The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-09
BIG RAILROAD TRUST
Consolidation Of BostOn-Chicago
Lines.
SCOPE OF THE NEW DEAL
PLAN TO PREVENT THE CUT
TING oF RATES.
Pool includes the Pennsylvania,
Vanderbilt and Baltimore & Ohio
Interests, Which Will Divide the
Management of the Roads That
Are to Be Absorbed.

Cleveland, o., May S.-The Leader will
say tomorrow: According TO a high Of
fetal of the Vanderbilt lines in this city.
the details of big railroad trust which
is to include all the lines between Boston
and Chicago are now being worked out
and the consolidation may be completed
within the next few weeks. The recent
purchase of short lines in New YORK,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
was in line with the plans for the con-
Solidation which has been in contempla-
ton 1t is not the purpose to have all
the lines under one management exactly,
but to apportion them among the Pennsyl-
vania company, the Vanderbilt interests
and the Baltimore d Ohio company, when
it shall be been reorganiZed, giving to
each system the lines that 1t can use to
the best advantage.
The first inkling of the scope of the
plan came when the Nanderbilts an
nounced the other day that they con-
trolled all the roads in New England, with
the exception of the Boston * Albany,
with which they now have traffic agree
soon. The Vanderbilts now control all the
trunk lines between Buffalo and New
York, with the exception of the Erie, the
Lackawanna and the Lehigh Valley. The
troll of the NanderbiltS through the in
fiuence of the Morgans, while the Lehigh
Valley may go to the Baltimore & Ohio.
The Lackawanna is now operated in con-
nection with the Nickel Plate, Wander
bilt line.
West of Buffalo, the Vanderbilts have
the Lake Shore, the Nickel Plate, the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie. the Big Four. the
Michigan Central, which, with the Flint
& Pere Marquette, that is soon to be
absorbed. will give a connecting line in
Michigan The Big Four west is to be
operated in connection with the MonOn,
recently purchased by the Morgans. and
the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton is ex-
pected to be absorbed soon. The Lake
Erie & Western. acquired by the Nor
gans, is expected to give the Vanderbilts
a line from Sandusky to Peoria. Ills.
These roads, with the Hooking Valley. the
Ohio Central, the Columbus. Sandusky &
Hooking. and the Detroit, Lima & North
ern. will about complete the Vanderbilt
system.
The Pennsylvania is expected to ac-
Quire the Cleveland, Akron q Columbus,
the Wheeling & Lake Erie. the Cleveland.
Canton * Southern, and the Ohio South
ern, as well as some minor lines.
70 the Baltimore & Ohio is allotted the
Lehigh Valley, possibly. the Cherry
Creek road, which with the Philadelphia
& Reading. would form a through line
from Pittsburg to New York; the Balti-
more x Ohio Southwestern. giving a line
TO Cincinnati and st. Louis: the Pittsburg
q Western. the. Cleveland Terminal *
Valley. and the Northern Ohio. opening
short lines through from Pittsburg and
Cleveland to Chicago, as well as the
Cleveland Lorraine & Wheeling. These
are the outlines only OF the plan which is
now being worked out but those who
have been watching the changes in the
railroad world do not doubt that il will
be carried through successfully.
The purpose of the consolidation is said
to be to prevent rate cutting and to
accomplish practically what the joint
traffic association was organized to do.