The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-10
AmEnlcAs RAIEwAY KINGS
SCOTT, GARRETT. GOULD.

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SCOTT, GARRETT, GOULD.
THE. GRANDEUR OF iTEzIE SCHEMES AND coN-
rLrcTs SOUTHERN RouTE5 AND CofSEcr
lr1oss-A CONTENTIOUS HISTORY or RAIL
RoADIss IN Tfsg UNITED STATES.
tEFrom the New York journal Of Ccmmerce-J /
The railroad routes soutb--beiDg the
g Piedmont Route" the H Coast, Route,
and the :" Great Southern Mail Route p
have systematizedi matters 30 that they now
make the trip to New Orleans in seventy
four hours. 1t is Interesting to look into
this subject, now that travel from the South
to tSlis city is SO great aud see what Is doing
to complete our connections In that quarter.
The men Tho are battling for the mastery
IN that direction are Messrs. Thomas. a.
IScon, John w. Garrett, and Jay Could. II
| is difficult TO separate the work from The
men, so tirst we take ssa
THOMAS A. SCOTT, = y
of the Pennsylvania railroad. Starting from
New York we have Mr.. SCOTS connections
through to New Orleans. They are made
up by The Camden and Amboy, and nearly
an the across, or part across, jersey raiireads
that poink southerIy from here. In going TO
1
recently eleven cfangesof cars. These were
at Washington, Aqua creek, Richmond,
Petersburg. Weldon, Wilmington IN. C.l
Kingsville, Augusta, Atlanta, Montgomery,
and Mobile. Now there are only two,
and in about three weeks, when the At
| Iantjc road is to be finished, the trip
between New York and New Orleans
will be accomplished without q single
change OF cars Strenuous efforts baye
| for wears been made TO get through con-
nection under 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 and West hurried them
along. while the depressed South suffered IN
the railroad line as well as other lines OF
business. When the war closed there were
! northern competitors that looked southwark,
and it appears that Mr. Scott stepped for
ward .s- -e ~a3 s4a
MORE BOLDLY THAN THE REST.
He built, leased, and bought, and succeeded
south OF Washington till now he owns, or
rather the Pennsylvania road owns, or has
leased route and branches to New Orleans,
except the route from Aqua creek to Rich
mond (eigbty-one miles,, and from Mobile to
New Orleans GAO miles, The former be
longs to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
| Potomac Company, who own the Chesa-
| peake Bay steamers, and the latter to tie
Morgans, who own the Gulf steamers. Both
these are making money, and will not sell
out Or perpetually lease to Scott. BY pass.
| ing free railroad law at the next session u
the Virginia Legislature he hopes to circum-
vent the Bay Line people and build COD
nection between Aqua creek and Rlchmond.
Mr., John NJ. Robinson, General William
Mahone, and MIR. N. l.. McCready, repre-
senting in Virginia the Bay Line of steamers
1 and Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto.
| mac railroad, the Atlantic and MISSISSIPPI
Consolidated line, and the Old Dominion
Steamship Company, are
FIGHTING SCOTT AND FAvoRING GARRETT.
| AS for the Mobile and New Orleans road,
the Morpans will not sell it. The route Is
in q continuous marsh, and it would not pay
Scott to build there as long as he can rent the
| Morgan road at anything like reasonable
figure. There is no connection through to
New Orleans owned by one company. The
| PENNSYLVANIA Central comes nearer that than
apy other. In addition, The Great Southern
Mail route and the Coast line both run a
considerable distance over the Pennsylvania
| Company's lines, and could be stopped by
refusal of the latter 10 let them run after
the end of short leases, or Dy votes in the
directories owned by the Pennsylvania Com
pnny and its friends. The simple fact Is. so
| far US control goes, that Mr.. Thomas A. Scott
| to-day controls al the through rail commu-
nications south of Washington to New Dr.
leans, directly or indirectly. The first step
| of opposition to that great railroad king Mr..
Johi W. Garrett was in 1866 or 1867, when
Colonel John w. Fornev and number of
othcIs in Washington picked up from the
possession of ap old canal-boatman in Mary
land ......
AN OLD CHARTER FOR RAILROAD.
Mr.. Clinton Lloyd was the moving and re-
| spopsible spirit in that affair. They let the
owner in, and, putting money into the
scheme, secured necessary amendments and
extensions from the Maryland Legislature,
and the rights of entry into Washington from
Congress. Then they commenced work, and
before they had gone far MIR. Scott came
along, paid the owners of the franchise
Seven or eight In number) $4,000 apiece,
and built tue Baltimore and Potomac rail-
road, between Baltimore, Washington, and q
point neal Occoquan. It has been completed
for several months, but the connecting tun-
mel in Baltimore was finished only few days
ago. 1t was necessary up to last week 10
land passengers over two miles from the
heart of Baltimore, and for that reason the
road was not much patronized as local road
between Baltimore and Washington. Last
week 81: s,sa. = Il
THE TUNNEL IN BALTIMORE
was completed to connection with the
Northern Central railroad, owned BY the
Pennsylvania Company. On Sunday nigAt
a train started from here by way Of Phla-.
delphia, Lancaster, York, and Baltimore to
Washington, over through route owned
nv the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company.
II goes by the Pennsylvania roads (old
Camden and Amboy) to- West Philadel-
phiu5; thence by Pennsy lyania and Northern
Central to Lancaster, York, and Baltimore
thence by Baltimore and Potomac to Wash
inator. It avoids the Philadelphia, Will
minrton and Baltimore railroad and the
Union railroad of Baltimore leaving Will
lmington out Of, the route It is forty-seyen
miles further, but makes the same time as
the old road. The trip to Washington is
made lin eight hours. This road gains an
advantage ia time over the other by steam.
ing through the tunnel instead of using
horses through the city Of Baltimore, and
this lin good part affects the difference in
length of the, route. Next comes
JOHN W. GARRETT,
of the Baltimore and Ohio Company. If
Mir. Scott has laid his hand on San Francisco
aud New Orleans from Philadelphia and
New York, Mr.. Garrett, q slower and more
conservative man, has exhibited his great
ness by grasping San Francisco and New
Orleans from Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Hereiis a man who for a! quarter OF d cen
fury has studied the law Of travel and been
mara or. leSs q nractical railrnadar In Bal