The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-23
ANOTHER GIGANTIC RAIL
ROAD RING.
Over 1000 Miles, of Track and an I'M
menseSAmount of Land Under
go. ~ ~ ATh

meASe<Amount OF Lana I nuer
s. Its Control. kIA, 4
Rapidly 4he material 4nterests Of this
country seem 10 be drifting into the
hands of monied corporations. Not
only cur Eailroads and our telegraph
lines are soHned BY the few. but the very
food we eat and the fuel we burn are
items mon (which tie Spectator must
make his fortune before it reaches the
consumer, and that,fnrtune must como,
aS-A..EEle, Alat z0f-tlse= pockets of the
poor. Just as certainly as the mon
ied'a power is usurping the func-
tions OF natural laws, which should
be left,tn take their natural course, and
Is thereby Tightening its grip upon the
people, just so certainly the people will
.one day loosen that grip by using the
power in their hands. If monopolisis
do not see this they are indeed blind
blind 10. their own interests as well as
those of the public. ~ ,4,- ;-
The following special dispatch from
Cleveland, the, 17th inst, to the Cincin-
natl Gazette, announces a new railroad
syndicate that is To he one of the most
comprehensive systems in the country.
The first trip over the eastern division
of-the New York, Chicago s. ST. Louis
railroad by sny .passenger;car was made
to-day, when an inspection was made
by . small party of gentlemen interest
ed, in the road. -. ,,..3 ) .gas. -
During the trip. your. correspondent
while in conversation with q member OF
the party (any. one of whom will be
readily accepted as sufficient authority,
secured some facts which show that the
New York, Chicago & st. Louis railway
| is but a part .:(abent .One-fourth) of the
great system Of railways that is 60 be
operated by the Syndicate owning it
| The leading and moving members Oi
Lthls syndicate are GeOrge1. Seneyi John
f Martin; A, A. Lowe d Bros, T.. II. Il
Lyman, .sA.izW. White, 5-WaistOh IL
Brown, RI T. Wilson, OF. New York. C.
R. Cummings, NIB, Howard, eff Chi
cago; John5SdN eWberry, James AIcMil
Ian Off Dntboit I..Dan.5l p : Eeiis, John
RecktfeJtar, H. NJ. aFlaglery II. B.Iaayne
Il. .IkTerFe1l, off Cleveland Gen. Sam
l,;ThQaaas,. Charles Foster, iJof, Columbus
/. GalViH SaBSice, of EimaJgOl . Col, E. w
Golst OfoNashvitle; Il O. NJ 1IeGhee, iof
KnoxBi3le5 Mt Walters, of Baltimore
This ayndica9e now CONTROLS d eetat OF
A250 smiles ofrRfToadp aud owns 90 I0OC
| aGTeS0f 1he richest lands, in 4hdceuhtry
iThe Rnads maybe divided into four dis
liRet systems The systems are com,
pOsod OftherN CIV Y 0rll;; Chicago 81 st
! 11anis, the. Peoria, Decatur & Evans
| Vi4le, ,and, Lake Erie & Western, the
sOhin Central, and tho Virginia, Tennes
] see &S9eorgia railroadp forming one OF
taeHanosE comprehensive and wide
kspteads temSi in the country ~ -
/ RRhetfirst istlIe road now being com.
lplshsdE rthe New J. ork, 0hieagoA& st
.kouis,, Feaohing from Buffalo to- Chicago
a. distance OF l21 miles. During the
coming year this road will be extended
lIfronl5 Valparaiso, Indiapa, TO Joliet III
in0is, and will there make an alliance
] with theft Chicago, iPekin 81 Southwest
Il RrIif now In operation al This latter line
] Wilialso be extended during the same
timedo Hannibaland Quincy, and from
there direct connection will be made
with Kansas City and all points south
west, by means of the Hannibal l& st
Joes At Chicago, the New York, Chi
cago s. st. Louis will make connection
i with the Milwaukee 8 St. Paul for the
northwest. A close alliance has also
been made with the Northern Pacific
At Buffalo connection will be made
With the Delaware, Lackawannai &
| Western extension, now nearly com,
pleted, with the Erie, and the New York
West Shore d. Buffalo. These roads
so Joined, will form a. continuous line
across the continent, connecting New
York with Portland, OREGON -. "
- By order of the syndicate, the Pull
man company IS now building at Chica
goa special! outfit of palace, sleeping
and. hotel cars, which are to be run Owe
the trans-continentalT line from New
York to Portland. They are to be o
special style and distinguished from tbs
other cars now in use, and negotiations
are now in progress by which the New
York, Chicago IS st. Louis will receive
another connection with the PIttsburl
90 Western, now building from Pitts
burg to- Youngstown. The purpose il
to extend the latter line 10 Cleveland.
The exact plan for this has not We
been adopted. At Fort Wayne and Ee
River jupction the New York, Chicagt
s. St.'Louis makes a connection will
the Wabash s. ST. Louis Pacific for ST
Louis and Gould's entire Southwestern
system, with which intimate business
relations have been established. r. G
Cumming is also president of the PEG
ria, Decatur 81 Evansville, with 25(
miles of road in operation, and the LAX
Erie s. Western, with 1856 miles of road
The Peoria, Decatur d Evansville is tt
be extended through Kentucky and join
ed to the Southern system. The Lake
Erie s. Western is also to be EXTENDED
during the year from Munice to Indian
apolis a.. and Bloomington L
Peoria. This will join the two road
and place them practically in one sys
tenn. The Ohio Central has just com
pleted consolidation with the Atlantic
& Northwestern, of West Virginia, ant
has thereby secured lines extending
from Toledo, and Columbus through. til,
Hooking valley coal fields to the Ohit
river. 1t will cross the Ohio at Poln
Pleasant, and will thence continue III
the KanaWha valley through Charleston
to the Kanawha falls, forming junction
with the Chesapeake 81 Ohio, and pass
ing through the center of the coke ant
coal fields of which the company own
10000 acres in fee. The entire line from
Corning to Charleston will be completed
during the summer. '-
Messrs. A. A. Lowe & Bros, pr0mi
nent members of the syndicate, are
large owners in the New River COX,
region, and have now in operation OF
their lands / 400 coke ovens, the coke
from which compares on equal term
with that of the COnnellsville region
The consolidated company, known IA
the Ohio Central, Is also, exclusive own
.er of the Ohio Central coal property o.
about 1900 acres in Perry and Athen
connties, Ohio, on which the company
is4noW. working twelve mines with ca
pacity Of putting out ,OOO, 600 tons pc
annuIa.y s,.... ;ijs,!4. .sr1s.r-.t ---f.-. u
| {. The fourth division of the grand sys
TEN owned by the Seney syndicate is 10
Gated in the south, and is now known a!
the Virginia, East Tennessee and Geor
RiA Air Line, and is composed of tn,
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georges
railway, / ,453 miles Norfolk 81 West
ern and branches, 49Smilss; Shenandoah
VallsR, .239- miless. total. 2,190 miles
| These roads, consolidated, are now ep
Grated under one ~ management. The
roads. extend from HageSstowD, Mary
land, Ia IHemphis5 from. Chattanooga t.
Brunswick on the Atlantic, and TO MeFi
den, Mississippi, the Zines dividing ri
Il Rome,iIGe0Egia. 1t also has q, line x
! Norfolk, Virginia. A contract has beer
made with ahe Louisville & Nashville
and Great. Southern for the use of tho
line from iCaleFa to New Orleans, and
one with g. p. Huntington for a juno
tiOn with the Kentucky Central Divis
ion, by which access Is had to Cincinna
ii by short line. :E. 90 s1.,.E.
DEATH OF M. F. CONWAY.
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