The Newtown bee., 1895-12-13

| otduQ Dy bH0 COnIor6nc0, W01cn SLOOO DY | the league which is standing by Cheshire in i it's struggle against the illegal sale Of liquor
 and it's attending evils; and stand firm and | Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye stead 1 fast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, foras as ye know tha f your labor Is not in vain in the LOrd."
 MIR CLARK's VICTORY.
 l THE NEW ENGLAND NOW CONTROLLED ! BY THE CONSOLIDATED
 The following from the Philadelphia l Press will be read with interest by those | who are watching the career of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road, | under the presidency of Charles F.. Clark, one of the leading railroad men
 of the country to-day:
 When nearly year ago 1.-The Press'' reported that powerful influences were in operation to bring the control of the New England railway into the possession of the New York and New Haven cor poration. the report was, with some ap- pearance of warmth and indignation, denied by one of the chief officers of the New Haven corporation. He went so
 far as to say that the New Haven people did not want the New England road and would not lift finger to secure it..
 Nevertheless the report was true, and the officers heat was either simulated or else ne did not know what his associates
 were doing. Yesterday the troubles, now
 continued for more than forty years, of
 the various railroad corporations which
 made up the New York and New Eng
 land, were permanently ended. The of
 fcers of the New Haven road, voting
 upon the stock of the New England
 which they possessed, chose their own
 representatives and electedMr Clar k, pres
 ident of the New Haven road president of
 the New England corporation, and sub ordinate officers of the New Haven to corresponding posts in the New England. This action gives the New Haven people practical control, directly or indirectly, of all the railway systems of New Eng land, with one or two minor exceptions. It has been q work of consolidation com parable with some of the greater feats of combination which have made the great railway systems of this country. Charles F. Clark has by this work accomplished within the past five years placed himself in line with the great rail- way organizers of this country. For a time MT Clark was 8 little overshadOwed
 perhaps because those great names in the
 financial world, Pierpont Morgan, Will
 liam Rockefeller and the Vanderbilts,
 were known to be associated in the de-
 velopment of this gigantic system. Un-
 doubtedly it was their financial power
 which made it possible for MT Clark to
 carry out the plans which he had in view
 when he accepted the presidency of sthe
 New Haven road seven years ago. But,
 after all, the plan in it's first suggestion,
 and in it's development, was the cOncep-
 sion of MT Clark. He has been rail-
 way manager all his life. He began in a
 comparatively humble capacity upon one
 of the railways running out of Boston.
 His executive ability ard his genius for
 organization were speedily recognized,
 aud he became executive manager Of the
 New York and New England, at time
 when it was in dire straits. Afterward
 lie became president of that corporation,
 and although he had on his hands a com
 pany that was practically bankrupt, too poor to keep it's r0adbed in repair, be-
 ginning splendidly in Boston because of
 It's fine water front, and ending in the
 wiids of Harlem valley, unable to fill the
 destiny which it's Orginators had in mind, connection with the Erie railroad. MT clark nevertheless, while he could not save the property, revealed himself. Therefore, the New Haven people called
 him, upon the death of the president of
 that corporation, to the presidency. MT Clark was the first man associated with tudb CUTpOTdIlOu WuO EG6llZSu LuC O1EGIs tion in which it's development lay. It had monopoly of entrance into New York city from the east, 8 franchise whose enormous value none of the earlier managers of that corporation seemed to understand. MT Clark said that it should be so extended as to control an entrance into Boston, which could only be obtain ed by purchase.
 He declared that the policy of the road required it to obtain control of all lines that were natural feeders, and thus one by one the independent lines in COnnecti- cut passed into it's control. He took the audacious view that in self protection the company should control the steam boat lines to Boston, and one after another it got possession of them, until now it c0ntrols all of them. Hie strug- gle with Mcleod to obtain possession of
 the Old Colony system. which was of
 itself great combination, covering all | of southern Massachuesetts and all of
 Rhode Island, is called to this day a master piece of strategy. With the BOs- ton & Albany, controlled indirectly by the Vanderbilts, on the north, the New Haven system on the south, the New York and New England was between an upper and neither mill stone. MT Clark
 was compelled to rely upon Pierpont Morgan to prevent Mir Mcleod from maintaining his control of the New Eng
 land, and of building an independent
 branch line, as he proposed to do, which
 would give that company 2 terminal upon the East River. When MT Me Leod,s grip was wrested by a financial powers which he could not match, then 1t was only question of time when that ipropertE Eonld pass into the control of the New Haven.
 In addition to fhese things MT Clark has caused the entfe road between New York and Boeton Practically t0 be ID. \ built and fOur-tracked much Of the waY. I With m eye tO the futufe it waa 10 re. ! built 90 that if electricity ever suppIantg steam it will be easy t0 snbstitufe tho Ielectric mo- or for the 1uc0m0tive.
 Another thing which IF Clark did, Ii lthfs feapect bein4 perhapa tho pioneei II anone fsiIr0ad mai1at ters ,s Mas to abol ! ish III aSle cEosalzs cn Ele naain line betsse Nes X0F1 91d 6oston IIlSl wofk III eeen co1,p LII 1sea neS1 !I York mn 6eyy n oslll1 mo contx1et III