Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-06-14
From the Louisville Coprier=Joprnal, June
TRANSPORTATION.
An Interesting Reunion Of Railroad Men
in the City Yesterday.
Remarks of President Garrett.

si II lAe City yesterday.
Remarks of President Garrett.
| The presence in cur city of Mr. John W.
Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad eompaay, one of the ablest railroad
! hnanciers and managers in the United States,
has alreadyssbeen noted. The presence Of such
a man is significant. 1t is another evidence of
the attention that Louisville is attracting a.
| broad Within the past few weeks agents of
| the Nanderb!its, the shreWdest Gnanciers in the
country, have quietly visited our city for the
purpose of spying out the land, and now that
the fact that Mr.. Garrett and other high Off
| cials Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, one
of the wealthies5 corporations in the country,
| follows so closely upon their heels, not merely
on visit Of pleasure, is douby significant
| Mr.. Garrett, by his bold and sagacious enter
prises, has elevated Baltimore from a third
class city to a great and growing commercial
metropolis. His visit here is rot merely to
crafty an idle curiosity, but is evidently the
foreruuner OF combination OF railroad lines
| which will attract to Baltimore large portion
of the rich trade Of the Southwest.
Yesterday morning meeting was held at the
office of the Directory Of the Louisville and
present were Mr.. H. D. Newcomb, President
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad; Thos.
J. Martin, G. W. Norton, r A. Robinson, w.
H. Smith, j. G Baxter, B. r. Guthrie, E. J.
Byrne, Warren Mitchell, q. J. Walton, J. M.
Duncan, Fl. I. Jefferson, D. Ricketts,, Horace
Scott w. s. Hamilton, Gen. I. NJ st. John,
and others.
At the earnest solicitation Of many Of those
present Mr.. Garrett gave the following inter-
estng information in regard to the benefits Of
railroads to cities and States, gained during a
long and successful career:
PRESIDENT GARRETTS S REMARKS
Gentleaen-I confer with you with pleasure
upon subjects of mutual interest, as desired by
the President Of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company. AS you are doubtless a.
ware, the city Of Baltimore has engaged Wig
orously in number Of great commercial enter
prises, which have proved markedly successful.
Her wealth and commerce have largely in
creased, and within the past few years her pop
ulation has doubled. 1t now numbers $50 900.
Prior to the war the commerce of Baltimore
was much less developed. It has now in oper-
alton regular lines OF steamers running to Pc
| tersburg, Norfolk, Richmond, Wilmington, N.
c., Charleston, Savannah, Key West, Havana
and New Orleans, and is about arranging line
to Galveston. 1t has also successful lines Of
steamers by canal and ocean to Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. Its railroad lines ex-
tend through Washington to Richmond and
through Alexandria to Lynchburg, and thence
by interior lines to New Orleans.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company is now
engaged in opening line through the Valley
Of Virginia. OF this line 1O2 miles are already
in operation from Harper's Ferry to Harrison
burg 1t has excellent lines to the North. On
the lst of January next the great line from
be opened-a short, direct line, having the low
est grades betwixt the East and the West,
and it is proposed to extend that line from
Pittsburg to Chicago The Baltimore and
Ohio Company has now various connections to
| Chicago, but it proposes a line fully and direct
| ly connected with the interests of Baltimore.
I The Baltimore and Ohio Company now con-
| trolls and works, under permanent lease, the
Central Ohio road from Bellaire, on the Ohio
river, to Columbus, the capital of Ohio. 1t has
also line which extends from Newark, on its
Central Ohio and Lake Erie divisions, known
| as the Lake Erie division. 1t has, what is of
peculiar interest to Louisville, an admirable
| line extending, from its main stem at Grafton,
| lO4 miles to Parkersburg, making road 43
| miles shorter to Cincinnati than any existing
| line. That line has been a very costly one,
and the Baltimore and Ohio Company has been
engaged many years in perfecting it. 1t has
expended million and half dollars In arch
| ing the twenty-three tunnels on the Parkers-
| burg branch !; and it has aided the Marietta
and Cincinnati company largely In improving
/ its road.
In short period Louisville will have this
very improyed, direct and economical route
to Che seaboard. The favorable comparative
distances OF which you can thus avail for your
foreign and general commerce are very remark
able. To Baltimore the distance by this line
| throuoh Cincinnati is 696 miles 10 New
York bv the Ohio and Mississippi and New
York and Erie it is 9S7 miles-29l miles fur
ther By the New York Central 9S9 miles,
making 293 miles greater distance, and by the
| Allentown route OF the pennsylvania road the
distance is also l55 miles greater.
Prior to the war, New York was assumed te
be necessarily the objective point for foreign
business. The question is, whether that state
of things is to continue. Baltimore has en-
larged it's facilities for commerce, and has acted
in a very broad and comprehensive spirit or
the whole subject. That city has done much
to enable the Baltimore & Ohio Company te
ACCOMPLISH its great results. The Railway
Compauv has constructed two piers, $50 fee
in length and 100 feet in width, covered witt
ireproof warehouses Upon these piers are
double-tracked railways, SO that the foreigr
steamers come into our port immediately along
side Of the piers, and the only expense O
transfer IS the movement from the ship to thi
railway car over platform of forty feet IL
New York. emigrants arriving by the Nortf
German How'd steamships are landed at Hobo
Zen sent to Castle Garden, and, after delays
ernosnre and cost, are forwarded to the rail
road stations. from which they take the car
for the West. At Baltimore, emigrants, b
the snlendid new iron steamships Of the sam
line. arrive at the Locust Point marine termi
!; ms of the Baltimore and Ohio road, and, a
soon as the custom-house officers pass thei
baggage they take the cars on the pier along
side the steamship, and are forwarded, withou
, cost or delay, to such points in the West q
they select. eo1 ~ -.