The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-11-27
COMPLETELY
CONFIRMED,
The News-DemOcrat's Exclusive
Information Was Thorough
ly Reliable.
THAT NEW TRUNK LINE.
Work Is to Begin In the Spring and to
Be Pushed Forward Rapidly.
MAJOR CHARLES X. MILLER
Work Is to Begin In the Spring and to
Be Pushed Forward Rapidly.
MAJOR CHARLES X. MILLER
Fully Confirms Special That Is Printed In
Pittsburg, Paper Telling the story
Substantially as the Ncws-Demo-
crat Told 1t Weeks

SuDsthntihty AS tHe NcWs-De"o-
crat Told 1t Weeks
There is no longer any question as to
the intention of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad company to construct trunk
line from Pittsburg to Warwick, to
there connect with the now main liue
Of the road making a through line from
Plttsburg to Chicago. Confirmation
comes from many sources, and Can
ton is to be the most important city
along the line between Pittsburg and
Chicago. The route will be the old Can
ton and East Liverpool route, in which
numerous Canton people are interest
ed, and what the road means for Can
ton in business way can be appreciat-
ed when 1t is stated that 1t gives Can
ton two trunk lines.
THE FIRST NEWS.
The News-Democrat gave the first
news of the intention of the Baltimore
& Ohio people, some six or eight weeks
ago. 1t was then declared in the News
Democrat news columns that the road
would be built and that there was be-
hind 1t an influence that would make
1t one of the most important railroad
projects of the year Then other papers
began to question the authenticity of
the report and beittled it as much as
possible. The News-Democrat had in
formation that was strictly reliable and
was able, therefore, to give the news
weeks before its contemporaries.
In Cleveland the story was thought
hardly worth printing, when sent out
by correspondents, who had secured'
their information from the columns OF
the wsDemocrat. So special from,
there, confirming the statements made
then, is worthy of more than passing
note. The Cleveland correspondent of
the Pittsburg Dispatch, has the fol-,
lowing special on the first page of that
paper Saturday morning. The special
reads as follows:
THE PITTSBURG END.
The Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad COM
pany has made arrangements to build
strip of line from Pittsburg through
East Liverpool and Canton to Warwick,
where 1t will connect with the main
line to Chicago. 1t Is also planning to
build a line from Cleveland to Lodi, on
the main line. The first of these deals
has been much rumored about for q
year, but not until now has it ever been
said with any degree of positiveness
that the project was official. 1t is now
known that the road will be started
next spring and rushed through as
rapidly as possible. The advantages of
such route are multtudinous. The
Baltimore & Ohio will be able to avoid
the tortuous path taken by the Pitts
burg & Western, and will have the
direct route from Pittsburg to Warwick
thus cutting off 80 miles in that stretch.
From Warwick on to Chicago the line
Is direct so that the road will be
straightway from Pittsburg to Chicago.
This will make the Baltimore & Ohio
shorter than the Fort Wayne, the di-
direct route of the Pennsylvania, and
the later road will for the first time
have some vigorous competition for it's
business. Another advantage to the
Baltimore & Ohio will be the opening
through the pottery fields about East
Liverpool, which is traversed by the
Pennsylvania exclusively. This will be
new field for both passenger and
freight business. The other project is
still in an embryotic state. For four
years there has been rumors going that
the Baltimore & Ohio intended to build
from this city to Lodi, and four times
this rOute-has been surveyed for right
of way. Now II is said that there be-
ing some advantage In the plan, 1t will
be carried into execution. The present
line out of Pittsburg to Akron and
Cleveland will be used for coal and
freight, but not extensively for passen-
ger business.
FULLY CONFIRMED.
Major Charles r. Miller, president of
the board of trade of Canton and one
of the prime movers in the present
railroad project, referred specially to
the Pittsburg dispatch special to a
News Democrat man Saturday and
said that what was printed there was
true and could be considered reliable
and trustworthy. Major Miller knows
whereof he speaks, as he has had much
10 do with the interest the Baltimore &
Ohio road took in the earlier surveys.
The News-Democrat. Friday of this
week. carried further confirmation OF
the story. In the statement Of the fact
that certain property near East Liv-
erpool, has been purchased outright by
the B. & o. people for the purposeoi
securing terminals for a bridge across
the Ohio river, SO as to facilitate getting
into Pittsburg, 40 S
Canton has every reason to rejoice
st tina prospect Of securing this new