The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-24
GET There ELI!
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroads
Master Stroke
In Outwitting the Pennsylvania
and Getting into New York.
The Kill Won KuIl Difficulty Very
Easily Bridged. :
The Particulars of a Great Stroke
in Railroad Diplomacy
Unequalled in the Annals Of Rail-
ways--.VariOus Opinions.
Special DbpaseA 10 the 1alcllt9ner.

Special Dtlpateh 10 the Tattu.geHeer.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23.-The following
will appear in the Record tomorrow morn.
ing: The published interviews with Pres
ident Depew, OF the New York Central
and with high official OF tha Pennsyl-
vania, who declines to permit his name to
be used has recalled here the situation
ius. prior To the time the Baltimore &
Ohio appeared before the Councils with
its ordinances. Indeed the same tactics
Of decrying the announced plans OF the
Baltimore road have been employed since
the very inception OF the Baltimore & Ohio
scheme for its own line through to Phila-
delphia and New York, Pennsylvania Off
ciais have all along declared that the Bal.
timore s Ohio would not do this or
that, and repeatedly assured the
public that the game was one
II bluff. However the big bluff ap-
pears to be on the opposition nand. 1t IS
the general opinion that the impersonal'
official OF the Pennsylvania road, who
this morning discusses the matter OF the
Baltimore & Ohio absorbing the Staten
Island Company is none other than Vice
President Thompson, and the criticism on
his utterances expressed here to-day are
that he has overleaped himself and placed
the csuss he so vehemently espousss, in
ANYTHING bat favorable light. AT least
this would appear from the opinions
freely expressed in business circles.
AN "IMPERsoNAI" OFFICIAL.
One gentleman, well known as one OF the
foremost merchants and prominently
identified with the movement favoring the
granting OF the Baltimore & Ohio entrance
INTO Philadelphia, talked very freely upon
the policy Of the Pennsylvania as outlined
oy it, and who is believed to be one OF its
Vice Presidents, said: II do not know
when a more arrogant assumption OF abso-
ute power has been witnessed than this
gou(d.be impersonal officials declaration
20 the interviewer than by his authority
he could say that the Pennsylvania rail-
road will fight every inch OF the way from
Bound Brook to the Kill Won Kull." Some
1ne gravely suggested yeafs ago that New
Jersey should be called tho state OF the
Pennsylvania road, but later years have
shown the Citizsns OF that State the uu-
wisdom Of putting themselves exclusively
ander the charge OF that benevolent or
Ean;zat;on. The threat by the Pepnsyl.
yania managers that that company will
prevent the construction OF q line Of rail-
road from Bound Brook to Eliz1bethport
will be as effective as the attempt Of the
Saxon king to chain the waves. The
same official states that the Lehigh Val.
ley and the Jersey Central will
ioin the Pennsylvania to prevent the
construction OF this new line. Now 1t is
quite certain that neither this officer nor
!he Pennsylvania Company ever had the
slightest authority to speak for the Le-
high Valley road, nor for-the Jersey. Cen.
traI, vet he undertakes to spread himself
over the entire Stale oi New Jersey, ac.
ior the commonwealth and the other two
companies whose officers he has never
consulted sS well as for his own corpora
ton.