Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-24
CONsOLIDATED ROAD.

CONSOLIDATED ROAD.
rhe Boston Flyer-InauSuratfon or
The Five-Hour Trains Monday-The
Program-The Late Vice President
Reeds Prediction Fulflled-Busy
Times at the Repair Shops-Meeting
of the Railroad Commissioners-
Another Purchase OF Land.
Commencing at 11:30 Monday morning
The prediction made by the late Edward N.
Reed, then vice president of the Consoli-
dated railroad, to representative of the |
COURIER five years ego will
be fulfilled. In the month Of May, 1883,
Vice President Reed said: "Within ten
years we will have fve-hour service be- |
tween New York and Boston with only two |
stops"
On Monday morning there will be Eve
hour service between New York and Bos-
ton, but there will three stops instead of
two as predicted by Mr.. Reed These
trains, there will be two of them, will run
from this city to Boston via the Shore Line
route and the three stations at which the
trains will stop between the ter
don and Providence. The trains will be
composed exclusively of drawing room
cars and will make the run from Boston to
New York in five hours
For this service special form of ticket
has been prepared and special rate made.
The fare between New York and Boston at
the present time is S.. Under the new
system the fare will be 81. From New
Haven to Boston the regular fare is $3.50,
but under the new system it will be So. so;
that is, all persons wishing to ride on the
two new trains will be obliged to~pay 50
above the regular rate of fare for the seat
in the drawing room GERS, of which the
train will ba exclusively made up. No
matter if they wish to go to New York or
to New London or to Providence, 50 above
the regular fare will be charged, which ia
81 above the rate charged for the solid
drawing room trains now in use. ~A
That these new fast trains will become
popular there is not the slightest doubt.
For several years the Consolidated railroad
has been working for this very purpose;
namely, a fve-hour service between New
York and Boston. It il four tracking its
line between New Haven and New York.
Curves and grades are rapidly being elimi-
mated, and the Shore Line division has
been lately improved In all respects. At
the rate at which the company is equipptng
it's road it will not be many years before
one can ride between New York and Bos-
ton over the lines owned and operated by
the Consolidated road In four hours and
thirty minutes.
There has been much speculation among
the conductors as to who will be chosen to
run the "hyers." As yet no decision has
been reached by the officials. It is prob
| able though, that Conductors Schultz and
George Mason will be the lucky men. Both
have been many years in the service of the
| company. They are careful and conscien-
| tious and stand very high in the estimation
| of their superior officers. For three OF
| four days though the trains will be run in
| charge of division conductors, that is, one
| conductor will run the train between Nav
York and New Haven. another between
New Haven and New London and Provi-
dence and an Old Colony division con-
duetor will have charge Of the train be.
tween Providence and Boston.
These new special flyers, east bound, will
leave New York at 10 a. m New Haven al
1875 a. NJ, and arrive in Boston at p
m. The west bound train will leave Bos
ton at 10 a. NJ, New Haven at 1:30 p. m
and reach New York at 8 p. NJ, making
the fastest time service in this country
with the exception of the Exposition Aye
on the New York Central railroad.
Business is booming, as it never has bee,
in years, at the repair shops of the Con
solidated road at the foot of Spring street
There are hundreds of men employed
there. Not a machine is idle, and job,
Henney, superintendent of motive power
and his most able assistant, Charles Lewis
have their hands full of hard work. Ed
win Chatterton, engine dispatcher, is ais
Il q hy1cr 3,
great demand, in fact the demand often
times far exceeds the supply. Freigh
trains are constantly rushing into New
Haven from all points, and there are time
| when an engine uncouples from train,
) is Immediately turned around, coaled an
watered and again sentof on another trir
There were yesterday positive signs
r a COURIER representative that Superb
: tendent Henney Ia one of the busiest me
on the road. On what is called the foe
II the big machine shop there were fy
Q ssmblances of locomotives. They wei
: | without wheels, jackets or working m,
ohinery. One of them did not even have
smokestack. Over, under and all abor
! them swarmed scores of men. Some
q them even were inside the fire box, viii
others were buaily pounding away With
the boilers. These five locomotives wei
undergoing repairs. In the round hous
i there not being room in the shops, thre
q locomotives were also being repaired, an
even then there were two more in tx
round house, waiting an opportunity fl
the machinists, blacksmtths and painter
Q to get at them.
/ Chief Clerk Nettleton of General Ma,
| ager Piatt's Office will return home No,
dry after three weeks trip to the world
: fair.
: General Manager Platt is once more O
1 duty and is busily engaged catching u
. | with his correspondence.
Yesterday the railroad commissioner
gave another hearing at union depot to d.
: termine the width of the bridge that is t
q be built over North Qutnnipiac stree
!: This bridge is necessary in the completio
| Of the new cut in Fair Haven of the Sho1
Line railroad. The street was laid out fe
fifty feet, but the railroad wishes to bull
a short bridge, so that there will be
, roadway of only forty feet. In accordance
with this plan the piling has been drive
for the foundation on one side of tn
| bridge, and the work of piling the othe
side has begun.
Last week the selectmen and citizens VIII
are interested in having a wider bridge
put in their side of the case. Yesterda
Engineers Curtis and Ingersoll testife'
for the railroad. They maintained that a
the foundations were nearly ready and con
tracts for the bridge were made, 1t woul,
be great hardship to build a larger bridge
The superstructure contracted for wouls
be sixty-four feet long and the propose,
change would require an increased length
of twenty feet. This would require 81, 0O
additional for the bridge and 81 500 TO
new foundations. The present roadwa,
was fifty one feet, which was sufficient TO
all purposes.
the selectmen, Engineer Hill and Tow,
Counsel Pardee. The commissioners, af
ter hearing the evidence, reserved their de
cision.
George Brooks, for many years a fire
man, Is now running one Of the big, new
locomotives on the Shore Line division.
Lilley, Swift & Co. of Waterbury hav,
been contemplating for some time tn
erection of more commodious quarters
They owned until yesterday plot of 1ant
fronting 100 feet on Meadow street, in tina
city, opposite Warren L. Halls produce
warehouse. The New York, New Have1
and Hartford Railroad company has ais,
been looking for more platform room ant
better freight building. As the Hall 10
adjoined the end of their platform build
ing erected there would cramp their freigh
facilities. As a consequence the compan,
purchased the lot yesterday for sum sale
to be 5000. Lslley, Swift 6. Co. hav,
secured a twenty years. lease of the prop
erty now occupied by William N. Cottl
for wood turning purposes, and will q
| once proceed to erect suitable buildings or