Daily Republican., 1882-12-05
xhe street Railway TO New Castle.

The street Railway 20 New CASTLE
A spasmodic effort every now ana
Hhen will not build street railway De-
tween Wilmington and New Castle. 1t
will require steady, energetic, persist
ent work-we mean in the way OF ap-
peals to the people, AMI creating pub
lie sentiment that will unloose the purse
strings of these who have locked up
capital and capital that is paying next
to no interest. The manual labor part OF
the road will be the least difficult. Work
men are plenty and.ready to work for
moderate wages. Iron is on the de-
crease in price, and everything is fav-
Orable, if only the ready cash was on
hand. Money is not scarce, but only
awaiting investments. Now why can
mot this unemployed capital be invested
in this much needed street railway to
New Castle? 1t willlnot pay do you
say? That is just what was said when
the great Pennsylvania railroad was
built; when the Philadelphia, Will
mingten and Baltimore railroad was
built and when the Delaware railroad
was built When the inOipient steps
were first taken to buildlthese railroads,
the prospect was not al particle more
promising than they are now tor The
street railway to New Castle. Where
are.the stockholders in these roads now
who would sell their Stockton what 1t
cost them? SIT won't pay" was the
cry of the timid, when the building OF
the Wilmington City Railway was pro-
jected, but there we enough pushing
euerpetic business men who thought it
would pay in time, and what is the re-
suit? There is no Wilmington City
railway stock in the market for sale to-
day. TIE same cry of "won't pay" was
raised when the building of the Front
and Union street railway was projected,
but the road is built, and the road has
not only paid expenses, but. there is
surnlus over, The same result,wtll fol-
low the building Of the road to New
Castle. The "won't pay" patriots
should not be permitted to rule in this
matter. They won't give any thing
any how to commence. the enterprise,
but they will be on hand when the road
is a success to gather up any loose stock
there may be for sale. These kind OF
people never started any great enttr-
prise yet. They never project steam
mill manufactures, ship yards and
other great improvements. Whenever
any thing of that kind is suggested, we
hear the same old cry of won't pay"
rssounding through business circles
like the ominous croakinGs of raven.
We are amongst those who believe that
a street railway to New Castle will
pay-not largely perhaps at first, but
like all the other roads we have men
toned, lucratively in the end. We
cannot see how it CAP help but pay.
Wilmington Is growing and spreading
out one arm towards New Castle, and
the latter is holding out her infant arms
to her larger iaister; there must be a
coming together some day and a street
railway will hasten the fraternal en-
brace.
We are pleased to see by the New
Castle Star, of which our friend White
is the genial and able editor, that there
is no opposition to the building OF the
road in our young sister city, as was
represented by a Wilmington evening
paper, but that there is a hearty senti-
ment in favor of the building of the
road. We believe the same sentiment
prevails in Wilmington, What then ls
TO hinder the consummation of the en-
terprise? We would suggest that our
New Castle friends lead off in this mat
ter by calling a meeting of heraleading
citizens of means and influence and
start the ball rolling. Then operate in
this city. Sixty thousand dollars for
such a purpose. Not more than one
third of it will be required to commence
with. Who will move actively in this
matter?