The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-27
new CENTRAL RAIL
ROAD INSPECTED.
BUILT BY FRECH-ALLEN-BEASMAN CON-
STRUCTION COMPANY AIT COST
OF $25O,OOO.
Large Delegation Visits Cement Plant at
Union Bridge on Monday.

T. r. Stapleton, of the TideWater
Portland Cement Company, headed a
delegation OF railroad officials, busi-
ness men and bankers from Baltimore,
this city, Richmond, Washington and
Norfolk. that left Union Station on a
special car Monday morning at 7-10
o'clock on the first annual inspection
trip of the Central Railroad of Mary
land. The party changed cars at
York, Pa there boarding the special
train OF w. wv. Atterbury, first vice
president of the Pennsylvania Lines,
along with other prominent men from
Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
Buffalo and New York The party
then proceeded to Key-Mar, Nd, the
starting point OF the new railroad,
over whose tracks the run was made
to Union Bridge, which il. the end OF
the Central Railroad
After an inspection Of the plant Of
the Tidewater Portland Cement Com
pany which with the buildings, ma
.chinery and offices, covers 28 acres,
the visitors had luncheon at the Union
Bridge Hotel
M 8 Spockman, of the N. ;. Spock-
man Engineering Company, OF Phila-
delphia. cement expert OF inter-
national reputation talked to the party
on the excellent facilities of the Tide
water Company.
The Central Railroad of Maryland
was constructed at a cost OF approx
mately S250,000, or about $4,000 per
mile. This sum IL about $4,000 per
mile in excess of the average cost of
building roadbeds of this kind, the
reason for this being that it was found
necessary to blast through solid rock
for at least four miles. At one point
ten tons of dynamite was exploded at
one time. Ground was broken for a
new freight station of sufficient ca
pacity to handle the business Of the
Tidewater Company. The railroad
was constructed by the Frech-Allen-
Beasman Construction Company.
B. r.. Scott, president OF the new
road and also of the cement COM
lpany, conducted the following men
/ over the road and through the plant:
%. Il. Weller, chairman State Roads
Commission; Ezra B. Whitman, chief
engineer. Water Department; I'LL G.
Shirley, chief engineer State Roads
Commission; John Ill Mackall, engin-
eer OF survey, State Roads Commits
sion; August Weber, president Ger
man National Bank; John T. LAUDER
president German Fire Insurance
Company; P. Flanagan, contractor
Leo Flanagan. contractor; General
Latrobe, general agent Pennsylvania
R. R.; Henry Park, president Howard
National Bank; w. wv. Gascoyne, pres
ident w. w. Gascoyne G. Co.; Adam
Deupert, clerk Court OF Common
Pleas; Charles Classen, president
Maryland Lime and Cement Company;
William J. O'Brien, Jr., secretary and
general counsel Tidewater Portland
Cement Company; J. A. McKellip, as
sistant treasurer Tidewater Portland
Cement Company; w. A. easier
Underwater Portland Cement Company
OF Baltimore; w. w. Atterbury, vice
president Pennsylvania Railroad, 8
iC. Long, general manager Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, Philadelphia; George
wv. Bend, president Marine National
Bank; O. E. Foster. president Foster
Milburn Company, Buffalo, N. "; w
M Culbertson, capitalist, Erie, Pa;
Capt. John L. Roper, Norfolk, Va;
s. Dana Lincoln, cement distributor
\, Washington; DR.. @. R. FoutZ, y. p
Wantz, cashier Union National Bank
this city; Warner Moore, manufactur-
er. Richmond, Va; Harrison Nesbit
president Bank or Pittsburgh; I'd. M
Clemson, President Carnegie Natural
Gas Company; Norwood Johnson, vice
president Carnegie Natural Gas Com
pany; Henry Oliver, Oliver Iron and
Steel Works; J. c. Trees, president
Arkansas Natural Gas Company; Il. M
! Taylor, second vice president Pennsyl-
vania Lines West Of Pittsburgh; W
c. Fownes, Fownes Brothers; r. w.
Gwinner, director Allegheny Trust
Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.