Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-11-10
RAILWAY MATTERS.
The Lake shore & M. y. Railway nnd
the Chicago Fires-The Pioneer Mar
row Gnuge and others.

row Gauge and others.
THE LAKE SHORE ROAD AND THE FIRE.
In article on the Railway losses by the
Chicago fire, the Rdil,Uay Re'de,c says:
None of the General offices of the
Lake Shore Company were located in
the Chicago depot, except that OF MIR.
Chas. PaiHe, Chief Engineer OF the
Michigan Southern division. Superin-
tendent Hatch had division Office i'll
the building; and the Office of the
General Western Passenger Agent was
located there. In the Engineers office
everything of value was stored in the
vault and was saved-all the maps, pro-
files and plans, together with deeds,
right of way, etc. The vouchers of the
Old Michigan Southern were still kept
in these vaults, and were preserved. In
Mr.. Morse's department there were no
losses which seriously affect its opera
tions; Mr.. Morse's personal losses were,
however, very serious.
The Office of the Division Superin-
tendent and of F. Il. Morse, Esq, the
General Western Passenger Agent, is at
178 Third avenue, where Mr.. More
house, the Claim Agent, may also be
found Mr.. Morse has opened ticket
office on the southwest corner of Canal
and Madison streets; and also at both
passenger depots, at Polk and atTwen-
ty-second street.
The Office of Chas Paine, Engineer of
the Michigan Southern Division, is at
Laporte, Ind.
The Company are erecting a substan-
tial passenger house of brick for use un-
til the depot is rebuilt, south of Harri-
son street. 1t is 200 feet in length, and
well under way. Opposite, north of
Harrison, building is going up for bag
gage and express, both to be done
within one month. After the perma-
nent depot is completed, the former
will be used as permanent express
freight house.
THE PIONEER MARROW GAUGE.
The Philadelphia Press has the fol-
lowing in regard to the important rail-
way departure" just inaugurated in Col
orado, in which the whole country, has
deep interest,"
The telegraph announces that the
first section of the pioneer narrow
gauge (three feet) Road of the United
States was completed Saturday, Oct %,
and that the Road equipped for freight
and passenger business, is now open for
traffic. This Road extends from Den
yer to Colorado Springs, 76 miles, and is
the first section of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, and will ultimately be
extended 500 miles further, to the line OF
| Old Mexico, at III Paso, and in due time
will stretch still further south, till il
reaches the city of Montezuma, l,05C
miles still further toward the Equator
The protector and most of the officers
of this road are Philadelphians, and as
Philadelphia enterprise we hail it as
another evidence that we are peculiar
| " railroad people. The locomotives
| with which it has been stocked were
made by our own citizens, and the pas
senger and freight cars were built by
shops in neighboring towns of which
we are the financial or business centre
General w. j. Palmer, the president
protector and builder of the road
was one OF the many of our High
School students that made honorable
names in the war of the rebellion
Since the close of that drama he ha:
added to the lustre of his reputation by
constructing two of the most i'm
portant Western roads-the Kansas
Pacific and the Denver Pacific
and by conducting one OF the mos
complete surveys made across the con
tinent-that on the thirty-fifth degree
of latitude. The three-feet gauge was
first brought into notice in this country
through his advocacy of it in connection
with the road which he has Just com,
pleted, and the projectors and managers
of the fifty narrow-gauge companies
already organized in various paets oI
the United States are now engaged in
pilgramages to this new railroad won.
der anxious to witness for themselves
the practical operation of plan which
presents so many new features, The
trustees of the Road, J. Edgar Thomson,
Esq, and S. NJ. FELTON,, Esq, have
cabled their European correspondents
the information transmitted to us, and
by this hour the Amsterdam and Lon
don bondholders are rejoicing with their
fellows of Philadelphia that the first
step in the great enterprise has been
completed, and so much within the esti-
mate made by the engineer, upon which
the subscription was based, that con-
siderable surplus remains to increase
the rolling stock and pay accrued inter,
est.
1t is not often that this singularly
favorable condition of affairs exist at the
opening day of any new railroad; but,
then, we may we'll add, it is not often
that the President and manager of the
road is a skillful engineer, wise finan-
cier, and gentleman who lives on the
line of his road.
The surveying party under Captain
BerthOud, running line to connect the
Colorado Central with the Union Pacific,
have reached Greeley, locating the line
a little north of that town.
Work on the three foot extension up
the Clear Creek canyon is progressing.
A considerable section is graded twelve
miles up the canyon. A profile of the
route from the forks to the further end
of Black Hawk demonstrates, say the
Transcript, that the anticipated diff
afforded so much "aid and
in "high line" circles-of find
ing a suitable grade has been satisfac-
torily overcome.
Ground has been broken for a three
foot gauge to connect Pottsville, Pa,
with the neighboring towns-Miners-
vile, Palo Alto, Port Carbon and st.
Clair-eight miles. II will not be
street railway. 1t will have small loco
motives, and will carry light freights
like ordinary roads.
A new and beautiful edition of Bry-
Ina Il, I'll.