The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-10-11

Company, having become HNa'ly Convinced
of the fact that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad will gain an outlet in New York,
have adopted the measure Of refusing tC
allow the Baltimore corporation the priv
lege hitherto accorded of using the tracks
between Philadelphia and Baltimore fol
their special traffic. Hitherto this arrange
ment has done very little, if any, injury to
the Pennsylvania corporation for the simple
reason that passengers from New York
State or Pennsylvania, bound West, have
very generally preferred to use the direct
route, instead of taking trip South to COM
mence journey of nearly similar lergth.
BY denying to the Baltimore and Ohio the
privilege Of running ears over the tracks
Pennsylvania Company will loi improbably
put the Baltimore corporation TO consider
able Inconvenience and loss for six months
or a year to come, but there is not the
slightest hope that the successor of Mr..
John W. Garrett will be the sort Of man to
abandon great public enterprise Ike the
B. & o. extension by any action of the kind
Just taken. On the contrary the most proba-
bic result will be TO hasten tile completion
of the new road by several months. II will
then be for the public in general, and the
people of Wilmington in particular, to re-
member how little consideration has been
given to Jheir convenience in this matter,
and to accord full and hearty patronage
to the B. & 0. as soon as it is opened be-
tween this city and Baltimore.
The Baltimore Sun speaking of the means
of retaliation in the hands of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad in making It's fight FOR pas
enger business with the Pennsylvania, says:
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has pass
enger line from Chicago to New York called
the Niagara Falls Short Line, running to
Detroit and Buffalo, where passengers have
the. option Of the Erie or che West Shore to
New York. Should this line commence to
Slash into passenger rates the other lines
would follow, no doubt. In the railroad
wars which the Baltimore & Ohio has been
in, they were cut off from New York, and
used steamships for their freights from Bal
timore to New York. No one on the out
side can rureshadow what the outcome OF
this mattsr is to be, but developments will
be watched with interest. 1t appears to be
assured that the affair is looked upon as
serious among railroad men.
Mr., Charles K. Lord lti@o ana Ohio
passenger agent says:-Sf
"From the newspaper statements of Pas
enger Agent Boyd, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, the public are led to believe that
the only reason the Pennsylvania Railroad
had for Withdrawing the through car service
of the y. & o. r. r. was owning to the fact
that this service between Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and New York was unprofitable. The
facts are quite the reverse, as careful ex-
animation of the train schedules will show.
Between Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York only two of these trains were run foI
the special accommodations of the B, and
o. r. r. the other four being continuous
trains between Washington and New York
via the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad,
with B. and o. connection. A careful ex-
animation of statistics will show that the
average number Of through passengers oil
the two trains which we.e lun especially
for the B. and o. r. r. were in excess of
any of the Pennsylvania r. r. through
trains. Therefore it is evident the tue rea-
son for the action of the Pennsylvania r. r.
in arbitrarily depriving tie B. and o. r. r.
of train facilities whereby the public were
enabled to enjoy this popular route of travel
through Washington and Baltimore was
entirely owing 10 the fact that their new
line between Baltimore and Philadelphia
is rapidly approaching completion, toget her
with the fact that the b. and O. II. r. have
been able to secure such facilities in the
vicinity and west of Pittsburg, whereby
the revenue of the Pennsylvania r. r., a,
well as the Pennsylvania Co., has been very
seriously affected, as their monthly reports
will show The New York and Philadelphia
extension is being rapidly pushed, and when
this line is opened it will undoubtedly be-
come a very formidable competitor of tile
Pennsylvania Railroad for travel between
Washington. Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York, as well as the through east and
west business, as it is the intention of the
management to offer the public such train
facilities as will at once make the route a
popular one. As the record will show, the
Pennsylvania Railr ad in cutting off the b.
and o. Railroad have done a very small
thing, which time alone will fully demon
strate.