The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-27
RAILROAD GOSSIP.
inspecting the p. F. W. & c. Road.


The annual inspection tour of the
roads operated by the Pennsylvania
Company began Tuesday morning. The
party left Ft.Wayne early in the morning,
were in Crestline at noon, passed. through
Canton about 2:30 O'Clock and at Alli-
ance took the Cleveland &P &Pittsburghr road
for Cleveland, where they arrived at six
o'clock. They left Cleveland this
morning for Pittsburgh, after
a day at Pittsburg they return to Erie,
from which point they will proceed to
Philadelphia & Erie railway. The par
ty travel in President Roberts private
car, which is the one used to convey
President Garfield from Washington to
Elberon. The party consisted of Presi-
dent Roberts, Vice Presidents McCul-
Tough, Thomas Messler, General Mana
ger Caldwell, Messrs. WistOn Morris,
Alex NJ: Fox, N. P. Shortridge, Henry d.
Welch, John P. Weltwall, William l..
Belkins, N. H. Houston, j. n. Dubarry,
John P. Green, j. NJ. Harding and ThOs,
B. Kennedy, of Philadelphia, and
Messrs. w. S. Sutherland and s. B. Leg
gett, of Pittsburgh.
THE MAsSILLoN WAR.
The city council of Massillon held
special session Monday evening to take
action on the course of the c., 7. V. &
W.R. RICO. in Obstructing Water street
last Saturday night by building two
railroad tracks across it. A resolution
was passed instructing the city solicitor
to make application to the Court of
Common Pleas for a restraining order
enioining the railroad company from
again obstructing the street in similar
way.
Judge Meyer on Tuesday granted the
injunction asked, and notice was served
on the company Tuesday afternoon by
the sheriff.
The officers of the company deny any
previous knowledge or sanction of the
unlawful course taken Saturday night,
aud shift the entire responsibility on
the shoulders of little Irishman named
Jimmy" Reynolds, roadmaster of the
Tuscarawas Valley Company. 1t is now
thought the war is at at end.
SPARKS.
The COnnOttOn company have received
a new pay-car, which made its first trip
over the road Tuesday.
If the people of Wooster will promptly
furnish right of way and ter
minal facilities, and money to grade,
Il. H. Cochran, the managing Director
of the w. & L. E. r. R. has submitted
the following proposition to the citizens
of Wooster:
The Wheeling and Lake Erie road,
when completed, from Wheeling to To-
ledo, will be two hundred and three
miles long. The branch from NOrwalk
to Huron will be twenty miles long.
bridge and tie, we will iron, equip and
operate a line from Wooster and Smith
Vile. This would give shorter COM
peting line east, and to coal, than the
T. ", and only miles longer to Cleve-
land than the proposed Russell connec-
tion.
A force of men are putting up another
wire on the American Union Telegraph
poles, making the seventh wire in use.
The trestle work and bridges will be
finished this week and track laying will
commence on Monday next without fail.
The work will be vigorously prosecuted
and the track laid as fast as possible
[0rville Crescent.
On Monday a $4,OOOOOOmortgage deed
of trust was filed in Cleveland by the
Valley Railway to the Central Trust
Company of New York. The mortgage
is dated September 1st, and is issued in
$1,000 bonds, numbered from 1000 to
1000 inclusive. The object of the
mortgage is the fuller equipment of the
road in order to meet with the demands
of its increasing traffic.