The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-19

Articles, sc. 1t is n perfect ,'curiOsity
shop" of the novel, beautiful and useful, and
will at any time well repay a visit to look
at Che great variety Of splendid articles on
exhibition. Mr.. Wolf by his long resi-
dence in Dayton and his upright and cour-
teous demeanor as business man, has
acquired a reputation that any gentleman
might be proud Of Mr.. Moorman, his late
partner, having recently retired from the
house oil Third street. Mr.. W, Is now sole
proprietor of that establishment.
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John r., Allen at the 0peraH House to-
night, lin "Jentiy Hindn ~
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,ATLANTIc AND GREAT WEsfEkN RAIL
RoA .zgur readers have dIreatfy been ap-
priced Of the fact that 4 contract has re-
Gently been entered into between the At
lantic and Great Western, the Philadelphia
and Reading, and the East Pennsylvania
Railway. Companies for continuous line
East and West. AS Dayton Is one Of the
mainpoints on the route, and as many of
our citizens are Interested, in the project,
we give some ofthe' main featufes of the
.
contract. asFs- eng is'ls' 1e.is.nog .lar +
| There is to be a continuots narrow gauge
line from the cities Of New York and Phil
ladelpbia, to tEleveland, Cincinnati and
Dayton, and All other points to or, with
which the Atlantic and Great Western Rail-
way Company may have access or cOnnec-
tion!v sFfom Clevelahd there "a also a mar
row gauge, in addition to the wide, on the
Mahoning Railroad, and from Dayton t.
4 Franklin narrow. gauge rails win be laid
inside the wide gauge as is the case ON the
Mahoning Railroad. From franklin the
new line to be built through Venango
Clarion, Jefferson, Clearfield, Center, UnioI
aud Northumberland connties,to the west
ern end Of the Catawissa Railroad at Mil
ton, under the charters of the Western Cen
Itral and the Lewisb1fg, Center and Spruce
Creek Railroads, viii also be narrow guage
Thence the route will be over the Catawissi
Railway to Tamaqua, down. the littl
Il ISchuylkill, (now controlled by the Phila
deIphia and Reading Railroads,) and owe
the, Philadelphia aud Reading Railroad t.
, Philadelphia. The New York line viii
J leave the Reading Road at or near PoT
Clinton, by a branch to be built by tina
company to TOpton, OH the East Pennsyl
vania Road, thence over the latter Road b
3 Allentown, and to Easton by an extehsiO
! of the East Pennsylvania Road. FrpI
a Easton it will proceed to New York by th
, Norris and Essex Railroad, which Is to-. b
extended from Hacketstown (its preser
, terplinusl tO EastOns, 49,, IuitY sa,, tus
The line from Franklin to Milton is to i
, built "under the direction and cOntrol"l ,
y the Atlantic and Great Western Compan!
which, in fact, owns it. The Catawiss
Railway and the Morris and Essex al
e leased. for nine hundred and ninety min
Y lyears, the Cleveland and Mahoning, Ne
. Lisbon and Oil Creek Railroads for ninety
4 lnipe years, aud the agreement with Il
|. Philadelphia and Reading and Ea
: Pennsylvania Railroads is also to continI
j, for ninety years The unfinished linl
v in the narrow gauge line from New YOl
\ and Philadelphia 10 CleyelandM and DaytG
= /, are to be icommeheed In six months fro
r. tile date OF the contract, ard be complete
y ny hie hFst u NoNemupil i9oO' iiic IW'h1
n ninth clause in the agreement states that
81 81 being "the object of the agreement to fur
ish, as far as practicable, equal facilities
re freight and passengers to and from Phil
y delphia and New York, east and west it
~ ~ hereby agreed by and between the Allan
n. and Great Western Railway Company IA
ne the Philadelphia and Reading Rallw
M Company, that whenever the citizens.
,e Philadelphia and the citizens OF Pennsl
he vania shall together provide and f'irni
one-half the sum of money necessary
q build and equip a satisfactory line of ST.
OF iners to run between the port Of Philad
SD phia and England, then, and i'm such
se event, the said Atlantic and Great Westt
hx Railroad Company and the Philadelpl
"a aud Beading Railroad Company will es
furnish one-half of the remaining 81
= therefor" ....,.,,. y
~. John II. Allen, Manager of Woods Th'
nv ter, fortnight as Lawrence Leatherlungs,
1t "Jenny Lind"