Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-07-22
AMERICAN RAILWAYKINGs
SCOTT, GARRETT, GOULD.
The Grandeur of their Schemes
and CcmpIicits-SOuthern
Routes and Connections
a COmpenidOuS His
tory OF Railroads in
the United States.

piedmont Route the coast Route
and the "Great Southern Mail Route, :"
have systematized matters so that they
now make the trip to New Orleans i'll
seventy-four hours. 1t is interesting
to look into this subject, now that
travel from the South to this city is so
great, and see what is doing to COM
plete our connections in that quarter
The men who are battling for the mas
terry in that direction are Messrs.
Thomas A. Scott, John w. Garrett,
and Jay Gould. 1t is difficult TO sep
arate the work from the men, so first
We take
THOMAS A. SCOTT,
of the Pennsylvania railroad. Star
ting from New York We have Mr..
SCOTS connections through to New
Orleans. They are made up by
the Camden and AmbOy, and nearly
all the across, or part across, Jersey
railroads that point sOutherly from
here. In going TO New Orleans over
this line there were until recently
eleven changes of cars. These were
at Washington, Aqua creek, Rich
mond, Petersburg, Weldon, Whining
ton IN. c. Kingsville, augusta, At
ianta, Montgomery, and Mobile. Now
there are only two, and in about three
weeks, when the Atlantic road is to
he finished, the trip between New
York and New Orleans Will be accom-
plished without q single change of ears.
Strenuous efforts have for years been
made to get through connection un-
der one ownership between New York
and Washington. The war came be-
tween the time when railroads began
their great career of success and the
time they got under full sail. During
that period the prosperous North aid
West hurried them along, while the
depressed South suffered in the. rail
road line as well as other lines of bus
mess. When the war closed there
were northern competitors that looked
southwark, and it appears that Mr..
Scott stepped forward
MORE BODILY THAN THE REST.
He built, leased, and bought, and
succeeded south of Washington till
now he owns, or rather the Pennsyl-
vania road owns, or has leased a route
and branches to New Orlean except the
route from Aqua creek to Richmond
(eighty-one miles), and from Mobile
to New Orleans Q40) miles,. The for
mer belongs to the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potmac Company,
who own the Chesapeake Bay steam
ers, and the latter to the Morgans,
who own the Gulf steamers Both
these are making money, and will not
sell out or perpetually lease to Scott
BY passing free railroad law ut the
next session of the Virginia Legls-
lature he hopes to circumvent the Bay
line people aud build a connection
between Acquia creek and Richmond.
Mr.. John NJ. Robinson, Gen. William
Malone, and Esr. y. i, McCready,
representing in Virginia the Bay Line
of steamers and Richmond, treder-
icksburg and Potomac railroad, the
Atlantic and Mississippi consolidated
line. and the Old Dominion Steamship
Company, are
FIGHTING sCOTr AND FAvoRING GAR
RETT.
AS for the Mobile and New Orleans
road, the Morgahs will not sell 1t. me
route is in a continuous marsh, and II
would not pay Scott to build there as
long as he can rent the Morgan road
at anything like a reasonable figure.
There is no connection through TO
New Orleans owned by one company.
The Pennsylvania Central comes near
err that than any other. In addition,
the Great Southern Mail route and the
Coast line both run considerable dis
lance over the Pennsylvania Com
nanvis lines, and could be stopped by
refusal of the latter TO let them run
after the end of short leases, or by
votes in the directories owned by the
Pennsylvania Company and It's
friends. The simple fact is, so far as
control goes, that Mr.. Thomas A.
Scott to-day controls all the through
rail communications south of Wash
ington to New Orleans, directly or in
directly. The first step of opposition
to that great railroad king Mr.. John
w. Garrett was in 1866 or 1867, when
Colonel John w. Forney and a num-
Der of others in Washington picked
up from the possession of an old canal
boatman in Maryland
AN OLD CHARTER FOR A RAILROAD.
Mr.. Clinton Lloyd was the moving
aud responsible spirit in that affair.
They let the owner in, and, putting
money into the sehemes secured nee
essary amendments and extensions
from the Maryland Legislature, and