The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-19
3 JUNIORS or RFVRRSES NEW RAILROAD SOGG9
TO THE IMPERIAL ARMY INTO THIS STATE DEL
Either Electric or Steam is
to Be Built and OPP
Grated Soon
TO RUN TO CAPITAL
City of the United States
from Charles Town,
This State.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Unless
present plans miscarry Washington
viii be connected with West Virginia
by new line of railroad before the
first of next summer. At the outset
it probably will be an electric line,
hut if the business. should warrant
it the charter of the road will per-
nit of its being operated as steam
line
Back of the plans are former sena-
tor Henry Gassaway Davis, the estat,,
of the late Stephen b. Elkins and
other West Virginia interests. The
president of the company is w n
Hendley, for many years confidential
man to Senator Davis, Whether the
building of the line from here into
West virginia is the first step toward
giving an eastern outlet to the Coal
and Coke railroad. owned largely b.
Senator Davis and the Elkins estate
or whether it is merely an indepen-
dent railroad move with view to
commanding local business between.
Washington and the eastern portion
of West Virginia, is not known at the
present time. At the outset it prob
ably will be operated as a local road,
though eventually it may become an
outlet for the Coal and Coke or other
West Virginia railroads trying to gel
to the East,
The washington and Old Dominion
Railway Company is the one which is
preparing to tap the West Virginia
field from washington. Apparently
1t is to absorb the Great Falls and
Ola Dominion line. owned largely by
the same parties, and running west
from washington through Virginia, to
a point on the Potomac river some
eighteen miles from the capital. AT
any rate it's entrance into Washing
ton is to be over the tracks of the
Great Falls and Old Dominion road.
This line starts from the western end
of Washington, known as Georgetown
crosses the Potomac river into Alex,
andria county, Va, and then proceeds
westward to the Great Falls of the
Potomac. From Alexandria. Va
some six miles from Washington, the
Southern railway has branch line
running westward to Bluemont, Loud
oun county, Va. The Washington and
Old Dominion Railway Company has
recorded a fifty years lease of this
Bluemont branch of the Southern
railway.
The plan now is to connect the
Great Falls and Old Dominion with
this Bluemont branch some fifteen
miles from Bluemont to Charles Town,
w. va, thus giving a through line
from Charles Town to Washington.
for the condemnation OF
the land needed for right of way for
the connection between the BluemonE
line and the Great Falls and Old Do
minion line have already been insti-
tuted in the courts of Alexandria
county, va, and the distance between
the two lines already built is short
so that the connecting link at this
end of the new line can be mad"
speedily. 1t is announced here that
II is the intention to complete the
extension to Charles Town before
next spring.
1t is also part of the plan to extend
the Bluemont line from Bluemont in
another direction to Winchester, Va,
giving that city as we'll as Charles
Town access to the national capita!
by trolley line.