The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-24
The Baltimore & Ohio Road eclares
War.

the PennSylvanis Haalroao nMel Known.
II IS also wen known tnastoN eoorf
out'generated the Baltimore foad "nen NJ
succeeded In leasing tne oamoen q Am'
boyrosd between Phliadelphia ana Ne "
York and madeit virtually o conun 1tus !.
OF the pennsylvania ROAD 70 tne great
metropolis Of the country. his success ss
in efecting this lease has snnoranatea
the Baltimore roadato the pennsylvania
road ever since, as ,taf as passenger travel
outof New York Is concerned. All cars
for Baltimoreand Warrington are Obliged
to pass over this leased road Of the Penn.
sylganla line and pay tribute to IT. The
consequence isthat the Baltimore road Is
like q light under q bushel In New York;
1t Is hid. Nobody knows much about 1t;
the most Of the people move east and
west by some other route OF the Jersey
City depot the officials are in blisslul igno;;
rance Of such route When you seek in
formation as to the moving Of trains you
feel as Il the road Ia . sort Of arAilroad
orphan; you notice that the New York
Central, Erie and Pennsylvania roads oil
start out OF New York! but that the Balu'
more road starts from Baltimore. -.
The immediate cause Of the present out
break between the Baltimore Company
and the Pennsylvania road Is the activity
of competition between them for passen-
ger travel between Washington City and
New York. THETA company has now
a through line between thetwo cities by
way Of the Baltimore s. Potomac and the
Baltimore, Philadelphia 8 Wilmington
road This latter road Is the connecting
,osN - -. ~ ,;,oi oon,.n;eo and the
INK ior ootn 'ne rivM eonpan'.0' aua ~,
through cars Of both pass over II on equal
terms. Beyond Philadelphia the Balti-
,,o,aa rood cannot ticket nassenpers ex-
wote I'M s - .f-ns 3,
cept BY the concurrence Oh 'she rennsYi-
vania line, and It seems that this COM
many has given notice that Il will no
ioas., honer The COMMONS Of ia rival nor
az :, aoa.;.na - haul ~. tb,onoh cara
.,.sa. Ia -s,as Th,. action or The Penn.
:. 1sSS,,n hos :, Scorroo rorsad
- ~ ,ha po,,;more q, Ohio and ar.
49,. a. has 'ro,a,;o,sa hv uniting
. 49,, ,,.,.s,ao- ,a,e. hetwaen certain
80" 800 :, COMO. IN comret;tion
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WV "a.. ~, -. ' ,ha n.na, earrss, For in.
Ssn. D 49,. ga s, .,a,,om;n,, .ohedrls
~ n-,ras ho,waen Ins,,;mors and Wash
u. s.a ,hs' ,o;n,. nomed.
~ C,.o;nno,i eIo. n" Gb;caoo an.
To Council Butts, SSs; to DAYTON, Ohio,
$12 80 ;sto Evansville, Indiana, SIS 20
% lndianep9lis Ell III, ~ ~ un;avil1e
"a - Mamie. ss4, 70 10 New Orleans
, SsS: to Galveston, Texas, $50 25; to
Denver, $n;~ TO- Omaha, &ss 90; 70
w 70 ~ 1 ~ Jogsnb An 70 81 ~
Psni TSsf, *. 10 Sherman. TEXAS, s5S 90:
to Xenia, $11 90; to Topeka, Kansas, $50.
bow long the war thus declaredawill
continue 1t Is impossible now to say.
The Baltimore road Is not in a position
(, to keep It up long, we should say, espec.
+ tally If 1t is true, as is stated, that the
Pennsylvania line has cut 1t of altogether
from New York. To be cut of entirely
from New York Is too serious matter
to be compensated for by reduced
? rates from Baltimore and Washington to
points West. The Pennsylvania road
,,Ha..ia .h,nt, ,a,td atond epcb 1por