Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-04
CUMBERLAND GAP TO THE
ATLANTIC?
The Kentucky Central COmpell-
ed Io go There.
Cincinnati Commercial.


ed Io go There.
Cincinnati Commercial.
Mr.. John G.. Eve has addressed a
communication to the Cumberland
Chronicle advocating railroad cons
nection from Lou svilie via Gums
berland Gap 70 the Atlantic seaboard
at York, Wilmington, Charleston and
Port Royal. Heshows that Charles
ton is nearer to Louisville 138 miles
by the Cumberland Gap route than
by Nashville, SO miles nearer than
by Knoxville and Blue Ridge route,
and Is miles nearer than by Knox
vile and Morristown, that Charles
ton is 158 miles nearer Cincinnati by
Cumberland Gap than by Chatta~
nooga. He says that the company
owning the French Broad route,
from Asheville to the Tennessee
State line, in the direction of Cum
berland Gap, are determined to CON-
plete said road at once.
OF the Kentucky Central move
ment towards Cumberland Gap, he
says:
Il now understand that Mr.. In
gals, the new president of the Ken
lucky Central Railroad, was not
acting as agent of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, IN buy
ing up the controlling stock in the
Central Road. I learn, furthermore,
that the Kentucky Central Railroad
Company propose to extend their
road to Cumberland Gap, and thence
to the Atlantic coast. Since my for
mer communication [ have cOrre~
sponded with officers of the Spar-
tansburg and Asheville Railroad, and
with the management of osher roads,
and learn that the Louisville and
Nashville combination do not have
control of the proposed road from
Cumberland Gap to Bristol, from
Cumberland Gap to Morristown, nor
of the Kentucky Central. [ learn
that they do have control of the
Georgia Railroad running from Att
lanta to Augusta, and of the Georgia
Central, running from Macon to Say
annah. Have they control of the
railroads from Chattanooga to Allan
ia and Macon? Even though they
had these connections, have they cos
mopolitan ideas sufficient to conclude
that this is better than a European
connection with the head of n.yiga~
ton on the Western waters Of the
United States at Louisville? ? Pardon
me for suggesting that the LOUIS
vile and Nashville MIs>management,
as I understand, propose Gin the
event the Kentucky Central Railroad
Company intend to make road) to
extend their line to Cumberland
Gap. Well, who thanks them for
any such thing? Who thanks them
when they are forced to do some>
thing for their own benefit :?
Do you know that this combi-
nation have a rairoad by way of
! Jacksboro and Knoxville to Chatta-
nooga? Well, what does it amount
| to? Do they control the railroad
from Chattanooga to Atlanta? If
they do, what does it amount to, ex-
cept an internal connection and
not much of one at that, as com
pared with the Atlantic seabOard
connections heretofore spoken Of.
| Do YOU know that these two roads
make almost circle, and that the
| Cincinnati Southern Railroad is the
diameter of the circle?
After claiming that the Louisville
and Nashville Company will not ex-
tend to Cumberland Gap or else
where except for purely selfish mo-
tlves, he asks the people Of Louisville
if they know.
THAT we do not care anything
about the Louisville and Nashville
Company ex ending their road to
Cumberland Gap? We know that
the Kentucky Central Company are
compelled to extend their road to
Cumberland Gap, or become bank
rupt. We know very we'll that the
Chicago and Atlantic Company,
which proposes to cross the Ohio
River at Vevay, Indiana, will be COM
PEELED, by force Of circumstances, to
go through Cumberland Gap. So,
unless the Louisville and Nashville
Company show o little more energy
and enterprise, they will be crushed
between the upper and neither mill
stones-or, in other words, between
the Cincinnati Southern and the
Kentucky Central, or the Chicago
and South Atlantic Railroad"