The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-09
Pennsylvania Company, the Wander
biltS and the baltimore e. Ohio Said
to BE Engineering the scheme.
M0NNETT NAMES c. B. SQUIRES
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF THE sENsA-
TIONAL, STANDARD OIL CASE.
OhiO's Attorney General Says a For
mer Cleveland Man Tried to Bribe
Him to Dismiss Suits.

CLEVELAND, o., May S.-The Leader
will say tomorrow: According TO a high
official of the Vanderbilt lines in this city
the details of a 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 shore lines in New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Indiana and Illinois was in line with
the plans for the consolidation which has
been in contemplation. 1t is not the pur
pose to have all the lines under one man.
agement exactly, but to opportion them
among the Pennsylvania Company. the
Vanderbilt interests and the Baltimore &
Ohio Company when 1t shall have been or
ganized, giving to each system the lines
that it can use to the best advantage
The first inkling'of the scope of the plan
came when the vanderbilts announced, the
other day. that they controlled all the roads
in New England, with the exception of the
Boston & Albany, with which they now
have a traffic agreement and which they ex-
pect to take in 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 VAL
the control of the vanderbilts through the
influence of the Morgans. while the Lehigh
Valley may go to the Baltimore g. Ohio.
The Lackawanna Is now operating in con-
nection with the Nickel-plate. a Vanderbilt
line. West of Buffalo the Vanderbilts have
the Lake Shore, the Nickel-plate, the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie, the Big -Four, the Michi-
gan Central. which, with the Flint & Pere
give 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 e. Dayton is
expected to be absorbed soon. The Lake
Erie & Western, acquired by the Morgans,
is expected to give the Vanderbilts a line
from Sandusky to Peoria. Ill. These roads,
with the Hooking Valley, the Ohio Gen.
trail, the Columbus, Sandusky & Hooking,
and the Detroit Lima & Northern will
about complete the Vanderbilt system.
The Pennsylvania, which has an immense
system already under its control is expected
to acquire the Cleveland, Akron & Colum-
bus, with which it has a traffic arrange
ment at present, the Wheeling & Lake
Erie, the Cleveland Canton 4 Southern, as
well as some minor lines. The Baltimore is
allowed the Lehigh Valley, possibly the
Cherry Creek road, which. with the Phila-
delphia & Reading, would form through
line from Pittsburg to New York; the Bal
umore & Ohio Southwestern, giving a line
TO Cincinnati and st. Louis; the Pttsburg
& Western, the Cleveland Terminal and
Valley and the Northern Ohio, opening
short lines through from Pittsburg to
Cleveland, and Chicago as we'll 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 they will
be carried through successfully. The pur-
pose of the consolidation is said to be to
prevent rate cutting and to accomplish
practically what the joint Traffic Assoca-
ton was organized to do.