The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12

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NEW HAVEN Conn, June 12-AH
six New England states have expressed
their intention to form special commits
sions such as Connecticut has organized
for combining the six New England
railroads into one compact system.
Governor Lake has appointed the fol
lowing members of the Connecticut
commission:
Kent Hubbard, head of the Connect
cut Manufacturers association, chair
man; +. 0. Goss, president of the SEQ
vile Manufacturing Co., Waterbury,
Charles @. Woodward, financial secre-
JaTy of the Connecticut General Life
Insurance Co, Hartford; Representative
Frederick l.. Ford, contracting engineer,
New Haven; David S. Day, lawyer,
Bridgeport, and Stanley IL. Billiard of
Bridgeport, president OF the Connecticut
chamber of commerce.
All of these members, except Mr..
Bulard, were members of the commits
sion recently discharged, which repre-
scented Connecticut last year in the sue
ccssful protest against proposal OF the
New England railroads TO make a 10
per cent increase in freight and pas
senger rates.
Chairman Hubbard said that he was
planning to call an organization meet
ing of the Joint commission this week,
with Boston as the meeting place. An
effort viii then be made to arrive at a
plan eff action. The proposal of the Con
nectlcu6 commission is that the New
Haven, Boston & Maine, Rutland, Maine
Central, Bangor & Aroostook and Grand
Trunk railroads be consolidated into a
general New England system, indepen-
dent of the western roads. some of which
are known to be DESTROYS of taking over
certain OF the roads named. Such con-
solidatiOn eontemplates the inclusion of
the subsidiaries of the New England
railroads, such as the Central New Eng
land read. with the New Haven. and
the Central Vermont with the Grand
Trunk
The joint investment of these New
England railroads is approximately
SSO0,000, 000 and the pooling of their
resources, it is believed, would put them
in more advantageous position to do
business with the trunk lines whose IN
vestment in the area between the Hud-
son and the Mississippi rivers APP
proaches $4,000. 100000.
The transportation act recently passed
by congress requires the consolidation
OF the strong roads with weak ones in
order TO supply The nation with an AIDE
quate transportation system, and the
interstate commerce commission is now
holding hearings to determine the most
beneficial combinations in different sec
rose of having New England united be-
hind its plan when the time comes for
consideration of the railroad problem i'm
this section that Governor Lake took
the initiative of approaching the COVER
nors of other states. with suggestion
chat they get together without delay.
representative Frederick L. Ford who
is again called to the commission to
take up the matter by Governor Lake,
said:
% If one of the problems is the division
of New England from a railroad stand
point, | shall stand for united New
England against the field. If New Eng
land is divided into two railroad sys-
TENS it will be the beginning of the end
Of industrial New England. Our fac
tories which we take such Just pride in
will as an economic necessity, as well
as a matter of self preservation, be
driven out of New England and forced
- locate further west. and in place of
the throbbing machinery and the great
army Of skilled mechanics in the indus
trial cities OF New England. we will live
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