Daily Republican., 1883-06-26
RAILROAD EXTENSION.
Work ON the New Line Soon to
Commence The BrandyWlne
Bridge Masonry.

Bridge Masonry.
Mr.. Samuel Spencer, second Vice
president of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, who has charge of the opera
tiOns connected with the construction o
the extension to Philadelphia, said OIL
Saturday that none of the contracts fol
letting the work rave yet been signed
but some of them will be closed thi,
week and work begun in few days
thereafter The bridge over the Sus-
quehanna Is the most important
work on the line, and will require at
least as much time In its construction
as will be necessary to complete the
grading Of the road and the laying Of
the rails. The Havre de Grace Repub-
lican says that quarters for the engi-
neers ofthe bridge are being prepared
there. The bridge is to be of the trian-
gular pattern and of iron. Col. w. NJ
Patton, 1t is stated, is to have: direction
of the work there, and the granite quar-.
ries of the late Mr. John Keaveny have
been leased, and they will furnish stone
for the piers and approaches.
But it has been intimated that the
policy will be to eventually get to Cam
den Station by direct route. Officers
OF the Company say nothing has been
settled so far as the plan for getting into
this city is concerned, and hat the mat
ter has not been more than generally
discussed. The completion Of the line
will cost large sum OF money, ,perhaps
as much as any 100 miles of road ever
built in this country, and with con-
nection with Camden Station secured
surely by way of Locust Point, it is not
Immediately in:ended to make further
very large expenditures to make the
connection more direct.
Right Of way has not been as yet see
cured on more than twO-thirds of the
| line between Baltimore and the Susque
hanna. Some land owners have given
rights, others have accepted nominal
sum, and the balance will be settled on
estimates obtained through ,juries of
condemnation, which Mr.. Hammond,
the right-of-way agent, will soon have
summoned. 1t is stated that the ma
sonry for the Brandywine bridge and
approaches at Wilmington will be
awarded to Gen. X. Snowden Andrews
and Major Milo w. Locke. About 45,
900 cubic feet of stone work will be re-
quired The bridge will be 800 feet
long and over 100 feet in height.
1t has been several times stated that
the work of grading is to be begun some
distance east of Bayview alton, three
miles from the eastern limits Of Balti-
more. 1t appears to have been settled
that the Company will have its Balti-
more terminus in the east This will
give easy access to Locust Point, across
the harbor by steam barges like the one
now in use there.
Outside of the railroad circles it is
asserted by persons who have watched
the course of the company in trying to
get into Philadelphia that an effort will
be made to get authority to build an
elevated railroad along Pratt street or
some other east-and-west rect. A
tunnel under Patterson Park, they say,
would give the company the needed in
let into the city proper The Northern
Central Company has been credited for
several years with entertaining a
similar elevated railroad plan for
reaching the centre of the city at the
City Hall from Union Stat ion.
The large expenditure necessary for
such an undertaking is believed to have
delayed the matter, but it has probably
not been abandoned. Wel-informed
capitalists and others believe that the
elevated Railroad plans of the two
companies as here suggested are FEAST
BILE, but that time and money are indis-
pensable in carrying them through.