The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-08-07
WILL THIS AFFECT THE MARYLAND AND
PENNSYLVANIA?

A dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from
Reading, Pa, dated August LIST says:
Negotiations are under way for the
construction of new railroad into this
city. This afternoon mortgage was
filed in the office in the courthouse here
showing that the road is to run from this
city to Baltimore. where it will connect
with the Wabash system.
1t is declared that the line is being ar
ranged by the Goulds, and that it will
be constructed to New York, connecting
that city with Baltimore. 1t will form,
it is believed, the final link of what the
Goulds are planning to be a great trans
continental system.
The mortgage is for So ,2O0,0 and is
given to the Mercantile Trust Company
of New York as trustee for the bond
holders. 1t is to secure an issue of that
amount in gold bonds. The home office
of the company will be at Lancaster and
New York The line will run from this
CITY to Lancaster and thence to Delta.
Agents of the company are at work
securing the right of way. They arework-
ing from this city to Mohnsvillc; thence
to Adamstown and then to Terra Hill,
Lancaster county. Work will begin this
fall and it is expected to be completed
within a year.
The work of construction will begin at
Baltimore toward Reading. AT two
places parts of the roadbcd, which was
graded some years ago on a former at
tempt to build a line to Baltimore, will
be used. These points are between
Mohnsville and Adamstown. From one
of the representatives of the company it
was learned without much doubt that the
Goulds are back of the road and that it
will have their support at least, if it is
not an actual part of their transconti-
mental plan. 1t was also learned that
the line will be part of their through
route to New York within two years at
the most
President Spatz said:
at may take a little time before build
ing operations are begun, but we expect
to start perhaps this fall. From Reading
to the vicinity of Terra Hill it will prac,
tically occupy the route of the old Read,
ing, Lancaster and Baltimore road
From Terra Hill new route will be used
The road will save 30 miles from the coal
regions to Baltimore. You can say that
both at Reading and at Baltimore the
new line will have most important con
ncctions.'
Numerous attempts to build 4 railroad
from this city to Baltimore have failed
Several times Il large amount of worl
was done and many bitches and cmhank
ments between this city and AdamstowI
show where a great deal of money wa
spent in grading. The new road will
not, it is said, be affiliated with Reading
or Pennsylvania lines, but will be part o
a competing system.
The impression prevails that ifthc plal
is carried out new road will be bull
from Lancaster by way of Reading tt
Delta, Pa, distance of about so miles
and that there connection will be mad
with the Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad under a trackage arrangement
to enter Baltimore. 1t is said tina
negotiations of this character have bee
started. The plan, it is said, is to cor
meet the new road with the Reading Raj
road, which would give a route so mile
shorter from the anthracite coal region
to Baltimore than the present line.
The Gould forces are believed to be bt
hind the revival of the Reading Lancaste
project, and the company incorporate
to put it into effect is viewed as actlngi