The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-04-16

THE NATIONAL RArLwAY.-The Philadel-
phia correspondent Of the Now York World
has interviewed Robert z. Corson, of Phla-
dclphia, the secretary of the National Rail-
road Company, and learned from him, among
other things the following facts =:
The organization of the company under
the general railroad law of New Jersey follow
ed Immediately after the Governor had signed
the act officers were elected, and the ten per
cent. on the cost of the construction of the
sixty miles of the road in New Jersey paid III.
At the head of the concern stands Samuel X.
Wilson who is woollen manufacturer of
Trenton, millionaire and the wealthiest man
in that city. Robert r. Corson is the seere-
tary and of great business cal acity and in
domitable energy w. w. Steel is treasurer,
and the cashier of the Mechanics Bank of
Trenton. Among the board of directors are
Cortlandt Parker; Robert G.. Green, lawyer
Of Elizabeth ; Henry M. Hamilton William
Eel, the son of the slipper of New York;
Jacob Reigel, the merchant prince of Phila-
delphia Robert B. Cabeen, an iron manufac-
turer, and other men OF wealth and influence
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The surveyed route which has been adopted
is eighty miles in length. The distance by
the Pennsylvania road is ninety miles and a
fraction over. The terminus in Philada. will
be at Ninth and Green streets. where COM
modious depot structure will be erected in
addition TO that of the Reading Railroad Com
pany at the same point. The trains will run
out of Ninth street by the side of the Norris
town branch of the Reading Railroad Company
as far as the junction in the twenty-frst ward.
The road will then devate and, striking in a
northeastern course, run through Bucks coun-
ty to Yardleyville, three miles above Trenton,
on the Delaware river. The distance between
this point and Philadelphia is twenty miles.
This part of the route will be built under the
old Marlborough charter, which the company
owns The nearest point in Pennsylvania to
another road is five miles, and the new line
will develop one of the garden counties of
the State. The milk trade in Bucks county
alone will pay the interest after two years on
the other way-freight business is bound to
assume colossal proportions. The Delaware
river will be spanned at Yardleyville by first
class iron bridge 900 feet in length. The
structure will be built in the most perfect and
substantial manner, in order to admit of u
train running over it at high rate of speed.
The distance between the river and Jersey
City is go miles. The road will follow the
route proposed by the old charters through
Mercer, Somerset, and Essex counties, of the
Milestone and Newtown, Hamilton Land
Improvement, Peapack and Plainteld, and the
Elizabeth and New Providence Railroad Com
panies, to Newark. The road will enter the
southern part of Newark, and then, striking
the meadows, run across them to the Newark
Bay, which will be brdged by first-class iron
structure, the eastern end resting ON Bergen
Point. Striking the trail of tie New York
and Newark Railway, the new road will
run'by the side of it for about mile, thence
branching off viii connect will the New Jersey
Central, and come into Jersey City on the rails
of this company. This is u running sketch Of
the route which has been adopted and over
which the airline will be built. The road
will be constructed in the best manner, and
equal to any road in England or this country
The roadway will be substantially balE,sted
the whole length to, admit of q high rate of
speed in the transit of TRAINS 1t will be
equipped with a double track of iirst-class
Bessemer steel rails and will be broad gagged.
The controlling idea of the company is speed.
Every improvement and advantage that win
be accessible will be brought into requisition
to attain the one leading object.
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