The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-10-29
FROM pITTsBuRa 10 GLOUCESTER.
New Railroad May Connect the Two Points.

A few weeks ago a prominent railroad
contractor, who by reason OF his longex-
perience in that line of work is able to
divine, in a measure at least, the real
aims of railroad promoters, said to a
reporter:
you may theorize and speculate as
much as you choose about what all this
activity in local railroad circles is about,
but if you want to get the real truth as
to the situation you must recall the fact
that the Goulds are into Pittsburg from
Chicago and the West over the Wabash;
then If you will patch up a connection
between Pittsburg and Gloucester Point,
it looks to me as if you will have the
pony that explains it all.
Since the sale of the Ohio River Rail-
road the West Virginia Central is yir-
tually indoors, and as a matter OF self
preservation it will ally itself with any
movement looking toward deep waterfor
it.
"The route pursued by the Chesapeake
Western Railway is feasible one from
Pittsburg to Gloucester Point. 1t will
open up new and undeveloped coal and
timber region and will at the same time
give the Goulds an outlet the Pennsyl-
Vania people are denying them.
"The Goulds are undoubtedly looking
toward Gloucester Point. 1t is a place
which for terminal facilities is not sur
passed by Newport News itself. The
largest vessel that sails the ocean can
find a haven there, and you will find,
once you learn the truth, that the Goulds
are the people who are taking those op-
tions there"
AS il to verify the statements OF the
gentleman just quoted comes the news
from Wall Street that new railroad is
to be built from Davis City, which is a
railroad terminus on the West Virginia
Central, to a point on the Virginia State
line fifty miles to the south, and that
William +. Stoke is isintimately associated
with the movement. The name OF this
road, the report further says, is to be the
Allegheny and Chesapeake.
1t were not the most improbable thing
in the world il the William E. Stoke men
toned in this connection should be the
Mr.. Stoke for whom Stoke City was
named, and Stoke City was named Tor
one of the men who furnished the money
for the Chesapeake Western. If be is the
same man, the only reasonable conclu-
sion to be arrived at would certainly be
that two movements are a part OF one
general move.
Press dispatches from various points
have repeatedly stated that options are
being taken all along the line of thero
which would be followed should the con-
Meeting links between Davis City and
Gloucester Point be established. Pitts
burg capitalists have taken extensive OPP
tions in Grant, Hardy and Pendleton
counties, and when one stops to consider
the fact that Pittsburg capitalists built
the West Virginia Central largely, he will
see that there is a straw in the air in the
fact.
An extension OF many miles south, as
the reports say, will be made from Davis
under the name Of Allegheny and Chesa-
peake Railway, would bring that road
to the Highland county line, where it
borders on Pendleton. 1t could be built
for the most part along the south branch
of the Potomac, thereby making it road
whose first cost would not beso great as
to be impracticable to say the least.
The Developments ofthe nextfew weeks
will probably reveal enough oithe plans
of the Chesapeake Western to tell wheth-
er they and the Allegheny and Chesapeake
are "hand in glove" or not.-Harrisson-
burg, Va, News.
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