The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-29
THE RAILROAD WAR.


lnise--The Struggle in the New
Jersey Legislature.
BALTIMORE, March 27.-ThC railroad
war remains II aaiu quo. Tho passenger
travel over the Baltimore 4 Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railroads il still claimed
To be unusually large, without any indi-
cation Of IL coming down to the old
standard. An official Of tho former
company stated yesterday that the Dulti-
more & Ohio had received ninety New
York and Philadelphia passengers,
bound for the West, from the President
Street Depot on Thursday night, lie
asserted that their through Western pas
sengets from New York numbered, on
an average, Seventy-hve a day, and those
from Philadelphia from sixty-eight TO
seventy. When he spoke OF Western
passengers, 10 did not include those for
local points on tho Baltimore 4 Ohio, but
only those for points west Of Parkersburg
and Wheeling, The gentleman said that
this condition Of things naturally kept
the Pennsylvania Company's officials on
the ragged edge Of despair" and lie re-
lated the following incident to show,
what means the rival company wero us
ing to find out what amount Of buainess
his company were doing; For tho past
week The President Street Depot Of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroadhas been haunted by an individu-
al who appears to be always anxious to
ascertain the number Of passengers leave
ing there for Camden Station. II was
discovered on Wednesday that he was an
empl0ye Of tho Pennsylvania Company.
He was then asked what he was doing at
the depot, and replied that lio was on the
lockout for the arrival Of his two nieces.
The latter have not arrived yet. The
Baltimore and Ohio official remarked to
the reporter that II tho Pennsylvania
Company would only send 10 the main
office at Camden Station, they could find
out much more easily what number Of
Western passengers were going over tho
Baltimore and Ohio. The average NUM-
berot passengers going over the Chicago
diylsiondally, hesaid, was three hundred,
including those coming from and going
to the West This was very good In.
diCatioh Of what the Baltimore and Ohio
were doing.
sritE PEsNsY1vANGA COMPANY
yesterday infused a little now lie into
The fght'by the issuance Of thousand
posters, which were put up In COnSpicu.
Gus places. These posters, besides q COM
patison Of the rates Of the two roads,
contained the following: RAILROAD war
Success Of the Great Pennsylvania route.
The people endorse and sustain the policy
and determination Of the company, by
whose efforts oppression is destroyed,
trade encoutnged, money saved, time
economical, and comfort secured.h These
posters attracted considerable attention.
A prominent Baltimore 4 Ohio official III
referring 10 the claims made In them
said aTheif best and most. complete
fefutatioh can be found In the
1meftatgs editorial Of this morning
on the abrogatioh Of the Saratoga com.
pact The officials Of tho pennsylvania
Company say there IL no diminution Of
their business either In passengers or
freight ,4
rim WAR OUTSIDE OF 1AITtsfoRE-Hu
AlUHtD ArtEStpr AT COMPROMISE.
Tie New York San Of Friday says:
Z 1tTas tiimOfgd among railroad men
and ihNvail street yesterday that another
movement, having for ia object Eettle-
iient u the differences between the Penn.
syiyahiA and baltimore & Ohio, had been
set onfoot, with a fair chance Of speedy
success. Again jay Gould was brought
10 the front, and II was announced by the
igOssips that he had taken hold Of the new
c0tnpfOniise aud meant to ptish II through
at any cost. Al o'clock Mt. Gould took |
The train for Philadelphia, and rumot
had IL that lie was 10 meet Tom Scott and |
President JewelL there and tx up the
terms Of q settlement, II IL said that
Mi. Gould, who Il understood TO hold q
controlling Interest In the New Jersey
Railroad, had resolved 10 turn
II 0ttf 10 MI. Garrett, who desires that
line III order 10 obtain a New York ter
hiiAhs u his own, A. d consideration fot |
ii speedy settlement, which would help
hin materially In hl8eOlOSsal stock spec
ulalions.
Railroad men Say that at tho meeting
ot freight agents ihthe Eric building on
Wednesday there was rather a stormy
scene. Several Of The fast freight lines Of
The Pennsylvania road have been almost
idle since tho adoption Of the 10 cent
tAtili, having received positive orders 10
adhere 70 The schedule, while lines Of the
Efie and the Central, II Il said, have
beunit aetiye competition with the Bal
tlhi6te y Ohio. An agent who stands
liiGllin The PennsylVania freight business
announced Al the meeting that tho trade
Of hia road should b protected at any
cost aud Wafned tho Eric and tho Central
agents that II they continued 10 cut the
tdtilE, The Pennsylvania lines would 10
into The market on theft own account,
regardless d schedules or compacts II
100 MtcH 10 EXPECT,
he said, that they should Zee lheit own
business taken from The front 81 their
ollce5 aud maintain astiet neutrality