Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-06-15

@ ALTOONA, PENNA-, June T3, 1870.
photographed you some particulars of our start
| upon the excursion given by the officers of the
| Pennsylvania railroads to afford an opportunity
| TO Southern railroad men to see the railroad
| system of Pennsylvania, and the various objects
! OF interest in the State. t1t III
Our Party.
Among our party are Commissioner Delano.
| Charles c. Fulton, of the Baltimore American;
/ Charles F. Collier, President of the Petersburg
| and Weldon Railroad; j. g. Sprisgs, Super
| intendent of same road; o. K. Harris, o.
| the Washington Repnblicdn; H. p Hanne
| President Greenville and Columbia IN c.
railroad; John +. Connor, of Baltimore; George
| Cassard, do; II. 7. Peake, General Superiaten-
| dent South Carolina railroad; ID. j. Sumner, OF
| North Carolina; A. McBee, Superintendent OF
| the Greenville and Columbia railroad; ID. Deck
| ert and j. P. Harmon, of the Hagerstown Mail:
| j. ID. Gilmore, Eutaw House, Baltimore, anu
| those jolly hosts, Messrs. Luck and Suplett, ,of
| the Spottswood House, Richmond; H. d. Bealle,
| of the Winchester Times; Rev. G. A. Fuwood,
| of the Brunswick (Ga.) Appeal; Mr.. Ford, of the
| Baltimore Sun; Captain G. w. Hambright,
| handsome conductor over the Northern Central
| road; George F. Heyser, of Hagerstown; George
| T. DeFord and W. Y. DeFord, OF Baltimore;
| Captain Comgresty, General Agent Of the Pow
| hatan Steamship Company; j. Q. Thompson, of
| the Western press; W. j. Walker, of Washing
| ton General Agent of the Atlantic coast line of
| railroads South; Judge Rye, Treasurer of the
| State of Virginia; Thomas II. Dewitt, Secretary
| of the Board of Public Works of Virginia. Col.
| f. j. ID. Myers, General Superintendent of the
| Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
| road; G. S. Gadsden, General Superintendent OF
| the Charleston and Savannah railroad; j. l..
| Morrow, Superintendent Richmond and Dan
| vile railroad; p. l.. STOPPER, General Ticket
| Agent Eastern railroad, South Carolina; E. L.
| Sumner, of the Wilmington and Charleston
railroad; P. H. Smith, of the Pittsburg CONNER
cial; d. B. Williams, of the Pittsburg Post; and
| others whose names do not now occur to me.
Our Entertainers. .-
The officers of the Pennsylvania roads seem
| to have undertaken to show their hospitalities
/ on scale commensurate with the size and inn
/ portance of the Ke ystone State, and the South
ern guests are quite enthusiastic in appreciation
of the princely courteses of their entertainers.
| Thus, we have been in charge mainly of Messrs.
Robert S. HOllns, Secretary of the Northern
| Central K. r., (and one of the oldest and most
| respected railroad men in the country,) 4. K.
| Fiske, General Superintendent n. g. X. R.,
| stephen Little, Auditor do, j. M. DuTSarry
| Vice President Northern Central, Al. CasSett.
| General Superintendent Pennsylvania X. r.,
| Thomas I. Firth, Treasurer do, u. NJ. Boyd, jr,
| Ticket Agent do, and Sam. T. DeF0rd. jr-, the
| well-known Southeastern Agent lat BALTIMORE
| for the great railroad lines of Pennsylvania and
l their connections west.
baltimore and Vicinity.
Emerging from Baltimore, on the Northern
| Central road, the attention of our party was
| Immediately arrested by the remarkable ex-
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doubt if any city in the country can show at
| this moment so many indications Of expansion
and solid growth as Baltimore, as exhibited on
| all her borders, and especially on the line of
this railroad, skirting, as it does, the various
/ streams which furnish the water-powe for the
| long-extepded and increasing line of manufac-
i turing establishments. One needs to pass
1 through and around Baltimore to get an idea of
the push and energy with which she is spreading
| her arms abroad, and building herself up at
home. Seeing all this, we are prepared to ac-
| cept Mr.. Fulton's estimate Of the present pop
| ulatiOn of Baltimore at390, 900 as within bounds
| And Baltimore means to expand in the future
| In yet larger ratio. She thinks nothing of in
curing railroad Indebtedness of ten millions
| of dollars. She has half a dozen new railroad
| enterprises blocked out; she has the only Amer
| lean line of ocean steamers afoat, and is think
ing of starting yet another line, il not two. The
seaboard cities north and south of Baltimore
may as well make up their minds to encounter
| active rivalry from her in the coming decade.
The Northern CentrarRailwsy, while contrib
uting largely to the prosperity sf Baltimore, is
prospering itself, and is wisely putting portion
of its earnings into the improvement of its facl-
| tiles. Thus it is changing the grade on the line
| ofits approach to Baltimore, lowering it from
$50 feet to under 20 feet and at the same time is
carrying on extensive building operations In the
| way of new depots, &c. At the same point the
| work upon the tunnel under the city of Baltimore
| to COM It this road with the Baltimore and Po-
| tomac roa 4 has been commenced. The environs
| OF Baltimore on this side strike one very agree
! ably, With park-like wooded slopes, numerous
streams of water, and all the features that go to
make picturesque suburban scenery. -.
Monsieur Bessemer Come Againg =
To the hard-working newspaper men who
| come up from Washington, as to green fields,
good deal bored with the endless details of the
Tariff, and especially with that much discussed
item of the Bessemer steel duty, it seemed hardly
| the correct thing that our very first stopping
| place should be at Baldwin fnear Harrisburg to
visit a steel factory of the Bessemer persuasion.
| wefearned all about It, and about pIg-iron, and
| English pig and American pig, and wherein
i
| the Bessemer process. Dom Piatt, who dotes
| on pig-iron, should have been there. Dom,
| who votes all pigs (of iron) bores, should have
seen the sort Of magnificent looseness with
which pig-iron is scattered about in this Besse-
mer district, In piles and cross-ples, miscellsns-
| ously, and every which way. Then there are
other piles Of spiegeleisen-wasn'tt there some
thing about spiegeleisen, too in that everlasting
| debate on the Bessemer business +? The
| spiegeleisen comes from Germany, the Ameri-
| can spiegeleisen won't do, and 1t Is mixed
| with the pig-iron in certain proportions
but what those proportions are, exactly,
| the Beseerner men won't tell, lest you
should steal the process, don't you see {?
Then there we're explanations with certain
| reservations as aforesaid) about how the carbon
| IL first blown out Of the metal, and then blown
| In again. On, the whole, L don't think we ex-
/ actly got the idea; but it was funny to see our
party OF seventy five With their coat-tails higu
I In air, peering into all sorts OF moulds. Stag
piles and holes in the ground. in the determins-
ton TO master the Bessemer process. My theory
| ia, that this whole Bessemer exploration Il