Evening star., 1896-10-22
I'M NJ ENSE BOYCOTT
Joint Traffic Association Places
Glover Leaf on Black List.
GREAT RAILROAD War IN PROSPECT
What Brings About the Threatened
HostiIities.
ROADS IN THE FIG HIT

One of the most extensive railroad boy
colts ever inaugurated in the world went
into effect this morning, and almost every
large railroad in the United States Is in
volved to greater or less degree.
The road boycotted is that known by the
travelling public as the Glover Leaf" and
it extends from Toledo. on Lake Erie, to
st. Louis, in the southwest, and Kansas
City on the west.
So important Is the matter considered by
the Joint Traffic Association, which de-
clared that the exit eme measure should be
reSOrted to, and so firm is 1t in it's ex-
pressed intention to prosecute the boycott
to the fullest extent that each member
of the association has sent out notices
to their agents and the public interested
that they will do no business with the
Glover Leaf line; that no tickets issued
by the Glover Leaf people will be recog-
ntZed by the conductors of the lines of
those who belong to the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation, nor will the baggagemen of the
latter be allowed to accept baggage check
ed by the offending road.
Sooner or later the trouble Is almost GER
tain to find it's way into the courts, ami
proceedings to enjoin the roads, who have
combined to boycott the Clover Leaf from
carrying the orders issued by the former
H.. l.
tuted at almost any moment.
Ihe Joint Traffic Association is a pow
erful and influential organization, and its
authority extends over every road Of inn
concerned which passes to- from or
through the western termini of the trunk
lines. viz. Toronto, Canada; Suspension
Brldge. Niagara Falls: Tonawanda, Black
ROCK, Buffalo, East Buffalo, Buffalo juno
ton. Dlnkirk and Salamanca, New York:
Erie. Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa; Bel
laire. Ohio: Wheeling. Parkersburg.
Charleston and Kenova, w. Va, and Ash
land, KY.
The Long List.
Every line running out of Washington
except the Southern and Norfolk and West
ern Is arrayed against the Glover Leaf,
and, in addition to the Baltimore ana
Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania. the following companies have placed
the Glover Leaf on their black list: Allie
gheny Valley. Baltimore and Ohio South
western. Central railroad of New Jersey.
Chicago ard Erie, Chicago and Grand
Trunk, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago and
Western: Detroit, Grand Haven and MIL
waukee; Erie. Grand Rapids and Indiana,
Grand Trunk railway Of Canada, Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern, Lehigh Val
ard Hudson River, New York, Chicago and
st. Louis; New York. Ontario and West
ern; Northern Central Pennsylvania COM
pany, Philadelphia and Reading, Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore; Pittsbarg
and Lake Erie, Pitts5urg and Western
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and ST.
Louis; Terre Haute and Indianapolis (Van-
dalia line), Toledo. Peoria and Western;
Wabash and West Shore.
Cause Of Trouble.
The cause for the declaration of the bow
colt Is said to exist in the allegation that
the Glover Leaf has cut into the business
OF the Wabash out of st. Louis, thereby
causing the earnings Of the latter to fall
of. Thereupon the owners of the Wabash
living in New York complained to the Of
ficials, and the latter complained to he
Joint Traffic Association, which, after an
exhaustive investigation, ordered the boy
colt.
the Big Four, which has Joined with the
other companies in boycotting the Glover
Leaf, may itself be boycotted, when an in
vestigation which the PENNSYLVANIA is con-
Quoting Is concluded.
The charge Is that the Big Four is get
ting more than its share of passenger bus
mess out of Chicago, and that 1t has been
able to do this through the aid, to an un-
warranted extent, of the Glover Leaf, and
1t is stated that If 1t ia found by the Penn
sylvania that the boycott of the Glover
Leaf does not remedy the trouble the mat
ter viii again be brought to the atten-
1t is expected, will deal as severely with
the Big Four as 1t has by the Glover Leaf
In the event that the Big Four should be
boycotted, it would. as Mr.. M. E. Ingalls,
its president, Is also president Of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio, be likely to involve the
latter. and this would, in turn, probably
involve the Southern States Freight Asso-
citation In an even more demoralizing war
than the one from which some Of its mem
bers have just emerged
Hereafter, and until the boycott Is re-
moved, the passenger who desires to reach
points on the Clover Leaf from q point on
the lines Of the roads which have caused
the boycott, will be sold a ticket to the
junction point on the former, from which it
will be necessary to purchase ticket at the
local rate.
the boycott, notably the Big Four. have it
Is said, taken the action not because they
wanted to, as they were doing a large
amount of interchange business with the
the orders of the Joint Traffic Association
or surrender their membership therein,
which meant the loss of many privileges
enjoyed as the effect of the association, but
also the forfeiture of good many thou
sands of dollars which each road was COM
PEELED to put up when it joined the associa-
ton as an evidence that it would comply
with the present rules and future orders of
the board of managers of the organizat ton
There are not few among those who are
interested in railway matters who express
the belief that even should the power Of
the courts not be invoked to remove the
boycott, Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan will step
in when he gets tired of having the contro-
versy carried on and see that an end is put
to the rumpus.
Mr.. MOrEan's Inu1ence.
Mr.. Morgan is largely interested financial
ly in a number of the roads composing the
Joint Traffic Association. and it Is we'll
known that he is opposed to railroad COM
panies fighting each other through the
medium of rate wars, and it is said that he
Is equally antagonistic to the use of the
boycott except as an extreme resort Much
will, Of course, depend upon whether the
securities and bonds indorsed by his syndi-
cate are affected by the boycott, and it is
asserted by some well-informed persons
that the boycott was not ordered by the
Joint Traffic Association until after Mr.
Morgan had been made fully aware of all
the circumstances regarding the offense
said to have been committed by the Clover
Leaf, and the necessity for drastic punish
Tent to that road pointed out to him.
Speaking Of Mr.. Morgan and his in
huence in the railroad and business world,
q gEltleman in New York last night said:
There are some people who look upon Mr..
]. Pierpont Morgan as a sort Of great oc-
topus who is seeking to engulf and crush
every railroad that he can get hold Of.
Such Is not the fact. Mr.. Morgan has
not in his entire history ruined a single