The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-02-21
Rail Road Matters.

The Committee appointed at the
Wellington meeting on the 3Oth of JAIL
uary, assembled at Norwalk on the
10Th inst, to take action in regard to
the survey of the proposed routes of a
Road from Toledo to the coal fields of
Eastern Ohio. A much greater num-
Der of persons being present than the
committee was composed of the gather
ing organized as public meeting. At
this meeting the Massillon delegates
went over to the Tiflin or southern
route, which of course at once broke
up tne Wellington committee.
In the evening another meeting was
held, in the interest of Fremont and
Norwalk, or the central route, and the
following resolution unanimously ad-
opted:
RcsolUed, That Committee of five citizens
of Norwalk be appointed by this meeting
10 cooperate with Committees to be appoint
ed by the citizens of Toledo, Fremont, Clyde
Bellevue, Monroeville, Clarksfe,d, yelling
ton, and towns through the Tuscarawas Val
ley end along the line of the road, in select
ing corporators, and taking all necessary
measures TO organize an Incorporated Com
pany for the purpose of constructing a
Rrilroad through those places from Toledo to
the Ohio River that said Committee be
authorized to confer with the citizens OF
Akron and Canton, TO make all proper in
vestigslions, and if fsatisied of the expediency
Of such course, that they also include
those points in said railroad route.
1t was then agreed that the time
and place of meeting of the committee
authorized by the above resolution, be
at Norwalk, on the first Wednesday of
March next.
In regard to this matter the Norwalk
reflector comments as follows:
1t will be seen from the above that the
Massillon delegates at this meeting, contrary
10 their heretofore expressed preferences,
were the ones who made the open move in
favor of the southern route but matters
took a decidedly different turn from what
they aud the friends of that route hoped I;
their plans failed of being endorsed by the
Committee; the incorporation papers in the
pocket of the Tifiiu delegate were of no &C.
count and our Massillon friends saw a
change come o'er the spirit of their dreams;
they saw chance Of being left out in the
cold, snd didn't admire the picture they
ignored their town and looked toward Akron
and Canton. They came TO ON the following
morning, and in consultation with the CON-
mittee of Five, repudiated their action in
the Committee-said that the sympathies of
the citizens of Massillon were not with the
Southern route-and that they desired here
after TO cooperate with Norwalk in the es-
tablishment of the road. Massillon ought
to understand that the Tifin project can
never be successful. We have information
that the Norwalk Committee which holds
session in this place in March, will be met by
delegations from Akron, Canton, Medina,
and the Tuscarawas Valley"
The meeting at Elyria on the 18th,
by the friends of the Northern or San
dusky route, was largely attended and
resulted in the appointment of Com
mittees to gather facts and statistics re-
lative to the cost of constructing an in
dependent line of Railroad from Toledo
via Sandusky to the coal fields of East
ern Ohio.