Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-15

agents viii be allowed to get business
IN any city or section of New Eng
land and send it over the New Haven
lines TO the Grand Trunk connections.
ON the Grand Trunk rates. the New
Haven to get its proportion of the rate
"Eighth-1he New Haven will give
substantially the same privileges to
the Canadian Pacific, which connects
with the New Haven, Boston & Maine
system at Newport, Vermont, or to
the Canadian Northern, which con-
meets with the New Haven-B. & NJ
system at Montreal.
"Ninth-The New Haven will take
all the Canadian or American bust
ness coming from those Canadian lines
that it is possible to secure to the
Port of Boston, and will cooperate
with the Grand Trunk or the Massa-
ehusetts and Boston authorities to
provide all needful facilities for the
handling of such business. both pas
senger and freight.
'Tenth-The New Haven-Boston &
Maine system will maintain and i'm
prove Boston Montreal Canadian
service over three lines-by means of
the Boston g Maine to White River
Junction and the Central Vermont
| Grand Trunk to Montreal; by means
of the Boston & Maine, Wells. River
or Plymouth division to Newport, Vt.
and Canadian Pacific to Montreal. and
by means Of the Boston & Maine
Fitchburg division to Bellows Falls
via the Rutland road to Montreal
"Eleventh-The New Haven Boston
& Maine system will give the Grand
Trunk any privileges or facilities that
it can ask for from White River juno
ton to Boston or to other points i'm
New England that any railroad can
give to any other railroad and sub
stantially will allow the Grand Trunk
to use it's tracks and facilities as If
they We're owned or controlled jointly
by the Grand Trunk.
1.-THE death of Mr. Hays does of course
furnish an opportunity for saying that
the project was his, and that a new
president does not see things as he did
On the other hand, an enterprise of
such magnitude as the proposed lines in
New England is not undertaken except
with the approval of responsible directors
and those directors have not in this case
been changed so fas as is known.
"On the point of financial difficulties
it would seem that these cannot be any
condition in the Grand Trunks total re-
sources that would demand such sudden
cessation of work, If at the same time
continuance We're still as desirable as for
merly.
''The Central Vermont had had no ar
rangement with the New York. New IIa-
ven & Hartford Railroad territory for
interchange of traffic-in other words.
the Grand Trunk system has never been
able to participate in traffic originating
on the New Haven proper, destined to
Detroit, Chicago. St Louis and the West.
Mr. Chamberlin stated that no agree
ment has yet been reached between the
Grand Trunk and the New Haven Rail
road. If such be the case the latter COM
pany probably has brought some very
powerful influence to bear the offer of
a traffic agreement sufficient to compen-
safe the Grand Trunk for abandonment
of its projects would have to be perfect
ed into binding agreement before the
Grand Trunk could safely stop construc
ton
sour visit, then. has convinced us that
the Grand Trunk while DESTROYS of af-
fording favorable facilities to attract to
their rails Il fah share of the valuable
business Of New England. has maze up
its mind for the present at least to ae-
cept in that territory a very subordinate
position"
No action was taken on the report
Twelfth. that the New Haven Bos-
ton & Maine system Will cooperate
with the Grand Trunk or any other
Canadian road in obtaining business
for the port Of Boston and that moth
ing need be lost or should be lost by
the abandonment of the Grand Trunks
plan to parallel the Boston d Maine
tracks from White River Junction to
Boston and Providence to Boston
Thirteenth, that 1t is the belief OF
both systems that a great deal of Ca
madam business win come TO Boston
from the inevitable and natural over
flow from the Canadian roads and that
more western American business car
be brought here also by the co-opera-
ton of these roads
Fourteenth that both the Grand
Trunk and the New Haven Boston 81
Maine system assured the port direc-
tors that they will cooperate heart
lily in the prospective development of
the port of Boston and that the Grand
Trunk will be enabled to give as good
service to the city Of Boston as II Is.
had its own rails into the city
81.