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Editor, it appeals that the
i hi not doe& his wonderful
without a taunt ab011t my
; repeatedly leaving me oat in
: It was really...too hard. of my
I, ae he knows i am very thin
1 might return the compliment,
waaid be no argument against
SU OfP the Nee Item Gravel
: eaa assure him t :tat I ane not
d, hat viewing ta tters as they
elite phitesophica It! Yours,
Tana:vas 1 leMtn4AEL.
.:„ Jae. 2%. isq E., i
_
Air_aoy vine-
$A-.-- Sleighing good, and - basi-
rally brisk.
an. Iheannen.----The timber is on
t'- the derrick, and the Company
start boring far salt in about
.r. --;--There has been quite a
4ity of pork ar4 grain, of all
etriag the last week-. As high
aa been paid for pork,
Ln. Ass:en-nuns— -Our Qua-
terulaiies. are prosperian well,
was ever expected, tl?ere be-
thirty- couples present every
There was a mail caught shop-
'`fereaday., Ile is deubtless oue
of raganmffine, with n-leich our
been troubled foe eorae time.,
_we
have not learned. -
EATI-Mt,- ----The weather for the
ays was rather mild, aird seenh
_bordering on a Henan:ea-a-mak
needay morning with fury, and
to destroy oar sleighing,. but,
jack -frost," is again on hand.
RAen..—The _greatest race of
t, was ran from here to Goder-
Iesday night, the, 24th iast.,
e of $t00. The competitors-
ari here at 10 p.m. sharp, and
;(,teelerieli at 3 4. ni.‘, Messrs,
" 6 and Armstrong winning by
;tea -
rile preparations for the eree-
V demote are being rapidly pus h -
rd by Mr. Thompson of this
I -'
o is contractor, and as he is a
faithful workman, it is certain
la net be leng in the erection.
Upleted it will be a::•-well-finish-
Lostaritial building.
s
X Fel:ham—Our old and es -
.end, .1.r. Mr, ;110 Kay, has retired
ie life, having sold out ta enc'
i,
of Woodbridge, wha is going
-
the factory here in first -lass
le farmers will da well to pa-
r_ McIntosh. as he has been at
ss for a member of years,
nis.---We are all alive about .
There are three roads_ propos- '
O through here, one front Ber- '
`OM LO1NAGII, and one from Lis- !
A all three terminating rt Kine
! 1.4•70 woul(i jeist advise- our
,- villagers to keen cool on the
td, they will see that they will
t%I13plaidel with branch railwaya
., as this is to be the railway
Western Canatlae
RM.—Business is rather dull in
at present. So much sois this
that the entetprising firm el
,veri & khIcKenzie, of that city,
il out beauelt ateres in .Ainley -
1 rartbrook, for the disposal of
itite goods and bankrupt stock.
t they are doing a fair retail
1 if litisinesa does not improve
..-s, shortly„ they -will probably
iiiamittort Branch up here when
:ii opens. Ainley-ville will sure -
railway seen 1l0. ---COM.
_
ee—The Council nun, an the
the: memberpresent.
iera eigned. Clerk and Trees-
ictedU Walrond and Jetta
Auditors C. Prouty to at-
atph Connell its eext meet -
4e -tar to: *Atte up with the
lLy the ist February-. 'lerk to
f choppiag, etc, between lots
on N. on Saturday,- 28th
&dock. That a By-law be
te' the people, on the 1 lth day
; for the purpose of bortowing
tint dollars he way of deben-
.
! the purpose of extending the
,ravs:1 Roadadsa S. B. and N.B.
>niers were granted to the
12( 411a principally for road
nts and charity.
1! C. ,P o tre, Clerk.
l'he new Council of the Town -
met in the Town Hall Zur-
h. 16, 1871. Present- -Robert
I`sq,.. Reeve, William. Carrick,
hty Reeve, M eseers. Roliert Fer
ha 1 Geiger, and Willi=
CaurectlIons. The Reeve, Depu-
artd *(4unei1hers, having made
Weed their respective dec1are-
4ualificatien and office, the
fast meeting were read.. and ap-
wed by W- Turnbull, second-
erguson, that Ralph Brown be
.r tor the current year. - Car-
:- Reeve, appointd John Roder
tutorwith the approval of the
goved by ft. Fergusoe, second, -
Carrick, that William Wilson
at heti salitry, for the year ;
net Zeiler, Treasurer, at $50
r the year.- - Carried. Moved
4 -rick, seconded by W. Turn-
t- Paid Bell be allow -
Canon. to perfeant the hal-
his statute labor for last
initiating ttf ele een days,---
1/4otoved lky R. Ferguson, second-
; Turnbull, that the following
tn_pahl, viz : Jaeol; Reader:
cnIverts,$1; T. J. ?loorhouse.
etc.. $6 ; Charles Crete -Ian,
rings ire Town Hall,,t-"72S;
flate Road inspector, $1.1 25;
auer, cedar for culverts, etc.,
incettion; $9. 75 ; William Wil -
'Mat Registrar far 187O,
hichanan, -lyaiance of repairiag
a, •$4.- Carried. Moved by
seconded. by Ny. Turnbull,
McLaren be Assessor, at it
tO a year - R. Broderick, Tax -
;tor, at a, salary of $12 a year ;
lick, Hall keeper, a year,
•S ilaon, Towitship Librarian,
-Moved hy W.
neconded by We Carrick, that
;of $4 per month be allowed to.
indi tent Carried. Moved
Oibull, seconded by j. B. Gel-
-'his Council do now adjoura, to
in the Town Hall, on Tiles -
21, at 10oclock a. In, for the
- granting certificates for Tay -
cess appointing Pathmasters,
that the Clerk put up notices
Carried.
• WU-Linen WHAuX, Clerk.
,
MeLEAN BROTHEES, PUBLISHERS.
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Freedom, in
rade—Liberty Religion—
quality fl Civi Rights".
$1 50 A YEA.R, IN ADVANCE.
VOL. 4, NO 10.
SEAFO
TH1
FRIDAY, FEB
-VARY 10 181.
WHOLE NO. 166.
'-emenseermilmwimi
E3US1N$S CARDS.
MEDICAL.
Tn TRACY, M. D.. Coroner for: the
County of Huron: Office and Re-
' - sidence—One door East of the Methodist
iEpiseopal Church.
Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868.- 53-ly
C. MOORE, M. D., C. M. (Graduate
n. of McGill University, Montreal, )
Physician, Surgeon, &c. Office and resi-
dence Zurich,. Ont.
Zurich, Sept. 7th, 1870.- 144
T .A.MES STEWART, M. D., 0. M.,'
e) Graduate of McGill; Univertity,
Montreal, Physician, Surgeon, &c. Office
and residence—Brucefielde ,
Brucefield, Sane 13, 1871.
Ta.R. W. R. SMITH, Pleyeiehe
Sur-
geon, etc, Office,—Opposit4 Scott
RobertsonResidence, airestrent,
North. . -
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1863. . 53-ly.
TT L. VERCOE, M. D. C. M., Physi-
. cian, Surgeon, etc. Office and Re-
sidence, corner of Market and High
Street, immediately in rear of Kidd'a
Store.
Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1870.
TAR. CAMPBELL, Coroner- for the
County. Office and, residence, over
Corby's, corner ,store, Main street, .Sea -
forth. Office day, Saturday.- 159e
LEGAL. 6
1". WALKER, Attorney -at -Law
. and. Solicitor -an -Chancery, Con-
- -veyaneer, Notary Public, &c. Office of
the Clerk of the Peace, Collet House;
Goderieh, Ont. .
- N.B.—Money to lend at 8 per emit on.
FarniT Lands.
Goclerich, Jam'y. 28. 1870. 112-1y.
TIOAUGHEIT & HOLMS'T'EA.D.,
Barristers, Attorneys at Law, Sol-
icitors in Chancery end 1nselvency, No-
taries Public and. Conveyancers. Solici-
tors for the R.0. Batik, Seaforth, Agents
for the Canacht Life Assurance Co.
e N. B. —$30,000 to lend at 8 percent.
Farms, Honses, and tots for sale.
Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-tf.
1DENSON & MEYER, Barristers and
Attorneyat Law, Solicitors in Chan --
eery and insolvency, Conveyancers, No-
. aries Public, etc. Of tices-,--Seaforth and
Wroxeter. Agents for he Trust and
Loan Co. of Upper Canada, and the Col-
onial Securities Co. of London, England.
Money at 8 per cent; no -commsision,
nharged.
TAS. H. BENSON, H. W. C. MEYER,
Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868. 53-1y
HOTELS.'
etOMMER01AL HOTEL,
kes banes ' Laird, proprietor, affords
first-class aceoramodation for the travel-
ling public. The larder and 'I) ar- are al-
ways supplied with the best the tetarke
ts afford. Excellent stabling in connec-
tion.
Ainleyville, April :23, 1869: 70-tf.
Tz- NOX'S ROTEL (LATE SHARP'S)
IX_ The undersigned begs to thank the
public for the liberal patronane awarded
to -him in times past in the hot'el business,
and also to inform themthat he has again
resumed business in the above stand,
where he will be happy to '• have a call
from old.friends, and many new ones.
THOMAS KNOX.
Seaforthe May 5, 1870. 126-tf.
BRITISH EXCHANGE HOTEL, G od-
erich, ONT. , J. CALLAWAY, PROPRI-
ETOR ; J. S. WILLIAMS, (late of Aron-
ean Hotel, Warsaw, N. Y.) -Manager.
This hotel has recently been newly furs -
Malted, ancl refitted throughout, and. -is
nowone of the most comfertable and com-
modious in the Province. Good Sample
Rooms for Commercial Travellers.
Terms liberal.
eGoderich., April 14,, 1870. '193-tf.
MISCELLANEOUS.
D HAZLEHURST, LicensedAuction.
eer for the County of Huron. God-
erich, Ont- Particular attention paid to
the sale of Bankrupt Stock, Farm
Stock Sales attended on Liberal Terms.
Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclosed,
Landlord's Warrants Executed. Also,
Bailiff First DivisionlCourt for Huron.
G oderich, June 9th. 1869- 76: tf
Qf-& W. hIcPIIILLTPS, -Provincial
,, Land Surveyors, Civil Enbineern
etc. .A.11 manner of Conveyancing *done
with neatness and dispatch. G. McPhil-
lips, Cannnissioner in B. R. `Office—
Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Sea -
forth.
Seaforth, Dec,: 14, 1868.
S.MAILL &- CROOKE, Architects, etc.
Plans and Specifications drawn cor-
rectly. Carpenter's, Plasterer's, and Ma
son's work, measnred and valued.' Office,
Over J. C. Detlor ale Co.'s store, Court
-
House Square, Goderich.
Goderich, April 23, 1869. 79-1y
S's LI -v. -gin' STABLE, MAIN
ST., SEAFORTH. First Class Horses,
and,Carriages always on hand at as reons-
able terms.
' R. InSiialtr, Proprietor.
Seaforth, May 5th, 1870. 3-tf
W
the Bush," I "Rot jibing it 2.
s interes &pry, will
be fouiid oA the Seon aye' .
I I °
G AND; '1,RUI•TI.c. RAILWAY.
L i TTER TO THE 14M1 JON BOARD OF
i 1
, TRADE, 33Y MR. 3 R DUES.
RAN TRU RAILW kYOF 0 A.N.ADA,
ANAG1 NG DIRE 0('S OFFICE.
MONTREAL, Jain.. 1_, 1870...
II it. Jdltn, 1r:dung, Prc sic ,ent Dominion
Boar( of /117rode.
Ise D AR SIR : I observ by the pub-
li papc1ie that at the in et nen of the Do-
m mon oard Of Trad i 1 -Ottawa, on
th 20thinet., you. brat g t the subject
of railway rates before he meeting, and
,
th:t a resoltition. was p ed to the fol-
io Mg elect : •
"The, it is reported t 't is Beard that
a great discrepand exi ts 1 between our
lo al ane through freigh s ancli.accommo-
d tion o1n the GrandI-'runk, and this
B ard rticornlncflds ithat s ch 'Lotion be
te en Ly its council a t remedy the
ev 1 ecen laireed of; so fa a practicable.", "
o Co meniniea,tiorrha , o fa-, heen ad -
4r ssed 9 this CoMpa y pen the sub-
rcl
je t; bt t I beg tobe 110 wed, without ,
el- lay, ta th aress You, as President of f
the Do inion Board of T ade, so, as to
-moo ove Some , 'if the va y singular mis-'
co . ceptiens .111.to which ot i yourself and
se era,' speakers at the. late Meeting
h ve fal en. • -You are re iii•., ed as leaving
,
sa,d': in briTI I g t'he u jeet. fd.
rvarce
that
" The people •of Cana a ad. ,contribut-
e large y to Ithe Grand. T lurk Radivay,
b t that roadi charged at s which Were
.al ogether pr ferable to f reigners. lie
It. d a tesolt tion en t e Isla ject eon-
(' mnine till arrying of freight at cheap-
er rates for people in ti e neighboring
States. The same tra s -Were charged
b the rand. Trunk for fl. ur %rom: Chi-
c. o to 1 Boston and es York as to
M ntreeln T ese discr minatoris oper-
at d. in urioi sly to th •top e of this
co ntry." 1l• • '
I conf ss Lci being mu ila urprisecl that
y u shoiildh4ve -made, -to. ements which
ar so a soln ely oppose t0 : the actual
fa As. 1I -
You ycre f I course ._pe leing of rates
di ring he priod :the t navigation is
cl sett; or eh peters ne er • trouble them -
se ves al out i quiring -what our rates are
in stun er ; 1unless we re prepared. to
• c, rry at but rale abov tile rates that
at in f rce• y the wat r lines, we may
a well hut up the rat way.
New, with reference ce winter rates,
'w tat ai e ,the facts?
You s y : "The same •a, eiwere eharg-
ec by ti e Gr, ncl Trun forI flour frora
0 image to Boston and New York as to
it mitre, 1." .
The r tes from claim a to Boston are
fi. ed by the shortest lit es alai_ we have
n thing to c o with th s rates, but to
c arge he ma, . e as othe I nee.
No a e kr' •ws better ha yourself that
✓ ilway rates are alway oreportionately
le s for ong han for sir ri distances.
- The i resen winter r te on four from
C licago to oiton, the -4 stamen by the
s ortest line being '1,0' 7 iles, is $1 30
a barrel.
The p esen winter r, te from Chicago
t Montreal :the dis a ce 1: eine 860
, ,
in'lee, or 167 miles less ti an to ' Boston,
is $1` 10 a b rrel. ore2 c. a barrel less
ti an the rate to Boston.
Yoar stat nient, th re ore,- that the
retenfr m 0i idago to ort and Mon-
t eel are the ame is si n y a misstate;
ent of fact. ,
Foliowing he examp e of inaceuracy
o state en't; which yo ad. ehus set,
s neral spe, ers spo e Of :the rates
cl aredl by ti is Compa y or local traffic
a exc ssive and an njuribus to the
t acle of Can da. . .
I sha 1 no proceed t 'taw that there ;
n ver n, re. s stemmas de 8) opposed ,
r 7 • s no rail- :
f actual fan s and the ere
w y upon t i • cotin sut here the trade :
o the cr un r is earriec n at such low
✓ tes asiare c„ paged to he peop e of (Jan-
a( a by Vie Gbtncl Trim omp
It is a, neccssitv of it positi n,, owing-
tits )e
rj
reitat alongside the in it splen -
d it wat r do municati n in t e world,
ich ' in fit 1 operatio f sev n Months
o t of twelve and con yo s th rates for
t e entire year—but this nece sity is. a
J) sitive gain to thepoo sle of Ca i ada, and
f roes the railway to to its ork at a
ue,h sinaileti profit th n is e rnecl by
a y other 1' on the co tient.
Again, winitare the ac: s ?
I will quote from published tariffs of
d fferent rallway coinpa ids';
On the Northern Rai way of Canada,
tl e charge for a barrelf tlour om Col-
li ' givood tb Toronto, 7 miles, is...30c.
On thesame line, from Ii1ford o To- •
ronto 49 miles, it is.. . i.... .. ...... 25c.
O the Great West TI1 Rai way,
from Chatham to amino 140
miles • it is 36c.
F ornLond n`to liamilt n,75 in les25c. ,
1' ern Woodstock to • afmilt n, 45 I
,I
milesi .... , . 1 ... . .. ........ .!..... ... . . . . . 20c:
Q1 the Mie ii...,Itan Centr 1, them New..
Buffalo to Detroit, 21 miles, it is.46c.
From Johnson's to Detr it. 1.70 Is es,
itie..`.... , .. 1. ..... ...,. _ .... . ... . . .... 42c. -
From Marshall 107 relit s,. it is 34c.
On the Erie 'Railway, rem B ffalo
to Port Jervis, 335 m eS, it i 78c.
OS
From Buffalo to Union, 199 ra. es....50c.
nd for a distance of 1O0 Miles, it is.30c.
On the two Americai lines, f course,
thc rlitee are in their cirrency but the
difference now is very small.
same
the fates above name
:f
all the year round both
8nrniern8.71 and they ea gal, fro
barreror Milesto 78. ba
1Ili
The present winter rite on he Grand
Trunk Railway, from oronto to Mon-
treal, 323 mile., is 50c. a barr 1, and in
summer", 35c: a barrel.
FremiGo erich to ntreal, a6 miles,
are the
te4 and
2€c. a
1 fcir 335
the rate in winter is 7bc. a barrel, and
surnmer 60c. a barrel:
It will thus b seen that as regards the
Erie Railway, e charge for 466 miles
8c: a barrel le$s in -winter, and. 18c. a
'barrel less in s mmer than they ,do for
335 miles; and that we carry a barrel of
flour from Toro
a barrel less in
summer than
to to Montreal for 28c.
winter and 43c. less in
hey carry- for a similar
distance between Por Jervis and Buf-
falo'viz., 335 miles. .
As regards the Michigan Central, our
charge for 333 miles .s only 4c, a barrel,
more than they charge for 218 miles in
winter, and 7c. a bairel less than their
charge in summer.
As regards the Great Western, our
charge for 333 lnilesj is only 14e. more
than they charge fel. 140 miles in winter,
and about the seine as they charge for
that distance in sum er.
• .We carry for 333 ruiles in winter, for
just double their chargc for 75 miles, and
in summer only 10 . more than they
charge for that Ishort' distance.
;And as regards the Northern. Railway
we charge in wi ter, er 333. miles, just
double what thy clnirge for carrying 49
miles ; and in s mmer, we only get 5c. r
barrel more Lir 333 miles than they get
for 97 miles.
I Caulci quot from tariffs now before
me several hun red. instances with sim-
ilar results, an I could prove that as re-
gards our char. • e, from points in Canada
west ef Kingston, and from Montreal, to
the Lower Pr. vinces, they are equally
moderate ; but I have shown enough to
prove the ext ordinary misstatement
I
!made at Ottan- , and the entire correct
ness of my: ass rtion, that thp arroduc
tions of Canad are carried to market b
the Grand Tru ik Railway at Much lower
rates than are harged to any lother-peol-
"ple by any other railway on any part of
this continent.
The same general state of facts exist i
r
regard to all descriptions of freight both,
up and dowri. . '' - , -
I simply oho e a barrel- of flour, as the
easiest and. simplest example.
What is Canada's gaiu iethe Railway'
loss.
- We cannot g t,owing to the water com-
petition, the sa e rates that are charged
by other railw s for their local tra-ffic
our profit on ea h transaction is therefor
much less ---an- the proportion which our
expense of wor ,g bears to our receipts.
is, therefeee,. s much the greater.
I desire now to correct some further
roisetatements, hicli some of the speak-
ers at your Inc.eg propounded. -
General sta mente were Made that
great delay occ rred in forwarding freight
on the . the rai way—that local freight
was allowed to lie, Whilst through wa
carried—that f eight couldnot be sett b
Allan's steame ,s. because t raiiwayj
did not provid cars -hand thatit took six
days in summe and ten in winter to, get
freight carried rout Montreal to TorOnto
. Such statem nts Were, at :least pre
,
sumably, made from knowledge of an ac-
tual state of fa ts existing at this time
How far they ad any real foundation,
will proceed to ow.
It is idle no . to discuss what tooki
place in years 1 ant. . The obvinus practi
cal question is, what is the truth now
And how are tl e public of Canada treat-
ed on the rail% ay at the present time, a
regards their -f eight business?
The first s ternent was that local
freight •vas ly at stations and could
not be forwarded.
It is no doubt true that, for a, short
time after harv when every dealer is
pressing to get'his is grain to market with-
in a few weeks of its being harvested, as
is the case with ,every railway and vessel
owher at that p tticularperiod, some delay
of necessity aria e, in moving off th e quantiJ
ty of grain, tha every available teamin the
country is em lpyed in bringing to the
stations of the different railways. All
lines are then like in that respect.
But 1 state nenuivo,cally that it isnot
true that local freight is being neglected
to carry through,or that the tiade of Ca-
nada is sufferinh from the Grand Trunk
Railway being unable to .me 't the de-
mands made uponiti
On the 24th tint., I issued n order to
every station west of Kin tato -, to send
me a statemen of: all the freight on and
waiting shipment,` and to let nie know if
any complaints had been made as to 'dif-
ficulty in obtdi mg cars to carry "eff the
traffic from -the station.
-
I have now before me the r4lies from
every station ; and the whole amount o
freight on handat all the stations, was
less than 90 c loads, for whiclet the
agents had shipping orders. We ar now
loading and forwarding, daily, from those
stations, about 150 pare, so that there
was absolutely enchmulatio anywhere
and no detention of any kind. ,
is, that there h 0 not been any scarcity
The universailft replY from every static.
of ears, and that consequently no com-
plaints have been made by shippers. On
the contrary,. jvehippers have expressed
themselves as well satisfied with the fa-
cilities which they have received on the
railway.
The second complaint ie that freight
could not be sent to Europe y Allan's
steamers, because the railway 'd no fur-
nish cars. Altana only run a certain
number of st teers—one eve week—
and can only, erefore, carry a certain
quantity. ' 1
Last winter !we had to stop receiving
goods for them! at our stations five weeks
before the last Steamer sailed, because w
were carrying to Portland more than the
at
could ta away, although every steame
was le ed to its full eapacity. Fift
(50) car loads of what we did take down
remained at Pertland after thelast steam
er had. sailed, because they had not room
for it.
; I . . •
And as regatclsi this winter, there re
now sufficient freight at Portland, taken
down by the Grand Trunk, to load the
next three steaniers at least, withouttaki
lug into account what is in transit on this
,
:
1
side of Po tland, and which will amount
to a very arge additional quantity. /
The ne t sta„tement is, that it takes six
days in at muter, and ten days in winter,
to carry f eight from Montreal to Toron-
to, being n.average of 50 miles in one
case and 40 miles in the other, as a day's
li e railway.
s ot be difficult to prove that
ent is also entirely opposed to
facts. ,
ar carrying freight is required
average of 150 Miles a day in
d 200 miles a day (of 24 hours)
Careful records are kept in
ce of the actualrunning of the
every case of delay is specially.
nto, when it is foiled, that the
aily mileage has not I been ob-
of each car.
ork on
It will
%his state
the actu
Every
to run an
winter, a
in summe
my own o
!cars, and.
;
enquired.
!required
fained ou
From t
of these r
pears tha
cars were
distances
out of- t
were bey
miles a d
day in su
I .
e compilation now before me
•turns for the year 1870, it ap-
during the 12 months, 413,411
moved. over the lire, for various
to carry the traffic, and that
tat large number, enly 3,203
nd the specified tirn.e of 150
y in winter, and 200 miles a
er. 7That is very ittle. more
than three quarters of one per c nt. of the
whole.
150 miles a day in winter wpi occupy
a little over 2 days between Montreal and
Toronto, and 200 miles a day in sununer
will take less than 2 days.
Of course, occasional cages will occur,
where from snowstorms, break downs, or
accidents the average time will be ex-
ceeded; rut these are all covered. by the
three-qu, rters of one per -cent. of delays
out of th large business done.'
To ch 1.ck any possible inaecuracy in
these ret rns, I had a few ays ago a
, special st tement made out, of all the:
cars that had left -Montreal for Toronto
during 6 days. And I had 'put upon
that stet ment a return of thearrival of
those san e cars at Toronto. II, find that
a very 1. rge proportion arrived in two
da' a---;--th ...majority of ,the others within
three d4 s --and that:. the:Te-* cases of
delay b ond that wetattributable to
the bre' a age of Wheels, axles,' or rails,
arising f m the severe cold of this month.
To sat fy myself bitrther upon the sub-
ject, 1 pktsonally inspected the records
at a mee ber of the principal stations
west of oronto last week, and I found
that car from Montreal arrived at those
stations i three and four dayslafter leav-
ingaud i was only when some ehceptional
occurrent e took place, that thittime was
exceeded 5 •
I may dthice further proof of my state-
ment, de ived from a 'source entirely in-
depende it of the Company's record.
A mer hant of Montreal doing a large
business vith the west was, soMemonths
ago, spea ing to me about these matters,
and I as ed him to find out what; tinie
his cust niers actually received " their
goods, ds, af er thy were -sent off from.Mon-
tre sub equently wrote to me that
he had s it out with the iavoices for the
[foods be sold, several hundred circulars,
asking li s customers whether or not they
received heir goods in the time stated
by us th t we would deliver them by our
express T. eight train. He received re-
plies fro'. nearly all, and. hi only seven
cases w • any delay complained of.
4 The ti e taken by our express freight
trains is ess than 2 days to Toronto, and
a proportionate time for distances be-
yond. '
I submit that I have completely dispos-
ed, by a plain recital of actual facts, of
the very eitraordinary misconceptions
into which yourself ancl some members of
the Dominion Board of Trade have fallen.
This letter has extended to such a
length, that I might well stop here ; but
as I am addressing, through you, a body
of men who represent all classes of the
commercial interest of Canada, and who
are entitled to full information upon all
matters relating to the trade of the coun-
try, I hope it will not be coneidered out
of place, if I add a few remarks upon a
subject which has of late beeu made the
eground for a. good. deal of public discus -
I allude to the physical condition of the
Grand !link Railway and its rolhng
stock.
hare the less hesitation in doing this
bemuse tatemente havebeen made which
are calc lated; if not designed, to divert
trade from the Dominion, and thus to vi-
` tally inj re the interests which the Board,
over whi h you presided, was assembled,
if possib e, to promote.
I do n t intend to enter into any dom-
parispn, of the condition of the Grand
Trunk Re ilway at the present time, and
what it as when I tools charge of in near
Ty nine ears ago.
I wish simply to state a few plain facts.
Durin the 10 years from 1861. to 1870.
there ha e been put in, upon the 798
mike of so ain line, between Portland and
Sarnia, 2,763,085 new sleepers. The
original uantity of sleepers put in on the
main lin was 1,685,376, so that every
sleeper as been renewed in about 51
years. The sleepers are, therefore,
as sound and in ae good a condition as it
is possib e for them to be, upon any line
of railw in the world.
As re ards rails; 1,132 miles of new
rails hav been put down upon the 798
miles of ailway in the 10 years. That is
to say, t e average life of every rail has
..not been allowed to gobeyond sevenyears
—the w ole line having been renewed in
the 10 y ars nearly once anda third times.
These ra s have been procured from the
best ma era in England, many of them
at a hig • price, and guaranteed as • to
their we r—from the rolling millet Toron-
to whe they have been manufactured
with gre t care, and under a v ry• strin-
gent spe ifieation—and for the Portland
line, fro,. one of the, beat m' Is in the
United S ates.
It can4iot be said thatnew materialhas
been nigard1y supplied. The best mak-
ers have been employed, and high prices
paid, to ndeavor to secure the best pee -
Bible qulity.
ay now, that since I heve known
IC
, it, the Grand Trunk Railway has nee-er,
I at this periocl of the year, been in as good
a condition as it is to -day. I make this
statement advisedly, and with at least as
much practical experience upon the sub-
ject as any other person in Canada.
` The Grand Trunk, like other Imes, is
dependent upon starting its passenger
trains from either end, upon the arrival
of the trains of tether Compandee. Whe-a
they are late, which is a very frequent
occurrence, it deranges the whole train
service, from one end of the line to the
other, and during its course of 798 miles
of main line, it has to make connection
with 18 other trains, which join it at
-various points along the route. For all
of these it, of necessity, naust wait, and
many of them are frequently more or less
behind time. Public convenience -requires
that the travel along the entire length of
the line should be accommodated and
waited for, but it has beeome a fashion
in some quarters to put down all delays
as solely attributable to the Grand Trunk.
The months of January and February
are the worstemonths in 6ahada for rail-
road working, and until the climate
ehaeges, trains can never be run in a
satisfactory ilianner in those months.
At the beginning ef the year, orders
are always issued to run with the great-
est caution during winter, and to make
no attempt in extremely cold weather to
run to time.
The range of the thermometer has a
great deal to do with the running of trains.
With .the mercury down to 30 0 below
zero, experience has proved that iron in
rails, axles, and wheels, will not stand,
6,nd is constantly liable to break.
, This has been proved to be true in all
Cold countries.
1 Mr. Sandberg, C. E., the Engineer of
the Swedish Government, stated a short
time ago, in a report, that in 1866, on the
line from Moscow to St. Petersburg, in
Russia, on train broke 59 rails, and con-
eequently actually stopped the traffic- of
the entire line, which is 400 miles long,
for several days.
• There is a marked difference in the
eraperature in various parts of Canada.
\Then I was at Guelph on Saturday last,
he thermometer was 120 above zero,
nd at the same tirae, I was informedby
telegraph, that it was 12 ° below in
Montreal, or a difference of 24 degrees of
o rr. 0 m a
car-eful- register, which I have
caused to be taken daily at Montreal and
Toronto, I find that for the months of
January and February, 1870, it was on
an. average 15 degrees polder in Montreal
than in Toronto. It was worse east of
Montreal, and milder west of Toronto.
As a result, trains are run with much
greater regularity west of Toronto than
they can .be east of Kingston.
It is a fact that west of Toronto our
trains are run with as much regularity as
any railway in. Canada or the States in
our vicinity; and it would not be diffi-
cult to prov,e by statistics that the Grand.
'Trunk, taking its length into account,
runs as well as other lines on the north-
ern part of the continent.
I Iron rails having been proved rot to be
entirely 3atisfactory in cold climates, this
Oomp,any began five years ago an experi-
inent with steel rails. It had to be done
cautiously, as engineers had doubts if
the material would not break in severe
cold.
Five years' trial has proved that steel
will stand, where iron breaks, and aci
cordingly in 1870 the Grand Trunk Com-
pany imported and laid in 60 miles of
steel rails which- have stood perfectly
the seyere cold of the present month.
Eighty. -five (85) miles have been ordered
from England for this year, and. if they
can be ,procured, I hope that after thie
year nothing but steel rails will be laid
down. -
This Company was the first to intro-
duce steelfaiis into Canada; but the ex-
periment having succeeded, the Great
Western Company is following our exam-
ple, their experience of iron being as
much against it as ours, although their I
elimate 18, on the whole, so much. less 1
e vere . ,
-As iegards rolling stock, we have add -
d 900 to our stock of freight cars during
ast year, besides greatly improving the
apacity and. general quality of our old
tetovircke, .have
arranged with the Pullnian
Company to put their splendid sleeping
ears upon the line, •and including those
now on the road, 20 of them Will be run-
ining during the present year. We have
!purchased 12 new passenger cars, of the
latest and most approved pattern, and
are now thoroughly renovating in a first-
class manner the whole of our passenger
car stock.
We have also largely added to our
stock of engines,- and are yearly building
or buying a number of new ones, to take
the place of older and weaker ma-
chines.
That the public have not been slow to
take advantage of the improved facilities ;
we have provided. for them, ie to be 'found
In the fact that ourtrafflic is yearly in-
reasing.
Thus, in 1867, we carried 1,417,440 ,
passengers,
And. in 1870 1,642,707 do;
showing an increase in 3 years of 225,000
passengers.
In 1867 we carried 1,016,874 -tons of
reight.
And in 1870. 1,302,848 do -;
inian increase of 286,000 tons, or up-.
wards of 25%.
And during the present year, our week-
ly receipts, arising from our greater facil
'-
ities are increasing at the rate of from
15,000 to $40,000 a week.
Unfortunately, owing -to our geograph-
ical position, we cannot get as paying:
rates for the work we perform as other
companies are shle to do.
Thus'our receipts are less than they
ought to be, and the cost in proportion to:
our receipts at which we are compelled.'
to, work, (aggravated by our climatic dif-
!ficulties,) leaves but a ii-ery narrow mar-
lin of profit upon so large a business.
; Whilst, therefore, Cansela gains enor-
Mously, from the low rates at which she
!gets her -trade carried on, the sharehold-
ers of this Company, Whose money has
;built this great highway, have not, so far,
derived. any returnupon theiroutla,y. The
present in creasing re ceipts will, there isnow
however, no reason to doubt, give those
whose money has been so instrumental in
benefitting Canada, some retUrn at last.
' As the discussion at ,Ottawa was wide-
,
ily circulated through the press of the
f country, I shall send. a topy of this letter
to the newspapers.
In doing so, I am quite aware that it
will be the signal for calling dowa upon
this Company and myself—from a Certain
quarter—many columns of misrepresenta-
tion, exaggeration and personal abuse. I
shall not -depart from therule which 'have
hitherto followed, of leaving those violent -
and persistent personal attoks to the
calm judgment of the people of Canada,
amongst whom I have ifiow lived for up-
wards of 18 years, an .who, I do not
doubt, will judge for themselves whether
I and. the staff of the r ilway whieh it is
my pride and privilege to be at the head
of, do not, at any rate, exert ourselves to
the utmost, under circumstances of the
greatest, difficulty and discouragement,
to promote the prosperity of the Grand
TrunkRailway and of the country thi ough
which it runs. I ani, 14er dear Sir, yours
very truly,
. J BRYDGES.
Transatlantli Notes.
The late Lord. WaIringham cut hie
throat.
— Frosts have endaJgered crops of all
kinds in England.
The property in which Cogers' Hall
in Shoe Lane, London, is situated, is
about to be taken dont
— Mr. -Blanchard Jerold -wili shortly
bring out a new book called "t Home
Parie, in Peace awl in War."
— The frost is intense in the Counties
of Durham and Northumberland. There
have been several deatliis from the cold.
—M. Louis Blanc as prepania a his-
tory of the siege of P ris, the in idents
of which he has follow d with the closest
atteetion.
-- The new half -pertly postage system
has necessitated a mare addition to the
staff of the circulation branch of the
London Post Office.
— It is stated that Samuel Smilek au-
thorof "Lives of the Evgineeen." ie about
to undertake the biography of the late
Mr. Brassey.
— Viscoantess Amb
law of Earl nussela,
Fortnightly Review int-
cle on. "The telaims of
-- The wages dispu
iron trade has result
question being referred
M. P., as arbiter bet
men.
rley, :daughter-in-
ontrihutes to the
winery au arti-
Vomen."
in the English
d. in the whole
to Mr. Hughes,
een masters and
— The dykee of S iyrra, in Asiatic
Turkey, have been d stroyed by a tor-
rent, and a large part f the town imm-
dated and many of the inhabitants
drowned.
—On the 31st of Des ember, Lord Hen-
ry Bentinck died. sud lenly at Tathwell
Hall, near Louth, Lincolnshire. His
Lordship was in his 6/th year. He was
a great sportsman.
-- Rev. Donald. Fras
ness, minister of the
byterian Church, presi
occaeion of the fourth
promoted by thh Evan
?,r, late of Inver-
larylehone Pree-
led lately, on the
of the meetings
•elical Alliance.
— Herr von Arni a, German. Am-
bassador at Rome, ha presented to the
Pope an autograph let ler from the Enh-
peror Wiiliam, thank' ee His Holiness for
his peace counsels, an expressing con-
ciliatory views. No r ference was made
to the temporal power
—Von Benst, the ustrian Foreign
Minister, in a speech i Pesth advocated
an increased. armamen urging that the
danger of warlike co io plications was not
a phantom. The 11 peri -al policy, he
sa-id, is peace, but for ign powers must
understand that Au tria is ready for
defense.
— The next session of the Imperial
Parliament, Mr. Stan - eld, a -member of
the Gladstone Goveinn ent will introduce
a bill to provide for , oting by ballot at
Parliamentary electioa . The ballot was
recommended the ye T before last by a
select committee of th House of Com-
mons. It will doubt' ss pass the House
of Coearaons, but it is q eationable wheth-
er it will meet an eq ally favorable re-
ception in the House o Lords.
— The London Ti .41, of Feb. 2, com-
ments on General But
the United States
precedented proceed'
can only be treated
hostility. It cannot,
as more than a part
game pursued by unsc
who are doing their
character of the Amer
Government, and are
the Irish note.
—One of the large. firms in Dundee
has completed the building of a hand -
E omely modelled iron ship, of 1,200 tone
register, -which is now ready for launch-
ing. In addifion to the above vessel,
they have also made ifour punts for the
Harbor trustees, Th nurnber of steam-
ships built in 1870 is nine, representing
a gross tonnage of 7,21 ; while during
the previous year o±iiy four steamers
were built, showing a gross tonnage of
3,377. Of sailing 'Vessels there were
three built in 1870 whose ten -nage
amounts to 1,722, while in 1869 nine
were built, and their ilegistered tonnage
was 5,431, showing a great falling off
in the demand for sailing ships.
er's resolution, in
ngrerre, as an un-
g. If serious, it
an act of avowed
owevnr, regard. it
of a discreditable
pulous politicians
at to reduce- the
can representative
anxious to secure