The daily gazette., 1881-03-12
SECOND EDITION
LETTER FROM SAM'L TOWN
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The Delaware farmers and peach
growers who made an enormous busi-
ness for railroads, between Delaware
and New York, have been heavily
charged by the p, W. & B. X. r., a
Boston corporation, which also was the
lessee of the Delaw are Railroad. We
peach growers. went up to The Presi>
dent of said p, W. 81 B. r. r., in
Philadelphia, aud appealed to him to
lessen our freights; give us more ac-
commodations. The invariable ans
wcr was 10, and finally took the right
OF contracting for cars from us, and
brought our baskets back in one hete-
rogeneoas mass to New Castle, unload
tn EN-, and broke many, and reloaded
and delayed them.so long that we were
forced to buy, unnecessarily, thousands
of dollars worth of new baskets, thai
we need not have bought, had the old
arrangement of chartered cars not
been taken from us. An instrument
OF writing was prepared and every
peach shipper was compelled to sign,
before they would allow basket OF
peaches to be put in the car. |, as
one of the committee, one day in the
Presidents office, Philadelphia, COM
planned of having to sign such Lu>
initiating document. The President
said he had at nights for week stud
led, and then hired the best lawyer he
could get to assist III framing a docu-
ment for peach shippers 10 sign thai
would relieve the railroad COMPANY
as far as possible from responsibility
TO the grower or shipper. This act OF
itself spoke volumes. We peach men
quit going up to try to get glievences
redressed, and turned our attention to
our Legislature for redress. We were
met their by the hrelings of the Rail
road Company, but we have fought OIL
undismayed, and this present session,
after several skirmishes, between all
ally of ours, the McComb Whining
ton Western Railroad, supposed to be
in the interest of the b. IL 0. Railroad
until on certain day, and all but un-
known to himself (aL least no doubt
the effects were).
M. Cahall introduced resolution
that if the b. s. 0. Company would
come or send bona tide request for
charter for railroad through Della
ware it would be granted. This reso
luton passed unanimously, and it was
the greatest railroad bomb shell ever
hred on North America. In Ave min
utes it knocked my Boston stockhold-
ers, as they used to be called to us, OIL
their knees. The supposed leader OF
these stockholders in Boston, few as
fast as steam would bring him TO New
\ ork, and sold out as he supposed, be
fore he let the officers at Broad and
Prime streets, Philadelphia, know
it.
Then came, in few days afterwards
the beautiful Boston yankee process
skinning one another when they haVt
not strangers to skin, so that the original
thayer family that used to have us
peach growers skinned, could not deliv-
or a majority of stock to the B. & o.,
and got skinned out, as report says, OF
oOO,OOO. There is not a peach grove
that has the least pity for them. Nov
she p. w. & b. K. r. has fallen into the
very hands l always hoped 1t would, the
Pennsylvania K. K. Co. We will nov
have but one set OF men to deal WITH
Cassett and Walcott Jackson are OLD
friends of the Delaware peach growers
and 1 have no objection to the Z. Il. X !.
keeping as assistants IL. +. Kenney, G
X. lde and john Wilson and the tran
men In general that come down The
Delaware X. Road, for they are gentle
men; and ii the President of the Della
ware Il. R., Samuel ". FELTON,, who II
also director of the p. K, e., woult
act fo' the Delaware Il. r., all bickerings
between the raj lroad and the pt ople OF
Delaware would cease at once. MI
FELTON, helped start the peach business,
and tbs farmers and fruit growers have
great confidence IN his taiTnes and liber
ahty, and we have been in hot water
eyer since he left the active manage
meDt OF the Z. W. q b. Il, r., but nov
there need only be- the Delaware r. X
management and p Il Il and all DeIa.
ware peaches Intended To be sold il
Philadelphia should be taken no Il
Market street, West Philadelphia and =
depot made tor their sale, also anothei
depoHabour 10th or 18th md Nj arkel street.
Broad and Prime Is nowhere 10 land o.
4el peaches. l think every peach grow
ers Will join me In rendering our tbaLks
10 Messrs. Roberts and A j Cassett teI
their shrewdness in securing tor the ]
Il r the p w 81 B X Il and Delaware Il
X, and it is particularly gratifying to mt
to learn how Boston stockholders skin
ned one another. L have my private
opinions who helped bring the seconC
sale about; he han right TO retaliate.-
We peach growers are greatly Indebted
to Mr.. Cahall, aud l propose that the
farmers and peach growers give him
public dinner for his lucky shot il
knocking my Boston Stockholders Init
a cooked hat by making them disagree,
That Cahall resolution Knocked six
teen million corporation into smiJhers;
so il is not worth while hereafter toI
people to say Delaware has no grea
Men. When Kent county farmer caD,
by writing a few lines and passing II as a
knock sixteen million Cor.
poration to atoms and make a set OF
men who have been fRUteniug off the
beach growers disagree half a million
of dollars X II men should take warn
ing from the "Blue Hens Chickens"
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
March IL, 1881.