Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-11-21


Our Mew Raj road.
Those who are respondent on account
of the dark business lookout, should
take courage from the persist1ncy and
push with which the Baltimore and
Philadelphis Railroad Company are
pushing the building Of their road
through Delaware. Two years ago
ground was not broken for the road.
Now the grading has been completed,
and . track laid except where streams
have to be bridged. and over them 1t is
expected to have tracks laid aud trains
running by the first of January. 1t Is
amazing to look and zee wha: an i'm
mense amount Of work has been done
In . short time-less than eighteen
months.
Great cuts have been excavated, one
u them near the Scheufzen Park over
forty feet deep. The work on the road
through this city in itself IL simply as
founding. The old skating rink ut the
middle depot has been lifted up by the
dirt from the Scheutzen Park cut I'M
Gil It is the highest point of ground in
the vicinity, anc rs passengers pass
through in the cars they can look from
the car windows into the windows
Of three.story buildings in the neigh.
borhood, and over the roofs of two-story
buildings.
And then what q magnificent iron
bridge 10 to be thrown across the Bran
DIVINE, resting upon massive and
beautifully constructed pillars or piers
of Brandywine granite. Those piers,
how gracefully they rise from the rock y
bed Of the Brandy wine to the height OF
over eighty feet, and upon these piers
Is 10 rest twenty feet iron truss work
for the track, the latter TO be one hun
dred aud eight feet above low water
mark when finished. A few years ago
crowds went up the Brandywjne to nee
Workmen build the smoke stack of the
Augustine paper mills Of Jessup &
Moore, and when it was completed II
was looked upon as a wonder of art.
Now passengers can look from the
Brandywine bridge down into the TOP
Of that chimney. The hundreds OF
Thousands OF d liars spent by this en-
terprisipg Railroad Company have been
great benefit to the city of Whining.
ton, but that is nothing scarcely com
pared to the benefit it will be in the
future.
By the first Of January trains will
run over this new road from ClaymonI
20 the State line beyond Newark, and
1t is not improbable that by the opening
Of spring, passenger trains will run
from Elkton, Maryland, to Chester
Pa, connecting three States by another
link Of steel rails.
After that the real solid improve.
monts Of the road will be commenced
round houses and shops will no doubt
be built at the middle depot on Della
ware avenae. A passenger and freigh
depot Of course will lie built, and from
the manner in which the road is built
we may judge that the depot building
and all other buildings erected by thi
company will be in keeping with tn
manner in which the road has beef
constructed.
There will be nothing niggardly no
mean about anything. What q gran
opportunity this company has TO make
firstclass summering place right at til
Brandywine bridge. We hear
already limited that the company
ooking ahead to an enterprise of thi
kind. summeripg houses on the n
mantle hills that shade the Brand,
wine, taking in Raltlesnake Run va
ley, would make one amongst the tr
romantic places of resort that can
found along the line of any railroa,
What a grand place it would make Fl
excursion parties north from Baltimo
and south from Philadelphia Such
place we feel very confident will N
escape the practical business eyes
the managers of the BALTIMORE x oh
Railroad.
But these are only the improvement
the Railroad company is TO make wit
out taking into account the improv
ments that must surely follow by p
vate citizens. The opening of the mt
road will only precede the opening
coal ards and the building of man
factories. 1t is not improbable that t
resident population along the line Of
road will be forced back to high
grounds, and the whole line ct the ro
through our city be taken up vi
machine shops, foundries, rolling mi
aud all other kinds of manufactor
dependent of course upon the remo'
Of the present business depression.
few years it need not be surprising
she western part of the city will b
business rival with the eastern pa
With two great national lines of RI
road through our city we will ind'
be highly favored people. With
rail way lines running east aud "
our citizens can take their choice o
starting point either north or sou
Philadelphia and Baltimore will u
be reached by two great lines or r
road, and we have no doubt that b
will do their best to accommodate
people.