The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-27
GREAT PROBLEM OF
NEW HAVEN ROAD
Position Stated from Inside-Trolley
and Steamship Lines Bought to
Clear Lines for Freight.

NEW YORK, n Y, July PA di
rector of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad, closely associated with
its financial management, says:
l. Nobody will question the excellence of
the passenger service now being rendered.
The great problem has been to relieve the
main lines of passenger trains and leave
the way clear for the heavy freight ton
mage. With that end in view trolley and
steamship lines were purchased 1t was
the hope of the directors that the passen-
ger service might be largely performed by
these subsidiary companies.
The Westchester deal, which has been
criticised SO freely, will in the end prove
to be the most beneficial one ever put
through by the management. The Penn
| sylvania paid 500 100000 to get two
| track passenger line into New York city
| 1t can't take car of freight over it. BY
purchasing the Westminster a four-track
| line was secured into the city that can be
used for both passengers and freight. The
old right of way was being used to the
! limit Suburban towns had been built up
to the very track-edge and it was i'm
possible to get additional trackage there,
even though there had been money
enough IN the world to buy the right of
way. Plans had been to increase the
! trackage into the city by roundabou
lines, but the cost would have been great
er than that of the Westminster and the
result would have been immeasurably less
l. When the new subways are finished in
New York city and the necessary connec-
tons made between them and the West
chester and between the Westchester and
the various branches of the New Haven,
YOU will see that the Westcheeter will be
la very geld mine for New Haven stock
holders, Its cost will seem tri1ing in
view of it's great earnings. Its earning
power will compare with that of the pres
ent subway lines.
Owing to the congestion of passenger
business no freight can be handled on the
New Haven during the daytime 1t is nee
essary OF crowd the road with trains nights
and Sundays. and even then proper ser
vice cannot be rendered to the public
This will be changed when the proper con
nections made with the Westchester
r AS to the investor in New Haven Sc
curltles, his worst enemy now is the gov
eminent. The directors have been work
ing for the investors and the humbles
1 stakeholder will begin to realize this be
4 fore long OF course, if the government
n is going to continue attacks it will be i'm
., possible to get the capital necessary t.
complete the improvements that are wei
II under way, and that will make it impos
), sibe to profit by what has been alread,
: done. The New Haven must progress, o
. 90 back. IF the facilities are not provid
= cd for handling business in New Englan
the great population of skilled labor wi
l. drift to Ohio, Illinois and other western
d states. Once New England loses it
e / skilled population it viii be a Difficult
t11aftpr 70 rpStora n - III
$ This authority believes that fornc
. President AIellen had the right idea i
everything he did, his chief fault bein
lack of diplomacy He feels that NJ
G Mellen,s program of construction win b
) vindicated and that had it not been fc
/ the unfair attacks on the management
. politicians and others. there never woul
/ have been any collapse of stock prices {
OF any question as to the success of the pc
0 icy of expansion by New Haven.