Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-09
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The editor of the Conn. Western News was over this road week before last, and giveslthe following report of his trip: .-e zlP THE SHEpAua- RAznnoAD.-Sso nal,el. railroad. that has carried Wiff ahf ft,saHRfne ft sH i, pression that was far from being compli- mentary to it's success as an enterprise, we determined to take a ride over the road and see how ''the old (new) thing worked" As would be very natural by what we had heard, we had expected to see road only partially completed; the trains as they passed over it describing about as much regularity in their onward progress as fishing smack on the Atlan- tic; with small. second hand passenger coaches and everything on worse than the halfway plan, but in this we were very much disappointed, as much so as would be possible with our expectations, to find exactly the reverse. The road is laid with good heavy, continuous rail, fastened with fish plates, and is as we'll ballasted and rides as smoothly in every respect as the Conn. Western.-The masonry is all first class, the bridges being built in the most substantial and durable manner, and the rolling stock is as good as on any road hereabout. The passenger trains make good time, running quite as rapidly as people care to ride around the many curves, and those we saw were we'll loaded. indicating very good business already being done by the road. To be sure it is crooked. and it is necessarily so. The section through which it passes is exceed ingly mountainous, and to bore through every mountain they came to, would have sunk more capital than would be advisable in the construction of any road. 1t fol- lows, most of the way, up the serpentine course of the Shepang river, whence it de- rives its Hame, and for grand and roman tic scenery it is seldom surpassed. Rox- bury falls, few miles up from Hawley- vile, afford us view of one the widest and most picturesque scenes we ever be- held, it being quite equal and in some respects similar to Satan's Kingdom on the Conn. Western. At Roxbury, the quar- ries, which have already become quite extensively known, are furnishing vast amount of their superior marble for building purposes. At Bantam Falls. three miles out from Litchfeld, nickle mine has been developed; the ore from which is sent to England to be smelted, soon large and important business. The 3xAAAA Ao0OCA2eAOAAS WA4A 3AA1s N6tA2AA 4A1b at it's head, as active and principal man. ger, is rapidly working up a large milk transportation business for this road. MT. Hart has had hold of the enterprise but two or three months, and his superior skill and extended experience is making itself felt. The present managers of the road. from President Perkins downward, are encouraged by the increased and con- stantly increasing business, to greater efforts in providing better facilities for conducting their business.
 l Our visit to Litchfeld, the shire town ofthe county, was unavoidably brief one. We arrived there at about quarter past l eight o'clock last Friday evening. and to get back to Salisbury by Saturday night, found it necessary to leave the next morn ing at 7.45. Being an early riser Gas
 everybody who knows us. knows to be a l fact| we were up between five and six,
 and improved as we'll as we could the
 limited time before the train left, looking
 about the village Litchfield is one o1
 those old Puritanic towns which all de- light to visit. Those grand old mansions,
 whose roofs have sheltered so many oi Connecticut,s most honored sons, still re main, and to the eye of an admirer of the
 ancient and honorable. appear indeed
 beautiful They are now mostly occupied
 by that class of our citizens who have
 made New England so notorious for hel
 thrift and substantial prosperity. w
 strolled along the broad street known a. I South Street, as far as the Fair Grounds and with the rows of slnls on each side. it i l as pleasant place fora summer residence
 as can Hell be imagined. 1n the center O
 the village va saw much that pleased us
 and q very little we failed to admire I among the latter being the hen coop o
 court house. Surely, justice meete, out in building pinched down to the di
 mensious of . coop cannot be full an,
 ample. We were much disappointed i the appearance of the Litchfield count court house. The people of Berkshir
 county point with pride to the massiv marble building which they were glad [ be taxed to erect for their court house.