The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-23
Things in Quaker City


PHILADELPHIA, May 20, 1885.
The entrance of the Baltimore Rail-
road into built-up portion of our city
has been a matter of great interest to all
railroad men, and especially to that great
corporation, the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The long-expected event, that has caused
this crafty monopoly to expend millions
of dollars and enter into countless alli-
croachments on this, their pet city, is
about to be realized in earnest, and a
small sized war will no doubt be the ulti-
mate result.
Very few people outside of Philadel-
phia know what particular location will
be the entire of the new road, but with
us it is very well located in name, though
few persons can make it visit very
often. The meek" is a sort of cast-off
section of our city, principally made
ground reclaimed from marsh land, but
on which the city is gradually being ex-
tended. Over this most extreme south
ern and our metropolis this new railroad
enters, and will probably have depot
at Mihin street wharf. 1t is on this
ground that the Pennsylvania Railroad
is doing its best to keep the opposing
line from erecting its road bed, and have
been building and altering the road beds
over which they have control, making
the grades vary to suit the purpose of
blockade. And not alone is this opposi
ton confined to the avarice of this one
corporation, but the Baltimore line will
also have to fight our city council, for
there are many in that body that can see
nothing bnt calamity in this usurpation
of the peoples rights in allowing a rival
of the Pennsylvania Railroad to enter
the city at grade or in any other manner.
To be sure they open to conviction in the
shape of substantial arguments, which
no doubt they are laying low for.
They talk of having an electrical rail-
road in the park, and plans and measure
ments have been instituted to that end.
Other modes of travel in the railway
line being ruled out by the Park Com
mission this nineteenth century idea has
been granted the privilege, and in year
or so we may expect to pass through the
broad expanse of our beautiful park
drawn by an electrical engine. Whether
this will benefit the poor man who
usually does the Park on "Shanks mare"
or whether it is not only good chance
to work up an invention for an adver-
tisement only is a question to be solved
in the future. At any rate it is novelty,
and will be popular.
There is also in prospect the making of
a balloon for war purposes in the park,
under the management of the Superin-
dent, General Thayer. 1t is to be an ex-
pertinent to show how far the use of
dynamite may be carried in aerial war
fare. 1t is to be constructed by order of
the government of the United States,
and will be very large and costly, with
sufficient strength to carry ton weight
1t is to have an apparatus by which it
can go as it pleases in mid air.
|, in common with thousands of my
fellow citizens, have long waited to get a
chance to see the "only Nolan" who has
been so extensively adyertized among
the base ball fraternity, and went out
last Tuesday to see his Opening" Fully
nine thousand and more persons were
gathered at the grounds, and anxiously
waited the gong to bring the game before
us. The opposing club was the Chicago,
a club which has long enjoyed the dis
tinction of being the champion kiCkers,
and are correspondingly difficult team
to defeat. Well, the die was cast and
the Chicago's went to bat, with the "only
Nolen" occupying the box. Every man
stood up on the out benches and leaned
forward to see him strike each batter-out
But after bracing up, and nervously adj
iusting his wardrobe, he succeeded in
giving three men bases on balls, and two
made base hits off him, which was
grand total of twenty-five balls in one
inning and six runs. That was enough
for the Phillies, and Furguson was put in
for the remainder of the game, and did
such excellent work as to tie the score
which was six ahead and making one of
the greatest hits ever made for home
run, knocking ball over the right field
fence two squares away, Cusic did nobly,
but Pm afraid his brother in the harness
has lost cast here. 1t may be his ner-
vousness, but that counts as much as
anything in this business. SPHYNx.
Visit the up town ice cream parlor,
and try Brunos' ice cream.