Of the freight to tS sh6I1 na destination in
pro rata is as they pass through the State Of
Maine The only hold S.U we thsX have on the Cana
dian Pacific rGaa IS tioes into
it seems to me that if they start from China,
India and Japan, come across the Pacific.
lantic, running right around our steamship
lines and our railroads, to the exclusion Of
that