The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-11-24
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Vile, and thence to Port Clinton and on to
Philadelphia
Tnero will be no little rejoicing at Frack-
willie tonight when the people Of that place
read the HERALD and learn for tho first
time that their town is to be one of the
destinations of the trains plying between
Philadelphia and Wiliamsport and that an
unexpected disagreement has suddenly trans
planted their town to Que Of the
main lines of the p. & X. system.
But in the same measure that the
people of Frackvile rejoice will the people of
Mahanoy City bemoan the course of human
events, for in the event of the Frackyille
branch going into operation, their town will
be practically side tracked.
In refusing the p. & r. companys offer of
five per cent the directors of the Little
schuylkill and East Mahanoy railroads evil
IDENTIFY think they have lead pipe cinch on
the seven per cent. and n hip lock on the
p. & r., but in this they are sadly mistaken
for with the possible exception of East
Muhanoy Junction the p. Il X company can
reach every point it does under the agree
meut In the first place Mahanoy City will
not be cut out, nor will Buck Mountain.
The East Mahanoy Railroad owns only one of
the tracks from Buck Mountain to st
Nicholas The Mahanoy and Shamokin Rail
road Company, which is a part of the p. & Il.
system, originally only extended its line to
MahanOy City, but the company has since
extended the line all the way to Buck Noun
tain and its own line forms part of the double
track system to that point 50 that should the
p. & X. Company be obliged to yacate the
single track leased from the East Mahanoy
Railroad Company it will still have a single
track line to Mahanoy City and Buck
Mountain the latter point being the eastern
terminus In such an event the people of
those places will probably receive service
| from trains to run between Mahanoy City
and Ashland and Shamokin.
The only real difficulty to be experienced
/ by the p. " r. will be in connecting with the
Catawissa branch. The Little SchuylkilI
| Railroad Company owns the line between
. Port Clinton and Tamancnd, via East NAH
anoy Junction, and failure in agreement
will cut Off the p. & r. company's service be-
tween Philadelphia and Milton over this
branch. Still, in this event, the p, & r. com
pany will have ample outlet for its freight
service between Milton and Philadelphia, as
it can connect with the Mauch Chunk branch
of the Jersey Central at Tamanend and all
Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg road.
Should the Fmckvile branch become
established the distance between Mahanoy
Plano and Port Clinton will be shortened ten
miles and the p. q X. will he able to reclaim
some of the passenger traffic between this
town and Pottsville, as the great circuit from
Mahanoy Plane to Pottsville via East Nlaha-
noy Junction and Tamaqua will he cut of
and he walk from Mahanoy Plane to Track
willie will be obviated by the connection al
Boston Run, and possibly a connection
between the Shenandoah City collieTy and
p. & r. tracks
Another result Of the failure of agreement
will be that Tamaqua will become terminu,
! and people of that place desiring to go t.
Philadelphia over the p. q r. system will
travel via Pottsville, ipstead of Port Clinton
direct. 1t is possible that the Frackvill'
branch will be left almost entirely to pas
! senger traffic and that the greater part of TIN
a freight will pass over Gordon plane, whicl
was practically abandoned several month
ago, and the coal traffic can be amply careC
for under existing conditions
1t will thus he seen that the p. & II. com
, pany is amply prepared to meet the director
of the Little Schuylkill and East MahanO.
J., railroads on a shut-Out and it is believes
that when the latter realize the resources o
t the former they will prefer to accept re
duction from the wartime agreement, rathe
= than have their roads thrown back on thei
n hands-roals which are hemmed in on al
sides by the P. & r. system and can only b
t operated independently between Port Cir
ton and ST. Nicholas on the one side and tn
!, former place and Tamanend on the othel
and with practically no point of importanc
n between either.
Adyices received from Philadelphia to-da
y state that meeting of the companies intel
ested will be held in that city tomorrow, an
- that the Little Schuylkill Navigation Raj
road Company is likely to accept the tern
of the Readings new owners