Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-12

EauVe man, mas eNnlpltcO MS greatness ny
grasping San Francisco and New Orleans from
Baltimore and philadelphia. Here is man
who for a quarter of century has studied the
law of travel, and been more or less a practical
railroader. In Baltimore Mr. Garrett is as
much leader at business aud intellectual
gatherings as any man iu that city, and his
opinion is cherished as provcrb. While Scott
combines the dash and steady executive ability
for new enterprises and Goud's lean footstep
leaves it's imprint on Wall street, Garrett sits
quietly in his Office He is man of powerful
nerve. whose large brain is supported by an
extraordinary physique and 2lO pounds Of flesh.
He plots aud plans aud executes, but his con-
scrvative Judgment is, when set IN opposition
to such an active man as Scott,
A LITTLE SLOW FOR THE OCCASION.
H. elected solid base for the great fortune he
has gathered about him. and his stockholders
rub their hauds in glee as the big dividends
come rolling in. But when Mr.. Scott loomed
up, he had foemau that necessarily aroused
his energies to their utmost and the great con-
ncctions aud impr, vtmeuts he should long ago
have made, have all been made suce they be-
came an absolute necessity to the preservation
of the riches that centered in his company. 1t
will take him q year or two to do what he
finally determined upon; aud in the meantime
Scott has eaped like greyhound upon the
scene to carry off share of the honors and
profits that Garrett might have borne alone.
The Washington branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad carried soldiers aud supplies
enough duriug he war to make great corpor-
alton wealthy, and the regular business was SO
much more profitable Garrett fought OFT all
railroad schemes between those cities BY hold.
ing them in the Maryland Legislature till
Forney party iShed up the Baltimore and
Potomac charter as above described. Then
SCOTT WENT ON TO VICTORY
till he ran his first train Of the New York and
Washington line on Sunday last, and the COM
petition is now in dead earnest.
There is a company 10 Baltimore known as
the Union Line Of Railway. 1t owns tunnel,
nearly completed, around the city, aud expect
ed either Garrett " Scott, and fact both, to
Use it. to get them over to the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad depot.
Garrett has built his freight line to depot at
the warehouses on Locust Point, and will ferry
them across to Canton. Scott intended to build
an Immense elevator on the Canton Company
property, and give Baltimore outlet TO his
road there But lie seems to think the Canton
Company wants too much money for the place,
and the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balt-
more Company having turned decided pleasant
face toward Garrett, Scott has about determn
ed TO use the road he owns, trom the Washing
ton connection to New York, and avoid both
the Canton and Wilmington companies. For
a long time Mr.. Garrett was in doubt whether
he would secure the Wilmington Road in his
interests. 1t seems as if the company wanted
to treat with Scott, but they agreed at last to
treat with both alike and carry the cars OF
either at an equal rate. Scott at last denurreu
to this, and having road of his own around
grew independent and used it. The Wilmington
Road must now stick to Garrett, and to SCOTS
local station freight. Aud just here arises.
ANOTHER INTERESTING FEATURE.
Mr.. Garrett has good opportunity aud the
disnosition to use the New jersey Southern
Road, between Baltimore and New York, own
ed by the Jay Gould party. Then he has
franchise that will let his company all the way
from Baltimore into Jersey City. l. is pro oba-
bic that he will build this road in a short time,
and thus give us three competing lines of rail-
road between New York, Philadelphia, Balu-
more and Washington. South OF Washington
the Robiosou, Mahoue and McCready parties
arc all working hand-in glove with Garrett, or
for his interest as against Scott, and the proba-
bilities are that it will not be long before the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company will
own or control through southern connection,
and thus give
TWO BITTERLY COMPLETING LINES.
south of Washington to New Orleans. Mr.
Garrett is working around Washington from
Bladensburg, will connect the Orange aud AL.
exandria Road along the Valley Of Virginia,
and by the East Tennessee and Virginia Road,
Others that he will buy lease or construct, he
will get into New Orleans. This brings US to
JAY GOULD AND NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN
RAILROAD.
Whatever may be said of Mr.. Jay Gould,
either as president of the Erie Railway, or as
stock specuator, it must be admitted that ne
is man of extraordinary ability. He is Il
wiry, ending, toughly constructed man, whose
physical organization is not, however, as
strong as his brain requires. 1t is wonder
that he has existed under the mental strain
borne in the vast amount OF work he has un-
dertakeu and accomplished. But he is a man
who would die in the breach his sword had
cut rather than endure the humiliation OF
defeat. And this, with shrewd and deliberate
methods of his planning, has carried him TO
where he Is,
THE CHIEF OPERATOR OF WALL STREET,
and railroad man that ranked with Wander
bilt, Scott and Garrett. By securing the New
Jersey Southern Railroad he has worked aeon
nrclion with Philadelphia via Sandy Hook,
Long Branch, Manchester, thence by the Cam
den and Burlington Railroad to Camden.
From New York they have the Metropolis, an
immense steamer that carries twenty cars OF
freight to Sandy Hook, and others Of the same
CAPACITY are building They have strong boats
at Philadelphia that land from camden to
Chestnut st. From Manchester the Toms River
Railroad connects for Toms river aud Barnegat
and the Tuckerton Road also connects at Whit
ting's for Barnegat. From At!sion, where the
New Jersey Southern, makes It's deviation Tor
frIv htoS to Vncaud % and BTiigeton, and thence to
Raw Side, on the Delaware Bay. From this
point they will have to build powerful
STEAMERS TO CROSS THE BAY,
ana tbence across Delaware and Maryland by
IL Nlou,I.,d ond Delaware road, its coDnec