The record-union., 1891-03-30
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.
1t Is Now n Full-Fledged Trunk Line
Out of New York.

Out of New York.
NEW YORK, March 29-The Canadian
Pacific is now full-fledged trunk line
out of New York city. Railroad men
have long been watching the maneuvers
of President Van Horne, wondering
whether he would build rival line from
across the border or buy or lease one of
the established trunk lines.
Van Horne, who is regarded as a clever
railroad man, has been on the warpath
for several years, hut he has faculty for
covering up his tracks. For this reason
few railroad people saw what he was
really after. He neither built, nor
bought, nor leased, but by a series of
skillful moves he got what he wanted
from the company that mas the best term
inal hereabouts.
Van Horne, Chauncey M. Depew and
III. Walter Webb completed deal YES
terday by which the New York Central
lets the Canadian Pacific bring its freight
and passenger trains in over the West
Shore and Central, with as good facilities
as the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad gets.
The Canadian Pacific will come down
from Crockville over new bridge, which
Is to be built at that point, by way of
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg, to
Utica. No Canadian Pacific trains will
come over the Vanderbilt lines by way
Of Buffalo or the Suspension Bridge at
present, although this may follow if the
Canadian Pacific completes its line either
to Buffalo OF TO the bridge.
After the main points of the agreement
had been reached at conference at the
Grand Central station, Van Horne de-
clared war at an end, and returned to
Montreal on the night train. The details
of the agreement will be worked out by
the traffic officers of the two companies,
and it will go into effect Immediately.
President Depew said that it would be
good thing for both companies. The
arrangement would give the Wander
bits a transcontinental line from Nova
Scotia to Vancouver, and the foreign
road would bring great amount of busi-
ness to the metropolis.
along 250 miles of the Canadian Pa
clfic," said Depew, trains are never out
of sight OF i sawmill. The Central will
get from the north products which go
another way at present."
The pro rating arrangements will en-
able the Central to reach any point in the
British possessions at the lowest prac-
ticable rate, and New York merchants
will get the benefit of correspondingly
low rates. Freight will go through in
both directions without breaking the
bulk, and fast through trains will be a
feature. The Canada Pacific will run its
own trains into Weehauken, where the
West Shore, with two and half miles of
water frontage, win give it ample
terminal facilities. Freight intended for
New York City will come in. over the
tracks of the New York Central. As for
the passenger service, the Canadian Pa
citic may have its own trains if it likes.
but probably the through car service,
like that in connection with the Lake
Shore, will suffice.
The Canadian Pacific now enters many
of the great commercial cities of the
United States by traffic agreement with
the Boston and Maine, and with practi-
cally voice in the management of that
road, it gets entrance into Boston and the
stronghold on all New England. The
Wabash lets it into Chicago, and by
means of the 800" and Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic, it taps Duluth, Min
neapolis and st. Paul, while arrange
ments with other roads lets it into Sioux
City to connection with the transconti-
| nenta' roads. 1t is not amenable to the
Interstate Commerce Law, and when
ever, during the past year or two, there
has been rate disturbances at the juno