The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-19
A NEW LINE FOR
THE PENINSULA
Jamestown, Williamsburg
Yorktown and Hampto n
VERY NEARLY BUILT
Mr.. Barney Had Plans Made for Such
Road.
THE G0uLDs MAY BE IN IT
The Chesapeake and Ohio Once Ran to York,
town-Some Highly interesting Specu-
lasons Concerning the Railro,d
Movements Around Glouces-
ter Point and on the
Peninsula
Especial Dispatch to The Tines.)

Especial Dispatch to The IiIneS.)
WILLIAMSBURG. VA, Nov. 1s.-A
railroad between Jamestown, Williams
burg, Yorktown and Hampton-electric
/ probably-is at last an assured fact.
negotiations looking to that emo having
been completed to-day. Q. D. Jackson
and Attorney w H. 7. Loyal of Norfolk.
! represent the people who will build the
road ana were IN town to-day.
/ The fact that George Gould and party
/ spent several days in the York River
near Yorktown and Gloucester Point last
/ week, may or may not have anything to
do with this matter, bu- many who have
read The Times correspondence from Har-
risonburg anent the Chesapeake ana
Western Railroad and its plans for
,ridewater terminus seem to ,hink it has
a hearing.
NATURAL TRAFFIC LINE.
Before the war Williamsburg kept up
close relations with Gloucester county,
| just across York River, and about eight
miles, as the crow flies from the old
Capital so the various rumors of q rail
! road 10 go through that country, ter
minating at Gloucester Point have ex-
cited a lively interest here.
There have been developments OF
similar character on this side of the river
lately that should set people thinking
Your correspondent has known of lem
for some time, but was not permitted
4 until now TO speak Of them.
.lne late Z. z. Barney, owner OF
Jamestown Island. caused 10 be survey
ed a railroad from his property to VIII
liansburg, graded much of the ROAD
] bed as wou-I be on his estate (and 1t was
by no means s7sinaXpsnsiVe workl, ana
drove Piles in The Thoroughfare. di-
yiding the island from the mainland, tor
I a bridge only to be stopped by threats
I of injunction on the part of the property
! .Clk1rs on this side of the waterway
The death of Nh Barney put tempo
rary quietus on this project. but MS WI
dow owns elaborate blue print and estl-
mates OF great value to any one "liilhe
to take up the scheme
AN OLD CHARTER.
The last Legislature granted TO Ger
tain far-sighted citizens OF WILLIAMSBURG
a charter for a corporation called INC
Jamestown williamsburg and Yorktown
Railroad Company, and although i'tt'S
has been hea. of the project since. tile
ircorporators have not been idle, as later
| daveIonnenrs show The same Legisla-
ture chartered the Yorktown. Poquos'h
and Hamrton Railroad, some OF the IN
corpora:ors of which were also interest,"
ed in the J. ". and Y rms sufn''le:
the Y z. and II. went to work OF t'ie
survey OF their line, and secured ohe-nt'il
| OF the, necessary r-Sht OF way " i.iii 80
the las. two weeks parties from Norlolh'
ranresented by o. d. Jackson. OF that
cirv said 10 be backed by Northern
| syndicate went to work quietly ana Sc
cured a controlling interest III the W.
nroiectoc roads and also succeeded III
interesting the representatives. OF the es
tat, OF E. E. Barney in their plsh.
Add 10 all this the fact that the same
parties have paid for optlons-the pape's
sJ,a cia
James City and York-on great MANY
of the large tracts of land at or near
Jamt stown. or Yorktown, and IT "ouiu
seem as if something were on the tap's'
The aaiet, unobtrusive way the promo
tiers have gone about their business ii''
convinced many that some real ooEelop
ment of the Peninsula is at hand. the
precise nature OF Whlch can oi!iS oo W.
iectured at present
FIELD FOR SPECULATION
There is abundant field for speculation,
in both senses of the word, and the 9eo-
pie here have their eyes ana ears Wlue
open for further developments. The fact
that one certain county official VINO paid
1880 for d hundred-acre tract al year
ago has given an option on it for slo,t'D.
is only one fact out OF many that might
be told.
There are some who see a possible con-
| nection between these Peninsula schemes
and the plans for Gloucester 1orkto"n
and Gloucester Point being exactly oppo-
site each other and situated at place
| where the York is not only at its narrow
est but has a natural .Ship-channEl 81
most from shore to show. From either
Yorktown or Gloucester Point one can
look straight out TO sea, and either place
| is nearer the CapeS than newport news
as ships have to 60
THINGS THAT DO NOT ALLY.
But there are other speculations that do
not mix with the above. y few weeks
since it was announced that certain par
ties outside the rowly-formed Bituminous
Coal Trust had bought a piece of shore
property, the Whitehead-Tucker tract at
Newport News, but the ordinary reasoner
cannot see how parties fighting J. Pier
pont Morgans coal trust will be allowed
to haul coal over the Chesapeake and
Ohio when the intimate relations between
that railroad and tho Pennsylvania, both
OF which the great financier is interested
in, are considered.
Several times last summer certain SEN
sational Philadelphia papers printed sto-
ries about an attempt, at first said to De
successful. but later denied. to secure a
controlling interest in the Norfolk and
Western on the part of the Gould inter
. ests, the only large financial interests in
the company not in Mr.sMcrgan's schemes.
i BY the way, later the Newport News and
Norfolk papers announced, giving as their
authority a prominent Norfolk and West
i ern man and naming him, that the Goulds
had bought all the floating property of the
i Norfolk and Western. This has never
been denied.
Last week dispatches from Norfolk
sr,5ke vaguely OF the Goa!ds beIpg inter
ested in the new shipya-d there
C. AND Q. RAN TO5YORkTOWN.
4 1t will he remembered by many that the
1 Chesapeake and Ohio was completed to