The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-09-26

necessarily compel one or the other compa-
MES to build an independent line from Balti-
more. If the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| should obtain control of the Philadelphia,
| Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad it would
necessarily compel the Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad Company to build an independent
| line from Baltimore to Philadelphia Under
such circumstances that company would
doubtless make connection with its line
from Locust Point Branch, across the river,
at some point at Canton, and then through
the lower part OF this county and through
| Hartford county, Maryland, and Chester coun-
| ty, Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia. 1.-THE Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company should
obtain control of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad, it would necessi-
tate the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
build n line it could control, either from Bal
| timore or some contiguous point upon the
Northern Central, say from about the Relay
House, or further east, from the mouth of the
Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, to run
through Towsontown, thence to Hartford to
the mouth of Octorara Creek, across the Sus-
quchanna, thence through Chester county to
| Philadelphia. There is no doubt but that
both these great corporations want independ-
ent lines to work. In fact it would seem to
| be the only feasible plan for each one, as the
public would be greatly benefited and there
would be no clashing Interests ifboth COM
panies should use one link to make other
| connections.
Upon this subject the Baltimore american
remarks: .s
"The Pennsylvania Railroad has known
passion for obtaining the complete control of
its through connections, and il has long desir-
ed to lease the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad. The stock of that road
however, is in the hands of comparatively a
few, and it is hardly possible that the Penn
sylvania Railroad can get the control of it,
1t is therefore, to be expected that it should
endeavor to establish some other connection
Whatever may be asserted to the contrary
the new road now building between Phila-
delphia and Baltimore has something to do
with the plans of the Pennsylvania Railroad
as its junction with the Northern Central
Railroad conclusively shows. The Maryland
and Pennsylvania Railroad, as that portion OF
the line within this State is called, is proba.
| bly, building under the charter of the defunct
Maryland Central Railroad. The portion in
| Pennsylvania known as the State Line and
Juniata, is building under Il charter obtained
in 1871, which is of such pliable sort as to
cover every contingency for going in almost
any direction. The line passes near West
Chester, through Oxford, Bel Air and near
| Towsontown to the Northern Central Rail
road glance at the map will show this
| route to be almost an air line Work upon
| it was begun over sixteen months ago, and
has been carried on very secretly; large forces
are now at work on the road, both in Mary
| land and Pennsylvania.
What will be the course of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad is as yet purely conjectural.
Jay Gould is said to be pushing ahead the
road through New Jersey and across the
peninsula and the Baltimore and Ohio will
doubtless make connection with it by rail
road ferry from Canton to Locust Point, but
this line from its water transits will be so SUBJ
ject to interruptions from bad weather and
ice that it can hardly be depended upon as q
regular route A more probable course is
indicated in the following While the Penn
sylvania Railroad was running its cars from
New York to Washington via the Northern
Central Railroad, President Hinckly, of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, stated to an interviewer that if the
Pennsylvania Railroad persisted in such poll
cy, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad would have its own line to
New York. When the new road between
Philadelphia and Baltimore is completed this
threat may be put in execution, and the Bal
mngton and Baltimore Railroads build the
road in conjunction This would explain the
strange quiet with which the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad regarded the establishment of
the present tunnel route. 1t may be only
waiting for the construction of a new road to
bring matters to proper condition for it to
come forward again, and meanwhile it can
finish its road to Chicago. Whatever may
be the result, however, this competition can
not but have stimulating influence upon
the business of our city by opening new
avenues of trade"