The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-12
Mr.. Garrett and the baltimore d ohio
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Tho talk about President Garrett selling
out his interest In the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad is II piece Of pure fiction. lie Inns
not had the rcmotcst idca Of selling to Jay
Gould or any one else. Mr., Garrett has
always protested, and he has educated the
Baltimore people into that idea, that the
interests Of their city and his road were one
and insepanble, and TINT it wasa matter
Of the first importance that the stock OF the
road should be owned and controlled by
the city and her friends. lie has never
permitted the stock Of the road to be bought
and sold in New York, or in any other city
than Baltimore, and precious little Off even
in Baltimore. He has provincial pride
in Baltimore, besides large interests there.
lie also has the pride Of official position.
Mr.. Garrett is II prominent and COM
handing man in Baltimore, because-he is
the President Of the Baltimore SOhio road
All that he is and all that he can hope to
he, arises out Of this position. lie is too
shrewd to forfeit this position in exchange
for Jay Gould's money. lie has
all the money he needs - far
more than he knows what to
do with--hs dividends from his
railroad stock alone being an immense
revenue. He is not 80 green Ms to kill
tle goose that lays his golden eggs, or to
cut of the limb wheron he is enabled 10
maintain perch so much higher than his
iellow.Citizens. ... ...
And MS for, Jay Gould, what docs he
want with the X. & o. road outside Of a
II transient stock speculation lie would
simply squeeze the pulp ont Of It like an
orange and then throw It aside. II has
really no logical relations TO his Southwest.
ern system, unless lie owned the Ohio &
Mississippi and the Marietta 4 Cincinnati
roads. 1t is no proper part Of the Wabash
line to New York, The Baltimore 4 Ohio
is not MI East or West line, except to Bal.
tlmore alone, and Jay Gould wants New
York terminus for his Wabash lines The
hope Of the Baltimore 4 Ohio lies in the
1nagnihcation OF Baltimore city II has tic
New York connection, II simply hires
the right Of way into New York ut n
big price over the Pennsylvania road
II is the poor relation" OF the other trunk
lines in New York For instance. in the
month Of August they dolCd out To II O,s5.
tons Of freight, while the pennsylvania
carried 81, 437, the Erie 80, 1880 mud the New
York Central 4l,032. So little Of New
York line is II that II will not carry iron
this city Of Wheeling the nails offered to 4
at the current rates Of freight While tho
Pennsylvania line carries Wheeling nail,
to.day'fOr l4l cents, the b. 4 o. wants la
This Is because Of the fact we state, that thu
Il, 4 o. really las no New York CONNECTION
and las to pay tribute Of about 3 cent
in the shape Of terminal charges to the
Pennsylvania road. What docs Jay Gould
want with an eastern outlet like that fol
his Wabash system, or even for his sotitt'
western system.
The trouble with the Il. 10. IL that Il
has always been provincial line, and as
such governed and controlled by Mr.. Gar.
tetts peculiar and provincial ideas He
might have been power in New York
twenty years ago had he possessed half the
nerve and grasp Of Tom Scott. lie ought
10 have long ago owned the Philadelphia,
Wilmington 4 Baltimore road, and divided
the ownership Of the consolidated lines
Of New Jersey with the Pennsylvania
road. But, in the language Of the hymn
book, he Fingered slivering on the brink
and feared to launch away" until his day