The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-07-06
RAILROADS..

Col. Forney, Editor of the Philadelphia
Press, is on tour of observation, in COM
pany with Col. Thomas A. Scott, Vice.
President of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. In one of Col. Forney's letters
to The Press he gives the following sketch
of the great railroad system controlled by
the Pennsylvania Company.
"The Pennsylvania system of roads
commences at Philadelphia with line
from New York intersecting at Philadel-
pha, and line from Baltimore and Wash
ington intersecting at Harrisburg, thence
diverging to Erie, forming connections at
Erie with the system of lakes and lake
shore roads, and all the various connections
throughout the entire Northwest. The
MAN line of the Pennsylvania Railroad
extends to Pittsburg and connects at that
point with all the roads now under the
control of the Pennsylvania Company, a
corporation which the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company controls by the ownership
of it's stock, This last company is now
under the control of Colonel Thomas A.
Scoot as president. who still retains his
position as vice president of the parent
company at Philadelphia. The Pennsyl
vania Company now controls all the lines
west of Pittsburg in the Pennsylvania sys.
tenn.
It owns the road to Cincinnati via Co
lumbus, then a line from Columbus to
Louisville, CONTROLS line from st. Louis
and another from Columbus via Logans
port to Chicago; also, the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago, direct to Chicago, the
Cleveland and Pittsburg road, from Cleve'
o,,I @I,a E,.n md re
burg road, to Erie. These various lines,
sylvania, the Muskingum Valley road, ano
| their branches from the several main lines,
noao aggregate Oger Mirty-taoo hundred mile
of road, all connected, and all equipped.
| These, when added to the line controlled
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
east of Pittsburg, embracing 1854 miles
making grand aggregate OF about 4, gu
miles, all connected, eq tipped, and man
aged under one interest, the Pennsylvania
Railroad, of which John Edgar Thomson
is president, and were built from the time
he took charge as chef engineer in 1S47
embracing a little over quarter of a CEN
fury in the service of the company, and &C
complishing result by his combination o.
roads that has never before been achieved by
nayiod he has paid his stockholders al
yeraoe of ten per cent. per annum.
Those of MS who can recollect the bittel
conflicts that marked the Inauguration O
w s,S will congratulate the South that tn,
oenins which has wrought results of sucl
xaenitnde is now turned to the completion
of still grander series of continental con
| pootiopc
nt W. b.vs been TRAVELLING for the last
+u mt I farr hours over another line latel,
e .mun's and now manaoed nv anothe1
p p;.;eam a,mnst Of philaheInhiaS NEAR
Golonal Henry s, McCombs. of Whining
t tuT Da,awars The close friend of Colone
SCOTT son, D he seems to have taken him for hi,
nv odsl. and # is not less pleasing to knew
. .hot. 49, a aro ,xorLing in noble harmony r.
. .,a. o 1H no;nt Of the deyelonment O
tho nnnaralleled resources of the South
nor alone in regard to her connection.
With Mexico Nv land but with the Euro
49,, n.+;ors Nv water OF the Souther,