Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-23
THE B & 0.'s BIs JOB.
At will Probably Cost $4,000, 900 to
Gnim an Entrance into PhiIa-
defDhka.


New York Sun Special
4 PHnLADEIPHTA, July 1S.-The Balti-
more a Ohio railrond has got big job on
its hands. IL has won its great tight TO
secure nm entrance into the city. and all
that it needs to complete its chain is the
right to build bridge across the Schuyl
kill. But the work of making rondbed
VIII be no small task. II has got to tear
down buildings and condemn private
property right and left. Probably it will
cost the road something like $4,000. 900
before it gets comfortably settled
The road is to enter the city through
the sparsely settled extremities of West
Philadelphia, and hopes to cross the
Schuylkill not far from the old Crews
Ferry bridge, which carries the Pennsyl-
Vania road 'sfreight cars to the old passenger
station of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
d Baltimore railroad ON Broad street,
mile or more south of Chestnut. Having
crossed the river to the east side, it has
the right of way along the bank. The
wharf property, which consists prinei-
yards and ice houses, will be
about destroyed. OF course, the
land along the bank to Chestnut
fore little grading will be required, but
the road has got to cut a wide swnth along
its path, and pay well for it. At Chest
nut street the main depot is to be located,
and plans are being drawn for it. The
first street east of the Schuylkill is
Twenty-fourth. Eventually the road ex-
poets to take the whole square between
Twenty-third and Twenty fourth streets
and probably from Chestnut to Walnut.
Passing under Chestnut and Market
streets the road is to skirt the river until
it reaches the park. Here the Reading
railroad tracks are not only unsightly, but
dangerous to all drivers in the park. The
main entrance is at Green street, and every
afternoon carriages roll in by the
hundreds. They are obliged to cross
network of tracks. As the Baltimore a.
Ohio is to use the reading system in the
city, it will be obliged to sink these tracks
and tunnel for long distance. When
this work is done an unsightly object will
be removed, but it is going to cost an
enormous sum.
Having struck the Reading tracks, the
new road will have the Reading depots at
Thirteenth and Callowhill and Ninth and
Green streets to fall back upon in addi-
ton to its immense station at Twenty |
fourth and Chestnut. The Reading runs |
its New York trains from Ninth and
Green. The people who have been
the Baltimore & Ohio campaign |
before the city councils expect to get into |
running order by the first of next year.
But the job is of such magnitude that it
is doubtful if the promise can be kept.
Although the road has got an entrance |
into Philadelphia, ii is threatened with /
more trouble before il taps New York.
None of the trunk lines want another
rival. Vanderbilt does not want it any
more than the Erie OF the Pennsylvania
Reading il about bankrupt. Its leased
Jersey lines have no money. Between
Vanderbilt and the Pennsylvania the com
pact between the Baltimore n Ohio and
Reading, by which the Baltimore people
expect to reach New York, may yet fail
This is said to be their plan. In such
event the Baltimore must build TO New
York and take its chances for terminal
facilities. The fight is not over. |