New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-18

and huddled On board ferJ-boa,. which
with the vsss masses OF fo.t Dg ice tia. ob..ru,t
the Delaware 9, that point somstimes amount
ing to absolute interruptions and very often 70
t.d,6us snd veXGtious delays. Landed on the
Pbilsdelpba side of the river, they are packed
ito ouribuses, and jolted across the whole with
Of that city. for two miles, to the cars. There
thew are left 20 wander at their leisure for "a
hour. TO eat the bad fodder provided al sne st.
ton. or 20 hungry and await the tardy de-
psrture Of the Baltimore train Thence they
are carried a. a slow pace over shattered road.
again ferried over broad river the Sasque-
hanrs-u winter even more DISTRACTED by ice
than the Delaware, aud not seldom entirely i'm
psssable. Such a state Of things in this fast
country. on its principal thoroughfare, webbed
all over &c II is with competing lnes of railroad.
il sn snomsly that loudly demands reform. To
the east of US lies Boston st about the same die
tsnce as Baltimore TO the south. Boston, and the
Intervening points accommodated BY the roads
running in that direction, number less than half
q million Of people. Baltimore, and the cities
and towns between that city and New York, num-
Der over million. Yet to Boston we have fire
con petirg lines of travel while between thiS
and Baltimore and Philadelphia We have but one.
In this fact lies the secret of the delay, the per-
petusl want of accommodation and perpetual a.
position upon travellers which marks the Bllt-
more and Philadelphia route, aud the total az
stnce Of any complaint OF the sort upon any Of
our great eastern thOrougbfares.
It's iu view Of these considerations that we
tail the proposed Establishment Of competing
Lire OF railroad between Philadelphia aud Balti-
more with great sati,fsctiOn, aud we trust the
energetic projectors of it will go on to its early
completion The existing road between Plila-
dephia and Baltimore is open to two great OBJ
iectiOns and drawbacks as a swift aud safe line Of
travel. In the first place it fails to cross e
river Susquebanna, but leaves wide gap a.
Hayre de Grace supplied by a steamer, whose
trips, ia severe weather, are often wholly inter-
rupted, to TIE immense discomfort sai delsy Of
the traveller. Next il runs along the margin OF
the Chesapeake Bay so nearly as to be COM
PEELED to cross two wide arms of that Bay, each
of them two miles or more in width. The track
over this wide expanse of water is lait upon
piles subjectiDg to constant peril the trains which
daily pass them, by reason of the great frailty
and constant decay of the trembling structure.
Luckily, into neither of these two immense ba-
sins has any freight or passengers yet been pre-
cipitate0; but that none have been may be
deemed but happy accident. Wnen such a
thing comes 10 pass, we shall have added to tie
usual frigbtful disasters Of II railroad accident |
the horrors Of drowning and perhaps freezing, |
by the score, and it may be by the hundred.
The route of the proposed railroad to which |
We have alluded avoids both these objections, !
and, while crossing the Susquehanna by bridge |
several miles above Havre de Grace ani keeping
more in the interior, is yet shorter than the old |
road. But in the saving of tine the difference is
much more marked than in that of distance. BY !
avoiding the delay of the ferry andthe slowspeed
rendered necessary over the wide and dangerous
arms of the bay to which we have referred, it is
expected to reduce the time Of travel between
Philadelphia and Baltimore at least one hour,
md probably two hours. We observe that the
new road is already 10 operation for about fifteen
or sixteen miies from Philadelphia. Thence to
the Brandywine il ia under contract, and from
that point to the Maylsnd line contracts will be
completed in February, making nearly one-half
The distance already under way and progressing,
even under the discouragements of the present
hard times. We earnestly hope to see the pro-
iectors of the new line backed by such liberal
as will secure the accomplishment
of their undertaking. For with the completion
of this road We shall have not only much-need
ed public improvement, but an additional stmu
lus and reason for the overthrow of the Camden |
and AmbOy mcnopolists,
We expected of course, when we penned the !