Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-09-25
The Chesapeake and Ohio Route.

ABOUT Gne Glme GnaG MI. M. u. 1ngallS
entered upon the Presidency of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway, Staunton, through
the City Council, the Chamber of Com
MERGE and our business men generally, was
pressing applications before the manage.
ment of that Company for several improve
ments with regard to the travel, mail
facilities, and passenger accommodations
which were needed for this city, as we'll as
conducive to the public interest Of the ad-
jacent country, of which it is the CONNER
cial center. So far as all these important
considerations are viewed, the result has
been most gratifying. Our progressive ef-
forts have been promptly met with enlarged
and liberal facilities in the earlier delivery
and increased mail accommodations and
new passenger station, with which will be
combined passageway over the railroad
tracks safely connecting the Sears Hill
section with the business parts of the city.
Our progress has become associated with
enlarged railroad enterprises, and in the
rapid-running vestibule trains it is placed
on higher ground than was anticipated
when we sought its advancement. The
additional improvements in the Eastern
and Northern connections, and the new
and wider openings through the Southwest
and West, make the Chesapeake and Ohio
route the equal in equipment, speed
and advantages of the other larger and
older transcontinental lines.
The administration of Mr.. ingalls, means
much more to the country at large and in
commercial intercourse with the lines of
railway he directs than completing and
continuing advanced methods of travel and
traffic. Not to go in our review beyond
the lines of Virginia, we observe he has
been most favorably impressed with our
immense material resources and perceives
that in their development the carrying
agency can become most important factor
in another way, and accordingly associates
his efforts for increasing tonnage with
those of the people for the enlargement of
their industries and bringing to the surface
their hidden wealth.
w AOu buo L duucI VI Alu0lICda W OICSJ
made known the iron deposits in Virginia,
if the advanced views Of Colonel CroAet
maintaining the true policy in constructing
transportation lines had been followed,
there is no estimating the scope of the
progress which would then have been
made in development had there been more
men at the time of Mr.. Ingalls, quickness
to perceive and judgment to execute. as
was the case with the eminent French
Eugineer, whose report recommending a
railroad to connect the transportation of a
lock and dam system of the James and
Kanawha rivers by the construction of a
railroad across the mountains, was made as
early as 1930-only three years after
Stephenson's success with the experiment
of the steam engine on a railroad track.
The enterprises at Buena Vista, Iron
Gate, and Glasgow, were commenced with
resolution and confdence-c confidence, be-
cause the basis for wide development and
much prosperity existed; and, when needed
to press excellent plans to maturity, the
action of Mr.. Ingalls, was prompt, and
places his administration of the great inter-
ests committed to his charge upon the
highest ground in public appreciation.
The incorporates of Virginia have been
closely associated in the past with much of
our prosperity, and the interest manifested
by the people generally in their develop
ment results from the wide diffusion of
benefits they confer. Connected with and
following the manufacture of iron and the
building-up of industries, of which it forms
a chief element in their progress, are found
better grounds for hope, business aspira-
tions and effort than in any other depart
ment for producing wealth. Tho people
of those portions of Virginia directly inter
ested, because of their location in the iron
districts indeed, we may say of the whole
State-have reason for the largest express
sion of appreciation for Mr.. Ingalls, and
others like him with means and influence
because of their willingness to associate
them with those of our people in the efforts
they are making not only at Ruena Vista.
Iron Gate, and Glasgow, but in the South
west and in other parts of the Old CUn-
monwealth for progress and prosperity.