The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-13

timore Railroad, which had nearly been
successful, has compelled Mr.. Garrett tenn
porarily to look to an outlet across three
bays by the New Jersey Southern railway
to New York city.
AS the great tunnel at Baltimore APP
preached completion the Metropolitan
Branch had to be fastened on, whereby
| three millions came out of Mr.. CARROTS
! pocket, and Washington ceased to be town
at the end of branch. Both combatants
are now drawing breath, each beset by DIFF
ficulties of its own, and neither company
is on bed of roses.
SORROWS OF wERTHER.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is a little de-
moraized by an attack in the rear. When
1t bought the New Jersey lines and thought
| TO Dask twenty years in u dream of easy
monopoly, it aroused the fierce Arabic
spirit OF the Jerseymen. The Legislature
| at Trenton authorized competition within
| that State for the first time, and the Great
Reading Company became an involuntary
ally OF Mr. Garrett in the rear. The Phil
Eadelphia and Baltimore, which is owned
almost wholly by Boston capitalists, look
ed askant upon the Pennsylvania Com
pany's guarantee of its stock, and it now
actually runs Mr.. CARROTS sleeping cars
| from st. Louis to Philadelphia, by which
the Baltimore corporation challenges Scott
on his own threshold. In Virginia the ex-
penditure of nearly three millions of dol
lars has not wholly availed to give Mr..
Scott an unbroken line of rail to Richmond.
He can run but one through train in TWEEN
ty-four hours. Again at Greensboro, N.
G., the State courts have refused to alter
Of bo ~
and the lesson which the Pennsylvania
Company has taught to the lobby may be
returned to it this winter and the next
winter from Richmond and from Raleigh.
Who breaks pays" is true in morals Of
corporations as well as of individuals.
WHICH EVER KILLS WE GAIN.
The quarrels of these two companies have
been of incalculable benefit to COMMUNE
ties in our whole tide-water country
What an awakening must it be to the Val
ley people to see these two gigantic corpor-
ations running parallel lines up the whole
length of the Valley of the Shenandoah
The Pennsylvania Company crosses from
Hagerstown to Martinsburg, and then,
crossing the track of MI. CARROTS road,
proc eeds by John Browns old stamping
ground of Charlestown and by Front Royal,
straight on to Staunton. Staunton is thus
menaced with prosperity exciting to the
oldest inhabitant, and the people there
begin to talk Familiarity about direct
road from Stanton to Washington; it is
not impossible that this road may be built
by the Chesapeake and Ohio Company
The latter company has had extraordinary
success in the sale of its bonds, and is
about to build this summer from Mount
Stirling, KY, to the mouth of the Big
Sandy river. Next winter we shall be
able to leave Washington in the morning
and get out of our berths the next morn
ing at Lexington or Frankfort
BRANCH LINES.
Another remarkable road, which is slow
ly extending itself from the Pennsylvania
trunk, to the Pittsburg and Charleston road,
which is meant to be an axis of West Vir-
ginia and bring to the lakes salt, ores, and
camel coal from the widest part of the
Appalachian Valleys. Another remarka-
BILE enterprise of the Pennsylvania Com
pany ia the completion of the Western
Railroad, of North Carolina, to Knoxville,
by which Gen. Mahone's road will be cut
off at nowhere, and the products of the
Tennessee and Cumberland valleys hauled
off by Salisbury, Greensboro Danville, and
Richmond to Washington city and the
North.
GARRETT'S GOOD WORD.
1t must not be inferred that Mr.. Garrett
is doing nothing. He is really spending
in his peculiar way, several millions of dol
lars to build road about 400 miles in
length from his Sandusky branch to Chica-
go. Probably not less than $S,000,000 will
be consumed in this one enterprise, but we
presume that he will not fail to make the
counties on the line of the road pay as
much as possible of this sum. 1t is also
his intention to continue the same branch
eastward to Pittsburg, and unite there with
his Connellsville road. In the autumn of
1874 Mr.. Garrett will have hand upon
Chicago, and probably by 1876 he will
have very nearly an airline from Washing
ton to Chicago by way of Cumberland and
Pittsburg. He can borrow money at lower
rates than the Pennsylvania Company, hay
ing large surplus and being considered
safe, indeed frugal, man. He must first
straighten up the road from Cumberland to
Pittsburg, which is hastily and badly built,
before he can persuade the bulk of travel
to prefer it to the Pennsylvania line He
has made his point with Washington city,
and on the Sunday morning when you
print this letter your readers will hear
peculiar whistle on l street, between First
and Second, when for the first time his fast
line, leaving Baltimore about o'clock,
gallops West over the Metropolitan Branch,
and reaches Cincinnati at daylight on Mon
day. Hereafter we shall have the advan-
tage of Baltimore itself going West. Mr..
Keyser, the vice president of the road, is
the son of Mr.. CARROTS wifes sister, and
he seems to be the man long expected over
that highway, possessing modern ideas and
the spirit of accommodation. To him
travellers owe the magnificent hotel and eat
ing house at Cumberland, which is not
surpassed in America, and which is to be
followed by equally delightful refreshment
houses at Parkersburg, Martinsburg, and
the Relay.
THE GREAT READING ROAD.
1t is outside of the province of this letter
to speak of the Reading Railroad, which
has become very serious and mischievous
rival Of the Pennsylvania Company This
road has about fifty millions of stock,
bonds, debt, &C., and its stock actually
sells at the Philadelphia board at four per
cent. premium on the Pennsylvania. Quo
tations at present are So for Reading and
81 for Pennsylvania. The Reading Com
pany controls about 600 miles of rail and
800 miles of canal. 1t is almost the abso-
lutte dictator of the anthracite coal region,
maintains fleet of steam GOLFERS which
run to Providence and Boston, owns pinci-
palities of coal lands, millions worth of
coal breakers and machinery, and keeps coal
| yards for the household consumer, to the