The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-11
RIVAL ROAD
 STOPS WORK
RHODE ISLAND EXTENSION OF GRAND TRUNK HALTED BY
 PRESIDENTS ORDERS.
AGREEMENT MAY BE C.,.USE
New Haven System Said to Have Un- derstanding But Mellen De-
 nies It.

Providence, R. l., Nov. 11-ConStruc- ton work on the lines of the South ern New England Railway Company, the proposed extension of the Grand Trunk system in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has been ordered stop ped by President Esdson J. Chamber Iin of the Grand Trunk. The order is effective immediately, throwing 2,300 laborers out of work, and is an- nounced as being flor an indefinite period.'' President Chanberain- said in a telegram from Montreal, answer ing a message of inquiry from this city:
 Temporary stoppage of work on the Southern New England is a precau- tionary measure brought about by an unsettled money market
 John s. Murd4ock. vice president and land, the eorlIy official of the road here today, refused to discuss report that the order followed the reaching of an agreement between the Grand Trunk Hartford railroad interests. During the past few years the New Haven road has appeared before legislative committees in opposition to Grand
 Saturday it was announced from Concord, N H., that the Sullivan county county railToaa: New Haven Ia a+;tqhr sub, for leave to extend it's line on the New Hampshire banks of the Con necticut river so as to parallel the tracks of the Central Vern ont The latter road is part of the Grand Trunk system.
 The construction companies in this State and Massachusetts have about road building The men are mostly Italians. They will not be paid off until next Friday it is said. and the police of this city, under Supt. John A. Murray and of other places in the State are holding officers in readiness in the vicinity of the construction camps to care for any trouble that
 MELLEN WON'T COMMIT SELF.
 New Haven. Nov. 11-In regard to the discontinuance of work on the Southern New England Railroad Com pany, message receivetf Tn New Ha- ven from President Charles s. Mel1eD of the New Yorx, New Haven & Hart foard Railroad Con1pe ny, who is now in Stockbridge, Mass, says:
 He has no knowledge of the, dis continuance of the work on the South ern New England about Providence. and that If the work has been discon- tinued, it has probably been for some local reason-the weather, financial or some other reason of that kind, and of which he is not advised"
 Nothing can be learned from rail- road officers here, but 1t is said that the discontinuance of work would be one IOSICd17 result or all agreement De- tween the New York and the Grand TrunI-. kas
 As bearing on the reported. agree ment it is pointed out here that sPresi- dent Hayes of the Grand Trunk, who was lost on the Titanic, was strongly in favor of the extension of the GranI Trunk system to Providence by the Southern New England and that his death may have changed the rival pol icies of the two great corporat1o ons, which before his death. had reached an acute stage
 The competing plan of the New Ha- ven, sHSbaEafns the Grand Trunk ex- tensions .satos New England territory, included the building of parallels Of the Vermont Central in New Hams- shire and Vermont, and enlargement of Canadian business, notably to and from Montreal