Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-25
THE B. & 0. PUSHING.
A Charter Taken Out for a Road From
Akron to Chicago junction.
A SHORT LINE TO THE WINDY CITY.
Nay be a Bluff to Force Extension of the
Cleveland and Western.
ONE OF THOMAS N. KINGS PET HOBBIES

Vice President Thomas NJ. King always
had hobby to build road from Akron to
Chicago Junction. When the Valley road
was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio,
Mr.. King had in view his pet scheme. 1t
looks now as if his plans will be material
lied.
A few davs ago, at Columbus, the Akron
and Chicago Junction Railroad Company
was Incorporated The incorporators are
officials of the Valley road, J. B. Caven,
General Passenger and Freight Agent; Gen.
eral Superintendent j. T. Johnston; Gen.
eral Agent ThOrnburg, and NJ. R. Dickey
and E. J. Estep, General Counsel. Messrs.
Caven and Johnston formerly lived in Pitts
burg, and are we'll known here.
The incorporation of this company means
the immediate construction Of a line from
Akron to Chicago Junction. 1t will doubt
less be built on what is known as the Ag-
new route, which was surveyed several years
ago.
IT WILL BE PUSHED.
General Agent ThornburR will have charge
of the work, and it will be finished this year.
The length of the line will be IS miles, making
the present route from Pittsburg to Chicago, by
=
The distance at present from Akron to Chicago
Junction. over the Wheeling and Lake Erie
and a small branch of the B. & o.. is IS miles
The Cleyeland and Western Er load ,,dr from N
owned by William Semple. Jr, and James D.
Gallery. 1t connects at Delphos with the Pitts
burg, Toledo and Kansas City road, making
through line TO st. Louis. To make the Cleve-
land and Western efficient it must be extended
TO Akron, where it would connect with the
Pittsburg and Western. The road was bought
by Messrs. Gallery and Semple for speculative
purposes, and they are willing TO sell to the
highest bidder. 1t is claimed that both the
Baltimore and Ohio and PIttsburg and Western
are after the road, when the fact Is that it
doesn't make much difference to the other
which one buys. In either case the road would
have to be extended to Akron TO make 1t valua-
BILE and then it would give the Pittsburg and
Western through short line from Pittsburg TO
some local railroad men think that the
scheme of the B. & Q. to build road from
Akron to Chicago junction is only bluff to
scare Messrs. Semple and Gallery into making
the desired extension. As these men are
friendly to the p. & W, the latter people think
they can make frst-cIass traffic arrangements
with the new road.
KNOWS NAUGHT OF IT.
When James D. Gallery was asked yesterday
II the B. & o. had made overtures for his
road he declined to answer the question. He
said he didn't know anything ABOUT an alleged
conference held at the Duquesne Clup He
had heard that the B. o. intended to build a
line from Akron to Chicago Junction, but he
didn't know anything further about it.
Charles o. Scull, general p passenger agent of
the B. q o. Railroad, was in the city yesterday
on his way to Cincinnati TO attend meeting of
the heads Of passenger departments of the diff
ferent railroads, to arrange tourists rates for
next summer
Mr.. Scun, when questioned about the deal
now pending between the B. & o. and P. & w,
roads, said he knew nothing about 1t, but if the
ma sc Infn fhn TNNcC ,of Tha
line be represents, he thought it would be to
the benefit of the P. & w. as well as to the
shippers of this city. In regard to the meeting
between the representatives of the two lines in
the Duquesne Club on Saturday, he said about
three-fOurths of the stuff was incorrect. He
says they have through line now from Chi
cago TO the seaboard. and the acquisition in
this respect would be of little benefit to them.
A GREAT BENEFIT.
The greatest benefit to be derived from an ar
rangement between the two roads would be the
shortening of the distance between Pittsburg
and the Baltimore and Ohio's Western ter
minals- It would give them a more direct
route to Chicago and the lakes from this city.
It would shorten the distance over the Balti-
more and Ohio to Chicago about IS or 20 miles.
They wOulQ 90 over the Pittsburg and Western
TO Akron, from there they would go over the
new line now being built by NJ essrs. Semple and
Gallery from Akron to Chicago Junction.
From the latter point they will use their own
line into Chicago This route would be practi-
caIly a low grade road. and would be as short as
the Fort Wayne.
Mr.. Scul was asked what they proposed to do
in regard to the Second Avenue Electric Street
Railway, taking away their suburban business
between Glenwood and this city. He said:
I'VE do not propose to do ANYTHING If the
Street Railway Company takes the business
let them. We cannot do anything to prevent
them. 1t would not pay US to put on fast
train service, and if we tried to do it the ex-
pense would be more than the revenue. In
every city where a cable or electric line has
paraleled railroad the latter has suffered.
Do what we would we could not hold the bust
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