Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-03

Engineer Hepburn informs NJ. that nj the
rate Contractor M'Kcnze Is driving The work
on the Harbor Line II will not require more
than about 20 days TO finish the grading
The Clcycand HeraM says that AMAsA
STONE, Jr., will take tie position Of Managing
Director Of The J.. s. 81 NJ. :. line until the an.
nual meeting on the 7th inst, when the place
of Mr. Dcvercaux will probably be filled by
election.
The annual meeting Of the Stockholders Of
the A. Y. & j. Rail Road will be held at the
office Of the Company in Ashiabula on Wed.
nesday June 4lh, at II o'clock A. NJ The
i. S. & VI. S. CO. hold their meeting in Cleve.
land next Wednesday, May 7b.
A. Y. & P.--This Company are building n
platform at Center Street, in prepara ton for
the opening of business on Monday next
This will he found great convenience for
our citizens, II being cssihan one half the dis.
tance TO the j.. s e. N. S. Station Station
buildings are 10 be erected in due time. Mr..
i. L. TRAvER, we understand is the candi-
date for Station agent. Our citizens are hone.
| ful that the Jamestown Branch will see fit.
ere long, TO stop at Center Street also 81 that
we may enjoy a common station for both
roads, that shall better serve the convenience
Of The people.
RAILROAD LEorsLArIoN. The Ohio Leris-
lature has passed law very similar in its
provisions to the article on railroads reported
to the Constitutional Convention Of Pcnnsyl.
vania Ii prohibits absolutely the lease of one
competing road by another; provides that the
assent Of two-thirds of the stockholders shall
be required TO make valid the lease Of a c,,p-
meeting road which does not compete that
! the rental shall not be less than the net earn
ings of the road for the preceding fiscal year
and that II stockholdcr objecling to lease
shall have the right within sixty days to de-
mand pay for his stock at price not below
the average for the previous six months, and
that the lessecs of the road shall give security
for the terms OF the lease 1t is not unsafe ia
predict that within n couple of years most OF
the northern and western States will have
laws or constitutional provisions of This char
acter, but in the meantime there will be, very
likely, great deal of consolidating and leas-
ing done. ..
A. p. IL P.-According TO the time .labl G
published last week, the first regular train
op this line, left the Center Street Station on
! Thursday morning last. Beside Presid, nj
MCREERY and number of gentlemen con
uected with the road-who came up on the day
previous-a large number of our citizens took
passage, filling up couple of passenger
coaches. Quite a crowd assembled to see
the departure, and the feeling of happiness n
our citizens was but lily concealed. Til,
event marks an epoch in the history of Ash
tabua, the consummalion of hopes long ant
tantaizingly deferred. If the value of pos
session is in the ratio of what it has cost in
money not only, but of anxious effort, in dis
appointments and discOuragcments, in defer
red and dashed hopes and heart-sickncss, ther
this completed line, and this opening To ouI
village Of large section of country seeking
point of water communication and tho grea
thoroughfarcs of the east and west, will be
memorable event The thought has beer
iondiy INDUCED, that the section of country
opened by this line would bring us INTO com
mercial intercourse with elements that shal
add materially to our business and growth
and now it is to be demonstrated whether
these expectations are TO be realized. II is tt
be demonstrated, whether our people will
come up to the full appreciation OF the stu
aion, and place themselves in a posture TO
meeting and fostering the long anticipated
advantages; whether the inducements tha
shall be offered for the meeting OF the various
interests of the interior and ihe. border shal
be made alislactory-recIprocal in range o
advantage and material prosperity and profit
Friends and business men, let us then max,
ourselves masters of the situation.
The LAKE SHoPs-Quite stir is felt al &c
neva and Madison about the matter of secur
ing the location of the l.. S. 81 NJ. S. shops
that are TO be removed from Cleveland Il
some point between Ashiabula and Cleveland
The advantage of their location with ,hci
hundreds of operatives, is deemed sufficient Il
warrant the expectation of The company tha
the village securing them will furnish gratu
itonsly the land necessary for their accommo
dation. Geneva, therefore, has proposed I,
supply the tcrriory-a strip a mile and
quarter in length and thirty rods wide-bu
the surface is said to be uneven and low, AM
will require a considerable expenditure in lev
cling up, besides there is lack of water
Madison has also caught the fever and has il
public meeting agreed to supply all the Ian,
required, and that which IT is proposed to up
propriate in this way is very tavorably locatc'
on the north of the track, on n level with il
and plen.iiully supplied with water Whelhe
Saybrook and Ashtabula will enter the iiel,
with overtures for this boon, we are unable n
this time TO say. There is probably no doub
but that the company would be glad to hea
; from Ashtabula, as location at This plac
would concentrate their interests better thai
at any other point, but how our citizens vii
feel about assuming upon the burdens al
ready borne in providing rights of way fo
two railroads, and large areas for both at thei
termni at the lake, we must wait and see
After due deliberaton, perhaps, they ma,
think it worth while to enter the list an
make an effort to secure their removal to thi
place. The immediate addition of some 40
or 500 men and their families to our pOpula
ton, would be felt throughout our borders
and give business a sensible jog. 1t is an OF
ject worthy of an effort, but we feel some deli
cacy in urging the matter. If deemed practi
cable, we doubt not, in due time, the prOpe