The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-02
Among the Railroads.

1t is stated that the first important
| railroad in this country was built from
! Charleston to Augusta. The first tele-
graph line in the world was constructed
| from southern city to the nations cap
ital. BY 1894, we may add, there was a
, railroad from Blakely in Northampton
county, North Carolina, to Petersburg
Va. We remember to have ridden upon
it in that year or 1S35.-Wilmington Mes
senger.
1.-The best railroad column of anv
newspaper in the South is that depart-
n:ent of the News and Observer" aid a
prominent railroad man last night
when there is railroad news it prints
it fresh and correctly. When there is
none, it does not manufacture it, That's
why l say it is the best"
Engineers are engaged surveying the
right OF way for the new railroad, The
Elizabeth City and Western The road
will enter the city near Baxter's ice fac
tory, sweep around the town, and have
its depot and warehouses on the prop
erty Of the Riverside Land Company
where they will be able to have a water
frontage.
Mr.. G. T. Harvelle, a railroad man
living at Spencer. committed suicide in
Washington City by turning on the gas in
his room. He was a brakeman.
Mr.. W. S. Erwin. general manager of
the Tallulah Falls Railway Company
(Which is to build to Franklin, Macon
county, North Carolina), Tallulah, Ga.
writes the Manufacturers Record as fol-
lows: Il beg to advise that we have let
contract for five and one-half miles of
our extension. but the rumor that the
Illinois Central is connected with it is alb
solutely without foundation.
Mr.. c. S. McManus, of Chicago, sue
ceeds Capt. w. b. Ryder as sunerintend-
ent of the Charlotte division of the South
ern Railway
significant dispatch from Florence s.
c.. to the Columbia State reiterates the
statement that the rise in Atlantic Coast
Line stock is due to the reported combi-
nation of that company with the South
ern Railway to buy up the Plant System.
In this connection a telegram from New
Haven. Conn, to the Baltimore Sun of
yesterday, may be signifcant-to the eff
feet that the Henry Bradley Plant Com
pany will be terminated as a corporation
un1er court proceedings. 1t was formerly
'hnOwn as the Southeastern Investment
Company, controls the Plant line of
steamers and railroads, and the estate
is estimated at $17 900 600
Mr.. w. E. Christian, Assistant General
Passenger Agent of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway, with headquarters in Atlanta,
spent yesterday in Raleigh.
Mr.. L. c. McNeely, of Lumberton, gen.
eral manager of the Carolina Northern
Railroad, was in the city yesterday He
says the forty-one miles of his road be-
tween Lumberton, N. c., and Marion, s.
c., is now in good running order and
is doing good business. Speaking yes
terday of the proposed extension of the
road. Mr.. McNeely told a Messenger rep
resentative that the scheme is to build
from Marion to Charleston and from Lum-
berton to Raleigh by way of Fayetteville.
He said the extension would be built
sooner or later but just when the work
would commence he is not prepared to
say.--Wimington Messenger.
The following from the Wilmington
Messenger is interesting:
1.-The recent rumors about the reported
sale of the Atlantic Coast Line TO the
Pennsylvania Railroad have had their run,
but the latest rumor that the Atlantic
7 inc he "A absorbed
the plant system are very persistent. The
rumor comes from good source that
the Coast Line will get that part of the
Plant System from Charleston To Savan-
nah, and the Southern will get the line
from Savannah to Florida. These are
very valuable properties"
A railroad will soon be built from Will
son to Stantonsburg, a distance OF ten
miles