The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-23
lFrom the PortBmouth Republican ofNoV. Il.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Railroad COnneCtiOns-sBrOad
is the Way that Leads
TO Death.

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] The Republican says: "FOr fear
of Cincinnati as competitor, our
people will suffer another grand
trunk route to run within easy
switching distance. It is not yet de.
cided where we will tap the Chesa-
peake & Ohio road"
/ "Our people" have done all they
were called on to do-prepare a cor
rect survey of the route and present
it, with maps and estimates, to Mr..
Huntington. Had he made prop
Osition to our people they would
have accepted or rejected it; but he
made no proposition, and our people
have not rendered themselves liable
to charge of Indifference or lack of
public spirit.-rPorts. Tribune.
The last issue of the Times con-
tains the following:
ave were never in favor of hav-
ing Portsmouth made a way station
of the G. & o. railroad, and we think
the fact of the Symmes Greek route
being adopted need cause no alarm
in this community. What we want
is the SciotO Valley road-a road
that will open up a territory to our
business men. Through lines are
not the thing for city like ours.
Narrow gauge railways or free turn
pixies to the stores and granaries Of
neighboring counties would be bet
ter for the prosperity of Portsmouth
than the whistle of C.P. .Huntington's
Locomotives and the rumble of his
Pullman palaces. 'TweDty minutes
for meals = would be the extent of
our prosperity from such q source"
We do not know that it is neces.
Isary now, to occupy space in words
of elimination or recriminatiOn re.
garding the Chesapeake extension.
We fear we have permitted the gol-
den opportunity to pass by, of hav-
ing our city a point on the great
) trunk route. The Valley BROAD
gauge done the work. Ere that
swindling scheme was sprung upon
our citizens, no community could
have been more jealous and earnest
for the c. & o. railroad extension
than was ours. Meetings were held
and the enthusiasm IF our whole
population was thoroughly alive in
its behalf. Money was pledged for
the furtherance of the object. The
{ honor of "OUR PEOPLE" was
given to Col. Trimbls, that Ports
mouth would stand by him in his
= master efforts to have the road built
down the Ohio and up the Scioto
Valleys and with such promises and
pledges, Col Trimble spent time
= and money in arousing the people
= along the proposed line to the man.
ifest advantages which would accrue
to them by keeping time to the
:, "whistIe of Huntington's locomo-
u tives."
. But, Mr.. Broad stepped in-MR.
i B-R-O-A-D!-with his Lake Shore
u project, a stupendous affair-ah, yes
backed by Mr.. Vanderbilt, Jim
Fisk, and all the American and
European millionaires, including the
= Rothschilds and the Bank of En-
= gland. We were to have a road up
the Scioto Valley to Columbus, put
i in running order and furnished with
rolling stock, and not to pay a cent
until twenty or thirty trains Of
"Pullmans Palace Cars" had come
. and gone again to and from New
. York and all points Of the compass
j including San Francisco and San
Domingol The Chesapeake was
, dropped like a hot potato. The
great valley route was the theme o.
everybody. At last the people o
the world had discovered the great
importance. of Portsmouth as the ba
sis of railroad centre and CONNER
cial metropolis. And Mr.. Broad
. ah, what a fine gentleman was he
Full of encouragement and with
good words for the people of Ports
mouth, Col. TrimbIe returned from
p his trip over the proposed line, tt
f. find us--What? ? Totally Indifferent
W to his scheme, thoroughly uneon
le cerned in regard to the Chesapeake
t, & Ohio road. He could hear moth
re ing but Mr.. Broad and the Lake
as Shore road. The Col. told US at the
h time of the foOIishness of pinning
r, our faith to such a shallow pretend
n er; he told US that by adheriug Il
Or this will O'-the wisp we would lost
J. both. But, Move couldn't see it
h More in sorrow than in anger Colo
d, mel Trimble left US joined to Ou
h Broad idol. He sought the valley
er of Symmes Creek. And to-day hr
e has the pledge that the extension
le will go that way, providing $3.50,
al 600 is subscribed. He WILL RAISE
lg THE MONEY! he is just the kind of (
as man to do it.
And where are we? Repentinl
:, in sack cloth and ashes. Gazing
% wistfully towards the hills of Jack
40 son and Pike, and longing for tn
rt whistle of one of Advantageous 10
~ comutives !"
,o Twenty minutes for dinner" sa.
you. Mr.. Times? You can take
full hour.
w ~"---
to A shrewd little fellow was intrustet
" to the care of his uncle, VINO fed the bO
- very poorly. One day he happened t
see a greyhound, whereupou ne aske