The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-03
A Narrow Stream of Water, Two Legislatures
Susceptible to Bribery, and Two Power
full Corporations Still Bar the Way.
Lively Times Among the Various Demo-
cratic Factions of New York City.
Rosina Vokes's Refusal to Appear in Shert
Clothes-A Spat Between Two Clergymen
Mr.. Conkling's Law Practice.
NOT YET SETTLED.

The Fight OF the B. g. o. Railway Company
for an Entrance to New York.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
New York, Jan. 2.-The survey of the Balti-
more & Ohio extension, from Bound Brook to
Elizabethport in accordance with the scheme Of
an entry into New York. by way Of Staten
Island is completed this week, aud the building
OF the road can go on without delay, under the
general railroad act of New Jersey. On Staten
Island the road and franchise of local company
is to be utilized, so that no hindrance can be
made there. The impediment is in the bridging
OF the Kill vons Kul, a narrow body Of water
separating New Jersey from Staten Island. Two
Legislatures must give grants before this small
section of the very important line can be COW
cred, for one end of the bridge win be in
Jersey and the other in New York. Every
member of the Jersey Legislature has
already been visited by agents of for and against
the Baltimore & Ohio, and the opposition by the
Pennsylvania and the Reading will be tremen-
dous if not successful. according to present in
dications. The Pennsylvania has never yet
failed to control the majority for purpose on
which the management based important conse-
quences The bitterness of the struggle was
foreseen by President Garrett, of the Baltimore
G. Ohio, and the booming dinner on Staten
Island was regarded by experts as intended to
produce in Jersey the feeling that the new line
was both desirable and inevitable.
The New York Legislature met in Albany yes
terday, and will begin regular sessions on Mon
day. President Chauncey Nj. Depew, who used
to be the Vanderbilt counsel there whenever oc-
casion required has issued season passes over
the Central and Hudson River to members with
out waiting. as has been the custom. for an ap-
plication to be made their behalf; and it is
noted that. instead of being restricted to the
trunk line, they are good in every instance
clear to the home of the legislator.
All this extra kindness is taken as
aprecursor Of big fight against bridge char.
ter for Garrett In connection with this subject
there is talk among railroad men and in Wall
street about the presence of Mr.. Garrett at the
death of William H. Vanderbilt. The subject
of conversation on that OCCASION as Mr.. Garrett
related, was the Staten Island project While
they were talking Mr.. Vanderbilt suddenly fell
forward from his chair. dead. The autopsy
showed thathis aIlment was blood clot in his
brain, caused by mental excitement Inquiry
now proves that he was violently opposed to the
Baltimore 8 Ohio scheme, and had invariably
become choleric in discussing it. That he sue
cessfully concealed his anger from Mr.. Garrett
is evident, because Mr.. Garrett says there was
no disturbance of manner but the conviction
is settled and firm in Wall street that the death
of the great millionaire was caused by tho
threatened railroad opposition. For that very
reason, aside from business considerations the
Vanderbilt sons and Depew have seemingly de-
termined to defeat the Garrett project