Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-19
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touching the Importance TO Cincinnati Of
through connections for the railroads
eentering IN that city, and advises 'those
who have in charge the connections Of the
various railroad lines in the city Of Nash
vile to heed the good advice given to the
people Of Cincinnati This is very.
important matter to Nashville, and should
be acted upon in a very liberal spirit by
our city anthOrities Railroads have been
bnat and are projected SO that in a year
or two the trade and travel to and from
the South can pass around Nashville If
through connection should be estab-'
lished here for the railroads centering
at this point, the necessity for some of
the projected Eaesi would be obviated,
and our city night regain and retain the
prestige she had before the war We
have heard it urged recently that steps
ought to be taken to establish through
connection for the railroads centering
here, and we feel assured Ia movement
looking to this end would be met in a
liberal spirit by our municipal authori-
ties A through connection win soon be-
established at Louisville, and with
through connection here, we may make
our roads the great highways for the
trade between the South and the North
west Let the railroads interested in
this matter agree upon common cOnnec
ton, and we feel warranted in saying it
viii be treated in liberal spirit by the
City Council The following is the arti-
Gle to which the attention of Nashville is
directed
Cincinnati is in remarkable condition
as to railroads. There are railroads enough
in number but, somehow, the city seems
TO take no great interest in the roads, and
the roads no interest in the city. All round
the city are railroads and branch roads, and
new roads proposed but they are all run
in the interest of other cities. Almost the
only road whose interests really lie in Gin
cinnati, and which the city can claim as
her own, the Ohio and Mississippi, the city
constantly treats with disregard and hos
tility. A few months since we noticed the
resolution of the City Council, requiring
that road to take its track out of Front
street, etc. We have seen also, with how
much hostility and jealousy the grant of
laying in its streets was opposed, and re-
luctantly given 10 the L. N. railroad. In
this, as in many things, the city has shown
its short-sightedness and narrow policy
The true interests of Cincinnati require
that the most liberal and generous policy
should be observed to the railroad COM
panies.
In the city two things should be done
]. The full use Of cny street needed in the
lower part of the city should be freely
granted TO the railroads. .. Favor, in
whatever way needed, should be shown to-
wards the erection of a Union Depot. We
| stated some time since that there was a
project on foot to erect great Union Depot
/ on West Front street, from which cars can
be run TO all the roads, and which would
thus secure the free transit Of goods, not
only to all parts of the city, but to all parts
Of the country. Front street, west Of
| Walnut, would be suitable point for such
road, so that it could connect with the
| Covington road. When these things are
done and the city put on fair terms with
the roads, by granting them full and equal
acconmodations, then the city should look
| round and see what else can be done, to in
| duce the Capitalization of railroad business
here.
In the meantime, we learn from an ar
/ ticle ia the Cincinnati Gd=ette, a short time
since, that the trunk lines owned by great
Eastern capitalists are making comhina-
tions with cross roads, which will practi~
cally carry the great mass of business
round Cincinnati. This cannot be wholly
prevented; for, when it comes to the trans
portation of freights from the Atlantic
States TO the country beyond the Missis~
sippi, the business falls wholly into the
hands of the great trunk companies, and it
is their interest to take il on the most di-
rect lines to a given point, and if the line
| is not quite so direct, 10 give IL to those
companies who will make the best bar
| gains. Herein is where Cincinnati short.
sightedness comes in, with peculiar effect.
| If Cincinnati gave every possible en-
couragement by street transits, large de-
pots, fine railroad hotels, and a generous,
wide seeing treatment, to those who did
business here, then the railroad companies
terminating here would be able TO make
liberal bargains with other companies, and
thus centralize the business of the Ohio
| Valley in Cincinnati. But, We think no
one will venture to say this has been done.
The consequence is, as the GGzette says, shat
arrangements are made, wherever possible,
TO run round Cincinnati.
We have two notable examples of this :
l. 10 the two or three eastern lines, which
connect with indianapolis at Richmond,
| CInd) in order to pass over the Terre
Haute and Alton road to st. Louis. This
business should naturally go over the Ohio
and Mississippi but the Ohio and Missis-
sippi seem rather the objects of hostility
than Of friendship TO Cincinnati. 2. Next,
we have the new route TO the Missis
sippi nearly completed by the Penn
sylvania railroad Heretofore this bust
ness has mainly gone by the Pan Handle
route to Columbus and Cincinnati; but the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad intends now to &c
via Columbus to Union iColumbus snc
| Pidua railroad, thence they are construct
ing new railroad from Union to Logans
,ort, Indiana, thus connecting with a di
rect line to Illinois. This will make al
| almost straight line from Philadelphia L
| Kansas.
Thus we see, that Boston, New York, an,
, Philadelphia are seeking to go anywher
else than to Cincinnati. We have Balti
more left, which is unquestionabiy tn
shortest and best route to the East from tn
Ohio Valley. But, how long shall "
have Baltimore, ifthere is TO be policy o
driving off? The Marietta and Ohio an
Mississippi roads should have every possibl
encouragement to make easy and ehesl
connections with the Baltimore and Obi
road the bridge over the Ohio at Parkers
burg should be completed as soon as pO:
sible; and when all is done that may b
for this route IL will be for the best, as it
practically the shortest line between tn
great Western fields and tide water Wit
E this great trunk line to the East and d
: rect Southern line through Kentucky an
Tennessee, Cincinnati may defy the coH
petition Of any Western city. But all tn
r | o,,r,,f l,s sa.,rnr,lisbad a. with any picayuu