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

er city, and which extends as we'll to the
head of the Chesapeake. One week ago 6
railroad was opened from Delaware City tc
Pomeroy Station, on the Pennsylvania rail
road, distance of about 40 miles. Thi:
road crosses the Philadelphia and Balti.
more track at the old town of Newark, and
proceeds northwestward toward Lancaster
1t is said to be the intention of the Penn
sylvania Road to make Delaware City the
great coal port, and to land cmigrants there
for the West from its new line of iron steam
ships, of which the pioneer ship, the Penn
sylvania, will sail for Europe this week.
This ship cost $450,000, and it is the only
American iron steamship on the main At
lantic. New Castle, the next town on the
Delaware above Delaware City, is also des-
tined to an immediate activity strangely in
contrast to its long decay. A narrow gauge
road is being constructed from Whining
ton to New Castle, and the Wilmington and
Reading road, which is proceeding toward
the coal regions and is backed by the Penn
sylvania Company, is the first competitor
which the Reading has ever known. This
road has been opened for nearly two years
to Reading, and is now approaching Potts
vile. The Wilmington and Western road
proceeds due west, parallel with Mason q
Dixon's line, and is expected to connect
with railroad from Peachbottom across
the Susquehanna to Gettysburg and Freder-
ick. Meantime the Eastern Shores of Mary
land and Delaware are developing numer-
Gus lines of rail which are designed to
break the monopoly Of the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Road. One of these lines is now
under contract from Massey's Crossroad to
Oxford, passing through Elkton. Another
has been voted 100000 by the State of
Delaware to run from Georgetown to Berlin,
and carry the peach crop out to Lewes,
whence steamship line runs to New York
i'll one night. A third road will run from
Snow Hill to Cherrystone, nearly opposite
Fortress Monroe. The Methodists have got
stem up great ocean-side camp-meeting,
after the style of Martha's Vineyard, at
Rchoboth, and it is now proposed to carry
road from Kent Island straight to this
camp, and to build it this summer. Anoth-
Ell road will be finished in August from the
Delaware Bay to a point opposite Balti-
more, which it is said Mr.. Garrett and JAY
JOHN W. GARRETT.
At the present moment therefore Mr..
Garrett has less vexation than Mr.. Scott.
Mr. Garrett is of that penurious genius
which will accord nothing unless compell-
ed to, and which is without enterprise
when its fears are no longer excited. His
road is not yet double track to the West,
and unless he hastens there will be four
tracks between Philadelphia and Chicago
before he has laid single rail that dis
lance Mr.. Garrett is waiting on other
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New York, but the Pennsylvania Company
is actually constructing Of its own volition
a new route between New York and Phil
adelphia, which shall avoid all intermedi-
ate cities. Instead of dallying with the
Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, Mr.
Scott has purchased the Media and West
chester Railroad, and is moving on the
Baltimore Central, which stops at Port
Deposit, and less than forty miles of track
laying will then carry him over to the
Northern Central above Baltimore where
he can grasp at once the Western Mary
land road and run his cars from New York
to Washington, stopping at no city, pay
ing tribute to nobody. 1t is not hard to
foresee that unless Mr.. Garrett learns libe-
rality by experience his influence in the
Maryland Legislature will very soon be
subordinate tn the Pennsylvania nallroau
Company's, and he may even lose his in
fluence in the municipal government of
Baltimore, which has hitherto backed him
up with millions of city bonds. This day,
May 22d, Mr.. CARROTS son Robert, who is
the president of the Valley Railroad, drew
from the city of Baltimore 100000 to con-
struct that one hundred miles of road be-
fuo How hur Co Of 1rrh,
the total cost will be upwards of five mil
lions. The Baltimore and Ohio road gets
nearly tue whole advantage of this extern
sion, but does not give one cent more than
the municipality of Baltimore. Truly, Mr..
Garrett owes to Maryland much that he and
his corporation possess, but lie has never
contributed to the State q town, although
one of the counties of Maryland has recently
been named Tor him; and he has built for
the Maryland people but one short branch,
up the Antietam to Hagerstown, which he
took pains to decry in his annual report
after it was completed. The people of
Frederick, after more than forty years. as
sociation with the Baltimore and Ohio
road, sought another master, and they now
run two trains a day over their infant high
way, which takes them to Baltimore by
the Western Maryland road. Had the peo-
pie of the Western Neck depended upon
Mr.. Garrett they would have been isolated
for the next half century; but the Wash
ington and Point Lookout road, very much
of which is graded, is an offspring of the
Pennsylvania's extension into Maryland.
Gould are to manipulate between them,
crossing full trains of cars and locomotives
on steamboats,, and making fast freight
line to New York, unembarrassed by pas
senger trains. Truly, we live in queer
times, when old parts of the world, like
the Eastern Shore, can have steam engine
in sight of every farm house. 1t is said
that even the great Mullet, architect of the
Treasury, has appeared at the town of Do
yer within the past fortnight, and that,
while he is to build gorgeous post office
and courthouse, the State itself is to give
some architectural soul to her little State
Capitol edifice.
THE GEM OF VILLAS.
must not omit reference to the opening
of the new shortcut of the Philadelphia
and Baltimore road, over which you are
hereafter to 60 northward. This cut leaves
the old track above Chester, and passes by
the hilly country straight to Gray's Ferry
on the Schuylkill, distance of twelve
miles. The object of this improvement is
to avoid the uncertainty of freshets on the
old road, and to get more way travel from
Philadelphia. The new cut has cost one
million and half, and is the best piece of
road in America, double tracked and bal
lastered in stone, and the slopes and scarps
are dressed with sod, fower-beds, or hewn