The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-21
A New Railroad from Ecw York to I
baltimore ns,s, N:bs folk. 90
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| While the most strenuous efforts are con
stantly made to bring to public notice tl
various railway undertakings of the. coun
port, and others projected far in advance 0
the wants of the community--an enterprise
| has been growing up unnoticed, under onl
very eyes, which promises results OF grea'
| Importance. RI. .,.~ - a-fa
| Some twelve years ago Mr.. VIM. TorreV,
the possessor Of large tract Of land in
Ocean county, N. j., conceived the idea o
railroad from Raritan bay to the Delaware
river, which would become trunk line to
the South, and open that portion Of New
Jersey, then almost as unknown as, the
wilds about Lake Superior. .-r.a..
After much time and eXertion this road
was completed to Manchester, when it met
with the violent opposition OF the Camden
and Amboy railroad, the managers of that
corporation fearing that it would form a
which followed. both in the State Courts OF
New jersey and In Congress, is familiar to
all. Ihe right was conceded, but the com:
pany was ruined. The tirst mortgage was
foreclosed, and the road and its franchises
sold. The purchasers were several we'll
known capitalists of Boston, who proceed
ed to organize new corporation under the
title of the New Jersey Southern Railroad
Company. The line of constructed road
at this time consisted of about eight
miles of track, extending from tbe
pier at Port Monmouth, on Raritan Bay,
to Atco, a station on the Camden
and Atlantic railroad, ruuniSg be-
tween Philadelphia and Atlantic aAy. In
addition, the new company owned the spur
from Long Branch to the main line, the
Toms river spur, and a spur to Atco. In
order to secure the. Long Branch travel,
which in the summer is very heavy, and in
creasing from year to year, the Sandy Hook
railroad was purchased and Incorporated
with the main trunk, large and commodi0us
docks were constructed at Sandy Hook,
and new line Of eighteen miles was built
to connect with the Camden and AmbOy
railroad at Pemberton, good understand
ing with that company having in the mean
time been brought about. A new line was
thus permanently established between New
York and PHILADELPHIA, though not greatly
to the advantage of the public, as the rival
companies agreed not to lower the charges
for freight and passengers. This new line
has, however, been doing a considerable
freghting business between the two cities.
i, But it is not the line between Philadel-
phia and New York which interests the
commercial men of this city so much as the
road now about to be made available, and
which will open new and entirely inde-
pendent route to Baltimore and the South
und West. Within a week the Niuel1nd
railroad, running from Atsion, the most
southerly point OIL the New Jersey South
crn railroad to Delaware bay, fifty miles in
length, has opened thirty miles of its line,
and the remaining twenty miles will be
completed to the Delaware by the first of
foIo h, haln
short line known as the SMYRNA and Della
ware Bay railroad is rapidly progressing,
and will lie completed within four months.
From Smyrna the Maryland and Delaware,
u completed road, runs in Il southWesterly
direction to Oxford and the Chesapeake.
onening rapid means Of communication
with Norfolk and from the same point
Smyrua-a new road will shortly be con-
slrllcted across the peninsula of th6eEast-
ern Shore of Maryland. thirty-fve miles, to
the Chesapeake, opposite Baltimore, which
will bring New York into communication
with that city by new and independent
route.
It is difficult to estimate the advantages
which this route will afford to the lines south
and west, which centre 1T Baltimore, and
which, since the lease of the other New
Jersey railroads to the Pennsylvania Gem
tral. must have been alarmed lest they
might be entirely deprived of cgresS to
New York, or at least be greatly hampered
in that direction.
We commend to our readers a little study
of the maps of New Jersey, Delaware, and
Maryland. Let them mark out this new
route between New York and Norfolk and
Baltimore. 1t is but eight miles longer
than the shortest present line TO Blltimorc,
and some hours nearer to Norfolk Ihln any
existin. or proposed route.