Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-09-27
THE BALTIMORE sun AND
THE SHEN. VAL. IL. IL.

few papers supposed to be unfriendly to
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Com
pauy-the supposition being founded
on the fact that it has always been
prompt to publish statements calculated
to ipjure the credit Of the S. V. r. X.
Co. which have emanated from its
avowed enemies, and has never-or
"hardly ever"-allowed line in its ia
vor to appear in its columns.
In its issue of Tuesday last we find
Quasi disclaimer of unfIiendliness to-
wards the important enterprise our peo-
pie are so deeply interested in, which
furnishes additional evidence 10 prove
the correctness Of the superstition it
complains of. For il, therein, does the
S.V. II. X. Co. the injustice of attrib-
u,ino 10 it a "bad" and foolish animus
simply because it sought to lease, on fair
terms, and for a longer period than had
been previously allowed it, "the Valley
railroad proper" in which Baltimore
mad invested s2,0O0,O00!
II it be such a wild" "bad" and
"foolish" thing for railroad corpora
ton 10 attempt to lease another road,
the Baltimore aud Ohio Company has
much to answer for in that respect,
though the Sun seems TO think that it
can do no wrong-an opinion, however,
in which but few can be found to agree
exc, pit perhaps those who participate in
its dividends.
The San says "If there is anybody,
individual or corporate, in Pennsylva-
MIA or elsewhere, who will put $4,000
900 in the S. V. r. r. we shall con-
graduate our Virginia friends most
heartily upon the fact" Well, it gives
us pleasure TO inform our venerable, val
liable aud most respected contemporary
that, by recent arrangement, more
than S2,OOO,OOO have been secured for
our road, which will insure its early
completion to the Chesapeake 81 Ohio
road at one end and its connection with
The Western Maryland at the other
that we have more than thirty miles of
finished line over which the cars are
running daily-that thirty miles more
are nearly ready for the rails, and that
of the 100000 or 100000 which have
thus far been expended on the work,
more than two-thirds of the amount
have been furnished by Northern CAPT
talists, not dollar of it having come
from Baltimore-though Baltimore her
self will derive from our road by means
of its connexion with the Western Ma
ryland-as well as from Its three con-
nexions with the Is. & o. road, viz: at
Charlestown and Duflields in this State,
and at Keedysville in Maryland-more
benefit than any other seaboard city OF
the East, and indeed than all of them
2ut together, aud consequently should
evince through her recognized organs
If public opinion some friendly interest
in an enterprise which has substantial
claims upon the favorable consideration
Of her citizens.
We herewith append the article from
the Sun which has elected the forego-
inc comments, in order that our readers
NAV see for themselves that We have
not been unjust to our esteemed contem-
porary, which earring the fineness Of
its print and its supposed untriendliness
towards orr road) we regard as by far
the best and most readable and descr-
vcdly Influential paper that we receive:
The SHENANDOAH VALLEY RAILROAD
We noticed some time ago as Il matter of
news the report in the Page Courier, Of
Virginia, that a meeting had been held ia
I.urav. which voted in favor of withhold
ing that couniy's 100000 subscription
TO the Shenandoah Valley railroad. Be-
cause we did this the Shepherdstown Reg
ister. published in jefferson county, W.
Va, where subscription of S25O,OOO was
made to the same road and has been eX-
Uendcd upon j.. assumes that The Sun is
NOT friendly 10 that road. This is very
broad suppoSition from small premises.
But il is more probably, and with quite as
little reason, based upon antecedent cir
cumstances in connection with our oppo-
sition to the wild and foolish attempts
made within the past three or four years,
AT different times, TO hand over the invest
meuts of Baltimore, TO the amount of over
S2.OO0. 600, in the Virginia Valley railroad
proper, TO the eXploiters of the Shenandoah
road. Those attempts were vain, but
their aninluS was none the less bad, as
well as foolish. If there is anybody, in
divdual or corporate, outside of the State
of Virginia, i'm Pennsylvania or else
where, who will put 100000 in the
Shenandoah road, as Baltimore put the
like amount into the Valley road, we shall
congratulate our Virginia friends most
heartily upon the fact. They have some
twenty miles of the second line of road,
and they ought to have good right and IT,
tie 10 it, for the burden of deot is upon
them for its construction. The mortgage
put upon the road by the managers is but
the pledging of the property of the Vir-
Sinia counties, &C., that have paid up
their subscriptions, though it is some sat
i>faction that iron for the track is being
secured, presumably, thereby.
ESg" GYMNAslUM-A number of young
gentlemen of our town feeling that the
healIhful exercises of gymnasium or