, 1873-04-28
WASHINGTON.
jay Gould's Curious Railroad
Project.
Tho IenfRr0adl TROUBLES Of
tale East.
Pennsylvania Company VS..
Baltimore g. Ohio.
The comprehensive Railway Sys'
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a sAdAoious MOVEMENT.
inv Gould IL President also of tho Narrnean.
aett stc.mshin f1omnnnv whic}, ia nroyi]od with
th. 1.roaat and t,n ,,,nst u,,roroua ,ant of
sao 'arseas anu 1no mose humorous neos oi
ttearnooatB on tho tidal riyors and 10 has 5uss
built q mammoth boat ut Newport, to convey
train Of thirty cnrs from New York to sandv
Hook. II ia hia dcs,n1, tn cross thu no1osyoro
ana ~ S'1Sn tS nv ssoea Wv ~
.A''u Auu Enonapenho III sno Hn"e way, aau OCCUPY
bus eleven hours In tho transit. Tito railroads
In this region have boon built ct the minimum
cost, o7er O leyel country. abouhdinp In timber
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S@t FAe1s "@4~A AeoA eAAe ~0ae "a @PoA'sAt6
tno 1oao VIII po 1883 than elac"hcre ID the CONN.,
try; and 1t will become d coal-casrier at low
grades, by connecting, at Camden, Chester, and
Wilmington. with TIM Readlno svatema NJ rail
and con,] o~' 'N1
"nu eauaa. .,
moreover, Eng p1ooaplhelee point to
TIE SPEEDY ABSORPTION
Of tho only railway between Baltimore and Now
inns 1oovo t1,o 11o1t;n,o-o =, nl,;c n'a ""
snas tv"'e ,no =, nA41'lnofo O. on'o' tae Aynoa-
oulg, norIolH d Ionnessoo' aud tho cheHapoake
d Ohio Roads without any metropolitan link.
subject that It noo,,ro1 n chartor from, tin stoto
~ no1s. - 4,s:H eosu - sAa.set .lou 'no e!aso
enu.' u Dela"alo sa's spring. providing Tor chip
eana! across tho Peninsula. Tho Importance Of
tho Baltimore l. Ohio noad NAV bo inferred
from tho fact that ita nor linl for tho ,nonth ~
Maroh embraced 90 600 employees, and amounted
to s720,0O0. Tho necessity tor it's independent
connection With Now York Is aoen from tho fact
mercantile
frolghts 80 per cent from Now York to tho West
beyond the power OF tho other roads to carry
thom, relying mainly upon cnnaI aud outside
steam communication. 10 build overland from
Baltimore to Philadelphia will involve tho
Baltimore d Ohio Rai]road in an expcuso OF
s8,000,0o0 which is 100000 loss than the
Stock bonds, and debit OF the Philadelphia s.
Baltimore Road, nnd $4,000 600 more thnn Jay
dould's road cost, which il double the length Of
routo. Gould's road cost but 800, 600 milo,
TUE SYSTEM OF ROADS
in the Peninsula OF Maryland and Delaware now
dependent wholly upon tho Philadolphia l. Ualtt-
more Railroad, amounts to the high 1l}guro Of $40
miles, with nearly 100 milesmoro building This
respectable system Of roads, nenrly pll OF which
have been made since the Civil War, threads tho
largest pench-orcllard III the world, aud atvikos
eyory oyster point in tho Chesapeake. A Asystem
Of the Peninsula, Which aro controlled BY tic
tween Philadelphia md tho eea. One Of those
roads loads from the City Of Wilmington TO tho
due west aiong tho Pennsylvania linz, '''s to
Oxford, Peach Bottom Uanoynr Frnt1nricr
Gettysburg, aud the Valley Of Virgiuia. In tfis
road tllere in q link wanting Of only 10 milea
Other rouds lead out from Nowcastlo md from
pick up, therefore, on this small Penins.lle tie
points OF 900 milos Of road, and q bay com
mcrco Of 100000 tons, Of which 100 vossels aro
steam craft. The Delaware Bay, which Of lato
J
now tho seat Of three European lines OF btoan-
ehips; and tho Importance Of tho coal.trado aud
waterfront have revived,
AFTER uA1F-A-oENruay's pnowsY s1EEr,
the i Old towns M Of T Delaware M City Newcast!e and
ton part Of tho city. These ferry-elips Of
Gould's now roadway may beoome, ii spite Of
moss and Hlurnber, tho piers Of arising towns,
and opposite baltimore another city may atart up
to give the Eastern shoroman chance to say:
Lot those laugh who wiut"
THE TRADE IN PEACHES AND OYSTERS
would seem to bo o very Iittlo affhir, but 1t ia
business which takes special daily. frelght-train
~ the aeason over four OF the great roads. Tho
Now York and Delaware poaeh business ia tho
event Of tho yoar, and chapter could be written
upon tho handllng OF tho poach-tratns, tho lar
ceny Of tho fruit on route by brskeamen,
swltch,tenders, and stntion-maators, and tho
annual glut IN Nov York, and de.rness Of the
fruit ut other points. The oyster-train ogor tho
Baltimore Ohio Railroad have previously do
eorlbed. The priuo Of froighta on peaches over
the hundred odd mileg from tho orchard to New
York has boen as rnnddoning to tho Ponineular
man aa tue tariff On grain from Kausas to tho
ahhn