Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-28
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The New station Probably at Fif-
teenth and Market Streets.

teenth and Market Streets.
Tuesdays Philadelphia Press tries 10
gather up the threads OF evidence in
regard to the we'll concealed plans of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad in Philadel-
phia, and decides that the new road will
not adopt the expensive plan of going
down Arch street, and says It seems to
be definitely settled that the elevated road
will run between Chestnut and Market
streets, and will extend as far south as
Fifteenth street. When completed IL will
occupy that portion of the city known as
Barker street, which will be
wiped out of existence as Jones
street was by the Pennsylvania rail
road. Barker street is a narrow and
unimportant thoroughfare running be-
tween Market and Chestnut streets from
the Schuylkill to Sixteenth street. Prop
erty, mostly unimproved, on both sides
Of the street is to be purchased for prob
ably $4,000 TO $4,000 each, and for the
site of the new depot entire blocks are to
be purchased and torn away. The great
contest between the two rival companies
over giving the Baltimore u Ohio the
right of way into the city will take place
at the meeting of the railroad committee
'Neck" the partisan railroad feeling is
so strong that some of the surveyors have
been fired upon.
A Baltimore special says the splendid
bridge over Gunpowder river will be
| finished in about two months, and il is
| expected that all the rails between Balti-
more and Philadelphia will be laid by
October. The masonry of the Susque-
hanna bridge will be completed by the
middle of June. This is one of the largest
bridges in the world, and, considering the
engineering difficulties to be overcome
and the immensely of the work, it has
been constructed in a shorter time than
any other similar bridge known in the
world. 1t has IL piers, two abutments
and $50 pedestals. All the piers are on
caissons, and four of them are 80 feet
above water, with caissons 90 feet below
water. It has required 10000 yards of
rock for the masUnnry outside of the
caissons This material came from Gar
rstt Island and from the Port Deposit
quarries.
A petition signed by over 300 promi-
nent business men asking the Philadel.
phia councils to frame their railroad
legislation so as to enable competing lines
of railway to enter the city, subject only
TO such restrictions MS may adequately
protect life and property, will be pre-
scented to the councils at the next meeting.
An anonymous circular literally distri.
buted shows that the Pennsylvania rail
road has 1872 grade crossings in that city
south of Washington avenue, while it has
1876 additional grade crossings in othel
parts Of the city, and claims that the
Baltimore II Philadelphia railroad is max
ing lnudable effort to conform to III
reasonable and proper restrictions.
AN INJUNCTION WANTED. /,
The tracks of the Philadelphia, vii
mington Il Baltimore Railroad Compan,
crossing Sixteenth street ON ground nortl
of Washington avenue purchased by tn,
company for RAILROAD purposes were mad
the subject of complaint in bill il
equity filed by the Empire Passenge
: Railroad Company in common pleas cour
No. 4, yesterday. The latter compan,
claims the charter right TO lay its traci
ON Twelfth and Sixteenth streets as fa
south ms Wharton, but declares that III
I numerous tracks of the railroad com
pany immediately north of Washington
! avenue constitute I'M obstruction ind
practical denial to this right. The
therefore nsk the court to grant an in
junction restraining the further use u
the tracks and directing their removal