The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-31
HAVE STRUCK A SyAG
Construction of Electric Line
to Lakeside Abandoned.
REASONS FOR TEE ACTION
The Line Would Have to be Built on
Property of the Delano Land Company
and the Lehigh valley Railroad Com
pany Objects.

1t was semi officially announced to-day
that the Lakeside extension of the Lake
side Electric Railway will not be con.
structed this year.
The statement is based upon an inter
view had with one of the principal officials
of the company this morning. The
official said 1--WE have met with obstacles
which have forced us to abandon all
idea of constructing the Lakeside eNten-
sion this year and hereafter we will devote
all our time TO the perfection of the line
now in operation"
1t appears that the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company is the obstacle in the way
of the electric railway company and at
present there appears to be no hope for
compromise The electric company has a
right of way to Lakeside and could begin
construction tomorrow if it choose to take
the highway from Mahanoy City to
Delano, but the surveys made by Mark
Bowman, the engineer of the company,
show that the grades over that course
would be too heavy and to bring them
anyway within the requirements would
involve enormous expense Besides this
the road would have to cross the numerous
Lehigh Valley tracks at Trenton at grade
Having discovered this the company
cast lines tor another course and proposed
constructing the line over the property
belonging to the Delano Land Company
and cross the Lehigh tracks at Trenton
by a trestle from 600 to 500 feet long.
This would have made an excellent road,
but a snag was struck when it was dis
covered that the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, the lessee of the DelanO Land
Company refused to allow the construc-
tion of a competing line over the land.
Repeated conferences have been had
with the Lehigh Valley officials, but thus
far they have been unyielding and have
been so determined in their stand that
there is no hope of arriving at a compro-
mise. Consequently the Lakeside Rail
way Company has decided that it cannot
build the road this year. Work in that
direction will be suspended until next
spring, by which time it may be possible
to arrive at some understanding with the
opposing company, or decide some other
plan of operation.
Simultaneous with the announcement
concerning the abandonment there was a
report that in view of the electric railway
company's decision the East MahanOy
junction Land and Improvement Com
pany will take steps to form a company
for the construction of an inclined rail
way from point near the Lehigh Valley
Railroad at Delano to Lakeside.
The Lakeside Electric Railway Company
has decided upon plan for the compile
| tion of the Shenandoah end of its line.
1t is understood that at the next meeting
of the Borough Council the company
will make application for permission to
build trestle starting at a point on
Bowers street, midway between Centre
and Oak street and rounding the corner
of Oak street in such manner as to con
meet at easy grade with the proposed
bridge over the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
which is to be twenty-five feet above the
rails. This is the only means by which
the company can make crossing to ex.
tend its line to Main street.
Ex-Chief Burgess James Smith and j.
K p, Scheifiy went to Mahanoy City to-
officials on a proposition to building a
| switchback track to connect the line with
the trotting park, where it is expected to
open a season of base ball on or about
June Sth