New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-27
RAILROAD INTERESTS.
WESTERN MARYLAND PROJECTS.
PLANS FOR CONNECTING WITH THE READING
BALTIMORE AND OHIO AND NOR

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BALTIMORE AND OHIO AND NOR
FOLK AND WESTERN
baltimore Nov % (Special. President Hood OF
Tho Western MARYLAND Railroad Company. in his an
nual report read and adopted at meeting OF the
director, today outlined the project Tor extensions oi
Tho main line TO connections with the Baltimore and
ohio Railroad the Reading and the Norfolk and west
crn roads the financial arrangements 10 cover TIC
cost Of the improvements. The report says:
Il was fully expected that by this time work would
have been well advanced upon Tue Pr0poseu . NE =,
iii cnru,nv In baltimore City, but believing tlat
letter price couid be obtained for the securities pro
posed 70 he issued by full canvass o te arhet' ~
lion was defer red the outlook being most PROMISING
unt interrupted by the present unfnvoIaDle cOnGiuo
Of affairs wa not envy aG % This u
city but I'm the financial operation 70 proNhlon
for extension Of the main line from us prcn. M
a., WuIansn snort ND the Potomac River fourteen hc,,
~ rnnnecrion with the baltimore and Oho Railroad
az Cherry Run: the construction oi inc EASTERN ~, on
tension Of the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway rU
p,,4.r's station five miles east of Hanover, Fcnh III
,een miles to the city Of York. Penn iurller 1A
tension ~ fourteen miles to connection WIN thc fhla
delphla and Reading Railroad near MARKETS. irlii..
nI,6 The construction Of the Northern or liartSns
bronch from a mid point between PoIierS ana 0ih'
twcntv mile, 10 Bowmansdae. upon the Philadelphia
harrisburg and Pttsburg Railroad iormerN ,e ia,
riSlurr and Potomac RHilroadl. Tines, 'ohhr.llhE
ink" which with the Tidcwatcr Railroad wonld EN-,
brace eighty miles Of new line ana cost between ,c
od four million dollars would not only have me chrt
If making tho Western MARYLAND independent IN lh,s
city, and converting its present ~ stem Oh oca ,
ncncdI 70 Inc Baltimore and ohio. Philadelphia and ana
beading and Norfolk aud Western roads III '"nnc'ts
their systems through Westers Naryland cl;tineIS.
A., for example. the Baltimore ana on w. u nu,a,S
rnn,d bc shortened forty miles between Cumberland
and IIocerstown. and the company would D. gwen y
line down the Cumberland Valley 10 iarrisDu's' 'i.u
rnints reached via Harrisburg. with which u ~" now
no direct connection: also short line wa ttlA SprLt
nua iauoycr To- York Reading and Allentown. me
Tbilodcuhia and Reading would not onN hr gwen -
Western connection VIA PITT -bnfg - wa contempt"
thr,,ch the south Penn vlvnnH Railroad. iht hl,p N
thc PnltImorc and Ohios middle ana soHtlefn tpnuI
Kin Wheeling and via Parkcr-burZ The Norioh ",1
western now Terminating ~ laccr~t0wn NJ, Nu',"
ne .dvrr new line down the umb'Ilahu N"nct ~
HARRISBURG line via York and Rcahins 10 W. VI
pnnu.ylyaua and Now Nora, IN addition 10 W., -
crn MARYLAND main line 20 Baltimore. me l'n',saa
,nna ~tGel Company would not only be Afforded lrT
tiy. line for II, works AZ harrisburg ulIu I
rn iut .i.n a nov line between these grca' sun
Whment, while the Western Mar, land Womb aiLo %"
a,rorted A. short "a line l. ahy other betWceI, y
d n arr el,r, and the antlrlcii" coal fields HiN -
GOOD freight line via York and Reading bet 81, Dam
moro and central Pennsylvania an" ''o" ~