Evening journal., 1893-04-01
THE W. & B. S. TO PASS.
To Use the Wilmington City
Railway Tracks in the City.
FINAL ACTION TO BE ON TUESDAY.

Edge Moor, WILMINGTON, Newport,
Springs New Castle Left Out-A CUES
tion Concerning the Current.
staG Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER, April THE charter Of the
Wilmington and Brandywine Springs
Electric Railway Company, which has
been hanging in the balance ia the Senate
Committee on Private Corporations, will,
If there Is any virtue in the legislative
goose bone. pass the Senate on Tuesday |
The members of the committee have |
agreed to report the bin favorably with |
certain amendments, which, while not |
exactly TO the liking of the friends and |
hackers Of the scheme, are acceptable 10 |
them They have come TO realize that |
they must take what they can get and |
not what they want
Two weeks ago the committee had de |
cided to kill the bill and refused 10 even |
look at amendments offered by Richard |
| w. Crock the indefatigable champion |
Of the road These amendments provided |
/ for route from Edge Moor TO Brandy !
wine Springs, via Washington street,
Second TO Union and Newport, Stanton,
| Kiamens and Marshallton. Mr. Crook |
was informed that the committee had
decided TO report the bill adversely and
did not think It worth the while Of the
Mil Creek hundred electric population TO
spend any more time around the button
holes of the members,
Then aud not til then did Mr. Cook
and his colleagues get their lighting
clothes on. They decided TO extend the
line to Gordon Heights and In the early
part of this week Harry Emmons, George
Townsend and other men. who live
near or are interested in Gordon Heights,
came TO Dover and urged the members to
pass the bill, saying that the old com.
pany would not extend its lines for the
accommodation of that thickly settled
suburb
1t was the intention Of these visitors
to get hearing before the Senate Com
mittee on Private Corporations, but
Senator Watson, its chairman, was sick
and they contented themselves with gen.
eral work
Mr. Crook and Dr. l.. II. Ball staid
down 10 try TO save the bill They con
ferred with persons representing the
rival interests aud a compromise was
effected through Speaker Whieeman Of
: the House.
! On Thursday Speaker Whiteman
walked into the Senate chamber spoke
4 TO Senator Watson and they both walked
l out Of the room together, and presum-
ably went TO committee room. IL was
then that the amendments, which will
4 carry the charter through, were offered
a by Speaker Whiteman and practically
4 assonted TO by the chairman Of the Sen.
I ate Committee
Every effort was made to keep the
I suI ha a
: JOURNAL correspondent asked Senator
!. Watson about 10 yesterday afternoon he
refused TO say anything further than
that an amicable agreement had been
reached aud that the matter would be
brought up ON Tuesday for final action
: Terms of the Compromise.
/ The commissioners named in the bill
4 are Richard w Crook. DR. l. II. Ball, II.
. II Ward, Robert c. Justis and Frank ID
\ Carpenter The capital stock is $3.50. 0OO
\ The amended bill will provide that the
4 road shall begin at Gordon Heights and
r thence to Edge Moor. From Edge Moor
y right of way will be secured to any poiut
on Market street or the Philadelphia aud
q Wilmington turnpike At this point the
n w & B. S cars will 60 on the Whining
n ton City Railway Company's tracks to
o Front and Market streets and out Front
= TO Union. There the new road 10 Bran
, dywine Springs will connect with the
4 Wilmington City Railway Company s
tracks and run through Newport, Stan
ton Kiamensi, Marshallton TO the
Springs.
The amendments provide for over
70 grade or undergrade crossings at railroad
intersections, but ths company will not
have to build more than one overhead
a bridge as il is proposed TO use the a
Il O., bridge at Silverbrok, the W. & n
% bridge at Elsmere aud Pilling culvert
under the b & o, at Kaimensi. The
~ overhead bridge only to be erected will
"a probably be over the Landenberg branch
/ of the b so, at Greenbank.
q The Question Of Current.
~ The new company is to pay the old
u company an equitable amount for the
use Of its tracks in Wilmington, and the
amendments do not restrict the w
+, S. cars to the Market and Front street
lines. If the companies cannot agree
/. Judge Grubb will have to settle theii
disputes, as the resident Judge Of New
70 Castle county will be arbitrator Il Il
? believed thai the Wilmington City Rail
~ way cars will be allowed TO run ovei
the new tracks upon like conditions.
m There Is one question which IS
,s poser" for the W. & b. S. men. The!
y cannot afford TO run two stations for The
n purpose Of generating electricity for th'
70 trolley-wires' and yet, it will be noticed
1 their line is divided by the vii
"A mington City Railway tracks in the city
,g They will try to make an arrangement
sr whereby they can furnish the current fo
4 the whole route from Gordon Heights &
m Brandy wine Springs and let the vii
m mington City Railway cars on Marke
~ and Front streets run by Wilmington
n and Brandywine Springs current. Their
er are several other minor questions in
. volved, but, in the language Of Senate
A Watson, 81 think the matter will be s
he arranged as TO be perfectly satisfactor
to every body
1--WE Have Justis with U.s."
Richard w Crook was seen in Wi
EN- mington this morning He admitte