Show I CHEAP FREIGHTS The State of New York has been considering tlc proposition of enlarging enlarg-ing the ErIc canal at a cost of 560000 000 to a size that will permit the wi passage pas-sage through It of 1000ton barges But now comes President Galloway of the New York Central railway and submits sub-mits an offer that If the State will pay to lie t New York Central 1 per cent on 60000000 the road will undertake to transport from Lake JSrlc to tidewater I all the grain that may be offered for export Considering It the Financial Nows says Mr Callaway stales that all the road Is I getting for carrying grain from Buffalo to tho shlps Ito at New York Is 2V i 0 n I f tvt UUSIILI uuiiimuiuing on i > ir Cullawnys proportion the Toronto Mall and Empire says It nhows what rale the railways have been gelling In compi tlng llllon with the canul ill It turns out to bo n lower rale than even the grain men have hoped to get the charge down lo The lowest rate heretofore mentioned by them has been 2e per bu menloncll rail way has been working for actually loss I J 1 Air Callaway ls In octunll In his proposal and in his quotation of the I frolght rate received by his o this honson it would be very unwise for New York State to enlarge the canal its ao coptance of Mr Lallawaya offer J how oycr would bind It to rIo hIs road u monopoly of all thin Bruincarrying across the State for It Is I certain no I comncllni railway line without ccrlill I like subsidy 10 would carry rnln for nothing any moro than Jjinal barge would With the Now York Central controlling the Buffalo Nt routo the onlcr Hldlcn Lo controllg the Mon route thi gralncarryluK trml would bo In a fair Wa of trade way becoming nrhto ofn single oomblncd Ic < omll the Comhllct concern Mr Cullnwuy s offer would scorn to point to an illlnneo Jolnt tl allnnlo between his road in d Iud omo Heel of lect lake carriers big cnrrlfr enough to hiI earn for olough hoth l3 this ally the Conner enter al I > nIt < n-It looks ns though there might be a I little catch In the offer I says all grain sent for selt export I may mean only such as Is to be sent to foreign countries But 2 i cents per bushel IR I only 75 cents per ton which must be without a parallel In railroad freight Ing I reminds ono that when Dc Witt Clinton was urging Clnton the building huldlng of the Erie canal a partial vision portal pf what was to be shone before his eyes Ho showed that the line of the lne pro poHed canal would run over an almost level grade the only one south of the St Lawrence that the hills had boon broken down that the thlt products of the West which was to be ao WiH JO great a few i years hence might find a level path to I the sea That was eightythree years I ago behold the transformation The West that he referred to Is now the center of an empire and along that route which he marked out the grain of that empire Is being caiyled from the lakes to the sea for 75 cents per ton |