Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-01-07

Considerable dissatisfaction has existed for
some tlme amongst number of the Stockholders
OF this road at the neglect of the present and
previous boards of directors to take any practical
measures for the building of this road.
This feeling fluids full expression in commutil-
cation signed Stakeholder" in the last nuMirr
OF ,hc Middletown Transcript. He says:-
= Ia IL not passing strongc.that while the Union
racine company can move rapidly forward with
their stupcndous work, while the Queen Annes
Company, In q sister county, now only have
about five miles of their road to grade with
nS9eO cross Ties delivered on the line of the road
Maryland and Delaware road now nnler con,r'c ,
10 Easton, That the Board of Diiectors WIN rem
resent the Kent County Company have met aid
adjourned for two years, and to-day are without
contractor, and large portion of the stuck
holders despair of ever getting road,a during
the freeze farmers from near Chcstert0wn hauled
their grain to Middletown n distance of thirty
miles There is n mystery about the matter, and
many oil the stockholders have come to the con-
clusion that majority OF the Board arc either
governed by sinister, selfish motives or arc to-
tally incapacitated to discharge the duty of rail-
road director. Gentlemen, for more than two
years you have been shifting and vacilatng Cd.
stinately persisting In coming through Cecil
county and Delaware 10 Middletown, when any
man Of ordinary capacity, upon reflection, must
have known that the Kent Company had all they
could do to construct road from Masscy's Gross
Roads to Swan Creek"
He states that iron is now from SIS la $40 per
ton higher than IL was last spring. when it should
have been purchased Returning TO tho Mas
scy's junction subject, he SAYS:
"When the Delaware road mugnanimoisly
offered to build n branch road from Townsend to
slassey's Cross Roads, which will cost at least
100000, this Mise Board for more than year
refused TO pledge connection. losing thereby
more favorable connection at Massey's than can
now possibly he made giving entirely the ioca-
ton Of the junction ut that point to the Queen
Annes Company, at a cost of several thousand
dollars To the Kent Company. II is confidently
believed by many of the stockholders that this
refusal to connect with the Delaware branch ut
Masscy's had Its main object and motive in first
securing the building of that nuisance, viz. the
wharf at Chcstert0wn, dcluding many into the
belief that the connection could be made at Mid
dlctuwn, and on first mortgage bonds of the
Kent Company the whole road could be speedily
c0mpl sie We, however, give you credit, at
with The Delaware I6aridRS c resolution connecting
tho fret day of next May, MI. f,. ana nov ,',
cause his engine to whistle at Masscy's Cross
Roads. The cars to-day would have been run
ming TO Massey's Gross Roads, ii you had passed
q connecting resolution MS the Queen Anne's
Road did last spring."
On the subject of this wharf, he is very severe,
considering it poorly constructed piece of work,
useless even If well constructed, aud MS some
thing II was no part of the railroad company's
business to build, even If 1t were useful. He de-
clares that more money was wasted In construct
ing this wharf than the town subscribed towards
the road, and Indignantly declares that in Justice
to the company all the directors who voted to
build this wharf ought to divide the cost between
them and reimburse the company to the amount
of The cost.
He calls on tho directors to resign, as nine
tenths of the stockholders are convinced of their
lncompetency, and allow good men to be elected
in their places, and after this has been done he
says: "l.ct your road 20 under contract to such
men as Parker, or Stearns, or Qugey let the
grading commence ut Massey's Cross Roads, and
In less than year Chcstertown will hear the
snort of the iron horse, demonstrating what prac-
tical men can do when stripped of prejudice aud
sel1shness, =