Evening journal., 1898-04-21
PROPOSED NEW ROUTE.
Line of Railway From Chester
to This City.
MARCUS HOOK TO BE LEFT OUT

MARCUS HOOK TO BE LEFT OUT
LAST SURVEY MADE PROVIDES
FOR A COURSE THROUGH
TRAINER AND LINWoOD, BY
WHICH THERE WILL BE A RE-
DUCTIoN IN TIME.
The Chester Traction Company has
about decided TO change the route OF
the Wilmington extension, and instead
Of going through Marcus Hook, as was
at first intended, it will extend the line
from Chester down through Trainer,
following the Ridge Road in Linwood
and joining the pike below Claymont
station. President Clark, together with
General Manager Fox and Superinten-
dent MacFayden have been going over
the new route during the past few
days, and the president is very favor
able to the change
In order to enter Delaware by the
new route, the company will be obliged
to purchase the right of way from the
vafious property owners from the city
line to where the road joins the pike
at Claymont, and will also have to lay
additional track, but this expense will
be more than offset by the fact that the
company will escape the overhead
bridge at ClaymOnt, where the line
crosses the p, w. & B. railroad. This
bridge alone would cost about SIS, 900.
Then again the company will not have
to build an iron bridge over Naa-
mans creek and will also escape the
expense OF the trestle work just be-
low Market street, Marcus Hook, all
of which would have to be done If the
company should go down the Post road
through Marcus Hook. On the new
route the company may have to erect
a trestle across the low land at Clay
mont, but this will be only a small
one.
Another feature to be gained by the
new route is the saving Of time, for by
/ going down the Ridge road, the trip to
/ Wilmington can be made in twenty
minutes less than on the Marcus Hook
route.
The company, it is said will be well
coined along the new route, several of
| the larger property owners already
having stated that they desired the
| road to go down the Ridge road. If
/ the line is extended, It will take all
| the Trainer and Linwood travel from
| the Marcus Hook line, and the latter
road will not need so many cars each
| day, and in all probability cars Will be
| run less frequently on this branch.
! The change of route will be very
| much regretted by the majority OF
| residents of Marcus Hook, who have
been looking forward to the time when
| the road would run through the bOr-
| Ough to Wilmington, knowing full
| well that the town would be brought
| into prominence by the through travel
| The real estate values would be in
creased, especially those along the pro-
| posed line. II was the cOmpany's in
tention to go through Marcus Hook
until it was refused the right to lay the
T rail, when it change its plans.
The majority of the residents, as
shown by the petitions circulated
which contained almost 200 signers
were in favor of the company being
granted the right to use the T rail.
| The Chester Traction Company was
| granted the right to use the Post rOaC
| through Marcus Hook before the com
pany changed hands, and the ordinance
| granting it this right, stated that tht
| company should lay a box rail. WheI
| the company changed hands, the new
| company wanted to lay T rail, as i
had secured the right to lay this kinC
OF rail from the Wilmington end o
the line to the borough limits. TIL
ordinance granting this right passed
Marcus Hook Council by vote Of T.
2. but when referred to the burgess
for his consideration he refused to sigl
it, giving as his reason that the major
ity OF the people were against it.
The new company is anxious to ge
the road laid to wilmington. Tn
company's surveyor, Walter Wood ha
prepared several plans of the new rout
and they will be submitted to the com
pany for adoption.
The company, instead OF using tn
Second and Third street route througl
Chester, proposes to run by the Seventl
street route, down Seventh to La
mol1in street, then down Damokil
street to Sixth and to the city line
then through Trainer and on to VIII
mington. An ordinance has been pre-
sented to Chester City Councils askin
? for the right OF way through that city
It is the intention of the officers @
the company to push this road as fas
as possible. There will be neithe
grade nor bridge crossings for the ne'
line. which will be twenty minute
! | shorter than the first.