Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-19
Gigantic : for Sure.
A Whopping Fiction or a Big
Consolidation.
LATEST THING IN RAILWAY NEWS.

Its Purpose to Make Boston the CONNER
cial Hub of the Universe and Its Com
ponent Parts Half a Dozen Great Rail-
way Systems. a Transatlantic Cable and
Steamship Line to Europe-Viilard
Alone Gets Away"
NEW YORK, July IA Hartford Conn.
special to The Times says: "The text for
bill which is to be introduced at the open
ing session Of congress in December involv-
ing the most gigantic scheme for railroad
consolidation ever candidly discussed in this
country, is NV being put into type in this
city, and "A Chicago firm is engaged in pub
fishing the maps illustrating the consolida-
ton of railway lines and the tracts of coun-
try which are to supply the proposed system
with business
Boom for Boston.
1.-THE fundamental idea is to make Boston
the metropolis of the continent While the
interstate commerce commission and the
business men of New England are discussing
the problems to he solved on account of the
low freight rates offered ON the Canadian
Pacific road, the consolidationists are con-
summating plans for the absorption of the
Idndulan rival WIN tue american system,
and the establishment of the greatest rail-
road power. in the world. The Willard sys-
TEN is the only one not embraced in the con-
ception
Alleged Composition of the system.
The Union and Northern Pacific roads and
the Can adian Pacific are the ones to be con-
solidated. The system extending from Santa
Fe through the southwestern states, thence
by way of the Pennsylvania coal regions and
across the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie,
taking III the Hartford and Connecticut
Western line, with the new road from Tariff
vile 10 Springfield, Is also involved in the
unparalleled scheme for consolidation From
Boston the originators of the plan propose to
run a steamship line to Europe, furnishing
the amplest accommodations for freight and
passenger traffic from the Pacific slope to the
largest ports on the European continent
Details Are Not Accessible.
"The details OF the bill can not be ascer-
tanned at present, but its projectors state
that members of the senate are familiar with
the scheme and are enthusiastic for its prose
cution. The capitalization to be asked for
will not be less than 500, 00O, 900 In the
main the consolidation VIII secure the
through lines 10y purchase or lease English
capitalists will JON hands i'll the enterprise.
effecting commercial union at present and
ultimately political one with the Canadian
territory. American capitalists will be in
terested equally with the English in develop
ing the continent
A Cable Line in the scheme.
The consolidation also contemplates the
ownership Of a new ocean cable joining Bos-
ton with the German empire. Utopan as
the plans may seem at first, they have been
skilfully formulated, and they will have to
he discussed by an intelligent public within
the next four months The sum of $4,000
has been expended in securing surveys for
the maps, which Rand, McNaIly Il Co are
publishing for the originators of the con-
solidation. Several of the surveys were be
gun in 1881, and the plans which are now
about TO tie disclosed have been under con-
sideration since then"