. The street railway review . elson Ry. TheWorcester & Connecticut Eastern Railway Co. is owned and isoperated in harmony with the New York, New Haven & HartfordR. R., which has seen fit to adopt the policy of paralleling itself confirmed by an act of the Rhode Island Legislature; thence runningwesterly through the towns of Johnstown, Scituate, Saundersville,Ashland, South Scituate, Richmond, Rockland, Clayville and FosterCenter to a point in Connecticut at or near East Killingly andthence running its passenger cars via the Worcester & ConnecticutEastern Railway Co. tracks to and into Danielso
. The street railway review . elson Ry. TheWorcester & Connecticut Eastern Railway Co. is owned and isoperated in harmony with the New York, New Haven & HartfordR. R., which has seen fit to adopt the policy of paralleling itself confirmed by an act of the Rhode Island Legislature; thence runningwesterly through the towns of Johnstown, Scituate, Saundersville,Ashland, South Scituate, Richmond, Rockland, Clayville and FosterCenter to a point in Connecticut at or near East Killingly andthence running its passenger cars via the Worcester & ConnecticutEastern Railway Co. tracks to and into Danielson and other pointsin Connecticut, and at Dayville to a freight connection with the NewYork, New Haven & Hartford railroad. The villages the line passestlirough are mostly manufacturing points, and the enterprises thereconsist of woolen, cotton, netting, shoe lace, and lumber mills, etc.,llie raw materials and supplies for which, and the manufacturedproduct, must be transported from and to the markets of Provi-. VIKW ALON(; or IROVIDKNCK a DANIELSON KV. Iiy establishing electric railway lines and thus cutting off competi-tion from rival companies. The Rhode Island Co., controlling prac-tically the entire electric railway system of the state of RhodeUlami, is a competitor for business in part of the territory covered,and so the Providence & Danielson road occupies the unique posi-tion of holding at arms length the two great rivals for electric rail-way business in this section of New England. The situation givesrise to interesting speculation, and future development will bewatched with keen Providence & Danielson Railway Co. was organized under dencc, New York, Boston and other points via Providence or Dan-ielson, and the company has been given by mill owners all along theline contracts or pledges for a large amount of freight trallie. Ineach of the several villages there are one or more country storeswhere merchandise in and out will be handled by the railway
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