The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-01-24
Will Be Lived Up To By
Central Vermont R. r.
RESULT OF CONFERENCE
Attorneys Of Road and Barre Complain
ants Will Formulate Statement Of
What Company win Do for the
Barre Branch Line.


The Central Vermont railroad officials
VINO heard the complaints Of Barre meT-
chants and granite manufacturers yes
teraay afternoon went back I'd st. Al
bans, admitting that their company had
not given Barre the service that its busi-
ness demanded and leaving written
agreement to be drawn up by their IT.
torney, g, w Writers, with John w. Cor
don, attorney for the local interests. by
which the company shall abide Failure
to abide BY that agreement shall result
IN bringing the matter before the state
railroad commissioners, turn which the
officials appeared anxious 10 avoid.
The conference was conducted with
good feeling on both sides. The rail-
road commissioners have been asked tO
postponed the hearing which was sched
uled for tomorrow afternoon to hear the
complaints, and the company viii be riyen
q reasonable time in which To comply
with the agreement which the two at
torneys will draw up. The agreement
lis to state what shall be reasonable
time. The officials admitted To the Barre
men that they did not have enough mo
tive power in Barre, that thev lacked
cars, that their roadbed Is in poor shane.
their bridges too light for heavy loco
motives, the local turntable too small
and out OF shape, that there Il short
age OF men here: in short, that they
were not in present condition able To
cope with the volume Of business com
ing to and going from Barre.
It appears that some Of these things
have already been remediea Or are about
to be remeiied. For instance. after q
little stroll about the local yards, the
officials came back and ordered another
gang OF train men to come to Barre.
Furthermore, they said that new So
foot turntable had already been shipped
and that 1t would be set up this winter.
They said that they had orders in for
500 new hatcars and they were them
selves making thirty Delivery of these
they expected to be made ten day
beginning about the middle Of February.
II was intinated that the roadbed be-
tween Barre and Montpelier will Be
thoroughly fixed up next summer. These
are some Of the conditions that will
he contained in the proposed agree
ment
Local agent J. o. Adams was present
at the conference He was asked bv
fN.tth~h -ftttaAEti NVAFr4
How many cars could you use today
if you had them ~
Thirty if | had Them was the re-
ply.
On questioning by William Mar.
granite manufacturer, Mr. Adams also
stated that orders for cars were coming
in every day. 1t developed that the
average days receipt BY the Central
Vermont alone Of cars loaded with rough
granite stock is about twenty, these 10
be set IN TO the various stonesheds. The
further fact was brought out that
similar number of ears of finished stock
are ready to be sent out each day by this
single railroad. There has been com
Dlaint that the company did not send
heavy enough locomotives on the local
branch, and this the officials explained
ly saying that the track was too poor.
he bridges too light and the curves too
sharp.
It was the evident purpose Of the
representatives at first to get
he complainants to be satisfied with a
'erbal promise Of better things, but to
his proposition the local men immedi-
Itelv demuTred To back up their posi-
ion they had with them copies of com.
llaints and copies Of letters in which
hey had been promised remedy, but
which were followed by no attempt at
emedying They demanded a written
and failing to get that stated
hat they shoaild find it necessary to 90
efore the state commission. Finally the
natter OF drawing mp a written agree
nent was left in the hands Of the two
ttofneys, Writers and Gordon. They
re given until February IN which 10
onelude All agreement On that date
he railroad commissioners will meet in
'arre TO hear complaints and make an
RIDER II an agreement is not reached III
lse of a settlement outside Of the com.
lission, the terms OF the settlement viii
g filed with the board, nevertheless, to
G used If occasion warrants.