Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-21
AN INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL
MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA,
WEST VIRGINIA LABOR ACTIVE.
Quickening Along All Lines OF In
dustries-New Railways Under
Way-Shops on Full Time.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
CUMBERLAND, Md.
September 81. 1908.
The revival in the industrial world IN
this section of Maryland. Pennsylvania
and West Virginia continues. Cumberland
is the center for large business area of
Pennsylvania and West Virginia. West
Virginia is across the Potomac river, di-
rectly opposite Cumberland. while Penn
sylvania is reached in six miles. Cumber-
land is a big railroad terminus, the Bal.
timore and Ohio, Pennsylvania. Western
Maryland (NabasD and the Cumberland
and Pennsylvania lines centering here.
All have terminals at this point.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal the an
Gent artificial waterway of this country.
has been doing more business this season
than for number of years. 1t carries
coal from Cumberland to Washington.
Work has started on the electric rail
way TO be built from keyser. w. Va, to
Piedmont w Va. thence to Bloomington,
Md The company building the line is TO
be known as the Potomac Valley Railway
Company and is composed of Wheeling
capital.
This is one of the most important troll
ley enterprises to be attempted i'll West
Virginia this year 1t Is the lntenlon.
after the line now projected is completed.
to extend it from keyser to the tannery
at New Creek At Piedmont the line will
connect with the Cumberland and West
ernport system which runs through the
Georges Creek coal region to Cumber-
land.
The line of the Pennsylvania and Mary
land Street Railway Company is nearly
completed from Meyersdale to Garrett,
and it will be continued to Berlin, SOM
erset and Roswell. thence to Jamestown
1t is expected that the road Will be IN
operation between Meyersdale and johns
town within year. CorteZ III. Jennings
of jennings Nd, is president 1t is the
intention also TO extend the line south
to F'rostburg, Nd, to connect with the
Cumberland and Westernport system.
thus making an uninterrupted trolley con-
nectiOn between Cumberland ana JonS-
town.
H. P. Morris of New York has been
commissioned to float bond issue of
SaOO,OOO for the Morgantown Interstate
railway The money will be available for
construction purposes by the 1st OF
November
Fewer Idle Men Than for Months.
There are fewer iale men today in South
Cumberland, the city's great industrial
center. than there have been since last
December The men in the employ of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad are nearly
all working full time The tin plate mill
and the rail mill are also working and
very few workers now living here are out
of employment. The pay on the Con-
nellsville division of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for August was the
heaviest of any month of the present
year. From keyser, W. Va, comes the
authentic statement that the Baltimore
and Ohio shops there are very busy with
all the force making good time. The car
repair shops located at Keyser.
The Baltimore and Ohio shops at Graf
ton. w. Va, have returned to a full-time
working basis of six nine-hour days per
week. Twenty men laid off week ago
have been reinstated. 1t is said that the