Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-29
DEPOT IS IN SIGHT,
.RvP.& c, and C,&O, VIII Reach
an Agreement in Ten Days.
UNION STRUCTURE CERTAIN
There Is EelieYed 10 Be No Doubt
Of an Agreement.
TO BE COMPLETED THIS YEAR.
r., Il. & c. Trains VIII he Running
the Entire Length by the End or
the Year-The senboard aud the
Southcrn's New Lincs
'f
TO BE COMPLETED THIS YEAR.
r., Il. & c. Trains Will Re Running
The Entire Length by the End OF
Southcrn's New LiDcs

II IS believed that within The next ten
days Il will be definitely decided thai
Richmond is to have a union depot.
Negotiations looking TO its Joint con-
struction by the Richmond. Petersburg
and Carolina and the Chesapeake ana
Ohio railroad companies have been pend
ing for several weeks There have been
frequent conferences between the repre-
sentatives Of the two companies looking
TO an agreement as TO the construction
OF the depot IL has been announced al
most daily that each conference brought
the conferrees closer together.
TALK WITH MIR. WILLIAMS.
II was announced last night that tho
negotiations had now reached a stage
where It was practically certain that they
would De ended within ten days. II was
also thought reasonably certain that tho
result would be an agreement between
the two companies for the joint con-
struction and use Of the building.
Mr.. John SHELTON Williams president
OF the Seaboard Airline. and largely in
terested in the Richmond, Petersburg and
Carolina. said last night he thought tho
negotiations looking TO a union depot
would be concluded within ten days, and
that the result would be satisfactory TO
all concerned. including the public. This
was almost the same language as that
used a few days ago by Mr.. Decatur AK
tell. second yce-presldent Of the Chesa-
nj
Of that road I'm the negotiations.
Il think trains will be running the whole
length Of the Richmond, Petersburg and
Carolina. from Richmond to Ridgeway
bv tho first Of next year" said Mr. Will
liams "The construction of the entire
line will be let to contract within a short
timo now, and work viii be pushed. IL 10
NOT proposed TO work from each end, but
work viii be I'm progress the entire
length Of the line
THE SEABOARD NOT UNEASY.
REGARDING the telegram from Columbia,
s. c.. published i'm the Dispatch yesterday
morning. announcing that the Southern
Railway Company would construct limo
from Columbia TO Savannah - connect
with the Plant system. Mr.. Williams SAID
ne felt there was nothing I'm the report,
II true. 10 alarm the Seaboard Airline
1--WE have no apprehensions regarding
the results OF the construction or such L
line" said Mr.. Williams emphaucally.
Gwen Al IL should be built. and all tne
Southern's business between Columbia
and the South be diverted from the FLOR
ida Central and Peninauiar 10 the new
road the great increase In business re-
sultiug 90 the Florida. Central and PENN
sular by reason Of the completion or the
short line from Columbia go Cheraw, >.
c.. connecting II with the Seaboard Ar
Limo. would much more than offset "htt-
ever loss would result from the DIVERSION
Cf the S0uthern's business
SOUTHERN UNLIKELY TO BUILD.
Mr. williams declined TO say whether
no thought the Southern would construct
"a line from Columbia 10 Savannah. IL -
n fact. however. that 1t is not beheNei
here chat such "a line viii be built, az least
i'm the near future. II Is believed that ar
raupements satisfactory 10 both tho
southern and the Seaboard can be mads
whereby the traffic arrangement Whicn
tho former now has with the floilu.
Central ANA Peninsular can be malhloih'"'
n is argued that II this has Tor years
past proven more profitable 10 the SCUM
ern than the construction OF new me-
There Is no apparent reason Why the sain'
should not be true IN the future.
The route for the lire from cheraw
"a columbia 10 connect the Seaboard anu
the Florida Genital and pcninsular Is now
beipg surveyed. The distance Is about
eevontv-nve miles. It's construction WIZ
he hastened. When IT Is completed anu
when the Richmond. Petersburg ana caro-
~ ebou have been put through tho
G',to.r1 Alr-I.ine systems route from
washington 10 Jacksonville VIII DO
shorter than any other By about my
miles