The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-31
THE SOUND BOAT LINES
PROSPECTIVE IMPORTANT READ
 JUSTUENTS OF THEM.

Plans of tho Consolidated Railroad Com pany--Now Railroad Outlet to the Sound Tho Stonington Linc Almost Useless 4 Large Freight Terminal at New London Probable.
 New London, Dec, 3O.-All rumors to the effect that the City of Lowell and the City of Worcester, of the Norwich line, will be run on the Fall River line hereafter is positively denied by Su- perintendent Prentiss tonight. But that some change is contemplated in the running of the sound steamboat lines is not doubted in official circles here and in Stonington. II is contended, however, that whatever changes are made will more seriously effect Ston- {nston than New London or Norwich, and that it is more than likely that Stonington will be given up as lermin al port for that line. It has never been the policy of the managers of the Fall River line to run passenger propellers around Point Judith because of their unsteadiness in a rolling sea. When the last boat of the line, the Priscilla was designed the proposition to utilize q twin screw propeller was discussed at length. It was deemed advisable to stick to the old side wheel type as be- ing the most comfortable for passen- gers. In view of the same the employees of the Norwich line in discussing the matter to-day stated that whatever shuffle was made in the SteambOats the City of Lowell would not be placed on the outside line. It is possible, they say, that the City of Worcester may be utilized for the service around Point Judith, but she is small and commonplace as compared with the pSlaceis Puritan, Priscilla, Plymouth and Pilgrim. The Maine and New Hampshire of the Stonington line, will also be kept on the inside run in all probability The existing opinion IS that there will be mo changes unless 1t Is to run the Stonington boat into New Lcndon.
 RAILROAD EXTENSION AND I'M
 PORTANT CHANGES.
 On the above subject the New York Evening Post of last night has the fol- lowing:
 With the acquisition of the control of the New England railroad system, and with it of the New York and Norwich beat line, it can be stated on the high est authority here, that important re- adjustment of the sound boat lines will soon ensue, connected also with changes of railroad freight routes which center at New London and StOnington, and effecting the New London Northern as an outlet of the Vermont Central company, which controls that road as lessee.
 At present except at the minor points of SaybrOok Junction, the New England system, which for all intents and pur- poses may be regarded as a large dlvi- sion of the New Haven company, has no common link with the Shore Line diVi- sion of the latter corporation between New Haven and Providence, a distance of about 113 miles. At New London, where. over the Norwich and Worcester railroad, the New England has had large business the New London North ern road, for a, distance of some ten miles between that city and Norwich on the west bank of the Thames, has had to be used as a connecting link with the larger steamers of the New York and Norwich boat line,
 On the east bank of the Thames, how ever, the New England division reaches down to Allyn's point, six miles from the Thames bridge on the Shore Line route. An extension of that distance will there" fore connect the niow severed systems, give them 6 new and independent out let to the sound, and a freight and pas senger terminal al New London. It is stated authoritatively that this link will soon bo built. It will be easily con- structed, the only possible obstacle he- ing the government navy yard and probably the federal government will welcome rather than resist a railroad connection. The plant necessarily inn plies a large freight terminal at New London.
 A subsidiary plan is the construction between Baltic. Conn, and a point near Taftville Conn, of link three mics long between the Providence division of the New England road and the Nor wich and Worcester line. This will give the New Englapd an independent route from Willimantic to Norwich, New London and the sound, open it to passenger and freight from westward and northern points, and closely paral- lei the New London Northern for dist ance altogether of about twenty-six miles between Willimantic and New Lordon,
 These railroad changes will, as now planned, be attended with the inn portant ones in the Sound boat service, The istonington line, now become al most a superfiuity, will either be drop ped entirely or transferred to New Lon don as a freight line. The Providence boat line will probably be operated as both a passenger and freight line throughout the year, instead of a freight line in winter, as now. Freight and
 
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