The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-05
RAILWAY NEWS.
Is the n. V, p. ~ c. Road an Air
Castle Miscellaneous Notes.

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The following item has appeared in
several papers, published in towns along
the proposed line of the New York, Pitts
buTgh and Chicago road: A New york
correspondent says by request OF certain
Ohio parties, he Investigated the New
York, Pittsburgh Il Chicago X. K. Co.,
and finds it is altogether an air castle.
He says It's sOlidity consists only in pa
Der subscriptions; 1t has no standing of
any kind among the capitalists of the
metropolis. This is the road that is to
pass through New Lisbon, Minerva and
WaynesbuTgh.
In reply to this the New Lisbon Pat
riot says: The ten thousand Tumors
about the road cannot be relied on. As
matter of fact the company has paid
every dollar of indebtedness, and Is
financially in good shape. As soon as
the questions of dispute are settled on
the line between Oakville and Wampum
the construction of the road will go on.
There is no room to doubt the good talth
of the company.
To inspire confidence into the people
along the route, would it not be well
for the authorities to rise and explain.
People do not like to invest money In an
enterprise shrOuded by doubt as to its
reliability,
LARGEST TRESTLE IN THE WORLD.
The Cincinnati, New Orleans u Pa
cific road have let contract for the
building of a tTestle across Lake POnt-
chartTaIn, to connect the Northern ter
minus of the Old Fork Road, leading
from New Orleans, with the Southern
terminus of the road leading from Merl-
dian, Miss. The trestle, when compile
ted, will be twenty-three miles long,
the longest trestle in the world. The
=. hA hal
as fast as possible until the structure Is
completed. factory for the manufac-
ture of creOsOte to be used ia saturating
the timber, or that part of it that will
placed under water, has been erected.
The capacity of the factory is of such
magnitude that p, 600 feet of timber can
be saturated i'll day.
FLASHES.
Wooster expects to raise 100000 for
Lake Erie, Wooster Il Muskingum Valley
railroad, $4,000 having been subscribed
with books not yet open.
The PENNSYLVANIA Co., are cOntempla-
ting still faster time by their limited
express trains. They are arranging to
reduce the time from Chicago to New
York one hour.
PennOck Bros, of Minerva, are thinking
of establishing a wheel foundry i'll con-
nectiOn with their car works, with a ca
pacity of eighty wheels per day. Their
car works are busy filling orders, aggre-
eating nearly 100000.
Station indicators i'll the cars of the
Pennsylvania railroad, give notice to
passengers of the approaching stopping
place. At either end of the car is neat
case containing a piece of muslin or can
vas on rollers, upon which are printed
in legible letters all the stations. By a
lever on the locomotive, the engineer,
on leaving a station, changes the indi-
Gator.
Tracklayers on the Wheeling & Lake
Erie road expect to reach Toledo by
February 18th, when the road will be
operated from that place to MassillOn.
AT Massillon the crossing over the Cleye-
land, Guscarawas Valley a. Wheeling
track is laid, but the tracklayers have
not yet reached that point. The dis
tance from Wheeling to Toledo by the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railway will be
202 miles.