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Show MOTFAT IN CONTROL OF . WASHINGTON RAILROAD. . WASHINGTON. April 11 David H. Moffat, the Denver capitalist and prospective pros-pective railroad king, owns a railroad in tee East. It developed today at a special meeting of the directors of the Chesapeake Beach railroad in this city that Mr. Moffat owns 84 per cent of the stock.-. This road is a sort of dummy line from Washington to Chesapeake beach, the nearest point on the bay, a distance of fifteen miles. The directors have decided to rebuild and make it an electric line. The beach will be Improved Im-proved and an effort made to make it a tcpular report for Washingtonians. The L.Irorlty stockholders oppose the rian. |