Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1912-04-30

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weeks. has realized that We said some
thing few days ago about the PROPOSE
ton to change the location Of the N &
w. station at this place. Brother Camp
bell did not reside le.e, we are sure. when
the first Norfolk and Western Chen the
Shenandoah Valles) station was estab-
lIahed. and Is therefore hardly conpc.
tent to mals sweeping assertions III re-
gard thereto. We were here, and we
unhesitatinglr assert that it did increase
both real estate values AMI business west
of George street. What the courthouse
has to do with the N. G. w. or any other
railroad station, we again fail TO see land
as to the belt line being closer TO it than
the present N. & w. station, we'll wager
twopence that it is not by long shot.
The matter of the greed of property
owners" preventing the location of the
present N. & w, depot in the center OF
the town, IN which event modern con-
venient union depot would have even
tually resulted, IS news to us. and we are
about as conversant with the location of
this line as any one about here. There
was a choice of several routes, and our
people We're then so anxious for the road
tn at it could even have gone through
George or West streets-they are thank
full since that It did not-and there was
no question OF greed of property
owners" about II. Several Cum berland
Valley towns have railroads passing
through the center of them, damaging
property all along such streets, and we
have beentold by residents of Chambers
burg and other towns that they would
give large sum to have them at the
side OF their towns rather than through
them Will Brother Crn pbell Please name
how many ''unior" stations he knows of,
in towns or cities. Except Washington, J
within radius OF two hundred miles, and
what pro rata have no union stations.
The highest to union" station that
Charles Town has ever had or ever will
have was the bark mill at tn, railroad
junction IN Wysong's bottom, and that
has gone fl ckering" years ago. Why,
the two roads have never as much as
connected Their tracks at their junction
here, and there could be no tranfer of cars
here even now ! ut for beltline built BY
other enterprise.
A writer in the Advocate, signing
himself "A Well Wi,her." advocating
the removal OF the N. & w. station from
Charles Town to the town of Ransom,
says The writer is one OF four that
called on the vice-presideut of the N. G.
w. at Roanoke, and efered to donate
four acres or more of land on the Belt
Line at the intersection of the Belt Line
and the N. G. W. and have new depot.
We hope the writer in the Advocate is
not bird that would befould his own
nest-that would wipe historic Charles
Town off the map rs far as the ~ & w.
road is concerned. Charles Town, the
originator of the Shenandoah Valley
and without whom there would
have been no such thing as the Shenan-
doah Valley Division of the N. & w. 1t
is almost inconceivabe that any one of
an cd Charles Town family would for
the sake OF little pecunrary interest sac
rihce his town ard make il a subsidiary
adjunct of small village on
its northern boundary. Butlwonders will
never cease, especially when pecuniary
interests are nvo lived. The writer NAV
be well wisher" of himself, but GER
tainly not of the good old town of Charles
Town.
That great railroad W nd so to the
enormous eXptnse Of changing lis loca-
ion at point on Its line. W II all of its
already established facilities. (uataxed, J
.or the mere qualification OF easy going,
persons who would like to have a '-level'
way, (aud not then level or anything like
IT, IS enough 10 make even the sphinx
himself smile. Railroads are built for
business, and neither for the grttifica-
ions OF individual whims and fads or to
serve outside private interests
Mrs. Angelica Prale Bote'er Didier.