New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-30
DETAILS OF THE ORGANIZATION.

NEW COMPANY WHICH STARTS OUT WITH MASY
MILES OF LINE ALREADY UP--PROBABLEA AID FROM
SEVERAL RAILROAD CoMPANIEs-PLANs FOR
IFS EXTENSION To TIE PACIFIC.
The articles of Incorporation of the Union Ieie-
graph Company were filed yesterday in the County
Clerks Office and at the same time in the Office of
the Secretary of State, at Albany The company Is
organized with a capital of Sl0,000,0O0 in shares
of 800. The corporators named are Jay Gould, Of
New-YOrk whose subscription is for 10000 shares;
David H. Bates of New-York, and Charles A.
Tinker, of Baltimore, Md, whose subscriptions are
for % 900 shares each. BY the terms of ncorpora-
ton the company is authorized TO run lines through
all the States and many of the Territories.
This enterprise is understood to be part of vast
scheme that may extend from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast. The nucleus in this State is the Cen
trail Union Telegraph Company, which began opera
ti0ns about six months ago. The charter of this
company has been bought recently by the OrganIz-
ers of the present company. Work has been begun,
not only IN this bur IN other States, and the line
from Boston to Baltimore is under contract.
The Central Union Company has a line COM
pleted through this city to High Bridge, and Is In
actual operation FROM Syracuse to Oswego. Begin
ming in this city at tine Produce Exchange the line
runs through William and Mulberry-sts. to
Bleecker-st. and through the latter the city
Broadway. it extends through Ninth-ave. to
McCombs Dam Bridge, aud thence through
Westchester County. From its beginning
to the river the poles have been set and
the wires run. This part of the line COM
peted several months ago From this city the
poles have been distributed along the route to Al
bany, and are in position as far as Schenectady
The line extends from Albany to Buffalo, at which
point connection will be made with the West. The
line of the company will be IN operation to
Chicago by two Independent routes, within three
months One of these routes will be by the way of
the Albany and Buffalo line. connecting at Buffalo
with the Canada line. The other will be by the
way of Baltimore and the present line OF toe Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. In order to comp pete the
proposed connections, it is necessary for the new
company to build lines to Baltimore and
Oswego, and from Chicago to Detroit. Ito line
from Boston to this city and from here t. Talti-
more is already under construction, and WI be
completed 1t is expected, within abont muety
days. Work was begun week ago on the lines
east and south of this city.
PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE LINE.
The further extension of the line is understood to
depend upon the cooperation of the lines now
owned and operated by railroad companies. bill
to enable railroad companies TO do general tee-
graph business introduced in the last Congress
by Senator Jones' of Florida. By the Batter
the Army bill, and in the present Congress was
made clause of the same bill. 1t is said
that the intention of the bill was to pre-
vent litigation. The right to do general
telegraph business is claimed by the railroad COM
panies.whch own the lines. 1t is said that this
right has been supported by the only decision ever
gwen by the Supreme Court of the United States,
The right has been exercised by the Bait more and
Ohio Railroad Company, which has done Its through
business by means of the Atlantic and Pacific Tele
graph Company. The local business along It's limo
the company alone has done, collecting and making
its own rates. The Pennsylvania Railroad, Com
pany is said also to have done general bust
ness for many years. although for ITS own
by the Western Union Company. The Wabash
Railway Company is said to own Its own lines. 1t
is understood that these companies have no con,
tracts with the Western Union Company that will
interfere with this exercise OF claimed Inherent
rights. ,
By completing the proposed line Of the Central
Union Company to Buffalo, and by building the line
now under contract from Boston to Baltimore, the
new company Is brought into direct connection
with RAILROAD lines extending to the Pacific Slope.
1t is said by officers of the new company TO be i'm
probable that the railroad companies Will wait for
the passage of the Congressional bill. Several OF
them are expected TO unite with the lines OF
the company. IL is understood that they Will take
portions of the stock of the company.
THE CoMPANYs OFFICERS AND PLANS.
The new line will run, it is said, over the routes Of
the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Roads, of the
Kansas City and Northern and the Wabash Roads.
From the eastern terminus of the Wabash Road it
will run by several routes to the seabOard. One of
these it is expected, will be the Pennsylvania
Road, another by the Baltimore and Ohio, and still
another by the new route by way of Albany and
Buffalo
The Central Union line has been heretofore under
the charge of Joseph owen. of Oswego who pro-
iected it, He will be the secretary of the new com
pany Its president Will be David IA. Bates, of this
city, whose resignation as general superintendent of
the Atlantic and Pacific Company will take effect
to-day. Dennis ID .ren. who has been connected for
many years with the Western Unon Company, will
be its superintendent of construction Charles a.
Tinker, of the corporators OF the new company,
recently resigned position with the Atlantic and
Pacific Company 10 accept that of superintendent
of telegraphs on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. MIR. Tinker has been identified with
telegraphy for eighteen years Mr. Bates the pres
ident for little longer period, while Mr.. Doren has
served for more than quarter of a century.
The name OF the new company, as flIed In ne ar
tcles OF incorporation, is the Union Telegraph Com
pany. 1t found yesterday that previous char
ter had been granted about twenty years ago 10
company with the same name. A change IN the
designation will be made, therefore, at once, but it
is said that the line in thus State will be known by
that of the Central Union, 10 whose rights and
charter the new company has succeeded.
In regard TO the right of railroads To do general
telegraphic business. q member OF the new company
said last evening: The railroads undoubtedly
say, as the prisoner remarked to his lawyer who de-
clared there no law by which he could be put
I'm jail, : But | am now in prison., The railroad
companies are now doing public business along
their linesD
A WESTERN UNION VIEW OF THE SCHEME.
A person connected with the Western Union Tele-
graph Company in speaking of the formation of the
new company said, last night: II have not a
very exalted opinion of this new scheme. don't
believe that it is a legitimate enterprise. believe
that the persons interested In 1t never intend to
build the line. 1t looks me like a demonstration.
a kind OF public show for making handsome prof