New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-19
THE HouSaToNIO DEFEATED.
ENDING a. LONG CONTEST IN TIE con.
NECTICU LEGISIATURE
rHD ssrAJoRrrH OF THE RAILROAD COMMITTEES
THINE. THAT THE PABArIIEr LIUE


SHOULD NOT BE BURT.
Hartford, April 1s CspeciaIl.-Ths long contest In
the Railroad Committee on the parallel road scheme
of President 6taFbuck Of the Housatono road. and his
associates was ended this morning. when the majority
OF the committee as meeting before the session
signed repcre adverse to the Housatonic. The four
dtsagreeng members of tho committee did not to
the eommittee-room. but signed their minority report
elsewhere. The majority report reoites that tho
Housatonic Railroad corporation Is not debarTed BY
charter limitations from the operations of the general
railroad law, but recommends bill which will TO
move ell doubt 10 this question. 1t adds;
The petitioners ask also for tho privilege Of pur
chasing tho property. franchises and stock OF tho
New-York and Connections Air Zine Railroad Com
pany. The president Of the Housatonc Railroad Com
pany gave your committee 10 understand that he and
his associates now control the fanchises OF said
pany. In regard to this part Of tho petition your
committee believe thai 30 authorize tho Housatono
Railroad Company 10 purchase the stock Of the New
York and Connecticut Ain Line would be radical do
partufe In policy from the existing general railroad
law Of the State The general railroad law was de
signed 10 facilitate the construction Of railroads. and
not tho sale Of charters To mako such sale feasible,
or 10 logaiEe ono already contracted for would be
vicious legislation. Moreover, 1t appears that the
! surveyed and approved line Of the NewYork and
Connecticut Air Line parallel TO the existing
Now-York NevNHaven and Hartford Railroad from
NewHaven to New-York at average distance there
from Of less than one mile This fact brings your
committee discussion of what the declared OBJ
eot of the president of the petitonng road though
not the ons SET forth In the petition. Ia
asks for the privilege of building branches the term
is used N statutes and IN railroad literature but
in its advertised notice tho Housatonc Railroad Com
pany In effect asks for the privilege Of building new
railroad from Bridgeport east to point In the town
Of Norwalk II freely admitted by tho president
nf kha that ie al
associates to build parallel road substantially tho
surveyed route of the New-YOrk and Connecticut Air
Line to the New York State line there TO meet another
road In Wescheser County and TO enter the city of
NewYork AS to granting the Housatonic Railroad
Company special power to build parallel road, as
above set forth, your committee of the opinion
that such authority is undesirable. railroad built
from the city Of New-Haven TO the city OF NewYork
would In proper Of the word be branch Of
| the Housatonic road In the opinion of your COM
mittee, branches should be constructed by any
| company unless they required by public con-
venience and necessity If they constructed for
any ether purposes waste Of capital would follow
for which the general public would in the end suffer.
For the foregoing your committee believe that
in tho future the Board of Railroad Commissioners
ton Of any branch Of any railroad is required by pub
lie convenience and necessity
Tho committee recommends bu which provides
that Any railroad company In the State may build
branches from ts main line or from any OF It's leased
shall adjudge tst the construction of Such branch IS
required BY public convenience and necessity" This
AS further argument for rot granting the petition
the committee saysi Is admitted that IN frequency
tatiOn the consoudased Railroad second road n
the country, which is matter of Just pride to the
danger Of railroad monopoly, in the offensive sense
Of that term, by road which Is constructed immedi;
with Se facilities for building under tho present ran
road law For these reasons we believe that The best
interests Of the State do not require us 70 authorize tho
petitioners TO construct railroad nom New,Hayen to
New York; The minority report submits bal grant,
ing the petition OF the Housat0nic road, but wthont
argument
MISCELLANEOUS RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE
Boston April ls-The Legislature Committee Street
Railways agreed 10 report in the Heuse BID In
tsvo, Of the petition Of Frank NJ. Ames D. W. Collier
John Shepard Nathaniel J. Rust and D. II. Lamson 70
construct an elevated raiiroad name win be tho
Boston Elevated Railroad Company and the eapitA VIII
be $3.50 900 for each ndle constructed
IsdsanspOiis April is (spsciAD.-A survey viii soon
30 made for railroad from Albany 70 Indian
| srolis to DO built by Monon Company.
Hartford Conn., April 1S.-The Railroad Committee OF
tho Legislature this morning presented majority report
adverse 70 petition Of the Housatonio Railroad Com
pany to build branches which would lead TO parallel
line 10 the NewYork New.Haven and Hartford Railroad.
McKeesport Penn, April 1s tSpeeaD-Seer surveys
from the main line Pennsylvania Railroad 70 MeKees
port are being made 1t is said that the Pennsylvania
wants an entrance the town, It's heavy iron and
steel sh,pents from the National Tube Works and other
manufactures monopoliZed BY the Baltimore
| and Ohio Railroad for twenty years
PittsburQ April IS Especially two candidates
for the presidency OF the Psburg and Western Railroad
/ 20 succeed James Gallery majority Of the local
holders Of the stock backing Henry w. Oliver r
| the millionaire manufacturer, while the Eastern
shareholders assisted by few PittsburGe1s have a
candidate in tho person N. B. Thomas, Eastern man.
| st present q member Of board Of directors. The
present activity In the stock is asebed to purchases for
| both factions
shendeid Ala April 1s-The shefaeld and Birmingham
Coal and Railway Company to-day sold their railroad
extending from Sheffield Ala 10 Jasper, Ala, eighty
seven miles, to Alfred Parrish. Of Philadelphia Mr.
Parrish named the road the Birmingham Sheneld and
1 Tennessee Railway He Is president Of It, The fur
naces coke ovens coal mines, etc. on the line OF this
road and tho property Of Sheffield and Birmingham
Coal Iron and Railway Company will continue 70 be
| operated by the latter company.
Dover, DEL April 1s-The Delaware and New England
Company bill which passed the House yesterday passed
the Senate to-day. In the House bill introduced
To build railroad nom Harrington, via Milton, to Lewes
The road Is to DO begun In three ana completed In i've
years
| Danyille Va, April 1sIThs Atlantic and Danvlle
/ Railroad Company has made proposition 10 the City
Council 70 extend It's Danvie 10 the mineral
aelds Of Southwestern Virginia years. provided the
city viii subscribe $780, 900 to the eompany's stock
Chicago April 1s (SpeciaD.The proposed Mississippi
River Valley Railroad Association has failed IL was
proposed TO include the territory Of the Mississippi
and south Of the Ohio River 1t was expected that
any opposition would from the Southern Railroad
and Steamship Association. but from this source has
come the death blow. For the oder association
mas had in eject equally distant points materially
higher ratec 70 the Ohio than Mississippi 1t was
taken for granted these rates would be equalzed
ON the formation OF the association but IL has Just
been learned that they will not and the formation oil
the Mississippi River Ysey AssocseOn aaS Oocn S'e up
ABANDONING THE POLO GROUNDS