The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-10

might hsves horpss alpnes sIhes ~ ashingto9
branch OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
carried soldiers and supplies enough during
the war to make d great corporations
wealthy, and, the regular business was so
much more profit. = Garrett fought ion al
railroad schemes between those cities q. py
holding them in the Maryland Legislature
till Forney's party fshedup the sbaitlm ore
and Potomac charter, as above. described.
Then rti ga ~. ~ &. z.,ty.-.s II =
.ztist SCOTT WENT of TO VICTORY - I
till be his first train OF the New York
and Washington line on Sunday las, ana tne
cnmpetitiontf Is now In dead earnest.
There is company in Baltimore known
az the Union Line Of Railway. It owns
tunnel, nearly completed, around the city,
and expected either Garrett or Scott, ana 10
fact both. to use 1t, to get them over TO the
PHILADELPHIA, Wilmington and lBalttmore
Railroad dep5t.. Garrett has built bis treight
line 30 DEPOT ut the warehouses on Locust
POINT. and will ferry them acruss to Canton.
'Scott intended to build an immense elevator
on the Canton Company's property, and give
"a Baltimore outlet to his road there. But
he seems to think the Canton Company
wants too much money for the place, ana
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Company having turned decidedly pleasant
face toward Garrett, Scott has about deter
mined tosuse the road he owns from the
washington connection to New York, ana
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 seemed
as if the company wanted to treat with Scott,
but they agreed at last to treat with botn
alike and carry the cars Of either at an equal
rite. Scott al last demurred to this, ana
having road of his own around grew 1Dde-
pendent and used it,. The " Huntington road
must now stick to Garrett and TO Scouts
local station freight. And just here arises
guaa ANOTHER INTERESTING FEATURE.
Mr.. Garrett hasa good opportunity ana
the disposition to use the New Jersey SoCea-
ern road. between Baltimore and New YORK,
owned. b., the Jay Gould party. Ihen ne
ehas franchise that will let bis company all
the way from Baltimore into Jersey City. 1t
is probabIe that he will build this road in
short time, and thus give US three conf
netippilnes of railroad between New York,
PhjIadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.
South OF Washington the Robinson, Malone,
and McCrcady parties are all working hand
iu.ploye with Garrett, or for his interest as
against Scott, and the probabilities 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 COMPETING LINES
south of Washington to New Orleans. Mr..
Garrett is working around Washington
from Bladensburg, will connect the Orange
and Alexandria road along the Valley OF
Virginia. and by the East Tennessee and
Virginia road, and others that he will buy,
Iease. or construct, he will get into New
Orleans. This brings us to
JAY GOULD AND NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN RAIL
-u ROAD. w..#
Whatever may be said of Mr.. Jay Gould,
either as president of the Erie railway or
as stock Spectator, it must be admitted
TINT he Is q man of extraordinary ability.
He is a why, enduring, toughiy-consTuctea
man, whose physical organization is not,
however, as strong as his brain requires. IL
is d wonder that he has existed under the
mental strain borne in the vast amount OF
work be has undertaken and accomplished.
But he is man who would die 10 the
breach his sword had cut rather than endure
the humiliation Of defeat. And this, with
the sbrewd and deliberate methods of his
planning, has carried him to where be Is
THE Grief OPERATOR OF WALL STREET,
and q railroad man that may be ranked with
Vanderbilt, Scott, and Garrett. BY securing
the New Jersey Southern railroad he has
worked connection with Philadelphiapia
Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Manchester,
thence by the Camden and Burlington rail-
road 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 ut Phila-
delphia that land from Camden to Chestnut
street. From Manchester the Toms River
railroad connects for Toms river and Barne-
CAT, and the .Tuckerton road also connects
at Writings for Barnegat. From ASTON,
where the New Jersey Southern makes its
deviation for Philadelphia, the road goes
southerly and westerly to Vineland and
Bridgeton, and thence to Bay Side, on the,
Delaware bay. From this point they will
have to build powerful ~ RAJ .
STEAMERS TO CROSS THE BAY, -
and thence across Delaware and Maryland
by the Maryland and Delaware road, its con-
uectiop. and a small strip the company will
build, the New Jersey Southern road will
reach the Chesapeake bay and Baltimore.
This road is one of inestimable value to the
CITY. taking into consideration the necessity
for connection that it will cause between
Gould, Scott, and Garrett. At Baltimore
Mr.. Gould will take the Baltimore and Ohio
south and west, and compete
with the Erie, New York Central, and
PENNSYLVANIA Central roads for the western
trade. with Scott for the southern trade, and
with Scott and Garrett for the Baltimore and
philadelphia trade. This makes three COM
peting rail lines to Philadelphia, with the
early probability of Il fourth (GarrettS},- and
two to Baltimore, with early prospects for
two more Carrots and Gould's).
ARE RAILROADS TO sUrERsEDE COAST STEAMERS?
1t is demonstrated by experience that a
railroad running out of New York to an
other large city is sure to pay handsomely if
we'll managed. Hence there Is no probable
ity Of our getting more railroads to southern
cities than We can support. The question
whether the railroads will divert the tradeof
the coast steamers is difficult one. AS to
passenger travel, the man who has time TO
make it, and wants to take the sea trip,
will go that way always. AS to freight,
valuable goods will generally go by
rail, because they do not insure by
rail, and - the insurance by steamer
averages as much rs the freight by rail. The
insurance on a package valued at S508 and
weighing 100 pounds Is about s. from New
York to New Orleans. Tie freight by rail
for the same package to and from the same
points is 81. Less valuable freight costs less
insurance, but costs less, too. for railroad
freight, and the railroad people think they
will make enough on dry goods and light