The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-07-18
MOONS PHASES
THIRD TRUNK LINE BETWEEN BAL
TyNORE AND PHIL ABEL PHLA.

THIRD TRUNK LINE BETWEEN BAL
TIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA.
A quiet railroad move, which has
been going ON for some months past,
is now exciting attention. On its
face it may mean very little, yet the
knowing ones claim that the Gould
interests have a we'll defined idea
that may before long result in third
railroad between Baltimore and
Philadelphia. AS is well-known the
Pennsylvania Railroad has cancelled
its contract with the Western Union
Telegraph Company and notified
them to remove all their lines along
its tracks. This is supposed to have
been done in retaliation for the
Goulds' purchasing the Western
Maryland Railroad, thereby giving
them an outlet to tidewater for the
immense freight contracts that they
have recently made with the Steel
Trust. The cost of moving these
lines, besides the enormous business
that the Western Union will lose,
will amount to over S2,OOO,OOO and
thus it can be seen that the feud is
not improving as the days go by.
A charter has been recently granted
in Pennsylvania for forty-fve miles
of railroad which will run from
Philadelphia to Parkersburg, Chester
county. This charter can be extended
by the mere filing ofextension papers,
to run clear across the State or might
be easily connected with some of the
rights of way now in existance so as
to reach Baltimore. 1t is a perfect
ly feasible plan and the necessary
rights could easily be acquired either
by the purchase Of the controlling
stock of railroads now in existence
or charters that have recently been
granted. 1t is a well-known fact
that the stock in Maryland and
Pennsylvania Railroad has more
than doubled in the past six months,
which of course may only be a coinci-
dcnce.
1t would be a big thing for the
upper portion Of Hartford, which now
has no railroad facilities, if such a
line should be built. There can be no
doubt but what it would be first
class road in order to compete with
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and
Ohio which are now operated by
practically the same management.
This of course may be only conjec-
ture, but in the light of recent events
it is only common sense to see that
the Goulds are not going to stand
idly by and see one of their most val
liable properties depleted, without in
some manner retaliating for the
losses they have suffered. Since they
have acquired the Western Maryland
it is but natural too that they would
desire some northern outlet for
freight and in view of what the
Pennsylvania has done they could
expect very little from this corpora
ton.
THE CANNED GOODS INDUSTRY.
The United States Census Bureau
has issued a bulletin giving the par
ticulars of the canning industry. The
report shows that Maryland easily
leads in the number of pounds of
canned vegetables and that Balti-
more is ahead in the value of canned
products-Maryland is second in the
canning of fruits, ranking next to
California, but leads in the packing
of tomatoes; is fourth in corn, second
in peas, first in beans, second i'll
peaches, second in apples and black
berries, Strawberries and raspberries
and stood third in the increase of es-
Establishments in the past decade.
The State leads in the number of
wage earning employees in canning
factories and shows an immense in
crease in the number of canning es-
Establishments.
Speaking of the canning of oysters
the bulletin says: "The States gen.
orally reported a substantial increase
in the number establishments, CAPT
tai and value ofproducts. Maryland,
however, although showing twice as
many establishments in 1900 as in
1890, showed a considerable decrease
in both the capital and value of pro-
ducts, owing to the fact that a num-
Der of small establishments have en-
gagged i'll the industry since 1890.
while several of the larger factories,
on the other hand, had become in
terested principally in the canning
and preserving of fruits and vege-
tables, and were so classified by this
office, according to the rule adopted
to classify according to the predomi-
mating product.
"As i'll the case Of the other indus.
tries treated i'll this report, the cam