The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-02-04
Proposed New Route to Philadelphia
The PHILADELPHIA m0uire,. saws


'"i meeting was held recently at the Office
of a prominent broker ON Third street, ut
which H. s. Macomb, of Washington, Del,
and Mr. Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, were present, with the
members ofthe firm of brokers nj whose place
the meeting was held 1t was announced
that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany had purchased the interest of Mr..
Macomb and others, which gave them ma
ioritvaof the stock of the Delaware Western
Railroad Company, which road is now deslr-
ing legislation from the State of Delaware for
supplement to its charter which will give
the company right to build road from
Maryland to Pennsylvania. The broker at
whose office the meeting was held has ar
ranged to furnish all the money that may be
needed to build the road by the proceeds from
the saleinftbe bonds of the Delaware West.
ern Railroad Company This will aftord
new route between Baltimore and Philadel.
pha, Being nm airline the express trains
win run ntwo and a-halfhour's timr hrtween
the two cities sI" & 11.'- ~.
The Baltimore san says ....
lit il understood that assurances have been
given 10 the Legislature of Delaware that ar
engagements have been consummated and
capital secured so that work upon the pro-
posed through line WILDE commenced at once
and prosecuted to an early..and successful COM
pletion as soon as practicable after the sought
Tor franchise is granted by the Delaware Leg
islature. 1t is positively stated that should
this franchise be granted new through line
will certainly be constructed between Balti-
more and Philadelphia" ....
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad claim that the Baltimore and
Ohio cannot utilize the Delaware Western
Or the Reading railroad. To do so they
would necessarily have to use the old track of
railroad, from Chester to Philadelphia, which
was bought by the Reading Railroad as n
coal road. The receipts from any passengers
who may travel over it go to the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad ;
and it is claimed by the latter that there is an
obligation on the part of the Reading road
not to allow the strip to beused as branch
to connect any road running west. 1t is also
claimed that the Baltimore and Ohio could
not get from Gray's Ferry the junction
road to the other side of Philadelphia any
better than now, nor through Paramount
Park To go around Paramount Park would
involve circuit of twenty miles.
To add to the troubles of the Baltimore
and Ohio road in seeking IN independent
line over which they can transport freight
and passengers from Baltimoreto New York,
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
road has notified the former road that if
they wish to run through passenger trains
mWashingtion 10 New York they must pay
the cost of running the locomotives. The
annual expenses of the engines necessary for
running the Baltimore and Ohio trains is said
to be 100000, for which the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore road claim that
they are not reimbursed by the collection of
tolls from passengers.
The delays to Baltimore and Ohio trains at
the Junction Road in Philadelphia, are the
cause of decline in passenger travel over that
line, as when there are no passengers the cars
pass through all right, but when there are any
passengers the cars are delayed.
The Popular Vote at the Presidential
Election.
The Baltimore SIN has made a careful reyi-
sion ofthe returns from all the States Of the
Safes in 1890. f...
The total vote of the country is 9 ,200,r9l
divided ms follows: dee
James A. Garfield (Rep). ............. i ,437 1881
Winiield'S. Hancock tDem. ......... 4, 444 3l3
james Is. Weaver tGreeuhacli)....... 307, 063
Ncal5Duw tProhibItion). .....,...... 9,G44
Scattering OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1903
. ~ -,r..r. rr..l 80. . -
Total. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $500, 194
-, tlancoek's majority over Garfield, consc.
quently, f339. s.' ID.
According to the popular vote Hancock is
undoubtedly President, but by our system of
voting by States Garfield is the successful
candidate. Whether this last method is an
exact expression of the popular will may be
considered extremely doubtful. In our sys-
TEN of government il seems to have been i'm
possible to reconcile all the jarring elements,
ind until some new mode he devised, we
shall be compelled TO submit to any incon-
venence to which We are subjected
Chancellor Kent in n volume of his Com.
mcntaries comes to the conclusion that il
ever the liberties of the nation will be cndan.
gcred, orits tranquility disturbed, it will be
upon the choice OF a President. In the Pre-
sidential canvass of 1876 the country was in
suspense for months as to the really elected
candidates Such q crisis may again occur.
Would it not be the part of wise legislation
to prevent any such untoward event !?