Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-16
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THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1851


@sssssss1SA VI A~S" - VAA N0RAASeAA0VO OSSsA w
oaS from that town the other day for a
carriage drive over the route of a rail-
way they have projected to run thence
to Perryville at the head of Chesapeake
bay. We hope the New York gentle.
men have had q pleasant trip of it, al
they ought to have had in this delightful
weather over the charming country Of
hill and dale through which their jour.
ney ran. The elevations they crossed
gave them a fine opportunity OF survey
ing the country which they contemplate
opening up to commerce, and the valleys
they descended into afforded very con.
venient rest to eyes thus strained in con.
templating broad vistas of Gods great
handiwork. The ups and downs they
struggled over may perhaps dismay their
engineers, but these capitalists are evi.
6ently men above all: thought of com.
plant that nature has not made for them
q gently graded valley all the way from
the Schuylkill to the bay. The greater
the difficulties the greater their triumph
no consideration of filthy lucre restrains
them from the work they find appointed
to their hands.
Just what that work is we cannot say
that we very surely know. For some
months past reports of this project have
come to our ears, but the sight of the
benevolent New York capitalists has not
refreshed our eyes, Notwithstanding they
are said to be going to give US branch
from New Holland. They are modest
gentlemen; which is unusual for New
York capitalists-unless they have a
purpose in it. So these gentlemen may
be presumed to have q sufficient object
for their reticence and seclusiveness.
They do not care to proclaim aloud the
good they are going to do rs, fearing,
perchance, that they may disorder their
neckties with our warm embraces
of gratitude or their digestions with oul
complimentary dinners. 1t was early
announced on their behalf that they
didn't want any money from anyone
hereabouts; all the stock was snapped up
before the books were opened, and all the
bonds taken by New York Trust com.
pany. So We have been comparatively
calm. We stood to gain a railroad and
to lose nothing. 1t was quite novel
experience. We envied these magnifi-
cent fellows and almost felt like begging
for few of their chromos just for a
keepsake.
Such great avidity to own railroad
twixt Reading and Perryville makes us
unsophisticated country folks open our
eyes because we wouldn't want any
of it, if these distinguished New York
capitalists didn't want it all and even
now we don't want great deal of it.
Any Of US would he satisfied with one
share but that much We would like to
have, just for the satisfaction of being in
such elegant company, to be entitled to
read the beautiful reports that will some
day emanate from its secretary and to
feel that we are part and lot of this great
benevolent scheme.
For OF course benevOlence is at the
bottom of it. It has no mark of a com.
mercial venture about it for profit. Be-
cause the absolute impossibility of profit
seems to be quite conceded. There is
something said, it is true, about the AL
vantage the new road will be in carrying
the Schuylkill Goals to the Chesa-
peake, and there is promise made
of great docks that may be built at Perry
vile, by which to ship it from the cars.
But then We know that there is already
a railroad from Reading to the Susque-
hanna at Columbia and a canal thence
to Perryville and a railroad, too coal,
moreover: We know is not produced at
Reading, but away beyond it, and so our
new road can't be intended to carry it.
And it would scorn to do it anyway, be-
cause coal is heavy and has a predilec.
tion for down grade to the water, such
as it gets along the Reading railroad to
the Delaware river and the Delaware
seems to he just rs good a water to bear
the coal as the Chesapeake and some
what better for it is deeper, and car
ries ocean vessels but no ocean craft
ever got within fifty or more miles of
the delightful shad depot at Perryville,
a.wOrd SO sweet to our ears in the early
spring time.
Just what is the peculiar strength of
the benevolence which builds this cross
country railroad we cannot now declare,
because We don't know. 1t is not, as
may be suggested, to carry the delicious
shad to Reading, because that would
only freight it for few spring weeks !;
nor is it to carry the Reading sportsmen
down to the wild celery beds, because
Reading hasn't any duck shooters they
are all too piOus to be SO cruel-to them
selves and the ducks. Possibly the idea
may be to extend the evangelizing inf|u-
ence of Reading through the heather
country to- the South of it. But then
that is already being done by the rail-
road to which the new one runs parallel
as far as Hinkletown and we have not
noticed that the people of this section
have been particularly regenerated so
far by the Reading & Columbia road.
After the railroad of our New York
philanthropists leaves HinkletOwn it
makes little venture, all its own, for a
half dozen miles over to New Holland,
through a virgin country now innocent of
rail but there it kisses against branch