. The Street railway journal . s wife, tenchildren and several dogs occupy this resi-dence. The company desired to build a newbridge on a line with the house, but the occu-pants declined to vacate, so the company de-cided to build its track over them. The pas-senger in the handsomely appointed electriccar can look down the chimney of this relic ofthe early days of the nineteenth century. The population of the several towns on theline follows: Cincinnati 450,000 California 800 Mt. Washington 1,000 Forestville 300 Mt. Carmel 1,000 Snmmerside 200 Olive Branch 300 Batavia 2,500 Amelia 1,000 Bethel
. The Street railway journal . s wife, tenchildren and several dogs occupy this resi-dence. The company desired to build a newbridge on a line with the house, but the occu-pants declined to vacate, so the company de-cided to build its track over them. The pas-senger in the handsomely appointed electriccar can look down the chimney of this relic ofthe early days of the nineteenth century. The population of the several towns on theline follows: Cincinnati 450,000 California 800 Mt. Washington 1,000 Forestville 300 Mt. Carmel 1,000 Snmmerside 200 Olive Branch 300 Batavia 2,500 Amelia 1,000 Bethel 2,500 Haniersville 800 Georgetown 3,000 Russellville 800 Eckmansville 1,000 West Union map shows the route of the line with extensions, proposed andtributary lines. INDUSTRIES AND POPULATIONThe country traversed is largely agricultural. There arethousands of acres of fruit farms and immense quantities oftobacco are raised in this district. At Georgetown the com-pany maintains a large tobacco warehouse, and at this point. Other tributary population is about 20,000. PASSENGER, FREIGHT AND EXPRESS SERVICE Freight has always been the heavy end of the business of theCincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth. This has been dividedinto two classes, the ordinary freight, and what has beendesignated as fast freight, more properly express. Thereason for this appellation is that being a railroad company itis not chartered to engage in the express business. The re-lation existing between the road and other steam roads hasalways been very friendly, and there is no reason to believelliat the change of power will make any difference in these
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