Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-15
AMONG THE RAILR DADS.
New Railway Combination In tn
south.
Cincinnati Gazette,

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Cincinnati Gazette.
The purchase of the A tlantic, Mis-
sissipp & Ooio Railroad by Clarence
FL. Clark means great deal more
thau buying railroad. In this case
Mr.. Clark ia only another name for
the louisville & Nashville Railway
| Company, aud The fact of the A, M &
/ 0. road passing under the control of
that corporation will disturb very
much the we'll laid plans of some other
| transportation com psnles, and perha ps
radically change the Importance of the
little giants Of the South into Lilipu'
putians. It does not matter at this
llme whether the l.. & N. Company
can stf1rd to buy nneso remo t. from
its system or 10, or whether this
may or not be the last feather"
The fact that it is so controlled
| is sufficient to change Col. Coles
great highway and through car line"
to q very insignificant factor in Get r
mining the course of trade. Possibly,
too, Cincinnati and her great railroad
may have reason tt regret tnat cor
poration other than The l.. & n. Gid
not buy the outlet, and, in tact, the
only direcG outlet 10 the East and
Northeast from North Georgia and
East Tennessee. With the control Of
tne A, NJ. & o. in the hands of the l..
q N, Col. Coles system is as cOm-
pleteiy cut off al Bristol as the Sotn'
ern ever was at CuattanOoga, ana IN
placing tollgate 1T Bristol the l.. &
n. virtually says TO the Southern PAY
my price or stey out" The South rTn
has been u s.rOrg com petltor OF the
Chesapeake and OOio for the Virgin "a
ana North Carolina business, and has
had the cooperation Of the E. L., V.
q @. Road, which was up 10 this sale
on friendly terms with the A, M. & 0.
l. fact, the one was simply the con-
IInuatlOn of the other. But now the
new A, nj. & 0. management can and
doubtless will place arbltraries on
every pound of business coming out
of Ciuclnnati destined for the Rich
moud territory. OF course the l.. &
n viii cheerfuily forward all business
off 7red by the E. r., " & @. Company,
BIT It will be upon terms OF it, own
making, which will be arbitrary with
out doubt, for, aside from the advan>
tage held by the l.. l. n. as TO stragetic
positIou, tneie exists 10 good feeling
between Col. Cole aud the l.. e n.
people. The recent disclosures in the
courts at Nashville, growing out of the
Chattanooga and ST. Louis Railroad
its, widened the breach beyond
nta1lOg. Naturally, t2en, Col. Cole
need not ezpec. any c0nce, siOns from
, tie l.. & n. Ii would not be surpIis-
ing. Ia fac, if the z T., V. 81 G. I'd
: were part of the L. &c n. syst4m bt-
fore next winter. However, be that
as 1t may, ole thing Is certain-Cot.
Cole is just now bot LED up At Bristol.
Win At viii be the effect Of all this upon
course, that the l.. d n. Will exert q
E. t., V. & G.. Now the Kentuck y
Central and the L.. 81 N. have agreed
to join iy operate a line from L:v ngs-
ton to Knoxville. The latter road will
have the most say in the matter
without 8 doub'. II that bs
80, no sane man supposes tha,
The L. & N, or K. G.. either, for that
MAJ ter, will permit pound of freight
t. tie shipped to East Tenneesee, OF
ca thereof, via the Cincinnatt 20 lth>
ern. As mater Of compliment they
mIgbt, but as ma TER of It let railrs a
cpmmOn sense business net an ounce
will he Southern cary; besides the
distance will be 80 much shortened be
tween the R;chm ond territory that tn,
, new route W IL not only name tn.
) rates, buL bscaLs of the great savine
OF time get the business. Iu otbel
words, the 8 u hers route woult
have haul Of about IT'S NOR.
miles at rates fixed by tn,
Short L ne, aud with all the hinder
L. Il
it's way b, sides. The Knoxville ant
I Cincinnati Southern road. if built
would L, help matters an ioti. Ther
again, the new Knoxville route viii
place Louisville as near to Richm
as Cincinnati will be via the K. G..
and a good deal nearer than via tb,
Soltheru. The E. T.. Y. & G. rOaC
VIII Ger ainly. sooner or later, pass un
der tIe control OF the ousvIlle ant
{ Nashville maLagemenr. Whef
that takes place he Sonthern wi
be not Oh y titled ur, but walled in
so far as the Virginia Dusin ess is con.
: cerned. Ali lh.t is peeded now is 1
! continuation of the past and presen
{ strict inactivity Oh the part of tn;
Trustees and The various comm tee,
appointed by ali kinds of societies
leagues aud gatherings, until the Al
, absma Great Southern, Vicksburg
MeridiaD, and the chatter o
, the New Orleans & Mort neastern
: and Msjor Huston's Chattanoog:
! & Rome roads pass under tu'
q COZ troll of the Louisville and n ash.
+ Vile or some other host le corporation
o A new Committee Will then have to bt
:. appOinted TO see who will taae tins
property W ia OF without a bonus
. There Lever was such aa exhibition @
2 iDcApaclty in haudliug railway Oh
r earth. There Is al old adage that tW /
2 heads sre bitter than oue, even if one
q is Sleeps head, but the doublt
. headed ma 1agemeuC of the Cincin nat
p SJutlern exploded that saying long
, ago.
3 KING COLE ON TIE A. NJ & O. SALE
Nashville American, Sunday Pres
t ideut K. w. Cole, Of the East Tenpes
see, Virginia aud Georgia and Mem
pais aud charleston Railroads, arri VeC
mere yesterday morning from Cincjn.
! matt. An American Representative
called upon him and desired 10 know
: what, if any, eff ct the purchase Of ths
At a1tic, Mississippi aud Ohio Rail
] road would have upon his syst M O.
t roads. He said it could not have any
!, unfavorable effect, as the system hs
represert ted extended from Memphi:
on the Mississippi River and from
7 Selma, la, tc Bristol on the Virgins
line; and, Whoever the purchasers o
the 4. NJ. & O might be- taey would