Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-16
.THE BOYCOTT APPLIED
BY THE UNITED RAILROADS TO THE WHEEL
ING & LAKE ERIE,
Because Of a Cat in Rates TO Chicago-lndiea-
tons that the Road viii Ignore the Efforts
10 Bring it to Terms

Eastern lines have readopted the boy
colt as a means of Furnishing connecting
lines who disregard all rules laid down
by the Central Traffic and Trunk Line
associations. All officials OF Eastern
lines pronounce the boycott an uncivil-
lied weapon and admit that in all PROB
ability it will react with ten times the
yigor OF its origlsal use. II has proven
to be most ignominious failure In
bringing connecting lines to terms yeS
these same officials acknowledge their
inability 10 devise any other means oi
furnishing offending connecting lines ana
have officially adopted it as an only
means of defense, and use the weapon
whenever they can. Meanwhile traVel
from the East TO Chicago shows de-
cided tending to fall of, and the Ne"
York Central announces the dlscontin-
nance OF four through trains ana the
Dake Shore has abandoned trains nos.
and %, while the Pittsourg q west
ern is cutting down its force right and
left, having, having left several nun
dred employees go In an eHort W ou'
down expenses S25, 900 a month.
The Wheeling IL Lake Erie is the
first road to feel the effect OF the boy
colt. 1t is accused OF cutting rates 10
Chicago from a number Of Ohio points
TO the extent Of 81 to S1.75. This
charge,has been sustained by the Cen
trial Traffic Association and the road
served with OF the boycott notice'
The gsneral sentiment of all American
railroad men and Americans at large is
against the use of the boycott and IL
will certainly fail In the case OF the
Wheeling & Lake Erie as 1t snouiu ID
every case.
"The Wheeling and Lake Erie con-
meets with the Lake Erie and Western,
Big Four, Nickel plate, Sandusky and
Short Line, Baltimore and Ohio, Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern, Pitts
burg, Akron and Western, Erie, Penn
sylvania, Cleveland, Lorain and Wheel
ing, Cleveland, Canton and Southern,
Cleveland and Marietta Valley, Pan
Handle, C. & P, and other lines. Win
these connections anyone acquainted
with railroads can see that 1t Is as I'M
possible to bottle up the Wheeling ana
Lake Erie as it is to bottle up light-
ming" said railroad man, Monday.
I'm its territory from Toledo to Wheel
ing and Steubenville it originates an
average Of 200 passengers per day for
Chicago. With half or a quarter OF
that number at its command a railroad
could laugh at anything IKE
boycott where 1t has
more than one connecting line,
aud failure as sure as fate will come TO
this, as well as any other boycott IN
any eastern territory. l want to tell
YOU that the Wheeling by a slight
change in the forms of tickets letting
some insignificant mark stand for its
name, could send all it's passengers over
any association line, even II the latter
line were heart and soul in favor OF the
boycott"
Superintendent and Chief Engineer
Wilson, General Passenger Agent j. M.
Hall, uperintendent OF Transportation
Stout and Assistant Chief Engineer
Shockford, of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie, are in a private car inspecting
the entire line and every department.