The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-05
i REPORTED RAILROAD DEAL.
The Brice-Thomas Syndicate
Said to Want the 8. &c Q. S.
'gbo Rumor Contradictcd from two Au-
thoritativc Sourccs--They Would Have
70 Buy up the baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to Get tho Southwestern Away
From It--Thomas and Inman Deny.

81 TO 6uy up the baltimore anu ohio
Railroad to Get the Southwestern Away
From It--Thomas and Inman Deny.
CHICAGO, Oct 29.-An evening paper
publishes sensational dispatch from
& Cincinnati, which says that among the
many rumors floating around is one to
the effect that somc of tho stock OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern has
fallen into the hands of the Bricc-
Thomas people, and that the latter
arc making strenuous efforts to
secure enough of the stock to give them
a controlling interest in tho line with a
view to consolidating it with the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia system.
1t claims that some of the stockholders
of tho Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
favor the scheme, but tho majority are
opposed, and are taking steps TO prevent
its consummation.
The paper also says that j. Pierpont
Morgan, cX-Sccretary William c. Whit
Z ney and other capitalists have started
on Western tour. Thcy will be Joined
at Cincinnati by President ingalls,, OF
tho big -Four" and President MAXWELL,
of the Atchison. and will continue their
Journey southwesterly. 1t is understood
that at ST. Louis they will meet JAY
Gould and c. Il. Huntington, and that
the journey is undertaken with view
to the harmoniGing of the Vanderbilt,
aiould, Atchison and Huntington in
terests in respect to the proposed trans
continental trunk line via the Southern
Pacific from ocean to ocean.
BALTIMORE, Oct. o9.-ISpeciall-Iu
regard TO the rumor that the Brico-
Thomas people are making strenuous
efforts to secure enough stock of the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Com
pany to give them q controlling interest
in the line, with Il view to consolidat ting
it with the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad system, this much can
no said: Tho Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company own a majority of the
common stock of the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern Railroad Company. II the
Z Brice-'Thomas people want Il controlling
interest they must buy from the 5alti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company. The
executive officers OF this company will
be in the market to sell out Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern when ready to
sell Baltimore End Ohio railroad stock,
and quit the railroad business.
New YORK, Oct. 60 Spcciall-Gcn-
eral Samuel Thomas was seen this
morning about the reported deal whore
by The Brice-Thomas syndicate secured
control of the Baltimore and Ohio South
western system and characterized the
whole story as a.''fakc." At the Office
OF the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
railroad it was stated by the officers
That the first intimation OF any such
movement they had was adispatch from
Cincinnati published in the morning
papers. 1t was rumored on the streets
this morning That the Richmond and
Danville road was also taken into the
baltimore and Ohio combination by the
Brico-Thomas syndicate. John H. Inman
was asked about this and positively
denied that such was the. case i'll any
particular.