Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-02-18
SECOND EDITI0N.


ENLiRdiNd THE OPERATIONS OF THE OLD DoMiN-
ION STEAMSHIP cosfPASY-FKUIr FROM LEWEs
BY BOAT IN ELEVEN HOURS.
The New York Times makes the following
condensation of Wilmington letter to tho Bal
limore american wherein il defined the purpo-
ses and policy of the Old Dominion Steamship
Co. in tie Peninsula
The Old Dominion Steamship Company, hav-
ing established their line of steamships from
New York to Lewes, and conditionally purchased
the junction and Breakwater railroad, have re-
Gently developeda line of policy which, il euc-
cessful, bids fair to enable the company, in con-
neetion with the railroads of the Peninsula
which are under their control, to monopolze
the freight carrying of a large portion Of the
great fruit belt, including the lower Peninsula.
he company has been stspping quietly in this
directi,n for long time. They have leased the
Frankford Il Breakwater liailroad from George
town to Frankford. They have bought the
Worcester Railroad from Berlin to Snow Hill
They are to build the necessary connections to
make of these a continuous road from George
town to some point on the Worcester and Som
eiset Iallroad, which Eastern capitalists have
agreed to continue 10 Chenystone opposite Nor
folk This will give them a direct southwark
LIE from Georgetown to Norfolk.
In order to render this line remuierative to
the latt degree possible they propose to con-
siuct number of subsidiary reads or "feed-
ers," each one of them an enterprise of consid-
cradle magnitude, and each involving its own
peculiar difficulties. First, road is proposed
from Delmar to Georgetown, connecting at Del
mar with the Eastern Shore Railroad without
tapping tho Delaware Road, which, under the
infringement of tile Philadelphia, Wilmington,
and Baltimore Company, is said to have incurred
tie hostility of the population Of the country
through which it passes. Therefore tho Old
Dominion Company propose to run their " feed
or =" to Delmar Instead of Seaford which latter
Place offers some advantages, but where the
Old Dominion Company would be brought into
co operation with the Delaware Railroad, Which
result they seem to be desrous of avoiding.
The next move contemplated il a road from
Milford TO Dover, or possibly to Smyrna. THIS will
enable them to compete i'll the fruit trade by
bringing peaches to New York. There Is char
ter in existance for a road between New Castle
and Wilmington, and among the possibilities OF
the near future is the building Of this road, and
the extension of the Milford ard Dover Branch
through Smyrna and Delaware City to New Cas-
tie. This would give n c1ndntious line which
would compete with the entire length of the
Delaware Railroad. This e not Il part of the
present plan, which ii thought to be merely u
road from Milford to Dover, which by propitiat-
ing local interests will aid the company in their
efforts to secure State aid.
AS subordinate branches Of this great carrying
business, car shops are TO be built in George
town for the repair and manufacture of rolling
stock, and rhip-yards in Lewes are to be started,
where II is said that the company will not only
do their own repairing. but eventually build
their own steamers. by May 1, or i'll time for
the carly fruit crop, tho company expect to land
daily llads Of the produce Of the South on their
whalves in this city. Tho andard time
between Lewes aud New York is to lie fixed at
on no boats that cannot make the trip in that
time