The daily gazette., 1881-02-08
For the Gazette.
LETTER FROM SAMUEL TOWN
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RArhRoAD MATTERS AT DOVER.

RArhRoAD MATTERS AT DOVER.
There are no mysteries but what
have q key that will unlock them
We, in this little State of Delaware,
were too poor to make railroads, and
at the same time improve the worn
out land, and being better situated
than most any State with water cour-
ses. and also along the broad side of
the Delaware Bay and River, we had
vessels that carried our products and
people to market cheaply, bat not so
expeditions as railroads, and the up
per county, Now Castle, projecting up
80 far, that any direct route from Bos-
ton, New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington, must pass
through it. In 1880 the first railroad
was laid out from New Castle to
Frenchtown, on the Elk river, 165
miles, and In 1889 the first engine run
on it. In 1885 the p, w. g. B. r. r.
was opened and commenced running,
The company who made it broke up
and Eastern buyers bought it up, and
with its earnings improved it, and as
population and trade increased it be.
came able to favor the making of the
Delaware Railroad and get control of
1t, and extort as much freight and
passage as they pleased, and have
money enough to keep sleek set
around our Legislature every session,
to oppose any laws being passed to
protect Delaware people from unjust
demands OF these said managers of the
r., w. q B. r. r. Co., that was con-
trolled by Boston capital. For proof
OF freight outrages our Secretary of
the old Peninsula Peach Growers'As-
sociation, Mr.. Alexander Fulton. has
the record, and can enlightea the Leg
islature any time bv reading letters
and resolutions. In the course of time
there has grown up in the United
States two great railroad corporations
that control hundreds of miles of rail-
roads. These two roads, the Penn
sylvania Central and the Baltimore
and Ohio, have been using this short
line from Philadelphia TO Baltimore,
called, as / before stated, the p, w.
d b. X. X. But trade is SO enormous
and business so slashing, that the 8.
q y. is determined to have a through
road from Baltimore to Philadelphia,
and on to New York, and comes to
our Legislature and asks an amend
ment in the charter of Delaware w est
ern Railroad so that the said Baltimore
and Ohio road can get through our
State, and the p, w. & B. r. r. Co.
are at Dover fighting against that
grant, which is against the B. s. o.
coming through Delaware. Our mem.
bers of our Legislature have now the
great opportunity, that we peach
freighters have been looking to for
years, thut 10 to get clear of the Bos-
ton monopoly, if our Legislature win
pass the bill allowing the B. b .. to
60 through our state.
l would not be surprised that In ten
days these Boston families who own A
costrolling interest in the P. w. q B. r.
R., would sell out to the P. r. R., then
there will be two great railroads through
our State, and our legislature and the
best attorneys they can hire can put
Delaware farmers and Delaware people
on solid ground 30 they never can be
domineered as they have been by
the P. W. & B. r. Re, Boston Man
agement, the P. r. R., now carries our
fruit from Greys Ferry to New York. We
would have but one company to bargain
with, this great company has plenty
of cars and connections up north whe, g
are markets for our peaches, ami we
would be treated right especially II our
legislature by the aid of the best of
counsel In the laws or acts of transfer
took care of Delaware rights; as to the
slang Of the Pennsylvania r. R., medd-
ling In our politics is bosh. Could she
do any more then was done last year by
the P, w. & B. r. r. ? Did not one of
her officers act as President OF the Re.
publican State Coz vention.
II is net the p. r. r. in Psnnsyl-
vAnia, 1t is the negro vote, and did not
the P, w. & B. r. r. men try to
make it avail here, Richard Smith for
instance, and the Dover posse. Can
any person point out men of the P. r.
X. doing such things, and besides
these two great reads, the Pennsylvania
and B. Il o., both going through our
State, would act as levers against one
another, and then with good checks
and balances by our law makers, or
hrst class legal advice, Delaware would |
be safe and march ON to greatness in
her fruit truckery and other business.
Ny advice is to give the B. & o. r. r.
the right under proper checks and bal
ances to 90 through Della ware, then
that will reduce the stock of the P,
w. & B. r. r., SO the Thayers of Bos-
ton will be glad to sell out their con-
trolling interest, and the p. r. r. is
the only able road to buy it, and then
we would have but one railroad to deal
with and have our wants aecemmo-
dated ON liberal and fair basis. If
any member has any misgivings let
him call or me and look over the old
records of the Peninsula Peach Grow
srs Association, etc., and besides, Of
,ourse, il the P. R.. Il. attempted to
impose ON US, Of course we could go
20 the B. & o., for these two roads in
III probability always be separate and
roads. This great oppor-
unity to place Delaware in q good
position in railroad conveyance ought
lot to slip through our hands.
SAMUEL TowEaEND.