The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-08
ON ENGLAND,
An Entertaining Letter From the Pen of MIR
james JepsOp.

An Entertaining Letter From the Pen OF Mr.
james Jepsop.
SptciqI Correspondence Of The lRltlliqeneer
DARwRN, Eng, August 25,-For the past
six weeks have been enjoying "much
needed rest" in "Msrris England" En-
terprise is not confined to Americans alto
gether for after an absence oltwelve years
| find wonderful improvements every
where l have been, hardly recognized
my native town, for what was considered
az waste land decade ago Ia fine streets,
In the same time a new railway passenger
station has been built that would excite
the envy OF the Baltimore & Ohio authors
ties or the PittabuTgh, Wheeling 4 Ken
lucky directors in Wheeling. A street
railway has also been started, Jour miles
in length, running 10 neighborinH town
and a fine new market hall has sprung Into
existanCe, while every street and alley has
been paved making the town to loot as
bright as q new pin, At Liverpool tun'
mel has been made under the river MeT-
sew and trains run through iteVory lew
minutes to and from Birkenhead carrying
passengera in much less time, Of course,
than the ferry boats, although these still
do an enormous business, The LArCas'
shire & Yorkshire Railway Company IL
erecting at Liverpool new station to cost
S. 100000 and the same company at Black
burn has commenced work on u station to
cost 100000. have been much Inn
pressed with the rapid strides railroaJiDg
has made in this country. Just think Of
iii Seven hundred million passengers we're
carried by the railroads OF the United
Kingdom last year, and how much money
do you think Is invested in themT
AMOUNT INVESTED IN RAILROADS..
The amount is no less than four thou.
sand million dollars ($4 900, 900 ,O0O), equal
TO the stock Of all tho railroads in the
United States, although the latter have
10000 miles OF road against about 10000
miles here. II you could see tho masonry,
the tunnels, the bridges, the fine stations,
etc, Of the English railroads Tor railWaye,
Us they are called here you would not
wonder why they cost SO much money.
Not 10 minutes walk from where am wrl.
ting there is q tunnel two miles long and
have travelled through one still longer near
London. At the little port near Fleet.
wood, which compares with Liverpool
about as Glen Easton does to Wheeling, q
passenger station has just been finished at
3 cost OF 100000, chiefly for the accom-
mediation Of tourists going by steamer to
Ireland, tho Isle Of Man, etc.
There are gnme Inconsistencies TO DO met
with here. For instance, made tho run
from Manchester 10 Leicester, OO5 miles,
in ll0 minutes without stop between the
two places, thence to London with only
ono more stopping place, and wac loud
in my admiration OF the British railway
system; but when II took me % minutes
10 got from Kew Bridge to Noting Hill, 4
mtles, and had 10 change cars twice, my
enthusiasm began to cool. Again, II ! had
not q reputation for veraClty, | could not
make my friends believe that Mr.. Armour,
OF Chicago, kills 10000 hogs in one day, or
that the Missouri Pacific Railroad has 8,O0O
miles Of track, but when they learn that
portions OF the Underground Railway IN
London cost Eve million dollars per milo,
or that the city hall In Manchester cost
over six million dollars they are not very
much surprised. And why should they
DO, when they themselves are talking Of
building q ship Caual from Manchester to
Liverpool to cost forty to htty million
dOllars2
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