Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-15
Grand Trunk Expects That Conditions Will Enable
 Resumption of Work in the Spring
IS UNABLE TO RAISE THE FUNDS AT PRESENT
Extensions From White River Junction Boston and From
 Boston to Blackstone to Be Abandoned d-Chairman of Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commission Submits
 Report of Investigation Contemplated Agreement.

Boston, Nov. 14.-"The actual situa- tion as regards the Grand Trunk Southern New England extension to Boston and Providence1 is the subject of a report submitted tonight by Vii : liam s. McNary, chairman of the har- bor and land commission, to Governor Floss and the directors of the port of Boston MT. McNary, who says his information is based upon facts se- , cured from Grand Trunk and New Haven sources, outlines a proposed traffic agreement between the two sys tems, The report finds in part:
 Extension Will Be Built.
 That the work of the Southern New England extension from Palmer to Providence has been stopped because the Grand Trunk, which is substan tially an English owned and financed road, cannot get the funds at present :n England or Canada, the Balkan war scare contributing quite largely to this result
 That the Palmer-Providence road would in all probability be built in the spring because of the money already expended and contracts which had been let for steel railway materials bridges etc.
 Boston Extension to Be Abandoned.
 "The projected Southern New Eng land or Grand Trunk extensions from White River Junction to Boston, on the north, and from Providence and Black stone to Boston, on the south, will n 0t be built because of the practical i'm possibility for the Grand Trunk rail- road to secure the many millions of dollars needed to finance the plans for construction.
 That the Grand Trunk railway vii! act cautiously on it's plans for the Canadian construction for the time be- ing, and will probably go slowly dur ing the present Borden conservati Ie government in Canada, which favo-s the Canadian Pacific rather than the Grand Trunk.
 Double Track to White River Junction.
 That the New Haven road and the Boston and Maine will double track it's lines from Concord, N. H.. to White Eiver Junction, and its Connecticut 10 Greenfield, Mass, and will thus give double track facilities from White Riv-- CT Junction to Boston, and substan- tialIy to New York.
 "That the New Haven and Boston and Maine system will give to the Crank Trunk either track facilities over it's lines to Boston or trackage facilities by which the Grand Trunk can send business to Boston or to oth- CT New England points, either over the New Haven and Boston and Maine roads, in the cars of the New Haven Maine system, or can run it's own trains with it's own motive power, it's own cars and it's own crews to Boston and it's own freight trains to the Bos- fou terminals at Charlestown and South Boston, if the Grand Trunk rail pad so desires, and for such terms of yaars as the Grand Trunk desires also Nsw Haven Will Handle Grand Trunk -t Business.
 -The New Haven road will agree ii ahe Grand Trunk desires that the 'wGfand Trunk freight or passenger agents will be allowed to get business sn any city or section of New England md send it over the New Haven lines to the Grand Trunk connections, on the Grand Trunk rates, the New Ha- ven to get it's proportion of the rate.
 'The New Haven will give substan- tially the same privileges to the Cana dian Pacific, which connects with the New Haven Boston and Maine system at Newport. Va, or to the Canadian Northern, which connects with the New Haven Boston and Maine system at Montreal.
 New Haven Will Allow Use of Its
 Tracks.
 "The New Haven-Boston and Maine