The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-20
THE B. go. DEAL
Hope is General the Transeontinental
Scheme VIII Go Through.

Hope is General the Transcontinental
Scheme Will Go Through
The Baltimore & Ohio reorganization
is exciting general interest in Wheeling,
and naturally so, for this community's
and the Baltimore & ohlo's interests
are linked indlssolubly. That the reor-
Eanizatlon and the introduction OF
western money and energy Will combine
to bring about n return OF the Baltimore
& Ohio's former leading position among
the trunk lines OF the country, Is con-
ceded on all sides.
Further, the possibility that the bai-
timore & Ohio, Chicago & Great West
ern.and Great Northern roads wiz form
the first real transcOntinental railroad
in the United States. is being discussed
with enthusiasm, and the hope Is eX
pressed that the scheme VIII go that
Tar. some OF the railroad men, howev-
or. say that II is doubtful that con-
sOlidatlon OF the roads would result in
benefit TO chem. 1t would force, they
sag. other roads to make similar close
arrangements and then would follow
Y1IInous rate warfare IN which all the
roads would lose. Business men and
manufacturers, on the other hand, VINO
are NOT directly interested in the matter
OF railroad dividends, see in the propos-
ed consolidation direct route to either
seaboard. giving to Wheeling and other
large Industrial communities on the line
OF the consolidated companies mater
Jal advantage over competitors located
on lines OF transportation that reach 10
only one or psslbly TO neither seaboard.
The manufacturers, in particular VINO
see IN the not distant future q tremen-
dous expansion OF American manusac-
lures In the markets OF the Far East
can see how the proposed consolidation
would be OF direct benefit TO them
A GREAT RAILROAD.
The Baltimore & Ohio Is one OF the
most extensive railroad systems In the
world, Il owns and directly operates
thirty-four railroads, having an aggre-
gate OF 2,O95.03 miles OF track. II con-
frols. by lease or otherwise, nineteen
other railroads, having an aggregate OF
1,65s.67 miles OF track. Its operations
therefore are over system OF S'I4S.I
miles of steel Talls-sidings ana second
track not taken Into consideration its
rails touch New York, Philadelphia,
Baitinnore. Cumberland. Washington,
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, ST. Louis, Chi
caRo. Toledo, Beardstown, Ill; Shaw
neetown, ET.; Louisville, KY; Ports
month. XIV: Camden. W. Va, LeHing-
ton. Va; Columbus. Ohio; Toledo
Cleveland, Wheeling, Ormesby, Pa;
Johustown, Pa; Frederick. Nd; cape
May, n. j.; Atlantic City, N. j.; Palnes-
vile, on the Lake Erie: Sandusky' ONO
and the hundreds Of smaller cities on the
leading TO these termini. II IS a power
ful factor not only In the business
which moves from the Atlantic sea-
board 10 the cities OF Illinois. Ohio.
Pennsylvania, Maryland, KENTUCKY,
Missouri and the Virginias but also IN
that which moves between any OF the
states named, To Baltimore II has a
class Of traffic that can hardly be d.
yerted 10 any other port. II Is the short
line between Chicago and Baltimore ana
,ontrols much OF the export franc from
the west. II Il IS joiHcd to the Great
Northern the resulting system VIII nave
6sso SO miles OF track This VIII be Y.
060 mllea greater than the Wabash, 200
creator than the Michigan Central. $500
greeter than the Big Four, $500 greater
Than the Northern Pacific. i.S0O greater
than the Chicago G. Northwestern, and
but 600 miles less than the Burlington
MIR. HILLS AMBITION.
Saws the Chicago Herald. which
frst printed the particulars OF the great
Baltimore & Ohio deal. regarding the
connsction with II OF President James J.
Hig, OF the Great Northern:
His presence IN the Baltimore q ONO
dIrect6rnte. which II now known to be n
certainty, gives evidence that the west
and Chicago have finally secured major
ity representation In trunk line that
begins on the Atlantic coast and ends ~
In the greatest wheat market In the
work Mr.. Hilvs avowed life work
since 1865 has been 10 link the Atlantic
and Pncinc with n railroad OF his own
making. That in the furthernnce OF
fbis work he should have found prop
srty an good rs the Baltimore & ohio. In
which Chicago capitalists could safely
invest while giving him their confidence
a considered to be the coup de ctat OF
his Whole career. No more daring or
irnperlous railrOad manager exists In
inc United States than Mr.. Hlll, and no
one who knows him believes thnt ne mas
had this property purchased by west