The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-02-23

besides. The Knoxville and Gin
clnnati Southern road, if built
would not help matters an iota.
| Then again, the new Knoxville rout e
will place Louisville as near to
Richmond as Cincinnati will be via
the X. c., and a good deal nearer
than via the Southern. The L. T.,
V. & q. road will certainly, sooner
or later, pass under the control of
the Louisville and Nashville man
agement. When that takes place
the Southern will be not only bot
tied up, but walled in, so far as the
Virginia business is concerned. All
that is needed now is a continuation
OF the past and present strict in
activity on the part Of the Trustees
and the various committees appOin-
ted by all kinds of societies, leagues.
and gatherings, until the Alabama,
Great Southern, Vicksburg & Ne
ridian, and the charters of the New
Orleans & Northeastern, and Major
Illusions Chattanooga & Rome roads
pass under the control of the Louis
vile and Nashville or some other
hostile corporation 4 new com
mittee will then have to be appoin-
ted to see who will take the property
with or without a bonus. There
never was such an exhibition of
Incapacity in handling a railway
on earth. There is an old adage
that two heads are better than one,
even if one is a sleeps head, but the
double headed management of the
Cincinnati Southern exploded that
saying lOngago.
KING COLE ON THE A. NJ. & o. SALE.
Nashville american, Sunday
President f. w. Cole, of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and georgia and
Memphis and Charleston Railroads.
arrived here yesterday morning
from Cincinnati. An american rep
resentative called upon him and de-
sired TO know what, if any, effect
the purchase of the Atlantic, Mis- |
5issippi and Ohio Railroads would |
have upon his system Of roads. He |
said it could not have any unfavor-
able effect, as the system he repre- |
-cntcd extended from Memphis on |
the Mississippi River and from |
Selma, Ala, to Bristol on the Nir- /
ginia line; and, whoever the pur- |
,hasers ofthe 4. NJ. q O. might be. |
they would doubtless be anxious To
cultivate the most friendly relations /
and connection with the roads be |
represents, as they give to A., VI. & |
,. more business than they receive /
from the A., VI. d Q. lie had been /
informed by telegraph from his
while absent, that the A., |
NJ. Il o. was bid off in the interest OF |
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad and /
has no information TO the contrary. |
If the Shenandoah Valley Railroad |
IS finished to a connection with the /
A., NJ & 0. at some point near Sal /
EN-, as had been heretofore sugges-
ted, it would give another connection |
east over the A. NJ. & Q. to the roads |
he represents. Besides, il is expec-
ted that the road between Wolf
Creek, Tenn, and Ashevillc, y. c..
an uncompleted gap Of forty miles,
will be finished at an early day.
The finishing of the few miles of |
road will give the roads he repre-
sents an Independent line from Nor
ristOwn, on the f. T., " a q. Road |
via AshevilIe, the Western North
Carolina and Richmond and Dan
vile roads to deep waters at West
Point, and will also give at Ashc-
Vile direct connections with the
entire railroad systems ofSouth and
North Carolina, and even another
connection with Norfolk. lie was
satisfied his roads could not be aficc-
ted injWriously by the sale of the
A., M. & o., no matter who was in
the mbinatiOn.