Republican farmer., 1920-03-05
q N II. TRAINS ARE CANCELLED TO MOVE
 SHIPMENTS OF FOOD
START OF CONCERTED DRIVE TO MOVE 4,OOO FREIGHT CARS STALLED IN YARDS AND ON NSIDINGS-TRA1NS GO BACK
 WHEN SHORTAGE IS OVER

turn O1 New England railroads to private ownership was ac- companied by curtailment of passenger train service on sew eral roads as a means of ex- Ipediting needed fuel and food
 deliveries, which were held up joy the recent storms and freeze-ups. Fifty-one trains were removed from the sched-
 lie of the New York, New Ha- lven and Hartford railroad and although the other roads made fewer cuts, they changed their schedules to give freight trans portation the preference.
 Thousands of railroad employees and volunteers dug out snow-covered freight yards and functions on satur- day and Sunday. As a result of this work several branch lines were oper- lated today for the first time since last Wednesday and it was announced that with a continuation of favorable
 
 possible before the end of the week,
 Officials of the New Haven road an- :. nouncec, the start of a concerted drive to move 1000 freight cars stalled i'll yards and on sidings. The sending of these cars to their destinations will remove the danger of the food short age already being felt in many of the smaller cities and towns in this dis tr1ct. The passenger trains removed today will be restored as soon as the freight congestion is relieved. Y is sand.
 New Haven, March 1.---HIr. Buck
 land, who was president of the New ? Haven road under the Railroad .Ad- | ministration Act, in a statement made 3 in New Haven, outlined plans for the resumption of the system under pri-l ? vate control as follows:
 n Owing to the fact that former
 President Edward J. Pearson was f made the federal manager and oper- e ated the property during the federal [ control and now returns as president, s there will be no material changes in |. the personnel and it is hoped that the . company will soon resume in all re- . spects the operation of the property
 as before federal control
 ''The property has been well main 1 tained in most respects. Owing to a
 scarcity of rails there is some under
 maintenance with respect to these. Ties have been well kept up but the
 progress of bauasting the road was
 partially halted on account of scar city of labor. Motive power is in
 good condition excepting where, dur 1 ing the last few weeks of severe weather, there has been temporary disability. Passenger cars and equip
 ment are in good condition but owing to the fact that none has been added r during federal control, there must
 soon be increases in this respect.
 If the freight business continues
 at it's present high point, the com pany should have not less than 25 and
 more than 50 new locomotives. As to I freight equipment, little can be said [ till the company's freight cars, which I have been scattered all over the coun- 0 try, are returned to it for examina- s ton.
 eI Tt is feared that freight cars have il not been maintained and that large q repairs will be necessary, but no posi-
 tive prediction on this point can be f made until the company gets its cars - back and looks them over.
 "Tke company's coal supply is very q low. In this respect it is suffering in . common with its neighbors in New = England. It is expected, however, that relief will follow with the clear | ing of snow from the roads, = Mir. Buckland said that the man. agers had no control over the trol-
 leys in Connecticut and Rhode Lsi-
 and. It was his theory that it would
 be better for the public if the steam
 railroads, the trolleys and the steam.
 boat lines were run under one control and that this view was particularly
 applicable to the trolley. But the
 trolleys had been taken away and to- z operate them was now forbidden to z the railroad. In 1914 a decree was g. obtained by the United States attor-- | ney general under the Sherman anti
 trust law and since then the trolIeys ' had been separately operated. The Q Rhode Island system was in the 1 hands of a receiver and trustees are 0 running the Connecticut system MT. ; Buckland was understood to say that . the law allowed the New Haven" to g run certain trolleys in New York state
 and western Massachusetts, in the 6 Berkshire county.
 t Washington, March 1-The operat- n ing division of the United States Rail- road Administration, the govern ; mental agency which for more than . two years has controlled the opera ton of the nations railroad systems , | today passed out of existence. With . i its passing at midnight the 220 lines . 1 that had been merged into what was f practically one gigantic system again | "Ci4b uIIhCI Ol pIlNdIe
 ests, free to operate in competition as
 of old. The transfer from govern
 ment to private control was without
 incident and there was nothing to in- ? dlcate to the travelling public that 1 there had been a change.
 Of the staff of directors and ex- 4 ecutives who controlled the roads
 during government operation, Direc- 1; tor General Hines alone remains. He ? will have no authority in directing
 the operation of the systems and re- I I' mains simply to clear up matters left pending when the government relin- . auished control. These include thous- ands of claims, contracts and griey-
 ances yet to be settled, among which are S3 compensation contracts with :, various roads which still are the sub d ject of negotiations.
 6 Under the so-called railroad reor- d ganization bill which governed the re- : turn of the transportation systems to 8 i private ownership. little jurisdiction