The Washington times., 1913-07-09
NEW HAVEN ROAD
ATTACKED BY |. &C.
Conduct of SoCaed New England Lines and 0utside Opera
ons" Meet DisapprovaI in Report-Freight Service Is
Condemned passenger Traffic Is Defended.

for the last nine years wasteful in
the extreme, and the methods by
which those operations have been con-
Quoted are necessarily involved and
complex
1t is declared that the system
should get rid of its trolley roads. In
this connection the owning of COM
the commission strikes at the lobby
in the following paragraph:
1t was stated that the State OF Con
necticut has expressly permitted the
the New Haven system. 1t is WORTH
of remark that the general counsel Of
the New Haven road testified that while
the legislature of Connecticut did nnally
vote unanimously in favor of the New
Haven ownership of trolley lines, senti-
ment was at the outset the other way.
and 1t was only after 100000 had been
expended in 'molding the opinion of the
legislature that the final result was at
tanned"
Delay At Terminals.
The report finds that most of the
freight delay is at terminals which are
inadequate for the volume of business
received. It reports that during nine
years sl36, 00.000 was expended on the
railroad property proper and 500. 100000
in operations outside its railroad
sphere" OF this latter sum most of IT
went on the steamship companies and
the trolley lines. Discussing the Rhode
Island trolley system acquired, the COM
mission, after reviewing the intricate
financial dealings and stock juggling,
says: -..-..
Representatives of the New Haven
earnestly insisted they had not watered
the stock of the Rhode Island Company.
and this, strictly speaking, is true.
The improvement company. which took
over the Providence. Pawtucket. and ad
1acent lines, turned in the water and the
water into wine. In whatever aspect
this transaction is viewed. the New
Haven gave s1350OOOO for nothing"
The commission further declares that
the New York, Westchester and Bos-
ton. the twenty-mile road running from
White Plains to the Harlem river has
cost the New Haven 81. 900 900 in excess
OF the showing on its books
The remedy for the entire matter, ac-
cording TO the commission is rest and
an opportunity for constructive work"
Inc agitation against the road. 1t is
some laws and in disregard of the spirit
II not the letter of others. Until the
railroad plays fair with the public ii is
held. 1t will not regain public confidence.
The agreement with the Boston and
Albany Is declared to be in violation
Ing competition, but the commission
specifically asserts that II is not pass
ing upon the legal quality of the agree
ment. The commission also holds that
the New Haven should arrange to part
with the Boston and Maine
Supplementary Paragraph.
In addition to agreeing with the COM
plete report. Commissioners Clements
and Marble file a supplementary para
graph in which they declare that Con-
gress should act on questions such as
the Boston and Maine merger to make
them impossible. The merger, they
say, has so overloaded the executive
heads OF the entire aggregation as to
impair not only correct and economical
mana agement. but also efficiency and
safety nf operation. The Boston and
Maine and New Haven systems are two
systems under one mana cement There
fore closer superintendence, with cor
gains in efficiency and
safety might he expected from a disso-
luton of the merger"
These two commissioners oppose any
further investigation of the New Haven
system regarding the desirability OF
increa sing rates unless the proposed
rates are posted in advance for the
of the shippers who would
pay them.