Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-02-25
RAILROAD MATTERS.
New Railroads.
ENHANCING THE OPERATIONS Of THE OLD DoMls
ION STEAMSHIP coMPANY-FkuIT FROM LEwE

ENHANCING THE OPERATIONS OF THE OLD DoMlN-
ION STEAMSHIP coMPANY-FhuIr FROM LEwEs
BY BOAT IN ELEVEN HOURS.
The New York Pines makes the following
condensation OF Wilmington letter to the Bal
timore american wherein is defined the purpo-
Sos and policy Of the Old Dominion Steamship
Co. in the Peninsula:
The Old Dominion Steamship Company, hay
ing established their line OF steamships from
New York to Lewes, and condltionally purchased
the Junction and Breakwater railroad, have re-
Gently deyelopeda line Of policy which, il sue
cessful, bids fair to enable the company, in con-
neotion with the railroads of tile Peninsula
which are under their control, to monopolize
the freight carrying OF q large portion of the
great fruit belt, including the lower Peninsnlg
fhs company has been stripping quietly in this
directi n for long time. They have leased the
Frankford Il Breakwater Railroad 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 continuous road from George
town to some point on the Worcester and Som
erset Railroad, which Eastern capitalists have
agreed to continue to Cherrystone opposite Nor
folk. This will give Them a direct southward
li.e from Georgetown to Norfolk.
In order to render this line remuheratiye to
the last degree possible they propose to con-
struct number OF subsidiary reads or "feed-
ers," each ono Of them an enterprise of copsid-
erable 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 tile Delaware koad, which, under the
management of the Philadelphia, Wilmington,
and Baltimore Company is said to have incurred
the hostility Of the population of the country
through which it passes. Therefore the Old
Dominion Company propose to run their " feed
er" 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 desirous OF avoiding.
The next move contemplated is road from
Milford to Dover, possibly to Smyrna. This will
enable them to compete in the fruit trade by
bringing peaches to New York There is char
ter in exstance for road between New Castle
and Wilmington, aud among the possibilities Of
the near future is the building Of this road, and
the extension of the Milford aud Dover Branch
through Smyrna and Delaware City to New CAS-
tie. This would give continuous line which
would compete with the entire length of the
Delaware Railroad. This is not part of the
present plan which is thought to be merely
read from Milford to Dover, which by proptiGt-
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 ship-yards in Lewes arc to be started,
whore 1T is said that the company will not only
do their own repairing, but eventually build
their own steamers. By May l, or in time for
the early fruit crop the company expect to land
daily loads of the produce of the South on their
wharves in this city. The standard time
between Lewes and New York is to be fixed at
eleven hours. and the company propose to put
on no boats that cannot make the trip in that