Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-11-01

THE REV RAILROAD KINGS.
KENTUCKY AND oH1o-GIGANr1c PRoGRAMME-THE
RECENT EXCURSION OF THE CONTROLLING MEN.
sc. &C. &c.
On Saturday last about noon locomotive and
passenger car came rushing into Stanton on
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and Stacking
up at the depot, deposited a very small load of
not more than a half dozen men, AS they leap
ed lightly out one by one, they showed party
of really great men, men with broad minds, with
active energetic brains, and with height of
honorable ambition, before which the pc tty per-
sonal yearnings of politicians sink into nsignif-
canoe. They men worth describing.
THE MEN WHO CONTROL THE RoAD-wHAT THEY ARE
Gen. Huntington, is medium sized, heavy
set, large headed man, with full whiskers and
hair, quick brown eyes, weighing about 1870
pounds but with the rapid nervous movements
of a slender man. He is about As years old, and
is native of New York State. He is born
railroad king, with an eye that takes in at q
glance every connection that wonld be of value
to his road, and that sort of foresight that can
tell to-day what railroad will be worth five
years from now, fbuit now through country
which does contain bar of iron or tie.-
He has mastered the science Of railroads. for it is
a science, from its grandest object as an agent
of civzation, down to the pettiest details that
section master has to deal with The sh ort
man with black hair and a little SLOUGH hat
perched on his head, and with a genial air of
''noboness'' about his dress is
A. A. LOWE.
one of the directors of the road. He is consider.
ed in New York to be at the head of the trade of
this country with China, and his brain has had
very great share in building it up to its pres
ent gigantic proportions. He is literally a far
seeing man who, like Huntington, looks upon
the world and not State or city as field
for his enterprise. That soldierly who
seams to look upon ths others as his guests, as
indeed they are, is
GEN. JOHN B. ECHoLs,
another director, who resides here in Staunton
He is what the ladies would call ''splendid"
loohing N N, over six feet high broad shoul
dered and with well balanced head. He has q
piercing eye, set in fine face, and wears the
for intellect is a matter of State pride in Virgin
III. The air of the man is that of impenetrable
sphynx-lke imperturbability and reliance on
himself that nothing can shake. 1t is told of
him that on excursion west last year, he and
Huntington being present at the sale of a railroad
which was desired to complete the connection Ct
b he G. & 0. R. R., which involved over mil
zion of dollars, they asked for Is minutes to con-
slider and in five came out and said, awe take
the road ~ He has been iden !ified with all The
NOV ements of the new Company since its forma-
ton.
MR.. JAS. H SToRRs
is the next one who energies from the car. He
is dapper looking gentleman Of the fashionable
blonde tinge, with mutton chop whiskers and
an irrepressible look of 'ah, I've got you now,''
about his eyes. stylish dress and quick way
of getting about completes the picture off gen.
eleman who is of the most distinguished le-
gal men of New York, and who is the New York
counsel of the Chesapeake and Ohio Company
This is the party who came through all the way
from Kentucky. The other gentleman who is
stepping down from the car is
GENERAL WILLIAMS C. wIcKHAM,
a practical soldier of the war; who turned his
sword into the plough-share, and who is the dis
tinguished Vice President of the road, which,
completed, will be the greatest in this country
He is the Executive officer who resides in Virgin
ia and has proved thorough railroad admins
tratiye officer. The quiet looking gentleman
who gets off last, is one of the most eminent civil
Engineers in America, and is Chief Enpi-
neer of a road which has required much more
ability than almost any other line in this coun-
try. Superintendent A. H. Perry, the all-seeiug
Supervisor of the great road, who knows the
hour and minute of all the trains that are cross
ing each other, during the night and day, and
who knows every thing from the building of a
locomotive down to the coupling of car, and
without whose knowledge not bucket of paina
spike falls to the ground is the last who
-alghts.
THE GREAT RoAD-THE KENTUCKY CONNECTIONS
The great Chesapeake and Ohio, Ala miles
long, of which that party just described are the
controlling spirits, to-day lacks only thirty
miles of completion, and the track on the unfin-
ished portion is laid at the rate of mile day.
1t is Ala miles frons Richmond to Huntington,
the Ohio River ana only miles from Hunt
ington to the mouth of the Big Sandy, which
enters the Ohio that distance below it, The
Kentucky connection to Louisville is obtained
lst By means of the Elizabethtown, Licking
ton and Big Sandy r R. from point on the
Big Sandy river where the Chesapeake and
tOhio r. R. reaches it to Lexington, Ky, a dis
sance of llS miles. This road is now being ope-
rated for 33 miles, from Lexington to Mt. Ster-
ling, and the balance will be finished and opera
ted during the next year. 1t is controlled by,
and in the interest Of the G. & 0. road.
End, By means of the Louisville, Cincinnati &
Lexington r. R., from Lexington to Louisville,
distance of 30 miles. This last road is now
virtually owned and controlled by the G. r. O.
r. r and in addition to this the G. & ORR
likewise own and control the road from Cincin.
natl to Louisville, los miles.
THE OHIO coNNEcTIoNs-THE DIRECT ROUTE TO
CHICAGO.
The connection of the G.. & O. Road with Gin.
ecinnati will be either by what is known as the
Southern Ohio R. r. which will commence at
the moutia of Symmes Greek on the Ohio river,
Immediately opposite to Huntington, and will
run up Symmes Greek a considerable distance
->thence to Pi1eton the rich Scioto Valley.
ahence to Hillsboro and thence to Cincinnati by
one branch and to Dayton by another By this
road it will be about $50 miles from Huntington
to Cincinnati and about the same distance to
Dayton, and the branch to Dayton will be part
of the direct road to Chicago