The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-18
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AT AZ N mn, ,n;Is. a. ,,ra b,,;tt a., tha
five years ending with 1883, no small part
was built on ecplation, asd for that very
reason paraileled already existing lines,
The most striking examples Of the kind,
examples 60 often addaeed, are the West
Shore and g Nickel Plate lines. The gene
raj demorRIiz alton which has prevailed in
railroad circles is due more to the construc-
ton OF these two, and to the i'll fortune
which attended them, than to any other
cause, or It may be said to all other causes.
The effect has been 10 stop altogether the
payment of dividends which had been
paid for q long time at high rates by the
Lake Shore and Michigan Central,
and TO reduce those paid on
the New York Central from two
percent quarterly TO one-halfof one per-
cent quarterly. The stoppage or reduc.
ton OF dividends on these great lines
created profound apprehension aud dis:
trust as to the value Of all railroad pro-
perties. The earnings of other great
trunk lines suffered In ike manner If not
to the same extent. Ageneral disruption
Of the relations previously existing be.
tween the, companies was the inevitable
result. They seemed TO be set wholly
adrift without chart or compass. In the
distrust and incoherency which pre-
vailed, the various lines, especially the
great trunk lines, struck out on their own
So,,nnnk end 'hitl wilde FIR hnafnsaa with
very little reference to rates or to the re-
suit Pools were dissolved almost as soon
rs they were entered into, as they always
will be dissolved whenever there Is not
enough business TO go round.
Although West Shore and "Nickel
Plate" seemed TO be the occasion Of the
great catastrophe OF 1883 and 1881, the
real causes had been long at work In the
wonderful success Of signal instances Of
watering Of which the Pacific lines, the