The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-26

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the advantages worth the outlay asked
The CITY must answer this question, ana
speedily. -:
livery respectfully,
"Your obedicnt servant,
oh. D. WHITCoaB,
"Chicf Engineer Chesapeake ana ohlo
Railroad"
We call the attention OF the citizens OF
Richmond TO the second sentence III the
foregoing note, stating that sit is not the IN
"tcntion of the Chesapeake and ONO Com
"pany to abandon their depot in this CITY,
Even should there be no connection oil their
road with tide here, by running THEN
track to the wharves they can transport al
the freight destined for Richmond to thai
der0t, and our merchants can 60 on pay
ing arayagc, rs now. That would be III
short of what the interests Of Richmond
would demand; and it is a matter for thu
serious rejection of our citizens. stlil, j
could not be said that the road had not
terminus here and failed to deliver an Rich
Daond the freight intended for it.
Major WHIrcoMB tells us that some o
the directors "think it unnecessary fol
their road to "touch tide water at Rich
mond." OF course every man IN Rich
mond thinks it of vital importance to oul
interests that the road should "touch
tide-water here. The difference between
them and the directors is that they canno
control the policy of the road, while th'
directors do control it.
ho n 1
would prefer to go below Rockets by TIT
cheapest route around Richmond, ant
when there they may still think ii unncccs
slry 10 20 to wharycs on the river. But nc
wisely suggests that the city may make it .
condition in building the tunnel that the
below Rockets.
Between the route along Union street
across Franklin and Main and Cary streets
and the tunnel, the arguments give the
preference strongly to the tunnel. Suppose
six or eight coal trains were passing in sue
ce>sion towards the Dock, all travel on those
streets would be intercepted for possibly
half an hour. There would be often q
greater number OF trains thus obstructinS
t:e passage along these principal streets.
This obstruction would be avoided by the
tunnel, and Major " HlTCoMB suggests a
very important consideration rs 10 the per-
mauent character of the railway communic;-
ton through the tunnel, which should have
great weight in The discussion.
The connection of the Chesapeake and
ohio ra'l,cdy acith tidc-acatcr has been !,
subject vi much anxiety with many of our
most prominent citizens, and some of them
have had interviews with the leading men,
bers of the directory with regard to it. In
these interviews there has been Cutire
irankncss Oh both sides. We need hardly
say that these citizens are profoundly i'm
pressed with the idea that Richmond should
open the way for the proposed connection
OF the road with Underwater at her wharves
Aud, furthermore, they prefer the TUNE
as the best route for that connection
These citizens think it is in the last degre'
important that the tunnel should be com
pleted by the time the Chesapeake and Obi
railroad shall be flushed and the trains run
ming through to the Ohio.
Yes, that ought to he done, and thcr
should be twenty-five feet of water in th
river by the same time. The people c
Richmend should determine that this sha
be done, and do it. Major WHIrcoMB, VIII
has been long 4 citizen Of Richmond, an,
warmly sympathizcs with her interests
gives very friendly and timely advice whe,
he tells us that the question OF the way t.
our ~harves must be "speedily al
swered." That is really the question ,
terminus.