Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-01-04
PROMOTERS.
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land"
But while our nelghbor was thus
speaking in hyperbole 1t seemed to
have overlooked the fact that coin
cident with the discovery of its rec
ord breaking" deal comes the news
from Doylestown that another deal
is now In incubation in that burg and
upon scale so stupendous that it
doubly discounts anything that has
been discovered of late years at Ak
ron.
Indeed, the Democrat is authorized
to announce that the Barberton, Hame-
town & Doylestown electric railway.
proposed trunk line no less than five
miles In length, Is to be the nucleus Of
an electric railway system that will
be transcontnental in Its proportions
unless the hopes of Its promoters fail
to be realized.
1t is announced that the promoters
Of the deal have in contemplation the
construction of branch lines, radiating
from Doylestown, that will give the
people of that enterpIising village di-
rect communication by electric rail-
way with Chicago, Philadelphia, New
York, and perhaps San Francisco, not
to mention intermediate points. The
run to Cleveland will be made with
In an hour"
Mr.. A. e. Townsend, the promoter
Of the gigantic deal to make Doyles-
town the electric railway center of
America, is now in the east Financing"
the project All that is lacking to
is the necessary capital, but as such n
trivial thing as that never stands In
the way of the irrepresslble promoter,
Of course it will be but month or two
until Doylestown will have electric
railways to burn
The Democrats informant almost
neglected to state that IA meeting will
be called In the next few days of the
men Interested in the lines" and the
Doylestown-Ha Hametown Transcontinen,
tai Electric Railway will be organized
and Incorporated"
But from the general appearance OF
things II Is morally certain that there
will be something doing before spring
1t is unnecessary for the Democrat
to caution It's readers that this news
from Doylestown and all stories of like
import should be taken with a grain
of salt.
1t is entirely characteristic of the
average small promoter who succeeds
by hook or crook In getting a franchise
along few miles Of country road that
he should try forthwith to convince
both himself and the public that h(
Is the ntorm center of all the electric
railroad deals on earth. Talk Is cheap
and IL this mainstay Of the capital
lacking and visionary promoter wer,
taken from him where would his occu
patton be?
But the inyarlable result Is that from
all this big talk there comes no sub
stance, and In the end the promoter
and his mile or SO of right Of way
and even his exaggerated promises
drop out of sight and are forgotten.
The real builders of electric rail
ways,--the conservative men and cor
porations Of means, who place thei
money In electric railway properties
because they find 1t a legitimate an,
profitable avenue OF Investment, ar
not given to shouting from the house
tops about their plans. They do no
tire the people with glowing
and impossible promises whicl
are never Intended to be ful
filed. They are men of performance
and all the electric railways Akrol
\ ever had or ever may have, have beel
l or will have been the products OF tn
energies OF these men.
One of the fayorite claims Of the pre-
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