Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-13
NEWS FROM HAGERSTOwN,
The b. and o. Freight Yards at Brunswick
Bricklayers Demand Eight Hours.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| The b. and O. Freight Yards at Brunswick
Bricklayers Demand Eight Hours.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HAaERsrowN, May 70, 1891.
Brunswick, jus. over the line from Wash
| ington county into that of Frederick-its name
being changed from that Of Berlin by an act OF
the last legislature of Maryland-has suddenly
sprung into prominence, and that, too, when
its citizens were slumbering. Between two
| days it has become the terminus Of the first
section of the great Baltimore and Ohio railroad
freight system. the company then taking posses
sion Of its immense yards, freight stations,
engine houses and miles Of si1ings. The great
freight blockade of two years ago at Martins
burg. which paralyzed the industries of WASH
ington and Baltimore especially, awakened
the railroad officials to the fact that
their facilities for handling freight at that
point were inadequate. Looking around
then Berlin, new Brunswick, was found
purchase of about 400 acres of land at that
place. upon which has been laid out one of the
most complete and expensive freight yards in
this country. The purchase Of this land was
made in 1889 at s3s per acre, a seemingly good
price at the time to the holders, but which,
under the new order of things. is looked upon
as a mere song. Work was begun shortly af-
terward by the railroad company upon its pos
sessions, and the struggling village Of 200 popu-
lation has increased to Co., Now it is an
incorporated town and has a mayor in the per-
son Of Mr.. John L. Jordan. The railroad
yards extend westward from the town
two and one-quarter miles. The yards are
325 feet wide, extending from the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal on the south to a range of hills
on the north. When completed the work will
have cost S25O, 900. The company has erected
a handsome and convenient hotel, which was
opened yesterday under the superintendency
of Mr.. T. Harry Davis native of George
town, d. c., and hotel man of large expe-
rience. Besides this the company has plated
$50 acres into building lots and reserved a
handsome natural park for the use of the town.
Making Brunswick the first section of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad will bring about
1000 people-railroad men and their families
in the coming six months. With others to fol-
low the railroad officials predict that Bruins
wick will soon loom up with 4, 600 or 5000 in
habitants.
The journeymen bricklayers Of Hagerstown
on Thursday last gave notice that on and after
Monday Of this week they would demand eight
hours as a days labor instead of ten at existing
prices In the main they have carried their
point, all of the contractors and employers con-
ceding the demand with one exception, thus
avoiding a serious strike, as at the present time
the building boom is on and many houses in
course OF construction.
Mr. Thos. j. Walker, prominent and WE'LL
known business man OF this city and Q leader
in local republican politics, is dead at the age
OF hfty-seven years. He leaves his family, con-
sisting of a wife, two sons and two daughters,
handsome competency.
One OF the most important industries now
located at Hagerstown is the Crawford bicycle
works, removed here from Washington. Its
latest order is for g. 900 worth of ycles from
the Lovel Arms Company of Boston, Mass.
The Reading Railroad Company on Sunday
opened up its passenger connection from Har-
rlsburg to HaQerstOWn by way of the Western
Maryland railroad from Shippensburg. This
Philadelphia and other points with the Penn
sylvania and Cumberland Valley railroad, the
latter portion Of the system of the former.
To meet this the Cumberland Valley today
made a reduction Of 80 cents in its passenger
rate from Harrisburg to this place.
Thirteen building lots on Marshall street,
one Of the new additions to Hagerstown, were
sold today to Mr.. Edwin Nicodemus for S3, 21O
cash.
MIR. Edwin Abel Of the Baltimore Sun and a
number of other Baltimore capitalists, who
have formed a company under the name of the
Southern Development Company, have pur-
chased the Straub farm of 1877 acres a short dis
lance south of Hagerstowp, for 800 per acre.
The company has donated So 900 as a bonus for
the location of manufacturing plants upon the
grounds.
Engineers of the West Virginia Central rail-
road are on the route heading this way, and are
making rapid progress. This is Senator Davis
road which failed to get possession Of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio canal and Is now seeking a
new route.