Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-22
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RACES IN ENGLAND TODAY.
Victory for an American Horse
IMPORTANT RAILROAD MATTERS
THE WESTERN FLOODS.

THE GEORGES CREEK II. II. EN-.
TENSION.
The Meeting At Cum berland To-day
The Coal Question InvOlyed-The e
District CSmm is siOnerS Present
An Important Issue.
Especial Dispatch to The Evening Star.l
CUMBERLAND. Nd, April %, p. m.-The Mary
land Board Of Public Works, composed OF Gov
ernor VIM. T. Hamilton, Comptroller Thos. j.
Keating, Treasurer Barnes Compton, accom-
panied by Jno K. Cowen and w. F. Frick, at
torneys, and w. n. Bowling, engineer OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and Hairy Keat-
ing and n. E. Ford, of the Baltimore sun, ar
Other prominent visitors are also here, includ.
ing the District Of Columbia Commissioners
Josiah Dent, ThoS P. Morgan and VIM. j. Tw =
Ming; Hugh Allen Goldsborough and A. Ross
Ray, of Washington; President A. P. German.
of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal: Paymas.
ter stephen Gamberin and superintendent
Louis G: Stanhope, OF the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal; President Henry Loveridge and Vice
President Gardiner P, Lloyd, of New York, OF
the Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad
and the Pennsylvania Railroad, In Maryland
supervisor of trains; Francis MantZ; Col S. X.
Johnston, master of roads; A. Hunter Johnston
assistant OF Baltimore and Ohio; Superintend-
ent Charles F. Mayer and General Superintend.
ent P. L. Burwel, Cumberland and Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad, ana host Of other prominent and
minor railroad officials. The party this morn
Ing visited the proposed railroad crossing,
evening Tie Washington nHs aers
think the connection with the new
sand dollars year to the District Of Columbia
alone and will revolutioniZe the whole coal
trade. The board OF public works are now
holding secret session.
Without reciting the various points In con-
troversy, which have been taken through all
the courts, it appears that in 1878, when an
adjustment was made between the state Of
Maryland and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, clause was inserted in that act
which was afterward placed In the form OF an
agreement between the state Of Maryland,
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
and the chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
Of the construction Of any new road
leading to the Baltimore and Ohio, either
at or west of Cumberland, any controversy
should arise as to the particular point of juno
tion OF the two roads, then, upon application
to the board Of public works OF Maryland, they
should determine such point OF connection.
The points involved, therefore, are: First, the
absolute right. under the contract OF 1851 and
under the contract made In pursuance of the
adjustment act OF 1873, of any new road to
connect with the Baltimore and Ohio and have
It's engines and cars conveyed at q fixed sum
per ton to the canal basin; second. that it is
impossible with any reasonable cost for this
new road to reach the canal company's
wharf without crossing the Baltimore and Ohio
point, therefore, In the controversy is as to the
particular point at which this crossing shall be
made. The new road, In selecting its point OF
crossing, have condemned the right of way at a
point Immediately east OF Wits creek, where
there is very heavy curve on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, and It's officials claim that it
would not only involve the reconstruction Of a
portion Of their track, but would make 1t eX-
caedingly dangerous both to property and to
life to have another road cross at grade at that
particular point.