The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-13
The Pennsylvania Railroad Don't Know
What to Think of the G0uld-In-
man-NortOn Trip South.
POWERFUL COMBINATION.
U. Y. SUM

Pennsylvania and President Roberts and
Vice President Frank Thomson have cX-
pressed alarm lest something should hap
pen which they are doing their best to
prevent
President Roberts Was heard to make
this remark, or something equivalent to
it, on Tuesday. to Il well known railroad
man, and he showed unusual feeling:
"If Mr.. Gould and Mr. lnman and the
Baltimore and Ohio people, who have gone
South to fix UP things, have notion that
they are going TO get control Of the stu
alton and put the Pennsylvania railroad
in hole, they are sadly mistaken
Mr.. Roberts has been discussing the
significant combinations that have been
assuming shape in the South, in which
Messrs. Gould, lnman Brice, Thomas and
Norton are the leading factors. The B. 4
| o. have been comparatively quiet of late.
but it has an understanding with the Rich
mond Terminal which can not be improved
short Of out~and- out control Iy the latter.
The Richmond Terminal has ,een showing
the i. & 0. favor in many things, although
it used 10 deal solely with the Pennsylva-
mia; hence the growing jealousy Of the
| b. & @. ; improved relations.
Frank Thomson, just before the party
left for the South on Monday, was very
anxious TO see one the number, but that
person sent an answer that he didn't have
| time 10 see Mr. Thomson This may have
been because he wanted to catch 4 train;
but ii was the very next morning that
President Roberts challenged the party
of pleasure seekers to get the better Of
the Pennsylvania.
Those who heard of President Roberts
remark wondered what was going to hap
pen One of them said
Il dont think the Pennsylvania people
are disturbed BIZ the traffic alliance be-
tween The Missouri Pacific and the Rich
mond Terminal. No doubt that it will
/ throw Il great deal Of the Missouri Paciic'S
business southeast over the Richmond Ter
minal, whereas it all used to go East, a
| large part Of it over the Pennsylvania
| lines. Mr. Inman and the Richmond Ter
mina control about all that is worth any
thing south Of the Ohio river except The
! Louisville 4 Nashville and the Plant sys-
tenn The latter is close cnongh to the
I'LL Il Mr .i.hn
there remains the Louisville & Nash
Vile which has heretofore stood aioof
from all combinations. The Pcnnsylva-
MIA Company has close working arrange
mcnts with the Louisville & Nashville,
intcrchan"ing Il great amount of business
with it. Without the Louisville X Nash
Vile the PENNSYLVANIA would have 10 line
to the South except the Atlantic coast
Line, the southern end OF which belongs TO
the Plant system Will the Richmond
Terminal swallow the Louisville & Nash
Vile? This is one Of the matters that is
troubling The Pennsylvania. Just on
the eve of the financial panic Il deal was
quickly fixed up between the two rods
which nobody outside seems to have heard
ANYTHING about Bat that event tempo
rarially prevented the scheme from being
carried out Some say it was to he
lease Of the Louisville & Nashville by the
Richmond Terminal. and some say sale.
The talk has lately been renewed, and
McSsrs Imam and Norton OF the two
roads have been much together. a deal
of the kind indicated, or even IL traffic ar
rangcmcnt like that Of the Union Pacific
and Northwestern. would I'M ure the Penn
svlvania very much The Louisville &
Nashville now turns over traffic TO the
PENNSYLVANIA at Cincinnati and the latter
gets the benefit Of the haul from that
city Ia the seaboard If the Richmond
Terminal gets control Of the Louisville
Nashville, or il there were Il close work
inc arrangement between The two, the
I PENNSYLVANIA would lose the long haul
on much of the Louisville x Nashyillc's
business.
Another Interesting question is, how
much business will the Richmond Terminal
turn over to the Pennsylvania at Wash
ington after Mr. Gould and his party re-
turn from the South? Mr.. Roberts anX
ictv, it is believed, is partly due to fear
that the B. & O. will take away from the
| PENNSYLVANIA the lions share Of the Termi-
nails business. The PENNSYLVANIA has al
ways derived a portion Of its revenue from
the South. Both the Piedmont Air Line
and the Atlantic Coast Line run over the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad. Probably the At
lantic Coast Line if irrevocably fixed,
because of the number of small indepen
dent lines interested but the Pied
mont Air Line belongs to the Rich
mond & Danyille system, which is Il
part of the Richmond Terminal Will the
business Of this line in New York and
Philadelphia be transferred to the Balti-
more & Ohio? If it should he the Penn
syvana would be deprived of its principal
passenger connection TO the South. III
case the B. & 0. takes precedence Of The
Pennsylvania in exchange of business
with the Richmond Terminal and in case
the Louisville e. Nashville is brought into
the alliance, the B. d 0. may be expected
| to get good deal of the Louisville 4
Nashvillc's east bound business, which is
now turned over to the Pennsylvania lines
at Cincinnati That the Reading Cen
trail railroad Of New Jersey will be parties
to the scheme follows, by reason OF their
relation with the b. & o.; hence they will
share the great increase ofbuslness which
will come to the B. &. 0.
"Another thorn in the flesh to the
Pennsylvania was the acquisition of the
Pittsburg g. Western by the Is. 4 Q. on
Monday, giving the latter a shorter line
| from Philadelphia to Chicago and letting
! itinto the mining regions Of Pennsylvania,
east of Of Pittsburgh
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