Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-28
NEWS FROM HAGERSTOWN
INTEREsT IN PROPOSED RAILWAY
FROM CARNEGIE's STEEL PLANT.
Low Water In the Canal Makes Pas
sage of Boats DiMcult-A Minis
ter to pWr,ea.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
HAGERSTOWN, Md, September 81, 1900.
The residents of this city and county have
suddenly evinced great interest in the af-
fairs of Andrew Carnegie. This is explain
ed by the fact that among his plans sub
mitted to the board of directors Of the Car
negie Company by President Charles NJ.
Schwab, at a meeting held last week, was
one providing for railroad from his steel
plants to tidewater. which, II carried out,
will add to the already excellent railroad
facilities of Hagerstown. Two routes are
under discussion. One Is to connect with
the Reading and double track through Ha-
gerstown, and the other is to extend the
Carnegie line, now running into the coke
region, thence via the Monongahela and
Southern, a projected line, through West
Virginia, Maryland and to Norfolk, where
the Carnegie Company may construct it's
own terminal, the line passing along near
here. between this city and Cherry Run.
The unusually low stage of water In the
Potomac naturally reduces the flow into the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal. AS a conse-
quence the operations or the canal are be-
ing seriously interfered with by the boat
men experiencing great difficulty in moving
their boats. 1t now requires from five to
six days to pull loaded boat from Cumber-
land, where ordinarily the trip is made in
two or three days. The water in the levels
the bottom, and in places where there are
fills of sand or bars the boats stick. Teams
of from six to ten mules are required to
move the boats, which can only carry light
loads of not over ninetysix tons. The wa
ter In the river and canal was never known
to be lower than at present
The drouth about Shippensburg is becom-
ing serious, and the water superintendent
has requested the railroads entering the
town to discontinue taking water for their
engines from the city mains. Some sections
of the town are entirely without water, and
the supply seems to be decreasing.
Rev. Dyson Nj. Hench, an evangelist of
the United Brethren Church. whose words
at the camp meeting at kauffmans woods
some weeks ago stirred the ministers of
the church and created considerable indig-
nation among those in attendance, will be
tried by jury of his fellow ministers on
the charge of INSTRUMENTATION to the disci-
pine of the church. The minister is said
to have declared the church was rotten
and to have prayed that the camp meet
ing be Smashed to Smithereens."
Cards are out announcing the coming
wedding In this city on October of Miss
Margaret Alvey, daughter of Judge r. ii.
Alvey of the Supreme Court of the District
OF Columbia and Mr. J.. A. Allen of Davis.
W. Va.
Frank W. Mish. president of the Hagers
town board of street commissioners, has re-
signed. and Walter d. Wilson appointed by
the mayor and confirmed by the city coun-
Gil to fill the vacancy The board still re-
mains democratic by the appointment.
Robert Bayer, father of II. w. Bayer,
prosecuting attorney of Morgan county, Is
dead at his home at Sleepy Creek. aged
sixty-four years. He was a native of this
county, and served in the army of the
Potomac during the civil war.
Late peaches are now, going into market
and are bringing better prices. realizing to
the grower in most cases, handsome prof
its. The growers therefore hope to make
up some of the loss sustained by shipments
of fruit In mid season. One grower up to
date is out 5000, another 81 900 and another
81 800.
Benjamin Rench, a farmer and one of The
heaviest land ownership this county, died
Yesterday in the sixty-seventh year of his
age. He was a forner-county commits
sioncr and a man of MANY friends.