Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-08-12
OUR CORRESPO NDENTS
RAIL ROADS OF LONDON.
LONDON, July. 1862

II London should he buried IKE ROM
peii. and after several centuries. enter
prising explorers should excavate. proba-
Div the most Interesting thing they
would bring to light would be it, system
of Rail Roads. Paintings. siatuarv.
palaces and fine dwellings can be found
elsewhere. but then Rail Roads are /
sie oeneris. 4, they dag down and 1
came to the tops vi the house they !
would find ON level with thcta sever |
Al tracks travcrSing the City in different |
direction. laid on solid masonry. sup /
ported by arches Of some twenty or |
thirty or more feet from the ordinary |
level of the street. When they got down /
10 the bed Of the streets another -et OF
rail- would he found. Digging further
they would tind The underground Rail
Road'-iwrutv feet perhaps below The
level of the streets and n some points
>lill below That i, the track Of The
.'Midlow, K. Il. Co.
None of the road cross each other ON
the same lcvel--ihcrc arr TOO many
trains IL permit that. and the cnnse-
uuence j. tour stories of Rail Roads.
These various Roads have pushed their
way into the heart of the City and have
large stations along the Thames and
cl-ew herr. occupying the most valuable
land. and crossing the Thames un
bridges ol the mos; substantial character.
The Victoria station j. GA the Banks
81 the Thames and covers fourteen acr'e
Of yround while the Central Depot 81
the '.t,rcaf Northern "a little more r.
mnie-occupic~ over FORTY acres.
English titles are prpvcrhiall, intri-
cate W law student who ever ct H
far a, that legal ''Poas asiaofHm. che
Rule Ia shelley 20 n" viii ionht that.
Loa~rhold. cops hold. fee simple. con-
tingcut remainder. church rates ana
church iiilc- and how MANY pihcr- !
don't know. were involved in iho large
tracts ol land taken from timr 8" time
lbs thc-r various conipauic-.
The Vcrs hr-t ia geo! buAinr>-. that ~
=
enough g. discourage men uf ordinary
purse Tho Parliamentary Committee
i. ot ihcmo.t arbitrary character They
viii have nobody bcfprc them III these
c4>s- but Barri-icr- of ia" highest char-
acter Then Barri-icr, NECESSARILY have
following uf solicitors and attorneys
and hen this arm. al lawycr> J. on
posed IN similar array. the ra3d- upon
the COMPANY ig,.-ur, ar fearful. Nc
.aw last winter q; Augusta wha, fight
two small tpmmnie, could get mp and
cau Imagine from that what would he
the collision II they were backed III
millions instead II thnu.an'l-.
Land damage 81 caur-, can bc nj
greater auyw hare, ami from thc peculiar
manner - doing such thing hcrc The,
are ci4hauc..d greatly bs ,l4r enormous
legal expenditure necessary.
Having got -.lci, through Parliament
and survived The attack 81 lawyers Of all
finally comes ~ ih" ordinary rxI.eudi-
tur" "f Rail Roads elsewhere the iron aud
stone. the erection and The excavation.
and herr one fail 10 -ce how ans more
could Vol b. laid nuf The stations
and the tracks -eem finished Tor all time
Save the replacing ot rails. /, i, difficult
to sc how a;ty money can ~ laid Oh,
on them Tor century.
OF course tn figures. what Mr. Man
iilini would call tht -dcmuition total.
ar" irightiuli, large Two miIc- NJ cN-
tension al the ">outh Western r,,i
eight hundred thousand pouul- ,r about
four million OF loll4r- ia gold Thr
Metropolitan or Underground rum, near
ly round ib" CHS Oh one side 81 tie
Thames. distance l,.rllap, 81 ten mile,
and the outlay up 10 thi- time il about
thirty millions OF dollar
Thi- Underground l. a peculiarly
and would not succeed anyw her,. except
under pressure IF immense population.
They contrivc 70 consume both smoke
and steam - thar the g nuisance arr NOT
specially noticeable in the succession of
tunnel. which constitute tie Road. but
the air i, di-agrceablr and will hrAyaid-
ed by sensitive persons al any rcasonA-
bic cost. The stations are frequent and
light and airy aud all the Arrangements
for the comfort of Passengers are ample.
I Thousands. perhaps tens Of thousands
throng the cars daily. but prefer th,
top Of an omnibus which. by the b,. in
fair weather is about the best place from
which Ia see The street -ighr. IN either
London or Paris
Or course in YOUR new zeal for Rail
Roads YOU ask at once. do they paw f.
No they don't. The London. Chatham
I and Dover. which i, one OF the great
city roads j, selling for sixteen or seven
Z teen and not worth that. l, is said that
Y IL managers are as great rhieye, a. the
/ Erie Directors bu, that i hardly posi- |
Bile. Hardly any ofthc Roads are worth
4 par. And this Notwithstanding their |
I large capital and the fact that their |
I Bonds carry but five per cent interest. |
They have host of employee, Al ever, |
'i aiii aitl' id'ot - cheaper imam /
with u the expense OF management is |
very large. One meets with Rail Road |
guard everywhere and our free and easy
system of chasing the ears and getting
on after the train starts and getting off
before it stops. is entirely unknown
here. But it costs. 1t saves life and
limb but il don't paw.
The travel of course is very LARGO